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Banduragirl, is a singer, promoter of Ukrainian folk culture, and a virtuoso of the bandura - Ukraine’s national instrument. She produces performative, educational, and experimental projects in the Unbeaten Path NGO, which she leads. In 2017, she created and launched the Lviv Bandura Fest - the modern bandura music festival of Lviv, Ukraine which ran for four years. During the COVID lockdowns, she co-created the online school Music Up for musicians learning management and marketing. She also co-created the Bandura mobile app, which lets users play six different Ukrainian folk instruments.
When Ukraine was brutally invaded in 2022, almost all of Banduragirl’s projects and festivals came to a halt, as she switched her focus to three things: benefit concerts, folk singing workshops, and international educational programs about Ukraine. In 2023-2024, she was a delegate for Ukraine at Celtic Connections in the UK, English Folk Expo and WOMEX, participated twice in the Global Musician Workshop in Boston’s Conservatory of Music in the US, and did charitable tours in the UK, South Africa, and the USA
Although her shows in the Bay Area are solo performances, back home she also leads the Ukrainian folk fusion band Troye Zillia which, from the beginning of the war, became a Ukrainian-Polish group, when two of the original Ukrainian participants could no longer participate. The band breathes new life into Ukrainian ancient folk songs from various regions of Ukraine, showcasing the archaic polyphonic singing within contemporary musical forms. The work of Troye Zillia is a real fusion of folk bandura and singing and contemporary jazz drums, keyboards, and synthesizers, and now with bass and clarinet, as well.
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215 Silliman St, San Francisco, CA 94134-1244, United States
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