Other Voices Sing Our Praises
"The group explored wedding songs, songs of spring, lullabies, and sacred and secular pieces. Most of these songs are specifically women's pieces that have fallen from regular use." The Ukrainian Weekly
"People always ask me if I have students," says Nina Matvienko, national folk artist of Ukraine. "I can now tell them that I have these girls."
"There is probably no more haunting sound than that of the close, pungent harmonies of Eastern European women's a cappella singing. Divchata V Kukhni ... are keeping this stately music alive." Peggy Latkovich of the Cleveland Free Times
"These girls sing amazingly in Ukrainian and present these melodies with sincerity." Ukrainian Gazette
"The voices are rich, fine, deep, harmonize beautifully, and sing the ritual and traditional folk songs of early Ukraine," says Orysia Paszczak Tracz of The Ukrainian Weekly about Daughters of the Steppes, an album which features the trio as soloists. She continues, "If I had not known that this was recorded in the U.S., I would have guessed that this was some women's ensemble from Ukraine, a choir I had not heard of yet."
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