Dakh Daughters

{{Short description|Ukrainian music and theater project}}

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Dakh Daughters

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| genre = freak-cabaret, dark cabaret

| years_active = {{start date|2012}}–present

| website = {{URL|dakhdaughters.com}}

| current_members = Solomiia Melnyk, Ruslana Khazipova, Natalka Bida, Anna Nikitina, Zo, Tetiana Havryliuk, Nina Garenetska

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Dakh Daughters is a Ukrainian music and theatre project started in 2012 in Kyiv. The band consists of seven women, who play on various instruments and sing in different languages (Ukrainian, English, French, German, Russian) and dialects of Ukrainian.Борис Барабанов [http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2437198 Украина на все голоса. Dakh Daughters спели в «Гоголь-центре»] Коммерсантъ No. 50 от 26.03.2014. They often use texts by famous authors in their lyrics (e.g. Taras Shevchenko, William Shakespeare, Joseph Brodsky, Charles Bukowski, Shaggy).

Dakh Daughters participants are members of different projects such as DakhaBrakha and Perkalaba. The band's name derives from the Dakh theater which is associated with the project.[http://www.euroeastculture.eu/en/culture/view-vlad-troitskyi-i-can-surprise-with-the-atmosphere.html Cultural focus: UKRAINE] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413132141/http://www.euroeastculture.eu/en/culture/view-vlad-troitskyi-i-can-surprise-with-the-atmosphere.html |date=2014-04-13 }} EaP Culture Programme Website

The band became famous after publishing on YouTube the music video "Rozy / Donbass", based on Shakespeare's Sonnet 35 and Ukrainian folk songs.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wCgZh-nczY Rozy / Donbass]{{cite web|url=http://www.zvuki.ru/R/P/31186/|title=Dakh Daughters взорвали российский YouTube своим "Фантастиш Донбасс"|author=|date=2013-08-15|publisher=Звуки.ру|accessdate=2014-04-14}}{{cite web|url=http://kulturaonline.pl/cory,dakha,niosa,pomoc,tytul,artykul,17747.html|title=Córy Dakha niosą pomoc.|date=2014-03-25|publisher=Kulturaonline.pl|accessdate=2014-04-14|language=pl|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413132015/http://kulturaonline.pl/cory,dakha,niosa,pomoc,tytul,artykul,17747.html|archive-date=2014-04-13|url-status=dead}}Елена Акимова [http://www.kp.ru/online/news/1506015 Украинки взорвали YouTube песней «Фантастиш Донбас»] Комсомольская правда, 8 августа 2013 Also well-known is the video of their live performance on Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kyiv during the early Euromaidan protests in December 2013.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VowNgMWcubA Hannusya]

Dakh Daughters has performed in various Ukrainian cities, as well as outside of the country (in Poland, Czech Republic, France, Russia and Brazil). They have taken part in such events as Zaxidfest, Gogolfest, Silent films festival in Odesa etc.

The first band's studio album, IF, containing 9 tracks, was released in November 2016.{{Cite web|url=https://day.kyiv.ua/en/article/culture/dakh-daughters-release-debut-album|title=Dakh Daughters release a debut album|website=Dakh Daughters release a debut album|language=en|access-date=2017-05-26}} The second, AIR, came out in April 2019.{{Cite web|url=https://dakhdaughters.bandcamp.com/album/air|title=AIR-Dakh Daughters|website=AIR-Dakh Daughters |language=en|access-date=2020-01-02}}

Dakh Daughters was featured prominently in the 2019 Ukrainian musical comedy film Hutsulka Ksenya.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7736212/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt Hutsulka Ksenya]

"Through their music and their songs, it is the notions of heritage and identity that are questioned, summoning both classical texts – such as Shakespeare's Sonnet 35 – and Ukrainian folk songs. These poems or stories sung, chanted, rapped, always question the universal and timeless struggle of Man for the defense of his freedom and his affiliations. Thus, the Dakh Daughters manage to elaborate a poetry of anger to the rhythm of the drums of war, the sobs of the violins and the frenzied hope of 'Ukraine on fire'."{{Cite web |last=Le Bec |first=Marie |title=choix de la rédaction les dakh daughters |url=https://www.lintermede.com/choix-de-la-redaction-les-dakh-daughters.php?fbclid=IwAR1gwz-Tff0kbCR_GgAhxBwWJ3Ef98bz17wa5mqUZzwiN-KdVGopiUgUZ-0 |access-date=2022-10-24 |website=www.lintermede.com}}

They performed at WOMAD in 2023 where their freaky cabaret style was well received.{{Cite news |last=Dalton |first=Stephen |date=2023-08-04 |title=Womad 2023 review — still an uplifting feast of global music |language=en |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/music/article/womad-2023-review-still-an-uplifting-feast-of-global-music-wprw6xs90 |access-date=2023-08-04 |issn=0140-0460}}