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A street orchestra

It is a street orchestra, but I must find my programm again because I forgot the name of the orchestra. It is also at the Mi-Carême of Pont-sur-Sambre.
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The rest of those of Dunkerque (7)

Now, you see the lady who is the bearer of one of the two hats. I like this photo. And you ?
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The rest of those of Dunkerque (5). Hat of Carnival (2)

A second hat of carnival, I take during the rest of those of Dunkerque, the group "Mets ton Best Kletche", always at the Mi-Carême of Pont-sur-Sambre.
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Rest of those of Dunkerque (4). A carnival hat.

While those of Dunkerque are resting I am photographing their hats. Carnival hats look like in Germany (Look at Wiesbaden Daily Photo of Nicola). Here in the North of France is the same tradition.
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The rest of those of Dunkerque

Those of Dunkerque are taking a rest between two dances. You can look again at the (false)scottish man I published on my main blog of the Daily Photos of Pont-sur-Sambre.
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The rest of those of Dunkerque.

Those of Dunquerque are resting between two dances. Here an old couple, but is it really a woman. For carnival people like to change in a woman if they are a man or the contrary.
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The rest of those of Dunkerque (2)

Here is a view of those of Dunkerque discussing together and smiling for my photo.
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108. The rest of those of Dunkerque.

Here always in the carnival Pont-sur-Sambre, called Mi-Carême. Here are again those of Dunkerque, taken as they were resting between two marches and dances. It is a street after the crossroad where the photos before were taken.
All these photos on this blog are from me.
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107. La Belle époque of Pont-sur-Sambre.

On these three pictures the people are wearing old clothes and old uniforms. Some wear intentionnaly worker clothes. They are of another carnival group of Pont-sur-Sambre, la "Belle Epoque".
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106.The show-band of Rousies and the Majorettes.

This is a group we have seen near the tower at the beginning of my photo report about the town-parade of the carnival of Mi-Carême. You can see what for music-instruments the people are playing. They look like xylophone and make a very nice sound. At the right you see anew an house with blind windows of people that made in the past walls instead of the windows not to pay so much taxes. And the sign-boards on the wall are not very large so that we can see through them.
Majorettes are very popular in the North of France. Many girls like to be Majorettes. When they are they have to dance on the street and at the same time turning a piece of wood in their hands and to throw them to the sky all in the same rythm.
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105. La Fanfare Municipale de Rousies. The town Fanfare of Rousies.

Now comes a new band in the town-parade of the carnival of Pont-sur-Sambre. It is the Municipale Fanfare of Rousies. To make music in the streets at the spring-feast is good to chase away the winter cold.
This group comes from a little town Rousies nearby Maubeuge about 20km away from Pont-sur-Sambre in the North-East of it.
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104. The wedding in the old manner : Le mariage à l'ancienne.

A other picture of the Waltz dance on the streets by the parade of the Mi-CArême (carnival) of Pont-sur-Sambre. As danced by our friends J and JP.

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103. The wedding at the ancient manner : Lemariage à l'ancienne (4).

Here is the following of the marriage on the ancient manner. At the end of the group are our friends J. and J.P. dancing a little Waltz on the street. We have seen them already earlier in the blog. As policeman J.P. wears an old uniform. He is not policeman in the real life.
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102. The wedding in the ancient way (3).

An other view of the group. You see the people are smiling to me and are friendly. So, I'm certainly a frienly photoraph.
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101. The wedding in the ancient way (2)

An other view of the wedding in the ancient way.
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