Concertgoers filled Carnegie Hall on a rainy Thursday in October 1922 for a 35-piece performance by the Ukrainian National Choir. It was the first stop on an American tour to promote Ukrainian culture ...
Crossover into the American music market is a coveted dream for many international artists. Beyond t.A.T.u. breaking through global charts, few artists from Eastern Europe have managed to cross into ...
Faced with Russia’s efforts to erase Ukrainian culture, people have embraced traditional music as a way to reconnect with their past and affirm their identity. Roksolaniya, a traditional Ukrainian ...
Shortly after the first manned space flight took off in 1961 with Yuri Gagarin orbiting Earth aboard the Vostok 1, astronauts started getting a bit more creative during their space flights by ...
Light in the Attic Records has announced a new compilation of Ukrainian music. Even the Forest Hums: Ukrainian Sonic Archives 1971-1996 arrives October 18. Billed as the first comprehensive collection ...
The Ukrainian band Yagódy is often described as performing folk music from its native country’s enormous heritage of song, which dates back a thousand years or more. That’s not inaccurate but it is ...
For Lubomyr Melnyk, his music is rooted in Ukraine. On March 31, Ukrainian-Canadian pianist and composer Lubomyr Melnyk performed a solo concert to a full house at Pioneer Works in New York.
What was the inspiration behind ‘Fight for Ukraina’? “Fight for Ukraina” was born from a deeply personal place. I’m Ukrainian-American and grew up in Kyiv, so when the Russian full scale invasion ...
Yagódy are a Ukrainian folk-pop band driven by the haunting four-part vocal harmonies of Zoryana Dybovksa, Vasylyna Voloshyn, hand percussionist Tetiana Voitiv, and accordionist Nadiia Parashchuk.
A special event was held in Bristol earlier to celebrate Ukrainian spirit ahead of the country's independence day on Sunday. The celebration began with a flag raising ceremony on College Green, ...