Welcome to BayFolk, The Bay Area Folk Dance Directory

This directory is intended to aid folk dance group leaders in choosing dates for their events and to inform Bay Area folk dancers of the events occurring in the San Francisco Bay Area. To list your event on the calendar or your group in the Directory, send E-mail to Paul Bourbin: paulbourbin@hotmail.com, call or send a FAX to: Paul Bourbin at 415-648-8489 or fill out our online form by clicking here.

On this page you will find: [The Directory] [The Events Calendar] [Music Clips] [Dance Notes] [Links]

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The Directory:

To enter the directory of Folk Dance Leaders, groups, teachers, bands and Dance venues in the Bay Area click here.

2009 Calendar of Events

To see an archive of previous calendar pages click here.

Music Clips:

Ramo Ramo, by The Slavonian Traveling Band
If you would like to listen to some of their music while perusing this directory, click here. We are pleased to feature this selection from their well-known CD: Mixed Salad. If you would like more information about the band and their CD's, check out their website, Croatian American Web.
Kopcheto, by Sredets
We also are offering a bit of music from the Sredets Bulgarian Folk Music Ensemble. If you would like to hear this selection from their CD: Made in Bulgaria; 95% Dance Music, click here. To view a poster showing the Sredets band click here.
Karaguna, by Sarena Zemya (Colorful World)
If you would like to hear a music clip from their latest CD click here. To find out more about the band, which offers dance instruction along with their music, click here.
Sumerska Rachenitsa, by Iliana Bozhanova
Sheoften visits the United States to teach dance workshops. To hear a clip of music from her CD, click here. To visit her website, which includes a photo and biographical information, click here.
Proviknala ce Boriana, by Bulgari
The Bulgarian band Bulgari is offering a selection from their first CD, Bulgari. To hear the music, click here(then click on the title: the music will play and you can leave the page). To see their WebPages click here
Shiroka Laka Pee (Shiroka Laka Singing), by The Kolevi
The Kolevs often make a U. S. tour. To find out more about them visit their website. We are offering excerpts from their CD, Shiroka Laka Pee. The four selections are: Dilano Mome Hubavo (Dilano Lassie Beautiful), Djufarski Melodii (Melodies), Magla Padna (Mist Fell Down), Gadulka Melodii (Melodies). Just click on the title of interest from the above selections (then click on the title: the music will play and you can leave the page).
Anoush, a band that has been a Bay Area icon for a number of years has published their first CD.
If you would like to hear a music clip from their CD click here.

Notes:

Paul Boizot’s folk dance links: http://www.paulboizot.co.uk/links.htm
Andrew Carnie's Folkdance Notes in pdf format: http://linguist.emich.edu/~carnie/Pages/FDindex.html
Andy Pollock's Folk Dance Page: http://www.atlantic.net/~andypo/index.htm
Bob Shapiro's Folk Dance notes: http://www.recfd.com/folknote.htm
Tom Deering’s dance notes: http://www.seanet.com/~deerings/dnotes.htm
Dick Oakes’ Folk Dance site: http://www.dimensional.com/~phantomr/folkdanc/folkdanc.htm

To see the dance notes for "Ca La Ses", a dance taught by Mihai David at the 1999 Kolo Festival and left out of the synopsis, click here.

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