It was near closing time at a Washington, D.C., restaurant, and Kathryn Mitchell was totally captivated. While home for the summer from college, Mitchell worked at a restaurant owned by a Bulgarian ...

The Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices — formerly known as the Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir — was a surprise success in the 1980s, winning a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album.

Dead Can Dance have released Dionysus, their first record in six years. The album’s title and theme is based on Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and ecstasy, but they haven’t gone EDM. Dead Can Dance ...

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 ...

When the Bulgarian choral ensemble known as Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares burst into the musical consciousness of the Western world in the late ‘80s, the initial reaction was astonishment. How, ...

Having 26 singers on stage is an achievement at the best of times. In the excellent acoustics of Kings Place the choir somehow managed to oscillate between the earthy and the unearthly in waves of ...

The tradition of singing in the fields is universal. American slaves sang the gospel of cotton. Cuban virtuoso Omar Portuando grew up to the symphony of the sugarcane harvest. Folklorist Alan Lomax ...

In May, Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev visited Seattle as part of a seven-day trip to the U.S. His reason? To focus on international trade; he was interested in the region’s success as a ...

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 ...

102 Vo Tsarstve Tvoyem (In Thine Kingdom) / Onretenov Bulgarian Choir, Bulgarska khorova kapela Svetoslav Obretenov 103 Kheruvimska No. 2 (Hymn of the Cherubim, No. 2) / Onretenov Bulgarian Choir, ...