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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The album, with its enigmatic and mystical title, became one of the first break-out world music hits, selling hundreds of thousands. As a result numerous choirs from Bulgaria toured under the name.