Romanian band Balkan Taksim have spent years exploring the folk music of rural villages and updating it for the electronic generation. Now they’re dismayed to see right-wing politicians seeking to ...

Composer Bela Bartok collects field recordings of folk songs from Czech peasants. It moved him deeply. From that moment on, the 23-year-old dedicated himself to the collection, study and presentation ...

Museums of ethnic folk arts are often small and predictable. But then there is the Romanian Folk Art Museum. It is small, but the experience is not run of the mill. Located at 2526 Ridgeway Ave. in a ...

The Romanian-American Jazz Suite, by soprano saxophonist Sam Newsome and pianist Lucian Ban, is another very good example of how the jazz aesthetic of personal expression be applied to other music ...

Romania is full of surprises and wonderful people. And as you leave the capital of Bucharest, it gets even better. In the countryside, the history and traditional culture survive vividly. A ...

MC Bean surprised us by proposing the voice of Apolonia Nowak, a living legend of Polish folk music. We chose two of her songs, went into the studio, and started jamming. Her voice isn’t the lead - it ...