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 ...

Britain's Prince Charles, left, joins a traditional folk dance in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, March 30, 2017. Britain's Prince Charles toured the Village Museum during his visit to Romania, Italy ...

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 ...

Classical composer Bela Bartok was fascinated by folk melodies he heard throughout his native Transylvania at the close of the 19th century / beginning of the 20th century. Similar to when American ...

Romanian hip-hop collective Subcarpați and Polish-Ukrainian band DAGADANA have released a new song blending traditional Carpathian folk melodies with contemporary rhythms. From left: Daga Gregorowicz, ...

A large international exhibition dedicated to Romanian folk masks will be open between 7 December 2025 and 12 April 2026 at the Vsetin Castle, the Czech Republic, under the title 'The Mystery of the ...

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 ...

It's almost like there's a code embedded in Bartok's field recordings, and when the code comes out, it transforms the music. It transforms us. Ban's playing is at once dynamic, appealing, fun, ...