Yara Arts Group: Koliadnyky December 18, 2010

Yara Arts Group will offer a concert featuring the Koliadnyky, an ensemble of winter song singers from Kryvorivnia (a Ukrainian village in the Hutsul region of the Carpathian Mountains). The first concert will be 'Twelve Dishes/Sviat vechir.' The evening will include troista instrumental music from the Charpathian Mountains by Mykola Ilyuk, Vasyl Tymchuk and Ostap Kostyuk. Singer Cecilia Arana, violinist Valerie Zhmud and bandurist Julian Kytasty will join the Koliadnyky for several Christmas songs for the event. There will also be performances of poetry by Bob Holman, Vasyl Makhno and Olena Jennings. An important component of the winter ritual is a ritual dinner of twelve dishes. Food artist Olesia Lew will present new interpretations of these ritual dishes for the audience to taste.