Stary Olsa (official) Стары Ольса Minsk STARY OLSA is a medieval Belarusian music band. It was founded in 1999 by its present leader Zmicier Sasnoŭski and now consists of six musicians. It takes its name from an old brook in Belarus. The band's repertoire includes Belarusian folk balladry and martial songs, Belarusian national dances, works of Belarusian Renaissance composers, compositions from Belarusian aulic music collections (e.g. Polack Notebook, Vilnia Notebook), Belarusian canticles of the 16th - early 17th centuries, as well as European popular melodies of the Middle Ages and Renascence. STARY OLSA cooperates with many knightly clubs from Belarus and Europe, museums and research centres, masters of early instruments, bands of folk, aulic, sacred and city avital music, as well as with solo performers using old instruments, as well as with fire show theartes. The band's music makes it possible to restore sounds of many forgotten instruments. STARY OLSA uses for its performances maximal exact (in appearance, technology and materials) copies of old aged Belarusian instruments such as Belarusian bagpipe, lyre, gusli (Baltic psaltery) , svirel, jew's-harp, ocarina, Belarusian trumpet, birch bark trumpet, hudok (Belarusian rebec), tromba marina and drums. The purpose is to completely reconstruct (whenever possible) musical traditions of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania where Belarus was the main cultural and geopolitical part in the 13th - 18th centuries, and where there was a unique combination of Belarusian folk and aulic music with European musical achievements of that time. In order to revive this cultural peculiarity the band's members mix early Belarusian instruments sound with all-European mediaeval instruments such as lute, rebec, cister, flute, Arabic drum. Besides its own theatrical concerts, the band performs at mediaeval culture festivals, spear-runnings and folklore festivals. The STARY OLSA band has recorded eleven albums and one musical project. The band's music is included into seven collections of old melody performers. Stary Olsa (official)’s tracks Stary Olsa - Zombie (The Cranberries cover), Lipka Single 2019 by Stary Olsa (official) published on 2019-05-15T14:26:29Z Stary Olsa - Lipka (Lipka Single, 2019) by Stary Olsa (official) published on 2019-05-15T13:07:04Z Stary Olsa - Kielich kola/Drinking Mug (Water, Hops and Malt 2017) by Stary Olsa (official) published on 2019-03-20T17:15:43Z Stary Olsa - Zasnavannie Viĺni (Founding of Vilnia) by Stary Olsa (official) published on 2019-02-19T13:33:50Z Stary Olsa - Marazula (Water, Hops and Malt, 2017) by Stary Olsa (official) published on 2018-01-14T19:12:08Z Stary Olsa - Highway to Hell (AC/DC cover) by Stary Olsa (official) published on 2016-12-04T22:00:59Z Stary Olsa - Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2 (Pink Floyd cover) by Stary Olsa (official) published on 2016-12-04T21:59:24Z Stary Olsa - Californication (Red Hot Chili Peppers cover) by Stary Olsa (official) published on 2016-12-04T21:57:44Z Stary Olsa - A Hard Day's Night (The Beatles cover) by Stary Olsa (official) published on 2016-12-04T21:54:13Z Stary Olsa - One (Metallica cover) by Stary Olsa (official) published on 2016-12-04T21:51:18Z
Stary Olsa - Zombie (The Cranberries cover), Lipka Single 2019 by Stary Olsa (official) published on 2019-05-15T14:26:29Z
Stary Olsa - Kielich kola/Drinking Mug (Water, Hops and Malt 2017) by Stary Olsa (official) published on 2019-03-20T17:15:43Z
Stary Olsa - Zasnavannie Viĺni (Founding of Vilnia) by Stary Olsa (official) published on 2019-02-19T13:33:50Z
Stary Olsa - Marazula (Water, Hops and Malt, 2017) by Stary Olsa (official) published on 2018-01-14T19:12:08Z
Stary Olsa - Highway to Hell (AC/DC cover) by Stary Olsa (official) published on 2016-12-04T22:00:59Z
Stary Olsa - Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2 (Pink Floyd cover) by Stary Olsa (official) published on 2016-12-04T21:59:24Z
Stary Olsa - Californication (Red Hot Chili Peppers cover) by Stary Olsa (official) published on 2016-12-04T21:57:44Z
Stary Olsa - A Hard Day's Night (The Beatles cover) by Stary Olsa (official) published on 2016-12-04T21:54:13Z