The
Bay Area Folk Dance Scene for May 1999
May 1-2 (Saturday and Sunday): National Dance Week concludes. See April listing for more information.
May 1 (Saturday): Santa Cruz Folk Dance Celebration: Anoush Ellas and Vasil Bebelekov and friends to play and Petur Iliev to teach at Cabrillo College, Aptos from 7:30 - 11:00 P. M. For more information call (831) 684-9553 or send email to: [email protected].
May 2 (Sunday): Art for Peace and Human Rights director Eser Ayanoglu will teach mostly common Balkan dance steps for beginners prior to Voluta Vox playing live Balkan music at Stanford University, Bechtel International Center (corner of Mayfield Ave, Lagunita and Lomita Drives, Palo Alto. Admission is free to students and a donation is requested from others. Doors open at 7:00 P.M. for more information send email to [email protected].
May 4 (Tuesday): Neal Sandler to teach at 7:00 P.M., Westwind voices to sing Georgian, Croatian, Bulgarian songs at 9.00 P.M. and Rumeli to play dance music at 9:20 P.M. at Ashkenaz.
May 7 (Friday): Neal Sandler to teach at Stanford International Dancers.
May 7 (Friday): International Folk Dance party at San Jose First Christian Church 8:00 P.M., sponsored by the Santa Clara Valley Folk Dancers (408) 739-0500.
May 7-9 (Friday, Saturday & Sunday): Sonoma County Folk Festival at Sebastopol Community Center (707) 838-4857.
May 8-9 (Saturday and Sunday): Berkeley Free Folk Festival at Unitarian Fellowship Hall. For information call: Ingrid Noyes at (707) 878-2415.
May 8 (Saturday): Herdeljez (Rom St. George's Day) near Sebastopol with Artemis, Edessa, Anoush Ellas, Sarena Zemya and Jajira. Location: 2705 So. Brush St., Graton (off hwy 116). Suggested donation: $10 Adults and $5 for kids over five. This is a ben efit for The Roma of Kosovo. For more information call (707) 823-7941 or (707) 824-1025, FAX (707) 829-1893 or email: [email protected]
May 8 (Saturday): International Folk Dance Party 8:00 P.M. at Hermann Sons Hall, Petaluma (707) 546-8877.
May 9 (Sunday): Turkish Rom Dance Workshop with Artemis 11-5 ($55) (707) 546-6366.
May 14 (Friday): Neal Sandler to teach at Stanford International Dancers.
May 14 (Friday): Hungarian Line and Circle Dance at the Brisbane Community Center 8:00 P.M. (415) 468-6565.
May 14-16 (Friday, Saturday & Sunday): Greek Festival Ascension Greek Orthodox Church in Oakland (510) 531-3710.
May 15 (Saturday): International Folk Dance Party 1:30 P.M at Piner School, Santa Rosa sponsored by the Santa Rosa Folk Dancers (707) 546-8877.
May 15 (Saturday): International Folk Dance Party 8:00 P.M. at Live Oak Park gym, El Cerrito (510) 234-2069.
May 18 (Tuesday): Anoush Ellas to perform at Ashkenaz starting at 9:00 P.M. Dance lessons start at 8:00 P.M.
May 20 (Thursday): Duquesne University Tamburitzans to perform in Mountain View. For information call (650) 903-6000, or email: [email protected].
May 20 (Thursday): Kadra International Dance Theatre to perform at ODC Performance Gallery, 3153 - 17th St. (at Shotwell), San Francisco at 8:00 P.M. Admission: $15 Adults and $12.50 students/seniors. Milen Slavov will be guest accordionist. For ticke ts call the box office (415) 863-9834. For more information call Kadra (415) 626-7360 or send email to [email protected].
May 21 (Friday): Stana to play at Stanford International Dancers.
May 21 (Friday): Kadra International Dance Theatre to perform at ODC Performance Gallery (see above).
May 22 (Saturday): Orinda Farmer's Market: Anoush Ellas to play 9A.M. - 1 P.M.
May 22 (Saturday): Kadra International Dance Theatre to perform at ODC Performance Gallery. Performance at 2:00 P.M. as above. Performance at 8:00 P.M. has a gala reception and admission is $20. See above for details.
May 27: (Thursday): Rumeli to perform at Mandala. For more information call (415) 648-8489, send email to [email protected] or visit Mandala's Website: http://www.geocities.com/paulbourbin/mandala.html. Admission is $6.00.
May 28 (Friday): Stanford International dancers closed for Memorial Day Weekend.
May 28 (Friday): Vassil and Maria Bebelekov with Petur Iliev to perform songs and music at Slavonic Cultural Center. For information call (510) 649-0941 or visit the Slavonic Cultural Center's WebPages http://www. SalvonicWeb.org
May 28-31 Folk dance Statewide Festival at the Balboa Park Club, San Diego (619) 422-4065 or http://users.abac.com/flkdance/statew or http://www.folkdance.com, sponsored by the California Folkdance Federation.
May 28 (Friday): Hungarian line and circle dance at Brisbane Community Center. Call (415) 468-6565.
May 28 - 30: Greek Festival at Prophet Elias Greek Orthodox Church. Call (831) 429-6500.
May 29 (Saturday): Hungarian Tanchez with Forgatos Hungarian Band at the Hungarian Sausage Factory, San Francisco. Call: (415) 282-1458.
Every Sunday: Neal Sandler, Tom Roby, Marjorie Nugent and Ellie Weiner teach Hungarian dances at Ashkenaz 1-4 PM.
Every Third Tuesday: Balkan dancing with live and/or recorded music at Ashkenaz. Teaching 7:30 - 8:45 PM and party on into the night.
Every Wednesday: Folk Dance Classes from 8:00 to 10:00 P.M. at Almonte Hall (behind Tamalpias High School in Mill Valley).
Every Thursday: Mandala meets for International Folk Dance with Edith Bourbin 7:30 -11 PM.
Every Friday: Albany "Y" International Folk Dancing with Mel Harte 8-11 PM.
First four Fridays: International and partner Folk Dancing at Chang's.
Every first Friday: Family folk dancing by Denise Weiss at Slavonic Cultural Center in San Francisco. Call (510) 841-0934.
Every first Saturday: Family folk dancing by Nancy McGhee at Albany YMCA. Call (510) 528-4410.
MS Music Agency announces the availability of celebrated Strandzha singer Zhivka Papancheva for private lessons, workshops and choir coaching from March 20 until May 5, 1999 in the SF Bay Area.
The well-known Bulgarian singer and teacher Tatiana Sarbinska will be in
the Bay Area from May 3 to May 16. She'll be available for private lessons
and group workshops for singers of all levels.
For more information, contact Michele Simon at 510-530-2085 (phone) or at
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