The school, teaching Belarusian singing, dance, clothes making, and how to play the country's traditional bagpipes, opened on September 11, 2022. "I hope we bring joy to people," Hapanovich said.

Vladimir and Nadezhda playing their bagpipes at the lake after being released from Belarusian prisonImage: Irdorath But things don't stay good for long. They don't want to speak much about the ...

The band uses many forgotten instruments including the Belarusian bagpipe, lyre, gusli (a Baltic psaltery or harp), svirel (reed pipe), birch bark trumpet and other instruments. The purpose of the ...