David Dalle
Thursday July 3rd, 2025 with David Dalle
Ukrainian-Canadian singer Marichka joins me to discuss her fight for Ukraine. Lubomyr Melnyk. Heinali. Ukrainian Folk.
The incredibly courageous Ukrainian-Canadian singer Marichka joins me today to talk about her fight for Ukraine. Born in Kyiv, she has a degree in Ethnomusicology from the National Academy of Music. She has sung with numerous groups including the Balaklava Blues and the Lemon Bucket Orkestra. She created an incredibly rich website containing digital archives of Ukrainian folk songs (https://folk-ukraine.com/) with hundreds of folk songs you can listen to organized by region and purpose. But her championing of Ukraine during its brutal fight against Russian aggression does not just end with song. She volunteered as a combat medic with a tank platoon last year and also worked as a journalist in Ukraine, documenting and fighting for the thousands of young Ukrainian children who were abducted by the Russians, stripped of their identity and heritage, and adopted to Russian families in pursuit of Putin's genocidal attempts to erase Ukrainian culture. Marichka wrote a song while in Ukraine entitled "4.5.0" as part of her "Daughters of Donbas" musical project about these abducted children. Marichka returns to Ukraine next week.
| 4.5.0.
When you reach the edge and step over And the darkness swallows you up Just think of one thing she would say: “Don't be afraid, I'm here for you” When you're cornered by your last fortress You'll give up almost without a fight Remember this: “I am with you, I am here Don't give up, I'm with you. Don't give up, I'm with you Your hope is my weapon Don't be sad, I'm with you 4.5.0. will be again When despair and doubt, fatigue and fear Squeeze your heart with deafening sorrow Will sound like a revelation in her mouth: “Do not be sad, I am here, I am with you” And when the world's axis breaks When the sky folds like a parchment Out of nowhere her words will come “It's all right I'm here I'm here |
| 4.5.0 Marichka - Daughters of Donbas - Independent 
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| V Mene May, Jak Zoria Anonymous - Folk-ukraine - Folk-ukraine |
| Oy Z-Za Hory Hory Anonymous - Folk-ukraine - Folk-ukraine |
| Marichka sings with the Lemon Bucket Orkestra (her husband Mark sings and plays violin in the Orkestra as well). Marichka is soloist in these two songs, the titletrack "Cuckoo", their version of a traditional Ukrainian folk song, and the heartrending "Zadji Zadji", a Macedonian song. |
| Cuckoo Lemon Bucket Orkestra - Cuckoo - Lemon Bucket Orkestra
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| Oy Choho Zh Ty Dube Lyman - Folk-ukraine - Folk-ukraine |
| Syohodni Ya Tut Zhe Bahata Cherneshcyhna - Folk-ukraine - Folk-ukraine |
| Zadji Zadji Lemon Bucket Orkestra - Cuckoo - Lemon Bucket Orkestra
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| The Sacred Thousand (Studio version) Lubomyr Melnyk - The Sacred Thousand - Jersika Records
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| Ukrainian composer Heinali's 2023 "Kyiv Eternal" was composed using electronics and sounds he recorded around Kyiv staring in 2012, which he took with him as he fled the Russian invasion to Germany. We proceed "Kyiv Eternal" with a haunting lullaby from the Folk-ukraine archive recorded in the Donetsk region. |
| Liulechky-Liuli Semenivka - Folk-ukraine - Folk-ukraine |
| Slipo Heinali - Kyiv Eternal - Injazero Records |
| Shuliavka in Winter Heinali - Kyiv Eternal - Injazero Records |
| Night Walk Heinali - Kyiv Eternal - Injazero Records |
| Kyiv Eternal Heinali - Kyiv Eternal - Injazero Records |
| Lubomyr Melnyk again with his "Concert-Requiem" for violin and piano. One of the most beautiful and sad things I have ever heard. Recorded 40 years ago, it was his lament for the millions of victims of Stalin's genocide (the Holodomor) of Ukraine in the 1930's. It is unfathomable that Ukrainians are once again victims of brutal Russian aggression nearly a century later. The work ends with an old recording of a Ukrainian hymn "Oh Father, Hear Our Plea". |
| Concert-Requiem (Requiem of the 7 Million) Lubomyr Melnyk/Lubomyr Melnyk, Marc Sabat - Concert-Requiem - Bandura Records |
| Dobryj Vechir, Divochky Sukhodil - Folk-ukraine - Folk-ukraine |
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12:17 PM, July 3rd, 2025