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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