• Macedonia.org has an excellent collection of links to performers, sound files and radio stations.
• Macedonian Underground Music has information about Macedonian rock and techno bands.
• Dusko Koncaliev's fine site, Macedonia, has pages on:
  • The Kochani Orchestra, a Romani brass band.
  • Esma Redzhepova and other performers on the recording "Songs of a Macedonian Gypsy".
  • Anastasia, a pop-folk trio.
• Macedonian performers listed on dmoz.
• Tsrvena Kniga, a band from Australia, plays Macedonian music and has both a CD (with sound samples) and book of musical transcriptions available.
• Linsey Pollak of Tsrvena Kniga tells how he discovered the beauty of Macedonian music.
• Music samples from several Macedonian bands.

Music and folklore links

• Sound files for 40 complete songs, many of them Macedonian, and lyrics for 21 Macedonian songs from Pesmarica Jugoslovenske Starogradske Muzike. Ako umram il zaginam is one of our favorites.
• A wonderful, anonymous archive of written music and MIDI arrangements for traditional songs from Tetovo.
• Genealogy Macedonia's music page includes several RealAudio recordings.
• Macedonia.org's Macedonian entertainment directory.
• A 3-D rotating woman's costume introduces an illustrated essay on the history of Macedonian costumes. In Macedonian, by folklorist Zhivko Firfov.
• A stunning collection of Macedonian folk embroidery, courtesy of George Dimitrevski.
• From Baba's Hope Chest, an exhibition at the Museum for Textiles in Toronto, Canada, offers beautiful photographs of Macedonian textiles and costume pieces.
• Macedonian folk costumes has detailed explanations of a women's costume from the Prilep region (shown) and a man's costume from Bitola, plus illustrations from other areas.
• Another good costumes page from MacedoniaDirect.
• Macedonian music links from Slavophilia.

Shopping

• MacedoniaDirect offers folk and pop music and village instruments for sale by mail order. The instruments are pricey, but I know of no other online source for Gievski tamburas.
• Sun Music Entertainment offers a number of Macedonian recordings for sale.
• balCanto lists Macedonian and other Balkan music, much of it Rom, available elsewhere.
• Amazon, unfortunately, carries almost no Macedonian music.

General information

• The Macedonian language, with pronunciation guide and a few common phrases.
• Everything you want to know about the city of Strumica.
• Macedonian Information Almanac.

Updated 24 December 2002