Accordion virtuoso and composer Lelo Nika was born in Serbia in 1969. He was proclaimed by Joe Zawinul as “the greatest accordion player I’ve ever…
Artist Profiles: Lelo Nika
Tag: Serbian music
Interview with Faith i Branko
She’s an English rose, an accordionist and circus performer from a Cotswolds hamlet. He’s a virtuoso Roma violinist from a village in West Serbia. How…
Heartbreaking Roma Songs
Eva Salina & Peter Stan – Sudbina (Vogiton Records, 2018) Sudbina recreates the songs of Vida Pavlovic, a Serbian Roma (Gypsy) singer who was very…
Artist Profiles: Branco Stoysin
Born in a university town, Novi Sad, in the former Yugoslavia (and now part of Serbia), and entirely self-taught, Branco began playing guitar at the…
Eastern European Ecstasies
A term like “Eastern European music” gets bandied about by many, including me. It’s one of those convenient generalizations used to cover a category that’s…
Balkan Gypsy Star Ljiljana Buttler Dies
Spanish booking agent Yolanda Agudo and manager and producer Dragi Sestic, reported today the death of renowned Gypsy singer Ljiljana Buttler. “Our consolation will always…