CEDAR RAPIDS - In the Smith gallery at the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library last month, people pressed their ears to the door to hear Marie Svirgova, 83, singing as she worked on a custom ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - Marj Nejdl found her life's work and passion almost by accident. The Master Czech Folk Artist has spent the last 47 years promoting the art of kraslice, or egg decorating. Nejdl learned ...

SAGINAW, MI — You can learn the Czech folk style of egg decorating at the Castle Museum of Saginaw County History’s upcoming Kraslice workshops. Kraslice, which means beautiful or embellished egg, is ...

Orinda celebrated its sister city, Tabor, Czech Republic with several activities and performances by musicians, both local and as far as San Diego and Prague at Orinda Community Park, Saturday. The ...

A popular Czech folk singer has died after deliberately getting infected with the coronavirus, in an apparent move to skirt restrictions limiting access to some venues to people who have been ...

Making music is to Czechs what barbecueing is to Americans, a means of coming together. This week a traditional Czech folk ensemble is performing throughout Pittsburgh and tapping into the region’s ...

Hana Horkad, a popular anti-vax folk singer in the Czech Republic could no longer perform with her popular band Asonance—the oldest folk band in the country—amid new restrictions requiring vaccination ...

Hana Horka, a popular Czech Republic folk singer for the band Asonance, died last weekend after she deliberately contracted COVID-19, her son says. The 57-year-old, who was not vaccinated, exposed ...

Jan Zizka, a beloved 15th-century Czech folk hero, looms large in the nation’s collective consciousness, a skilled, ingenious, one-eyed warrior who led peasants and rebels into battles that he never ...

Hana Horka wanted to prove recovery from Covid so she could obtain a health pass A Czech folk singer died after she deliberately contracted Covid to obtain a health pass that would have allowed her to ...