We celebrate FAŠANK - it is a festival with food and dance with a sing. This is the time before Lent.

          This is our traditiona costumes         

st. Mikolas

Khust Specialized school 3, Ukraine 

The most famous Ukrainian instrument is kobza. The Ukrainian kobza was traditionally gut-strung, lute-like stringed musical instrument with a body hewn from a single block of wood. Instruments with a staved assembly also exist. The kobza has a medium length neck which may or may not have tied-on frets, which were usually made of gut. It was single-strung (sometimes also double-strung) and the strings were played with fingertips or occasionally with a plectrum threaded through a ring placed on the middle finger.

The Kobza acquired widespread popularity in the 16th century, with the advent of the Hetmanate (Cossack state). From the 17th century the term bandura was often used as a synonym for the kobza. The term bandura has a Latin pedigree and reflects the growing contacts the Ukrainian people had with Western Europe, particularly in the courts of Polish gentry. Ukrainian musicians that found employment at various German courts in the 18th century were called "pandoristen". 

Here are some examples of how kobza sounds:

One more video with a popular Transcarpathian song:

TURKEY

MANISA KIRKAGAC ATATURK SECONDARY SCHOOL

STUDENTS OF A.ATLI PROJECT TEAM 2

TRADITIONAL COSTUMES "MEDITERRIAN"

PRIMARY SCHOOL DR. FRANJO TUDJMAN, BRELA, CROATIA

Klapa music is a form of traditional a cappella singing in Dalmatia, Croatia. The word klapa translates as "a group of friends" and its roots stem from littoral church singing.The klapa songs in general celebrate love, wine (grapes), country (homeland) and sea. In 2012 klapa was inscribed in UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Although klapa is a cappella music, on occasion it is possible to add a gentle guitar and a mandolin (instrument similar in appearance and sound to tamburitzas). Klapa can also be accompanied with synthesizer keyboards, usually simulating percussion instruments.

The Festival of the Dalmatian Klapas in Omiš (15 miles western from our place Brela) is the best known music festival and has a long tradition in Klapa music.

This is our local klapa Brela:

DONIKA LICI - KONGRESI I MANASTIRIT, ALBANIA

Çiftelia is an Albanian musical instrument that comes from ancient times and is made of wood and 2 wires.

TURKEY

MANISA KIRKAGAC ATATURK SECONDARY SCHOOL

STUDENTS OF M.ATLI PROJECT TEAM 1

TRADITIONAL COSTUMES "BLACK SEA REGION"

 Vuk Karadžić Primary School, 

              Kruševac, Serbia

There are several musical instruments popular in Serbia. Accordion, violin are often used in traditional music but gajde and frula are typical for Serbian old music.

 The frula (pronounced [frǔla], Serbian Cyrillic: фрула), also known as svirala (свирала) or jedinka, is a musical instrument which resembles a medium sized flute, traditionally played in Serbia. It is typically made of wood and has six holes. It is an end-blown aerophone. The frula is a traditional instrument of shepherds, who would play while tending their flocks.

A gaida is a bagpipe from the Balkans and Southeast Europe. Southeastern European bagpipes known as gaida include: Bulgarian and Macedonian гайда/гајда (gayda), the Greek γκάιντα, Aromanian gaidã, Albanian gajde, Croatian and Serbian gajde/гајдe, Turkish “tulum” or “gayda”, and Slovak gajdy.

Primary school Ivanec, Croatia

Traditional costumes were drawn by our students

Prigorje Brdovečko

Croatia

The students of our school nurture and keep the song and dances of the homeland and homeland from oblivion with plesssom and song in the cultural and artistic society Januševec.

link to video made by the students:

Narodna nošnja Prigorja Brdovečkog