Folk Ball Festival
March 3 - 5, 2006
Rustle up the dancing
shoes, mark the calendar, and alert kith and kin!
We're on the late side this year, so your help in spreading the word
would
be especially appreciated this time around.
Live Music Parties in the Great Hall of the
Memorial
Union Friday and Saturday
with workshops by
CRISTIAN FLORESCU and
SONIA DION - Romanian folkdance
Nijole Semenaite Etzwiler & Zaibas Lithuanian Dancers -
Lithuanian
dance
Michael Malich -
Serbian Dance
Tri Bratovchedki singers -
Balkan singing
Marek Szotkowski - Argentine
Tango
Nijole Semenaite
Etzwiler of Zaibas -
Folk Culture of Lituania (brown bag lunch session)
( OTHER WORKSHOPS are expected -- TBA
when confirmed. )
Bands/Musicains playing during the weekend:
Reptile Palace Orchestra -
Balkan Lounge Funk
- Madison
Izvor Orchestra -
Multi-ethnic folkdance band from Milwaukee
Yid Vicious - Klezmer
- Madison
Spatter Dash - folkdancer band - South Bend
Finn Hall Band - Finnish
polka,waltz, schottisch - Twin Cities
Orkestar
Sloboda - Authentic Ethnic sound of Milwaukee
David Kantor & Yuli Yordanov - Gajda, kaval, Drum
Tri
Bratovchedki - E. European singing
Orkestar Bez Ime - IFD
band w/ vocalist Natalie Nowytski - Minneapolis
KG and the Ranger - cowboy
and yodeling songs
Great Hall of the Memorial Union
Univ. of Wisconsin
800 Langdon St. Madison, WI
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