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Slavalachia: The New Music Tradition Uniting Across An Ocean, A Pandemic And A Revolution


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Brett Hill attended Belarusian musician and activist Siarhei Douhushau first American show at a small bar in Athens, Ohio, in March 2019, which was the start of a music collaboration that has now reached across an ocean during a global pandemic.
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Belarusian musician and activist Siarhei Douhushau was in Chicago in March of 2019 on a U.S. tour presenting folk art and music from his eastern European home. Nadzeya Ilkevich, then a second-year graduate student at Ohio University, caught wind and lured her friend and fellow countryman to Athens, Ohio – an Appalachian foothill college town of about 40,000 – to perform traditional Belarusian songs using flutes and a hurdy gurdy, which is a hand-cranked hybrid of a violin ....

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Solving for Z | A Calculus of Risk - New Film From TGR Exploring The Risk and Reward of Big Mountain Guiding


January 2nd, 2021
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“How much can we gain from the mountains? How much can we lose? Between our own perceptions and the reality of the hazards, how much space exists? And in that gap, how do we decide what we are willing to risk?”
Zahan Billimoria grew up in Switzerland and since his teenage years, big mountain guiding is all he has ever wanted to do. He achieved that goal after moving to Jackson, Wyoming in the early 2000s and he is now regarded as one of the best in the business, Jeremy Jones describing him as “a Jedi master in the mountains who has helped shape my approach.” ....

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