Madison Folk Ball Jan 23-25, 2009

Received from Michael:

You and your party-hearty friends are invited
to enjoy Madison's 21st annual
FOLK BALL FESTIVAL
January 23-25, 2009
Memorial Union (800 Langdon Street, Madison WI)
featuring YVES MOREAU and DENNIS GROVE

Miraculously funded by your generous voluntary donations --
make one full-weekend contribution at Info Table in Great Hall
or donate at each event you attend, but do what you can to keep
Folk Ball an open, free-flowing celebration!
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Friday Night Dance Parties -- three of them!
INTERNATIONAL DANCE: Great Hall (4th floor) 7:30-midnight.
CAJUN STRANGERS -- Yes, Cajun - Madison
YID VICIOUS -- Virtuous Klezmer (Yiddish) - Madison
IZVOR ORCHESTRA -- Flagship Ethnic Band of Milwaukee
cameo by TRI BRATOVCHEDKI -- Eastern European Singers
CONTRA DANCE: Tripp Commons (2nd floor east)
7:30-8:00 instruction, dancing 8:00-11:00 or later if you like...
Calling by Karen Kaufman, Music by DUCK FOR THE OYSTER.
Info: Roger foolong@pobox.com / 608-242-0373.
Suggested donation $7.
HUNGARIAN TANCHAZ (village-style "dance-house")
Beefeaters Room (3rd floor east)
8:00pm -- music by SZASZKA (traditional string band)
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Saturday Folk Arts Workshops
10-noon Great Hall BULGARIAN / BALKAN FOLKDANCE -- Yves Moreau
10-noon Tripp Commons CROSS STEP WALTZ -- Jeanette Watts
10-Noon Beefeaters Yid Vicious documentary film "Car-Free Klezmer"
12-1 Beefeaters Rm Brownbag Lunch /Culture Corner -- Yves Moreau
1-3pm Great Hall METIS TRADITIONAL DANCE -- Dennis Grove
1-3pm Tripp Commons SERBIAN FOLKDANCE -- Michael Malich
1-3pm Old Madison Rm FAMILY DANCE -- Duck for the Oyster
1-3pm Beefeaters Rm AFRICAN DRUMMING -- Eku Emmanuel & Atimevu Drum &
Dance
3-5pm Great Hall BULGARIAN / BALKAN FOLKDANCE -- Yves Moreau
3-5pm Tripp Commons WEST AFRICAN DANCE -- Abu Muhammed
with Atimevu Drum &
Dance
3-5pm Old Madison Rm A CAPPELLA SINGING -- Tri Bratovchedki & Friends
3-5pm Round Table Storytelling "Tell-Around" -- Reid Miller
3-5pm Beefeaters Yid Vicious documentary film "Car-Free Klezmer"
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Visit Joan Amsterdam's folkstuff shop in Great Hall anytime Saturday!
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Saturday BUFFET DINNER - serving at 5:00 in the Union
(Inn Wisconsin Room - 2nd floor east)
Lasagna (meat or vegetarian), salad, Italian squash medley,
bread sticks, cookies, coffee/tea/milk.
Per person $17.50. Reservations required -- accepted thru Sunday, Jan.18.
Contact Michael mk@mailbag.com / 608-241-3655
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The Legendary FOLK BALL DANCE PARTY (Great Hall)
Saturday 7:00pm-1:00am
Music By:
ORKESTAR BEZ IME -- IFD Band from Twin Cities
VESELIYKA -- Village-Style Balkan Band - Madison
SLOBODA -- Milwaukee's Full-Spectrum Ethnic Sound
REPTILE PALACE ORCHESTRA -- High-Octane Eclectic Ethnic
Early Evening Dance Perfs: SUMADIJA Serbian Folk Dance Ensemble
(Milwaukee),
NASHENCHETA & MITRONIYA Bulgarian dance ensembles (Chicago)
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Sunday Workshops / Reviews at Great Hall
10:30am - 3:30pm BULGARIAN/BALKAN FOLKDANCE -- Yves Moreau
and METIS DANCE -- Dennis Grove
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Survivors Dance Party -- Sunday 8:00-11:00pm
at The Crossing, 1127 University Avenue
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Presented by Madison Folk Dance Club.
Sponsored by Department of Slavic Languages, Global Connections, Students
for WORT.
Welcomed by WORT 89.9FM Community-Sponsored Radio.
To offer or ask crash space: Tami 608-274-3132 tjdettin@yahoo.com
Folk Ball website: http://plantpath.wisc.edu/~tdd/folkball.html
for workshop details, schedule updates, lodging information, and such.
Further Info: Michael 608-241-3655 mk@mailbag.com

Reuters Morris Dancing article

Click here
for an article entitled "Morris dancers urge young to strap on the bells"

NBC TV "Superstars of Dance" starts tonight (Jan 4, 2009)

Here a link, in case my attempt to embed the promo clip from youtube doesn't work:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EutEn0B32Ag

Tamburitzans at Moraine Valley CC Jan 17, 2009

Nikola forwarded this info:

Tamburitzans
Saturday, Jan. 17, 7:30 p.m.
$20 general public / $15 seniors / $10 students and MVCC staff
Dorothy Menker Theater
America’s longest-running multicultural song and dance company, the Duquesne University Tamburitzans is a unique ensemble of talented young folk artists dedicated to the performance and preservation of the music, songs, and dances of Eastern Europe and neighboring folk cultures – a carousel of style and color from the first note to the final stomp.
This presentation is supported by the Performing Arts Fund, a program of Arts Midwest funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art, with additional contributions from Illinois Arts Council, General Mills Foundation, and Land O’Lakes Foundation.

Old Town School World Music Wednesday concerts

Click here for schedule of world music concerts at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago

No Dancing in Downers Grove Fridays 11/28, 12/26, 1/2/09

We're not going to be dancing in Downers Grove the day after Thanksgiving (11/28), nor the day after Xmas (12/26), nor the day after New Years (1/2). However, we will be holding our annual New Years Day Party

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New Years Day Folk Dance + Potluck in Downers Grove

Date: Thurs., January 1, 2009

Time: 1:00pm-6:00pm,   potluck meal around 3:00pm

Place: St. Paul's UCC Fellowship Hall

Address: 5739 Dunham Rd.,  Downers Grove, IL

Req. Donation: $1+Potluck dish to share

Click here for directions