Golden Festival 2011 - A Video Sampler
(now with videos from
previous years as well)
Click the image to play the movie.

Skordalia- "Dance music reminiscent of traditional music of Greece and Asia Minor."                                                                                                                                                        



Ladarke- "Croatian song cycle, dedicated to Margoleath Berman."                                                                                                                                                        



Pesnopojka- "Bulgarian traditional dance songs.                                                                                                                                                        



Wind of Anatolia- "Turkish folk songs mostly from halk muzigi."                                                                                                                                                        



Svitanya-- "Eastern European folk music."                                                                                                                                                        



Merita Halili, Raif Hyseni and friends- "Albanian urban folk music with the 'Queen of Albanian folk songs'."                                                                                                                                                        



AE- "Balkan and Appalachian vocal harmonies."                                                                                                                                                        



Novo Izvor- "Macedonian village dance music of FYROM."                                                                                                                                                        



Lyuti Chushki- "Traditional Bulgarian via D.C."                                                                                                                                                        



Raya Brass Band- "Village style brass band music from the Balkan Peninsula."                                                                                                                                                        



Which Way East- "Balkan/contemporary."                                                                                                                                                        



Slavic Soul Party- "Brass Gypsy funk."                                                                                                                                                        



Turku, Nomads of the Silk Road- "Vintage village music from Turkey and Iran."                                                                                                                                                        



From Golden Festival 2010

Yuri Yunakov Ensemble- "Bulgarian and Macedonian Romani wedding music."                                                                                                                                                        



Avram Pengas and the Noga Group- "Mixed world music."                                                                                                                                                        



Zlatne Uste- "'Golden Lips'. Four-time invited guest to the Guca Festival in Serbia."                                                                                                                                                        



Veveritse Brass Band- "Music especially inspired by the Romani brass bands of southern Serbia."                                                                                                                                                        



Zikrayat- "Egyptian from the Golden Age of Egyptian Movie Musicals (1940's-60's)."                                                                                                                                                        



WhatCheer- "Brass Bollywood to the Balkans."                                                                                                                                                        



From Golden Festival 2009

Rakiya- "Balkan Rom."                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     



Raya Brass Band- "Greek Brass Band music."                                                                                                                                                        



Kadife- "Traditional music from (mostly) southern Albania."                                                                                                                                                        



Zlatne Uste- "'Golden Lips'. Four-time invited guest to the Guca Festival in Serbia."                                                                                                                                                        



From Golden Festival 2008

Nikolay and Donka Kolevi- "Improvisations based on Bulgarian and Balkan traditional music."