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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With their country under attack by Russia, the musicians in Ukrainian folk band Kommuna Lux have a two-fold mission. First, they put on shows blending Balkan swing with klezmer music and traditional ...

Yagody has come over to the U.S. from Ukraine for the first time ever — not just to play music but also try to win hearts and minds. The traditional folk music troupe is making its way around the ...