The village of Moshny, Cherkasy region, August 19, 1998.
Folk musicians can be professional, semi-professional and total amateurs.
This group is semi-professional in the sense that everyone in the village knows them and calls on them to perform at weddings, parties, and other occasions. Pavlo Stepanovich Suprun, a professional kobzar. In back of him is Natalie Kononenko who was acting as translator and guide while Pavlo toured America. Pavlo is blind and, up until Stalin destroyed traditional professional minstrelsy, all kobzari had to be blind. Pavlo is one of the few blind kobzari performing today.