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Thursday, March 28, 2024

"The Low Country Clap" (also known as "The Charleston Clap" & "The Gullah Clap") information & videos


John Melville Bishop, Dec 13, 2009

Georgia Sea Island Singers from the DVD- The Films of Bess Lomax Hawes- available from http://www.media-generation.com

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Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post presents information about the low country clap (also known as "the Charleston Clap" and "the Gullah clap") that began as accompaniment to  Gullah Geechee singing. This clapping pattern is from the Gullah Geechee culture of Charleston, South Carolina (USA).

Five showcase YouTube videos  of  low country singing and clapping are also included in this post.

The content of this post is presented for historical, cultural, religious, aesthetic, and educational purposes.
 
All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to all those who are featured in these videos and thanks to the producers and publishers of these videos on YouTube. Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post.
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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-double-clap-information-examples.html for the closely related pancocojams post entitled "The Double Clap (information & examples from Gospel, R&B, & Pop Music)".

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INFORMATION ABOUT "THE LOW COUNTRY CLAP" THAT ACCOMPANIES GULLAH GEECHEE SINGNG
From https://www.seasidemb.com/blog/gullah-geechee-culture-of-the-low-country/ GULLAH GEECHEE CULTURE OF THE LOW COUNTRY, 1/8/2021
"When most travelers think of coastalSouth Carolina, they have visions of white sandy beaches, great restaurants,and all the glitz and glamour of Myrtle Beach. While those attractions are great,theres a fantastic culture here that is often overlooked by vacationers: TheGullah Geechee culture of the Low Country.

The term Gullah most likely originates from the people of Angola, in Western Africa. When slaves were brought to the Low Country, they kept many of their traditions. Through the years, with relative isolation from whites, their culture, dialect, religion, and talents have melded with the Native American and Creole influences in the area. Gullah culture stretches from the Cape Fear River in Wilmington all the way to the Sea Islands of Georgia. The term Geechee is derived from the Ogeechee river, near Savannah. The proud history and traditions of these amazing people are fascinating and have had a PROFOUND influence on the Low Country.

When rice fields were established in South Carolina and Georgia, the descendants of people originating in Africas Rice Coast were able to use their skills and talents to help establish a tremendous food source and cash crop which has had lasting effects on our economy. The first freed slaves of South Carolina were in the Low Country, the majority of which were Gullah. After the Civil War ended, the Gullah people were able to develop and sustain their culture with isolation from the rest of the world. To this day, you are able to visit markets, vendors, and see, hear, and taste the amazing impact of the Gullah culture.

So, what are some of the things you might see, hear, and taste when you want to experience Gullah culture onyour next trip to the beach? Youre in luck, because you wont have to go farto broaden your love of our area.

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Gullah music finds its roots in African songs, which served to entertain, ease the monotony of work, educate children, and for religion. Following an AAB pattern, with lots of call and response, Gullah songs involve everyone! Simple drums, hand claps, feet stomps, and voices make up the instrumentation. Gullah music has some great syncopation, which had a definite influence on South Carolinas jazz history. There are lots of Gullah playlists out there on services like Spotify and YouTube. Its very soothing music to have on while you work, cook, or simply relaxing. Just like the cuisine, Gullah music is made up of sounds and stories borrowed from Europeans, Native Americans, Southern, and African people. Ostinato patterns are the staple of Gullah songs and compliment the music of the soul, like great food and company."...

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SHOWCASE VIDEOS

SHOWCASE VIDEO #1
This video is given at the top of this post.

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #2 - Yonder Come Day



John Melville Bishop, Dec 13, 2009

Georgia Sea Island Singers from the DVD- The Films of Bess Lomax Hawes- available from http://www.media-generation.com
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According to a comment in this video's discussion thread, this film clip was recorded in 1963.

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #3 - Lowcountry Clap aka Charleston Clap - South Carolina


BRENDA J. PEART, Oct 25, 2019  #Jamaica #airbnb #AroundJAin7Days

When drums were outlawed the Gullah Geechee made their own sounds combining their African rhythms ....

 Listen carefully across the diaspora and your hear similar patterns

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #4 - The Lowcountry Sound


Karen E. Thrower, May 5, 2016

Rev. Isaac Holt and Trinity Missionary Baptist Church Choir capturing the sound of the Lowcountry. Charleston,SC

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #5 - "Already Done" Low Country Church Singing and Hand Clapping



Sylvia B-Send Judah First, Jun 24, 2023

This is church! Yes indeed! Nobody does it better,  bring the Low country clap with you each Sunday.  Love this! Beautiful Church Too!  Nothing like Low Country singing and hand clapping!

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Wednesday, March 27, 2024

The Double Clap (information & examples from Gospel, R&B, & Pop Music)



patel, Feb 19, 2018 [first released in 1976]

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Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post presents information about and examples of the double clap that is found in numerous music genres.

The content of this post is presented for historical, cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.
 
All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to all those who are featured in these videos and thanks to the producers and publishers of these videos on YouTube. Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post.
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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-low-country-clap-also-known-as.html for the closely related pancocojams post entitled "The Double Clap (information & examples from Gospel, R&B, & Pop Music)."

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INFORMATION ABOUT "THE DOUBLE CLAP" (ALSO KNOWN AS "THE SOUL CLAP") 
Online Excerpt #1
From https://overland.org.au/2019/11/clap-back-pop-musics-love-affair-with-the-double-clap/  "Clap back: pop music’s love affair with the double clap" published by Aimee Knight, 12 November 2019
..."In the 1960s, girl groups and solo starlets began using double claps to evoke the schoolyard sassiness that bubbles in The Angels’ ‘My Boyfriend’s Back’, as well as dance-songs like Little Eva’s ‘The Loco-Motion’ and Shirley Ellis’ ‘The Clapping Song’. The latter, with its pat-a-cake-style instructions, seems deliberately designed to infantilise its 36-year-old singer. Surprising, then, that it only took a few years for the double clap to come of age, thanks to its virulent use in 1970s soul, funk and R&B jams.

From the speculative history of Boney M’s ‘Rasputin’ to the barometric fantasy of ‘It’s Raining Men’ by The Weather Girls, double claps – when performed and recorded by real, live musicians – infused disco’s synthesiser hits with the primal slap of humanity. The snappy flourishes of Kool & the Gang’s ‘Ladies’ Night’ are a dry yet fanciful siren’s call. Meanwhile, the hand claps in George Benson’s ‘Give Me the Night’ reverberate with such fervour that they were surely recorded in a cavernous, abandoned roller-rink. Either way, it’s party time, and everyone’s invited.

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In the 1980s, chart toppers like Madonna’s ‘Holiday’, The Clash’s ‘Rock the Casbah’, and Kim Carnes’ ‘Bette Davis Eyes’ featured digital double claps created on nifty units like the Simmons’ Claptrap. Moreover, care of the era’s predilection for electronic drum machines and gated reverb, double snare hits are often misremembered as double claps, especially when performers flagrantly clapped along in the accompanying music videos. See: Prince in ‘Little Red Corvette’, Hall & Oates in ‘Private Eyes’.

Synthesised and recorded double claps persisted into the nineties, staple to all manner of hip-hop tracks, from the visceral ‘Got Your Money’ by Ol’ Dirty Bastard ft. Kelis, to Will Smith’s fantastically plastic ‘Men in Black’ theme (itself a corporate rework of the aforementioned Patrice Rushen song).

Double claps have pepped up other film and TV themes, too. In 1983, a carefree double clap welcomed folks to Fraggle Rock....

A paean to pop trends and cultural memory, Queen’s chart-topping single 
Radio Ga Ga’ is fuelled by an iconic clap-along hook. Viewers watching the music video today may be surprised to see that singer Freddie Mercury only incites the crowd to clap during the first chorus, but not on subsequent rounds – notable, since the impulse now feels inseparable from the song. When Queen performed it at Live Aid in 1985, some 72,000 people joined in, perhaps resulting in the largest ever en-masse double clap. In fact, crowd shots reveal that many of the London punters didn’t want (or couldn’t tell when) to stop.

Double claps didn’t feed the world that day, and they’ve likely had their finest hour, but they’re powerful and unpredictable contagions, all the same. Someone has to love them."

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Online Excerpt #2
From https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jul/31/double-clap-infectious-disco-rhythm-barbie-kylie "Clap clap! The infectious disco rhythm heard from Barbie to Kylie", published by Hugh Morris, 31 July 2023

The double handclap – most powerfully deployed in Patrice Rushen’s Forget Me Nots – is now a staple of pop thanks to Dua Lipa and more. Its practitioners explain why it’s still so catchy
..."Dua Lipa’s Dance the Night...provides the Barbies’ slick choreography with a gesture that’s very familiar to pop music fans: the disco double clap.

Like the disco string sound, gated reverb or the orchestra stab, it is traceable through generations of pop.

Made up of two quick claps and usually found at the end of a repeating four- or eight-bar phrase, the motif’s musical function is to gather the energy of the bars before it, and release it into the next. But the double clap feels cheeky, silly and faintly magical – the musical equivalent of waving a magic wand with a big shiny star on the end and watching the next phase of the song appear from nowhere.

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Johnson points to Patrice Rushen’s 1982 song Forget Me Nots as the classic double clap track…. A sleeper hit deemed a flop by her label executives, Forget Me Nots earned Rushen a Grammy nomination for best female R&B performer, and the track has been revisited by successive generations: in the late 80s, with the trampoline scene in the Tom Hanks movie Big; the 90s, as the title track of Will Smith’s Men in Black; and the 2020s, in a TikTok dance where participants would freestyle for a few bars before gravitating back to the rhythmic hook. Every generation that revisits the track focuses on the clap, although as Rushen the opening is “actually snap clap – everybody makes this mistake”. (It changes to two claps later on in the track.)

In turn, Rushen points to its presence in Motown and gospel, and in moments such as the intro to Car Wash, originally released by Rose Royce in 1976. The double clap is “part of the legacy and history of American dance music,” she says, “whether you think of the Latin clave, or pop music, all of it leads back to Africa. Its derivatives, where and how it’s placed – in music that’s particularly for the purpose of movement – that’s where you’ll find the double clap used.” Musically speaking, she adds: “It gives a certain kind of rhythmic pull.” The double clap in Forget Me Nots really pops “because it’s in the clear”, fitting especially well within funk’s sparse rhythmic architecture…..

For younger producers reviving the language of previous pop generations but undaunted by – or actively seeking – cliche, there is a new function for the double clap. “It’s almost like a call and response thing” between audiences and performers, says producer Lucy Tun. (She uses a relation of the double-clap motif in the rhythmic stabs on her 2020 track Another Week).”…

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #1
Rose Royce's hit R&B song "Car Wash" was first released in 1976. This video is found at the top of this post.

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #2 - EXPLAINED || Hand Clapping: The Rhythm of The Black Church


Black Music Archive, Sep 10, 2023  EXPLAINED || Technique Episodes

The Voice: EXPLAINED is a music education docu-series created by award-winning multi-disciplinary artist Milik Kashad, designed to educate listeners and viewers on the science and history of music and singing in an easy-to-understand and engaging way!

This episode focuses on the rhythms of hand clapping incorporated in traditional Black Gospel music.
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Also, click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mIPenJXF8Q&t=21s for a YouTube video entitled "I miss double clap church songs". That video shows a young Black man seated in his car singing "old school" Gospel songs.  

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #3-The Double Clap!!



Redinex, Nov. 28, 2021
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Here are a few comments from this short video's discussion thread with numbers added for referencing purposes only) 
1. @shawtyblackatl, 2022
"Baby…… if you from the lowcountry of South Carolina this is how we get down"

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2. @donjuan1942, 2022
"I knew this was South Carolina this the upstate churchin too especially off in the backwoods  this got me missing home"

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3. @talvistunechi8873, 2022
"North Carolina too"

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4. @cedfri, 2023
"We grew double clapping and foot stomping in Mississippi, common in the south"

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #4 -Eddie Floyd Performs "Knock On Wood" at In Performance at the White House: Memphis Soul accompanied by the White House band.

infomisa, Aug 26, 2013

Eddie Floyd Performs "Knock On Wood" at In Performance at the White House: Memphis Soul accompanied by the White House band.
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Notice at 1:37 to around 1:51 in that video Eddy Floyd says "Everybody put your hands together. Gimme a little soul clap". On those words the former President Obama, his wife Michelle, his daughters, and the rest of the audience do a fast double clap.

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #5 - Patrice Rushen - Forget Me Nots (Official Video)



Strut Records,  July 11, 2019 [This R&B record was first released 1982]

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #6 - Fraggle Rock | Opening Theme | The Jim Henson Company


The Jim Henson Company, Apr 22, 2013  #FraggleRock #JimHenson

Fraggle Rock opening title sequence.

The Jim Henson Company has remained an established leader in family entertainment for over 50 years and is recognized worldwide as an innovator in puppetry, animatronics and digital animation. This channel features popular children's shows including Fraggle Rock, Pajanimals, Dinosaur Train, Sid the Science Kid and more!

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #7 - Barbie - Dance The Night Scene | HD


Soundtrackfind, Sep 12, 2023

Barbie Dance The Night scene full HD dance scene. Song by Dua Lipa. Best movie in the 2023. All rights goes to Warner.

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Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Call And Response Patterns In Kenya's African Divine Church (ADC) Sermons



DAGGY AFRICA, Feb 28, 2023

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Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post presents information about Kenya, East Africa's African Divine Church (ADC) and also showcases five YouTube video examples of call & response between that church's preachers and their church members.

The content of this post is presented for cultural, religious, and educational purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to the African Divine Church and thanks to all those who are featured in these videos. Thanks also to DAGGY AFRICA, the producer and publisher of these videos and thanks to all those who are quoted in this post.

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INFORMATION ABOUT KENYA, EAST AFRICA'S AFRICAN DIVINE CHURCH (ADC)
From https://adcmission.wordpress.com/
..."The name “African Divine Church” was picked from the book of John 15:1-17 in 1950 concerning the true vine. This is because, ADC is compared to the vine tree that grows and bears fruits. Similarly ADC is meant to grow geographically and bear fruits numerically.

The official ADC dressing is having three colours:

White – the light of Christ.

Red – the blood of Jesus.

Green – the world in which we live.

Mandate and Purpose of African Divine Church

The mandate of ADC is derived from the Bible (Matthew 15:1-17) which concerns the true vine as explained earlier. The Purpose of ADC, as stipulated in the constitution, is; To function as a fellowship of Christians, professing, maintaining the Christian faith and life and Christian service to its members and harmony at large in accordance with the principles and practices of worldwide religion:

The overall goal of ADC is to contribute, spiritual and economic empowerment of the members and the community for realization of a dignified life. The vision of the church is to be a responsible spiritual guided church that empowers its members spiritually and economically. The mission of the church is to preach, teach and spread the gospel."...

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SHOWCASE VIDEOS
These videos are given in no particular order and are numbered for referencing purposes only.

These videos are presented without any comments, however, via Google translate it appears that most of the comments in the discussion thread are in KiSwahili. I recognize the word "Amen" and "Hallelujah" that are spoken as most of the responses during parts of these sermons. For the purpose of this post, I consider the statements in those sermons to be the "call" portion of the call and response communication pattern. Also, notice that the drum beats  also serve as part of the "responses" to those "calls".

several YouTube videos about the African Divine Church and their discussion threads connect this church with Kenya's Luhya ethnic group and/or suggest that most of its members are Luhyas. As such
, the preachers in these videos may be probably speaking the Luhya language. 

If you recognize the language that is spoken in these videos, please share that information in the comment section below. Thank you.

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #1
This video is embedded at the top of this pancocojams post.

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #2 - How to welcome the preacher of the day (A.D.C).



DAGGY AFRICA, Jun 14, 2023

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #3 - The GOOD NEWS of AFRICAN DIVINE CHURCH Preaching.


DAGGY AFRICA, March 18, 2023

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #4 - The Africa Divine church (pastor Kegode) preaching at home of the late.✋🙏



DAGGY AFRICA, Jun 12, 2023

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #5 - Goodnews(Mahubiri moto🔥🔥🔥) from pastor Andambe of African Divine Church.
 


DAGGY AFRICA, Dec 13, 2023

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Five YouTube Videos Of The Wara Bethel Conferences Of The Apostolic Church Of Ethiopia


Apostolic Church, Mar 24, 2022

ለወንድሞች እና እህቶችም ሼር በማድረግ የበረከቱ ተካፋይ እናደርጋቸው
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Google translate from Amharic to English "
Let's share the blessings to our brothers and sisters"

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Latest Update - March 27, 2024

This pancocojams post presents information about the Apostolic Church of Ethiopia (ACE) and its annual Wara Bethel Conference.

This post also showcases five YouTube videos of 
Wara Bethel Conferences.

The content of this post is presented for cultural, religious, and educational purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to the producers and publishers of these videos on YouTube and thanks to all those who are featured in these videos. Thanks also to all those who ae quoted in this post.

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INFORMATION ABOUT THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF ETHIOPIA AND ITS WARA BETHEL CONFERENCES
Source #1
From 
https://acieth.org/about/establishment/
..."Apostolic Church of Ethiopia (ACE) is member of Jesus’ church, established by him on the day of Pentecost, and is currently operating throughout the whole world beginning from Ethiopia. Its faith and doctrine is also not of a recent origin to Ethiopia. As it is written in the book of Acts chapter 8, an Ethiopian eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, heard the message of the gospel preached by the Apostles from the evangelist Phillip and was baptized in Jesus name as was practiced on the day of Pentecost.

This gospel of salvation preached by the twelve apostles was fallen on the ground in the land of Ethiopia for the last many centuries, until it was revealed with the mercy of the Lord and taken up again, beginning from about the second half of the 20th century.

Apostolic Church of Ethiopia (ACE) was legally registered by the government of Ethiopia and started operation beginning from the year 1968 G.C. Its HQ is in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and has got thousands of local churches, distributed all over the country and thousands of ministers serving in those churches. Its ministry is not only limited within Ethiopia; rather, it involves in evangelizing the whole world to the extent that the Lord Jesus opens the door and also in the edification of saints.

ACE’s Constituency is in millions and growing by 40 – 50 thousand every year. While most of the members are in Ethiopia, the number of saints is growing in Africa, North America, Asia and other parts of the world as well. Its international ministry is also spreading in almost all continents, viz. Africa, North America, Canada, Europe, Asia, Middle East and Australia.

The ACE’s fundamental doctrine is rooted and anchored firmly with the first New Testament Church that was born on the day of Pentecost. It preaches and practices the same message of repentance, baptism in Jesus name for the remission of sins and the infilling of the Holy Ghost (Acts 2:37-38)."...
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Click https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentecostalism_in_Ethiopia for general information about Pentecostalism in Ethiopia. That Wikipedia page mentions that the Apostolic Church of Ethiopia (ACE) is one of the three largest Pentecostal denominations in Ethiopia.

Also, click https://classroom.synonym.com/the-difference-between-pentecostal-apostolic-12084936.h
for information about the differences between being Pentecostal and Apostolic. Here's the first paragraph from that page:
"Pentecostalism is a Christian movement that began in the early part of the 20th century. The core  doctrine that distinguishes Pentecostals is their belief in the restoration of baptism in the Holy Spirit with the initial physical evidence of speaking in tongues. The Apostolic movement is an offshoot of the Pentecostal movement that began in 1913 when doctrinal disputes, which initially arose at a camp meeting revival service, split the fledgling movement"….

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Source #2
From https://www.privateguide.com/en/0584f80/tours/n_1095/
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The International Apostolic Church organizes annual spiritual festival at Wara-Sidama, Ethiopia. Wara is a rolling plain land in Sidama, During March more than 500,000 peoples gather from all over the country to attend the spiritual Wara festival."...

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SHOWCASE VIDEOS
These YouTube videos are presented in no particular order and are numbered for referencing purposes only

These videos are given without any editorial descriptions or editorial comments 

SHOWCASE VIDEO #1
This video is embedded at the top of this post.

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #2 - Wara Bethel Conference 2020 G C – Apostolic Church of Ethiopia 



Apostolic, Dec 14, 2020

ለመላው የኢትዮጵያ የሐዋርያዊት ቤተ ክርቲያን አባላት

የኢትዮጵያ ሐዋርያዊት ቤተ ክርስቲያ Web site ለእንተርኔት ተጠቃሚዎች ሁሉ በተመቻቸና እጅግ ደስ በሚያሰኝ መልክ ተዘጋጅቶላችሁ ቀርቦአል አሁኑኑ ይጎብኙ!!! https://acieth.org/
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Amharic to English

For all Ethiopian Apostolic Church members

The Ethiopian Apostolic Church Web site has been prepared for all Internet users in a convenient and pleasant way. Visit it now!!!

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #3 - የኢትዮጵያ ሐዋርያዊት ቤተ ክርስቲያን ዋራ ቤቴል 2014 / Wara Bethel Apostolic Church Of Ethiopia 2022


አንድ ጌታ ONE LORD, Mar 20, 2022  #apostolicchurchofethiopia #apostolic #wara

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #4 - Wara 2020, beautiful first day of conferences


Viajando y Mas con Miguel, Mar 13, 2020 

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #5 -33rd wara bethel conference ||apostolic Church of Ethiopia || 33 ዋራ ቤቴል ኮንፈረንስ || coming soon .... 


#EYA TUBE, Mar 1, 2024  #sibket #apostolic #wara

#wara #apostolic #song #gospel #worship #apostolic church of Ethiopia #wara #wara #song #mezmur#sibket

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