Percussive brouhaha on the streets of Madrid

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Shambaiala performing in Lavapies, Madrid, October 2018

Isn’t brouhaha a wonderful word. It was word of the day a few days ago and I just had to combine it with the colour and music of this wonderful group of women percussionists. I’m a few days late posting this, so it’s more a #WordOfAFewDaysAgo, but that’s because I’m a tidsoptimist, another recent word of the day, for all of us who run late because we are too optimistic in our calculation of how much time there is in a day!

Enough of my linguistic ramblings for now; I’ll leave you to enjoy some more images of these girls, and to listen to them you can pop over to their Facebook page.

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Copyright Debbie Smyth, 25 October 2018

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anitashope says:

October 25, 2018 at 18:05

Fun pictures and great word. I love words that most people wonder “what does that really mean?”

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ksbeth says:

October 25, 2018 at 10:15

Perfect word and how fun!

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By Debbie Smyth
On October 25, 2018
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