The folk dance ensemble “Vesna” of Sumy National Agrarian University came backvictorious from the V All-Ukrainian festival “Village Revival, Its Spirituality and Culture” (village Pisky,Bakhmachsky District, Chernihiv region).

This year, on June 9-10, the festival met guests and participants of the festival with songs, dancing and partying.

The program of the festival was extremely rich: the performance of the brass band, the concert program of Chernihiv Academic folk choir, the concert of the Honored Artist of Ukraine Oksana Pekun, the performance of the Gypsy team from Lubny, a parade of creative groups, various master classes on pottery, exhibitions of folk craftsmen, a fair, a horse- trick show and, of course, the competitive performances by folk groups from all over Ukraine.

This year the festival program was opened by the collective of Sumy National Agrarian University, the folk dance ensemble “Vesna” under the leadership of an energetic woman, organizer and founder of the group, OlhaHetmanenko.

Inflammatory “Hopak” pleased the guests and participants of the holiday with the youth and vigor of the agrarianstudents.In the competition program “Vesna” took the I place among the dance groups and received a diploma with a personal autograph from the People's Artist of Ukraine Oksana Pekun.

Olha Hetmanenko, the head of “Vesna” team, said: “Thank you for such an extraordinary, wonderful and unforgettable holiday of Ukrainian culture in Ukrainian countryside!”