Benya Stewart: The Ohio Musician Living Under Missile Attacks

Benya Stewart: "Ukrainian folk tradition is like a thousand feet deep, it's just been this unbroken despite so many attempts of so many different empires and kingdoms. There's this own unbroken chain of culture and once I experienced that - that's another part. It's not just that there's this war and there's this fight for freedom.

It's like there's this cultural side. which for me is just invaluable and I want to be learning about it, studying it, participating in it." 

Benya Stewart, an American musician from Ohio, chose to live in wartime Kyiv.

Sharing a few of his wartime songs, he speaks with American journalist Joe Lindsley about playing front-line shows, the power of roots music, and life under missile attacks.Please subscribe to the "Land Of The Free" updates: