Zabava

Zabava (Polish: Zabawa ) is an Eastern European or Slavic word for a party with music and dancing. The word zabava is often used as an adjective for Eastern European bands that play party music. Zabava has been used as the title of songs, the name of musical and dance groups, and the name of community centers.

Origin
The origin of the word zabava is from the Proto-Slavic word zabava meaning fun or amusement. Zabava sometimes refers to "entertainment." It has come to mean "party" in Serbia, Croatia, Ukraine, and Czech culture.

Canadian Zabava Bands

 * Zirka from Toronto
 * Steppe from Edmonton, Canada
 * Rushnychok
 * Syny Stepiv

US Zabava Bands

 * Ukrainian Village Band

Songs

 * Zabava (English: "Party") is a 2008 song by the Slovenian group, Turbo Angels, which ranked 6th out of 10 finalists in the 2008 Eurovision competition.

Other

 * Zabava is the name of a musical group.
 * Zabava is the name of a Russian dance group performing Ukrainian dance.
 * Zabawa is a Polish festival in Erie, USA.

There is a Zabava (poem)
There is a Zabava is the name of a poem by Nicole Yurcaba.

Yurcaba's poem begins: "There is a zabava, and everyone is singing the songs about the birds; there is a pearl inside me that wishes I could play Dedushka’s mandolin which rests in its battered leather case because I feel, at times, that all we as Ukrainians have is each other and the music; the squalling trumpets, the plucked banduras, the daring dentsivkas, Diduk’s silenced mandolin and the tribal drums that move our feet and sway our hips and preserve on our lips that intricate language, those spider-web secrets that are preciously ours." Nicole Yurcaba is an instructor of English at Bridgewater College whose poetry and essays have appeared in numerous publications. There is a Zabava was featured in the Atlanta Review in 2015.

Other cultural references

 * Zabava is a Ukrainian banquet hall and catering service in New Jersey, USA.