I'm so excited to be preparing for a trip to Ukraine this summer with my choir, Ukrainian Village Voices. We'll be doing ethnomusicology research as we hop from village to village, learning traditional songs from (and sleeping on the floors of) the village elders, or "babas." It will be our first group trip to Ukraine, and we'll be coming back filled to the brim with new (old) music, which we'll share publicly in a concert at the Ukrainian Museum in the East Village this fall.
Xandra performs with Ukrainian Village Voices at the 2018 Zlatne Uste (Golden) Festival at Prospect Hall in Brooklyn.