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(4 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Festival of Folk Music “Krayina Mriy” (Land of Dreams)
The Festival of Folklore Music Krayina Mriy is an annual event, which brings together folk and ethno rock musicians, craftsmen and applied art artists. Krayina Mriy translates as The Land of Dreams. Life without dreams is like an ocean without water, says Oleh Skrypka, the initiator and organizer of the Ethno Festival Krayina Mriy and frontman of the Ukrainian rock-group Vopli Vodoplyasova. He wanted his dreams of a folk music festival to come true — and they did.
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(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Ivana Kupala
For those of you who do not know about the St. John’s – Ivana Kupala festival, this is the original pagan midsummer night. In pre-Christian Ukraine, the festival was really a fertility rite that was supposed to assure a good harvest. (Kupalo was believed to be the god of Love and of Harvest. He was personified as the earth’s fertility — RJO). From the descriptions in ancient chronicles it was rather wild, featuring all kinds of sexual excesses… in other words, a lot of fun.
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