Philip Koutev music school (НУФИ – National School of Folk Arts) is located in Kotel, a small town near Sliven. It was established on 1967 and it was the first school in which children could learn to sing and play Bulgarian folk music. The school is very special, because it[…]
A new festval starts this summer in Bulgaria in the Rodhopy village Dolen. “TRANSFIGURATION 2015 is step beyond the threshold of normal, disregarding urban vanity unity with the primordial purity of the mountain and Bulgarian antiquity.” Meeting with the sounds, the beauty and colors of the Balkans “– the organizers[…]
So what about the music scene in Sliven? Looking for an answer to this question, we met Dimityr Mitev, who sacrificed his career as a performance musician to dedicate his work to revive music learning and live music performance in the town. He set up his drums school few years[…]
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