The musical guest at Coldplay’s recent concert in Bucharest, Romania, was booed by fans for singing manele, a genre of Romanian pop-folk. The four-piece rock band was performing at the city’s Arena ...

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 ...

One of the world's biggest classical music events, the George Enescu International Festival, has begun in Romania. The 27th edition promises to be an extraordinary celebration as the country ...

Earlier this week, Coldplay unwittingly stepped into some kind of Romanian cultural divide while playing two shows at Bucharest's Arena Națională. Coldplay are in the middle of rolling out new music, ...

The Romanian-American Jazz Suite, by soprano saxophonist Sam Newsome and pianist Lucian Ban, is another very good example of how the jazz aesthetic of personal expression be applied to other music ...

Productions awarded by ecumenical juries at international film festivals and a musical based on Victor Hugo’s novel The ...

The Romanian Cultural Institute staged a classical music concert titled "Extraordinary Concert 'George Enescu '70'" in Beijing on November 30. In a fully packed room, the audience enjoyed passionate ...

Moldavian and Romanian traditional music is known for swift, complex rhythms, musical improvisation, and rich melodic ornamentation. Traditionally performed by Romani musicians, the Lautari musical ...