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The Ukrainian Bandura in Three Tracks

Kathryn Tickell presents Irish music on banjo and harmonica and a resurfaced piece from 1980s Rwanda. Plus bandura master Julian Kytasty sums up his instrument in three tracks.

Kathryn Tickell shares three traditional bandura tracks picked by Julian Kytasty, music director of the New York Bandura Ensemble. Born in Detroit but descending from a Ukrainian family of refugees who fled the country after World War II, Julian is a third generation player of the bandura, a stringed instrument similar to the lute and the zither and typical of Ukraine.

Elsewhere in the show, Kathryn selects new releases including Irish music performed on banjo and harmonica courtesy of Enda Scahill and Joel Andersson, improvisations on herdanger fiddle from Norway, and a resurfaced track from 1980s Rwanda from wife and husband duo Bizimungu Diudonne and Agnes Umbibizi.

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Music Played

  • Meral Polat

    ̧Ա

    • Meydan.
  • Enda Scahill & Joel Andersson

    The Hag With The Money

    • The Dark Well.
  • Thor Ahlgren, Joel Savoy, Kelli Jones, Agnes Åhlund, Iris Bergcrantz, Magnus Heebøll Jacobsen & Trey Boudreaux

    Stubben

    • Stubben.
  • Tartu Uus Teater, Kulno Malva & Tõnis Kirsipu

    Korallid Emajões

    • Tapty1985.Laskumine orgu.
  • Sarathy Korwar

    Beauty Doesn't Know What It Looks Like

    • There Is Beauty, There Already.
    • Otherland Records.
  • Bizimungu Dieudonne

    Imbabazi Twese

    • Inzovu Y'imirindi.
    • Mississippi Records.
  • Julian Kytasty

    Kozachok (Козачок)

    • Songs of Truth: Music and Song from the Kobzar Tradition of Ukraine.
    • Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
  • Julian Kytasty

    Metelytsia

    • Songs of Truth: Music and Song from the Kobzar Tradition of Ukraine.
    • Smithsonian Folkways.
  • Julian Kytasty

    Savradym (Сaврaдим)

    • Songs of Truth: Music and Song from the Kobzar Tradition of Ukraine.
    • Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
  • Vegar Vårdal

    Stev til Kampen

    • Uventa.
  • Filip Savić

    Osmoputka (Fire Burns in the Mountains)

    • Made in Svrljig: Music from South-Eastern Serbia.
    • Antonovka Records.
  • Akolá Tambó, La Burgo, El Happy, Lukumi & Dely Prem

    Agua

    • Son Pa' Los Palenques.
  • Saha Gnawa

    Baba Mimoun

    • Saha Gnawa.
  • K. Frimpong and His Cubano Fiestas

    Asase Si Yo

    • The Black Album.

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