Members of a Romanian folklore band participate in the International Folklore Festival "Music and Traditions in Bucharest" in Bucharest, Romania, June 21, 2025. (Photo: Xinhua) Members of a Romanian ...

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 ...

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 ...

Romanian folklore goes far beyond the Dracula story most people recognize. These legends were born from real fears — disease, death, wilderness, and invasion. From the blood-drinking Strigoi to the ...

Some 300 dancers and their ensembles took part in the festival's 12th edition on the banks of the Mures river. Hundreds of dancers from nine countries attended the International Folklore Festival in ...

A large international exhibition dedicated to Romanian folk masks will be open between 7 December 2025 and 12 April 2026 at the Vsetin Castle, the Czech Republic, under the title 'The Mystery of the ...

The Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR) is organizing through its foreign representations a series of events dedicated to the Universal Day of the Romanian Folk Blouse - Ia Day, which is marked every ...

Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1999 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution. Romania consists of several distinct geographical ...