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These Grandmothers Are Recording Ukraine’s Folk Music Traditions | Atlas Obscura

These Ukrainian grandmothers are helping preserve the long history of Ukraine’s folk music. Miklós Both, founder of the Polyphony Project, is on a mission: to collect folk music in Ukraine. In the last four years, the project has visited over 100 different villages and recorded 2000 songs sung by the women in each village. All these folk songs are then compiled into a digital archive, as a way to preserve the long-standing musical folklore tradition of each Ukrainian village. The Jeeni Refugee Aid channel supports refugee aid and charities across the world.

The Gardiner Brothers Broncos Super Bowl Video

The Gardiner Brothers are professional Irish dancers, social media personalities and influencers. Michael (born 1995) and Matthew (born 1999) are Irish-American dancers and choreographers who are currently living in Galway Ireland. The brothers have been dancing for almost their entire life and started competing at the age of 5. They competed at local competitions in Denver and between them, they have won over 40 major Irish Dancing championship titles which include world championship titles as well as international solo titles.  In their professional careers, the Gardiner Brothers have appeared numerous times on television. Their first major appearance was on The Late Late Toy Show in 2011. They also performed on The Late Late Show with Riverdance, Fusion Fighters and The Kilfenora Ceili Band. Recently in 2020, they appeared on Home and Family, RTE Today Show and RTE Nationwide.  On social media, the brothers are well known for their incredible videos where they dance in public around Ireland which reach over 15,000 views each time! At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, Michael and Matthew spent their time choreographing and creating videos to enlighten their followers and inspire people to do what makes them happy. They started actively uploading on TikTok and Instagram and their success led to being approached my media outlets for intervews and features!

Templar - Street Freestyle

Templar Animated is a hip-hop dancer and break dancer as well as a freestyle teacher. He is based in Portsmouth, Southsea where he holds beginner freestyle sessions for adults over 18 years. He says that his freestyle classes help people to find the rhythm in the music as well as learn moves to create their own unique style. He also taught some online classes over the lockdown period at the start of 2021 which included styles such as popping, breaking, afro and even salsa!  Templar has many friends who also dance and they create videos together to showcase their talent. The group locate around Southsea to film their content which can sometimes be choreography, freestyle or just grooving for fun. Before lockdown, he would often compete at battles or spectate and has said he learnt a lot from that experience. Templar took part in the recent Global Bandstand event in Portsmouth and took part in multiple classes where he found other dancers to hopefully collaborate with in the future.