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Lyrids Folk Dance Festival 2025

Pitt Meadows Heritage Hall 12460 Harris Road, Pitt Meadows, British Columbia, Canada
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The eleventh Lyrids Folk Dance Festival will happen May 9-11, 2025 at Pitt Meadows Heritage Hall an hour drive east of Vancouver, BC, Canada. Guest artists are Željko Jergan presenting Croatian dances, and Dimitrios Kontogiannis presenting Greek dances. Zakuska from Seattle, WA will be the Saturday evening party band. Register Saturday Live Music Party on […]

Folk Dance and Tea Party

St. Bede's Church Hall 2650 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA, United States

Come join the Peninsula Council for their an afternoon tea and dance party! Share your favorite brew, tea time stories, and folk dances with your friends! Tentative Schedule TimeEvent 3:30 - 4:15pmTEA PARTY 4:15 - 6:30pmDANCING</td Send your dance requests to pfdcparty@gmail.com along with any questions, comments, or suggestions. Please stay home if you are […]

$10

Balkan Folk Dancing with Orkestar Unbound!

Ashkenaz 1317 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United States

Live Music for monthly Balkan Folk Dancing with Orkestar Unbound! Orkestar Unbound serves up a heady stew of energetic and soulful dances from the Balkans (Macedonia, Bulgaria, the Romani, Greece, Albania, etc.), and beyond! Artists include: Bill Cope: gajda, bouzouki, tambura, accordion Asaf Ophir: sax, clarinet, kaval Dan Auvil: percussion . There will be teaching […]

$10

Global Folk Dance Party

Online CA, United States
Online Event

Connect Globally, Dance Locally. Follow folk dance leaders and dance watching enthusiasts worldwide. It's almost time for June camp! Let's get ready together. Please join us for our usual team of dance leaders as well as this year's June camp teacher Steve Kotansky and June camp regulars and dance leads Nina Lusterman, Marie Aspell, Dit […]

Free

Cafe Shalom Dance Party

Congregation Am Tikvah 625 Brotherhood Way, San Francisco, CA, United States

Israeli folk dancers from all over the Bay Area dance the night away at Café Shalom’s Saturday party—a monthly tradition since the 1960s! We play a wonderful mix of oldies and the latest dances based on requests. Dancers of all ages are invited to join the fun on the third Saturday of every month. Saturday […]

$10

16th Annual Cerritos Festival

Cerritos Senior Center 12340 South Street, Cerritos, CA, United States

Help the Cerritos Folk Dancers celebrate their 16th anniversary with dance, cake, and your presence! Finger foods to share are welcome, but not necessary. Your traditional or special costume will add splendid color to the party. Each group is welcome to perform, lead, and/or request one or more dances. (Please let us know in advance […]

$12
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Family Fun and Dancing

Miraloma Park Clubhouse 350 O’Shaughnessey Boulevard (at Del Vale Avenue), San Francisco, CA, United States

Join Changs International Folk Dancers for a night of music and dance for the entire family! An hour of fun dance activities to music from around the world. Every Fourth Friday, 7pm-8pm. Followed at 8-10pm by international folk dances from our club’s repertoire. Adults accompanied by kids always free!

$8

Land Dancers Folk Dance Weekend

Cliff's land in the Santa Cruz Mountains CA-9 & Skyline Blvd, Saratoga, CA

Please join Land Dancers this Memorial Day Weekend May 23-26 for International and Israeli folk dancing and music at The Land. Anyone is welcome. Fun for families. No charge. Held every Memorial Day and Labor Day weekend. Founded by Cliff Jenkins and friends in 1981. You can camp out for the whole weekend or just […]

Free

Duquesne Tamburitzans

Crittenden Middle School 1701 Rock St, Mountain View, CA, United States

https://youtu.be/Y2eLUdtdwck?si=9cAZEuWK3KDtx1UM The Tamburitzans are an ensemble consisting of dancers, singers, and musicians who perform dances and songs from countries all around the world, mainly Eastern Europe. Originating from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, their mission helps preserve international cultural heritages through artistic performance. For more than 80 years the Tamburitzans have delighted audiences around the […]

$20 – $40

Scandia Camp 2025

Online CA, United States

Scandia Camp Mendocino 2025 will be ONLINE via Zoom this year. Free Registration - NO Charge to attend! Session 1: 10am PDT - Peter Michaelsen will teach some new tunes for Group Playing/Allspel. Likely they will be a schottische, waltz and . . . All instruments are welcome Session 2: noon PDT - John Ole […]

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