Asturian-American Migration Forum

You are right. It is a very expensive program. I am not planning to buy it and I don;t want to download it either. I think the program presents the score, reads it and plays the tune. The four famous songs that we are playing in St. Pat's have been modified by Bras and I beleive he wanted us to have...

I think the Encore program does play the music. I am waiting for Bras' confirmation here. Regarding the pipes, Bras mentioned that they could be adjusted somehow. Even though it will be a temporary parchment it will allow us to participate in the parade. I am already practising these four songs in t...

The basic songs to be played at the St. Pat's Parade are: Xuanin de Mieres God Bless America Danny Boy Asturies Patria Querida Bras recommended a program called "Encore 4.5.3" that reads partituras (music scores). Apparently you can download it online--I tried it with no success yet . He i...

Queridos paisanos y amigos: I just came back from my second trip to Asturies this Summer. I had the opportunity to have long conversations with several people regarding our project. With the advise of Bras Rodrigo, I wrote a 5 pages proposal in order to fund our project; in the proposal I included g...

Yes, great observation Terechu. We are trying to find support from private institutions right now. Andres is going to try CajaAstur and Fundación Principe de Asturias, but we will try the others that you mention. Regarding how and who invites Asturian officials to Argeo's debut in the US... it's har...

Paz, Marisol and Santiago also said that they wanted flautas de practica

Bob: I think your idea about inviting Dela Cera to Luis Argeo's presentation of his documentary in WV is a great one. Do you have more details about dates and so on?

We have 11 requests so far. This can become a little cumbersome for Andres, I just talked to him. He is going to Asturies this Thurs. He wasn't plannig to go to Gijon, although he offered himself to do it. Wouldn't it be easier for logistics if we have Carlos mail us the recorders directly? Carlos: ...

I am copying here a message that I just got from Bras R. I like the planning; he comes on May or June, leaves a work plan for us and then comes back in Oct. The only problem is, again, finance. We will include his visits in the proposal, but I doubt things will move fast enough to cover his May trip...

Carlos's photo looks very familiar. In fact, this place is 20 min. away from my home. It is Disney's Magic Kingdom (Frontierland to be exact). That explains the Bears Jamboree. I have to say I always liked the banda d'gaites de Oviedo traxes and their blue decorated gaites. Any comments regarding th...

Again: I don't want to divert from the support strategy conversation; but if you look carefully at the picture, at the far left there is a chubby guy playing a gaita blanca with only one roncon. maybe Carlos can tells us more about it. In any case this proves that it can be done, we don't need the t...

Very interesting points. I think we are in the right direction here. First I'd like to thank Carlos for his extremely valuable insights. He offers a current local asturian perspective that none of us can have. According to what he says, it's pretty clear that we should inlcude Manolo de la Cera (Con...

It all boils down to a fabada... In our case it all boils down to the sofitu (support) that we can get from Asturies. I'll try to briefly describe the situation regarding the different Immigrations Agencies in Asturies and then we can all together plan a strategy. There are two official entities (ag...

I found my wooden practice recorder, so now I have two: a good one and a pink plastic one. I think I'm going to donate the last to the Gaities Society... :lol: Just kidding! In any case I won't need any more, and as I'll be going to Asturies in May I can bring some myself, so I won't take any at thi...

Os invito a repasar brevemente la opinión de bastantes asturianos fuera de Asturias respecto al intento de negación de la reciente emigración asturiana por parte del Presidente del Principado: http://www.asturianos.as/ Haced click en la columna de la izquierda "Leyenda Urbana" y luego segu...