Free Russian Folk Music MP3 Downloads

Russian folk dance and music from New York ensemble Barynya from. Party songs, Balalaika, Cossack songs and Russian Christmas songs.

> Barynya's free Russian and Cossack MP3's

Igor has uploaded 20 pieces of him singing accompanied by Guitar. I'm not sure if the pieces are traditional or not, but the best way to describe them would be Russian Gypsy Jazz.

> Listen to Igor Mineyev's RussianFolk MP3's

This site contains a whole bunch of traditional Latvian folk groups such as Auli which is a bagpipe and drum music group, Kandla which is a Livonian folklore ensemble and Viraksne, an Atasiene village ethnographical ensemble.

On each group's page are a few different MP3's for downloading, a list of the instruments used and a sound file demonstrating how the name of the group is pronounced.

> Listen to lots of Latvian Folk Music

Although you can't these pieces as they're all in Real Audio format, there's just too many great examples of traditional Russian music here to pass it up.

There are about 60 pieces from different groups and cover songs and tunes such as Cossack Patrol played by the Russian Balalaika Orchestra, Ural Mountain Folk singing, Katyusha performed by the Soviet Red Army Chorus and Lezginka.

Well worth checking out for an introduction to Russian music.

> Find out about music from Russia