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Thread #151739   Message #3545752
Posted By: Bat Goddess
05-Aug-13 - 10:07 AM
Thread Name: Obit: Kongar-ol Ondar, Tuvan throat singer (2013)
Subject: RE: 2013 Obit: Kongar-ol Ondar, Tuvan throat singer
I saw the Tuvan throat-singers in 1995 at the Somerville Theatre in Davis Square. Ultimately, all their songs were "cowboy" songs, about herding their camels and sheep and loving their horses. The accompaniment even sounded like jangling harness. I loved the horse head scrolls on the tops of the stringed instruments...and the drums like oversized bodhrans. And when I saw the ceremonial gear, etc., I said, "These are the guys who came over the land bridge..."

Linn