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..was amazingly good, particularly during those parts of it when it did not rain. We picked up a few nice crafty things, along with Yuschenko who created great commotion in between the craft stalls. He also shopped for stuff to add to his already huge collection of folksy things. The event attracted lots of cool-looking young people, (and like on the picture below, taken by Little Miss Moi) everybody and their baby were wearing vyshyvanka (embroidered shirt).

The whole celebration was associated with Ivana Kupala - traditional pagan by origin celebration of youth and mating.

The last pic in the row shows mesmerized public at the performance by currently our favorite Ukrainian band AtmAsfera. We bumped into these guys in Lviv playing on the street by the Opera one Sunday night. We were swept away by their music (David put 100 hryvna into their cello case during the first five minutes of listening). It turned out they were practicing on the streets that way not to get rusty, and were on their way to a show in Poland - just like Jeff Buckley, we thought, wow.

Here I came up with a sketch of people getting drenched under the rain and the stern look of Rodina Mat’.

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