"DrevA" is ready to consider various offers of gigs in Europe!
also Canada and Australia (Celebration, concerts, festivals, Hollidays, music clubs, open-air stages, music-halls … also music agencies, organizers of concert tours …)Now group "DrevA" prepares summer music tour to Europe and is ready to consider and discuss different offers!!!!Folk group "DrevA" (www.drevafolk.narod.ru) was founded in 1989 as a branch of the theatre "Perekriostok" (art-director Victor Luferov) and specialised in Russian folk and urban songs and music up to this time. Repertoire of the group is built on the materials of the expeditions in the different regions of Russia: Belgorod, Voronezh, Briansk regions and also in the Cossak stanitsas of Don and Kuban.
The group members learn the songs using expedition records and also in the direct contact with country singers and musicians. The folk group doesn't use the songs from the note editions, the performance of the group is based on improvisation as it is usual in traditional country singing. The members of the group aspire to authentic manner of singing without some kinds of arrangement. The important part of this manner is keeping the nature sound of each singer voice.
The actors themselves take part in the expeditions, master the instruments, design and make costumes. The songs of above-mentioned regions of Russia are marked differ from each other. The group masters the manners of singing of the few regions therefor it has the opportunity to make bright and interesting performances. For example, Bryansk tradition of singing is mainly female. This region is the place where the oldest pagan songs are still kept. Belgorod tradition is mainly female too, but there exists archaic male wind-instrument, in Russian "caluka". It is made from dry stalk and the sound of this pipe instrument remind of wind howl.
The Don and Kuban tradition of singing is the male as a rule. These songs are not so old as Southern and Western and singing is often accompanied by playing on Russian accordion, balalaika, guitar, drums, wheel-lyre, tambourine. The wonderful feature of Cossak songs is upper soaring treble voice. Repertoire of "DrevA" includes unique Cossak romances recorded in stanitsa Oust-Buzulook of Don region.
So far as the group includes both women and men, it can perform the songs of different traditions.
Folk group "DrevA" participated in 2004-2008 in different European Festivals in different countries: S p a i n, S W I T Z E R L A N D, D e n m a r k, E N G L A N D, C r o a t i a, F I N L A N D, M a c e d o n i a, G E R M A N Y, B e l g i u m, S W E D E N, S e r b i a, F R A N C E, P O L A N D, The N e t h e r l a n d s, A U S T R I A and "ripetutamente" I T A L Y. ____________________________________________________________
______Discography
The group brought out the first CD "Russian tradition music of Western and Southern regions of Russia" in 1994 and the second CD "Jolly talking" in 2001. Songs of the group sound on various tv and radio stations:
A Ultima Fronteira, Radio Onda Nada (SPAIN); Un Emision Radio (SPAIN); BBC Shropshire, (ENGLAND); Radio Gets Wild (ENGLAND); Womr Radio (USA); Radio WTJU-FM (USA); WCVF-FM Radio (USA); Yle Radio (Finland); Jarvick Radio (Finland); Kaustinen TV (Finland); Zagreb TV (Croatia); Highway61 (Italy);
Crossover-Network For Youth Culture (Germany);
The Fevered Brain Radio Network (RadioMike) (USA);
We say: " Many thanks to our friends to photographers and cameramen!!! " -- Ivan Susanin (Moscow, Russia), Darko Dozet (Novi Sad, Serbia), Vasiliy Smirnov (Dolgoprudnyi, Russia)