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Consisting of two bandura players, an opera singer, a violinist, a pianist, a country singer and a poet, these artists are all members of Ukraine’s Cultural Forces, founded by Mykolai Sierga during the first year of the war.

Two performers in your group play the bandura.

Sierga: The bandura is important because it is the symbol of the Ukrainian soul.

In 1934, the Soviet Union government invited bandura players to a festival.

The costumes are cut in ornate antique styles, but dolled up with bits of electrical wiring, and the instruments, many hand-built, are seemingly a collection of whatever was left over when the world ended: percussion, trombone, fluegelhorn, flute, folk string instruments like the bandura and dulcimer, sighing accordions.