This forum is a joint event held by the Ivan Honchar Museum, the Kobza Players’ Guild, the Khotkevych Foundation for National Cultural Initiatives, and a travel club. The program includes concerts, master classes, an applied research conference, and an exhibition of artworks by Heorhii Tkachenko; also, everyone will be able to learn to perform Ukrainian traditional dances or make kobza-player instruments (oldtime banduras, kobzas, lyres and guslis). Other items will include performances of kobza-player dumy, chants, psalms, historical, Cossack, and chumak songs. The festival will feature the launch of Halyna Khotkevych’s book Where the Grass Is Not Prickly. Hnat Khotkevych and His Family (moderators: Vira Manko, Kost Cheremskyi).
Fans of folklore will make sure not to miss concerts by kobza, lyre, and bandura players, featuring Kyivites Taras Kompanychenko (pictured), Yarema the Lyre Player, Mykhailo Khai, Oles Sanin, Sviatoslav Sylenko, Serhii Churai, Eduard Drach, Yevhen Makotsioba; Leopolitans Yaroslav Krysko, Lajos Molnar, Pavlo Morhuniuk, and Taras Dorotskyi; Yurii Fedynskyi (Poltava region), Andrii Liashuk (Rivne), Victor Mishalow (Toronto), and others.
