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libana.com At the end of the final night of the 5-day 2008 International Folklore Festival in Bourgas, Bulgaria (where Libana was representing the USA), the audience joined with all the performers at the Festival in a closing celebratory and participatory Bulgarian dance medley. There was such an electric, ecstatic feeling in the air! Watch and you will eventually see all members of Libana danc...

LIBANA: global music, connecting cultures Learn more about Libana at www.libana.com/ Libana sings this Civil Rights Movement anthem to end their performance as the first US group to perform at this World Music Festival in Morocco and receives the second of their two standing ovations for the evening!

LIBANA: global music, connecting cultures Learn more about Libana at www.libana.com/ A performance of a healing ritual dance, versions of which are done all over North Africa. The version we learned is rooted in Egyptian tradition, and is preceeded in performance by 3 popular Middle Eastern rhythms maksoum, beladi, and sayedi, followed by Ayub and the Zar. Recording of the music for the Zar: ww...

Recorded by LIBANA on their CD Instrument of Peace. Music by Skye Sanford. * Learn about Libana at www.libana.com/ * Like us on Facebook: Libanamusic * Buy Instrument of Peace CD: www.libana.com/new_cd_instrume... * All Libana CDs available on www.cdbaby.com/cd/libana7 or on itunes All images photographed by Libana members and extended family on their 2011 tour to Delhi, Rajasthan,...

Recorded by LIBANA on their CD Instrument of Peace. Music by Sophia. * Learn about Libana at www.libana.com/ * Buy Instrument of Peace CD: www.libana.com/new_cd_instrument_of_peace/ * All Libana CDs available on www.cdbaby.com/cd/libana7 or on itunes All images photographed by Libana members and extended family on their travels in Morocco, India (Delhi, Rajasthan, Gujarat, and Dharamsala) and B...

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LIBANA: global music, connecting cultures Learn more about Libana at www.libana.com/ Two songs by Luzmila Carpio, Bolivia's musical ambassador, with charangos, guitar, panpipes, bombo, and chaichas (goat toenails!). Sung in Quechua, the language of the indigenous Andean people of the same name (descendents of the Incas who live in the Altiplano), the first song implores the rain to stop (the ch...

LIBANA: global music, connecting cultures Learn more about Libana at www.libana.com/ Based on traditional rhythms, melodies, and dance of the Algerian Berbers, Amel Tafsout's song and dance honors Al Kahina (al-Kāhina in Arabic, meaning female seer), a beloved 7th Century North African Berber queen and priestess who, as a religious and military leader, led indigenous resistance to Arab expansio...

LIBANA: global music, connecting cultures Learn about Libana at www.libana.com/ Libana's friend Deborah Langstaff wrote this beautiful three part setting of an inspiring poem by Mary Austin, a 19th century poet from California who loved her surrounding desert landscape and the Native Americans who lived there. Much of her writing was inspired by nature or Native American life, and she was activ...

LIBANA: global music, connecting cultures Learn more about Libana at www.libana.com/ * Recorded on Libana's CDs Night Passage (www.cdbaby.com/cd/libana5) and Libana's CD Out of This World www.cdbaby.com/cd/libana6 This three-part chant was written by New York State composer Karen Beth (www.hvmusic.com/artists/karenbeth/ ). The new moon is a time of initiation and spiritual vision, and this song...

LIBANA: global music, connecting cultures Learn more about Libana at www.libana.com/ Libana performed this traditional Gujarati stick dance (as well as its companion Garba dance) throughout our February 2011 tour of North India. Originating as devotional Garba dances (which were always performed honoring the Hindu Goddess Durga during the festival of Navaratri), the Raas is a mock-fight in danc...

LIBANA: global music, connecting cultures Learn more about Libana at www.libana.com/ Libana sang this well-known Japanese children's round about fireflies at a very special concert during our February 2011 tour of North India. We had the opportunity to sing for the Tibetan refugee children at their school (www.tcv.org.in/utcv.shtml) when we were in Dharamsala, home to a large community of Tibet...

LIBANA: global music, connecting cultures Learn more about Libana at www.libana.com/ During a February 2011 tour of North India, Libana performed for an audience of 1000 Gujarati students at C.N. Vidyalaya School (cnvidyavihar.org/vidyalay.htm) founded on Gandhi's ideology). We danced the Garba (a traditional Gujarati dance), to their astonishment and glee. The beginning of spring and fall are ...

LIBANA: global music, connecting cultures Learn more about Libana at www.libana.com/ During a February 2011 tour of North India, Libana had the honor to visit the Ahmedabad based organization SEWA (Self-Employed Women's Association: www.sewa.org/) and experience some of their amazing programs. Towards the end of our time together, a celebration Garba dance was held for the SEWA organizers/emplo...

Beleil (Bedouin Arab) performed by Libana w/Jordanians at Barefoot College (Rajasthan, India) 2011

Mowtay (Navajo) performed by Libana w/ students at C.N. Vidyalaya School (Gujarat, India) 2011

Fihel Asirem (Berber) performed by Libana at Tibetan Children's Village (Dharamsala, India) 2011