Веснянки - Vesnianky at Brooklyn Folk Festival 2017

These two songs are vesnianky: ritual songs calling in the spring season. In the first, a young, obedient woman listens to her father-in-law and pours drinking water for her mother-in-law, so that the older woman will stop her scolding. In the second, the vocalists sing about their village, asking why it isn’t a happy place. We learn that it is because all the women have been married off and there is nobody with whom to go out and enliven the village. But the singers call the villagers outside to sing vesnianky anyway and revive themselves after a long winter of sleeping on the stove and not washing their shirts.

Ой боровая зазюліна - Oy borovaya zaziulina
Soloist: Laryssa Czebiniak

Да село - Da selo
Singers: Vaiva Aglinskas, Natalie Oshukany, Laryssa Czebiniak, Anna Witiuk

Ukrainian Village Voices at Brooklyn Folk Festival
April 28, 2017

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