When civil war started inexorably ripping Yugoslavia apart at the seams in 1990, Goran Bregovic found himself out of the rock-star business. As the founder of Bijelo Dugme (White Button), the ...

A tiny village nestled in the mountains of western Serbia hardly seems like an epicenter for world music. It boasts 3,000 inhabitants. A handful of winding roads. Even fewer inns. But for one weekend ...

Born to a Croatian father and Serb mother, composer-guitarist-bandleader Goran Bregovic brews a jolting stew of Balkan traditions that demonstrate -- often in a hilariously raucous way -- the deep ...

According to the Walt Disney Concert Hall program, there were four separate elements to the Goran Bregovic and His Wedding and Funeral Orchestra concert Wednesday night: a five-piece Gypsy Brass band, ...

No one could confuse PlayhouseSquare with a Balkan bar. But Goran Bregovic came close. On Monday, June 15, the rocker-turned-Gypsy-bandleader transformed the Ohio Theatre into a Balkan dance party as ...

On his current tour of the United States, Goran Bregovic is performing music he has recorded with Gogol Bordello, Gipsy Kings and other gypsy musicians for release in February. Bregovic and his 19-m… ...

Goran Bregovic creates music for beginnings and endings. That explains, in part, why he leads a large ensemble called the Wedding and Funeral Orchestra. While these two events - the union and the ...

There’s probably nobody who’s done more to popularize eastern European Gypsy music than Goran Bregovic: his sound tracks to Emir Kusturica films like Time of the Gypsies and Underground introduced the ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. On Wednesday, March 8 at 8 p.m., in Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, ...

Here’s a look at the top concerts of the week in the San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland areas, highlighted by the return of Goran Bregovic and His Wedding and Funeral Orchestra. Goran Bregovic A ...