Warner Music South East Europe announces the launch of Warner Music Balkans, a joint venture that will house local artists from the Western Balkans under one label and connect them across Warner Music ...

Roma musicians in the Balkans are renowned for playing exuberant brass band tunes at weddings. Now the brash, electric keyboard-based party sound known as ‘tallava’ is making an impact outside the ...

Can you create dance music that gets the floor moving using only brass instruments? For over 100 years, Balkan brass has been answering "yes" to this question. Using only the raw sounds of trumpets, ...

As the music industry becomes ever more globalized and hits are increasingly able to break out of anywhere, some of the world's smallest markets are stepping up their operations to tap into the… By ...

A map of last December's YouTube hits shows that music fans in several Balkan countries still prefer their local bands to top international songs – though audiences in Croatia, Macedonia and Romania ...

First held over 15 years ago after the meeting of Nicolas Wieërs from Belgium and Ilir Sefa from Kosovo, the festival takes place from 27 to 30 April in Brussels. This year, the Balkan Trafik!

Let me just start humbly by saying that this is one of the best album releases of the year, the decade, the century, the millennium. More on this later. Music compilations of any kind are often hit or ...

At the beginning of the concert, when the lights in the hall were gently dimmed and the sound of a wind instrument rose from the back rows, everyone turned with curiosity toward the source of the ...

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 ...

FEELGOOD FOLK Clarinet master Ismail Lumanovski (left) and Marco Peris, Inspector Gadje manager and drummer, are featured in ‘Balkancisco.’ (Photo courtesy of Balkcancisco) Once a week, in San ...

My dancing days were over when Medusa’s closed so I’m more than impressed to see 84-year-old Atanas Kolarovski hardly break a sweat at the annual Spring Festival at the University of Chicago’s ...