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From the Carpathian Mountains, Lviv-based alt-trad group Kurbasy brings their folk-based multimedia performances to the University of Saint Joseph on their U.S. debut tour. Exploring the eerie other-worldliness that pervades traditional village life, this performance draws on the ritual songs and stories of Ukraine. Conceived and directed by the band's three actress-singers Maria Oneshchak, Myroslava Kyshchun-Rachynska, and Nataliia Rybka-Parkhomenko, Kurbasy's sonic-theatrical explorations of Ukraine's rich trove of calendar song cycles, lullabies, and legends conjure the natural world, beliefs, and rituals, tracing contemporary connections to an archaic past.