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Slavalachia: Bringing Cultures Together Through Folk Music
Brett Hill attended Belarusian musician and activist Siarhei Douhushau first American show at a small bar in Athens, Ohio, in March 2019, which was the start of a music collaboration that has now reached across an ocean during a global pandemic.
Photo by Chad Reich/100 Days in Appalachia
A group of musicians from Belarus, Ukraine, and Ohio discover a shared story about music and oppression.
May 3, 2021
Belarusian musician and activist Siarhei Douhushau was in Chicago in March 2019 on a U.S. tour presenting folk art and music from his Eastern European home. Nadzeya Ilkevich, then a second-year graduate student at Ohio University, caught wind and lured her friend and fellow countryman to Athens, Ohio an Appalachian foothill college town of about 40,000 to perform traditional Belarusian so