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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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2 août 2012

M'biwi Contest II : been there, done that, the t-shirt didn't fit.

Thought you might be interested in seeing what the m'biwi contest was actually like. Quite impressive actually. M'biwi contest

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Tags: mamoudzou, mayotte, girl, mbiwi, music, dance, contest

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12 juillet 2012

A few days later...

The men's dance, chigoma, followed a few days later. Naturally enough, being a Mahorese event, it started an hour late, but it was interesting. To dance chigoma, you stand in single file and shuffle forward, first one foot, left, forward, then the other,...

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Tags: music, dance, men, chigoma, washing-machine

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25 juin 2012

Drama Queens

The end of the school year was on Friday, June 22nd, at twelve o'clock. For a while, a French teacher called Salima and I had been preparing a short drama show with the same class, each of us blithely unknowing of what the other was doing. It was one...

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Tags: girl, school, teacher, boy, english, music, traditional, dance, french, play, pregnant

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14 mai 2012

Voulé on Sohoa Beach

We went to a barbecue on the beach the other day. These are extremely common here, there are always groups of people cooking things on any beach you go to. Traditional barbecue food here is chicken wings and green bananas, which are either cooked in the...

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Tags: mayotte, scooter, beach, music, barbecue, mahorais, leaves, voulé, carry

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7 mai 2012

Music in Mayotte

We've been to a few concerts recently, to find out what the local music is like. First of all came Rossy, whose poster attracted P because of the accordion. Arrived at the concert a quarter of an hour before it was supposed to start, which seemed reasonable...

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Tags: mayotte, music, mahorais, friend, instruments, concert, cordes avides, del, diho, jazz, maalesh, rossy, traditional

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