In 2023 Roots and Chords brought to Illinois and Wisconsin a “God Father of Ukrainian rock-n-roll”, founder of legendary VV band, Oleg Skrypka. Because he couldn’t travel with his band, we enabled a unique local collaboration with a local Chicago folk punk band Fugu Dudu and the Children Choir Elegy. Together they played a series of very successful shows in Chicago and Madison with benefits proceeding to support the Children Hospital in Kyiv. We built a strong connection, and we are looking forward to collaborating with Oleg again across North America.