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  • Musicians play instruments in the Pacific Ocean surf.
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  • The Ferme family plays traditional music on their Steirische Harmonikas, commonly known as accordions. The patriarch of the family directs the brothers and sister as they rehearse for a competition. Slovenian culture celebrates folk music as part of the Alpine culture.
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  • Musicians fine tune their violin instruments and warm up backstage before a performance of the Quito opera.
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  • A nun tunes her guitar while her sisters rehearse music in the cloistered Convent St. John in Val Mustair. A UNESCO World Heritage Site founded in the 8th century, it has been home to Christian Benedictine nuns since the 12th Century.
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  • Protest songs by two like-minded friends entertained picnic patrons on Kayford Mountain. Ken Hechler, left, represented West Virginia in the US House of Representatives for nearly 20 years and was Secretary of State from 1985-2001. He died in 2016 at age 102. George Daugherty, known as Earl of Elkview, a trial lawyer specializing in medical liability cases, was a regular on a televised statewide country music show and co-hosted NPR's Mountain Stage. He died in 2017 at age 86.
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  • A respected older musician plays of fiddle and the music he learned from his own grandfather. In the small community of El Carmen, near Pisco, most locals trace their ancestry to African slaves, brought there generations ago to work in the Peru's cotton plantations. The brightly-colored red walls of his home are adorned with family pictures.
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  • The sound of pipes fills an Mbuti camp as men play by the fireside hunting camp in the Ituri forest in DR Congo. <br />
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Pygmies stay up late telling hunting stories and act out the animals. The semi-nomadic tribe sets up nets to hunt small antelope called duikers.
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  • The sound of pipes fills an Mbuti camp as men play by the fireside.
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  • Elderly La Scala musicians in a nursing home.
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  • Street scene in Harappa.
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  • George Higgins plays the piano and sings at Cafe d'Mongo's Speakeasy.
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  • Children in a parade commemorating the opening of Parliament in 1920.
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  • Gypsy street musicians in Istanbul.
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  • Opera lessons at a nursing home.
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  • A silver-painted but nude, tuba-playing unicyclist rides through the desert at Burning Man Festival. Balancing her sousaphone, she was like a mirage and disappeared into a crowd in the Black Rock Playa. The counter-culture celebration is held annually in Nevada and attracts thousands of costumed participants to party. Many performance artists plan unique and strange costumes that are creative and whimsical. There are no spectators, only participants.
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  • A band practices punk in an old garage.
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  • Fiatamali'i Leuta, wearing the tradtional lavalava wrap, teaches budding musici ans the trumpet.
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  • A family of musicians walk along the banks of the Suwannee River. Elroyce Makley strums her Autoharp, while she and her daughters stroll through the Stephen Foster State Folk Culture Center, located in Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in Florida.
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  • Bachelors in a small mountain village don festive costumes and parade house to house to visit neighbors. They gather around the kitchen table to share food, drink and friends' news during the annual, traditional celebration of Carnival that welcomes spring after a long winter. Traditions are important throughout villages in the Slovian Alps.
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  • An accordion player in the Barcelona metro.
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  • Bachelors in a small rural village of 65 people make a small parade as they continue the region's traditional Carnival celebration. Dressing for a Pagan wedding, unmarried men march ceremoniously from house to house, then families invite them inside for food and spirits as they celebrate the end of winter.
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  • Framed portraits are displayed on the family organ in the living room of the Caudill-Miller homestead.
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  • Young puppies learn to associate the horn with food as Rhoda Hopkins uses condi tioning to train the future fox hunters for the Old Chatham Hunt Club.
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  • Costumed young dancers move to the beat of a young drummer who blends African and Peruvian rhythms in their living room. The family descended from slaves brought to work in the area's cotton plantations.
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  • Restaurant patrons are inspired to join mariachi bands in song at a restaurant  in Garibaldi Plaza. Since the 1920s, traditional musicians have dressed in their finest matching suits and brought their guitars to serenade locals and tourists with heartfelt ballads and earn a few pesos.
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  • Mariachis musicians gather a street-side crowd of both Mexicans and gringo tourists for nightly serenading. Plaza Garibaldi is where mariachi bands dressed in sharply, matching suits, have gathered since the 1920s, to play traditional heartfelt ballads for a few pesos.
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  • From Leslie Chang’s story that accompanied these photographs in National Geographic Magazine:<br />
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By the time she was ten, Bella lived a life that was rich with possibility and as regimented as a drill sergeant’s. After school she did homework unsupervised until her parents got home. Then came dinner, bath, piano practice. Sometimes she was permitted television, but only the news. On Saturdays she took a private essay class followed by Math Olympics, and on Sundays a prep class for the middle-school entrance exam and piano lessons. The best moment of the week was Friday afternoon, when school let out early. Bella might take a deep breath and look around, like a man who discovers a glimpse of blue sky from the confines of the prison yard.
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  • A parent peers through a window keeping a close eye on her child.
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  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University students in their dorm room.
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  • A teenage girl plays piano for her family.
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  • A teenage boy plays banjo on the porch for parents.
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  • Levi Roden jams with fellow musicians during a bi-weekly get-together in McDowe ll.
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  • A band takes a break from a traditional festival celebration that mark the harvests.
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