Nikolai Massenkoff and ensemble Barynya Illinois and Missouri tour 2016
Russian folk singer Nikolai Massenkoff and ensemble Barynya were doing a short concert tour in Illinois and Missouri in October 2016. Concerts took place on Tuesday, October 25, 2016, 11am at FREEDOM HALL, 410 LAKEWOOD BOULEVARD, PARK FOREST, Illinois 60466, on Monday, October 24, 2016, 9:30am at Brubeck Arts Center on Campus of Wabash Valley College, 2200 COLLEGE DRIVE, MOUNT CARMEL, Illinois 62863, on Sunday, October 23, 2016, 1:30pm. Brubeck Arts Center on Campus of Wabash Valley College, 2200 COLLEGE DRIVE, MOUNT CARMEL, Illinois 62863, on Saturday, October 22, 2016, 6pm at BELLE STARR THEATER, 112 E. BOONSLICK ROAD, WARRENTON, MISSOURI 63383. Cast of performers included soloist, star, singer inger Nikolai Massenkoff, Leonid Bruk (contrabass-balalaika), Elina Karokhina (balalaika), Mikhail Smirnov (guitar, garmoshka, vocals), Vladimir Nikitin (dancer), Simona Zhukovsky (dancer).
LuCille Tack Center for the Arts in Spencer, Wisconsin, February 11th, 2018
Massenkoff Russian Folk Festival led by Nikolai Massenkoff, world celebrated singer, performed at LuCille Tack Center for the Arts in Spencer, Wisconsin on Sunday, February 11th, 2018. Dancers Simona Zhukovski, Vladimir Nikitin, Serhiy Tsyganok, Dinara Subaeva. Musicians: Elina Karokhina (balalaika), Mikhail Smirnov (guitar, vocals), Stas Vengelevski (bayan). Exact address of the LuCille Tack Center for the Arts is 400 School Street, P.O. Box 337, Spencer, WI 54479. Program of performance included Kalinka, The Moon is Shining, Russkoye Polye, Korobushka, Metelitsa, Tatar dance, Ural Mountain dance, Tyomnaiya NOch', Katyusha, Tatarskiy Taneyts, Kamarinskaia, Along The Pitersakia, Cossack dance, Valenkee, Gypsy dance, Moscow Nights, Ochee Chorniye, Dorogoi Dlinnoyou, Hopak, If I Were A Rich Man, Barynya, Somewhere My Love, and other selections.
Nikolai Massenkoff “World Celebrated Singer” and BARYNYA
Lees-McRae College, Hayes Auditorium July 29, 2008 7:30PM
235 Main Street West, Banner Elk, NC
SVYETYE MYESYATS Sve-tyet-mye-syats (Brightly Shines the Moon)
Lev Zabeginsky, Prima Balalaika, Yan Khmel’, Bayan (Russia version of the Accordion),
Mikhail Smirnov, Bass-Balalaika.
KALINKA DANCE: KALINKA Kalinka
N.MASSENKOFF: "POLYE, RUSSKOYE POOLYE"- (Field of Russia)
MYTYELITSA (Snowdrifts)
KARABEINEEK (The Peddler)
RUSSKII TANYETS: Russian Dance: Barynya
PRIMA BALALAIKYE SOLO (Prima Balalaika Solo) Lev Zabeginsky
BAR’BA: NANAIKA - STRUGGLE: NANAIKA
COZATSKIYE PYESNEE - Cossack song medley sung by M.Smirnov
KOZATSKII TANYETS Cossack Dance
VDOL PO PEETYERSKOY (Along St. Petersburg Boulevard)
RUSSKII OOROK (Russian Lesson)
INTERMISSION, ACT II
TANYETS: DANILO KUPOR
SOLO NA BAYANYE (Bayan-Accordion Solo) Yan Khmel
PYESNEE RODINY Nikolai Sings Russian Peasant Songs of Old Russia)
EI OOHNYEM (Volga Boatmen)
YAMSHEEK NYE GANEE LA SHADEI (Coachman, Do Not Race the Horses…)
KALINKA, KALINKA,
KALINKA MAYA! (Snow Bush)
TSYGANSIYE MELODII
Gypsy Melodies Lev Zabeginsky, Prima Balalaika;
Yan Khmel’, Bayan (Russia version of the Accordion);
Mikhail Smirnov, Bass-Balalaika.
NIKOLAI SINGS GYPSIE CLASSICS AND MORE!
POD MOSKOVNIYE VECHERA - Moscow Nights
OCHEE CHYORNIYA-Dark Eyes
DVYE GEETARY - Two Guitars
TSYGANSKII TANYETS - Gypsy Dance
DOROGOI DLINNOYOU (Those Were the Days My Friend)
NIKOLAI MASSENKOFF IN MOSCOW, RUSSIA. OCTOBER 2007