The brief
Marta Stepanenko is a Ukrainian-Canadian singer and live performer based in Ottawa. She sings in Ukrainian and English at festivals, concerts and cultural events. This is a family project of our founder, Maksym Stepanenko, and we built it the way we build a site for any performer.
Her recordings and performance videos were spread across phones and social posts. An organiser who heard her once at a festival had no single address with her songs, her past stages, a press kit and a way to book her. The brief was a site that does those four jobs, in English and Ukrainian, and that a festival programmer can read in two minutes.
One rule came first. Every fact on the site is either confirmed by the family or taken from a public source. A date or a venue that nobody could confirm stays off the page, and the photographs and videos are real ones from her stages.
What we built
The structure of an artist site
The site runs on Next.js. The menu has eight sections: Music, Live, Story, Videos, Press, EPK, Collabs and Book. The home page opens with her name and two buttons, to watch her live and to book her. Below come a short statement, a featured performance, her journey in five chapters from Kyiv through Germany to Ottawa, selected appearances, the music, the performance formats and a closing call to bring her to your stage.
The featured performance is her original song "What Is Ukraine?" sung live at Ukrainian Fest Lanark County in Carleton Place, Ontario, in 2025. The formats block names four kinds of booking: festivals, concerts and showcases, cultural events, and special performances.
Music, stages and videos
The Music page has ten tracks with a working audio player: her original song, live recordings and covers, each with its length. "What Is Ukraine?" has its own page with the story behind the song. The Live section has seven event pages, each with the event, the date and the place. The Videos page shows performance recordings with the context of each one.
Booking and press
The Book page takes requests for festivals, concerts, showcases, cultural events and collaborations. The EPK page gives organisers and journalists the press kit as a web page and as a PDF, and the Press and Collabs pages cover media and joint projects. A feedback button in the corner of every page lets the family send corrections straight from the page they are reading.
Languages and search
English and Ukrainian switch from the menu. The site describes the artist to search engines with PerformingGroup markup, and the sitemap lists 17 addresses: the main sections, the song page and the seven performance pages.
Where it stands today
On 8 November 2026 the site opens at martastepanenko.com, its own domain since 2 November 2026. The home page shows two performances from 2025: Ukrainian Fest Lanark County in Carleton Place and the closing performance of the Capital Ukrainian Festival in Ottawa. All eight sections answer, the player plays all ten tracks, and the footer credits Marketing MIX for development and promotion.
Related
The site: small business website design. Search: SEO. The festival where she sang "What Is Ukraine?": UAFest 2026 platform. Another family project: Anastasiia Stepanenko portfolio.
Project lead: Marketing MIX. Product: the artist site of Marta Stepanenko, a family project of our founder. Year: 2026.