International Arts Festival "Orthodox Christmas in Lithuania"

The program includes Christmas carols, cantos and lyrical songs from various regions of Ukraine and Polesie.

"Dička" group of traditional music lovers was founded in 2006 in Warsaw. The collective's repertoire consists of traditional village songs from different regions of Ukraine and Polesie (Poland) - ceremonial, lyrical, religious. In their interpretations, the performers try to preserve the original dialects, the character and manner of the performance.

"Dička" regularly performs in Poland and abroad, participates in festivals, theater, radio and film projects. Currently, the group's phonographic output consists of three CDs: Traditional Ukrainian Songs (2009), Christmas Carols from Polesie (2012) and The Road (2021). The album made it to the finals of the "Folk Phonogram of the Year" competition of the Nowa Tradycja Folklore Festival of Polish Radio.

The leader and founder of the group is a Ukrainian singer, ethnomusicologist, teacher, graduate of the Kyiv Academy of Music, member of the legendary Ukrainian group "Drevo", founded in 1979. and a member of the association of traditional music performers and researchers, a participant in many international traditional and contemporary music projects. "Dička" (wild fruit tree in Ukrainian) is a unique and inimitable tree, powerful and long-lived, able to survive in any conditions, radiating the strength hidden in the world's best fruits. - and at the same time willingly share their strength, which lies in the best fruits of the world. The same is true of the music performed by the group "Dička" - each song attracts with the original sound of individual voices merging into a harmonious whole. natural, the characteristic timbre takes us to the primitive nature of Poliase and conveys the longing for Poltava region. Like the fruits of wild trees, these songs are saturated with everything from which they grew: the surrounding landscape, the destinies of the people who sing them, the sun, the wind.

Performers: Tatjana Sopilka, Maniucha Bikont, Justina Chervinska, Agata Vrubel, Marija Puzina, Eva Vinbiarska.