Culture/Arts
Music from the Carpathian Mountains presented at The Ukrainian Museum
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NEW YORK – The sound of the trembita reverberated throughout The Ukrainian Museum on Saturday, December 6, 2014, signaling that the Koliadnyky from Kryvorivnia had arrived. Presented by Virlana Tkacz and Yara Arts Group, “Koliada and Music from the Carpathians” opened with two performances at the museum. The Koliadnyky are a group of five men from the Carpathian Mountains in western Ukraine who sing traditional winter songs from the village of Kryvorivnia. Ivan Zelenchuk was the “bereza,” the lead singer. With him were Mykola Zelenchuk on trembita and bubon, master fiddler Mykola Ilyuk, tsymbaly player Vasyl Tymchuk and Ostap Kostyuk on the drymba and various flutes.