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  • Dancing and singing followed a totem raising ceremony. Tlinglet leaders dressed in colorful traditional clothing for a historic totem raising where seven totem poles were   placed in a Native Alaskan park in Klawock. Many of the 1000 Native Alaskans moved indoors to a gymnasium where festivities continued throughout the day.
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  • American tourists don sombreros and sing with a mariachi band at a cantina bar in Nuevo Laredo, a quirky border town.
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  • Rain did not stop the celebrations of dancing and singing that followed a historic totem raising ceremony on Prince of Wales Island.<br />
Generations of Tlingit and Haida Native Alaskans retain strong cultural ties with the natural world reflected in their totem art depicting whales and bears.
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  • Women sing out 'Stop in the Name of Love' in the spot where Diana Ross recorded the song.
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  • Men sing as they transfer water from one to the other up the walls of a well.
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  • Novices studying to become cloistered nuns take a break from their prayers at Santa Catalina Convent to sing in the garden.<br />
The young, cloistered nuns never leave convent grounds and live a life of contemplation in Arequipa, Peru. Older nuns allow the young women free time once a day to help them adjust to the cloistered, regimented life. Having just left their families they will never see again, the vow of commitment the novices take is a serious lifelong decision.
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  • Men sing as they transfer water from one to the other up the walls of a well.
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  • After costumed revelers parade through the streets, the bachelor men enter homes to visit neighbors during Carnival. They sing songs and dance with a widow who came back to the village to enjoy the festivities.
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  • Dressed in colorful traditional clothing, Tlingit tribe leaders celebrate after a ceremony involving six totem poles that were raised in a Native Alaskan local park.
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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 Pygmy choir is led by a Bantu tribesman.
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  • A Pygmy choir is led by a Bantu tribesman.
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  • Elderly La Scala musicians in a nursing home.
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  • Opera lessons at a nursing home.
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  • Musicians play lively dance music on a small outdoor stage for a crowd.
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  • A band practices punk in an old garage.
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  • Singer Tony Orlando performs on stage in Branson.
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  • Members of the singing Heygood family get dressed prior to a performance in Bra nson.
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  • At the National Conservatory of Music, soloist and vocal teacher Ivoschka Tello rehearses for an upcoming concert. Sheoften sings opera and  is accompanied by Ernesto Mayhuire. <br />
They are playing Bachianas Brasileiras #5 by Heitor Villa -Lobos (Brazilian). Ivoschka studied music in Havana when she was six. She came to Peru and was hired as a teacher at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, which is the oldest university in Peru.
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  • Father and son cross the Mexican border to celebrate a 21st birthday at a bar in a border town to Laredo, Texas.  The two laughed and sang with the Mariachi band with an accordion in the atmosphere among other tourists among the pinatas.
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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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  • Rain did not stop the celebrations of dancing and singing that followed a historic totem raising ceremony on Prince of Wales Island.<br />
Generations of Tlingit and Haida Native Alaskans retain strong cultural ties with the natural world reflected in their storytelling totem art depicting whales and bears.
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  • Prisoners are brought out to sing at the Brazoria County Fair.
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  • George Higgins plays the piano and sings at Cafe d'Mongo's Speakeasy.
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