It was near closing time at a Washington, D.C., restaurant, and Kathryn Mitchell was totally captivated. While home for the summer from college, Mitchell worked at a restaurant owned by a Bulgarian ...

The tradition of singing in the fields is universal. American slaves sang the gospel of cotton. Cuban virtuoso Omar Portuando grew up to the symphony of the sugarcane harvest. Folklorist Alan Lomax ...

Thirty-one years ago, a recording by an all-female Bulgarian choir singing in a 1,000-year-old style somehow wound up selling a startling 500,000 copies in the United States. The mysterious ...

Thirty years ago an all-female folk choir set up in Bulgaria became the darling of Western audiences with its tradition-steeped a cappella singing, before the fall of communism threatened its survival ...

Called ?breathtaking in its sublime beauty? by the Los Angeles Times, the GRAMMY-winning, 23-member Bulgarian women?s choir has dazzled audiences around the globe with their mysterious, otherworldly ...

Thirty-one years ago, a recording by an all-female Bulgarian choir singing in a 1,000-year-old style somehow wound up selling a startling 500,000 copies in the United States. The mysterious ...