Babushki to be part at some of the festivals organized by Makfolk Association for 2012

Everybody know for MATRYOSHKA, a set of wooden dolls of decreasing size placed one inside the other.

But what did you know about Buranovskiye Babushki before Eurovision Song Contest 2012 ?!? 

Matryoshka dolls

According to Wikipedia , Buranovskiye Babushki is band consists of eight "grandmothers", but only six were allowed to appear on the Eurovision stage due to contest rules. They are from the village of Buranovo, Udmurtia, halfway between the Volga and the Urals in Russia. The band performs most of their songs in the Udmurt language.

Matryoshka dolls in real-life

The Grannies [Babushki stands for grannies in Russian] is consists of eight grandmothers, eldest member of the group is 76 years old, 77 in the autumn. According to the BBC, the Buranovskiye Babushki have had success in the past with Udmurtian-language covers of Western hits such as Yesterday by the Beatles, or the Eagles' Hotel California. In 2010, they came close to winning the Eurovision nomination with their song "Long, long birch bark and how to make a hat of it." But in 2012 they succeeded.

Their song, reportedly penned by the grannies themselves, is called "Party for Everybody."
It begins folkily enough, in their native language of Udmurtian, before breaking into a Eurodisco-style chorus with the lyrics, in English: "Come on and dance, / Come on and dance, / Come on and dance, / Come on and boom boom." It's weirdly hypnotic by the 12th time round. Oh, and at one point it features a sort of spoken rap freestyle.

They're no wannabe starlets, though. The group's aim is to raise enough money from their performances to build a new church in Buranovo.

But this is not the end of the story  for Babushki...they were "robbed" just before their performance.

German journalists had asked the grandmothers about their national costumes and asked them to show their stage shoes. The grandmas took the shoes out of the bag, but, before the Germans could look at them, the elderly women were asked to sit in the sit in the bus, forgetting about the shoes. The Germans, on the other hand, thought the grandmothers had given the shoes to them as a gift. Learning about the loss of the Russian grandmas’ stage shoes, however, the Germans returned them.
But the grandmas decided not to be rude to the Germans, since one of their husband had made reserve shoes for the grandmothers.

They are enjoyable and if you meet them in meantime...feel free to ask Babushki  to be part at some of the festivals organized by  Makfolk Association for 2012.  If they are booked for 2012...try for 2013 :)