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    • A Stranger's Eye, Shanxi, China
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  • BURKINA FASO, Bani, 2007. Eyes closed in concentration, a man participates in the devotional singing of the town's Muslims.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Bani, 2007. The call and response of Bani's Muslim devotional singing requires almost constant attention, and these boys give it all they can.
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  • Burkina Faso, Bani, 2007. Boys sing at a Muslim ritual lasting twenty-four hours.
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  • The award-winning gospel choir at Apostolic Life Community Church in east Salinas helps draw in an enthusiastic congregation.
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  • High emotions during services at Apostolic Life Community Church on Williams Road in east Salinas. An award-winning gospel choir raises the roof here every Sunday, accompanied by an enthusiastic congregation joining together for music and prayer.
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  • High emotions during services at Apostolic Life Community Church on Williams Road in east Salinas. An award-winning gospel choir raises the roof here every Sunday, accompanied by an enthusiastic congregation joining together for music and prayer.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Bani, 2007. The sun dips behind a mosque's minaret atop the flats overlooking Bani village.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Bani, 2007. A local watches his flock and a group of boys playing football far below on the dry-season floodplain outside of town.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Bani, 2007. The Grand Mosquee, centerpiece of the village, was built several hundred years ago during an era of great religious fervor in Burkina Faso.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Bani, 2007. By midday, almost everyone in this group was clearly exhausted, yet the singer's call and response continued until well after dark.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Bani, 2007. A stout forked stick is used by the devotional singers of Bani to rest on. Children as well as adults need this prop.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Bani, 2007. Vultures loom over the empty courtyard of the "Grand Mosquee" in Bani.
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  • From left, Evelyn Godoy, 10, Nathan Watkins, 8, Jasmin Gonzalez, 10 and Maria Jimenez, 10, make a video using Musical.ly on the lawn behind the Chávez Library in east Salinas.
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  • HIgh emotions during services at Apostolic Life Community Church on Williams Road in east Salinas. An award-winning gospel choir raises the roof here every Sunday, accompanied by an enthusiastic congregation joining together for music and prayer.
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  • Mexico, Federal District, Mexico City, September 15-16, 2010. The 200th anniversary of Mexico's independence from Spain was celebrated with a tremendous country-wide effort marked by careful planning and a generous spirit. Mexico City was host to the most spectacular events, assisted by thousands of organizers, officials, artists, soldiers and citizens.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Bani, 2007. Many of the Muslim devotional singers of Bani are children, enthusiastic in their embrace of the tradition but showing the strain of standing for hours.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Bani, 2007. The main hall of the Grand Mosquee in Bani, one of seven magnificent mud mosques built during a Muslim renaissance several centuries ago.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Bani, 2007. In the graveyard along the steep path to the top of the flats, signs of life among the volcanic rocks of Bani's desert environment.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Bani, 2007. The graceful curve of a mature zebu's horn, seen in the dying light of afternoon near the main road.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Bani, 2007. The village is almost wholly built of mud and local wooden beams, as are the seven mosques that dot the landscape.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Bani, 2007. Atop the barren landscape a few hundred meters from town, a shepherd surveys the territory near one of Bani's seven mud mosques.
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  • A parishioner is fully baptised by Pastor Andrew Lopez during services at Apostolic Life Community Church on Williams Road in east Salinas. An award-winning gospel choir raises the roof here every Sunday, accompanied by an enthusiastic congregation joining together for music and prayer.
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  • A parishioner is fully baptised by Pastor Andrew Lopez during services at Apostolic Life Community Church on Williams Road in east Salinas. An award-winning gospel choir raises the roof here every Sunday, accompanied by an enthusiastic congregation joining together for music and prayer.
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  • Pastor Andrew Lopez comforts an ecstatic parishioner taken away by the message during services at Apostolic Life Community Church on Williams Road in east Salinas.
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  • BURKINA FASO, Bani, 2007. Mud construction cool even in the midday heat, the arched interior passageways of the Grand Mosquee lead to a large central prayer hall.
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  • In her job at Spreckels Elementary School, Audrey Dueñas is sometimes called "The Singing Secretary." From a musical family, Dueñas loves Easter, and singing with the St. Joseph's choir.
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  • India, Gokarna, 2006. Reaching the end of a five mile walk, Keralan Hindu dancers will carry on singing and dancing through the night in a yearly "puja" ceremony.
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  • BURMA (MYANMAR), Shan State, Peinnebin. 2006. Just after sunrise, even on the wedding day, hard-working Palaung students can be heard singing their homework. A musical framework aids memory.
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  • The Salinas High School A Cappella Ensemble sing the national anthem at the annual Avenue of Flags Memorial Day Program at Garden of Memories Memorial Park in Salinas.
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  • In a Christmas Eve service at the United Methodist Church, the Hatti Nai family of Salinas performs "Sing Haleluia Hosana, Jesus is Born Today" in soaring harmony.
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  • In an airy, open sanctuary lit by street-level stained glass, congregants pray and sing through an early morning Easter Sunday service at Cristo La Roca Church in East Salinas.
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  • China, Xiahe, 2005. With all the enthusiasm a roomful of friends can impart, these women sing their hearts out at a friend?s Tibetan wedding..
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  • Julie Posey sings the national anthem during a Veterans Day ceremony on Wednesday at the Monterey County Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Salinas.
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  • Seven year-old Xavian Balaoro from Salinas sings God Bless America at a memorial ceremony Sunday at the Monterey County Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Salinas.
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  • Carlos Ponce Martinez, left, consul general of Mexico to San Jose, sings Mexico's national anthem with other officials at Sunday’s “El Grito” ceremony in Salinas marking September 16th's anniversary of Mexico’s independence from Spain. The annual fiesta, which occupies East Alisal Street between Wood and Sanborn, brimmed as usual with booths selling patriotic souvenirs and all manner of food and drink. Local businesses and nonprofits manned booths with information about health and community programs, while traditional “bandas” filled the afternoon with dance music and good cheer.
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  • Logan Thorstenson, known as the "Boy Soprano," sings the national anthem on Friday night at the 102nd California Rodeo Salinas, which opened July 19 for a four-day run.
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  • USA, Skokie, IL, February 12, 2010. William Borsma sings Gilbert and Sullivan in the black-box theater. Niles North High School's afternoon programs give hundreds of kids opportunities to learn and pursue artistic or academic avenues of their own choice outside standard curricula. The drama program, for example, led by instructor Tim Ortmann, teaches interested students every aspect of theater, from the roles themselves to costume-making, set-building and production design. Photo for Hoy by Jay Dunn.
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  • India, Nasik, 2006. A "sadhu'" or traveling holy man, sings for his supper at the Ramkund, pilgrimage site for many religious Hindus.
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