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Color Me Curious
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
#extradirty
Origami Around
Not today Justin
NASA
🩵 avery cochrane 🩵
shark vs the universe
occasionally subtle
Love Begins
d e v o n
Discoholic 🪩
❣ Chile in a Photography ❣
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
The Stonewall Inn
Doug Jones
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@useless-bulgariafacts
Let me cry - Mariana Popova
talked about it yesterday with @orisnitsa – this is imho Bulgaria's most slept on entry, from 2006 when we were just starting out in Eurovision. It has everything, it's catchy, amazing vocals from Mariana, Azis?? Literally what more did they want from us 😭
and yes I think they should definitely be invited to perform next year, this song deserves a comeback
"песента баба Ванга ке бие на Евровизия" was a straight up prophetic meme. how does it feel to have Apollo's gift of prophecy
@orisnitsa 100% ... Просто си му беше време! И евала на Дара, че не се отказа след всичкия хейт, дето изляха някои хора отгоре ѝ. Не всеки би издържал.
Иначе да си домакин си е сериозен жребий, мисля че всички имаме оправдани притеснения 😅😅 но аз съм оптимистично настроена засега. Не искам да казвам голяма дума, но имам чувството, че това е един вид стъпка към евроинтеграцията – след Шенген и еврото, сега сме на път да се превърнем в истинска дестинация. Вълнуващо е, и поетично някак си.
So... how are we feeling about.. that??
Besides obviously congratulating Dara for being, the dark horse of all time holy shit 🇧🇬🇧🇬
WHAT
Mature egg???
Painted Easter eggs (писани яйца) from the Ethnographic museum in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
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Time lapse photo of worshippers circling the All Saints (Всех Святих) Church in Ruse, Bulgaria, during midnight service on Easter Sunday. Each carries a candle lit by the Holy Fire.
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Easter celebration/ Pirin village, Bulgaria
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current aesthetic: топъл козунак и шарени пръсти от боя🐣
Hate that I have to give it to them but I did click on the goddamn ad
Koledari from Novgrad village, Ruse region, Bulgaria/ early 1980s
Source: Endangered Ethnographic Archives, Ethnographic Institute and Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the British Library
Digitalised antique Bulgarian Christmas card, part of a collection held in the Regional Library of Vratsa.
The first Bulgarian Christmas cards were printed in 1896, commemorating the christening of the future tsar Boris III. Homemade Christmas cards, featuring drawings and bits of poetry were a popular gift to send to soldiers serving in the Balkan wars (1912-1913); in the following decades, these would become mass-produced.
Merry Christmas / Весела Коледа!
Весели празници, приятели! ❤️❣️♥️❣️♥️ Happy holidays, friends!
Koledar/ Ustrem village, Haskovo*, Bulgaria
Source: Nikolay Kolev's Bulgarian ethnography
*The book lists Ustrem village as part of Yambol region, but by the new administrative division, it is part of Topolovgrad Municipality in Haskovo region.
hi do you know some cool bulgarian christmas/winter related music?
Hi! Sure, I don't know what'd count as "cool" in this case, but I can give an overview + some examples.
Bulgarian Christmas music essentially falls into three categories: traditional carols ("carol" here being a loose term) sung by groups of carollers who go from door to door; Orthodox chants performed in churches during liturgy; and Christmas songs written and composed in more recent times, these ones being often for children.
1. Carolling (коледуване) has a special place among Christmas traditions – it's not just a custom, but a ritual, one that used to serve as an initiation of teenaged boys into adulthood. A group of koledari (коледари) typically had a repertoire of 30-40 songs, which would be practiced in advance, because once they entered into someone's home they had to pick a song to sing for each member of the household, depending on their age, station, marital status etc., then at the end, the leader of the group would say a blessing. As a reward for all of this, they'd get колаци or кравайчета (little bread bun with a hole in the middle that can be stacked on the shepherds' crooks they carry), money, wine and possibly other gifts. Some examples of Christmas folk songs (коледарски песни):
– in this clip you can hear two songs, Малка мома двори мете (A Young Maiden Sweeps the Yard) and Замъчи се Божа майка (The Mother of God Is In Labour). According to Bulgarian folk beliefs, Mary's labour began on Ignazhden (the feast day of St. Ignatius) i.e. Dec 20th, so that's what this song is about.
– this is a fairly good compilation of songs that may be sung in a given household. In an authentic setting, the most common instrument used was a bagpipe. Inlcuded is the carollers' blessing as well (the spoken part)! You may notice the repetition of certain phrases (Стани нине, господине or Коладе, ладе), this is typical of Christmas songs and is part of what makes them ritual songs.
– in certain regions, the koledari also dance or sing/exclaim while they're outside. This dance and melody (specific to Yambol) are called buenek. Here's an audio recording, and also a really nice, albeit old, reenactment.
– Ой Коледо, мой Коледо is an original composition for a girls' choir, but following the lyrical patterns/rhyming schemes of traditional songs. In the late 19th/early 20th century it was very common for composers and writers to take inspiration from folklore.
2. I admit I'm not very well versed in the area of church music, but I did find some Рождественски песнопения, or the hymns sung during a Christmas liturgical service – examples of a Задостойник, Кондак (Kontakion) and Тропар (Troparion). These are actually the names of entire genres of hymns, which are not exclusive to Christmas, but as I understand it, the specific melodies and lyrics I have linked here are for the Nativity. There are also some recordings of entire liturgies, so you can hear how Orthodox choirs sound.
3. Modern Christmas music is kinda all over the place. It generally follows Western trends and tends more secular, festive, sometimes humorous, mentions Santa Claus, deer, bells, snowy landscapes and so forth. A lot, like I said, are children's songs we learn in kindergarten or otherwise around that age, like for example Над смълчаните полета, С червените ботушки, Шаро и първия сняг, etc. These all go in the same category as Bulgarian covers of Jingle Bells or Silent Night. Showing my age here, but I'm also still nostalgically fond of the subversive version of this, which we felt ohh sooo edgy for listening to as kids, lmao. Of course, there's less kiddie stuff too, see BTR's Коледа, or Stefan Valdobrev's Лепило за брада. Bit too sappy for my taste, personally.
I hope I've been comprehensive! I stuck to specifically Christmas music since it would be too long of an answer otherwise, but lmk if you're further interested in anything :)🎄
Happy Unification Day!🇧🇬
(at least one holiday we don't have to argue about celebrating lol)
