Kolomeyka(Koлoмийкa)

From this years National Ukrainian Festival in Dauphin.

And some good food that leaves me hungry and a little homesick.

Post Factum would feel right at home, but I was wondering if he thinks this guy has a funny accent.

Yes, that's national music from regoion where I grew up, and where I live now, Kolomya, that's the name of the city,(I live in Ivano-Frankivsk) and kolomeyka the name of the songs that are singing in this region. This songs are famous all over Ukraine because of being very hilarious That's great to see, but in motherland Ukraine, this fests are another I can't say what is another, but watching this video I can feel it. Usually in Ukraine on that fests (should say that they are often) you can see all the beauty of this culture. That's sad that because of poverty and non-available stability ukrainians are looking for better life in other countries, or even continents

Thanks, Canada, for saving our culture [flag]

Across the central prairies plenty of the older folks still speak Ukrainian.....with an accent that sounds like they just got off the beet boat, rather than having lived in Canada for 3 - 4 generations. When I was a kid you often heard more Ukrainian in the Co-op than English. Orthodox Christmas was a day off from school. Most of my friends(and family...in-laws) of ukrainian descent now only speak a few words...but they are also the ones sending their kids to Ukrainian immersion. The Ukrainian Catholics and Orthodox churches are both presnt their. If you want, I can link you up through face book with some of them.

You're part of Ukraine too=)) Yes, thanks, I'll be happy))

Was just wondering what the bottom guy's accent sounded like to you. Is it a regional one or is it a foreign one?

Native for 60%, more-less. But I think his parents are from Ukraine or he has lived in Canada for a long time, he thinks like Canadian with speaking, doesn't feels the word dependings, and speaks too slow in ukrainian.

Chances are his great grand parents or older came from the Ukraine. They started arriving enmasse in 1891. Earlier groups may have come into Manitoba in the 1870s with the Mennonites leaving Russia.

Germans, Scandinavians and Ukrainian settlers(in that order) were brought in to fill the west after the British settlers started to peter out. The Ukrainians were given what the others considered marginal land, but what they saw as a godsend....after a lot of hard work.

After Ukraine and Russia, Canada has the 3rd largest Ukrainian population in the world. They are are in the top 10 largest ethnic groups in Canada and west of Ontario they place 2nd or 3rd across the Prairie Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. The names Kuchma, Hnatiuk, Puchailo, Hyrchuk, Hudyma Symchych, Holonya, Prokipchuk, Yakimyshyn and Yurkiw(to name a few) are as common in the phone books of Western Canada as Gill, Dillon, Singh, Chen and Wang are in Vancouver. There are also lots of whose name end in -ski and -sky who claim to be Ukrainian too.

Am a (WOP) Italian by heritage and Southern by birth. But, these are for sure my kind of people.
Full of energy, music and fun.
They would fit right into the Smokey mountain culture.

Thanks for presenting this. Wonderful.

Went to the Pysanka festival in Vegreville this summer and it was a blast.
I guess there isn't as much dancing compitition as there used to be in the past but it was still very good in my eyes.
And the party in the nighttime was kickass. All the dancers get out there and show thier stuff freestyle. Flipping amazing what they can do!!

Anyone else remember this commercial or his restaurants. My mom used to have one of his big perogy makers....I think I may try and get my hand on one or two for Christmas.

Better hurry Shep, that ad looks ad like 40 years ago.

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