Pictures from Mendocino Camp 2003

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Greenlake Folk Dancers a herd of tupan players the beginner tupan players and friends Ivan Milov with the tupan players. Ivan has been inspired by the tupan players! Exciting !
Laurel's clarinet class A special close up for Laurel and her mom. Intermediate Bulgarian Singing Intermediate Bulgarian Singing Beginning Balkan Singing. Let by Ruth. Laurel, you're in this one.
Beginning Balkan Singing. Laurel and Bette contributing. Beginning Tambura. Laurel and Ginger are into it! More Beginning Tambura. Intermediate Tambura. Yes, that would be a bass guitar adding to the excitement! Izvorno Ensemble.
Sorry about all the dots in the picture. Check out Mark Levy on gajda! Go Mark, go! Sorry about the picture quality. Vassil getting the Bitov Ensemble ready to roll. The best bitov group in the world ! That's Tzvetanka in the black and white striped shirt next to the bass player. It doesn't get much better than this! You folks can blow me away with your gajda's any time! Nancy McGill is keeping track of the other tupan player.
The gudulka players were very into it! Bette, taking her turn on the mic with the Brass Band and Romani Singing class ensemble. A better picture of Bette. They were all having a great time performing. You had to be there for this picture to mean much to you. Niki, the tambura class teacher, is on lead guitar. Ok. Some description. Ivan is starting to get into it. Extrodinary singing happened at those blue mics.

Still pictures give you a sense of the surroundings and a record of some of the people who were there.  There were so many wonderful moments.  Getting to know the instructors.  Getting to that level in the class studies, where suddenly it all changes and you are on a new level that you didn't know existed.  The final performance where it all comes together - or comes undone (and you know you'll nail it next year).  The dash for the strawberries dipped in chocolate, and all that's left are the fumes.  The dash for desert between sets (didn't want to miss a thing), and you score a brownie.  To shut out the rest of the world and be present in the moment - a wonderful thing.  Through words, music and pictures, we distribute what we learned about ourselves and others.

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