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Name: Melissa T Lane on Jun 2, 2008Comments: Please keep the music alive!Flag
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Name: Juliet Batalon on Jun 2, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jun 2, 2008Comments: Dear Mr. Chassain, The Gypsies and their music celebrate what is good. Their love for Saintes Sara and the Maries are what has brought the world to your doorstep. To put restrictions on this would be wrong. Please rethink your actions and look at the real problem behind the troubles that have developed. Prejudice and greed.Flag
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Name: Karen Bricsoe on Jun 2, 2008Comments: Cher Monsieur, Le pélerinage est une part importante de l'année non seulement pour les personnes gitanes mais pour des touristes aussi bien. _ parler pour me je voyager Amérique (Tucson, Arizona) pour assister le fête et ce être le musique qui être un grand partie cela. Merci de votre temps, Karen Briscoe Tucson, Arizona, Etats-UnisFlag
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Name: Frank Doherty on Jun 2, 2008Comments: Why has something that brings so much joy to so many been stopped.Flag
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Name: Bob Morris on Jun 2, 2008Comments: Im a friend of Canut Reyes and many of his family members as well as the Gitano Family,grandson of Manitas de Plata ,Tonino Baliardo,Nicolas Reyes,Deigo and will be working with Canut on the Jose Project in Arles France...ending the street fair of the Sts festival would be a shame and a loss of history,maybe there should at least be an area to do the right thing and keep it all going,an area for the food and music,a built up area for tourist to see even after the festivals are over....B.MorrisFlag
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Name: Romani Cymru Project - Wales UK on Jun 2, 2008Comments: Todays great challenges and problems included saving our cultures - Mr Roland Chassains i hope you find a solution to any issues - "adrey tiro ozi" its within your heart to show some compassion for the romani fokendi and there simple music to let this tradition live on. Its to easy these days to just say no because there are difficulty. More time to adapt perhaps and let the music play on - Boro Roland ! Diolch yn Fawr - Thank you on Behalf of the Romani People of Wales Cymru.Flag
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Name: Mike Clipson on Jun 2, 2008Comments: Monsieur Chassian, my apollogies for writing in English to you. I apeal to you to allow the Gypsy people to continue their tradition which of course spans CENTURIES! If they were to be stopped permanently it would be a loss to the whole world. France has always stood for Liberty and Brotherhood, please continue with this and show the rest of the world! Merci Monsieur. Mike.Flag
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Name: Noah Thompson on Jun 2, 2008Comments: This has come as sad news to me and will do to all Gypsy people. It has always been such a great atmosphere there at the festival, seems to me a crazy thing to ban the music If you ban something from a people that is a tradition and part of they culture, well that could look like racism. Leave that to the likes of Jean_marie la Penn and let the Gypsy folks ebjoy their musicFlag
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Name: Barbara Bloomer on Jun 2, 2008Comments: For years I have come from the USA for this Pilgrimage. The street music of the Gypsies is wonderful and a great attraction. How sad thing to think that this opportunity would be taken away from these artists.Flag
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Name: Mick Davies on Jun 2, 2008Comments: There should be more music in this sad old world not lessFlag
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Name: Isabeau on Jun 2, 2008Comments: In the soul of every Gipsy is a song do not make our souls muteFlag
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Name: Katie Jung on Jun 2, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Petros Michael on Jun 2, 2008Comments: Music is part of the Gypsy Life it brings people together, please let it continueFlag
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Name: G Howe on Jun 2, 2008Comments: Pesha, I am sorry to hear that this wonderful event is being spoiled in this way. I am happy to add me name to this petition.I hope the Mayor has a change of heartFlag
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Name: Marguerite on Jun 2, 2008Comments: What a travesty of justice, anything this good ought to be preserved,Flag
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Name: Karin Hausammann on Jun 2, 2008Comments: La musique des gitans est une des raison pourquois je viens chaque année à Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer!Flag
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Name: Professor Steve Balkin on Jun 2, 2008Comments: The Pilgrimage of Saint Sara is one of the great sacred world traditions and cultural festivals. Music played outside on the street was a staple of the Renaissance and inspired many a renowned composer. I planned my next trip to France to attend the Pilgrimage of Saint Sara in order to listen to the wonderful ornamented music played out on the street. Please do not snuff out any aspect of this important celebration, which has roots to the earliest manifestations of mother goddess on our earth.Flag
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Name: Raymond Buckland on Jun 2, 2008Comments: This is a time-honored tradition that should not be broken, if only out of respect for Saint Sara.Flag
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Name: Aaron Goldsworthy on Jun 2, 2008Comments: After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. (Aldous Huxley )Flag
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Name: Mick "J" on Jun 2, 2008Comments: Unbelievable! What can or could be more successful at bringing people together than music, dancing and voices raised in song How can anyone wish to stop thisFlag
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Name: Sadie Penfold on Jun 2, 2008Comments: This is one good thing that should never end not everFlag
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Name: Alfonso Morales on Jun 2, 2008Comments: "The Pilgrimage of Saint Sara is one of the great sacred world traditions and cultural festivals. Music played outside on the street was a staple of the Renaissance and inspired many a renowned composer. I planned my next trip to France to attend the Pilgrimage of Saint Sara in order to listen to the wonderful ornamented music played out on the street. Please do not snuff out any aspect of this important celebration, which has roots to the earliest manifestations of mother goddess on our earth."Flag
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Name: Dick Jones on Jun 2, 2008Comments: Je vous pries, M. le Mair, a maintenir le pelerinage ancien des Gitanes mondiale.Flag
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Name: Jennifer Masters on Jun 2, 2008Comments: Romani culture should be shared and embraced as part of our global heritage. It would be a shame to let such a beautiful part of it die.Flag
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Name: Gene Nowok on Jun 2, 2008Comments: Gypsy music is beautiful and inspiring and I dont see anything wrong in playing it, even in the sreets.Flag
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Name: David Salinas Cortés on Jun 2, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Kristine on Jun 2, 2008Comments: Please don't let this happen..........some of the very best music comes from the people known as gypsies. Music is to gypsies as water is to fish.Flag
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Name: Martin Lass on Jun 2, 2008Comments: Music, when it comes from the heart, from the very soul of people, is the food of love and life. In a world where there is an increasing quantity of soulless music and an increasing soullessness in general, we need all the soulful music we can get. Please reconsider your stand in relation to banning the music of the Gypsy people during the Pilgrimage of Saint Sara the Patron Saint of the Gypsies. This is not just about the Gypsies; it's also about the welfare of the soul of the planet.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jun 2, 2008Comments: Music is the essence of everyone's soul - don't put a stop to this!Flag
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Name: Alain Cola on Jun 2, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jun 2, 2008Comments: I support the Gypsy people and their music, and hope it will be possible for them to continue playing at the Pilgramage of Saint Sara.Flag
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Name: Nicki Burton on Jun 2, 2008Comments: Please keep the tradition aliveFlag
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Name: Anonymous on Jun 2, 2008Comments: Is not de Les Saintes Maries de la mer a financial as well as a cultural boon to to your town Romani people, as well as other music lovers from all over the world come to your town for the music sir. Why would you kill the goose that laid the golden egg ava Unless there is some element of racial and cultural bigotry I hope that is not the case... Te aven baxtaloFlag
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Name: A D Hughes on Jun 2, 2008Comments: Please don't let this tradition dieFlag
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Name: Anonymous on Jun 2, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: A.Kennedy on Jun 2, 2008Comments: I wonder what the Saints would say if you stopped the music...Flag
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Name: Teresa Morabito on Jun 2, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Sandra Maria Benedet, Professor Of Spanish, Roosevelt University, Chicago, United States on Jun 2, 2008Comments: It saddens me to hear that the Gypsy people may not be allowed to play their music on the streets during the Pilgrimage of Saint Sara. Please do not sanitize this celebration; this and other similar forms of censorship are destroying the human spirit. Allow the music to be heard in public and open spaces where all can congregate and be blessed with the sound of this beautiful music.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jun 2, 2008Comments: Please keep the Gypsy music alive - it has a rightful place in the history of music, should be preserved at all costs & listened to by generations now & in the future. Thank you.Flag
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Name: Carolyn S Foster on Jun 3, 2008Comments: How in the world can there possibly be a Pilgrimage without the Gypsies playing music This is THEIR special saint!!!! How in the world can they not be allowed to play music, their God-given gift, as a means to honor their saint To disallow the gypsies to play music during this pilgrimage is a sin and the mayor of France should be ashamed of such a thing.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jun 3, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Benardine DE BRITTO on Jun 3, 2008Comments: La musique est la SEULE raison que je vais aux Saintes Maries chaque année. Si vous plait, ne l' arretez pasFlag
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Name: Jane Basham on Jun 3, 2008Comments: it would be a shame to see the playing of music in the street stop as it is so important to the Gypsy Culture Please rethink this JaneFlag
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Name: Roger Moor on Jun 3, 2008Comments: To hear these Gypsy musicians play is a privalige, you have not heard music until you have experienced this, the warmth of the Gypsy people and their passion is unique This should be encouraged not stoppedFlag
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Name: Anonymous on Jun 3, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Steve Young on Jun 3, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Gigi Mc on Jun 3, 2008Comments: I can't believe I'm actually writing this because it seems like a no-brainer. Surely the mayor of Les Stes is well aware [more than I, a visitor] that gypsy music in the camargue has always been a tradition during the perelinage. I really can't believe there is a need for an appeal... music is what brings everyone together to fully enjoy the events! Since not everyone speaks the same language, a nice melody, smiles & rhythm is sometimes the best communicator! Sure there will be a few behind the scenes shenanigans going on, but visitors need to be responsible for themselves & their belongings! This has nothing to do with, and should not detract from, enjoying awesome music! PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE KEEP THE MUSIC!Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jun 3, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Celtica on Jun 3, 2008Comments: The old traditions should be kept alive.Flag