Begin the season with New York's St. George Ukrainian Street Festival (05/02/04)

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Begin the season with New York's St. George Ukrainian Street Festival

by Taras Schumylowych

NEW YORK - On Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, May 14, 15 and 16, Seventh Street (between Second and Third Avenues) will be closed to traffic and open for a celebration by the Ukrainian community of New York City. St. George's Ukrainian Catholic Church is sponsoring the 28th annual Ukrainian Festival which promises to be the biggest and best yet. The official opening will be on Friday evening.

There will be many booths featuring Ukrainian food - varenyky, kovbasa, stuffed cabbage, home-baked goods - and selling Ukrainian arts and crafts - embroideries, wood carvings, ceramics and pysanky (traditional Ukrainian Easter eggs).

The famous Ukrainian chorus Dumka of New York will give a concert of sacred Ukrainian music at St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church on Sunday, May 16, at 1:15 p.m. The Dumka Chorus performs under the direction of Maestro Wasyl Hrechynskyj.

Festival-goers will enjoy the weekend outdoors, listening to singers and watching those ever-famous Ukrainian dancers with their boundless energy, amazing high jumps and spectacular steps performing the Hopak and other folk dance favorites,

All in all, the weekend promises an excellent opportunity to discover or revisit this fascinating ethnic neighborhood in the East Village and has blended its rich cultural traditions into the fabric of New York City.

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