The National School of Folk Arts "Philip Kutev" is situated in Kotel, a little and picturesque town in the mountains of Eastern Bulgaria. It was founded on the 2nd of October, 1967 and was the first school in the country to teach Bulgarian folk music. 1100 students have graduated the school since it was opened and about 70 per cent of them have continued their education in different universities and academies in Bulgaria. The school has given the world a lot of celebriries such as Theodossy Spasssov, Tsvetan Marinov, Tsvetan Radkov, Binka Dobreva.
Speciality (instruments avaliable): kaval, gaida (bagpipe), tambura, gadulka, Bulgarian folk singing and manufacturing Bulgarian hand-made musical instruments, Bulgarian dances