Dakh Daughters

Dakh Daughters is a Ukrainian music and theatre project started in 2012 in Kyiv. The band consists of seven women, who play on various instruments and sing in different languages and dialects of Ukrainian. They often use texts by famous authors in their lyrics. Dakh Daughters participants are members of different projects such as DakhaBrakha and Perkalaba. The band's name derives from the Dakh theater which is associated with the project. The band became famous after publishing on YouTube the music video "Rozy / Donbass", based on Shakespeare's Sonnet 35 and Ukrainian folk songs. Also well-known is the video of their live performance on Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kyiv during the early Euromaidan protests in December 2013. Dakh Daughters has performed in various Ukrainian cities, as well as outside of the country. They have taken part in such events as Zaxidfest, Gogolfest, Silent films festival in Odesa etc. The first band's studio album, IF, containing 9 tracks, was released in November 2016. The second, AIR, came out in April 2019. Dakh Daughters was featured prominently in the 2019 Ukrainian musical comedy film Hutsulka Ksenya. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakh_Da...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)