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marnen and I went to the wedding of a couple that we know through playing with Karpathos. Kazuki is Japanese, and a wonderful dumbek player (she's the one who plays with Karpathos at times). Seido, her fiance, is a Macedonian gypsy who is also a dumbek playe/drummer.
The wedding was at an orchard up it Statsburg. To find out later, the owners are into international dance and had met the couple through that community.
The wedding had a beautiful mix of Japanese and Macedonian/gypsy traditions. The music was mostly live with some DJed stuff. The live music was with two bands- one of them was a Balkan brass band (which had a couple of tupan players who I got a quick chance to talk to) and another band (Macedonian?) with an INCREDIBLE clarinet player.
There was food. There was light snack type stuff (mainly Greek/Middle Eastern) until after sunset (considering a significant portion of Seido's family is Muslim and it's Ramadan).
It did get cold as the night wore on. I changed out of my cut velvet dress (with my purple leather jacket) and put on jeans, a turtleneck, a sweater, and a vest.. They also set up a bonfire. Paul, Marnen, and I ended up playing around the fire (sometimes with a guy playing dumbek- not sure who he was). Also, at one point, the brass band started back up and Marnen and I ended up playing with them.
We got home really late.
Sunday there was an event at the Fortunoff for couples, called the Wedding Survival Challenge. Marnen and I went. More details over in thesunmoon_wed journal soon. But the highlight is that we won a really nice Krups coffee maker. We might have one another contest, but the results haven't posted yet for them.
marnen and I went to the wedding of a couple that we know through playing with Karpathos. Kazuki is Japanese, and a wonderful dumbek player (she's the one who plays with Karpathos at times). Seido, her fiance, is a Macedonian gypsy who is also a dumbek playe/drummer.The wedding was at an orchard up it Statsburg. To find out later, the owners are into international dance and had met the couple through that community.
The wedding had a beautiful mix of Japanese and Macedonian/gypsy traditions. The music was mostly live with some DJed stuff. The live music was with two bands- one of them was a Balkan brass band (which had a couple of tupan players who I got a quick chance to talk to) and another band (Macedonian?) with an INCREDIBLE clarinet player.
There was food. There was light snack type stuff (mainly Greek/Middle Eastern) until after sunset (considering a significant portion of Seido's family is Muslim and it's Ramadan).
It did get cold as the night wore on. I changed out of my cut velvet dress (with my purple leather jacket) and put on jeans, a turtleneck, a sweater, and a vest.. They also set up a bonfire. Paul, Marnen, and I ended up playing around the fire (sometimes with a guy playing dumbek- not sure who he was). Also, at one point, the brass band started back up and Marnen and I ended up playing with them.
We got home really late.
Sunday there was an event at the Fortunoff for couples, called the Wedding Survival Challenge. Marnen and I went. More details over in the
sunmoon_wed journal soon. But the highlight is that we won a really nice Krups coffee maker. We might have one another contest, but the results haven't posted yet for them.
