Iskar

Rue Saint-Pierre le Vif, La Scène

Iskar is born from the meeting of four musicians driven by a passion for the musical traditions of the Balkans and the Mediterranean basin, to create a hybrid music at the crossroads of Bulgarian popular heritage and contemporary sounds. The group's name refers to Iskar, the mythical river whose headwaters lie in the mountains near Sofia, flows across the country to the Danube, before joining the Black Sea. Like this river, Iskar's music traverses and links traditions, between folklore, wedding music and modern improvisations, blending emotion and power, tradition and…