Tamburaški Sastav Ponoć ("midnight" in English) is a tambura band based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) with deeply-rooted musical traditions.

Peter Kosovec - Prim/Lead Vocal
John Huckle - Prvi brač
Mark Stafura - Drugi brač
Ben Wagner - Kontra
Nikola Vranesevic - Berda

Tamburaški Sastav Ponoć, or TS Ponoć for short, plays a wide variety of music from Eastern Europe and the Balkan states. They mainly focus on music from Croatia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, and Serbia. However, you may hear them introduce some Gypsy, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Greek, Hungarian, and Italian tunes along the way. From traditional bećar songs to modern pop, love ballads to furious instrumentals, TS Ponoć will entertain!

TS Ponoć is currently booking gigs for various events. Such events may include weddings, receptions, restaurants, festivals, and private parties. To book TS Ponoć, contact Peter Kosovec or email tsponoc@gmail.com. 

About the tambura...

Tambura (or "tamburitza") instruments have been played in the Balkans for hundreds of years. The instruments closely resemble mandolins, lutes, and guitars. The five most commonly played tambure are prim, brač, čelo, bugarija (or kontra), and berda. Each are fretted, steel-stringed, acoustic instruments and are played with a pick.

The smallest of them, the prim (PREEM), is a soprano instrument employed primarily for melody or harmony. Next is the brač (BRAATCH), an alto-voiced instrument twice as large as the prim that is used for melody, harmony or counter melody. The čelo (CHE-low) plays counter melody. Unlike an orchestral cello, it is held like a guitar and picked rather than bowed. The bugarija (boo-GA-ree-ya) is similar to the čelo in size and design; it provides rhythmic chording. The berda (BEAR-dah) is a fretted bass and like the čelo, is played with a pick rather than a bow.


Bend nastaje početkom 2013. godine, kada počinje naše zajedničko glazbeno putovanje. Iako postojimo tek kratko vrijeme, iza nas stoji mnoštvo nastupa na festivalima, gdje redovito ostvarujemo zapažene, pa i nagrađene nastupe (Glazbeni festival Slavonije, Šokačke pisme Županja, međunarodni festivali tamburaške glazbe u Banja luci, Pljevljima, Beogradu, Bijelom polju), no i velik broj privatnih zabava. Repertoarski se trudimo biti široki od tamburaške osnove, prema zabavnijim, latino i rock ritmovima, kažu ljudi od Bacha do sevdaha, kako bismo zadovoljili sve naše slušatelje,  a to može vidjeti i u našim autorskim pjesmama. Jednom prilikom nam je jedan gospodin rekao: "Za bend ti treba frend!". Potpuna istina. Iz tog razloga, Poseganu čini pet ljudi koji su prvenstveno prijatelji. Volimo druženje, pjesmu i svirku, pa smo odlučili pokušati dio te ljubavi prenijeti i na ljude oko nas. Kažu da nam zasad dobro ide, a vi nas slobodno pozovite pa procijenite.

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Family, friends and music compose our DNA.  Music brought my father Kočo to the US in the late 60s to tour with his band.  It is here that he met my mother and the rest is history.  He inspired me to get into music and I’ve never looked back.  “Kočo, Pero I Prijatelji” is a simple collection of songs we enjoy and leave to our children, grandchildren and generations ahead so that they can hear how we live with family, friends and music.

Divanhana are:

- Šejla Grgić (vocal) 
- Neven Tunjić (piano)
- Nedžad Mušović (accordion) 
- Azur Imamović (bass guitar)
- Adin Taletović (guitar) 
- Irfan Tahirović (percussions)

Divanhana is a Bosnian sevdah band which performs traditional music in new arrangements created under the influence of jazz, pop and the 20th century classical music. Divanhana’s intention is to cherish and present the urban traditional music not only from Bosnia and Herzegovina, but also the traditional music from the whole Balkan region, with a particular accent to Sevdalinka.

The band was founded in early 2009 by a group of young students from the Sarajevo Music Academy.

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