Madison, WI Folk Ball Jan 23-25, 2015

27th Annual Folk Ball Festival
January 23–25, 2015
Memorial Union (800 Langdon Street, Madison WI)
Featuring Lee Otterholt

http://www.madfolkdance.org/folkball

archive.org International Folk Dance MP3s from 78rpms

https://archive.org/details/InternationalFolkDances

"This is a collection of music for folk dancing that has long been out of print. Most of it consists of 78RPM transcriptions. Many of the vinyl recordings are actually transcribed from older 78s."

archive.org has kindly provided the html code to embed their player, so you can listen directly from this blog, see lower right-hand side, after the Blog Archive.

Holiday Schedule, not meeting Friday, January 2, 2015

Since we're having our New Years Day party on Thursday, Jan 1, 2015, we will not be meeting for dancing in Downers Grove on Friday, Jan 2, 2015.

But, we've decided to go ahead and meet on Friday, December 26, 2014, as well as the rest of the Fridays in December, so please do join us.

New Years Day Party - Thursday Jan 1, 2015

Argonne International Folk Dance New Years Day Party

Date: Thurs., January 1, 2015
Time: 1:00pm-6:00pm, potluck meal around 3:00pm
Place: St. Paul's UCC Fellowship Hall
Address: 5739 Dunham Rd., Downers Grove, IL
Requested Donation: $3+Potluck dish to share
Click on image below to enlarge/print flyers

Google+ for Argonne IFD

I activated Google+ for "Argonne IFD".  A couple of people seem to have found it and added Argonne IFD to their circles before I even did any more than just turn it on, and by those connections I found a few more to add to the circle.  If you're on Google+ and are so inclined, please check it out.  This blog will still be the main place where we post stuff for the group.  I'm still figuring out what makes sense to do with Google+, it may just end up being links to the blog posts.

While I was venturing further into social media, I also set up a Pinterest account.  Here's what I have there, so far:
http://www.pinterest.com/lgschub/oddball-folk-dance-videos/
http://www.pinterest.com/lgschub/folk-dance-cartoons/

EDC + EMNFD New Years Eve Party Wed Dec 31, 2014

Ethnic Dance Chicago & Evanston Monday Night Folk Dancers
New Year’s Eve Pot Luck Dinner and Dance Party
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Pot Luck Dinner 7-8pm, Dance Party 8pm-?
Chicago Latvian Community Center – 2nd Floor
4146 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
NW corner of Elston (NW Diag) & Hamlin (3800W),  Enter on Hamlin
Donation: $20 Dinner+Party, or $25 Party only
More info: http://www.ethnicdance.net/downloads/edc_new_years_eve.pdf

Evanston Out-of-the-Woodwork party Monday, Dec 15, 2014

EVANSTON MONDAY NIGHT FOLK DANCERS
OUT OF THE WOODWORK HOLIDAY PARTY
Monday, December 15th   6:30-10:30 PM
Lake Street Church of Evanston, Illinois
corner of Lake Street and Chicago Avenue (607 Lake Street)
enter through courtyard arched entry on Chicago Avenue

http://www.evanstonfolkdance.org/