We will be holding our annual afternoon New Years Day Folk Dance Party on Zoom, Thursday Jan 1, 2026, 1pm-4pm.
We will *NOT* be meeting the following day, Friday Jan 2.
Reminder that we're also *NOT* meeting Friday Dec 5. But we will meet as usual all the Fridays in between (Dec 12, 19, 26).
We're changing it up this year, and we *will* be meeting to dance on Zoom the day after Thanksgiving, Fri Nov 28, a.k.a. Black Friday. It was suggested we point out what a bargain it will be, 50% off our usual price of $0! 😎
However, the change in plans that leaves us available on Fri Nov 28 also makes us *unavailable* the following Friday Dec 5, so we will *NOT* be meeting Fri Dec 5.
Stay tuned for details of the schedule around Xmas and New Years.
We will not be meeting on Friday the 4th of July, so as not to compete with anyone's holiday plans.
We're taking off one more week, and will NOT be meeting for Friday night dancing on Zoom Friday April 18, 2025 (Good Friday). We look forward to seeing you again soon. Happy Passover, Easter, etc.
We're taking a 4-week hiatus from our usual Zoom folk dance meetings on Friday nights. We'll keep in touch with a weekly e-mail if you're on our list, to point out upcoming events in the folk dance world, virtual or otherwise, with a "funny" at the end, and to send out a reminder when we resume our Friday Zoom meetings.
Here are some links where you can find other live and virtual folk/dance and related events in the meantime:
https://argonneifd.blogspot.com/2025/01/2025-upcoming-events-you-might-be.html
https://nfo-usa.com/virtual-events-calendar/
https://nfo-usa.com/major-events/
https://www.virtualdanceroom.net
https://www.facebook.com/PFDCouncil/ (hosts the monthly Global Dance Parties on Zoom)
You can also check out the 5-years-worth(!) of annotated playlists from our Zoom dance sessions, which have links to dance videos, music, and dance descriptions where available, so you can dance and listen to the music you enjoy from Friday dancing at your own convenience:
https://argonneifd.blogspot.com/search?q=annotated (There's also a search box at the top left corner of the blog where you can search dance names. More recent posts are more likely to have valid links that haven't crumbled over time).
The Folk Dance With Henry youtube channel has lots of folk dance videos and playlists suitable for dancing along -- https://www.youtube.com/@folkdancewithhenry5122/videos
There are also 5 years of Zoom videos of Dit's Wednesday night Zoom/hybrid folk dancing archived on this youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Olshanr1
Tons of dance descriptions, many with videos and links to music are available on the Folk Dance Musings blog: https://folkdancemusings.blogspot.com/
So, keep dancing, and we look forward to seeing you next month.
We will NOT be meeting Friday, Jan 31, 2025.
Instead, you can get your Friday dose of Zoom folk dancing from the Stockton Winter Weekend. According to the Stockton WW schedule, the events scheduled during the time we normally would be meeting are Dance Class - Lee Otterholt - Class 1 of 2 and Music - Live Music with Orkestar Unbound - 2 of 6.
We'll be meeting as usual this Friday Jan 24, and again starting in February.
We will NOT be meeting Friday, January 3, 2025. We'll be back as usual Friday January 10, 2025.
We are going to take a week off for the holiday, and will NOT be meeting for Zoom folk dancing the day after Thanksgiving, Friday Nov 29.
We will NOT be meeting on Zoom the Friday after Thanksgiving, Nov 25, 2022. Check out Texa-Kolo for dancing that weekend: https://texa-kolo.org/
Happy Thanksgiving!
We will NOT be meeting this Friday, October 7, 2022, for dancing at our usual Zoom location. Instead, you can visit the San Antonio Folklife and Dance Festival dance party on Zoom. The registration link, and a schedule link with all the activities for the weekend, can be found here: https://safdf.org/
