THURSDAY, MAY 6, 2021
7:00-8:00 pm (ET)
Event on ZOOM
Presented by St. Vladimir Institute (Toronto, ON)
Become part of the story of how our ancestors celebrated the beginning of spring. Join ethnomusicologist and singer Marichka Marczyk and learn interesting facts about spring rituals songs – vesnianky and haivky. Listen to ancient archival audio recordings made in remote Ukrainian villages. Immerse yourself in the beauty of unique melodies from different ethnic regions of Ukraine. Sing along with Marichka in this uplifting workshop of Ukrainian spring ritual music.
This workshop is being offered in Ukrainian, with some English translation by Mark Marczyk, Marichka's life partner and music soulmate.
While participation is free, donations are appreciated to support continued cultural programming at St. Vladimir Institute. https://www.stvladimir.ca/donate-checkout
St. Vladimir Institute gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the SUS Foundation.
More about Marichka
Marichka Marczyk is a folklorist, singer, and musician with the Ukrainian Canadian band Balaklava Blues and Lemon Bucket Orkestra. Marichka graduated from Kyiv's National Music Academy of Ukraine in 2002 with a major in Ethnomusicology and Folklore Music. She is known for the award-winning folk opera, Counting Sheep, which she co-directed with partner Mark Marczyk.
Marichka is the creator of “Folk Songs of Ukraine,” a first of its kind on-line encyclopaedia of priceless audio recordings collected over half a century by folklorists in Ukrainian villages. This encyclopaedia project is supported by the Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre, housed at St. Vladimir Institute, and the Research Laboratory of Ethnomusicology at Kyiv's National Music Academy of Ukraine. The encyclopaedia goes live mid-May, 2021.
Marichka teaches traditional Ukrainian songs and is known for her vocal technique of Ukrainian polyphony called “open voice”. This is a unique singing style developed over centuries in the plains of central and eastern Ukraine. Her teaching and singing repertoire contains songs that are over 500 years old. "Open Voice" is characteristically loud and resonant and is believed to clean the soul from the inside as you sing while also holding a magic sway over those that fall under its expansive reach. It comes from the ground and is about the physical and spiritual lives of the people who work the land day in and day out.