Hi, folks! I'm Alex and I'm a musician. Here I'm playing a popular Ukrainian song on a tenor recorder.
According to Wikipedia, due to the song's association with the Ukrainian people's aspiration for independence, singing of the song was banned during the period in which Ukraine was a Soviet Republic (1919-1991). Nevertheless, it was sung by Ukrainian patriots, with defiance; anyone caught singing it was jailed, beaten, and even exiled.
In March 2022 the song gained international attention when an Instagram video of an a cappella rendition by Andriy Khlyvnyuk of the Ukrainian band BoomBox singing the first verse of the song was remixed by different artists around the world.
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Tenor recorder Yamaha YRT-304BII