I would have thought that folk musicians of the professional sort were quite important ambassadors for Bulgaria. I was looking for something else (something similar) but came up with information about The National School of Folk Arts "Philip Kutev" in Kotel, Bulgaria; " the first school in Europe ... to teach traditional folklore music and vocal technique." (is that true? founded in 1967) http://nufi-kotel.com/NUFI.html and anyway, it can be hard to draw the line when classifying what genre someone plays ... there are lots of reasons that the discrimination described makes no sense.
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