“Duma about Maria” Petro Kytasty • «Дума про Марію» Петро Китастий (1994)

On the 10 year anniversary of the death of the legendary Hryhory Kytasty (1907-1984), his nephew Petro Kytasty, a reknown bandurist in his own right, gives a performance/lecture about Hryhory Kytasty at the Emlenton Bandura camp in August 1994, a place Hryhory named "Kobzarska Sich". Here Petro Kytasty performs a “recitatif" epic ballad (Duma) based on the poem of Ostap Veretechenko. Duma about Maria. Video by Marko Farion, bandurist, instructor, and administrator of the camp