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9 février 2015

Still playing.

Still playing.
On January 24th, we had our Annual Fest-Noz. With capital letters. It's a huge and terrifyingly-organized evening centred around Breton music and dancing, it needs so much work put into it that there is only one per year (compared to several per week...
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Tags: mayotte,  accordion,  bretons,  guitar,  music,  recorder,  concert,  sing,  violin,  church,  rehearsal,  clarinet,  organ,  piano,  cello,  viola,  charlie,  hebdo,  fest-noz,  saxophone
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10 février 2014

Dancing Nyota

Dancing Nyota
There's been a folk-dancing workshop for the last few years here. It started the year I arrived in Mayotte, and was under the name of the Bretons de Mayotte association. Now, it's led by a man who has lived all over France, travelled all over Africa,...
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Tags: france,  mayotte,  accordion,  bretons,  guitar,  music,  recorder,  traditional,  dance,  french,  folk,  violin,  musician
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28 octobre 2013

Wedding Dances

Wedding Dances
Last Saturday, something rather exceptional happened. The Blue Mango, my music group, is followed around by the Dancing Lizards, who are a group of folk dancers who come to all our concerts to dance. One of these dancers is a Comorian lad called Halidi,...
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Tags: mayotte,  food,  rice,  blue,  accordion,  guitar,  music,  mango,  pilao,  flowers,  dance,  wedding,  violin,  jasmine,  bride,  groom,  meat,  necklace,  salad,  samoussa
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23 septembre 2013

National Horse Day.

National Horse Day.
Yesterday was National Horse Day. No, I hadn't heard of it before either. The one and only horse-riding club in Mayotte had put balloons up everywhere and was having a field day, showing off its good pupils and taking kids for rides on small ponies. It's...
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Tags: blue,  accordion,  guitar,  music,  recorder,  mango,  lunch,  children,  horse,  lagon,  national horse day,  pony,  équitation
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22 juillet 2013

The Blue Mango Strikes Again

The Blue Mango Strikes Again
On Friday, the musicians had a party at one musician's house including all musicians and dancers. I think everyone had a good time, there was certainly a lot of dancing going on. On Saturday, we planted ourselves in the middle of the monthly farmer's...
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Tags: mayotte,  beach,  blue,  accordion,  flute,  guitar,  music,  recorder,  mango,  violin,  sakouli,  rehearsal
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10 décembre 2012

Mont Combani

Mont Combani
The day P left, we had a concert planned in the evening at the Gîte du Mont Combani. We were all rather shattered, as we'd all had fairly long days, but we got together in the late afternoon and went up to the gîte together. It's quite a trek, even in...
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Tags: blue,  accordion,  music,  recorder,  mango,  mont,  combani,  dance,  play,  violin,  gite,  group
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3 décembre 2012

Saying Goodbye to Philippe

Saying Goodbye to Philippe
Before P left, we had a party with the music group and the dancers to say goodbye. Every two weeks, the main dancer holds a dance workshop at his home, where anyone who so wishes can turn up and learn a few traditional dancers. Usually, a couple of musicians...
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Tags: mayotte,  food,  accordion,  music,  recorder,  philip,  dance,  violin,  percussion,  bamboo,  mahorese,  seed,  wine
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12 novembre 2012

Dancing on Tanaraki

Dancing on Tanaraki
The friends we had over during the holidays were a girl my age and her mother, both of whom we'd met while doing a musical exchange between our Poitiers folk group and theirs, near the Puy du Fou in the Vendée region. So to keep them busy, we decided...
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Tags: beach,  accordion,  music,  recorder,  friend,  dance,  violin,  percussion,  tanaraki
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15 octobre 2012

The Second Annual Folk Ball

The Second Annual Folk Ball
We held our Second Annual Folk Ball in Mamoudzou at the end of September. Good fun, and much better organized than the first time. The first time we tried to do this, there were three different groups : Philippe and I, called "Philem", the group I showed...
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Tags: mamoudzou,  mayotte,  accordion,  bretons,  guitar,  music,  recorder,  mgombani,  dance,  ball,  cider,  folk,  mjc,  pancakes,  violin
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30 janvier 2012

All Golfed Out

All Golfed Out
Last Sunday, P and I were invited to a "Grand Golf Initiation" organized by my new friends the Bretons of Mayotte. As P likes golf, and as I don't, we were asked to bring our instruments and at least play those. We ended up playing both golf and music....
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Tags: mayotte,  emily,  accordion,  bretons,  guitar,  music,  recorder,  sun,  combani,  golf,  initiation,  instruments,  philip,  ylang
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