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by Indra Ekmanis<\/p>\n

\"Nadia<\/a><\/p>\n

Nadia Tarnawsky hosts a workshop at Dusty Strings Music Store and School in Fremont, Seattle.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Cleveland native Nadia Tarnawsky can make your body vibrate with the sounds of East European folk song. Born to Ukrainian \u00e9migr\u00e9s in Ohio, Tarnawsky\u2019s first language was Ukrainian. Now a Seattleite, she shares her passion and profession with the community, leading workshops and performing around the city. This fall, Tarnawsky has performed in \u201c50 HEARBREAKS (AND I\u2019M STILL IN LOVE WITH YOUkraine),\u201d a dance-theater show, as well as hosted a Ukrainian singing workshop at Dusty Strings Music Store and School in Fremont.<\/p>\n

Tarnawsky grew up attending Ukrainian Saturday school, Ukrainian summer camps, folk dance rehearsals and \u2014 of course \u2014 singing. \u201cFor a while I resented it, but eventually Ukrainian folk music pulled me into my culture like nothing else had done in the past and then I was grateful for all of those Saturdays spent in Ukrainian school,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

When the Soviet Union collapsed, she tested her singing by seeking out Ukrainian groups and choir coming to the U.S. \u201cI would ask \u2026 \u2018Can I sing at you, and can you tell me if you hear anything horrible?\u2019\u201d Tarnawsky says. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing like sitting in a room of five or six men and women just singing at you.\u201d At age 19, about a year after Ukrainian independence from the USSR, Tarnawsky made her first trip to Ukraine to participate in an English as a second language program sponsored by the Ukrainian National Association. \u201cI fell in love with Ukraine and the generosity of her people \u2014 especially in the villages \u2014 on that trip,\u201d she says. \u201cI had also been working on my folk voice for a few years by that time, but being able to be there and sing with the women in that style in Ukraine, truly helped me to find my voice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Tarnawsky<\/a><\/p>\n

Tarnawsky explains the meaning behind \u201c\u041e\u0439 \u043f\u043e \u0433\u043e\u0440\u043a\u0438\u201d (Oy po horky), a folk song from the Chornobyl zone that depicts a young man far from home.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

A professional singer with a B.S. in music education and a B.A. English from Case Western Reserve University, Tarnawsky works in a variety of difference genres, including classical and musical theater. In 2011, she received a fellowship from Artist Trust for folk art. Prior to that, she taught Ukrainian folk song at the Center for Traditional Music and Dance in New York City. Tarnawsky makes a point of singing with her whole body. \u201cThe way that I teach voice involves a lot of resonance. \u2026 The thing that you use to make sound is your bones and your body. Your voice is not just this thing in your throat,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of like saying a violin is just strings. \u2026 You need everything to make the sound.\u201d<\/p>\n

Participants in her workshops feel the full-body singing workout, as well. Tarnawsky starts off with a series of exercises that allow all parts of the body to vibrate when singing. She says that loud nature of folk singing is something to be felt from head to toe. While a personal connection to Ukraine or the ability to read Cyrillic is not necessary to learn Ukrainian folk singing, several individuals at her Sept. 28 workshop had some familiarity with the style. John Patrick is a self-taught folk musician whose father is Ukrainian by decent. \u201cNadia teaches in the way music has been taught before academia,\u201d Patrick says. The call and reply method that has been used for singing and instruments for centuries and work well for rustics like myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Patrick also sings with the Seattle Ukrainian community choir, as well as plays traditional Ukrainian folk instruments. He said learning to sing in another language can be challenging. \u201cMy approach is to know what the song is about, understand it’s appropriateness to yourself and your audience,\u201d Patrick says.<\/p>\n

UW Russian program alumnus and current University administrator, David Miles, says the workshop was a new insight on Ukrainian singing. \u201cI sang some in school and at home as a child.\u00a0 I began guitar lessons in my twenties, then sang in a UW Russian choir, a men’s Balkan chorus, and the Seattle Peace Chorus,\u201d Miles says. \u201cNadia’s class was a unique and rewarding experience. \u00a0She shared a lot of knowledge of how to sing as well as what we were singing and where it came from.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Patrick, Miles and Veatch learn multiple variations of “\u041e\u0439 \u043f\u043e \u0433\u043e\u0440\u043a\u0438” at Tarnawsky’s Sept. 28 workshop.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Jenna Veatch, a dancer who stars with Tarnawsky in \u201c50 HEARTBREAKS (AND I\u2019M STILL IN LOVE WITH YOUkraine), also attended the workshop. \u201cI have done a fair amount of bluegrass singing, and the styles are surprisingly similar, so in some ways, singing Ukrainian music feels oddly natural for me,\u201d she says. \u201cSinging this music with other people is completely thrilling.\u00a0 It makes my soul buzz.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tarnawsky averages three to four workshops a year, and may be pursuing a more regular offering at Dusty Strings Music Shop in the future. She currently sings in a band called Alchymeia that blends folk music from around the world.\u00a0 \u201cI sing a fair number of Ukrainian songs with that ensemble along with Albanian, Bulgarian, Celtic and Cajun pieces,\u201d she says. Alchymeia<\/a>\u2019s next performance will be in Shoreline on December 1. Tarnawsky encourages her students to work towards opening their vocal abilities. \u201cPlaying with your voice is an extraordinary thing,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Indra Ekmanis Cleveland native Nadia Tarnawsky can make your body vibrate with the sounds of East European folk song. Born to Ukrainian \u00e9migr\u00e9s in Ohio, Tarnawsky\u2019s first language was Ukrainian. Now a Seattleite, she shares her passion and profession with the community, leading workshops and performing around the city. This fall, Tarnawsky has performed<\/p>\n

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