Dakh Daughters

The Ukrainian theatre-, performance-, and band-collective Dakh Daughters was founded by the actresses of Kiev’s Dakh Theatre in 2012. Their performances combine Ukrainian folklore, Punk, cabaret, prog-rock, classical music, and rap. During their performances, the collective’s seven members all play various instruments and sing in different languages. Their lyrics are inspired by authors like Charles Bukowski and William Shakespeare. The video that accompanied their first song “Rosen / Donbass,” a collage of a Shakespeare sonnet and Ukrainian folk songs, already earned them wide-spread recognition, as did their performance during the Maidan protests in Kiev in 2013. By now, Dakh Daughters perform on stages all over the world. They released their first studio album “If” in 2016.