Preserving Ukraine’s Folk Music Traditions

This piece highlights Ukrainian grandmothers preserving centuries-old folk songs through intimate, living recordings. Their voices carry memory and resilience, safeguarding cultural traditions against time and turmoil.

These Ukrainian grandmothers are helping preserve the long history of Ukraine’s folk music. Miklós Both, founder of the Polyphony Project, is on a mission: to collect folk music in Ukraine. In four years, the project has visited over 100 different villages and recorded 2000 songs sung by the women in each village. All these folk songs are then compiled into a digital archive, as a way to preserve the long-standing musical folklore tradition of each Ukrainian village.
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