Ethiopia. Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region. Karat village. Konso tribe. Marc Vella is a french musician and a nomadic pianist. Over the last 25 years he has travelled with his Grand Piano in around forty countries to celebrate humanity. Thanks to the variacordes which he has devised, his piano music is unique. Creator of “La Caravane amoureuse” (The Caravan of Love) he takes people with him to say “I love you” to others and “lovingly...
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Ethiopia. Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region. Karat village. Konso tribe. Marc Vella is a french musician and a nomadic pianist. Over the last 25 years he has travelled with his Grand Piano in around forty countries to celebrate humanity. Thanks to the variacordes which he has devised, his piano music is unique. Creator of “La Caravane amoureuse” (The Caravan of Love) he takes people with him to say “I love you” to others and “lovingly conquered” their hearts and souls. Breakfast for The Caravan of Love's participants. Left to right, Francoise Bardou, Marie Calude Marchand, Roger Doerle, Soizic Tiennot, Sylvie Boyer and Monique Sergent. The Konso, also known as the Konzo, are a Cushitic-speaking ethnic group. The Omo Valley, situated in Africa’s Great Rift Valley, is home to an estimated 250,000 individuals of the Konso tribe. Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region (often abbreviated as SNNPR) is one of the nine ethnic divisions of Ethiopia 7.11.15 © 2015 Didier Ruef

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