The 14th World Folklore Championship, "World Folk 2024", starts today and runs until August 30 at three locations on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast: Nessebar, Sunny Beach and Sveti Vlas. The event kicks off tonight at the Jana Chimbuleva Amphitheatre in the old town of Nessebar and will feature a competitive format.
Ritual food is an integral part of the Bulgarian ritual system. In the calendar of a Bulgarian village more than a century ago, food with meat was rarely consumed. People usually ate meat 4-5 times a year - on Christmas, St. George’s..
At the end of the 19th century, the Czech artist and folklorist Ludvík Kuba travelled to Bulgaria with one goal in mind: to explore the country's rich song heritage. The melodies he collected were published in a separate volume of his Slavic Song..
In the Bulgarian folk tradition, the feasts of Lazarus Saturday and Palm Sunday are related holidays. From Lazarus Saturday (Lazarovden in Bulgaria), girls prepare for the ritual kumichene, which is performed on the morning of Palm Sunday. A very old..
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