Village St. Agnan Spring Festival (3/7) & minstrels explain instruments

Los Meneitriers De La Comba minstrels explain the workings & playing of the Hurdy-Gurdy & Chabrette Auvergnat Bellows Bagpipe. Los Meneitriers De La Comba, performing traditional music & dance, "is a young folk group whose goal is to share the customs of our ancestors, through dance, music and traditional songs of Périgord and elsewhere". -- Los Meneitriers De La Comba Blogspot. The groups' music, songs & dances, instruments & costumes, are drawn from the medieval-middle ages. Instruments include Hurdy-Gurdys, Chabrette Limousine Bagpipe, Chabrette Auvergnat Bellows Bagpipe, & Chromatic/Diatonic Accordions. The Périgord, which includes the Dordogne, is in the Aquitane region in southwest France. More info about the group & instruments is on the groups' blog, in French - to translate to English, use Google Toolbar Translate button, Google search "Results for: Meneitriers "'Translate this page'" or Yahoo! Babel Fish "Translate a web page":

Blog: http://los-meneitriers-de-la-comba.blogspot.com/
Group: http://los-meneitriers-de-la-comba.blogspot.com/2007/08/nos-petits-musiciens....
Hurdy-Gurdy: http://los-meneitriers-de-la-comba.blogspot.com/2007/09/la-vielle-roue.html
Cabrette: http://los-meneitriers-de-la-comba.blogspot.com/2007/09/la-cabrette.html
Chabrette: http://los-meneitriers-de-la-comba.blogspot.com/2007/09/la-chabrette.html
Photo, Group: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FKEv2NEugs0/RtbTSO3U_VI/AAAAAAAAAAU/hP8Dk---I0s/s16...
Photo, Instruments: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FKEv2NEugs0/RtbbgO3U_aI/AAAAAAAAAA8/1S3bBNVVoiw/s16...
Contact: http://los-meneitriers-de-la-comba.blogspot.com/2007/08/si-vous-voulez-nous-c...
Email: marie.saurin-barbarie@wanadoo.fr

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