It's about time to wish you a happy new year! I spent the New Years weekend in Paris with Antonie, my friend from home who now studies at SOAS together with Nabil, who used to work at BRAC, and her friend Veronique, whom she got to know when she was working in Madagascar.
The big event was the New Years party with three Malagassy bands flown in from Madagascar.
The members in Hazolahy, the band in the picture below, are good friends of Antonie and Veronique. Having no previous experience with Malagassy music, I wasn't sure what it would be like (only that it would be an experience). I thought that it would perhaps be a little monotonous towards the morning, but I ended up having a great time all night, dancing and looking at all the others (adults and children, rastas and ties&suits, glamourous partygowns and casuals). One of the most fascinating sights was the little girls in children-sized adult-dresses sent on the stage by their mothers to shake their 9 year old butts. My puritan genes twitched a little at that point...
Antonie (who also the woman behind these photos) has posted a video from the concert at:
You should also check out some of Hazolahy's music videos, for instance this one:
Me and "The man with the hat"
A guy who evidently enjoys dancing with Vero!
The Groupies 
2 comments:
Fabulous pictures... Thanks again for coming to a crazy Madagascar themed New Year's, and please retaliate with a Bangladeshi themed trip to the UK! Nabil and I are waiting for you... Antoniexx
Looks like you had a fab time and it looks a lot warmer than Srimingol was :-)
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