Podruzhki Balkan Women's Choir
  


~ Podruzhki means Girlfriends in Russian ~



We are a small women's choir with about 15 singers.
We started singing together in 2000.
We garner much enjoyment by gathering together to
learn and sing women's choral folk music from Eastern Europe.
We concentrate on music from Bulgaria,
because of the wild rhythms
and beautifully rich non-Western harmonies. 
We learn the old fashioned peasant songs
from an earlier generation and another time;
the words speak of courtship, hard work, ancient battles,
and the good things in life. 
Most of our songs are sung "a capella".


Performing at the Nevada County Fairgrounds Farmer's Market ~ September 3, 2005

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  We are based in the Grass Valley area of Northern California.

We are available to sing at your party or event!
For further information:

you can call our Director, Susan Jones (916) 739-8906
who graciously comes from Sacramento to lead us in song.

or locally, you can call Claudia Schiller (530) 823-0202



"How I'd like to have a shop in the town of Struga, mother,
To sit on the steps, and watch the girls,
When they go to fetch water, with their colorful jugs.
To that cold spring well, there to meet their girlfriends."
(Shto Mi E Milo, Macedonian)

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