Trip to the town of Kesab in Syria (with song!)

This was in October 2008. Although my grandmother emigrated from Kesab to the U.S., many of her relatives did not. My grandmother's sister was celebrating her 90th birthday, and although my grandmother couldn't make the trip, I went with my dad to visit.

If anyone from Kesab has any videos, especially of folk songs in Kesabsi (not sure how to spell that correctly), the dialect of Armenian spoken in Kesab, please let me know and upload them!

Also, this is one of my first attempts at making at using editing software and posting a video on youtube, so I'm sorry if it seems quite amateurish :p Any tips on how to improve would be appreciated!

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Armenia
• Armenians
• Syria
• traditional song
• Kesab
• Kasab
• Kessabsi
• Kessab
• Kassab

[HayTaguhi]

We are Kessabtzis, too.!! Wayyy, such a great opportunity, BOLOR HAYRENAKICNERIS BAREV!!!! JERM VOGHJUYNENR HAYATSANIC!!!

[GenBanks]

@HayTaguhi :D Aaaah I miss Kessab!

[Varangian1915]

My father used to sing this song at 55 seconds! Haygagan music is the best!

[GenBanks]

@Varangian1915 that's awesome :) I regret so much that I didn't record more of the songs that I heard that night. Especially now that my grandmother has died, and I treasure every cultural link I have to her past.

[fadeismade2003]

It looks beautiful!!!

[mashdots]

@GenBanks never...

[elmolosho]

@GenBanks .........cool MAN, ALTHOUGH IT'S A BIT RISKY TO TRAVEL TO SYRIA RIGHT NOW.

[GenBanks]

@aafaking that's impression I got as well when I visited :) do you know whether kessab has had any disturbances as a result of the recent violence in syria?

[GenBanks]

@elmolosho hehe I agree with you! and Kessab is a great place, I want to go back as well. I have family roots which brought me there, but even if I didn't I would want to return.

[GenBanks]

@mashdots that's cool, I hope you never forget your kessabtsi roots :)

[GenBanks]

@Varangian1915 I will not, I'm very proud of it even though people say I don't look Armenian :)

[mashdots]

all of us we are kessabtsis... now leaving in Rome Italy... but the origin is from Kessab...