Our Afropop Adventure in Madagascar continues to be very dense. This dispatch is mostly to connect you to cool images of things we've seen along the way.

Since last writing, highlights include: meeting tsapika guitar wiz Jean Noel in Tulear and seeing him play; the acoustic tsapika group in the fishing village of Ifady shaking their bums and then singing a slower song asking Jesus for forgiveness for all that fun; Easter Sunday on a peaceful deserted island for snorkeling and shell collecting; ring tailed lemurs dropping on the aluminum roofs of our bunglows at 6 in the morning in Berenty Wildlife Preserve; Antandroy bird like dancing and accordeon in Berenty; dancing with the Rasta youth to electric Antandroy and Antonosy bands at the Blue Moon Club in beautiful Fort Dauphin on the SE coast.

Too much to write now. Will fill in the details next week. Meanwhile, enjoy the digital pictures sent to you all the way from an Internet cafe in Tana.

Sean Barlow

Click on a caption to see an image:

Clarinet section of group Tongarivo in Ansirabe

Members of Tongarivo performing in Ansirabe

Zafindraony singing in the village of Antoetra

Tsapika guitar wizard, Jean Noel, and his wife at home in Tulear

Violin player leads group doing Antandroy music from the south of Madagascar

Afropopper Dave dancing with Antandroy group in Tulear Madagascar

acoustic tsapika group from fishing village of Ifady, north of Tulear

Kobosy group at roadside village on the way to Tulear

Click to see past dispatches:
First Dispatch and images
Second Dispatch and images
Third Dispatch
Contributed by: Sean Barlow