TWO years ago, on his 25th birthday, Tomáš Kováč received a fujara. He started browsing the internet to get some information about this wind instrument, but there was nothing. Quite disappointed, he ...

MOUNT AIRY — As a teen in communist Czechoslovakia, Bohuslav “Bob” Rychlik played American folk and acoustic blues music on a banjo. Forty years later, he is an American citizen who promotes and ...

FUJARAS of all possible shapes and sizes, along with bells, bagpipes, trumpets, wooden ratchets, violins, pipes, a dulcimer and many other folk instruments are being put on display at Bratislava ...

Imagine a flute that sounds like a recorder mixed with a Theremin, meets Jimi Hendrix’s guitar and a didgeridoo. This is the sound of the Slovak fujara and koncovka, the instruments of choice for ...