| # | Name | Comments |
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| 1 | Melissa T Lane | Please keep the music alive! |
| 2 | Juliet Batalon | |
| 3 | Anonymous | 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. |
| 4 | Karen Bricsoe | 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-Unis |
| 5 | Frank Doherty | Why has something that brings so much joy to so many been stopped. |
| 6 | Bob Morris | 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.Morris |
| 7 | Romani Cymru Project - Wales UK | 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. |
| 8 | Mike Clipson | 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. |
| 9 | Noah Thompson | 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 music |
| 10 | Barbara Bloomer | 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. |
| 11 | Mick Davies | There should be more music in this sad old world not less |
| 12 | Isabeau | In the soul of every Gipsy is a song do not make our souls mute |
| 13 | Katie Jung | |
| 14 | Petros Michael | Music is part of the Gypsy Life it brings people together, please let it continue |
| 15 | G Howe | 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 heart |
| 16 | Marguerite | What a travesty of justice, anything this good ought to be preserved, |
| 17 | Karin Hausammann | La musique des gitans est une des raison pourquois je viens chaque année à Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer! |
| 18 | Professor Steve Balkin | 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. |
| 19 | Raymond Buckland | This is a time-honored tradition that should not be broken, if only out of respect for Saint Sara. |
| 20 | Aaron Goldsworthy | After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
(Aldous Huxley ) |
| 21 | Mick "J" | 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 this |
| 22 | Sadie Penfold | This is one good thing that should never end
not ever |
| 23 | Alfonso Morales | "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." |
| 24 | Dick Jones | Je vous pries, M. le Mair, a maintenir le pelerinage ancien des Gitanes mondiale. |
| 25 | Jennifer Masters | 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. |
| 26 | Gene Nowok | Gypsy music is beautiful and inspiring and I dont see anything wrong in playing it, even in the sreets. |
| 27 | David Salinas Cortés | |
| 28 | kristine | 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. |
| 29 | Martin Lass | 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. |
| 30 | Anonymous | Music is the essence of everyone's soul - don't put a stop to this! |
| 31 | Alain Cola | |
| 32 | Anonymous | 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. |
| 33 | Nicki Burton | Please keep the tradition alive |
| 34 | Anonymous | 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 baxtalo |
| 35 | A D Hughes | Please don't let this tradition die |
| 36 | Anonymous | |
| 37 | A.Kennedy | I wonder what the Saints would say if you stopped the music... |
| 38 | Teresa Morabito | |
| 39 | Sandra Maria Benedet, Professor of Spanish, Roosevelt University, Chicago, United States | 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. |
| 40 | Anonymous | 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. |
| 41 | Carolyn S Foster | 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. |
| 42 | Anonymous | |
| 43 | Benardine DE BRITTO | La musique est la SEULE raison que je vais aux Saintes Maries chaque année. Si vous plait, ne l' arretez pas |
| 44 | Jane Basham | 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
Jane |
| 45 | Roger Moor | 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 stopped |
| 46 | Anonymous | |
| 47 | Steve Young | |
| 48 | Gigi Mc | 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! |
| 49 | Anonymous | |
| 50 | celtica | The old traditions should be kept alive. |