EDWARD DRACH

TRADITIONAL AND MODERN UKRAINIAN SINGER AND SONGWRIGHTER
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Music styles:modern ballade & romance, traditional folk-music, folk-rock, folk-jazz, folk avant-garde etc.

Music instruments :guitar (6, 7, 12 str. ), violin, keyboards, bass, mandolin, banjo, kobza, traditional bandura, housli, wheel lyre (hardy-gardy).


Recitals and concert tours

2008
April, 5 - SEVAMA-poetic-fest, Kyiv, Ukraine
March, 22, 2008  Poetic action devoted to the International Poetry day
February, 22Sliva-poetic-fest,
February, 19 Ukrainian Heroic Song Concert, Kyiv.

2007
Participation in The Ukrainian Exhebition in Europarlament devoted to the HOLODOMOR (Artificial Hunger in Ukraine in 1932-33). Brussels, Belgium, March, 2007
"Ukrainian Song poetry Evenings in a Wrighters' House" - basic supporting program of ukrainian poets and bards begins in January, 2007
"Independence Day with Mahno" - Autor's concert in music-literature festival in Hulaj-Pole (Zaporizhzhia reg.). August, 24-25, 2007
"Kraina Mrij" - International World Music festival? Kyiv. 7-8.07.08
"Balaklavs'ki Kanikuly" («Balaklava's Vacations»), International festival. Sebastopol, Krimea, Ukraine, 1-6.08.07
"Sribna Pigkova" Song Poetry Festival, Lviv, 27-28.10.07
Luts'ka Barykada - fest. Lutsk, 10.11.07

2006
"Independence Day with Mahno" - music-literature festival in Hulaj-Pole (Zaporizhzhia reg.)

2004-2005
Participations on a collective project "Songs of The Orange Revolution" with Oleg Skrypka, Foma, "Gryngholy", Taras Sylenko, Taras Kompanichenko and Serhij Solonyj.

2004 - 2005
Lissberg Drehleier und Dudelsack Festival (Festival of Hardy-gardy and Bagpipe in Lissberg, Germany. Recitals and kurses of Ukrainian kobza and hardy-gardy tradition. Kurses of ukrainian kobzar and hurdy-gurdy tradition.

2004
Surgut Festival of slavonic cultures (Westrn Syberia, Russia)

2001
Author's concert in Teacher's House, Kyiv with radio broadcasting

1998
Author's concert "Nebo Ukrainy" in Ukrainian House in Kyiv with radio broadcasting

1996
International Floristic Festival in "Ukraina" Palace, Kyiv

1995
Festival of The "Mono-Arts" "Kut" (Corner")

1994-95
Recitals among Ukrainian societies in Toronto, (ON, CA) FM, TV

1993
Author's concert in Ukrainian House in Kyiv with radio broadcasting
Recitals among Ukrainian societies in France and Germany

1990 Canadian tour of "Chervona Ruta” Award-Winners Ontario, CA

1989-90
Russia, Ukrainian Culture Days in Moscow University All Ukrainian of "Chervona Ruta” Award-Winners concert tour

1989 Poland. Ukrainian festival Sopot-89, as a guest.

Festival awards

1992
Winner of International Festival of Author's Song "Bili Vitryla"

1991
All Ukrainian Festival of Author's Song "Oberih", winner of The First Winning Award

1989
All Ukrainian Festival Chervona Ruta, Chernivtsi (1-st Winning Award in song poetry)

1988
Ukrainian Republican Festival of Author's Song in Kiev (?-st award).

Winner of Ukrainian Republican TV-Radio festival "New Names"

1987
Festival of Author's Song of Ukraine and Moldavia , Kharkiv

1983
Diploma of All soviet jazz-festival “Jazz on Dneper-river ” (in a staff of Ranok group, Dnipropetrovs'k)

Recordings and issues

1989
Cassettes of Award-Winners of the 1-st Festival "Chervona Ruta”, Kobza International, Canada 2003 2004 (KOB 01-05)

1990
Edward Drach and Nina Matvijenko, Studija Leva, Lviv, Ukraine

1995
"The Songs Of The Land of The Cossaks" - with Zen Records&Nerve TM, Toronto, ON, CA

1995
"Gutar In Your Free Time" Manual With Educational Tape ,Autors issue With technical support of A-BA-BA-HA-LA-MA-HA Publishing

1998
Edward Drach, Own Songs, cassette, authors issue

2000-2001
Song Cycle for Ukrainian Radio, Ukrainian Recording House

2001-2002
“Nebo Ukrainy”, CD-extra, - Art Agency “Same Tak”

2003
Collective project of Kyiv Kobzar League CD "That Who Mighty Relies Upon God.".

2004
Participation in new project of "Otava" folk group and "Oberih - XXI" publishing - traditional songs of Kyiv's region (as a traditional singer)

2004-2005
- Participations on a collective CD - project "Songs of The Orange Revolution" with Oleg Skrypka, Foma, "Gryngholy", Taras Sylenko, Taras Kompanichenko and Serhij Solonyj.

"Tales of Lirnyk Sashko" - participation in a recordings of a CD's of Olexandr Vlasiuk

2005
CD "Dvom dusham Darujet'sia" - "Presenting For Two Souls" - Lyric songs

2007
KATARSYS. The book of the Song texts and verses. "Smoloskyp" 2007

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