Benya Stewart: "Ukrainian folk tradition is like a thousand feet deep, it's just been this unbroken despite so many attempts of so many different empires and kingdoms. There's this own unbroken chain of culture and once I experienced that - that's another part.
Benya Stewart, an American musician from Ohio, chose to live in wartime Kyiv. Sharing a few of his wartime songs, he speaks with American journalist Joe Lindsley about playing front-line shows, the power of roots music, and life under missile attacks.
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For the musical alliance Slavalachia and folk musician Brother Hill, old protest songs retain a special power, from the Appalachian coal fields all the way to the front lines of Ukraine.