Andy Irvine, the Balkans, and the Long Road to ‘EastWind’
Irish musician Andy Irvine worked hard to learn the challenging musical vocabulary of Balkan folk music, while his colleagues feared being invited to play the music with him.
Bleart Thaçi
Bleart Thaçi is a cultural history researcher and writer based in Kosovo. He works at Reporting House, a museum dedicated to the history of the Kosovo war, and his writing has been published in the US, UK, Australia, Switzerland, Portugal, Albania, Kosovo and elsewhere.