At the beginning of each year, The Bulgarian city of Razlog and the surrounding villages start feverish preparations for Babinden or Midwives’ Day. The holiday is dedicated to the “grannies” who helped women give birth. Every year it is celebrated on..
Talented choreographers and dancers created dozens of folklore ensembles in Bulgaria in the middle of the last century. At that time, the idea was that every town should have a representative dance group to promote local folklore and revive..
In the Bulgarian calendar, the day of St. Ignatius (Ignazhden) is a folklore as well as a religious feast, marked by the Orthodox church on 20 December. The day is dedicated to Ignatius Theophorus, bishop of Antioch, hence he was also known as Ignatius..
Hace 10 años, en la fecha de hoy, fallecía el etnomusicólogo y productor musical suizo Marcel Cellier (1925-2013), dejando tras de sí una huella brillante en la historia de la cultura musical búlgara, tanto en el ámbito de Bulgaria, como en todo el..
Le Musée national d’Ethnographie dispose désormais d’une carte ethnographique numérique de la Bulgarie qui présente des artefacts réunis au fil des ans dans ses collections. Cette carte indique par régions des exemples du patrimoine ethnographique..
Madlen Bozhilova Amin is the winner of the 2021 UNESCO's Living Human Treasure prize for a project related to the making of the old-time folk costume from the region of Kyustendil called "saya" . Some time ago, the Bulgarian woman returned from abroad to..
A series of holidays starts in December, taking us closer to the shared moments of comfort and love on Christmas Eve. "Varvara boils it, Sava roasts it, Nikola welcomes guests." this is how Bulgarian people describe the..
The Chemshir Folk Dance Club from Armagh, children dancers from the Rayna Knyaginya School and Gabriela Ivanova singing Bulgarian folk songs presented Bulgarian folklore at an international charity bazaar in Dublin, Ireland. The participation of..
The guests to the second creative meeting - seminar of the leaders of Bulgarian folklore ensembles abroad, which took place on November 11 and 12 in Sofia, were welcomed with the smell of bread, sweetened with honey. In addition to..
Al igual que muchos otros países europeos, Bulgaria tiene cientos de miles de ciudadanos que han elegido vivir en el extranjero. En general, podríamos dividirlos en dos tipos: la antigua y la nueva emigración. Las razones para acabar en el extranjero..
