PARMA, Ohio -- A world away from its birthplace in Kyiv, the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus of North America rehearsed at St. Andrews Church in Parma on Saturday. Three dozen male singers bellowed in ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s easy to burn a book about Ukraine’s history and culture but not a song. That is the foundation of the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus (UBC), which will be performing a concert at 7 p.,m. April 2 at ...

On the morning of February 24, 2022, air-raid sirens wailed in the streets of Kyiv, heralding a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. When the composer Adrian Mocanu heard the noise, he had a ...

Before Russia invaded Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin said that "Ukraine actually never had stable traditions of real statehood." But in the decades since the country gained independence, groups of ...

Correspondent photo / John Bagnola// Fred and Lil Yasnowski of Lordstown toured Ukraine’s most classic venues in 2018 because Fred was a member of the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus. On Dec. 4, the chorus ...

The band describes its musical style as “ethno-chaos.” “Chaos is the first basis of everything, where different pieces of sound, instruments and genres create our musical universe,” Gorban said. They ...

The NAMM Show, running from Thursday, April 13 through Saturday, April 15, returned to the Anaheim Convention Center with its annual preview day on Wednesday. A limited group of vendors gathered ...