Traditional Bulgarian Dancing in Yambol's City Park

Christmas Day and on this mild sunny winter's Day a festival of Bulgarian Dancing is being performed in front of an enthusiastic Yambol crowd who enjoyed it immensely. Traditional Bulgarian Folk Music with singers and acoustic band had us memorised for hours on end on this special Christian Day..

Kukeri In Yambol

It was a rainy Yambol for the Kukeri festival that took place today. This didn't put of the contestants in this unique Bulgarian event. A day of colour, movement, music and to insistent clanging belts of bells that formed a cacophony of sound throughout the city centre. There are 1700 visitor that were forecast to watch the bad spirits of winter being driven away and welcome in spring.

The Lone Yambol Accordionist

Walking in the Yambol City centre this morning I caught the sound of an accordianist. It took a good couple of minutes to reach the source fo the music as the sound travels far on the flat concrete paved area of Yambol. A lone accordionist was playing and singing traditional folk music. There were no crowds today and his earning seemed to be zero unless he had recently gathered earning up and pocketed it. The musical talent in Bulgaria is widespread.

The Yambol Accordion Player

This Yambol accordion player was quite a lonely figure in the centre of the pedestrian part of the city. The music was traditional Bulgarian folk songs and he had a deep resonant voice that travel many hundred of metres along the flat paved area. Bulgarians do reward their musical entertainers here so he won't go hungry from lack of earnings today.

A Lonely Yambol Gadulka Musician

This man is quite often here next to the small park it the town centre. The music is traditional and appreciated by passing Bulgarian folk. I think the instrument he is playing is a gadulka fiddle, which just adds another Bulgarian dimension walking through Yambol town. He always gets enough to feed his family after an hour or two.

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