DAKHA BRAKHA IN AUSTRALIA

Dakha Brakha one of Ukraines living musical treasures is set to unleash its wild fusion of authentic village folk, punk, hip hop and tribal trance in a genre they have dubbed ethno chaos at the 2016 Womadelaide Festival.Dakha Brakha first appeared at Womadelaide in 2011 to rapturous applause. Since then they have appeared at major festivals around the world including the UK Womad, Sziget and Bonaroo. Rolling Stone magazine called them, The best breakout band of Bonaroo, being particularly impressed by their mournful accordion and apocalyptic cello sawingDakhaBrakha who are Marko Halanevych (a philologist and actor by training) and Iryna Kovalenko, Nina Garenetska, Olena Tsibulska - (all graduates of the Ukrainian Folklore and Culture Faculty at Kyiv University), were formed at the avant garde Dakh Theatre for Contemporary Arts in Kyiv under the visionary guidance of the innovative director Vlad Troitsky...

Dakha Brakha. Source: Rostyslav Becker, SA.