Upcoming Mother Lode Series Event

Yuliyana Krivoshapkina

Friday, February 28, 2020 | 7:00 p.m.
General Admission: $25 | Students with ID and youth under 18: $15 | Children under 12: Free

The performance is part of the Folk in Schools project of the Montana Folk Festival and sponsored by the Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation. Co-sponsored with Mainstreet Uptown Butte, Yuliyana Krovoshapkina returns to Butte with throat singer Nachyn Choreve of the Sahka Republic of Siberia for SOUNDS OF SIBERIA. She is a virtuoso in the art of the khomus, the national instrument of the Sakha Republic in Russia. It functions much like a mouth harp but differs in several respects. A conventional mouth harp is limited in range, volume, and pitch. The khomus is loud and strikingly expansive in range.

Her repertoire combines throat singing and folk melodies. Her voice and khomus blend to create unique harmony that often evokes feelings of profound wonder. Audiences might hear the rustle of grass in the wind, the cry of a bird startled in the sky, and the quiet incantations of an ancient shamanic ritual. Yuliyana herself seems to undergo transformations as she adapts to a given song, to give her audiences the full sense of immersion.

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