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| | Harmonia - Music of Eastern Europe / cdRoots |
 | | Two generations of musicians celebrated for their performances of the music of their Eastern European homelands join forces to explore the shared musical roots of the culturally rich territories east of the Danube, from Hungary and Romania to Croatia, Slovakia and western Ukraine. |
 | | "Harmonia is a six-piece led by accordeonist Walt Mahovlich, with Ukrainian cimbalist Alexander Fedoriouk, Andrei Pidkivka also from Ukraine on sopilka, tylynka and more, and Marko Dreher of Croatian musician parentage on rich-toned violin, viola and tamburica, over Adam Good's double bass, with the splendid lead vocals of young Slovak Beata Begeniova. |
 | | There's a great richness of musical forms between the Carpathians and the Danube and in the Balkan regions--the csardas, halgato, kolomyka, doina, hora and invirtita, for example....the songs on the CD are traditional, but Harmonia members are not content to merely interpret older material. |
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