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Slavalachia: Bringing Cultures Together Through Folk Music


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Slavalachia: Bringing Cultures Together Through Folk Music
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.
Photo by Chad Reich/100 Days in Appalachia
A group of musicians from Belarus, Ukraine, and Ohio discover a shared story about music and oppression.
May 3, 2021
Belarusian musician and activist Siarhei Douhushau was in Chicago in March 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 t ....

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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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