Kozachki Zabavy (Cossack Fun) was formed in Kyiv in 1990 by Andriy Veres. The group combine contemporary comic responses to life in Ukraine with traditional songs and entertainment and a dash of Cossack spirit to create a cabaret style performance with plenty of opportunity for audience participation. They have toured extensively world-wide, including Poland, Great Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Hungary, South Korea, China, Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru. Kozachki...

Kozachki Zabavy (Cossack Fun) was formed in Kyiv in 1990 by Andriy Veres. The group combine contemporary comic responses to life in Ukraine with traditional songs and entertainment and a dash of Cossack spirit to create a cabaret style performance with plenty of opportunity for audience participation. They have toured extensively world-wide, including Poland, Great Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Hungary, South Korea, China, Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru. Kozachki Zabavy are currently based in Ukraine and Poland and continue to entertain audiences far and wide.

The emergence of Ukraine as an independent European state in 1991 was transformative for arts and culture in the diaspora. Not only was it easier to invite performers to the UK than it had been under Glasnost and Perestroika, it became possible for diaspora performing arts groups to visit and tour Ukraine. In the 1990s, this meant that many first-generation members of the community, some of whom had founded choirs and dance ensembles on their arrival in the UK more than fifty years previously, were able to take their art home.