The spread of formal jazz education has created a new breed of global musician: one who uses improvisation, and other devices associated with jazz, to transform folk and traditional music. The ...

QUINCY – Winds carried the smell of roasting goat and the sound of Albanian music and language through Kilroy Square while the national colors of black and red flashed on banners, flags, clothing, ...

He may be in his eighties, but this champion of traditional wind instruments has lost none of his energy, passion and creativity for this fast-fading element of Kosovo Albanian culture. Aged 84, ...

QUINCY − Downtown Quincy will once again burst to life with the sights, sounds, smells and flavors of traditional Albanian culture. Leo Keka, sponsor of Sunday's second annual Greater Boston Albanian ...

Record producer Joe Boyd recorded his new album with a group of southern Albanian singers and musicians. It's a record of polyphonic Albanian music that reminds him of his rock 'n' roll youth.

RTSH, the Albanian national broadcaster, has released the Festivali i Kenges 64 competing entries. Albania is gearing up for its traditional national selection in full steam and working earnestly to ...

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 ...