Not meeting Fri, Apr 27, 2018

We will not be meeting Friday evening, April 27, 2018, because Saturday, April 28 is our annual Stone Soup party.  For which we could use some volunteers to bring soup, please let us know if you'd like to bring soup as your potluck dish.  Hope to see you there.

Stone Soup: Sat Apr 28, 2018

Argonne International Folk Dance Stone Soup Party
Date: Saturday, April 28, 2018
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: $5 + Potluck dish to share
 In order to spend more time dancing and less time cooking during the party, the soups will be made ahead. Please let us know if you can bring soup.
Click on flyer image below if you need more printed flyers.

Spring Scandinavian Weekend - Mar 16-18, 2018, Folklore Village, Dodgeville, WI

https://folklorevillage.org/spring-scandinavian-weekend/

Spring Swedish Weekend 
March 16 ~ 18, 2018
Folklore Village, Dodgeville, WI
Featuring the music and dance of Föllinge and other areas of Jämtland.
With special guests from Sweden:        
Beret Bertilsdotter and Per Olof Petersson(dance) and
 fiddlers Mats and Ulf Andersson.

Traditional Dance & Music Fest Mar 16-18, 2018 - Urbana, IL

http://www.centralillinoisecd.org/marchfest.html

Central Illinois English Country Dancers & Urbana Country Dancers
Sixteenth Annual Marchfest
Traditional Dance & Music Festival
March 16-18, 2018
Phillips Recreation Center, 505 W.Stoughton,Urbana, IL

Friday evening contra dance, various dance workshops during the day Saturday, a Saturday evening English Country Ball and music events on Sunday (with the possibility of some dancing).

Featuring the band Rare Privilege from Wisconsin

Dance Instruction By Jon Hanson, Jonathan Sivier, Local English Dance Leaders

Jim Hemphill, Contra caller from Missouri

Additional Music By The Flatland Consort

Cancelled: Friday Feb 9, 2018, due to snow

We will not be dancing in Downers Grove tonight, Friday, February 9, 2018, due to the weather.  Hopefully this is a relief as much as a disappointment.  Stay safe!

Balkanske Igre Spring Fest Mar 23-25, 2018, U of C Intl House

Spring Festival, 2018 Ensemble Balkanske Igre's 53rd anniversary

Ensemble Balkanske Igre
Mar 23-25 , 2018
International House
1414 E 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
Teachers:  Yannis Konstandinou (Greek),
Ahmet Luleci (Turkish),
Ventzi Sotirov (Bulgarian),
Chris Bajmakovich (accordion and Macedonin singing),
James Stoyanoff (clarinet)

Tonight Show: "Dancing for Busy People", Ding Dong Daddy

Unfortunately, this book was in a Tonight Show segment called "Do Not Read", but I think we actually did do the dance that they demo from it (Ding Dong Daddy) some years ago, Roo showed it to us, I think.  I couldn't make the embedded video start at the place of interest, which is about 3min8sec into the video, so here's a direct link to start there if you don't want to see the whole bit (you may have to view an ad first, no way around that):
https://youtu.be/01z32yNoOCA?t=3m08s

See also, for demo of dance with music: https://youtu.be/earw8Q-P-X4?t=59s
 And here are a few more links related to the music, the full title of which is "I'm a Ding Dong Daddy from Dumas":
 https://lloydshawfoundation.bandcamp.com/track/ding-dong-daddy-instrumental
https://archive.org/details/78rpm?and[]=ding%20dong%20daddy

Larry Hooper - Ding Dong Daddy from Dumas (Larry Hooper performs "Ding Dong Daddy" on the Lawrence Welk Show)