Posts tagged music
Life is calling. How far will you go?
Sharing music by lamplight in Liberia
Weekly Awesome, Burkina Faso: The “Fight Against Malaria” Song with PCV Sara Goodman
PCV Sara Goodman is Non-Formal Education Volunteer posted in Burkina Faso who serves on Peace Corps Burkina Faso’s Community Health and AIDS Task-force, a group charged with promoting malaria prevention and treatment activities among the volunteer community. In addition to being an awesome volunteer and health promoter, Sara is also quite the musician, having studied Instrumental Music Education at the University of Illinois. To engage volunteers and communities in the fight against malaria Sara created this music video for the parody song “Lutter Contre Palu*.” Check out the lyrics below and sing along!
“Lutter Contre Palu” Lyrics
C’est la faut des moustiques qui causent le palu
Trop des piqures ça va fait mal
C’est un maladie qui est endémique
Ici au Burkina et partout l’Afrique
Est-ce-que c’est mieux ou c’est le pire
Il faut que nous allons decrire
Qu’est ce que vous pouvez faire pour prevenir
Est-ce-que c’est mieux ou c’est le pire
Il faut que nous allons decrire
Qu’est ce que vous pouvez faire pour prevenir
Il faut dormir sous un moustiquaire
Qui est très bien attaché
Il faut utiliser le pommade de neem
Après laver et avant dormir
Il faut lutter, lutter, lutter, lutter, lutter, contre palu
Il faut lutter, lutter, lutter, lutter, lutter, contre palu
Il faut lutter, lutter, lutter, lutter, lutter, contre palu
Parce que ça va sauvegarder beaucoup des vies
Si vous aller dormir dehors ce soir
Il faut être protéger
Attacher le moustiquaire parmi les arbres
Et vous pouvez dormir sans les piqures
Si vous avez froid il faut faire attention
Si vous avez aussi le fievre
Il faut vous vous emballez dans un pagne mouiller
Et allez immediatement au dispensaire
Est-ce-que c’est mieux ou c’est le pire
Il faut que nous allons decrire
Qu’est ce que vous pouvez faire pour prevenir
Il faut lutter, lutter, lutter, lutter, lutter, contre palu
Il faut lutter, lutter, lutter, lutter, lutter, contre palu
Il faut lutter, lutter, lutter, lutter, lutter, contre palu
Parce que ça va sauvegarder beaucoup des vies
*this parody song is in compliance with the fair-use clause in U.S copyright law.
Azerbaijan - 2010
Our host brothers and some other local boys excited to get their photo taken. After the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Shakira’s Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) was hugely popular song in South Africa.
- Peace Corps Education Volunteer Robin Al-haddad
An undisputed giant of world music, Senegalese artist and humanitarian Youssou N’Dour has raised Senegal’s exuberant mbalax style to global stature. Introduced to American audiences on seminal albums such as Paul Simon’s Graceland and Peter Gabriel’s So, N’Dour continues to influence virtually every realm of the international music scene, riding high on tumbling African rhythms and stratospheric vocals.
Celebrate Peace Corps’ 50th Anniversary with Youssou N’Dour at The John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at 6:00 p.m., in the Concert Hall at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Tickets are required. Reserved seating tickets, two per person, will be distributed on the day of the performance, beginning at 4 p.m. in the Hall of Nations.
Check out these great highlights from the first week of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival!
(Source: youtube.com)
Here’s a little video I took on my phone yesterday of the Garifuna Collective (featuring Umalali) from Belize performing on the World Stage. Later we’ll have better footage from our video team, I promise!
San Dancers from Ghanzi, Botswana, represent Peace Corps at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
