Ukrainian Village Band

Traditional music is an umbrella term used in the mid–20th century by folklorists and ethnomusicologists to denote community-rooted, orally transmitted repertoires tied to social ritual, work, celebration, and storytelling.

Traditional folk is a broad umbrella for orally transmitted songs and dance tunes that circulated in rural and working-class communities before the age of mass recording. Repertoires include narrative ballads, laments, love songs, work songs, lullabies, and instrumental dance sets such as reels…

Rusyn folk music is the traditional music of the Rusyn (Ruthenian) people of the Carpathian region, stretching across today’s western Ukraine (Transcarpathia/Zakarpattia), eastern Slovakia, southeastern Poland (Lemko region), northeastern Hungary, northern Romania, and parts of Vojvodina (Serbia).