She is retired employee of the Netherlands Post Office, free now to dedicate her time to her great passion - Bulgarian folk music. Ingrid Veeninga, 77, is Dutch. She lives in Amsterdam and never skips a rehearsal of Chubritsa - one of the most..
More than 7,000 people will take part in the XIX Kukeri Games Festival "Simitliya - The Ancient Land of Kukeri" this weekend (January 14-15) in the town of Simitli. Traditionally, every year on the second Saturday of January..
At the beginning of February, the Bulgarian audience will see the premiere of The Banshees of Inisherin directed by Martin McDonagh. The film is among the favorites for the Oscar, starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. At the Venice Film..
This festive season we present the music of three talented jazz composers and performers – Borislav Petrov, Ludmil Krumov and Vladimir Karparov, who have had a number of joint projects. All three have a solid education earned abroad, abundant..
One of the unforgettable experiences created by Bulgaria's only open-air ethnographic museum "Etar" near the town of Gabrovo is the school for “koledari” (carolers). The initiative, which started in 2017, is similar to the established..
On December 20, we pay homage to the holy martyr Ignatius the God-bearer. According to the holy books, Ignatius was the child mentioned in the Gospel of Matthew. The evangelist describes the dispute between Christ's apostles about who among them..
Vlada Tomova est chanteuse, auteure de chansons, et au cours des quelques dernières années – organisatrice de master classes de chants folkloriques bulgares. Elle est née en Crimée, en Ukraine mais grandit en Bulgarie. Vlada se rend aux USA pour..
Le village Krouchari dans la Dobroudja (Nord-Est de la Bulgarie) organise ce 17 septembre un festival qui met à l’honneur l’ethnographie, le folklore et les traditions rurales de la région, connue comme le grenier de la Bulgarie. Un concours de cuisine..
Krushari, a scenic village in the fertile plain of Dobrudzha, is getting ready for the first ever Spring Grains for Abundant Winter festival, which will take place on 17 September in the park of the village. The concept is to popularize..
“It is our job as DJs and producers to provoke the interest of young people in traditional Bulgarian music,” Fabrizio Parisi, who is of mixed Bulgarian-Italian descent, says in an interview with Radio Bulgaria. Born in Basel,..