Mariana Sadovska and Friends at Rudolstadt Festival

In response to the invitation of Germany’s largest world-music festival in Rudolstadt, to come with a new program, Mariana Sadovska offered a big concert, which combined avant-garde sound and Ukrainian traditional polyphony, author’s singing and Jewish nigun, jazz and Crimean Tatar melodies.

Mariana jokingly called it the “Musical Battalion”, because 18 musicians from Germany, Poland and Ukraine met on one stage, most of whom participated in various programs of Mariana Sadovska. Some fragments of these programs, as well as solo compositions of the performers, Mariana united in one powerful musical appeal to support Ukraine, as each of these artists did from the first days of the full-scale Russian invasion.

In an interview for Suspilne, Mariana Sadovska said: “It was easy for me to gather people, because I knew who was in Germany, and, so to speak, who did not play the game of “I am out of politics”, but who…