This article is part of the Breaking out: Stories of Roma empowerment special report, presented by the Roma Foundation for Europe. SLIVEN, Bulgaria — The train tracks that carve through the Bulgarian ...
A wedding without Roma music was quite unimaginable to the ancestors of today’s Slovaks. The catchy rhythms, swift movements and colourful fabrics of the dancers’ clothes are still the first things ...
An album of music inspired by Oscar nominated movie Roma has been released and it features contributions from the likes of Beck, Billie Eilish, Patti Smith and more. The film, released just before ...
About 30 young musicians are blowing and plucking, making music in a school hall in Newham, east London. But this orchestra is playing nothing but Roma music from Romania, Slovakia and Poland. The ...
ETHNOGRAPHER Jana Belišová, 37, used to spend her summer holidays at her grandma's house in Žehra, a tiny village near the eastern Slovak town of Prešov. Every evening, she listened to the singing ...
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 ...
An album of music inspired by Oscar nominated movie Roma has been released and it features contributions from the likes of Beck, Billie Eilish, Patti Smith and more. The film, released just before ...