Band Čuvari Stvari at Jugošped, 2024 Music brightened my spirit no matter what was going on this year.   The concerts  were wild. We...

This year I was asked to describe my relationship to my voice. It was not difficult for me to put the words on paper, but my instinctual...

Today's post comes to you from Galway, on the west coast of Ireland, where we're trying to soak in a few warm days of summer. I woke up...

The third installment of “This week”, where I reflect on some things. Bear with me. I think about experimentation a lot these days. I am...

“This week,” a new series on my blog where I talk about whatever, with regularity. This week, the winners of both Croatia and Serbia’s...

This blog post is the first of what I intend to be a somewhat regular weekly roundup of what I’m up to in the Ottoman ecumene. When I saw...

I like writing and posting my list on the last day of the year. It gives me maximum time in this arbitrary period to listen to new things...

Emily in the Ottoman Ecumeme has been on a bit of a hiatus over the past several months because I, Emily, have had some big life changes!...

Hey! It's been a while. I'll be back with some updates, posts and end-of-year lists soon, but I wanted to share that last week, online...

To read about my project on Velika Narodna Lira, see my introduction post here. I absolutely love this up-tempo number. There is very...

It's been a while! I'm back with a short little Velika Narodna Lira post about a song I've been singing for months. Enjoy! Lastavice,...

This has been a crazy year for Emily in the Ottoman Ecumene. My blog post on Konstrakta reached almost 800 people and made a splash on...

If you’re like me, right about this time of year you start wishing you were by the sea. And what’s better than a good Dalmatian song to...

Although I had the opportunity to perform multiple times in 2022, I’d like to share three that stood out. In May, I went with Ženska...

In June, I published my first blog post on a website that is not Emily in the Ottoman Ecumene! Kosovo 2.0 published my piece “Let’s light...

In the minutes, hours, and days following the announcement that Konstrakta (Ana Đurić) would represent Serbia at Eurovision with her song...

Unlike many of the previous songs, the popular title of this one is the first line of the third verse. This is likely because the lyrics...

With the women’s singing group of Bojana Nikolić’s School of Serbian and traditional singing (Ženska pevačka grupa, Škola srpskog i...

This year I listened to the same songs over and over again, and although they were excellent, I did not explore as I would have liked to....

I've been working on this post for a long time because of the translation, which was a bit tricky! (That's why it's out of alphabetical...