Showing posts with label Ukrainian singing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ukrainian singing. Show all posts

Saturday, 26 October 2013

Happiness is Singing in Korinnya Choir

Happiness is Singing in Korinnya Choir
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Making music is one of the special human talents that persists across cultures, languages and through space and time. Researchers are beginning to confirm that music making may actually be a necessity of life, perhaps even a self-medicating process. There is recognition that listening to music, passive participation, gets more dopamine to the brain's pleasure spots. I have heard that music activates, stimulates and lights up the entire brain!

Active listening enhances hearing, a good thought that could help prevent age-related hearing loss. Active singing makes the speech process more effective too. And it has been proven that children who have musical training show increases in IQ, memory and verbal skills, too. Singing augments and sustains speaking.  When the beat, the rhythm and lyrics synchronize, and others hear, focus, listen actively and join in, there is learning.  All that curiosity about how to fit together helps develop empathy, anticipation, and intuition.  Solving the puzzle of what will happen next in the music makes a person feel positive, enthusiastic, confident and alert!  Singing takes focused breathing which takes discipline and increases aerobic strength. Your immune system and hormone responses are more healthy after singing too!Music making is like playing a game, and the brain actually lights up with delight!
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Even singing nonsense words, or snippets of songs from a deep place of memory can induce a health enhancing mystical, stress releasing reverie.  Music making breaches the uncomfortable chasm of social and emotional distance between humans and makes us more resilient!

No doubt your personal instrument is simply waiting for an invitation  - so while you ponder, put a bunch of Ukrainian Youtube karaoke videos on your playlist and make music! And for an enhanced feeling of belonging to a great group, that embraces the Ukrainian idea here in Calgary - Korinnya Ukrainian Folk Ensemble is inviting you!

Rehearsals take place on Monday evenings at the CYM Hall at 924 Edmonton Trail NE, but for more information check at info@korinnya.com or 403-283-7663.

Thursday, 20 June 2013

Tuesday Ukrainian Jam Session

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Well after hearing about this great group of guys from Ukraine arriving to play at the Vegreville Ukrainian Festival this year,  I finally met them!  Today at Calgary's commemoration event for the Enemy Aliens Exhibit in Banff (sorry,  it was impossible to get there due to the rain), the gentlemen musicians played for the reception program.  Great fun and entertainment!

If you are in Edmonton on Tuesday, June 25 - or you can get there for the evening - you could be part of Edmonton's largest Ukrainian jam session!


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Bring your favorite instrument - large or small, make sure your voice is well....hydrated.  Song books will be provided for all, so you don't have to feel self conscious about forgetting the words.  Join in this huge sing-a-long, it will be like you never left summer camp!  You can purchase drinks and munchies there. 

This is an evening performance of Ukraine's Darmohrai group from Vinnytsia Ukraine, and Edmonton's largest Ukrainian jam session!  Come for the entertainment, come for the fun, and remember you are helping Darmohrai continue its tour to big and small places across the Canadian prairies - little places needing that Ukrainian uplift! 

See you Tuesday - Tickets are available at the door! 

Tuesday, 2 October 2012

Calgary's Holodomor Commemoration 2012




Calgary will be honoring the HOLODOMOR on Saturday, November 24th,2012.

HOLODOMOR Commemoration 11 am St. Vladimir's Cultural Centre 404 Meredith Road N.E.

Calgary's Holodomor Monument, Edmonton Trail NE and Memorial Drive in Bridgeland by the Bow River
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