For most ethnic groups, New Year’s is decently far enough away to forget those well-intended resolutions. However, on Saturday, a special performance by Mourka and the Russian Folk Instrument Ensemble ...

Over the years, we've seen Rob Scallon turn just about everything he can think of into a metal instrument. Heck, even the shovel made for some interesting metal licks. His latest experiment finds him ...

Some of the Bowdoin community were welcomed back from Spring Break by being taken on a musical journey through Russia, courtesy of the folk ensemble Zolotoj Plyos, who demonstrated a variety of ...

Trio Voronezh is three classical trained musicians who play Russian folk instruments. They join Fred in NPR's Studio 4A for some Russian music. They play a polka from a ballet score called "The Bolt," ...

A lone surma, a Ukrainian folk trumpet, blares a Cossack military call. It is followed by the pounding of lytavras, or Cossack kettledrums. Another surma joins in to repeat the call, raising to a ...