| You are subscribed to Folklife News & Events from the Library of Congress. Homegrown Concert: Hudaki Village Band from Ukraine's Carpathian Region August 2 NoonOn August 2 at noon, we'll premiere a brand-new concert video by the Hudaki Village Band, a colorful and lively band playing multi-ethnic music from Ukraine's Carpathian mountains! The concert will be at the link at noon on August 2. (If you arrive at the link a few minutes early, remember to refresh your browser at noon!)
The Hudaki Village Band is made up of nine master musicians from the Ukrainian Carpathians. In the Maramures region, a mountainous area of Southwest Ukraine on the border with Romania and Hungary, village musicians are called hudaki. Various ethnic musical influences make the traditional music multifaceted and unique. Archaic Slavic vocal traditions, Romanian melodies, Jewish rhythms and Romany temperament blend together in a local cross culture that has evolved over centuries of living side by side. In 20 years of performing at hundreds of festivals and concert halls across Europe, the band has learned to make their ancient music accessible to the uninitiated. They have played the most prestigious festivals in Hungary, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Belgium, France, and elsewhere. The members are Kateryna Yarynych (vocal), Olha Senynets (vocal, ütögardon), Vitaliy Kovach (vocal, guitar), Mykhailo Shutko (vocal, violin), Volodymyr Tishler (double bass), Serhiy Kovach (accordion, plonka), Volodymyr Korolenko (cymbalom), Vasyl Rushchak (drums, percussion), Yuri Bukovynets (clarinet, taragot, flutes).
The concert was shot on location in their village in Ukraine, and will be presented for the first time by the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, along with an interview with the band which explains some of their traditions and instruments. In the interview we also talked about the current war in Ukraine, about how people are bearing up un the strain, and especially about how music can help in the war effort, both by boosting morale within Ukraine and by spreading the word about the war to people in other countries.
Both videos will be embedded in a blog post at Folklife Today. At noon on August 2, you'll find it at the link below. If you visit the link before that, you can explore the blog, and then subscribe so you'll receive notification of the concert when it becomes available.
The concert and interview will be at this link at noon on premiere day!
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Folklife News & Events:Homegrown Concert: Hudaki Village Band from Ukraine's Carpathian Region
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