Not exactly a folk dance...

http://youtu.be/LP3w-oJjH8I 



There are quite a few versions of this dance out there, apparently - search YouTube for "strumpfhosentanz"

WYCC TV + Old Town School "Musicology" TV series

http://www.wycc.org/programs/musicology/

Premieres April 19, 2013, Channel 20, Chicago broadcast TV (also Channel 20 on Comcast).

Harmonia + T-Roma, Mayne Stage, Chicago, Fri Mar 8, 2013

Roo alerted us to this event, though it conflicts with regular Friday night dancing:

Harmonia with Tamburitza Roma
Friday, March 8, 2013, 10:00pm, 8:30pm doors
Mayne Stage Theater
1328 Morse Ave.
Chicago, IL 60626
773.381.4551 (phone)
info@maynestage.com

Oak Park Folk Dancers Annual Potluck Apr 17, 2013

Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Oak Park Folkdancers Annual Pot Luck
515 Franklin, River Forest, IL
Dinner at 8:30, Request dancing 7:30-10:30
$6, Bring a Dish to share

Fermilab 25th Anniversary Party photos, past & present

There's a website called dearphotograph.com "take a picture of a picture, from the past, in the present" -- which seemed like kind of a cool idea, so I tried it out at the Fermilab 25th anniversary party last night (at which a good time was had by all, BTW; great turnout, lots of old friends in attendance).  I need to work on the technique, learn how to line things up better and focus better, but here are a few of the not-so-horrible attempts:

Then, because I wasn't happy with the way they looked when I got them uploaded to the computer, I tried monkeying with them after-the-fact, and/or trying to match the vantage point of old and new photos and putting them together without my chubby arm in the frame.  But somehow, that doesn't quite have the same effect, although there was something nice about being able to blend in people who are unfortunately no longer with us, as if there in spirit, and blending in the little kids who are now grown, moved away, and in some cases have kids of their own...

Neighborhoods of the World, Navy Pier, Sundays Feb 17 - Apr 7, 2013

Neighborhoods of the World
Sundays, February 17 – April 7, 2013
12 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Navy Pier's Crystal Gardens
Chicago, IL
Free Admission, All Ages
http://www.navypier.com/neighborhoods/schedule.html

Feb 24: Chinese Fine Arts Society
Mar 3: Celebrate Mexico
Mar 10: Celebrate Lithuanian Independence
Mar 17: Amazing India
Mar 24: Phillipine Fest
Mar 31: Africa in Chicago
Apr 7: Greek Journey

More events around the Midwest Feb 22-24,2013

In addition to the Columbus weekend with Yves Moreau previously posted, and the Dalakopa webcast that Roo alerted us to,  Mady listed some other events happening in other cities that same weekend (Feb 22-24, 2013) in a recent e-mail:

http://www.stlouisfolkdance.org/workshop.html - Balkan Dance, Alex Marcovic, St. Louis
http://www.snopa.org/snopa2013Registrationflier.pdf - International Dance, Wilder Forest N. of Stillwater, MN
http://www.aactmad.org/ddw/ - Contra & English, Ann Arbor, MI Dawn Dance Weekend
http://www.oldtownschool.org/concerts/2013/02-22-2013-orpheus-hellenic-folklore-society-830pm/

Also, when I turned on the Midnight Special on WFMT last night, they were playing "Changerais-Tu?" by Talitha Mackenzie (which you would recognize as the music to which we dance An Dro Retournee) - and they mentioned that Talitha Mackenzie will be preforming at the Chicago Maritime Festival, Feb. 23, 2013, at the Chicago History Museum, 1601 N. Clark St, Chicago.

Looking for links for the above, I came across this costumed version of An Dro Retournee (same tune, but not Talitha Mackenzie's version): http://youtu.be/PG1wV1BD6mc

And for the musicians, here's the "abc" notation from which you can generate sheet music and midi sound: http://abcnotation.com/tunePage?a=trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/Intl/song/Changerais_tu_Fw/0000