Six concerts of folk music were organized by the Department of Musical Art and Education of the Vologda State University and the folk group of the College of Arts as part of the project “Educational Express: “Folk Musik Culture of the Vologda Oblast”.
Last year, the VSU project was among the winners of the annual grant competition of the Vologda Oblast, and was awarded a grant of 250 thousand rubles. Due to this funding, our musicians got a chance to orgzanize folk musik comcerts in the settlement of Verkhovazhye as well as in the villages of Shelota, Sloboda ,Khokhlovo, and in Syamzha.
For each performance, the music collectives selected specific folklore repertoire such as “Folk Musical Traditions of the Western Regions of the Vologda Oblast”, “Folk Traditions of Holidays”, “Folk Song Traditions of the Vologda Oblast”, “Folk Traditions of Kokshenga and Vaga”, “Traditional Calendar of the Vologda Oblast”, “Folk Customs of Village Festivals “.