Ukraine & America United! Ukrainian Concert/Talk/Fundraiser

Location: All Souls Interfaith Gathering, 291 Bostwick Farm Road, Shelburne, VT

Ukraine & America United!

Ukrainian Concert/Talk/Fundraiser

Featuring Jurij Fedynskyj and Fedynskyj Family, from Ukraine

Saturday, 3/22, 2025

6-8PM (Doors open at 5:30PM)

Free~By Donation~No tickets needed.

Fully accessible venue.

Historic, Noble, and Traditional Ukrainian Music of Defence and Peace

Traditional, Sacred, National Instruments of Ukraine: the bandura, kobza, and torban

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.

Donations will be graciously received. All proceeds from donations collected will go towards expenses for the Fedynskyj Family Tour, the Poltava Kobzar Guild, and bringing the Kobzar Armada to the frontlines in Ukraine.

Donations can be made before or at the event.

Cash, checks, paypal: jurij_fedenskyj@hotmail.com.

We will have a square card reader at the event.

This will be the first family tour with Jurij, his wife Mariya Fedynska, and their five children. They reside in the village of Kryachkivka, in Ukraine's Eastern Poltava region. Jurij leads the Poltava Kobzar Guild, and hosts the summer music festival, “Drevo Rodu Kobzarskoho.”

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 goal of this tour is to unite Ukraine and America, as defenders of the free world. The war 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!” ~Jurij Fedynskyj