For many, playing the recorder or clanging a triangle at school was a ritual part of growing up, but one musical group in Manchester is offering people a chance to play a more unusual instrument - the ...

Austin’s Flying Balalaika Brothers are to Russian folk music what Béla Fleck is to bluegrass: Outside-the-box, no-boundaries, take-no-prisoners innovators. The FBBs combine jaw-dropping virtuosity ...

Members of the Kalinka Balalaika Orchestra recently starred in Ewan McGregor's A Gentleman in Moscow television series Britain's only balalaika orchestra is struggling for members partly because of ...

Like many of their compatriots, musicians Zhenya Kolykhanov and Sergey Vaschenko emigrated from Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. They have since established themselves in ...

Sergei Mayorov, a virtuoso balalaika player of the legendary state dance ensemble of Siberia, whose solo numbers were admired by half the world, was one of the first in the Siberian region to start ...

102 Lara's Theme (from Dr. Zhivago) / Balalaika. 103 Troika (Russian Dance) / Balalaika. 104 Stariny Vals (Old Waltz) / Balalaika. 105 Haida Troika (Russian Dance) / Balalaika. 105 Proschai Ty Staraya ...