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 ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. Amid the pomp-and-say-nothingness of the Grammy Awards at the start of the most ...

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 ...

When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, orchestra conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson felt she had to respond. "I wanted to turn my horror into action," the conductor, who ...

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 ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — Around 20 dancers practiced on the third floor of the Ukrainian National Home two weeks before one of their biggest performances of the year at the Syracuse Ukrainian Festival. They ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — Performing this year’s Festival International, Yagódy a European band ready to bring Ukrainian music to Acadiana. Yagódy, which in Ukranian translates to “berries,” is known to ...

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 ...

“Be as a tower, that, firmly set,” the ghost of Virgil advises Dante as the pair navigates the Inferno of the Divine Comedy, “shakes not its top for any blast that blows!” Few human towers more fully ...