*s.Krani, Prespa Tosk Albanian Wedding #1 with long Beraçe sequence, mid July 1972.

[@henrybg]

Thanks so much for posting these, Bob - great footage! Aferim!

[@MrRHL6000]

My pleasure!

[@lilmemishi5331]

Only cool Albanians dance the Beraçe. So glad we learned this at weddings. Bless up Albania. Bless up to their autochthonous roots.

[@fatonlumani5171]

Thanks for posting , Mynyr Lumani

[@MrRHL6000]

You're welcome. Mynyr, good to hear from you. I am glad you like the posts. Hope you and your family are doing well during this crazy year. I have all of the films and musical recordings from my travels from 1965 to 1973 and most of them are now digitized. I started going to the Balkans again in 2002, then several more summers, the last time 2016. Since then I developed an eye problem so it is a bit harder. Then because of the covit-19 I have stayed in my house by myself since last February, but I work on all of my material putting the video and audio together. I tried to call you in Appleton? once. I had a question then and I still have it. On the video of your group performing at the Ohrid Balkan festival in 1971, they dance Beraçe, slow and fast, to the instrumental music near the beginning of the video. Later, they dance Devolliçe, slow and fast. The video shows exactly how they danced, but I had to decide where it was in the latter part of the music. I chose to have them dancing Devolliçe to a song. Recently, Jane got to see the videos and sent me some helpful info. Referring to the dancing to this song, "Filloj babai dasmen.?. she said she knew about men dancing to acappella singing but she was not sure if men would dance to this song. As I said, when I put the dancing with the sound, I chose to put it with the singing because the video of the dancing seemed to correspond to that point in the audio recording, and there was no instrumental music for Devolliçe. Please let me know what you think and if I might change the placement of the dance to the music by shifting it forward, or back. Take care. Bob

[@vicnababa]

We do the same dance, same song from the other side of the lake in Florina

[@aydi3306]

Do you know who exactly got married at these weddings?