Ukrainian New Year Song Shchedryk Щедрик

Shchedruvannya - The old Ukrainian ritual of New Year’s greetings songs. A group of singers (traditionally female) sing from house to house wishing the house owners health and prosperity. The songs date from pre-Christian times and were believed to have magical are sung on January 13, New Years Eve on the old Julian Calendar, through to the second “Holy Eve“, the night before the Epiphany, Christ’s Baptism, celebrated in Ukraine by Byzantine Catholic and Orthodox Christians on January 19th. Thi