Traditional Albanian polyphonic music can be divided into two major stylistic groups as performed by the Ghegs of northern Albania and the Tosks and Labs living in the southern part of the country.

Though a crisp autumn wind blew, you could feel the warmth in the air as people greeted friends and family with a peck on each cheek at Shepparton’s Albanian Harvest Festival on Sunday.

Or what is Albania?’ A lot of people haven’t even heard of it ... influenced by this era of state-sanctioned atheism. Many Albanians have non-traditional and lenient interpretations of their religion.