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As we all surely know the NFE is live now. I don't have much to say about it at this juncture yet except A) my gift is fabulous!; B) TWO Star Wars crossovers?!



Somehow, what I wanted to share instead, in that late-evening manner this blog suffers from, is this:

I have memories of a song playing on the PA system in my hometown in my childhood.

I don't remember the song.
I remember how it was sunny, and how that song somehow slotted into the atmosphere.

And I know it was not this song - it cannot have been simply because it's recent - but at the same time, it is that song. Somehow.

It's my father's favourite band. (As in, he went to see them live, in Latvia, favourite.) He listened to it a lot this spring, when we were cooped up together in lockdown, and it was sunny outside.

There was a meme a friend shared on Facebook recently - about the songs we listened to on repeat when we thought our world was ending.

This isn't the song I listened to when I thought my world was ending. This is the song reminding me that it isn't.



Which is why I wanted to share it with you.
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Summer weather + standing around for over five hours = tiiiiired.
Summer weather + walking around Prague + dancing = fun, let's go see more of Prague! (The impression my sister gives of her Latvians.)

I'll post more when I sort through the photos. They very kindly posed for me for photos of all the female costumes, plus of course I took lots of other photos of other ensembles as well. (I love Latvian folk costumes. And folk costumes from the general Baltic area. Compared to costumes from areas like France, you can really see how they would have been made at home.)

I don't have any videos, because my camera tends to turn itself off after less than a minute when I take videos...

So an old one. This song's very popular with Latvian folklore dance ensembles; the lyrics are traditional, the melody and arrangement are by the Latvian music group Iļģi.



Heh. Really, really popular.



(That's from Dzeismu svétki, the Festival of Songs, a tradition since the 1870s. I guess this goes a long way towards explaining why this particular choreography seems so widespread.)

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