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Christmas Market Magic in Romania - U.S. Arts Envoy Day In the Life Cluj Napoca Romania Christmas Market at Night It came as a surprise to me that Romania as a country counts itself as having over 90% Christian population. The local people take great pride in their culture and traditions, and commonly participate in the wonder and magic that is a Christmas Market. For those like me who had never visited such a market, it was a revelation of beauty and communal celebration of

I have been preparing for this trip to Romania for months, learning the beautiful Romanian language and reading everything I can get my hands on about the culture, history and people. Arts Envoy visits are mission driven toward achieving certain goals. Our mission in Romania: to conduct interactive keynotes and team building workshops to target audiences including: Embassy affiliates, industry leaders, shareholders, and creative stakeholders. We will also provide our educatio

Happy Anniversary to Appalachia Kid LP that was released 4 years ago today on October 29, 2021. First of all, THANK YOU to everyone that preordered the album when it was first announced. That helps so much for an artist to gauge demand, and can offset the cost of making new music - both pressing up vinyl records and CDs , but also recording costs like paying your musicians, engineers, studio and songwriter royalties. Lucky for me, I was able to take my time over the years w

Appalachia is pronounced Apple-atcha in the rural southern part of the region, and App-a-lay-sha in the northern most and less rural...

Do you love to write? Poetry, songs, short stories, essays, even business reports – When you write something, you are not only creating art

This month is all about music in schools. Music is one of the most fundamental healing and educational forces for good in the world.

On this day two years ago We never heard of covid I just got home from blessed Romania Where Christmas is celebrated all of December And...