The Trbovlje Nightingales – from superstardom to oblivion

They were superstars between the world wars. They performed to audiences around Europe. They were better that the world's best known singers at the time despite coming from a poor mining town and having no formal musical education - and their story has been largely forgotten for the better part of a century.

The story has now been plucked from oblivion by Benjamin Kreže, whose film Hungry, Barefoot and Famous (Lačni, bosi in slavni) retraces the steps of a choir known as the Trbovlje Nightingale and was screened at the Kamerat festival of working class film in...