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13 avril 2015

Versailles and Vienna

You might vaguely remember these posters. The music school organized a concert at the beginning of February whose theme was "the Royal Celebrations of Versailles". It was such a success - the first classical concert of the year, so 250 people came - that...

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9 février 2015

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

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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9 décembre 2013

Notre Dame de Fatima

The last big classical concert we had in Mayotte was with the Nomad Baroque group who had come for a few days to play. They had invited the music school classical orchestra as well as several other musicians to play with them, including me. This time,...

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11 novembre 2013

Breton Rock

I've been playing quite a bit of music recently. You see, a group I'd never met and I were hired for a "Breton rock concert" at a bar. We were hired on Sunday. The concert was to be on the following Friday. The group was already formed, and I was supposed...

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Tags: mayotte, bretons, guitar, music, recorder, test, violin, group, keyboard, improvisation, bass, best, café, drums, rock, transposition

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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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