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JetЛАГ Festival, Downsville, NY, USA
June 22, 2019 - June 23, 2019
The Stranniki at JetLag Festival , Downsville, NY, USA
JETLAG IS THE LARGEST FESTIVAL OF RUSSIAN, SLAVIC, BALKAN, AND OTHER EAST EUROPEAN MUSICS IN THE USA.
Psoy Korolenko & Polina Shepherd with The Stranniki, Yiddish-Russian folk-cabaret and MANY other fantastic performers in June.
The Russian Allen Ginsberg and the Jewish Robert Plant united in a folk-cabaret The Stranniki (The Wanderers), fusing folklore and chamber song, Yiddish and Russian, classic and avant-garde, academia and circus. POLINA SHEPHERD (UK, formerly Kazan, Russia), singer, composer, choir leader and pianist, Notably, she is a descendant of a legendary wandering philosopher Grigory Skovoroda, whose wisdom spiritually “rhymes” a lot with Polina’s creative experience. She is first time at JetLAG, joining PSOY KOROLENKO), whose custom has always been to bring only something fresh and exclusive to JetLAG stage. “Welcome the ‘wAnderful” duo at Saturday night concert at SPELL-ART stage!
From the big names to new discoveries, at JetLAG you’ll hear everything from avant garde rock to Balkan wave and Klezmer; from psychedelic trance to Russian folk and sung poetry; reggae, rap, cabaret, experimental math rock, and if that’s not enough, we promise, it’ll get weirder.
Polina’s JetLag Lineup page