Clarinet virtuoso Ismail Lumanovski has already broken new ground several times in his short career. Best known as the driving force behind the New York Gypsy All Stars, he’s the first Roma reed ...

They did the Macedonian mash! Thousands of concert-goers flocked to Park Slope last weekend for a two-day festival of folk music from southeastern Europe that transformed the dance floor of ...

Balkan music is dance music. Electronic music is dance music. Mix the two and you’ve got a double-dose of upbeat and body-moving rhythms, although their mating isn’t something that’s part of everyday ...

Ehud Banai agreed to ask Shalom Hanoch, who is among the best Israeli blues players. Shalom agreed, and so we have these two ...

The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music’s department of ethnomusicology offers a range of different ensembles spanning multiple regions throughout the world, each with a rich musical dynamic and sound.

Eva Salina has Dutch and Jewish roots and hails from a quiet California beach town — but musically, she's traveled a path far afield from her upbringing. The Santa Cruz native says she was headed in ...

The genesis of the name Slavic Soul Party! was band leader Matt Moran’s machinations as he was trying to create a new music and a new band. “That combined both the wonderful improvisers and creative ...

This weekend over 3,000 New Yorkers convened in South Slope’s palatial Grand Prospect Hall to dance in circles, munch on grape leaves, and tipple fruit brandy. It was the 31st installment of the ...

The fourth annual Balkan Night Northwest brings together an astonishing array of music and dance from Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania, Romania, Croatia, Serbia and Greece, along with the raging sounds of ...

Dana Foote, known as her stage name Sir Chloe, exploded onto the scene last year with the single “Michelle” off the debut EP Party Favors. The project came into existence during Foote’s final year of ...

On the walk; Warriors’ time; Balkan groove; Sarakino mome; Mish mash club; Something in 7; Shepherd’s feast TRIO Grekow / Peev / Tsvyatkov is a Polish-Bulgarian instrumental fusion of accordion, ...