Veryovka Ukrainian Folk Choir

The choir was founded in 1943 in Kharkiv to promote and spread Ukrainian folk music and dance traditions.

[2] The choir represented Ukrainian art in the cities of the USSR, Romania (1952, 1956), Poland (1953), Finland (1954), Belgium and Luxembourg (1958), Germany (1959), Yugoslavia (1962) and other countries.

[4] In 2011, remarkable was a premiere performance of the folk-opera "When the fern blooms" by Yevhen Stankovych, forbidden in Soviet time.

In 2019 The Veryovka Choir among with Kvartal 95 Studio released a video clip featuring Horila sosna palala (ukr.

[7][8][9] Later, Volodymyr Borodyanski, minister of culture of Ukraine apologized to Hontareva and stated that “the law does not prohibit moral perversions”.

The Veryovka Ukrainian Folk Choir in 2018
Hryhoriy Veryovka , the founder of the ensemble, depicted in a stamp, 2015
The rehearsal base of the Veryovka choir in Kyiv