Slovak singer Karin Ann is asking all the right questions, and attracting a following of young people who increasingly want answers. The 19-year-old performer Karin Ann...
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Afro-Ukrainian hip hop trio Fo Sho has quickly become one of the most exciting and recognisable names on the blossoming Ukrainian music scene. Few would imagine that in...
The jewel in the crown of Warsaw’s music scene is its prestigious International Chopin Piano Competition, which takes place in the city every five years. Fryderyk Chopin...
Just a few metres from Georgia’s heavily-fortified border with Russian-occupied South Ossetia, an Orthodox bishop is using culture – and his love for...
The death last weekend of Marina Tucaković, Serbia’s most prolific songwriter and the driver behind many of the most successful pop and turbo folk acts, marks the end of...
In March of this year, Kazakhstan’s most popular DJ and sound engineer, Imanbek, made history by becoming the first person from Central Asia to receive a Grammy. How has...
Nowadays, rock and roll has been dethroned from its place in the cultural zeitgeist and the sales charts. But, predictions and reports of rock music dying have been...
A party founded just a year ago by a popular singer and TV personality won Bulgaria’s parliamentary election. But who is Slavi Trifonov? And why is he so popular...
Central and Eastern Europe can do jazz as well as any other region in the world. These five amazing contemporary jazz musicians should be more than enough to convince...
A band fronted by a Congolese refugee is bringing African rhythms to Kyiv’s live music scene. With a war going on in the east of Ukraine, the country does not...
Unique and inimitable, Serbia’s Guča Trumpet Festival draws hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world. Now, after a year’s pause due to the Covid-19...
In the 1980s, before the emergence of turbo-folk — the syncretic music genre that would end up devouring the Western Balkans music scene — Yugoslavia was a place very...