BULGARIAN singing sensations The Bisserov Sisters are to bring a live rendition of their repertoire of complex and extraordinary traditional Bulgarian songs to Prema in Uley this weekend.

Following an age-old oral tradition, Bulgarian singing group The Bisserov Sisters have learnt their repertoire by listening to the traditional songs of previous generations. Lyubimka, Mitra, and Neda have been flying the flag for polyphonic open-throat singing of Bulgaria for more than 3 decades.

During this time they've given concerts and festival performances all over the world, and recorded more than a dozen CDs.

Many of their songs are traditional and come from their home village in the picturesque Pirin Mountains south of Sofia.

At Prema, they will perform in traditional costume and mix their songs with circle dances accompanied by Bulgarian instruments. The repertoire of

The Bisserov Sisters includes the most typical feature of the Pirin region musical folk dialect, which is the combination of sounds peculiar to a primitive diaphony, rich and versatile metro-rhythm and expressive performing style.

Their songs are highly varied: harvest songs, wedding songs, revolutionary or haidouk songs and comic songs combining varied melodies with the typical 'whoops' of indefinite pitch.

The extraordinary success of the Bisserov Sisters is explained by the fact they have interpreted the most valuable works created and held by the Bulgarian people over the centuries, and now hand down this repertoire from generation to generation.

The Bisserov Sisters play Prema on Friday, October 28 at 8pm. Tickets, at £8 or £6 concessions, are available from the box office.