About Hudaki Village Band

Nine musicians from the Ukrainian Carpathians, this is the HUDAKI Village Band.
They are the masters of the alchemy of musical-vibrating happiness. In 20 years of performing in hundreds of festivals and concert halls across Europe, the band has learned to make their archaic, night-time moments of happiness accessible to the uninitiated.
In the Maramures region, a mountainous area of South-west Ukraine on the border with Romania and Hungary, village musicians are called hudaki.
Various ethnic musical influences make the traditional music multifaceted and unique. Archaic Slavic vocal tradition, Romanian melodies, Jewish rhythms and Romany temperament blend together in a local cross culture that has evolved over centuries of living side by side. Hudaki Village Band has performed in the Sziget Festival in Budapest, Fusion and Bardentreffen in Germany, KlezMore in Vienna, Notes d’Equinoxes Delemont and Festival des 5 Continents in Switzerland, Respect-Prague, Balkan Trafik Brussels, Gooikoorts Belgium, Les Suds Arles in France and many more.

2024

There has been a war in Ukraine for two years. Is authentic music up to what is happening in our country today? Our musicians and poets are dying on the front line while defending our freedom.

However, for us in Ukraine, traditional music is more important today than ever before. And we go out and say loudly to the whole world: we are part of a free and culturally rich country, and we want to stay that way, no matter what the cost. Support us in this, let's stand up to inhumanity together.
And please support our friends from the organizations Base_UA and Come Back Alive

Our Musicians

Kateryna Yarynych, vocal

Olha Senynets, vocal, ütögardon

Vitaliy Kovach, vocal, guitar

Mykhailo Shutko, vocal, violin

Volodymyr Tishler, double bass

Serhiy Kovach, accordion, plivka

Volodymyr Korolenko, cymbalom

Vasyl Rushchak, drum (percussion)

Yuri Bukovynets, clarinet, taragot, flutes