 |  |  |  | | With Gordon Lightfoot and Harry Manx at the Mariposa Festival, July 2005 | With Harry Manx, Ottawa Blues Festival, July 2005 | Performing at the Ottawa Blues Festival, July 2005 | With Harry Manx, Edmonton Folk Festival, August 2005 (Photo by Brian Zahorodniuk) |
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| (photo by Brian Zahorodiuk) | Performing at the Edmonton Folk Festival, 2003 (photo by Brian Zahorodniuk) | Performing with Harry Manx and the Urban Turban (photo by Brian Zahorodniuk) | Performing with Harry Manx and the Urban Turban (photo by Brian Zahorodniuk) |
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| Performing with Harry Manx and the Urban Turban (photo by Brian Zahorodniuk) | After performance at the Sacred Music Festival, Vancouver 2001, with Kathak dancer Neeloffer Mukerjee, Pritam Singh, Keya Sarkar and Deepak Sarkar, r. to l. | With Kathak dancer Neeloffer Mukerjee | Sacred Music Festival, Vancouver 2001 |
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| A Hang demonstration on Bloor Street, Toronto | Performing on the Hang; Mystic Journey | Performing with New Earth at the Canadian Pavillion in Seville, Spain | Performing with New Earth at the Canadian Pavillion in Seville, Spain |
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| Tabla solo in Benares, accompanied by Santosh Mishra | 2004 Ottawa Folk Festival | In the early days with Pandit Sharda Sahai and Bob Becker | Niel with Druvnath Mishra performing in Benares |
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| My Trip To Timbuktu, Mali (all photos Niel Golden and Margo Macdonald, copyright 2005) |
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| On the road (NG) | Sunset (NG) | Ferry across the Niger River (NG) | Boats on the Niger River (NG) |
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| More boats on the Niger River (NG) | A girl with salt blocks on her head in Timbuktu (NG) | A man walking in Timbuktu (NG) | Some local boys with Linsey from Galitcha in Timbuktu (NG) |
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| Timbuktu street scene (NG) | Timbuktu Market street (NG) | Musicians of the Sahara Desert (NG) | Musicians up close (NG) |
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| Galitcha in the Sahara Desert (MM) | Performing on the Hang with Galitcha in the tea tent of the market area, Festival au Desert (MM) | Galitcha in the tea tent (MM) | Galitcha in the tea tent (MM) |
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| Galitcha in the tea tent (MM) | Galitcha in the tea tent (MM) | The view from our tent at Festival au Desert (NG) | Mohamed the magnificent (NG) |
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| Waiting at the "Fresh Goat Restaurant" to play the finale at Festival au Desert (MM) | Galitcha after closing the Festival (MM) | The artisan's market in Bamako (NG) | A wall of masks from all regions of Mali, Bamako artisan's market (NG) |
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