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Collecting honey and honeycomb in their natural habitat can
be risky but rewarding business. A
treasured sweetener, the ancients celebrated honey in many ways including song!
A gift from nature, a medicinal, a food, a preservative, for embalming, it's
wax for writing pysanky, honey has it all. And it makes for the most delicious
flavourful mead to drink - honey beer!!
Honey hunters have sweetened the Ukrainian historic tradition for at least 8,000 years. Besides its ritual importance in so many areas of Ukrainian culture and traditional life, it is easy to find archeological records fromUkraine 's
borderlands in Georgia
and this depiction of honey seekers from Spain .
Honey hunters have sweetened the Ukrainian historic tradition for at least 8,000 years. Besides its ritual importance in so many areas of Ukrainian culture and traditional life, it is easy to find archeological records from
The traditional
Ukrainian folk song-incantation - "Medove Pyvo" Медове пиво is Tyt i Tam Ukrainian "goodtimes polka
brigade zabava system" from Saskatoon's
Tyt i Tam performs a unique and progressive style of Ukrainian folk music. Their extensive professional breadth of musical experience is tremendous. Playing at events across the prairies and into the foothills, TytiTam is the 5 piece band playing at this winter's 2013 Malanka in the Mountains in Jasper. What a fabulous evening! Time to get tickets!
Tyt i Tam performs a unique and progressive style of Ukrainian folk music. Their extensive professional breadth of musical experience is tremendous. Playing at events across the prairies and into the foothills, TytiTam is the 5 piece band playing at this winter's 2013 Malanka in the Mountains in Jasper. What a fabulous evening! Time to get tickets!
