M aria Krupoves, an artist and folklorist, is internationally acclaimed as a singer and interpreter of the folksongs of Eastern Europe, especially those of her native Vilnius with its multicultural heritage. Multicultural herself, Maria Krupoves performed her entire repertory in the original languages:, Yiddish, Polish, Lithuanian, Russian, Byelorussian, Gypsy (Roma), Karaite, Tatar, Hebrew, Ladino, and other languages. The singer has performed in Lithuania, Poland, Germany, France, Israel, Japan, Canada, and the United States, etc. Maria Krupoves sang at the Yiddish Summit in Strasboug, the UNESCO Conference Dialogue among Civilizations in Vilnius, the Berlin Jewish Cultural Festival, The Sara Rosenfeld Yiddish Festival in Montreal, in Yad Vashem (Jerusalem, The Lothus Festival in Bloomington, Indiana, at international conferences on anti-Semitism at Indiana University and other international gatherings.
