Ukrainian Canadians the Kubasonics focuses on a folk fusion of traditional Ukrainian music with modern touches. Cultural food is an important part of Ukrainian culture. Special foods used at Easter as well as Christmas are not made at any other time of the year. In fact on Christmas Eve (January 6 in the Gregorian calendar), a special twelve-dish meatless meal is served. The best-known foods are "borshch" (a vegetable soup, usually with beets), "holobtsi" (cabbage rolls), "pyrohy" or "varenyky" (dumplings often called "perogies"), and "kovbasa" (garlic sausage). Several items of Ukrainian food and culture have been enshrined with roadside attractions throughout the
Christmas traditions Eve and on Christmas morning. Christmas supper, without Lenten restrictions, does not have as many traditions connected with it as Sviata Vechera. The old tradition in Ukraine of giving gifts to children on St. Nicholas Day, December 19, has generally been replaced by the Christmas date and it is the Father Frost who visits all the children in a sleigh pulled by only three reindeer. (In Western Ukraine the St. Nicholas Day is marked there on December 6.) In much of Northern Europe Christmas is celebrated on December 24 and is referred to as "Jul" (see Yule), while December 25