Darik Radio

Darik Radio broadcasts both Sofia, Bulgaria and international music that varies too from genre to genre. Although their main genre of choice is news, talk, culture. Darik Radio main vision is to play what their listeners will listen or if saying the other way what their listeners would like to listen. As Sofia, Bulgaria has its own beautiful tradition of music and culture Darik Radio most of the time tries to play songs and arrange programs thats gonna represent its own tradition of music and culture.

Singing has always been a tradition for both men and women. Songs were often sung by women at work parties such as the sed enka (often attended by young men and women in search of partners to court), betrothal ceremonies, and just for fun. Women had an extensive repertoire of songs that they sang while working in the fields.

Young women eligible for marriage played a particularly important role at the dancing in the village square (which not too long ago was the major form of “entertainment” in the village and was a very important social scene). The dancing — every Sunday and for three days on major holidays like Easter — began not with instrumental music, but with two groups of young women singing, one leading each end of the dance line. Later on, instrumentalists might arrive and the singers would no longer lead the dance. A special form of song, the lament, was sung not only at funerals but also when young men departed for military service.

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