This year, Ukraine’s largest music festival struck a different chord. Gone were the international headliners, the massive performance halls and the hundreds of thousands of visitors. Instead, beloved ...

There are the sounds of war in Kyiv these days - air raid sirens, Russian missile strikes. But one resident of that city would like to bring our ears something hopeful and brave - the rich heritage of ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. The Ukrainian band Yagódy is often described as performing folk music from its native country’s enormous ...

This year, a famous Ukrainian rock band, Okean Elzy, celebrated its 30-year anniversary. The group has become a symbol of resistance for all generations of independent Ukraine. For my parents, Okean ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The seeds of the Ukrainian band Yа́gody were planted long before their official formation bore fruit. The group’s origins stretch back to 2010, when actor Mykola Huseynov proposed ...

Amid the pomp-and-say-nothingness of the Grammy Awards at the start of the most recent Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky memorably appeared via video from a ...

On the 20th Anniversary of the Ukrainian Day of Dignity and Freedom - New York, NY - The Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival (UCMF) announces its 2025 Festival "Letters and Notes," an exploration of ...

Can you name any Ukrainian composer? There is a reason why you probably cannot, even if you are a music lover and a regular visitor to concert halls. And that reason is not that Ukrainian classical ...