The recording
Stefan Shkimba and his company recorded a dramatized Lemko wedding for the immigrant community in New York during the late 1920s. The sixteen parts preserve voices, music and scenes of wedding customs. This listening guide links to the single continuous recording published on LemkoHUB, rather than duplicating the audio.
Recording period: late 1920s (individual side dates vary; see discography for confirmed session details). Listening edition: the sixteen-part program assembled on LemkoHUB.
Listen to each of the 16 sides
Each listening link opens the continuous LemkoHUB recording at the supplied start time for that part. Timings are archival reference points and should be checked against playback.
| No. | Recording | Starts | Listen |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Part 1 | 0:00 | ▶ Listen |
| 02 | Part 2 | 03:07 | ▶ Listen |
| 03 | Part 3 | 05:51 | ▶ Listen |
| 04 | Part 4 | 09:06 | ▶ Listen |
| 05 | Part 5 | 12:16 | ▶ Listen |
| 06 | Part 6 | 15:21 | ▶ Listen |
| 07 | Part 7 | 18:39 | ▶ Listen |
| 08 | Part 8 | 21:45 | ▶ Listen |
| 09 | Part 9 | 24:55 | ▶ Listen |
| 10 | Part 10 | 28:03 | ▶ Listen |
| 11 | Part 11 | 31:10 | ▶ Listen |
| 12 | Part 12 | 34:19 | ▶ Listen |
| 13 | Part 13 | 37:27 | ▶ Listen |
| 14 | Part 14 | 40:36 | ▶ Listen |
| 15 | Part 15 | 43:36 | ▶ Listen |
| 16 | Part 16 | 46:53 | ▶ Listen |
The original shellac program comprised eight double-sided 78-rpm records. This table is a listening order, not a claim about individual catalog-number pairings; those can be added from the physical discography.
People behind the recording
The 1928 group photograph reproduced on page 165 of the 2008 Horbal–Maksimovich book identifies, from right to left: Stefan Shkimba (Wołowiec), Evdokyja Dolyna (Królowa Ruska), Rozaliya Bybel (Banica), Petro Dudra (Rozdziele), Vanyo Vatralik (Tylawa), and Vanyo Zhelem (Bodaki). Roles include wedding elder, singers, violinists and bass player.
Sources and archival notes
Лемківске весіля, Ivan Madzik and Vladek Maksimovich (2002), pp. 204–205; and Bogdan Horbal and Vladek Maksimovich, Lemko Folk Music on Wax Cylinders (1901–1913) and American Records (1928–1930) (2008), pp. 165, 170.
The photograph pages are reproduced with their original captions intact. Later references to the 1965 filmed recreation should be kept separate from the original late-1920s recordings. The individual 78-rpm labels and matrices will be incorporated into a subsequent discographic cross-reference.
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