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The music of Poland’s smallest minority


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In this week’s show, host John Beauchamp speaks to multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Karolina Cicha.

Cicha is no stranger to ethnic folk music, having released albums in a number of languages found in her native Podlasie region in north-eastern Poland, including those of well-grounded minorities such Russian, Lithuanian, Belarusian, and Ukrainian, but also in Yiddish, Roma, and Tatar.

She’s now released a musical map of Poland’s Karaim community, the country’s smallest at around 300 people, and originally hailing from the Crimea.

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