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Yara artists in Song Tree. Photo by Watoku Ueno Nova Nomada's logo with a "Kupalo" twist drawing by Eugene Hutz Katie Takahashi reads fortunes at previous Kupalo Yara's Eleanor Lipat, Katie Takahashi & Tome Lee at previous Kupalo Come Celebrate Midsummer Night Kupalo Concert New Traditions for Midsummer Night a new look at old music and traditions with Yara artists: Mariana Sadovska, Laura Biagi, Marina Celander, Akiko Hiroshima, Allison Hiroto, Matt Moran, Odarka Polanskyj, Meredith Wright Alla Kutsevich and Iryna Hrecheko Experiemntal Bandura Trio: Julian Kytasty, Mike Andrec and Jurij Fedynski Budmo: Valeryi Zhmud, Roman Galynsky, Mykhailo Hnatiuk and Petro Horhaniuk and that Hutz guy. Saturday, June 23rd at 8PM at La MaMa in New York City tickets at La MaMa Box Office 74 E 4th St (212) 475-7710 $5 ALSO Kupalo Freakout (Old Calendar) join in the rituals with all the usual outrageous suspects (see above) as well as Alexis Kochan, Wanda Phipps, Joel Schlemowitz, Jina Oh, Roksolana Luchkan and Olesia Lew. Friday, July 6 at 8:30 PM at 6 & B Community Garden on East 6th St & Avenue B in New York City -- free MARIANA SADOVSKA has worked all her life in both music and theatre. She does not sing songs she learned in books. Each song is given to her by a specific person. She believes that songs are dialogues between the singer and the listener. The critic for the New York Times recognized this and wrote: "Sometimes a musician has such an inborn desire to communicate that her message naturally becomes universal. Such is the case with the Ukrainian singer Mariana Sadovska." Mariana Sadovska was born in the city of Lviv in Western Ukraine and for three years acted with the Kurbas Young Theatre in Lviv. From 1991 Mariana worked with Gardzienice Center of Theatre Practice in Poland directed by Vladimierz Staniewski. The theatre's productions are the result of "expeditions" to places where traditional culture is still preserved today. Mariana traveled with Gardzienice on expeditions to Brazil, Egypt and Ireland. She appeared in all the theatre's productions and co-created Metamorphosis or The Golden Ass, using ancient Greek music. She took part in tours to Sweden, England, Belgium and Germany and performed at such theatre festivals as: Togo Festival in Japan, the Sao Paulo Festival in Brazil, the Cairo Festival in Egypt, the MESS Festival in Sarajevo, Bosnia. In 1998 she won Best Actress Award given by the Polish Theatre Union. As the musical director of the Gardzienice Theatre, Mariana has conducted numerous workshops at colleges and universities, as well as one with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford. Since the fall of 1999 Mariana appeared in three Yara Arts Group's festivals in New York. This year she is Yara's artist-in-residence and has conducted special workshop in Calling Songs, Winter Songs, Spring Songs and Late Spring Songs at La MaMa Experimental Theatre, where Yara is a resident company. She first worked with Yara's Virlana Tkacz on an international project in Ukraine in 1991. This year she created the music for Yara's Song Tree and appeared in this piece. She sang ancient Ukrainian songs in Obo: Our Shamanism Yara's co-production with Buryat artists at La MaMa this spring. Mariana also performed at the Balkan Festival and the Balkan Cabaret in New York. For the past ten summers she has traveled through the villages of Ukraine collecting folksongs and rituals. In 1993 she organized a large expedition to Ukraine with an international group of artists, musicians, researchers. This month Global Village Music will be releasing a CD of her favorite songs from her expeditions to the villages of Ukraine.

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