Ukrainian Diaspora Bandura Players Originates from Galicia

The article deals with the sociocultural origin of many well-known bandura art representatives of the Ukrainian diaspora. The work distinguishes the personalities of the diaspora bandura players, the natives of Galicia and their achievements in the context of the study necessity actualization in performing tradition broadcast, the preservation of the performing school characteristics, etc. The purpose of the article is to study the contribution of Galician bandura players to the development of bandura art in foreign countries. The scientific novelty of the research is the systematic information introduction about the representation of Galician bandura players in the Ukrainian diaspora, their priorities in the tools, repertoires, performances, and so on. The contribution of K. Misewych, D. Honta, D. Scherbyna to popularization of bandura in Poland in the interwar period is being determined. The activities of the Yuri Singalevich Lviv Galician school are being pointed out, whose students (S. Hanushevskyi, S. Lastovich- Chulivskyi, V. Yurkevych, Z. Shtokalko, etc.) not only promoted the bandura in Galicia, but also became successful in various types of bandura activity in the Ukrainian diaspora, synthesized their skills with traditional regional bandura schools. Particularly, the natives of Galicia V. Lutsiv and B. Shark, who in the Ukrainian diaspora synthesized the regional bandura schools of performance, were noted. The article uses historical, axiological, musicological and cultural approaches and their corresponding methods, which determine the methodology of research. In particular, the historical-chronological method is used to examine the stages of bandura players artistic path; the axiological - to determine the value of their achievements, musicological and cultural methods will contribute to the multi-vector representation of Galician bandura players contribution to the world treasury of Ukrainian culture. Conclusions. It has been determined, that in the process of bandura art development in Galicia, the unification of Western and Eastern bandura schools took place, the basic directions of music instrument functioning were laid, which ideas were continued in post-war emigration