A Christmas like never before: Lilly of the West’s country album enters our homes for the holidays This Christmas will be different. The anticipated holidays are arriving with a unique gift: an album of the coziest Christmas carols, but presented…
The Bulgarian country singer, musician and journalist will delight her fans with her three concerts in November and a promotion for her Christmas album in December. The past summer she created a new project together with Deyan Pavlov, the virtuoso…
The international Sofia Singer Songwriter Fest was conducted for the eighth time but at a new location – the Swingin’ Hall club in the capital of Bulgaria. On October 5th and 6th, in a cozy atmosphere, thirteen talented artists from…
The international Sofia Singer Songwriter Fest is to take place for the eighth time on October 5th and 6th 2024. The event starts at 18:30. The venue is „Swingin’hall”, where talented Bulgarian and foreign artists, who will present their original…
Bulgarian country singer and journalist, Lilly Drumeva, started a new music project – Love Affair. Its focus is on love songs from the distant and not-so-distant past, performed acoustically with new arrangements of two beautiful voices and accompanied by fine…
The famous Bulgarian country band made a music video for the song Rocks, Salt and Nails. It is part of the Swings & Heartaches album, which came out in 2020. Through it the musicians pay homage to the great composers…
The Bulgarian country musicians are getting ready for a series of gigs in the spring and summer, with their rich repertoire of country, western, swing and blues standards. The program is to include new gospel and folk songs as well….
At the General Membership Meeting on 25 October 2023, Bulgarian artist and journalist, Lilly Drumeva-O’Reilly, was elected to the board of the European Bluegrass Music Association (EBMA), together with Piero Biasi, Guido de Groot, Christopher Howard-Williams, Nadia Sardjoe, Angelika Torrie,…
The winner of the seventh edition of the festival for acoustic music and poetry, Sofia Singer Songwriter Fest 2023, became the guitarist of the popular Bulgarian band X-R@y – Nikolay Dimitrov. He impressed the audience with brilliant lyrics, memorable melodies,…
In the hot summer days, the musicians of Lilly of the West are recoding their eighth studio album, which is a Christmas collection. It is called Christmas with Lilly of the West, and it features golden standards, such as Joy…
The famous Bulgarian country singer and journalist, Lilly Drumeva, is to continue her music line on the Bulgarian National Radio with her thematic original segment – Country with Lilly – which will be broadcast every Saturday from two to three…
The international festival for singer-songwriters Sofia Singer Songwriter Fest is preparing for its seventh edition. The dates are October the 7th and 8th, 2023. The concert starts at 6 pm. The venue is once again Club 1857 (22 San Stefano…
Sofia,17 October, 2022 The sixth edition of Sofia Singer Songwriter Fest, an international festival dedicated to acoustic music and poetry, ended in an emotional way. The six finalists performed two original songs and one by Sir Paul McCartney, to honor…
Swings & Heartaches Volume 2 is Lilly of the West’s 8th project, and an excellent one, building on the concept seen in Swings & Heartaches, released in 2011. Lilly of the West is Lilly Drumeva on lead vocals and rhythm…
In February 2022 the campaign of Retina Bulgaria, an association aiming to help the visually impaired, was launched on Bulgarian National Radio. Along with audio director Stamen Yanev, Lilly prepared two clips that announce the project, using her own voice…
Lilly of the West, led by the indomitable Lilly Drumeva, has been at the forefront of European bluegrass for close on 25 years. Hailing from Bulgaria, Lilly has taken her passion for bluegrass and traditional country music around the world….
