Will County Celtic Festival July 29-30 Joliet, IL

Will County Celtic Festival
July 29 - 30 2011
Will County Bicentennial Park
Joliet, IL

Don Weeda Live Music: 7/14 at Fermilab, 7/15 in Downers Grove

This Friday (July 15) Don Weeda plans to join us and provide live music for dancing at Argonne Folk Dancing at St. Paul's UCC in Downer's Grove, at our usual 8pm meeting.  He has a great repertoire of our favorite folk dances, and we always enjoy his annual visit.  In an unfortunate coincidence, a theater group that has booked the Fellowship Hall where we usually dance this week, so we will instead be located in the classroom at the far end of the hall.  They would prefer if we use the entrance closer to that end of the building.


Also received from Mady:

We’ve got a special treat of live music by our accordionist friend Don Weeda at Fermilab International folk dancing this week, Thursday, July 14. We’re meeting in the cool of Ramsey Auditorium’s stage in the Fermilab high-rise Wilson Hall, 7:30 – 10 p.m.  Don comes up from Texas once a year to visit his mom, and we are so pleased to have him play for dancing, since his repertoire is vast, and his arrangements are always innovative!

Here's a youtube video of Don performing Jove Malaj Mome with the 1001 Nights Orchestra:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhByrxcP9GU

Chicago Folk & Roots Festival July 9-10 Welles Park

2011 Chicago Folk and Roots Festival
Saturday, July 9th, and Sunday, July 10th, noon-9:30pm
Welles Park - between Montrose and Sunnyside along Lincoln Avenue, directly across from the Sulzer Library.

http://www.chicagofolkandroots.org/

Including the Megitza Quartet, an amalgam of folk music from Eastern Europe and the U.S. with a particular focus on traditional Polish highlander folk and Roma music.

Megitza Quartet brews a global blend of folk | WBEZ

Baby Blues Comic with "Folk Dancing" in the punch line

 Couldn't find a way to embed the comic itself, but here's the link:

Baby Blues Archive

Chicago Irish Fest July 8-10

July 8-10, 2011
Irish Fest
Irish-American Heritage Center
4626 N. Knox Ave.
Chicago, IL 60630

Chicago SummerDance July 7- Sept 18

Chicago SummerDance | Explore Chicago

Summerdance starts later this year, July 7. I don't see a schedule posted on their website yet, but Paul sent some e-mail with this information:

• Ethnic Dance Chicago @ Chicago SummerDance
• Thursday, July 14 - Carpathian Dance with Megitza Quartet
• Thursday, July 21 - Balkan/International with Orkestar Sloboda

Update: schedule is posted.  There's also this event:

Bulgarika with Nikolay Kolev
Sep 17, 2011
Dance lessons by Balkanski Igri and Ethnic Dance Chicago and live music by Bulgarika with Nikolay Kolev, performing Bulgarian Folk music.


Here's the link for all "World music" events:
http://www.explorechicago.org/city/en/supporting_narrative/events___special_events/special_events/dca_tourism/chicago_summerdance/SummerDance_WORLD.html