In the second installment of a new occasional photoblog series, the Velvet Violin presents this mini-profile of one of Prague’s most famous musical haunts in pictures.

In the wake of its success with introducing a union-wide cap on regular roaming charges, the European Commission is now proposing to bring down data roaming charges – which currently have no EU price limit – to 50 cents per megabyte in 2014.

The Velvet Violin reports on Greg Parmley’s ride into the Rock for People festival as part of an attempt to see 26 festivals in 30 days

Fans of the many sounds, sights and flavors of Africa and the Caribbean are in for a treat tonight at the special African-Caribbean Evening in Prague 5. Organized by Humanitas Afrika with the support of the Czech commission for UNESCO as well as the embassies of South Africa, Bolivia and Venezuela, the event at Restaurace [...]

We talk to Youth Philharmonic Orchestra conductor Jaroslav Cigler ahead of tonight’s perfomance at Rudolfinum in the company of 15-year-old cello and piano prodigy Sarina Zhang

Have a look at how two Czech artists got on biking around Prague using a “cycle lane” projected onto the road.

Since it began more than 50 years ago, The Prague Spring International Music Festival has hosted an International Music Competition for talented classical musicians under the age of 30. As this year’s festival gets underway (see “Prague Spring” from this week’s Night & Day), the Velvet Violin takes a look at three past young winners [...]

May 14 will see a concert of expatriate musicians who live in Prague at the lovely Písecká Brána venue near Prague Castle. Performing at the Expats to Czech concert will be Canadian blues guitarist and singer Jonathan Gaudet, Slovak jazz singer Miriam Bayle and American singer and songwriter Tony Ackerman. The Prague Post talked to [...]

The Velvet Violin reports on how The Chemical Brothers will headline this summer’s festival outside Prague.

The Velvet Violin reports on how a Czech group is among 40 bands who are battling it out for the chance to play on stage at a major London rock festival this summer