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Kitka is an American women's vocal arts ensemble inspired by traditional songs and vocal techniques from Eastern Europe. Dedicated to developing new audiences for music rooted in Balkan, Slavic, and Caucasian women's vocal traditions, Kitka also strives to expand the boundaries of folk song as a living and evolving expressive art form.
Trio Kavkasia:
Trio Kavkasia consists of three Americans (Alan Gasser, tenor; Stuart Gelzer, bass and bowed chunir; and Carl Linich, tenor and plucked panduri and chonguri) who together share more than sixty years of experience studying, performing, and teaching the traditional sacred and secular vocal music of Georgia. Kavkasia's pure, authentic sound has been perfected thanks to numerous extended visits to Georgia. The trio spent 1995 as artists in residence in Tbilisi, the country's capital, studying and singing with the greatest living masters of Georgian music. Performing at Tbilisi University and appearing often on national television, the trio became famous throughout the country for their mastery of the rich and extraordinarily beautiful music of Georgia.http://www.kavkasia.org/
HasmikHarutyunyan:
One of Armenia’s leading folk singers,Hasmik Harutyunyan is worldrenowned for her work with the Shoghaken Folk Ensemble. Her passionate interpretations of lullabies and songs of longing from historical villages across the Armenian plateau offer a mesmerizing glimpse of a lost world. Drawing inspiration from her ancestors in the province of Mush in Historic Armenia, Hasmik learned many of the songs in her repertoire from old women who had emigrated from Anatolia to eastern Armenia before or during the Armenian massacres of 1915, as well as from their descendants and old song collections. 01/26/11
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