Vesnianky: Ukrainian Spring Calling Songs Workshop

Kitka Institute

Ukrainian folk singers Inna Kovtun and Nadia Tarnawsky present an online workshop exploring traditional spring calling songs

Inna Kovtun and Nadia Tarnawsky return to the Kitka Institute to lead a workshop focusing on spring songs or vesnianky. Vesnianky were sung to wake up slumbering Spring, to send winter away, to fill the earth with songs and laughter to encourage growth. This workshop is open to singers of all ages, genders, backgrounds, and levels of experience. All songs will be taught in the oral tradition. Ability to read Ukrainian or musical notation is not required and some time in each workshop will be spent on creating an authentic Ukrainian village sound appropriate to each song’s region of origin.ABOUT THE TEACHERSINNA KOVTUN is a folklorist and ethnographer, a researcher and collector of folklore traditions, a performer, and an educator. She is the highly regarded musical and artistic director of the “Rozhanytsya” folk ensemble based in Kyiv, the lead vocalist of the international project “EDK”, and the lead singer of the ethno-rock band “Astarta”. Inna is also the Deputy General Director of the Kyiv Municipal Brass Orchestra. She has performed and given workshops all around the world.NADIA TARNAWSKY received a Fulbright award in 2017 and has taught Ukrainian village style singing in workshops for the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine, the Center for Traditional Music and Dance in New York, the Kitka Women&#x27;s Ensemble, Village Harmony, and Dunava, among others. In 2011, she was granted a Traditional Arts Fellowship from Artist Trust and an Artist Support Residency from Jack Straw Productions. Nadia sang with Ensemble Hilka of New York in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster in Ukraine.

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