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David Bilides & Dragi Spasovski are your hosts for discussions and samples of all 54 Macedonian folk songs in Dragi's 3-CD project, as well as stories about the recordings, musicians, Dragi'...
On July 28, 2023, Stefče Stojkovski invited Dragi to his radio show on Macedonian National Radio, and interviewed him for the next 2 hours....
This episode begins our new series on singers and songs. Today we are featuring the legendary vocalist Bonda Dimiškova, who was related to a...
This episode marks the conclusion of the podcasts of the 54 songs in Dragi's 3-CD set. We will be continuing the show after this episode wit...
Dragi discusses the long history of the Ohridski Trubaduri, who originally recorded this love song. He also talks at length about the wonder...
Dragi talks about some of the traditions found in line dancing, and some ways romancing was carried out. He then spends the majority of the...
Dragi talks about the four major women's vocal groups from Aegean Macedonia, how they came to be formed, and the importance of cultural cont...
This love song from the Debar region features the wonderful singer, Kiril Mančevski. Dragi also talks about ornamentation, and wedding tradi...
Dragi discusses another of his mother's songs, from the Kumanovo area. He talks about the differences between čalgija, urban, and izvoren me...
Another song from the Tetovo area, originally sung by Olga Sičan, about a girl who cannot marry due to a death in the family. Dragi talks ab...
This song, popular throughout Macedonia, was originally recorded by Aleksandar Sarievski. Dragi talks about Sarievski and his contemporaries...
Another song from the repertoire of Dragi's mother, Rajna Spasovska. Dragi continues his discussion of his mother's singing history and her...
This well-known ballad about Goce Delčev is sung all over Macedonia. Dragi talks about the first person to record it, Mirvet Belovska, and a...
This love song from the Tetovo region is an example of how hidden love is expressed in the lyrics. Dragi also talk about Olga Sićan and his...
This song from SE centra Macedonia describes a brave woman who wards off a potential assault and joins her love to fight in the mountains. D...
This is a love song of the Macedonian Muslims living in the greater Šar Planina area. Dragi talks the Isjanovska sisters, describes the Mace...
This ballad is the first of several songs featuring Dragi's mother, Rajna Spasovska. Dragi also talks about Carka Tasevska and other singers...
Dragi first heard this love song from Kumanovo sung by Blaga Videc. He talks about her and about table songs in general.
This is an urban love song from Prilep, home to many singers. Dragi focuses on Jovanka Ivanovska, from whom he first heard the song.
Sung all over Macedonia, this song describes a wedding celebration at a monastery, and whose dancing is the best. Dragi also tells a story a...
Dragi learned this love song, from Radoviš, from Vančo Arsov. He talks about Vančo and the eastern Macedonian dialect.
Dragi learned this song, from Ovčepole about family animosities, from Carka Tasevska, who also recorded with his mother.
Dragi learned this southern Macedonian song from a recording by Kostadinka Palazova. He talks about the hospitality Macedonians show visitor...
Dragi learned this central Macedonian song from a gajda player in his village. The song has the theme of a young woman engaged by her mother...
This love song from Prilep again features Zaharinka Milosaljeviḱ. Dragi talks about the problems inherent in productions of čalgija songs fe...
This old love song, first recorded by Izvorno Trio, is from the Tetovo area. Dragi discusses the Gavrovski brothers group, the differences b...
This love song, first recorded by Vaska Ilieva, is from the Aegean region. Dragi discusses the influx of out-of-region Macedonians to Macedo...
This west-central Macedonian love song is from Mariovo. Dragi talks about the region and singers and songs from it, and its tradition of zur...
Dragi talks about the similarities of this southwestern Macedonian song to Lele, Jano, his theory about how that happened, and about Zaharin...
Dragi talks about the many different versions and story lines of this central Macedonian song, which serves as the theme music for our podca...
This song from northern Macedonia describes a mother's fears for her son marrying a woman from another village. Dragi also discusses the pas...
This song praises the master of the house. Dragi talks about how popular this song is, sung by everyone at special occasions. He also talks...
This song from the Skopje region features the gajda (bagpipe). Dragi learned it from a recording by the famed Trio Kučkovki, and he talks ab...
Dragi talks about this song from southeast Macedonia, and discusses Irina Bujuklieva, the little-known singer who introduced it.
Dragi talks about this song from the Kumanovo area and about sedenkas—working bees—and his personal experiences with them in his family.
Dragi talks about this Tetovo song and the group that recorded it, Braḱa Gavrovski. He also talks about ornamenting songs and the possible i...
For this song from north-central Macedonia, Dragi talks about the origin of the lyrics and four different versions. He also discusses Dragic...
For this song from north-central Macedonia, Dragi talks about the category of songs having to do with young men or woman who are awakened fr...
Dragi talks about the Tetovo dialect, how songs spread from one village to another, the meaning of "young bride", and the symbol of the moon...
Dragi talks about the meaning of the archaic work "zdram," and how folk songs helpf preserve a culture's heritage.
For this first song of the Echo CD, Dragi talks about the differences between urban, čalgija, and traditional singing. He describes how he r...
Stefče tells the story of his family's long-time involvement in folk music, his path to professional work (including meeting Mile Kolarov),...
This podcast was recorded in January 2009, when all three musicians were visiting Seattle. Each gets to tell the story of how they found thi...
Dragi talks about his relationship with Nikola Badev, who first recorded this song, discusses more about the emotional impact of young men g...
For this song from Resen about unhappy love, Dragi reviews the original Raspejani Resenčani recording, talks about Goran's arrangement, and...
Dragi talks about Vasilievski's original recording of this sad love song from Eastern Macedonia, Jordan Nikolić, Mara Gjorgjević, and the st...
For this Ohrid song about a young Christian girl who falls in love with a Turk, Dragi talks about the Ohridski Trubaduri, Ansambl Biljana, a...
Dragi speculates on why his repertoire contains so many songs from Lazaropole, the process by which some singers at festivals performed song...
Dragi talks about Anka Gieva, who first recorded this song about a likely arranged marriage, Olga Sičan from Tetovo, and the real life Vaske...
Dragi talks about the Isniaovski sisters, one of whom first recorded this love song.
This well-known song from Skopsko about a man who can't pay his bar bill has many versions. Dragi talks about his first hearing of the song...