Thirty-one years ago, a recording by an all-female Bulgarian choir singing in a 1,000-year-old style somehow wound up selling a startling 500,000 copies in the United States. The mysterious ...

The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music’s department of ethnomusicology offers a range of different ensembles spanning multiple regions throughout the world, each with a rich musical dynamic and sound.

There's no mistaking the eerily gorgeous sound of the Kitka Ensemble, even when you're hearing it in the background of a Mel Gibson battle scene in "Braveheart" or on the spooky soundtracks of ...

Thirty-one years ago, a recording by an all-female Bulgarian choir singing in a 1,000-year-old style somehow wound up selling a startling 500,000 copies in the United States. The mysterious ...

Thirty years ago an all-female folk choir set up in Bulgaria became the darling of Western audiences with its tradition-steeped a cappella singing, before the fall of communism threatened its survival ...

There's no mistaking the eerily gorgeous sound of the Kitka Ensemble, even when you're hearing it in the background of a Mel Gibson battle scene in "Braveheart" or on the spooky soundtracks of ...

An immersive exhibit as well as other related events will celebrate the life’s work of longtime islander Martin Koenig, an ethnographer, folklorist and photographer who powerfully documented a ...

Hell-On, Case's first self-produced work, came out June 1. The singer-songwriter talked to NPR's Scott Simon about the fire, making up her own superstitions for the album and relating to Bulgarian ...

The allure of the lost is ever-present in the musical world. In this year alone, half a dozen notable lost albums have been released or announced, including projects from artists as varied as past ...

Drawing on Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Serbian folk music traditions, Yagódy layers in contemporary and global influences for a riveting style. Credit: Supplied On its first U.S. tour, Ukrainian band ...