Kabile October 18, 2012

A quintet of virtuosos, Kabile plays all the instruments of a traditional village band. Donka Koleva is the lead vocalist, with Dzhenko Andreev on gaida (the goatskin bagpipe), singer-accordionist Ivan Handzhiev, Angel Krastev on tapan (the large wooden drum covered with sheep or goat skin), and Nikolay Doktorov on the flute-like kaval. These instruments have a centuries-old history in Bulgarian music except for the accordion, which was introduced in the mid-1800s.