Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio
Showcasing Ukrainian culture in English & Ukrainian
Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio is a bilingual variety show featuring the best in contemporary and traditional Ukrainian music.
Broadcasting in Vancouver and Nanaimo, BC on AM & FM, and online in London, England.
In 2025, Nash Holos celebrates the 35th anniversary of its inception, and 25 consecutive years airing on AM1320 CHMB Vancouver.
Who Is Nash Holos?
Host Paulette “Pawlina” Demchuk MacQuarrie has been with the show since its first broadcast in 1990 on AM1470 CJVB Vancouver. Since 2000 she has been the producer and host of the show on AM1320 CHMB Vancouver and on CHLY 101.7FM in Nanaimo since 2011.
Oksana Poberezhnyk joined Nash Holos in 2016 as co-host of the Nanaimo Edition. She is currently on hiatus but occasionally returns to co-host the show.
Myra Junyk has been providing the book reviews on Knyzhka Corner for many years. She continues to read and review books on Ukrainian topics published in English.
David of New York, NY joins the show from time to time on the “Reader Reaction” feature to discuss books reviewed on the Knyzhka Corner that he has read and enjoyed. He has also been a regular Patreon supporter of the show for many years.
Sylvia Molnar, who passed away in 2015, contributed over 200 Ukrainian Food Flair features dating back to 1995 until she retired in 2013. Her recipes have been compiled and published in the cookbook that bears the same name, and her voice lives on over the airwaves on Nash Holos broadcasts.
Broadcast Details
Vancouver Edition
Saturdays
6-7 pm PST
AM1320 CHMB Vancouver
Nanaimo Edition
Wednesdays
11am –12 pm PST
CHLY 101.7fm Radio Malaspina
Showcasing the best in Ukrainian and Ukrainian Canadian culture & folklore!
- Interviews with authors, artists, musicians, and other interesting people
- Ukrainian Food Flair (Cookbook available here.)
- Knyzhka Corner Book Reviews
- Ukrainian Jewish Heritage
- Other items of interest from the Nash Holos Audio Archives
- Great Ukrainian music by artists from Ukraine, Canada, the U.S. and around the world!
Check out our YouTube channel for interviews hosted by Anton Lysenko.
Note: Due to changes at our podcast hosting platform, the RSS podcast feed will be limited to the spoken word segments airing on Nash Holos.
Full episodes of the show are now available on MixCloud here.
Ukrainian Food Flair
The long-awaited cookbook featuring the late Sylvia Molnar’s collection of recipes which aired on Nash Holos for many years is now available on Amazon, in paperback and Kindle e-book.
Support Nash Holos
If you enjoy Nash Holos, please support our work at our Patreon site. A one-time donation or monthly pledge lets us know that you value our work and encourages us to keep going. Details are here.
Support Ukrainian Civilians and Defenders
Ukraine War Amps is a Toronto-based volunteer-run non-profit provides practical assistance to wounded Ukrainian veterans and their families, the families of the fallen, and civilian defenders of Ukraine with financial aid for food, medications, rehab, and other needs, as well as personal outreach for moral and emotional support to ease symptoms of PTSD (depression, despair, loneliness, hopelessness). Today they are providing direct help to civilian defenders as well as Ukrainian Army soldiers with tactical gear, and basic necessities for them and their families.
Vancouver-based Maple Hope Foundation does extensive fundraising to provide civilians and defenders on the ground in Ukraine with food, water, shelter and other basic necessities, and transport to safety. It also sponsors cultural activities and local initiatives that promote awareness of Ukraine and Ukrainian culture.
HART (Humanitarian Aid Response Team) is a Calgary-based non-profit established in 1996 to effect change by assisting relief agencies working in Ukraine with resurging church communities. Since then HART has built a network of volunteers helping local churches to become self-sufficient community hubs. Today HART’s focus is on providing physical and spiritual support to endangered parishioners, volunteers and children in orphanages HART has established and been supporting in Ukraine.
Caveat:
It is wise to exercise extreme caution and due diligence in the case of any large, prominent charity or non-profit that does not have a history of actively supporting Ukraine for the past several years. (Credible reports are emerging from aid workers in the war zone that e.g., the International Red Cross has NOT been aiding Ukrainians in danger.)
To avoid the risk of your hard-earned money being misdirected due to bureaucratic bungling and/or corporate corruption, you may want to consider donating to organizations (such as these listed) that have a history of helping Ukraine since the first invasion by Russia in 2014, and even earlier.