A evening of traditional folk songs from Ukraine, Poland and Russia.

“We would like to take you to some of the most extraordinary places in Eastern Europe. We will show fragments of a documentary “From Podserednieye with Love”, directed by Tomasz Knittel. As we have many years visited the village of Podserednieye, researching local musical style, this film will be an excellent background to our concert. Sophisticated polyphonies, improvisation, and joy from making music – “playing” the songs, as people there use to say – these are the main features of this ancient music. Also, we will sing some Ukrainian and Polish rituals chants – mainly spring, harvest and old wishing Christmas songs. There will be also some drinking and dance circle songs, as well as lyrical and epic repertoire, collected in the archives or during ethnographic expeditions. Musically, this repertoire represents the whole range of styles: from archaic heterophony to most sublimated church-like sounds. The variety of styles however is united by traditional way of singing – with an open, unconstrained voice, full of energy and light.”