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1 décembre 2014

The Fashion Salon

The Fashion Salon was last weekend. Not usually the type of event I go for, but there are few enough events of any sort in Mayotte for me to try and go to the ones there are. On Saturday evening, there was the fashion show and competition. Every year,...

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Tags: mamoudzou, mayotte, clothes, dress, november, salon, dance, sing, fashion, chigoma

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16 juin 2014

Music

I've been playing quite a bit of music recently. On May 31st, I was roped in to play "film music", which was a new one for me. Mostly cartoon themes such as Some Day My Prince Will Come, Popeye or The Bare Necessities, but the odd tune from films such...

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Tags: food, school, blue, bretons, music, mango, concert, dance, folk, pancakes, film

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8 mai 2014

Salouva Deba

Most Mahorese women dress in a salouva, which is a big cotton tube knotted around the chest and which falls down to the feet. Underneath the salouva, they usually wear a sparkly t-shirt, or one with artistically cut-out pieces made to resemble flowers...

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Tags: mayotte, kishali, mbiwi, salouva, music, traditional, dance, sing, stick, deba, prophet, rhythm

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10 février 2014

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

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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4 février 2013

It's a hard knock life.

Last Sunday, the music group (as always oh-so-elegantly named The Blue Mango) and I went to a barbecue on the beach, organized by the Bretons of Mayotte. An excuse to get together as much as anything, go swimming, have some fun and have something to eat....

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Tags: banana, breadfruit, food, papaya, water, mabawas, beach, bretons, music, kebab, dance, mahorese

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10 décembre 2012

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

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

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

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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