On Matane Malit, the Elina Duni Quartet lays expansive instrumentation over traditional Albanian folk melodies. The spread of formal jazz education has created a new breed of global musician: one who ...

Explore how Albanian traditions thrive in the digital age. Discover how communities in the diaspora preserve their cultural ...

He may be in his eighties, but this champion of traditional wind instruments has lost none of his energy, passion and creativity for this fast-fading element of Kosovo Albanian culture. Aged 84, ...

As a member of a Roma family where almost every male played an instrument, Rexhino Lufta grew up listening to the sounds of the clarinet and the keyboard and was inspired to make music himself. But ...

QUINCY – Winds carried the smell of roasting goat and the sound of Albanian music and language through Kilroy Square while the national colors of black and red flashed on banners, flags, clothing, ...

The former Greek finance minister has written the lyrics for one of the songs about migration that will form Albania's unusual contribution to the Venice Biennale. A traditional male group performing ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- In a steady rain, more than 300 people gathered in Cleveland's Rockefeller Park Saturday evening to celebrate the city's new Albanian Cultural Garden and the unveiling of its ...

The spread of formal jazz education has created a new breed of global musician: one who uses improvisation, and other devices associated with jazz, to transform folk and traditional music. The ...