Music in the summer
Bandura player, summer festival, Ukraine, oil on canvas, 8×8 inch, 2008
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While struggling to find a decent band to listen to Saturday night in London we realized that everybody has gone up to Glastonbury. Same way in Ukraine these days everyone is off to a music festival of some sort. Was thinking of good Ukrainian bands that come to mind, and realize that most of them play this folksy melodic music and congregate around these festivals:
Slavske, Pidkamin‘, Fortecya, Sheshory, Krayina Mriy (in Kyiv that just happened last weekend.) more info in Ukrainian here.
There is plenty of techno with it’s Kazantip in Crimea, but most popular are the folk music gigs. What draws hip Ukrainians to them so much? The good choice in the genre, the desire to develop something local and rooted deep down in history, to set themselves apart from the rest of the world?
Besides thinking of the festivals, Went to see a nice show by Ralph Fleck at Prudy Hicks yesterday.
On Flickr found a very cool illustrator from Moscow.
19.08.08 thought of more folk festivals to add to the list: Potyag do Yaremche, Unizh, Trypilske Kolo, Zashkiv, besides lots of Ukrainian bands participate in Polish festivals like II Praski Piknik Rowerowy and Woodstock.
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