Museums of ethnic folk arts are often small and predictable. But then there is the Romanian Folk Art Museum. It is small, but the experience is not run of the mill. Located at 2526 Ridgeway Ave. in a ...

Composer Bela Bartok collects field recordings of folk songs from Czech peasants. It moved him deeply. From that moment on, the 23-year-old dedicated himself to the collection, study and presentation ...

Romanian band Balkan Taksim have spent years exploring the folk music of rural villages and updating it for the electronic generation. Now they’re dismayed to see right-wing politicians seeking to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The intricate weave of Mat Maneri’s raspy viola and Lucian Ban’s full-bodied piano has been a jazz pleasure for ...

The heir to the throne nailed a local folk dance performed by an ethnic Hungarian band in the Transylvania region of central Romania. He went to a barn dance on the penultimate day of a five-day trip, ...

There is a rise in demand for Bihor region’s traditional waistcoat after Dior showed a similar coat in its collection They may feel aggrieved at not obtaining an official seal of approval, but ...

Guelph, Ont.’s Adrian Raso and his Romanian jazz collaborators are finally taking their prize-winning, European chart-topping album on tour in Canada If you don’t ask, you don’t get. Basic advice, but ...