Song with bagpipes

I happened to be really excited whenever I had to be able to attend the concert of great Bulgarian folk singer Valya Balkanska which went to Toronto in March 2011. She performed at the Macedono-Bulgarian Easthern Orthodox church "St. St. Cyril and Methody" (237 Sackville str.) for Bulgaria's nationwide time (here is a photo through the concert). The track "Izlel je Delyo Hajdutin" („Излел е Дельо хайдутин”) in her popular performance had been contained in the Voyager Golden Record, a diverse collection of Earth music established in area in 1977.

Her singing was accompanied by gajda player Petar Yanev. Gaida (гайда - bagpipe made of sheepskin or goatskin) is a traditional drum in Bulgaria, in addition to numerous countries in European countries, North Africa while the Middle East (the Scottish pagpipe being the absolute most wel understood in the Western world). When you add a lady vocals on gaida - the result is powerful!

Hear the through the Central Rhodope mountains, sung many famously by Valya Balkanska (Валя Балканска) and included in the Voyager Golden Record. The hero inside song, Delyo, ended up being a Bulgarian rebel leader from the mountains in belated 1700s as soon as the area ended up being under the Ottoman empire. You'll catch a glimpse of majestic Rhodope mountains within the video for the tune below.

The gaida when you look at the overall performance is "kaba gaida" (каба гайда) - its a more impressive bagpipe and it has a lower-pitched somewhat "haunting" unique noise. It comes down from Rhodope mountains in Southern Bulgaria at border with Greece. The Rhodopes are considered become the birthplace for the ancient poet and musician Orpheus from the Greek mythology.

Rhodopean songs are sluggish, sexy, the original female sounds holding within the vast distances regarding the mountain. Here is the same track "Izlel je Delyo Hajdutin" since it had been performed beautifully again by a new lady named Nevena. She was the winner associated with the first period of the "Bulgarian Music Idol" version in 2007.

The neighborhood mountain individuals ("rodopchani") choose to say that the kaba gajda speaks through the heart for the mountains. Every four many years at the end of August the green meadows of Rozhen (a location inside Rhodope montains) come to life with folk performing, dance, gajda performances and thousands of people collecting throughout the (Rozhenski Sabor). Over a century ago, whenever Rozhenski Sabor (Роженски събор) was held in 1898, the border involving the newly separate Bulgaria as well as the Ottoman Empire ran through same location, and Bulgarians from neighbouring villages on both edges of edge would get together to connect through their tracks and gajdi.

I went to the Rozhen folk fair in 2000 - we camped for two nights beneath the summer time performers. Our minds were deeply moved by the beauty of those mountains, its open-hearted folks and their music born by crisis and rich spiritual life in the ethnically diverse Rhodopes. Next gathering in the Роженски събор should be this impending summer time of 2011. If you get near those lands, choose the Rozhen meadows. The noise of gajdi will show you the way in which...

Let me reveal an archival recording through the 1969 gathering at Rozhen people fair - it is possible to hear the popular "100 kaba gajdi" orchestra, when the best gajda guys from the entire area gather each and every time for the people fair to play together in an overall performance that is the expression of Rozhen.