Scandinavian Folk Music and Folk Dance Events
Elsewhere in the United States
January 26-29, 2012
Sixteenth Annual Ski-Dance Weekend.
Fairlee, VT. Featured guests Bjønar Heimdal (dance), Ottar
Kåsa (hardingfele), Peter Michealson, Toby Weinberg. See http://www.nordic-home.com/skidance/default.htm
for more info and registration.
Feb 3-5, 2012
Vinterdans at the Cedar Valley
Grange, 20526 - 52nd Ave. W., Lynnwood, near Seattle. The Metro Gnomes
and Weatherproof play for dancing, Friday 2/3, 8:00 - 11:00 p.m.
Admission: $13 (Skandia members, $10). Saturday, 2/4, Bev and Milt
Anderson teach a day-long slängpolska workshop at the Grange (address
above). No dance experience is required for this workshop. Workshop
admission, including lunch: $40; Skandia members, $35. Registration:
9:30 - 10:00 a.m. Live music by talented fiddler Peter Michaelsen.
Sunday, 2/5, Peter Michaelsen will teach a slängpolska music workshop
from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at 7728 – 21st Ave. N.W., Seattle.
Workshop fee: $15. Call 206-784-8959 for more weekend event
information. Contact: <http://www.skandia-folkdance.org> ,
<info@skandia.folkdance.org>.
March 16 – 18, 2012
Boulder Spring 2012 Scandinavian Dance
Workshop. Boulder, Colorado. Featuring dance teachers Leif and
Margareta Virtanen and fiddlers
Peter
Westerlund
and
Åke Steinholtz.
The dances to be taught have not
yet been finalized but possibilities include: Lilhärdal
and
Södra
Dalarna, both the polska and the hambopolska.
Please note: the workshop this year
is the third weekend in March rather than the fourth weekend as it has
been for several years. The workshop runs from 7:00 pm on
Friday through 4:30 pm on Sunday. On Sunday night, there is an informal
pot-luck and dance for whoever is left in town and is a very fun event.
If you have enough time, you might also want to plan on staying for our
weekly Monday night dance. Often the teachers and musicians are still
here and also teach and play on that Monday night. All events at the
Avalon Ballroom. Contact: Sheila < spmorris@ecentral.com>
April 20-23, 2012,
Springdans Northwest in Seabeck
WA will feature the dancing and music of Telemark, Norway. See http://skandia-folkdance.org/
for more info and application form.
June 8 - 9, 2012
Nisswa-stämman #13, Nisswa
MN.
http://www.nisswastamman.org
July 1 -- July 8, 2012
Nordic
Fiddles and Feet
2012. Camp
Ogontz in Lyman
NH. Our superb
week of Scandinavian music and dance in New Hampshire
will take place again this year. From Norway: Ranveig Bakka and Tom
Løvli, teaching dances from Telemark. Hardingfele music by
Erling Halling. Erling will also teach hardingfele and play for the
evening parties. From Sweden: Ulla and Lennarth Sandberg, teaching a
variety of dances, mostly from Jämtland but also farther south. Dance
Basics class presented by Roo Lester and Larry Harding. Swedish
fiddlers/teachers and nyckelharpa and singing teachers are still being
worked out. Contacts: Matt Fichtenbaum, <mattfic@rcn.com>. NFF,
4401 Alta Vista Way, Knoxville, TN 37919, (865) 522-0515,
<fiddlesandfeet@bellsouth.net>
July 19-22, 2012
Hardanger Fiddle Music and Dance
Workshop. Folklore Village near Dodgeville, Wisconsin. Presented
by the Hardanger Fiddle Association of America (HFAA). Contact:
http://www.hfaa.org/
Nov 22-25,l 2012
Southern California Skandia Festival
- Julian CA - <http://www.dancin-fool.com/scandia.html>, or call
Carol Martin, (714)893-8888
Last update 1/25/2012
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