Georgi Petrov is leading gadulka player in Bulgaria and a musician with very wide experience teaching the gadulka and Bulgarian music to people all over…
Artist Profiles: Georgi Petrov
Tag: Bulgaria
Artist Profiles: Galina Durmushliyska
Galina Durmushliyska is a major star in Bulgaria. The Bulgarian National Radio Archive contains over 110 recordings of her work and she has twice had…
Artist Profiles: Ensemble Bulgari
Bulgari is known for its innovative performances of dance songs and from all six regions of Bulgaria: Thrace, Shopluka, Pirin, Rodopi, Dobrodja and Northwest Bulgaria.…
Artist Profiles: Cosmic Voices of Bulgaria
Cosmic Voices of Bulgaria consists of female vocalists (the size of the choir ranges from 18 to 21) who represent all the geographic and cultural…
Artist Profiles: Perunika Trio
Eugenia Georgieva, Victoria Mancheva and Victoria Evstatieva met through the London Bulgaria Choir and decided to form their own trio under the name Perunika Trio.…
Artist Profiles: Yuri Yunakov
Saxophonist Yuri Yunakov was born in Haskovo, southeastern Bulgaria, of Turkish Romani (Gypsy) ancestry and currently lives in the New York City area. He comes…
Artist Profiles: Bisserov Sisters
The Bisserov Sisters, Lyubimka, Neda, Mitra, performed in public for the first time in 1978 when they became winners in the 11th World Youth festival,…
Artist Profiles: Rumen Sali Shopov
Percussionist Rumen Sali Shopov is a Roma (Gypsy) artist from Gotse Delchev, a crossroads town in Southwest Bulgaria near the borders with Greece and Macedonia,…
Shamanic Electronica from Bulgaria
Vataff Project – Solьmen (Fusion Embassy, 2017) Vataff Project is a Bulgarian act that brilliantly mixes trance and ambient electronics with traditional musical instruments. Electronic…
Artist Profiles: Bulgarika
Traditional Bulgarian music ensemble Bulgarika is led by gadulka (traditional Bulgarian bowed string instrument) master Nikolay Kolev; internationally prominent singer Donka Koleva; kaval (end-blown flute)…