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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: Dance workshop 1 
FILE NAME: 0162.wav
RECORDER 2 NAME: Dance workshop 2 
FILE NAME: 0364.wav
PRESENTER: Ricard Viñas de Puig 
DATE/TIME: 7/7/18 3pm
PROGRAM: Catalonia 
STAGE: Dance workshop
GROUP NAME: Occitan songs w/ Alidé Sans
SESSION TITLE: 

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| PARTICIPANTS | INSTRUMENT/OCCUPATION |
| --- | --- |
| Alidé Sans |   |

Catalan Pyrenees
Val d'Aran - Occitan - speaking 239 sq. miles means Aran Valley, the valley of the valley. Most part is uninhabited, 33 villages, 10,000 inhabitants. Biggest village = 50,000

1st song: lyrics boy & gf who will marry; hey cousin, I'm gonna marry, if you wanna dance come, if you wanna eat...don't come.
Where will they sleep? boy went to sleep after "our father" prayer, then gf went back to sleep w/ his cousin. He woke up thinking he was hugging his gf...instead it was his pillow!

She started composing music @ 15 years old...
Spanish, Catalan & Occitan = 3 official languages. But of all the occitan speaking regions considered in only Catalonia, even though geographically smallest of Occitan regions. Started in France, largest Occitan territory.
garona river flows into Bordeaux - 4 diff countries - France (Occitania), Piemonte Italy, Monaco. but not recognized as offical lang only Catalonia.
Speak Occitan
There are 6 dialects of Occitan.

There is a dialect from gascon = Val d'Aran Aranese