Live CD Recording With Millenia Band

Sunday, Feburary 17, 2013 - put the date on your calendar! With three great albums to their credit and a full performance schedule, Millenia is recording again! Their growing fan base can't wait for this great Ukrainian band to put together another fabulous album!

Millenia has been around for over a decade, and have played many zabavas, festivals and events all over the continent.  Paying homage to their Ukrainian musical roots, they have embraced traditional instrumentation and lyrics but with a diversely eclectic rocking sound.  Each member of the band has undertaken a family music apprenticeship, dedicating themselves to the uniquely Ukrainian Canadian traditions in rocking zabava sound.  Their accumulated Ukrainian Band experiences and influences include + Trubka,  +Jimmy Wacko and the Lumberjacks, Joe Hrycyk, and the Starlights, KCJones,, Connors Road, Granny Dynamite, Robin Keil, and the Malibu Band, the boys in Millenia Band have a rock sound that is rich with influences, full and eclectic - with a proudly Ukrainian Prairie focus too! 

Previous albums have included Bratya Браття, Korinnya Коріння and Zhyttia Життя with a huge range of rockin' tunes "to polka your face off". For a sampler of their top songs from the albums including Holubka Голубка, Hulya Nochka Гуляй ночка, Kolomeyka Коломийка, A V'nedilyu Rano А в неділю рано, Kum Кум and Po Hribi Khodila По гриби ходила, all available for purchase at whttps://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/zhyttia/id470903775.  

Millenia will be recording their 4th, a new album called On The Rocks this February. Recording live, at the biggest dance floor in downtown Edmonton, they are inviting family and friends to tear up the dance floor!  For advance tickets to this great experience, get a hold of mike@milleniaband.com for more information.  

MALANKA in the Mountains 2013

Ukrainians in Alberta really enjoy the MALANKA season - an endless supply of winter really means that we need an endless supply of Ukrainian New Years' Celebrations.  For 16 years running, Vohon Dance Ensemble has entertained at the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge MALANKA in the Mountains, and this year it is planned exactly perfectly - January 11-13, 2013!  

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Not sure which Ukrainian folk tales will weave their way through this special weekend away, but while it is typical these days to enjoy a concert of Ukrainian dance, this event is complete with social folk dancing - something I absolutely adore. 

Ukrainian cooking, wheat weaving, bread making, crafts activities and demonstrations, and a special visit by St. Nicholas - the Wonderworker - the weekend will be a super-Uke weekend for families of all ages to remember.  Canadian and Ukrainian holiday traditions like caroling, skating, eating, drinking and dancing, with activities, crafts, and demonstrations, such as Ukrainian cooking, wheat weaving, Ukrainian dancing, social folk dancing, and bread baking make for a full and stimulating weekend. 

This MALANKA is the "folk tales" event of the season.  An amazing gala dinner and dance including Millennia band and Tyt i Tam band is just the start.  Vohon Ukrainian Dance Ensemble will perform excerpts from their 25 anniversary artistic endeavour, KOLEKTSIYA featuring a collection of folk tales and folk characters including Baba Yaga, under the direction of Trish Kushniruk and Garrett Nestorowich.  Calgarians should note that Vohon is not planning to perform in our fair city this season, so MALANKA in the Mountains may be your only chance to catch this entertaining show!

The planners of this package of events can be reached for bookings at 1-780-852-3301 or 1-866-540-4454 to ask for the Jasper Park Lodge Malanka event.