DETROIT – Starting last fall, the four North American summer bandura camps began to work together in service of their common mission to sustain and advance bandura music on this continent. Leaders of Bandura@Bobriwka (Colebrook, Conn.), ODUM Bandura Camp (London, Ontario, in the past, but this year’s venue was to be Brighton, Mich.), Kobzarska Sich (Emlenton, Pa.) and Litnia Zustrich (Hawkestone, Ontario) first convened in person in October 2019, and then held periodic conference calls on how they could cooperate, in particular on marketing and programming.
The people engaged in the irreverently-named NABCAMCOM (North American Bandura Camps Committee) are also leading members of bandura groups that sponsor the camps – namely, the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus of North America, the Women’s Bandura Ensemble of North America, the Canadian Bandurist Capella and Zoloti Struny – as well as representatives of ODUM.