User:Martha Forsyth

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Martha Forsyth was diagnosed with terminal cancer of the pancreas in 2023. Friends and admirers are encouraged to visit [https://www.caringbridge.org/visit/marthaforsyth her pages at the Caring Bridge website]. —Pete Forsyth (her son)

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Some day I have to get my act together and say something intelligent on this page, but I've been spending her time learning Wiki trickies and am (still!) not ready to do that.

Basically, a lot of my life focuses on Bulgaria, where I've spent many months recording and documenting "old songs from old ladies". For an introduction to my work, you can:

• listen to some [http://www.rounder.com/?id=album.php&catalog_id=5631 samples of my field recordings];
• read my [http://martha.forsyths.org Blog], Bulgarian village singing (Treasures from my research since 1978);
• read about and explore my book on the life and songs of [http://www.forsyths.addr.com/linka/ Linka Gergova]

: (here is a sample from the section about [http://www.forsyths.addr.com/linka/moma.htmlLinka's girlhood]

: (here is another particularly cool [http://www.forsyths.addr.com/linka/turkish-gypsy-story.htm story] from my research, not related to Linka);

• meet [http://www.zdravets.com/ ZDRAVETS] ("Boston's Friendly Neighborhood Bulgarian Band), and hear some pretty fine music from the band I helped found;
• see some of the [http://www.beadswithoutend.com beadwork] that I learned in the small Bulgarian town Sarnitsa (Bulgarian: [http://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Сърница Сърница]), at the northern end of the Dospat Reservoir in the western Rhodope mountains.
• A more recent (starting August 2007) passion is [http://www.youtube.com/martamima HOOPING!];
• also [http://picasaweb.google.com/Forsythpics/ThingsMadeOfPaper?feat=directlink Things Made of Paper],
• and Family History...for myself, and for some friends. I don't have a readily available genealogy page online - yet.

-- Martha Forsyth

P.S. Re "participating in WikiProject Bulgaria"…I hope to participate more, so far it's been minimal!