SINGING Songs “In Our Language” with Karolina Demianiuk

Led by Karolina Jadwiga Demianiuk and Ewa Grochowska
For all interested

During the singing workshops led by Karolina Jadwiga Demianiuk, we will learn songs sung in the local language, still used and passed down from generation to generation, not only through song but also in everyday communication. These will include old wedding songs, love poems from the notebooks of Ms Demianiuk’s mother, wołodarkas sung in anticipation of spring, and other songs, including those sung during Easter.

Karolina Jadwiga Demianiuk – she was born in 1939 in the village of Dołhobrody (Lublin Province, Włodawa County) and has lived there ever since. She is a multi-talented folk artist: a singer, actress, poet and prose writer. She also practises handicrafts: embroidery, lace-making and weaving. Blessed with a perfect ear for music and a beautiful voice, she began singing in groups from a very young age, learning songs from her family, neighbours and older friends. She observed how singing and the preservation of old customs and rituals accompanied her loved ones in their daily lives and during festivals.

From 1987, she was a member of the ‘Jutrzenka’ ensemble, a well-known group that has rendered outstanding service to the preservation of the region’s traditional musical culture. The group no longer formally exists, but its legacy is kept alive by children and young people from the Hanna parish and people from various parts of Poland, to which Jadwiga Demianiuk contributed significantly, supported by the wonderful cultural organiser Anna Kazimieruk (1970–2025). In 2013, she published her first collection of poems. Since then, she has continued to write and has been publishing further books. She teaches singing in collaboration with the Hanna Municipal Cultural Centre and passes on the musical traditions of the remarkable village of Dołhobrody to children and young people, forming new bands and creative groups with them.

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