Anna Pidgorna’s ‘Invented Folksongs’ – reviewed in English and Ukrainian

Anna Pidgorna’s ‘Invented Folksongs’ – reviewed in English and Ukrainian

Anna Pidgorna is a Ukrainian musician from Canada who traveled to Ukraine to study with traditional music practitioners. Returning from this period abroad, she subsequently set out to study voice in Princeton with the intention of developing her own hybrid vocal sound. Her album, Invented Folksongs, consists of six songs, all in the same genre but quite distinct. From the very beginning, you can hear the bandura and extremely traditional, deep f…