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 ...

Romanian hip-hop collective Subcarpați and Polish-Ukrainian band DAGADANA have released a new song blending traditional ...

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 ...

Six dance couples and seven musicians, all teens from northern Romania, will perform folk traditions from their region and nation on Thursday, April 11, at Northern Essex Community College in ...

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 ...

The Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR) is organizing through its foreign representations a series of events dedicated to the Universal Day of the Romanian Folk Blouse - Ia Day, which is marked every ...

Did you know that the author of Albania’s national anthem was a Pole born in Bukovina? Or at least, he had Polish roots. Ciprian Porumbescu, a genius composer and a distant ancestor of the poet ...

They might feel aggrieved at not obtaining an official seal of approval, but traditional Romanian dressmakers are riding a wave of demand for their folk designs after a top fashion house inadvertently ...

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 ...

The heir to the throne nailed a local folk dance performed by an ethnic Hungarian band in the Transylvania region of central Romania. He went to a barn dance on the penultimate day of a five-day trip, ...