Zado Highlight in 2024
“Balkan/Slavic Folk Songs and Dances”
Zado and Friends - Tzvetanka, Tanya, & Ivan Varimezovi
Concert and Dance Party
Saturday, January 20, 2024 - CLARA Auditorium - Sacramento, CA
Concert and Dance Party
Saturday, January 20, 2024 - CLARA Auditorium - Sacramento, CA
ZADO EASTERN EUROPEAN VOCAL ENSEMBLE presented:
OVDOVJALA LISIČKATA - Traditional, from Dobrudja region of Bulgaria, learned from Verka Siderova and Slavey Quartet
ŽENSKO KAPANSKO HORO - Bulgarian folk dance introduced in the U.S. by Yves Moreau in 2011
“Ovdovjala lisičkata, dili ledo, di ledo – The widowed fox with 12 little ones”
The widowed fox asks her 12 little ones, "Where will mama see you next?"
"You will, mama, see us at the old market…Or on a rich person's coat, at the hunter's or the butcher's...”
OVDOVJALA LISIČKATA - Traditional, from Dobrudja region of Bulgaria, learned from Verka Siderova and Slavey Quartet
ŽENSKO KAPANSKO HORO - Bulgarian folk dance introduced in the U.S. by Yves Moreau in 2011
“Ovdovjala lisičkata, dili ledo, di ledo – The widowed fox with 12 little ones”
The widowed fox asks her 12 little ones, "Where will mama see you next?"
"You will, mama, see us at the old market…Or on a rich person's coat, at the hunter's or the butcher's...”
TZVETANKA (keyboard), TANYA (vocals), IVAN (gaida)
ZADO Vocalists: Sara Taylor, Teresa Stahl, Rosie Yacoub, Rachel Freund, Jan Volkoff, Geo (Tarra) Thomas, Pat Moore-Pickett
KOLO KOALITION Dancers: Glynis Hawley, Sharon Hulten, Laura Leonelli, Melissa Bryden, Rose Varesio,
Jasmine Arpagian, Barry Moore, Ann Carlson
PRODUCTION CREDITS: The Film Squad
Please help to support Zado’s work sharing the beauty, complexity, styles, and artistry of Balkan music
and cultivating community and cross-cultural understanding through song by making a donation below.
ZADO Vocalists: Sara Taylor, Teresa Stahl, Rosie Yacoub, Rachel Freund, Jan Volkoff, Geo (Tarra) Thomas, Pat Moore-Pickett
KOLO KOALITION Dancers: Glynis Hawley, Sharon Hulten, Laura Leonelli, Melissa Bryden, Rose Varesio,
Jasmine Arpagian, Barry Moore, Ann Carlson
PRODUCTION CREDITS: The Film Squad
Please help to support Zado’s work sharing the beauty, complexity, styles, and artistry of Balkan music
and cultivating community and cross-cultural understanding through song by making a donation below.
Zado Mission
Inspired by traditional Balkan folk singing, music, and dance, Zado is a Sacramento-based vocal ensemble performing traditional and contemporary arrangements of international folk songs, particularly those from Eastern Europe. Our mission is to educate and inspire others about the beauty, complexity, styles, and intimacy of the music we love; to research, record, and preserve high-quality international folk music; and to present programs, recordings, and new art forms that feature unique folk harmonies and rhythms. We celebrate the splendor of the human voice, the cultural roots of the music, and contemporary expressions. Zado endeavors to inspire others to treasure their own heritage and traditions as well as those of others.
Donations
Zado is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that relies on grants and donations to help us continue in our mission to educate and inspire others, which involves promoting understanding and good will in our community and elsewhere. In a world facing greater possibilities for mistrust and unrest among human beings, it is becoming more important to communicate with others the values of acceptance and appreciation of all cultural heritages and people. Learning about the unique cultures and music from around the world has enriched our lives as well as the lives of others and is great fun! Please join us in our goals by providing a donation and by purchasing our music. Thank you for your support!
As ambassadors and teachers, Zado members continually research to expand their knowledge base of Balkan, Slavic, and Caucasian songs, music, and vocal techniques and creative ways to perform and present them. As performers, Zado upholds a tradition of more than four decades of presenting concerts, teaching, and celebrating international folk music with schools, festivals, organizations, and the folk-dance community in northern California. As recording artists, Zado has produced and distributed three CDs/albums. As community members, Zado pursues its overarching goal of delivering performances and instruction that inspire individuals to treasure their own cultural roots and those of others, a theme that continues to have meaning and relevance particularly in today's world.
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