Duet "Red and Black" once again visited the national festival of Lemko culture "Lemko Bells." However, this year is the X jubilee festival was marred by a sad event, held in Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviskiy, Ternopil, Chernivtsi, Transcarpathian and Vinnytsia regions. Terrible floods claimed ten lives, disfigured thousands of homes, left homeless more than one family.
The festival was questionable, but still it happened. In these regions of Western Ukraine, with Ukrainian subethnos - Rusyn-Lemko - living the most compact. And the festival is the only Lemko-Ukrainian festival in Ukraine. Therefore, his conduct was necessary even with the psychological side. It was an opportunity for thousands of people at least a little to cope with the shock which they received from this ecological disaster.
Along with dozens of creative teams and individual performers on the festival stage, the "Village masters" could contemplate, and even buy products of masters of folk art.
Valentina and Yaroslav always warm welcome for visitors, which, in truth, my heart feels that artists put their souls in song, they can tell him something that they sing it for him.
As Head of the Zhytomyr Oblast Organization VUT "Lemko" Yaroslav Warm expressed sincere condolences to all the countryman, who suffered from a terrible flood.
For the first time in the history of the festival, because of creative necessity, the duo "Red and Black" acted as a trio. Jaroslav Warm (guitar), Valentine heat (oven harmonica) and Alexander Vyshnivskyy (guitar) met at the end of the first day of the festival old Lemko zhovnirski ballad "Dumash you girl" and the song "Black Cloud comes." The audience warmly accepted this creative experiment, and even sang the last song. And then in the performance of the duo already heard your favorite song Lemkos Ukraine. Traditionally in the first and second day, the duo finished his speech to its well-known hit - song "Cheerios."
Knowing that charitable work that carried out for many years, Valentina and Yaroslav Warm, their charity program "Road to the house," their credibility and commitment to their work, they were zapronovano create and lead a charitable foundation, which would also supervised and ethnic Ukrainian, evicted in 1944-1946, 1948, 1951's from Poland to Ukraine, and many of them are elderly, lonely, and, moreover, now victims of this natural disaster.
It zapronovano and name of the Fund - "Good Angels Ukraine."
Today Yaroslav warm founding documents of the Fund prepared and submitted for state registration, and yet the Board of Directors "Good Angels Ukraine", responding to a charitable initiative "Carpathians. Flooding. SOS. 2008 "Foundations Ruslana and the Klitschko brothers, began to provide organizational and financial assistance to victims countryman.











