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JUNE 27-JULY 1; JULY 4-8, 2018
LOG SHEET# 4
SMITHSONIAN FOLKLIFE FESTIVAL
AUDIO/VIDEO LOG SHEET
NAME: David Bosserman
RECORDER 1 NAME: DW 1
FILE NAME: 166.wav
RECORDER 2 NAME: DW 2
FILE NAME: [[strikethrough]] 7/8 [[/strikethrough]] 368.wav
PRESENTER: Ricard Vinas de Puig
DATE/TIME: 7/8
PROGRAM: Catalonia
STAGE: Dance Workshop (DW)
GROUP NAME: Alide Sans
SESSION TITLE: Occitan Songs with Alide Sans

[[2 columned table]]
| PARTICIPANTS | INSTRUMENT/OCCUPATION |
| --- | --- |
| ALide San | composes & sings in Occitan |
|from the Val d'Aran | Plays Guitar & |
|   | Accordion (Diatonic) |

• sound check - one of her songs
• Starts clapping - Audience follows/sings                    618
Occitan 3 villages in her Valley Val d'Aran  -  = 5K people
She likes Tradition but she does her own songs
Things That happened today - not from The past
Val D'Aran is a crossover point (pass)
Catalan/Occitan come from the same Roots & are Romance languages
Val d'Aran = the village of the Valley - Aran = valley in Bosque
• The song: a girl sees a river - the water is her play - 
•Q Why is it important to speak in Occitan
- It's the personal way I can express myself  we do?
• Q When did you learn Guitar? 12 years old  
• Accordion - long ago (she cries because this is her last performance & is leaving tomorrow)
A man living in our valley
Poor but Happy: ATLantic wind holds him 
To become a pirate - A Very Good one. He had everything
then the mountain wind arrives & he goes back To
being poor but happy. The story of Johnathan