Bless My Homeland Forever - Historic, Noble and Traditional Ukrainian Music of Defense and Peace

Name: Bless My Homeland Forever - Historic, Noble and Traditional Ukrainian Music of Defense and Peace
Start: 2025-04-12T14:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-04-12T15:30:00-05:00
Location: 301 Main St. NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413

Schedule

Sat Apr 12 2025 at 02:00 pm to 03:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

301 Main St. NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413 | Minneapolis, MN

The Jurij Fedynskyj and Family presents a fundraiser, concert and talk in support of Ukrainian Kozak and Kozak Forces!
Ukraine and America! United We Stand!
Admission by donation at the door or though PayPal to [email protected]
Jurij Fedynskyj is a Ukrainian-American Ukrainian luthier, researcher, and practitioner of the lost kobzar and torban playing traditions. The kobzars were blind traveling bards (1700-1933) of Eastern Ukraine. They sang moral, historic, and patriotic songs to the accompaniment of the bandura and kobza, the Ukrainian harp-lutes. They were exterminated by Stalin in the 1930's due to their spiritual influence on Ukrainians, under Russian occupation. Last year Unesco has recognized that tradition as heritage of humanity.
Throughout the past three years, Jurij Fedynskyj has conducted around 600+ free concerts in Ukraine and on the front lines. He also travels to Western countries, as a cultural diplomat, creating a spiritual bridge, uniting countries of the free world with Ukraine, today's leader and defender of the free world. He shares not only the most precious historic songs and music of defence, recalling Ukraines 300 year struggle for independence, but also explains the texts, history, culture, and philosophy of his nation.
The present US tour will include 50 cities all across the US from Florida to Vermont, to Minnesota and to Texas. This will be the first family tour with Jurij's wife and five children. They reside in the village of Kryachkivka, in Ukraine's Eastern Poltava region for the past fifteen years, where Jurij leads the Poltava Kobzar Guild, and hosts the summer music festival, Drevo Rodu Kobzarskoho. Along with his family, they will perform historic kozak polyphonic village songs, spiritual hymns of the Kozak Baroque, village dance songs, as well as European and American historical songs of freedom and spiritual defence.
The goal of this tour is to unite Ukraine and America, as defenders of the free world. The genocide in Ukraine has recently entered a new phase, full of uncertainties for both countries. Enemies of the free world are working hard to divide us. The truth of Ukraine must be told. The soul of Ukraine must be felt. Glory to the Truly Free World!