This film documents a performance by the group Kozatski Zabavy from Kyiv (Kiev) at Bradford Ukrainian Cultural Centre. It was made by the Ukrainian Video Archives Society (UVAS) but is not credited to them. The film is an edited final version with various camera angles and stills of the group’s promotional material. It is in colour with sound, although there is a low humming noise, and is mostly in Ukrainian with occasional English. The concert begins with one of the group members...

This film documents a performance by the group Kozatski Zabavy from Kyiv (Kiev) at Bradford Ukrainian Cultural Centre. It was made by the Ukrainian Video Archives Society (UVAS) but is not credited to them. The film is an edited final version with various camera angles and stills of the group’s promotional material. It is in colour with sound, although there is a low humming noise, and is mostly in Ukrainian with occasional English. The concert begins with one of the group members performing Prayer for Ukraine. The remaining performers enter the hall in a procession down the aisle in the audience playing various Ukrainian folk instruments. The performers are all men and are dressed as Cossacks. They perform a series of folk songs, often accompanied by comic skits. They use a range of instruments and encourage audience participation from time to time. The concert ends with the singing of the Ukrainian national anthem. Zenon Lastowiecki makes a closing speech, thanking the group and the Bradford Festival for their financial and organisational support. The spokesman of the group also thanks everyone in the community for making them so welcome, presenting Zenon Lastowiecki with a commemorative plate as a thank you gift. The film fades out at 2hrs 1 min 14 secs but then immediately restarts to show the group walking off stage to music as their finale, with the audience applauding. The film finishes are 2 hrs 1 min 36 secs.