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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 [[2 Columned Table]] |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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