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5. Goat Song
Region hear Lake Van/ Collected  by Hayrig Mouradian 
Song about 5 goats/visiting Uncle Minas

6. Market Place/ village gossip song
Village of Mokks
apricot/ peach wood house building after seeing lover
walking with someone else in the Market Place

7. Doni yar?
Song celebrating 'shared earth'/ "what's behind my house
is what's behind your house." Talk about neighborhood
Community in America & Armenia
Audience Participation

Dance teaching
8. Tam Zara
Song in 918, with clapping on beats 7,8
Discussion/ Questions 

? How did you come together/ start singing professionally
childhood experiences of music shared.

? Most Armenian folk was NOT sung acapella

1st song together was called  Bingyol?

? Have other groups followed suit? Not acapella, but reviving traditions
? Questions about arrangement/ harmonizing

Story about harmonizing with komitas in someone's 
basement to a record

Talk about arranging process

? How did Armenian genocide suppress folk music.
Collecting by komitas
2nd collector -Hayrig Mouradian
Komitas as archivist/ folklorist of culture

? How did Soviet rule supressfolk music?
-Explanation of impact; border change, 
infusion of nationalism

? Next work?                       composer:
Metropolitan Museum/ sound of stone

9. Last song; Vache Sharafyan
About fertility: collecting egg, [[?]]