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JUNE 27-JULY 1; JULY 4-8, 2018
LOG SHEET #6
SMITHSONIAN FOLKLIFE FESTIVAL 
AUDIO/VIDEO LOG SHEET
LOGGER NAME:
RECORDER 1 NAME: Hyurasenyak1
FILE NAME: 0101.wav
RECORDER 1 NAME: Hyurasenyak2
FILE NAME: 0424.wav
PRESENTER: Levon Abrahamian 
DATE/TIME: July 5, 2018 4:00 pm
PROGRAM:
STAGE: Hyurasenyak
GROUP NAME:
SESSION TITLE: Wedding and Celebration Dances

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|PARTICIPANTS | INSTRUMENT/OCCUPATION |
| --- | --- |
| Levon Abrahamian (presenter) |   |
| Mariam Hovhannisyan (bride) Stopan Toroyan (groom), Arsen Vardanijan (groom's man) |   |
| Varduhi Poghosyan (mother in law) Bogdan Hovhannisyan (Godfather) |   |
| Maral Shomahlian - Berberian embroidery | Gayane Shagoyan - presenter and author on Armenian wedding, has photos |
| Grace translating |   |

Levon introduces event. A bride and groom will leave Tree of Life with loud music and ( a secret: they really are recently married) He mentions a sceptor topped by an apple with coins pressed into it held by the groom's man. We are in the hyurasenyak (guest room) a plate will be on the threshhold. A competition between bride & groom as to who will break plate with foot since they will be ruler of house. Bride wears new and best dress. We have a mother-in-law (one of the bakers) and a father of the groom. We have globalized the Armenian wedding only recently. (B Seven days seven nights is his wife's book on the traditional armenian wedding. Customs previously were regional. Instruments: zurna and Copal a big drum.

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