Julia Stepanets & Svitlana Kolieva - Черемшина (Cheremshyna)

Dear friends, today is an Independence Day of Ukraine, so I would like to introduce you to Ukrainian music. Me and my friend - amazing Ukrainian pianist Svitlana Kolieva, would like to present you the cover for the Ukrainian song, which is called “Cheremshyna”. (Ukrainian: Черемшина) “Cheremshyna” - known as bird cherry, resembles cherry blossom. Unfortunately, we couldn’t find exactly this flower, since we recorded the video not in Ukraine, but on the beautiful Jeju island, in South Korea. However, I believe the beauty of the island with its’ abundance of blossoms will catch it up… Regarding the song. “Cheremshyna” is a Ukrainian romance song, first released in 1965, with music by Vasyl Mykhailyuk and lyrics by Mykolaiv Yurinchuk it has became a classics in Ukrainian pop music. There’s has be dozens of different interpretations of this song, performed by hundreds of musicians, but we would like to present you our own vision. I think my friend Svitlana created a very intimate and sensitive arrange