Category: Ukrainian Music
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Happy Ukrainian New Year!
Alright, so January 14th – ish is the New Year celebration for what I’ve known as “Ukrainian New Year’s”. The date, of course, is according to the Gregorian Calendar calendar, which is given to us thanks to Pope Gregory XIII way back in 1582. Anyway, as kids growing up in the Ukrainian tradition, we’d visit…
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Modern Ukrainian Music
If there’s one thing that is noticeably different from my mental image of Ukraine and the country as it is right now, it’s the music. Whereas in Canada “Ukrainian music” often means polka, in Ukraine “Ukrainian music” is an ambiguous term. So here is a list of Ukrainian music that I either discovered in the…