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Boldog Batik Napot! 

Ma van az Indonéz Nemzeti Batik Nap, a batik az indonézek számára nem csupán egy kézműipari termék, hanem kulturális identitásuk része, a különböző szimbolikus jelentésű motívumokon és színeken keresztül. Az ünneplés alkalmából újra készítettem egy kis videót felvillantva eszközöket, a "Folyó" című textilemmel a háttérben és a rajzaimmal, ahol a batikolás folyamatát mutatom be. 

ENG/ Happy Batik Day!

Saturday, Sept 30 at 7:30pm in Pittsburgh’s Synod Hall, come to a FREE concert of Ttraditional Appalachian music of southwest Pennsylvania played by fiddler Mark Tamsula, banjo and flute player Richard Withers, singer Ellen Gozion and guitarist Dave Krysty!!! Reserve your FREE tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-concert-traditional-appalachian-music-of-sw-pennsylvania-tickets-36701093960  This concert is offered as part of the Festival of Friendship. For more information: revolutionoftenderness.net

“Long before the rise of the radio and the advent of the record player, the hills of southwestern Pennsylvania rang with the music of fiddle and fife, with old melodies first brought to the New World by immigrants from Britain, Germany and elsewhere in Europe.

“Many of the players couldn’t read music, so the tradition spread aurally from one generation to the next. Thriving communities of fiddlers fueled the local dance halls in places like Derry in Westmoreland County and Dunbar in Fayette County, and fifers played traditional marches in holiday parades.

I”t was in 1928 in the hills surrounding Dunbar that folklorist Samuel Preston Bayard, then just 20 years old, found the cache of fiddlers he’d use as the main source for his 1944 book of ‘old-time’ melodies, Hill Country Tunes. They were older men, former miners, farmers and gunsmiths, one even a toymaker.

“Bayard didn’t have the benefit of a recording device, so he took down the Dunbar men’s tunes by hand.