{"id":2264221,"date":"2024-06-10T16:25:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T20:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/war-buskers-ukraine-musicians-raise-money-to-send-drone-to-front-line-for-brother\/"},"modified":"2024-06-10T16:30:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T20:30:54","slug":"war-buskers-ukraine-musicians-raise-money-to-send-drone-to-front-line-for-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/war-buskers-ukraine-musicians-raise-money-to-send-drone-to-front-line-for-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian musicians busk to fund a drone for frontline brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwar-buskers-ukraine-musicians-raise-money-to-send-drone-to-front-line-for-brother%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2264221&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In Lviv, Ukraine, visitors\u2062 to the monument of Taras Shevchenko, a revered Ukrainian poet \u200band nationalist, have recently been entertained by the tunes of The\u200b White Stripes, performed by the local Royal Brass Band. This teenage band, inspired by the New York City subway band Lucky Chops, performs street\u200b music to support \u200cUkrainian military efforts, specifically to raise funds for a drone to aid in the war against Russian \u200dinvaders. The band, which also features personal ties to the\u200b war through members like Nazar whose \u200cbrother is fighting at the front, uses their music to uplift spirits and gather donations for the military cause, exemplifying a community&#8217;s engagement and support during ongoing conflict.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>LVIV, UKRAINE \u2014<\/strong> For the past couple of months, weekend visitors to a massive monument to <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bl.uk\/european\/2023\/07\/taras-shevchenko-display-at-the-british-library.html#:~:text=In%201847%2C%20he%20was%20arrested,were%20censored%20during%20his%20lifetime.\">Taras Shevchenko<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Ukrainian\">Ukrainian<\/a> poet and nationalist whom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Russian Czar Nicholas I\">Russian Czar Nicholas I<\/a> imprisoned and exiled for his political views, have watched their children play while taking in the garage rock tones of The White Stripes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone tries to do what they can,\u201d explained Viktoriia Mavdryk, a receptionist at a hotel on the square.<\/p>\n<p>For hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers, that has meant years of service on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flashback-teacher-sues-school-board-after-being-fired-he-refused-to-compromise-on-trans-pronouns\/\" title=\"Flashback: Teacher Sues School Board After Being Fired \u2013 He Refused To Compromise on Trans Pronouns\">front lines<\/a> of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinas-plan-to-end-ukraine-russia-war-met-with-skepticism-in-west\/\" title=\"China\u2019s Plan To End Ukraine-Russia War Met With Skepticism In West\">grueling war<\/a> against invading Russian forces. <\/p>\n<p>For the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rNdSAHhIRd0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Royal Brass Band<\/a>, an ensemble comprised of local teenage students inspired by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-km8p6rb_EY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Lucky Chops<\/a>, the New York City subway band, these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-viral-claim-linking-pinocchio-to-slavery-is-unfounded\/\" title=\"FACT CHECK: Viral Claim Linking Pinocchio To Slavery Is Unfounded\">street performances<\/a> are its service \u2014 crowd-pleasing tunes to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-mo-brooks-rips-gop-quitters-including-nevertrumper-adam-kinzinger-who-are-unwilling-to-do-their-homework-on-the-massive-2020-election-fraud\/\" title=\"Rep. Mo Brooks RIPS GOP \u201cQuitters\u201d Including #NeverTrumper Adam Kinzinger Who Are Unwilling to Do Their Homework on the Massive 2020 Election Fraud\">raise money<\/a> for the military.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI play because I like to give people emotions\u00a0that we are playing,\u201d Nazar, an 18-year-old college student who plays the trombone, told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> in English. \u201cPeople are smiling, and I like it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mykola, the 16-year-old alto saxophonist, agreed. \u201cIt\u2019s very happy when [we see] the smiles of people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>The Royal Brass Band, a group of young musicians, performs for an audience of passersby near the Taras Shevchenko monument in Lviv on June 8, 2024. (Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>They have a more grave purpose, as well \u2014 they are raising money to raise money for purchase a first-person drone, one of the civilian technologies that Ukrainian forces have used with lethal effectiveness in the war.<\/p>\n<p>And they have one person in particular whom they hope to help. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy brother, he is in the war now,\u201d said Nazar, who added that he is stationed near Bakhmut, the eastern Ukrainian city that was the scene of a grinding struggle between January and August of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The intensity of the fighting gave the battle additional symbolic significance for both sides and spurred then-Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin to launch an abortive march on Moscow, a brief but dramatic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/magazine-obituary\/2434163\/yevgeny-prigozhin-1961-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">insurrection<\/a> that culminated in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2433130\/kremlin-hints-yevgeny-prigozhin-may-have-been-assassinated-and-his-plane-downed-on-purpose\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">apparent assassination<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore, we donate just money\u00a0for other\u00a0people who collect, and now we just start\u00a0our own,\u201d Mykola said.<\/p>\n<p>On weekends this spring, the band has turned out to Prospect Svobody, or Freedom Avenue, a promenade that runs through the center of the city to the Lviv opera house. Its sets can run for 45 minutes or so, and in good weather, it\u2019s not hard to gather a crowd. The band members collect donations in cash and through a QR code, reserving a portion of the cash receipts to divide among themselves and devoting all of the electronic donations to the purchase of a drone, which they expect to cost about $1,500.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thousand dollars \u2014 it\u2019s all we have now,\u201d Mykola said.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<p data-video_id=\"rNdSAHhIRd0\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Royal Brass Band \u00ab\u0425\u0456\u0442\u0438 \u0432\u0443\u043b\u0438\u0446\u044c\u00bb\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rNdSAHhIRd0?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>They are far from unique among street musicians, also known as buskers, in Lviv. \u201cMost of them are raising money,\u201d said Mavdryk, the hotel receptionist. \u201cAll of them are raising money for the army, but not all give 100% of their raised money. \u2026 I guess it\u2019s OK because the musicians, it\u2019s the way that they earn money for themselves \u2026 but they try to help make, really, a great donation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lviv is far from the front lines, with only occasional alarms sounding to warn of an impending <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/eng\/news\/2024\/02\/15\/7441931\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Russian airstrike.<\/a> \u201cFor now, the most awful [thing], I want to say, [is] that we get used to the situation,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s too awful for me to say that we are getting used to the air alarms, to the explosions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rare or not, the alarms affect life every day. \u201cFor Ukrainians, every day is precious because you don\u2019t know what will be tomorrow,\u201d she continued. \u201cYou know, we just have a good conversation but in the morning or in one hour or two hours could be [an] air alarm, and we don\u2019t know where the rocket will explode.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the feet of Shevchenko, the former Russian serf who became an icon of Ukrainian art and patriotism, the audience seems untroubled by such thoughts. The people are dancing to \u201cBarbie Girl,\u201d the street jazz version.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Lviv, Ukraine, weekend crowds at the grand monument of Taras Shevchenko, a poet imprisoned by Czar Nicholas I for his views, enjoy watching their children play to the backdrop of The White Stripes&#8217; garage rock music<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2743,"featured_media":2264222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Royal-Brass-Band-Lviv-June-8-2024-Joel-Gehrke-1.jpg.optimal.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2264221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Royal-Brass-Band-Lviv-June-8-2024-Joel-Gehrke-1.jpg.optimal.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2743"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2264221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2264222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2264221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2264221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2264221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}