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vera_j ([personal profile] vera_j) wrote2019-06-30 10:15 pm

Unexpected changes posted here, LJ doesn´t like me today!

 We had been planning my granddaughter´s summer visit in Spolí. The logistics was flawless! Marta and both children arrived on Saturday early in the morning. Marta and Kryštof stayed here overnight (and Anička) and I used this chance to leave for Třeboň late in the afternoon with my friend Marcela. However Marta and me were worried because Anicka came here with a cough. We decided to wait for morning. Otherwise Anička would stay with me for a week.
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here is an annual summer music festival called "Around Třeboň" and she managed to get tickets for a great concert of three folk groups, two of them the best and oldest in CR! The concert took over three hours and it was FAN-TAS-TIC!!!! We knew lots of the songs and every one there was singing along and in the end there was a mighty chorus of hundreds of voices - it was in the open, in the chateau park. Standing ovations, people moved to tears, ME in tears, it was a marvelous atmosphere and it has something in common with our rebelious political atmosphere agains our PM and other corrupted politicians....
Everyone had been sleeping when I arrived. I opened all the windows to let colder night air in (we have had sweltering heat sent from the Sahara for more than a week again) and went too bed. I got up very early, it was a nice morning cold of 15°C, and took Rocky for his walk. With Anička, we can´t do this while she is here, we take him only for short walk on a lead. So I wanted him to enjoy "the last chance". We returned and the children were getting up. However Anička was unwell, pale and tired and with a higher temperature. So we decided not to risk anything and we cancelled the stay, putting it off for August. It is a  pity but I am glad - what would I do in case of any problems?

And here I can´t resist posting some samples from the concert of both the folk groups:
Hradišťan
https://youtu.be/2FVsvPSkl2w
The place and time are different but the programme is the same. The songs are inspired by the MOravian folklore. All the musicians are "possessed" with music - simply brilliant!

Spirituál kvintet
https://youtu.be/yL1ov_YNpzw
An older recording but still a very beautiful baladic song...