Song

Mike on June 15th, 2009

This video was made last summer, when Finnish friends visited Russia for a cultural/historical tour of former Finnish sites in what is now Russian Karelia. One member of the trip was Tarmo Kunnas.  Tarmo speaks something like eight languages fluently, and he loves to sing folks songs in those languages.  Here he’s singing in French: [...]

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Mike on January 21st, 2009

Here’s a nice video of Montenegro, with the National Anthem –

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Mike on January 16th, 2009

Here is a favorite Russian tune, in a great setting – Katyusha is a tender diminutive from the female name Ekaterina (Catherine):  Katya is the nickname and Katyusha, a tender diminutive. This is a Russian Soviet wartime song about a girl longing for her beloved, who is away on military service. The music was composed [...]

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