For “Together Again,” clarinetist Ivo Papasov has brought together the core members of his original “Wedding Band,” Trakiya, which first formed in the 1970s. If the term “Wedding Band” conjures images ...

Ivo Papasov is not a man to be messed with. A burly figure sporting a battered black T-shirt and a beard, he emerged surrounded by a band who also looked as if they had just ambled out of a bar in the ...

Fed up with the disrespectful treatment accorded to Rom music and musicians in his homeland, the superb Bulgarian saxophonist Yuri Yunakov moved to New York in 1994. He’s remained a leading exponent ...

Forget about the ”Mysterious Voices” and other staid, state-sponsored Bulgarian groups. If you want to hear music as fresh and exciting as the political changes occurring in Eastern Europe, listen to ...

Ivo Papasov is one of the world's great instrumentalists, a clarinet player who can switch effortlessly between traditional themes, rousing dance songs and flurries of jazz improvisation. He's a Gypsy ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. According to a Bulgarian informant, Ivo Papasov’s stage banter included the claim that he “can still make babies”. To ...

IN PRESENTING MUSICIANS like African singer Salif Keita and Bulgarian clarinettist Ivo Papasov, the Arts Festival is doing more than serving up colourful slices of cultures rarely seen in Hong Kong.

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To lots of Americans I suppose the phrase “Bulgarian wedding music” sounds like part of a punch line, but if you’ve heard the stuff—it’s one of the most exhilarating and technically demanding eastern ...

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