Southeast Europe http://www.southeast-europe.eu Southeast Europeen Southeast Europe http://www.southeast-europe.eu/fileadmin/tt_news_article.gif http://www.southeast-europe.eu/ Southeast EuropeTYPO3 - get.content.right <![CDATA[The Legend of Safikada]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=2038 Author: Ljiljana Kovačević
Place: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Date: 12 January 2012

The legend of Safikada, a young woman unhappy in love, has recently come to li...]]> Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:00:00 +0100 <![CDATA[Šutka Roma Rap: A Sound Explosion]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=2020 Author: Risto Karajkov
Place: The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia**
Date: 14 December 2011

Error (22), Al-Alion (28), Fat Joe (20) and Ne-li...]]> Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:00:00 +0100 <![CDATA[Jazz Fest Sarajevo, a Meeting Place for Musicians from All Over the World]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=2008 Author: Merima Spahić
Place: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Date: 9 December 2011

The Sarajevo Jazz Festival celebrated its fifteenth anniversary in November 2011. A...]]> Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:00:00 +0100 <![CDATA[Rock like a Volkswagen Beetle]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1979 Author: Vuk Perović
Place: Montenegro
Date: 24 November 2011

Na pučini živog peska (On the High Seas of Quicksand) is the third album of the Montene...]]> Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:00:00 +0100 <![CDATA[Foltin: Metamorphoses Through Time]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1958 Author: Risto Karajkov
Place: The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia**
Date: 18 October 2011

Foltin first hit it big with their second album, Arhimed<...]]> Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:00:00 +0100 <![CDATA[Rock at the Lake]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1943 Author: Vuk Perović
Place: Montenegro
Date: 16 September 2011

A vast number of stars from the world of music spent the end of July near Lake Krupac near Ni...]]> Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:00:00 +0100 <![CDATA[Demofest: A Regional Music Hub]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1926 Author: Ljiljana Kovačević
Place: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Date: 7 September 2011

“Demofest has become a regional brand, long surpassing [the borders of] Banja...]]> Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:00:00 +0100 <![CDATA[Truly a Big Band: The Qerimaj Family of Musicians]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1912 Author: Rudina Hoxha
Place: Albania
Date: 29 August 2011

There are nine instrument players in the Qerimaj family from Përmet, in southeast Albania. They are ...]]> Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:00:00 +0100 <![CDATA[Bringing Balkan music to Belgium]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1904 Author: Rudina Hoxha
Place: Albania
Date: 08 August 2011

The fact that a collection of Albanian and Balkan folk songs is now being performed by Bel...]]> Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:00:00 +0100 <![CDATA[NGOM Festival gets off to a roaring start in Prizren]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1884 Author: Refki Alija
Place: Kosovo*
Date: 25 July 2011

The verdict of audiences and organisers on the first large music festival in Prizren, Kosovo – NGOM – w...]]> Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:00:00 +0100 <![CDATA[Nikola Diskić: Young Serbian Baritone Wins Title of Laureate]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1857 Author: Jovan Ristić
Place: Serbia
Date: 30 June 2011

Nikola Diskić, 28, a young baritone from Serbia, recently reached the finals of the Queen Eli...]]> Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:00:00 +0100 <![CDATA[Worldwide programme at Albania's Theatre of Opera and Ballet]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1823 Author: Rudina Hoxha
Place: Albania
Date: 14 June 2011

The lights at Albania’s Theatre of Opera and Ballet (TOB) are now on for more than half the ...]]> Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:00:00 +0100 <![CDATA[Worldwide programme at Albania's Theatre of Opera and Ballet]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1823 Author: Rudina Hoxha
Place: Albania
Date: 14 June 2011

The lights at Albania’s Theatre of Opera and Ballet (TOB) are now on for more than half the ...]]> Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:00:00 +0100 <![CDATA[Simon Trpceski: Per Piano ad Astra]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1813 Author: Dejan Trajkoski
Place: The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Date: 24 May 2011
        

Sim...]]> Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:00:00 +0100 <![CDATA[Dubioza Kolektiv: The Message Is the Essence]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1793 Author: Aleksandar Sazdovski
Place: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Date: 11 May 2011

With its pulsating, energetic music and socially engaged lyrics, Dubio...]]> Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:00:00 +0100 <![CDATA[Petrol - Analogue Masters in the Digital Age]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1721 Author: Aleksandar Sazdovski
Place: Serbia
Date: 11 April 2011

The arrival of the digital age in music has made its use obsolete, but there are sti...]]> Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:00:00 +0100 <![CDATA[Dragan Dautovski: Music is the oldest language]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1703 Author: Dejan Trajkoski
Place: The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Date: 04 April 2011
        

Dragan...]]> Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:00:00 +0100 <![CDATA[Everyone Can Fly In Rundek's Blue Airplane]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1640 Author: Aleksandar Sazdovski
Place: Croatia
Date: 3 February 2011

One of the main reasons Darko Rundek is so revered in all of former Yugoslavia is...]]> Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:00:00 +0100 <![CDATA[Albania’s Gem Called Iso-Polyphony]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1569 Author: Rudina Hoxha
Place: Albania
Date: 20 December 2010

An iso-polyphonic song, dedicated to the woes of emigration that are well known to many ...]]> Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:00:00 +0100 <![CDATA[Interview for Two Voices: Ten Years of Horkestar]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1541 Author: Tijana Jovanović-Petrović
Place: Serbia
Date: 21 November 2010

Horkestar (formerly Horkesskart) is an amateur choir from Belgrade whose me...]]> Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:00:00 +0100 <![CDATA[Sarajevo Jazz: Where Different Traditions Meet]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1533 Author: Merima Spahić
Place: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Date: 12 November 2010

The 2010 international jazz festival in Sarajevo began with a 90 minute ...]]> Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:00:00 +0100 <![CDATA[Video: Guča Festival 2010]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1598 Author: Zoran Kosanović
Place: Serbia
Date: 14 September 2010

The small town of Guča in western Serbia has no...]]> Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:00:00 +0100 <![CDATA[Demofest - bringing the former Yugoslavia together with rock music]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1446 Author: Daniela Marinković
Place: Bosnia and Herzegovina 
Date: 21 August 2010

The third annual Demofest, held in Banja Luka from July 21 to ...]]> Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:00:00 +0100 <![CDATA[Petrit Çeku - from Prizren to Baltimore and Back]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1441 Author: Refki Alija
Place: Kosovo*  
Date: 17 August 2010

Petrit Çeku, a young musician from Prizren, an old city in south-western Kosov...]]> Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:00:05 +0100 <![CDATA[VIDEO: DISCOVER BELGRADE WITH GORAN SIMONOSKI]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1734 Place: Serbia
Date: 06 August 2010

Serbia’s capital, Belgrade, is fast building up a reputation as one of Europe’s music capitals. Find out why wit...]]>
Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:00:00 +0100
<![CDATA[Video: Discover Skopje with Toni Kitanovski]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1728 Place: The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Date: 09 August 2010

Tour Skopje, the capital of the former Yugoslav Republic of Maced...]]> Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:00:00 +0100 <![CDATA[Video: Discover Tirana with Rosela Gjylbegu]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1629 Place: Albania
Date: 3 August 2010

Take a trip around Albania’s youthful capital with pop singer Rosela Gjyl...]]> Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:00:00 +0100 <![CDATA[King Naat Veliov and the Kočani Orkestar: Four Generations of Musical Tradition]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1465 Author: Risto Karajkov
Place: the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia**
Date: 23 July 2010
          ...]]>
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:00:00 +0100
<![CDATA[Exit Festival 2010: Surprises and Pyrotechnics]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1427 Author: Daniela Marinković
Place: Serbia
Date: 19 July 2010

There was no shortage of excitement at this year’s Exit festival as young people ...]]> Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:00:00 +0100 <![CDATA[La Diva Turca: Leyla Gencer]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1421 Author: Ahmet Emre Çoban
Place: Turkey
Date: 19 July 2010

In memory of Leyla Gencer, the greatest Turkish opera soprano ever and one of the most re...]]> Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:00:00 +0100 <![CDATA[Kornelije Kovač – An autobiographical footnote]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1400 Author: Aleksandar Arežina
Place: Serbia
Date: 11 July 2010

In March 2010, Kornelije Kovač, one of the most important composers of pop and rock mus...]]> Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:00:00 +0100 <![CDATA[Video: International sounds at the North City Jazz and Blues Festival]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1395 Author: Andrija Igić
Place: Kosovo*
Date: 21 June 2010

The northern part of the divided city of Kosovska Mitrovica in Kosovo was host to this year's eighth ...]]> Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:00:05 +0100 <![CDATA[Irina Karamarković: Jazz brought Democracy into Music]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1290 Author: Daniela Dobožanović
Place: Kosovo*
Date: 9 June 2010

Apart from performing with her band, she teaches singing and vocal technique and publishes arti...]]> Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:51:19 +0100 <![CDATA[Branko Galoić - Above Music's Roofs]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1445 Author: Aleksandar Sazdovski
Place: Croatia
Date: 17 May 2010

Ever since he was a 17 year old boy growing up in Ivanić-Grad, a small town near Zag...]]> Mon, 17 May 2010 10:00:00 +0100 <![CDATA[Kosovo: Music riots in Mitrovica]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1200 Author: Tatjana Lazarević
Place: Kosovo*
Date: 22 January 2010

“The music by emerging bands tells of young people's bitterness for the surrounding world. Words a...]]> Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:51:01 +0100 <![CDATA[Rambo Amadeus - Rock Musician and Environmentalist]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1268 Author: Nataša Josifović
Place: Montenegro
Date: 29 May 2010


Rambo Amadeus is one of the rare musicians in southeast Europe who dedicates a considerable amoun...]]> Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:50:39 +0100 <![CDATA[BJ Nevenko]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1161 Author: Ruby Russell
Place: Croatia
Date: 10 February 2010

BJ Nevenko is originally from Petrinja in central Croatia and moved to Graz, Austria in 1991...]]> Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:50:18 +0100 <![CDATA[The Danica Ensemble - Austria's Keeper of Traditional Balkan Folk Dance and Music]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1149 Author: Tijana Jovanović Petrović
Place: Austria / the Western Balkans
Date: 20 February 2010

The Salzburg-based Danica ensemble is one of the only sev...]]> Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:49:56 +0100 <![CDATA[DJ Robert Soko]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1134 Author: Ruby Russell
Place: the Western Balkans
Date: 10 February 2010

Robert Soko is among the fathers of Balkanbeats – a genre of party music that is...]]> Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:49:35 +0100 <![CDATA[Boris Kovač - the Pannonian Nomad of the Music World]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1132 Author: Tijana Jovanović Petrović
Place: Serbia
Date: 3 February 2010

Boris Kovač is a multimedia artist from Serbia, or more precisely from the countr...]]> Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:49:13 +0100 <![CDATA[Toni Kitanovski: The Quest for Ordinary Life]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1567 Author: Risto Karajkov
Place: the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia**
Date: 30 January 2010

A sensation of rapidly growing proportions in the ...]]> Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:48:53 +0100 <![CDATA[Boban and Marko Marković: The Trumpet as a Way of Life]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1076 Author: Danijela Marinković
Place: Serbia
Date: 1 February 2010

The Boban & Marko Marković Orchestra is not only the most famous brass band to emerge fro...]]> Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:48:33 +0100 <![CDATA[Belgrade – the world's number one party city?]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1073 Author: Jovan Ristić
Place: Serbia
Date: 30 November 2009

Lonely Planet travel guide ranks currently Serbia’s capital Belgrade as the world's number one part...]]> Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:48:12 +0100 <![CDATA[Montenegro's First Reggae Musician]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1028 Author: Vuk Perović
Place: Podgorica, Montenegro
Date: 20 November 2009

Jamaica, the land of reggae, a music that has captured the world. The Jamaican capita...]]> Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:47:33 +0100 <![CDATA[Skopje Jazz Festival**]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1026 Author: Risto Karajkov
Place: the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia**
Date: 26 November 2009
The 28th edition of the Skopje Jazz Festival took place on 22...]]>
Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:47:10 +0100
<![CDATA[Letu Štuke - The Next Big Thing?]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1015 Author: Aleksandar Arežina
Place: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Date: 31 October 2009


In its five years of existence and after two albums, Letu Štuke...]]>
Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:46:47 +0100
<![CDATA[The story of Anatolian pop/rock]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1007 Author: Emrah Güler
Place: Turkey
Date: 23 October 2009

In its history of half-a-century, Turkish pop music has always had close ties with the Western tunes....]]> Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:46:26 +0100 <![CDATA[The Teofilović Brothers – A Serbian Duet for the entire world]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=964 Author: Milomir Niketić
Place: Serbia
Date: 13 November 2009

Peter Milliken has been a legislator for two full decades and speaker of Canada's Par...]]> Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:15:00 +0100 <![CDATA[Bora Dugić: Serbia’s Stanley Clarke of the flute]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=875 Place: Serbia
Author: Jovan Ristić
Date: 16 October 2009

Over 35 years later, the fame of Bora Dugić's mastery with the simple flute can comp...]]> Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:15:00 +0100 <![CDATA[Kosovo's DJs Unplugged]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=829 Place: Kosovo*
Author: Refki Alija
Date: 15 September 2009

Kosovo's music scene has never been more developed and diverse than in the last te...]]> Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:16:00 +0100 <![CDATA[Bernays Propaganda - Dancers With A Spark**]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=821

Author: Aleksandar Sazdovski
Place: the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Date: 28 August 2009

If he were alive ...]]> Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:16:00 +0100 <![CDATA[The Ohrid Summer Festival**]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=817

Author: Dejan Trajkoski
Place: the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Date: 20 August 2009

Composer Ennio Morrico...]]> Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:17:00 +0100 <![CDATA[Banja Luka Open Air: Breathe in Rock]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=792 Author: Suzana Gajić
Place: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Date: 16 July 2009


Banja Luka, the second largest town in Bosnia and Herzegovina, located i...]]>
Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:18:00 +0100
<![CDATA[Best of modern Albanian music: Top Fest Awards]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=776 Author: Arbana Osmani
Place: Albania
Date: 20 June 2009


The Festival of modern Albanian music, Top Fest Awards, received the full att...]]>
Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:18:00 +0100
<![CDATA[Exit, for the tenth time]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=780 Author: Jovan Ristić
Place: Serbia
Date: 06 July 2009


The Exit Festiva...]]>
Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:18:00 +0100
<![CDATA[Foltin: Adventurers in HI-FI **]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=767 Author: Aleksandar Sazdovski
Place: the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Date: 29 June 2009

Much like Bitola, their native town,
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:19:00 +0100
<![CDATA[How to make your own Exit]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id= Author:  Aleksandar Arežina
Place: Serbia
Date: 4 May 2009


Trenchtown 09 festival, held between 30 April and 2 May near the town of Su...]]> Mon, 04 May 2009 12:20:00 +0100 <![CDATA[Kiril's Balkan beat – it's time to go global **]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=722 Author: Kostadin Surbanovski
Place: the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Date: 9 March 2009


Electronic music, more that any other music,...]]>
Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:20:00 +0100
<![CDATA[TBF: Producing musical food for the soul]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=712 Author: Silvana Srdoc
Place: Croatia
Date: 13 March 2009
(photos: Martina Kenji/
Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:21:00 +0100
<![CDATA[Rocking Montenegro]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=704 Author:  Marko Vesović
Place: Montenegro
Date: 03 March, 2009

With the recent appearance of several young and talented musicians, the Mon...]]>
Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:21:00 +0100
<![CDATA[International Ankara Music Festival – Getting ready to chase our wintertime blues away]]> http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=669 Author:  NAZLI DEMIROZ
Place: Turkey
Date: 18 February 2009


April is the month to celebrate spring with musical notes blooming in Turkey'...]]>
Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:23:00 +0100