How did Ukrainian music evolve throughout time? What influenced it and how was it changed by Soviet occupation? What is the "bilyj holos" or natural voice of Ukraine and what makes it so special? Find out all of this over some girl talk about what Ukrainian folk music means - from those of us who came from a village or even those who didn't step one foot outside the city until much later in life. In this special episode, Marichka Marczyk - Ukrainian ethnomusicologist, singer and folklorist from the famous Bozhychi, Kuku Shanel, Lemon Bucket Orkestra ensembles (and Balaklava Blues duo with her husband Mark Marczyk) talks all about her passion for folk music and why it's important to preserve it - a project she feels passionate about and even began an digital archive of called Folk Songs of Ukraine and can be found: https://folk-ukraine.com/

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