Ukrainian musician holds concert in Japan
A Ukrainian musician living in Japan
has held a concert in light of the tensions over her home country.Kateryna Gudzii
plays a 65-string Ukrainian folk instrument called the bandura.She performed at a restaurant in Tokyo on Friday.
Gudzii was born in a town about three kilometers away from the Chernobyl power plant,
where a reactor exploded in 1986, resulting in one of the worst nuclear accidents in history.
It forced Gudzii’s family to move
to Kyiv shortly after she was born.Her mother still lives there in temporary housing.
Gudzii is worried about the possibility of Russia invading Ukraine.
She fears for her mother, and also the cultures and traditions of her home country.
NHK WORLD-JAPAN News