Balkan dance music
mp3 live recordings:
To speed up download time these are low quality mp3 files, also please note that these are live perfomances!!
The "Vupros" ensemble
When we started
The "Vupros" ensemble was formed by
dancers from the Martisorul Romanian dance group and the Oxford Balkan dance
group to play for the Balkan evening dance at the Eastbourne International
Folk Dance festival in 1994. The early programme drafts had a question mark in
place of our band's name so we started to use the Bulgarian for "question",
which appears unpronounceable in English when written in Cyrilic, Bbпpoc.
The band
We play a combination of traditional Bulgarian instruments such as the Tupan (large drum), Darabulka (small drum), Tamboura (long necked lute) together with the accordion, clarinet, sax, electric guitar and electric bass.
Our repertoire is based around dance music from
Bulgaria with the addition of dance music from the neighbouring countries of
Romania, Serbia, FYR of Macedonia, Greece, Albania and Armenia.
