music

6 juillet 2015

La Mangue Bleue

The Blue Mango now has t-shirts.

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Tags: mayotte, t-shirt, blue, music, mango, traditional

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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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Tags: school, guitar, music, recorder, concert, play, violin, church, piano, cello, viola, university, valse, versailles, video, vienna, waltz

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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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21 juillet 2014

The Blue Mango Strikes Again

Last week, we had a going-away party for two members of the Blue Mango... party during which we learned that a third member was also leaving next month, so we had another going-away party on Friday, where we actually convinced the restaurant owner to...

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Tags: food, blue, music, mango, brochetti, restaurant, musician, landfill, ma brochetti, party

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16 juin 2014

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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5 mai 2014

Carnival Week-End II : A Colourful Parade

The carnival in commemoration of Slavery Abolition Day continued on the Sunday as well. First of all, I wanted to show you the diversity of musical instruments. In case you're wondering, the most prized instrument here is an old washing-machine drum....

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Tags: mamoudzou, mayotte, music, friend, instruments, hat, make-up, parade, week, washing-machine, abolition, carnival, slavery, accessory, costume, headscarf, oven, tray

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