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<p>How do you write a review of a performance dance group that wears Viking costumes, uses bones to play their drums, and has pyrotechnics so badass that I could feel them twenty rows back in the audience? I was clapping so hard during <a href="https://www.facebook.com/VAKALI.group/" title="Vikali group on Facebook">Vakali&rsquo;s</a> performance at the <a href="http://www.ndk.bg/">National Palace of Culture (NDK)</a> in Sofia last week that my hands <em>still hurt</em>?</p>
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<p>There&rsquo;s a lot more to Vakali than drums and fire machismo, however. For example, the lads are surprisingly proficient at tap dancing! And, while drums are definitely the main act, an accompanying troupe of female interpretive dancers has a few numbers that incorporate music with traditional Balkan instruments like the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaval"><em>Kaval</em></a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tambura_%28instrument%29"><em>Tambura</em></a>. If I recall correctly, at one point there was even a solo act with a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tambourine">Tambourine</a>.</p>
<p>Here&rsquo;s a video with some highlights: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ46Y3Oaq60">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ46Y3Oaq60</a></p>
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<p>As you drive into the village of Gela in southern Bulgaria a sign informs you that this is the birthplace of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus">Orpheus</a>, the legendary Thracian musician and poet. I&rsquo;m not sure if it&rsquo;s true, but who <em>wouldn&rsquo;t</em> be able to &ldquo;charm all living things and even stones&rdquo; with their music if they were born in a village with such a view? These are the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodope_Mountains">Rhodope Mountains</a> in the golden afternoon sunlight of early spring.</p>
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<p>Gela is just a stone&rsquo;s throw from the cultural village of Shiroka Laka and about twenty minutes from the ski resort town of Pamporovo.</p>
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