THE DRAGON LOVER
Frome, Somerset 2015 (Photo, Jem Dick)
FOREST OF SOUND
Performance with the London Bulgarian Choir at St John's Smith Square London, 2012
FOREST OF SOUND
Moni in action with the London Bulgarian Choir, St John's Smith Square, London, 2012
FOREST OF SOUND
Performance with the London Bulgarian Choir, St John's Smith Square, 2012.
THE RED BLOOD ROSE
A girl casts a spell to draw her lover to her. Square Chapel Arts Centre, Halifax (Photo, Tim Armstrong)
WELCOME SPRING!
A Spell In Time performance with the London Bulgarian Choir, 2016. Ivor plays the autoharp. (Photo, Trevor Roberts)
WELCOME SPRING!
A Spell in Time performance with the London Bulgarian Choir, 2016. Ivor trims the vine as part of a Trifon Zarezan ritual. (Photo, Trevor Roberts)
KENSINGTON GARDENS, LONDON
Moni and Ivor get ready to perform at the Festival to celebrate the installation of a Bulgarian water fountain, 2012
KOPRIVSHTITSA FOLK FESTIVAL
Moni and Ivor relax at the Festival, 2010
THE RED BLOOD ROSE Ivor, Moni and Dessi perform "Dilmano, Dilbero." (Photo Tim Armstrong)
SCHOOL PERFORMANCE
Telling Bulgarian tales, singing Bulgarian songs and making Martenitsi with Dessislava Stefanovava at Clive School, Shropshire.
BEYOND NINE FORESTS
With Judy Greenwell, singer, and Oliver Baldwin, musician, in 1997. (Photo, Bruce Thorndike)
BEYOND THE BORDER INTERNATIONAL STORYTELLING FESTIVAL
A Spell In Time with Dessislava Stefanova and Angel Karaivanov at the Festival, Wales 2004.
Header image: detail from a painting by Aneta Yalamova
“Primal tales from the heart of Bulgarian myth and folklore...
A spellbinding mix of storytelling, ritual and evocative music”