1 May Day Batyara Lviv

If Golokhvastov of the comedy "For Two Hares" lived in Galicia, he would not call crook but batyara. Of course this batyarov in modern Lviv is not found, but the city decided to revive the tradition with appropriate costumes, songs and dances.

May 1-3 Tavria Games Kakhovka, Kherson region

The oldest domestic pop music festival gathers Ukrainian stars on one stage and gives them the gold "Feathers of the Firebird". In recent years, the Games cost on their own and foreign guests are not invited.

May 1-3, Weathervanes Lviv

Lviv last six years, fans of jazz and ethno gather for Day of Lviv on Market Square in the Town Hall and the courtyard for three days immersed in your favorite music. Here you can listen to performances of stars and to discover new names.

May 2-3, Sunny drink Uzhgorod

At the May holidays winemakers, cheesemakers, and beekeepers Transcarpathia traditionally bring their best to Uzhhorod. Some of them are still prepared to traditional recipes.

Early May Berlibashsky banosh village Kostylevka, Rakhiv district, Transcarpathian region

In the Transcarpathian village Kostylevka fifteen streets, and residents are not so much. But at the time of the culinary feast "Berlibashsky banosh" here becomes crowded. Hutsul dressed in ceremonial costumes, the residents at each of the streets covered with generous tables. Absolutely free of charge or for a nominal price you can taste the dumplings with sheep cheese, sausages, corn cake, kremzliki (potato pancakes) and many others gutsulsky dishes, as well as local vodka (yafinovku and Orekhovka) and infused with herbs Berlibashsky brandy. On "Banosh" attracts visitors not only from all over Ukraine, but also from neighboring Romania and Hungary, as well as from Switzerland and Holland. And the main course they want to try it, of course, banosh - welded at home sour cream porridge of corn, or as they say in Hutsulshchyna, melaynoy flour. In Kostylevke banosh berlibashskim called by the name of the neighboring mountain slope (grazing) Burley-chump and cooked in kettles over an open fire directly on the day of the festival. They eat porridge once a fire, adding cheese and cracklings. Every cook your recipe, but still willing to share secrets, so that everyone can easily get a kind of master-class. In addition, Kostylevka coming folk groups playing traditional instruments gutsulsky, so that cooking and eating banosh passes under the musical accompaniment.

Second decade of May Festival of Balloons Kamenetz-Podolsky, Khmelnitsky region

Festival of Ballooning in Kamenetz-Podolsk - the only place in Ukraine, where you can fly in balloons over the deep canyon.

May 15-16 PanKe Sheva Live Aid Poltava

As part of this festival, which aims to popularize the Poltava region, are not only numerous performances by music groups from different countries, but also exhibitions of young artists, as well as theatrical events.

20 May Day of the bull village Delovoe, Rakhiv district, Transcarpathian region

In late May, in the Carpathian escorted shepherds and their herds on pastures and on this occasion organize a "Day of the bull": milk the sheep, boiled Hutsul cheese and dance kolomyyki.

May 21-22, KROK (Step) in future Kherson

Main feature of the festival in Kherson - an international competition for novice musicians. It brings together groups from Ukraine, Russia, Poland, France, Germany and Norway.