Ukrainian American folklorist and singer Nadia Tarnawsky leads the women of Cappella Romana with special guest folklorists from Ukraine, Inna Kovtun and Hanna Tishchenko, to perform this unique offering of Ukrainian wedding songs. The songs sung in preparation for the wedding employ the vocal techniques of village singers, while the chants and choral works sung during the wedding ceremony itself reflect the sublime style more prevalent in church singing.From the engagement through the crowning of the young couple, the rituals of a traditional Ukrainian wedding are accompanied by songs. Traditionally performed by the women belonging to the families of the young couple, these songs help bring forth good health, prosperity, and many children. These songs were collected by Nadia Tarnawsky in Ukrainian villages, often from women over 80 years old, before the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Album Tracks 1. The Engagement 2. Oh the Gates Creaked 3. Trad. Invitation to the Wedding 4. The Goose Flew Over the Mountain 5. The Cuckoo Bird Flew 6. Trad. Preparing the Korovai 7. Marichka's Mother 8. God Bless - Our Oven Is Laughing - Vasyl's Father 9. Makers of the Korovai 10. Trad. Preparing the Bride 11. We Go to the Clear Field 12. Glorious Night 13. Look, Mother 14. The Pine Is Green in Both Summer and Winter 15. The Violets Blossomed 16. My Mother Lit a Candle 17. The Duck Swam 18. On Sunday Morning 19. Trad. The Morning of the Wedding 20. God, Come to Us 21. My Father, My Dove 22. Yatsynevych The Wedding Ceremony Hail, Mary (Arr. for Ssaa Choir By Nadia Tarnawsky) 23. Trad. The Wedding Ceremony 24. Psalm 127 25. Prokimen 26. Alleluia (Arr. for Ssaa Choir By Nadia Tarnawsky) 27. O Most Holy Virgin Mother (Arr. for Ssaa Choir By Nadia Tarnawsky) 28. Our Father 29. Dance, Isaiah and Troparia 30. More Honora