Zvegorska Surva
Following the old Julian calendar, the village of Zvegor performs its ancient Surva mummer's custom each Orthodox New Year with masked processions and noise-making rituals intended to drive away evil spirits, echoing pre-Christian Balkan midwinter traditions.
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"Set in the beech-forested Maleshevo hills, this international folk festival draws ensembles from across the Balkans and beyond for six days of competitive folk song, dance and costume in the small mountain town of Berovo."
Меѓународен фолклорен фестивал "Малешевски народни бидиња" (Maleshevo Folk Gatherings)
"Set in the pine-forested Maleshevia plateau, this six-day gathering brings together folk singers, brass bands and zurla players from across the eastern Balkans to perform in Berovo's square surrounded by mountain air and handmade highland crafts."
Малешевски народни собири (Maleshevo Folk Gatherings), Berovo
"Held each August in the small mountain town of Berovo, this multi-day international folk festival brings traditional song, dance and costume from across the Maleshevo region together with visiting Balkan ensembles in a beech-forest setting."
Maleshevski Narodni Sredbi (Maleshevo Folk Gatherings)
"Karbintsi village marks the Assumption of the Holy Mother of God with a traditional open-air village feast combining Orthodox liturgy, folk music and communal feasting in the Macedonian countryside."
Селска слава на Голема Богородица во Карбинци (Village Feast of Golema Bogorodica in Karbintsi)
"The village of Kozjak celebrates the Assumption of Mary on 28 August with an annual village slava bringing together locals and returnees for liturgy, folk song and traditional food in the Kratovo highlands."
Селска слава на Голема Богородица во Козјак (Village Feast of Golema Bogorodica in Kozjak)
"Berovo's town square transforms each August into an open-air ethnographic market where producers from the Maleshevia highlands lay out pine-forest honey, sheep cheese, dried fruits and hand-carved woodwork alongside live folk music and zurla bands."
Етно Плоштад (Ethno Square Festival), Berovo