Balkanske Igre Spring Fest Mar 24-26, 2017, U of Chgo

Balkanske Igre's 2017 Spring Festival
Fri-Sun, Mar 24-26, 2017
International House, 1414 E 59th St,
Chicago, IL
http://www.balkanskiigri.com/
https://www.facebook.com/events/570198566496107/

Israeli Folk Dance Camp "Hora Eclipse" Aug 18-21, 2017

Received in e-mail:

    Message from Murray and Randi Spiegel (NJ)

Hi Guys:

We're involved with a dance camp that's scheduled around this summer's
total solar eclipse.

Next August, there's going to be a total solar eclipse conveniently
located in the US.  It's the first total in the US in nearly 40 years,
and the first one to go coast-to-coast in 99 years.

If you've seen a partial eclipse ... or a lunar eclipse ...
this is nothing like that: viewing a total solar is an awesome,
life-changing experience.

A friend is organizing a great two-fer: a dance camp plus a great location
to see the eclipse.

It's primarily an Israeli dance camp, but many non-Israeli dancers
will come, so we'll be running several international segments too.

I urge you consider coming to the camp, enjoying some international
dancing and the eclipse: http://www.hora-eclipse.com

Remember to tell people: When you register, be sure to indicate
you're interested in International Dance!

Thanks,
Murray and Randi Spiegel

Francophone Celebration, Thurs Mar 9 COD

Thursday March 9, 2017 - 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Célébration de la Francophonie
College of DuPage Atrium
 http://www.afdupage.com/special-events.html
Charles will once again be leading French folk dancing at this event, associated with the Allance Francaise Dupage, and he says there may be Haitian and Middle Eastern dancing, too.

Irish Dancing Dog Video

http://hellogiggles.com/dog-irish-dance/

archive.org 78rpm Folk Dance Recordings

A couple of years ago, I came across a collection of MP3s from public domain 78rpm recordings of folk dance music on archive.org, along with the code to embed a player in the sidebar of the blog.
https://argonneifd.blogspot.com/2014/12/archiveorg-international-folk-dance.html

But (at least on an ancient Windows XP desktop), it seems to be taking longer and longer to load the argonneifd.blogspot.com page, so hoping to speed things up, I've removed that gadget from the blog.  If you want to access the music directly, here's the link:
https://archive.org/details/InternationalFolkDances

Navy Pier Neighborhoods of the World Feb 12 - Mar 26

Neighborhoods of the World at Navy Pier
Sundays 12-4 pm, Free
Feb 12 - Mar 26th, 2017
Crystal Gardens
Folk Music, Dance, Food Crafts

https://navypier.com/neighborhoods-world/

Sunday, February 12: Celebrate Chinese New Year
Sunday, February 19: Celebrate Poland
Sunday, February 26: Celebrate Brazil's Carnival
Sunday, March 5: Celebrate Italy
Sunday, March 12: Celebrate Lithuania
Sunday, March 19: Celebrate Mexico
Sunday, March 26: Celebrate Greece

U of Chicago Folk Festival Feb 10-11, 2017

Here's the link for this year's University of Chicago Folk Festival:
http://uofcfolk.org/index.shtml

As of this writing, the workshop schedule isn't posted yet, but we understand that Mary Allsop will be doing a Scandinavian fiddle workshop, and Roo will be doing a Scandinavian dance workshop.  Usually there are various other dance workshops as well as other folk workshops.  The schedule says "On Saturday February 11 and Sunday February 12, we will have a series of free daytime workshops in Ida Noyes Hall. Our workshop schedule is still in progress, but workshops can generally be expected to run from 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM."
The evening concerts are at Mandel Hall, 8pm Friday Feb 10 and 7:30pm Saturday Feb 11.