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 in Ukraine a vase are often used to decorate the table. Shopka is a traditional portable nativity scene used to represent nativity and other figures in a puppet form. "Kutia, Star of the Ukrainian Christmas Eve Supper" Kylymnyk, Stepan, 1955–1969; "Ukrainskyi Rik u Narodnykh Zvychayakh v Narodnomu Osvitlenni" [Ukrainian Year in Folk Customs from Historical Perspective], Winnipeg, Toronto Tracz, Orysia 2015, "First Star I See Tonight", Mazepa Publications Zhuravli, Winnipeg "Ukrainian Christmas Traditions", Ukrainian International Directory Voropai, Oleksa 1958, "Zvychai Nashoho Narodu" [Customs of Our People], Ukrainske Vydavnytstvo, Munich Yakovenko, Svitlana 2016, "Ukrainian Christmas Eve Supper: Traditional village recipes for Sviata Vecheria",