ORKESTAR RTW Dance Music of the Balkans

Ronald Long      Dina Trageser     Sonya DeWitt    Steve Shadle     Tim McCormack

Accordion       Vocals/Tambura       Bass/Vocals    Clarinet/Vocals         Drums

 

 

Orkestar RTW is a five-piece band based in Seattle, Washington that began in 1987 as the house band for the Radost Folk Ensemble.  Named in the tradition of post-World War II Balkan radio and television house bands (such as Orkestar Radio-Televizije Beograd), Orkestar RTW (Radio-Televizije Washington) plays the music of those bands, primarily traditional dance and folk music from the countries of Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Serbia.