Channel Surfing and Local Music

I recorded these videos on my camera after switching the channel from the camel racing. I thought that friends & family outside the Arabian peninsula might find these local music videos to be quite entertaining.

The men are doing the traditional yola dance, which I've read is designed for them to show off their rifle spinning skills. As one write-up in the local paper described: "The yola dance requires men to stand in a line together, facing another line of men who loudly chant lines of poetry. I'm sure you have been impressed by the back-and-forth movement of the hands and the head, and the men's ability to bend during certain parts of the poetry and music."

You can see the line of men in this video.

Some more here, that shows the bending that the writer mentioned.

Comments

[mom]

"Ricko Sauvey" or however you spell it. I wouldn't want to be near that pitching knife.

[Jennifer]

Rrrrrico