The Hudaki Village Band from the Ukrainian Carpathians has been sharing the joie de vivre of their multi-ethnic culture through traditional music for 25 years.

For almost 25 years, nine wedding musicians from the Ukrainian Carpathians have been showing how joie de vivre works. For centuries, Ukrainian Ruthenians, Roma, Jews, Romanians and Hungarians have lived side by side in their homeland, each family on its own and yet together.

This gave rise to an independent music that manages without notes - a music of elementary human emotional outbursts, of joy and sorrow, love and betrayal. It resounds for days and nights at the weddings in the mountain villages and everyone sings and dances to it. The Hudaki Village Band plays a variety of music on traditional instruments and is not afraid to give the old songs a fresh, humorous and virtuoso sheen.

In the first half of 2025, the band will release its sixth CD, which reflects the multi-ethnic culture of its native Transcarpathia. The musicians of the Hudaki Village Band continue to live and work in Ukraine. They support their family members and friends on the front line as well as refugees in western Ukraine.


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