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June 27-July 1; July 4-8, 2018  
Log Sheet #4
Smithsonian Folklife Festival 
Audio / Video Log Sheet
Logger Name: Alison Karfeld
Recorder 1 Name:
File Name: .wav
Recorder 2 Name:
File Name: .wav 
Presenter:
Date / Time: 6/29 @ 3:00pm
Program: Catalonia
Stage: Plaça Major
Group Name: Alidé Sans
Session Title: Occitan Songs with Alidé Sans

[[2 Columned Table]]
| Participants | Instrument / Occupation |
| --- | --- |
| Alidé Sans | Vocals, songwriter |

*Occitan language = all her songs sung in this language, spoken in a little valley in Catalonia (Vall d'Aran = Valley of Valley)

* → how many things could we learn to do/observe? if we listened to nature

< song contribution to March for Science in NYC
song about 

Song Synopsis:
* - Joanothon was a man from her town, not rich but he was happy; one night the Atlantic wind arrives and makes him crazy; he decides to become a pirate - has all the riches in the world, then the wind of the mountains arrived, he became himself again and didn't need all this; all he wanted was to go back home

*Occitan "Who Is It?" "It's me" intro to song, language mini lesson with audience 
"sop Ju"
Participation
Occitania
*National anthem talks about Mountains; Occitania not considered a sovereign nation, only discussed in linguistics terms. Played on diatronic accordion. This version is her cover.