When I was there I didn't get a chance to listen or hear any of what we know as Bulgarian Folk. All I heard and saw on TV was an awful pop Yugo-Folk -like music with Turkish feel and bad lyrics. I even went to the Rodopa Mountain in Shiroka Luka where is the school where the kids begin studying folk music on a professional basis from as early as middle school age. Even there all I heard was this new wave of Yugo-folk. That is what kids there are listening and what they want to play too. The future doe not seems bright for the music that we love. What we can do is vote with our money. We should buy more CDs from the original BG folk and none from the new one. That way kids might get the message. I hope I didn't dampen the holiday mood.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

PS The new "folk" singers are sooo sexy. At least that is one good thing :-)