Carpathians Archives - Forgotten Galicia

‘Ked’ my pryshla karta’: An Austro-Hungarian Recruit Song

Areta — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 13:17:12 +0000

“Ked’ my pryshla karta” (Кедь ми прийшла карта) is a folk ballad from the Lemko region (Lemkovyna or Lemkivshchyna), a mountainous territory that stretches along the present-day borders of Ukraine, Poland, and Slovakia. The area that today belongs to Poland and Ukraine was a part of Galicia until WWI, while […]

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‘Czerwony Pas’ & ‘Verkhovyno’: The Story of a Polish and Ukrainian ‘Folk’ Song

Areta — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 09:31:45 +0000

Today, both the Poles and Ukrainians have a beloved song about the Hutsul Carpathian highlanders, sung in their own languages to a similar melody. How did this come to be? The Polish Story Karpaccy Górale We must first look back at the first half of the nineteenth century. This is […]

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The Wooden Greek Catholic Churches of the Galician Lemko Region

Areta — Sat, 18 Jan 2020 14:12:00 +0000

The Lemkos and Their Fate The Lemkos are an ethnic group who historically inhabited the mountain valleys and foothills of the Carpathians in a region (called Lemkovyna or Lemkivshchyna) that today stretches along the border between Poland and Slovakia covering some western territories in Ukraine. The area that today belongs […]

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Traces of Zakopane Style Architecture in Lviv

Areta — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 18:26:45 +0000

At the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Art Nouveau spread across Europe and the United States. In the Austrian Empire the new art movement was called the Secession Style. The transition from historicism to modernism—which took place during this period as part of the struggle against academic art—chronologically […]

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Stiles in the Carpathians

Areta — Sat, 15 Apr 2017 11:10:31 +0000

Stiles, or perelazy in Ukrainian, are structures that provide people with a way to easily pass over a fence while at the same time preventing farm animals from passing through. Stiles are found in the countryside around the world and come in all kinds of forms. In the Carpathians, they […]

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‘Krajka. W domu’: Forgotten Music from Polish-Ukrainian Borderland

Areta — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 17:29:22 +0000

A folk band from Przemyśl — Krajka, together with Ukrainian musicians — released a new album dedicated to the lands that lie along the current Polish-Ukrainian border. “The album contains traditional music from the Polish-Ukrainian borderland, from the regions of Kholm, Lubaczow, Przemyśl, to the Carpathian mountains and valleys. These lands were once […]

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Maramaros: ‘The Lost Jewish Music of Transylvania’

Areta — Thu, 26 Nov 2015 11:28:39 +0000

“If the real Jewish music of Transylvania is gone, this disc makes sure it will not be forgotten.” – See more here.

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Boyko Music: ‘At the Foot of the Carpathian Chain’

Areta — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 08:50:30 +0000

My paternal grandfather was born in the village of Lybokhora (Turka District), the “capital” of Boyko instrumental music. His parents, who were from the Sambir and Lviv regions, moved to this Carpathian village in the early 1900s to direct and teach at the local school. This is a picture from […]

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‘The Last Hutsul Musical Magician’

Areta — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 09:30:37 +0000

I bought my tsymbaly (hammered dulcimer) from the Tafiychuks—a family of musicians and instrument makers that lives in the Carpathian Mountains. Mykhailo Tafiychuk, or “the Last Hutsul Musical Magician” as Cobblestone Freeway dubbed him in this article, makes many different ancient instruments such as the hurdy gurdy, tsymbaly, and duda (Ukrainian bagpipe). […]

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The Living Fire: Documentary about Dying Tradition of Shepherding

Areta — Mon, 18 May 2015 14:14:16 +0000

A documentary film was recently released about the dying tradition of shepherding in the Carpathian Mountains. The film, called The Living Fire (Жива Ватра), was directed by my acquaintance Ostap Kostyuk. “ЖИВА ВАТРА” (The Living Fire) Ukraine, 2014, 77’ “A four-year-long project documenting three generations of Ukrainian Carpathian shepherds in […]

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