The Golden Festival has Balkanized! The annual Zlatne Uste Golden Festival has overflowed the confines of the Grand Prospect Hall, with a handful of Balkan band-related events taking place all over ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Orkestar BAM! was just about to get started. The Harris Brothers Balkan Band was wrapping up its ...

A week in a forest with only instruments for entertainment, musicians at Balkan band camp get more than an earful. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to email a link to a friend ...

From a mashup of funk and jazz out of Brooklyn to funky circus music from the Oaxaca Mountains, hear world-music DJ Betto Arcos' globe-spanning... Balkan Brass Band Favorites From 'Global Village' ...

Between globalFEST, Winter Jazz Fest and APAP Conference, there is a lot of interesting non-traditional-rock music going on in NYC in January. Additionally, there’s the 2015 edition of Brooklyn’s The ...

The Boban Markovic Orkestar is many things, perhaps most proudly one of the world's killer wedding bands. Long revered as the greatest Balkan gypsy brass orchestra, the combo, featuring the ...

These bands are Balkan up! Park Slope’s ornate Grand Prospect Hall will shake with the rollicking sounds of the Balkans on Jan. 15 and 16. Brooklyn’s own Raya Brass Band will be among the 60 vibrant ...

The Boban Markovic Orkestar is many things, perhaps most proudly one of the world's killer wedding bands. Long revered as the greatest Balkan gypsy brass orchestra, the third- generation trumpeter ...

Meet Terran Doehrer: Terran Doehrer started/founded the Balkan Rhythm Band(tm) in 1980 to accompany a dance ensemble he was in. The BRB released the 1983 award winning LP, Jazziest Balkan Dance Band ...

The members of Mixed Bag perform music and folk dances from places such as Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Hungary and Turkey. Not a one of them is from any of those countries, ...

Blato Zlato, the New Orleans band that performs folk music and compositions from the Balkans, is releasing a second album, In The Wake, which explores the Balkan folk tradition, climate change and New ...

World-music DJ Betto Arcos returns to weekends on All Things Considered to share the music he's been playing on Global Village, the show he hosts on KPFK in Los Angeles. This week, Arcos brings four ...