An amazing dance troupe started in Seattle over 25 years ago! Catch their next performance!
Americans who play Balkan (especially Rom) music and write some of their own tunes! Also, they have MANY great links!
Middle Eastern dance instructor of the highest caliber. Check her site for classes for all ages and all sizes. Lots of performances listed.
Keep up with the Seattle Bulgarian community. They have listing of on going groups. Sign up for their email subscription and they will notify you of up coming events.
The fabulous Mary Sherhart has combined forces with the great band Nisava to create The Balkan Cabaret band. You'll love their CD, and better yet - catch a performance when ever you can. To get on their mailing, go to their web site - you'll be glad you did!
The Balkana group is a youth ethnic dance Group specializing in music and dance from all of the Balkan areas.
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It's not Friday night, but you want to go dancing and don't know where to go? Try SeattleDance.org to find out what's shaking! Also, if you have a group that you want to promote, this is a great place to get listed for free!
The focus of Izvor Music is Balkan folk music, focusing primarily on Macedonian folk music in the izvorno tradition. We publish books, produce concerts, and include transcribed music and audio files on this site. For more information, read About Izvor Music.
This radio station has a wide variety of music - check out the program schedule, and your favorites will be there. We are lucky that Steve Ramsey (musician and singer of Balkan music) is the Station Manager because he REALLY understands our kind of music! Also, many local Balkan groups get "air time". The station is located on the campus of Bellevue Community College. They sponsor many local concerts.
http://www.phantomranch.net/folkdanc/folkdanc.htm
Dick Oakes has put together a wealth of folk dance information with articles, pronunciation guides, song words, teaching hints, tours and cruises, folk dance coffeehouse nostalgia, and much, much more. The "more" includes over 200 of Dick's detailed dance descriptions and several maps that he created for his teaching, such as this map that he drew in the 1980s and which has been used by Yves Moreau. You'll also find more than 250 teacher biographies. Worth a look!
Northwest Folk Dancers Incorporated
We are the Northwest Folk Dancers Incorporated (NFDI), the "Where to Folk Dance Organization" for the Pacific Northwest.
Northwest Folk Dancers Incorporated (NFDI) is a non-profit "umbrella" organization that promotes folk dancing and ethnic events. NFDI sponsors folk dance festivals and other folk events, provides dance descriptions and practice tapes at a nominal charge for NFDI members, and seeks new ways to promote all forms of ethnic dance
The web site is : http://www.scn.org/arts/nfdi/
From duo, trio or ensemble we can do background, to full dance band sound.
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Dani (and Angel) will be also be available to help groups with new choreography from Bulgaria and through the Balkans, and able to make presentations at your area schools, etc.
with your URL and a description.