The first half of the concert features Bulgarian Voices of Seattle Women’s Choir and friends presenting songs they learned from family and friends, beloved songs and folklore enactments in the culmination of the Songs of Our Families Bulgarian Heritage Project. We are thrilled to include Michael Lawson (accordion) and David Bilides (tambura, kaval) in this …
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It’s been a while since our last Songs of Our Families blog post so thought I’d write a quick note to tell you what the choir has been up to. Bulgarian Voices of Seattle’s 2013-14 season got off to a great start on September 25th with three new singers and many former members so we …
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Click to Contribute or See a Preview Bulgarian Voices of Seattle Women’s Choir launches the Songs of Our Families Bulgarian Heritage Project for their 2013-14 season. The Project includes four main components. DIGITAL SCRAPBOOK Each Bulgarian Voices singer will explore with her family songs they remember and the memories attached to those songs. She will …
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Click to see a preview Bulgarian Voices of Seattle Women’s choir devoted its 2013-14 season to the Songs of Our Families Bulgarian Heritage Project. The project included four main components. FAMILY RESEARCH Many of the choir members explored with their families what songs they remember and the memories attached to those songs. Equally important as …
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When I came back from Bulgaria this summer, I brought a little treasure with me – a recording of folk songs from the region where my family is from – the beautiful Sakar mountain. My aunt sang two songs for me, and I was able to record them and include the them in our project …
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My son Daniel was born in Kirkland, Washington in the summer of 2012. When I first found out that I was pregnant, we had just plunged into this new venture called Bulgarian Voices of Seattle. Week by week, a season of singing went by leaving behind many fun events and memories with the ladies I …
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this baba Link to the trailer This Baba is a 30-minute documentary, a universal story of grandmothers from every country across the globe who are divided between here and there, isolated by a lack of English, stuck in suburbs, missing their friends and loved ones back home. This Baba – Penka Encheva – had dreams of becoming …
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Time flies. Unbelievably fast! When I think about it, it has been a whole year since Mary Sherhart had the wonderful idea about the project “Songs of Our Families.” A lot of good things happened during the last 12 months that were connected with this project. A lot of songs were sung. I still remember …
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