Traditional Music Movies

Unustatud rahvad (1970 - 1989) by Estonian composer Veljo Tormas is based upon six Balto-Finnic peoples traditions. Collegium Musicale choir brought...

An orphaned teenager with potential and enthusiasm named Raka (18) lives alone with his older brother since his parents left. After accompanying his...

For the first time, traditional Burmese singers Khing Zin Shwe and Shwe Shwe Khaing are recording an album that introduces people around the world to...

In the panorama of Kurdish music, Koma Berxwedan (Group Resistance) is one of the most interesting, innovative, experimental groups. To a deep love...

What is tradition? This is the question posed by yodeller and food researcher Meinrad Koch from Canton Appenzell. In search of an answer, he embarks...

In December 2005, Gordon Duncan, from Perthshire, was quite simply unique as a piper of his generation. He was a multi-instrumentalist and prolific...

Most likely made for the large Neapolitan immigrant population in the States, Roberto Leone Roberti’s love poem to Naples more than captures...

Live action documentary footage of a concert by the Kodo drummers of Japan at the Acropolis, Greece, in 1995, with commentary by members of the drum...

Shipibo healer Ricardo Amaringo describes how he prepares, teaches, and shares the plant medicine ayahuasca. Olivia and Julian Arévalo sing...

12 Girls band is a complete orchestra, performing traditional Chinese classics in a contemporary fashion, using traditional Chinese instruments.

From the remote, islands of Vanuatu, comes an extremely unique and rarely seen tradition, water music.

Documentary on Mozambican music, and the role it played in the country's rediscovering its national identity after centuries of colonial rule.

May It Fill Your Soul is a film about Bulgarian traditional music, about the pain of emigration and the promise of immigration, and about a family...

Susan Hughes has travelled across Ireland having conversations with musicians, dancers, singers, researchers and archivists gathering stories from...