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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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17 février 2014

Playing the violin on stage.

On the first day of February, the music school in Mamoudzou held its second classical concert. We'd managed to bring together quite the orchestra, with different - complementary - instruments, and different nationalities. One of the violinists was French,...

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Tags: mamoudzou, mayotte, music, recorder, concert, violin, church, classical, organ, piano, cello, trumpet, viola

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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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Tags: school, guitar, music, recorder, concert, classical, clarinet, organ, piano

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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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23 septembre 2013

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

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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4 mars 2013

Aria Sopra la Bergamasca

That was fun. I hadn't played in a "real" concert for ages. The sort of concert where you're in a church, everybody on stage is dressed in black and the atmosphere is very serious. You're not supposed to laugh, cough, say anything or even look anywhere...

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Tags: mamoudzou, mayotte, guitar, music, recorder, concert, violin, group, baroque, ensemble, singer, church, classical, fatima, nomad, notre dame

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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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