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Folk Orchestra

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Gig at Sportsmans Lodge, Los Angeles, in the mid- '80s.

Bottom row: Arlita Stephens, Rob Stokes; Top left to right:

Joe Carson, Linda Levin, Ian Price, David Such, Joan Friedberg.

Left: Rob Stokes and Joe Carson in full Albanian dress

for concert at the Crossroads School, Los Angeles, 1989.

Above: Joan Friedberg leads polyphonic song "Vitori tu bëftë nëna"

in concert at California State University, Los Angeles, Oct. 26, 1991.

Joan Friedberg and Linda Levin sing a melancholy duet "Kur ma ktheve shpinën vera m'u ba dimën"

(When you turned your back on me, summer turned to winter) from Eastern Albania

at Luna Park club in Los Angeles, Dec. 3, 1994.

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