Dakh Daughters is a Ukrainian music and theatre project started in 2012 in

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. The band consists of seven women, who play on various instruments and sing in different languages (Ukrainian, English, French, German, Russian) and dialects of Ukrainian.''Борис Барабанов'
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, Joseph Brodsky,

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, Shaggy). Dakh Daughters participants are members of different projects such as DakhaBrakha and Perkalaba. The band's name derives from the Dakh theater which is associated with the project. The band became famous after publishing on YouTube the music video "Rozy / Donbass", based on Shakespeare's

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and Ukrainian folk songs. Also well-known is the video of their live performance on Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kyiv during the early Euromaidan protests in December 2013. Dakh Daughters has performed in various Ukrainian cities, as well as outside of the country (in Poland, Czech Republic, France, Russia and Brazil). They have taken part in such events as

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, HoholFest, Silent films festival in Odesa etc. The first band's studio album, '' IF'', containing 9 tracks, was released in November 2016. The second, ''

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'', came out in April 2019. Dakh Daughters was featured prominently in the 2019 Ukrainian musical comedy film ''

Hutsulka Ksenya ''Hutsulka Ksenya'' ( uk, Гуцулка Ксеня) is a 2019 Ukrainian musical film directed by Olena Demyanenko, based on the operetta of the same name by . Plot Set in 1939 with the occupation of Western Ukraine, the Bolsheviks remain sever ...

''. "Through their music and their songs, it is the notions of heritage and identity that are questioned, summoning both classical texts – such as Shakespeare's Sonnet 35 – and Ukrainian folk songs. These poems or stories sung, chanted, rapped, always question the universal and timeless struggle of Man for the defense of his freedom and his affiliations. Thus, the Dakh Daughters manage to elaborate a poetry of anger to the rhythm of the drums of war, the sobs of the violins and the frenzied hope of 'Ukraine on fire'."

Discography

*''If'' (2016) *''Air'' (2019) *''Make Up'' (2021)

References

External links

Dakh Daughters on SoundCloud
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dakh Daughters Ukrainian folk music Ukrainian musical groups All-female bands English-language singers from Ukraine Musical groups from Kyiv 2012 establishments in Ukraine Musical groups established in 2012