Mordovian folklore songs of village Kildyushevo

In the Mordovian village  of  Kildyushevo   of the Tetyushsky   municipal region of   the Republic of Tatarstan  June 21 the Republican celebration  of  Mordovian (moksha) culture "Valda Shinyas" ("Sunshine")  took place. This holiday is traditionally held during the summer solstice.

Given that the road passes through the village Tetyushi-Tarkhany, many  passing  by stop,   at first surprised, and then with interest took part in afestival.

Festival took place in a center of the village on a large green meadow. Nearby are the church and the monument to the villagers   having  not returned from the fields of the Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Flowers  were laid  at the monument.

 "Tyushtyanskaya Fair" has been organized, where  a huge variety of souvenirs, products of arts and crafts  made by  folk art masters of Mordovia is sold out, homemade pickles, herbs, domestic towels, honey, dried fish ... a master class - showed how to weave baskets out of willow.  Here also a potter invites interested persons to make  of clay  a variety of household items. Here  master shows how to sew boots. Those interested can split wood or sew  log. At  "Mordovia farmstead"   people are  treated fish-soup, which  is  cooked in a wood-fired boiler. And on the table on which  the dishes  of national cuisine, one gets embarrassed of riches.  Those wishing  to learn their  fate go to the venue  "Gadaniya   ved -Ava at the well." On the venue  "Vadrya Oftan" villagers choose "a bear" (one of the elements of the holiday) and decoratehim with   maple leaves.

Residents of the village and guests   were  congratulated  by  head of the  Tetyush  municipal  region  Ramis  Safiullah, Deputy Minister of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan Svetlana Persova and other officials.

Then   on the scene, the   folk groups who came from Alekseevskogo, Bugulma, Kama-Ustinsky, Cheremshansky, Leninogorsk, Almetyevsk, Tetyush  regions   of Tatarstan,  Kazan, Ulyanovsk, Samara, Orenburg region of the Russian Federation   showed their performances. The guests from the Republic of Mordovia   also arrived at  the fete. The most revered and respected ensemble "Kildushevskiye babushki"   of  the Tetyushsky   region traditionally opened the concert program. By the way, the youngest participant of the ensemble went just eighth year old,   but they have successors - children's folklore ensemble "Lymon"   of the Kildushevsky rural House of Culture. So singing traditions of the village Kildyushevo   are  saved.

Many spectators watched not only the concert, but also actively participated in various concerts and playgrounds, dancing, singing along with the folklore groups - resting  with all their hearts. This means that the festival was a success.

Present at the celebration - Head of Department for Cooperation with the municipal cultural institutions and the support of folk art of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan Rail Gataullin    and Deputy Director of the National Centre for Development of Traditional Culture Gali Gabdrakhmanov - noted a  high level of the festival, director-staging work and prologue of the concert program.

The celebration was organized by the Executive Committee  of Tetyushsky  municipal  region  administration   of the Kildushevsky   rural settlement at the expense of the Grant of the Tatarstan government and the municipal budget.

Press Service of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan, per  materials of  National Center of Traditional Culture of Tatarstan