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When music touches your heart, or why foreigners fall in love with Bulgarian folklore

Love of Bulgaria’s songs and dances brought hundreds of visitors from abroad to the festival in Koprivshtitsa during the weekend at the beginning of August. People from the Netherlands, Belgium, Japan, France, the UK spent their time..

published on 8/9/22 11:50 AM

Traversing Bulgaria with the living human treasures

If you find yourself in Koprivshtitsa at the time of the festival, you will never forget your time here. The town and the Voevodenets meadows in the environs spring to life in colourful, polyphonic, ever changing tableaux. People from Bulgaria and..

published on 8/8/22 6:55 PM
Rusalijski games

The Koprivshtitsa Folk Art festival - a three-day celebration of Bulgarian folklore

The Folk Art Festival in Koprivshtitsa is held for the 12th time. For  three consecutive days - 5, 6 and 7 August, talented folk song and dance performers from all over Bulgaria gathered in the region. "Koprivshtitsa is a..

published on 8/7/22 3:59 PM

Authentic folk dancing, singing and traditions on the Koprivshtitsa meadows 

A festive concert in the Voivodenets area launched the twelfth National Folk Art Festival in Koprivshtitsa this morning. The celebration was attended by caretaker  Minister of Culture prof. Velislav Minekov and his deputy prof. Borislava..

published on 8/6/22 3:59 PM

The biggest celebration of Bulgarian folklore begins in Koprivshtitsa

The participants in the 12 th edition of the National Fair of Bulgarian Folk Art in Koprivshtitsa are over 6,500 , it became clear at the press conference the day before the star of the large-scale forum. On August 5, 6 and 7, on..

published on 8/5/22 1:33 PM

The folklore festival “Pirin Sings” takes place in the vicinity of “Predela”

More than 1,500 participants from municipalities located in Southwestern Bulgaria are to perform at the folklore festival “Pirin Sings” on July 30 and 31. The 60th anniversary of the festival will be marked at Predela saddle, which separates Pirin..

published on 7/30/22 10:05 AM

Zhivko Zhelev: My dream has always been to do my creative work here, in Dobrudzha, where my roots are

Dobrudzha, the part of the country where he was born, has always been an inspiration for the artistic ideas of renowned musician Zhivko Zhelev, who recently turned 60. Dobrudzha is where he lives and works, despite a serious job offer he was..

published on 7/29/22 9:50 AM

Almost 400 performers take part in International Folklore Festival in Veliko Turnovo

“Let the show go on!” This is the motto of the International Folklore Festival which opens tonight in Veliko Turnovo.  Over four days, 180 performers from abroad and 200 from Bulgaria will present the culture, traditions, songs and dances of their..

published on 7/23/22 2:24 PM

Georgi Germanov – the folk song is my life

The celebrated Bulgarian singer and instrumentalist Georgi Germanov was born in the coastal town of Obzor, Burgas district, in a family of refugees from Asia Minor and Eastern Thrace. Therefore, it is no coincidence that he devoted himself to..

published on 7/21/22 3:30 PM
Chain dance by the village of Kubei

"Give, my God, give rain!", or how the Bulgarians in the Bessarabian villages keep their traditions

The culture of the Bessarabian Bulgarians is still alive, only today it is found not in the cities, but in the villages, where the rituals are performed in their authentic form and not in some theatrical version intended for tourists, says..

published on 7/20/22 5:25 PM