Performers

• Roots World's review of Balkan brass bands mentions some noted Serbian ensembles, as does this Amala article.
• The Guca Festival draws hundreds of thousands of fans of brass bands to a town of 5,000 people. Here's another account of the festival.
• Boban Markovic Orkestar and the Milan Mladenovic Brass Band are among the best Serbian brass bands.
• The Bojan Krstic Band is a younger brass ensemble.
• Contemporary Serbian songs collected by ChicagoSerbs.com.
• A collection of traditional Serbian music, some in modern styles.
• Bojan.com has MP3s for a number of Serbian folk-pop songs.
• Frula Show is a Serbian band in the U.S.
• Orkestar Oplenac may also be based in the U.S.
• The Sonia Marinkovich Ensemble at the University of Novi Sad houses ethnic orchestras, a dance ensemble and other cultural activities.
• Zlatne Uste plays Balkan brass band music, including some Serbian songs, in the New York area.
• And if you want to hear a Serbian band playing Irish music, check out Orthodox Celts.

Music and folklore links

• Pesmarica Jugoslovenske Starogradske Muzike (The Book of Old City Songs from Yugoslavia), a fine collection of lyrics for 100 traditional songs from Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Macedonia, with information about bands and singers (headings in English, text in Serbo-Croatian). Some of the lyrics include chords, but take them with a grain of salt -- compare the collection's chords for Zvonko Bogdan's beautiful song "Vec' odavno spremam mog mrkova" to these chords by Darko Zubrinic).
• Speaking of Zvonko Bogdan, here are lyrics for 27 of his songs from The Book of Home.
• The Amala School near Valjevo offers workshops in Serbian Rom music, dance and folklore, and has a good collection of more than 40 songs and lyrics from former Yugoslavia.

General information

• The Book of Home is a good Serbian hotlist.
• Vojvodina, an autonomous region near the Hugarian and Romanian borders.