My mother`s name is Minka and I would like to tell you a story about her. Over the last 35 years she has been teaching kindergarten kids and helped in raising hundreds of children in my hometown Nova Zagora. Every time we went to the Saturday market to buy groceries, we would come across at …
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Year 1987 I was spending the summer with my great grandparents. Picking apples from the trees behind their building and building forts with the neighborhood kids, were the two more common things I was involved with while visiting them during my summer vacations. Some of my favorite memories are collecting elderflower blossoms with my great …
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Have you heard of the Bulgarian village Boboraci? How about Dobromirka? If you have – please contact me ASAP, because, although my roots are from there, and I have spent my childhood summers in one or the other, I am yet to discover the folklore of these places and their occupants. I do not recall …
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I grew up in what you would call a “Traditional Bulgarian Family.” My father is an only child, so my brother and I, my parents and my grandparents all lived together in the same house – sharing meals every day, household chores and raising us growing up. My grandparents grew up in a small village …
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I never really liked folk music or dances. Growing up in communist Bulgaria, we automatically switched off the radio to a different station if folk music was on. At that time we felt that it was a part of the government “propaganda.” In addition, my family had no relatives in the countryside, so my village …
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Dear friends of the Bulgarian song; In Seattle, there is a choir called “Bulgarian Voices in Seattle”. It is inspired by an American woman’s boundless love for Bulgaria. The wonderful Mary Sherhart conducts a rehearsal every Wednesday for a group of Bulgarian women who are non-musically educated, but are women with musical hearts. During these …
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The Songs of Our Families is a unique project, very close to my heart. It is so special to me because it shines the spotlight on the songs of my mother, Penka Encheva. All of my grandparents and also my father have already passed away, so my mom is my only living connection with my …
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I was only nine years old when my family relocated from Bulgaria to Seattle, WA and I always felt that I didn’t have the opportunity to really experience our rich and unique folk culture or to spend much time with my grandparents and great-grandparents and to learn from them about our songs and our traditions. …
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4/17 To The Most Amazing Woman – My Mom 12/8 The Songs of Sakar by Katya Prodanova 11/7 Songs of Our Families Update by Mart Sherhart 7/29 The American Who Brought Me Back To My Roots by Blenika Manolova 7/24 Time Travel by Aglika Ivanova VanHorn 7/17 Boboraci and Dobromirka by Savina Uzunow 7/12 This …
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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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