Kitka

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Kitka Women's Vocal Ensemble is an all-female professional vocal ensemble based in Oakland, California and focused on Eastern European women’s vocal traditions.{{cite web|url=http://www.kitka.org/about/index.html |title=About Kitka |accessdate=2008-08-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080925115012/http://www.kitka.org/about/index.html |archivedate=2008-09-25 }} It was founded in 1979 as an offshoot of the Westwind International Folk Ensemble. Under the direction of Bon Singer from 1981 to 1996, Kitka became a professional ensemble specializing in the techniques of traditional and contemporary Balkan, Slavic, and Caucasian vocal styling. Under the co-direction of Shira Cion, Janet Kutulas and Juliana Graffagna since 1997, Kitka has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts, [https://web.archive.org/web/20121123085152/http://www.chorusamerica.org/ Chorus America], and the [http://www.acdaonline.org/ American Choral Directors’ Association]. The group takes its name from the word for "bouquet" in Bulgarian and Macedonian.