A Ukrainian artist a timeless instrument = a masterpiece 🎶✨ The bandura is Ukraine's national instrument — a unique blend of lute and zither with over 60 strings. Traditionally used to perform Ukrainian folk music, today it connects cultures and genres 💙💛 Video: bandurahope / Instagram | Ukraine.ua

On the International Day of Music, Ukrainians worldwide celebrate bandura — the sound of Ukraine and its national treasure. 🎵 Bandura is a Ukrainian national instrument, once especially beloved by the ancestors, the Ukrainian Cossacks. Although the totalitarian Soviet regime tried to ban it once, Ukrainians preserved their traditions, far from bandura's homeland in diaspora as well. Today this remarkable sound captivates, inspires and mesmerizes — a music that is truly one of a kind. __________

1.3M views · 72K reactions | Learning the old dances!  . Do you know the dance Pasdespanets? Well... there are many old traditional folk dances that are still enjoyed by thousands in Ukraine. . This Friday in Winnipeg at the event Kolomyika For Ukraine, you can learn this dance as well as several others including: Karapets, Hutsulka, Korobochka, Arkan and more. For more great songs and dances and traditions... follow Baba Elka!  Баба Єлька | Ukrainian Dance World | Facebook