I am writing because reconnected with a friend from my school days and we would put on a carpathian rusynyk show under the direction of jerry jumba at the Byz. Catholic grade school I attended.

my friend Sang a solo about finding a boyfriend with a black mustache. We were tring to find this tune do you know of this folk song

thank you

rob

I am researcher / documentary film maker from Desert of Rajasthan, India. I done hundreds hours of recording of Rajasthan Artists performances. I work five year for cultural institute of desert artists of Rajasthan. Due to local person of desert area and field recording I have good contacts and relation with Desert Folk Artists. As I work with them I know the core of their dance and music. Now I am organizing the dance group of Desert Artists of Rajasthan to other countries.

The Rajasthan Desert is India’s rich and ancient source of folk music and dance. In Rajasthan the traditional art forms are still strongly upheld and a new generation of young artists is now emerging. The society of Rajasthan, although caste orientated, has a vast treasure of folk arts including, in particular, music based on the system of “Jajmani” which binds patrons and musician families together for generations. The relationship between patron and musician can be traced back at least five hundred years. Music and dance is an integral part of the rich pattern of village traditions, which have developed over the centuries the long desert nights.

I got your mail and website address on Google search. I had gone through your website. I like the idea of world culture through sharing customs and traditions in the arts of dance and music. As I told you before I work with desert artists and I gained lot of experience and knowledge of desert artists belong from western zone of Rajasthan. I like to inter duce some dances from Rajasthan. For example – Kalbelia (Snake Dancer) are nomadic people, Teratali (Devotional dancer), Chakari dance by Kanjer women, Thali dance by Bhopa, Bhawai and Ghoomar dance are royal dance form of Rajasthan etc. They are other dance form also but these are famous folk dances of Rajasthan, India.

I like to know can it possible that your organization invite our group of desert artists to perform at your place or in cultural festival. If yes then I would like to know how it can be done and what provisions are there. Our Folk Artist visited to many countries for performance and people like their dance and music. Hope they also get chance to show their skill in dance to your place.

If you want some more details about the dance forms or have some question please ask freely.

Me and my Artist are waiting for your reply.
Warm Regards.

Praveen Singh Rathore
Folk Dance and Music Organizer
(Specialty on folk artists of Rajasthan)
India
Mobil No – +91-9352775377
Email Address – Desert_Rock077@yahoo.com

I am a music researcher based in London, UK. I am trying to find out some information about the Slovak folk song Tancuj, tancuj! (Dance, dance!)

I am trying to find out the origins of the song or simply who wrote this song? Is this a very old traditional Slovak song?

I’m not sure if I am contacting the right people or not but any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Mark Kirby