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23rd Annual Folk Ball Festival, Madison, WI, 21-23 Jan 2011

You and your party-hearty friends are invited to enjoy Madison's 23rd annual
FOLK BALL FESTIVAL
January 21-23, 2011
Memorial Union (800 Langdon Street, Madison WI)
featuring AHMET LULECI presenting folk dances of Turkey !

Miraculously funded by your generous voluntary donations—make one full-weekend contribution at Info Table in Great Hall or donate for each event you attend, but please DO YOUR PART to keep Folk Ball an open, free-flowing celebration! THANK YOU.

Friday Night Dance Parties -- three of them!
INTERNATIONAL DANCE: Great Hall (4th floor) 7:30-midnight.
YID VICIOUS: Virtuous Klezmer (Yiddish), Madison
IZVOR ORCHESTRA -- Flagship Ethnic Band of Milwaukee
BLACK BEAR COMBO -- Redhot Serbian-style Brass Band from Chicago

CONTRA DANCE: Tripp Commons (2nd floor east)
7:30-8:00 instruction, dancing 8:00-11:00 or later if you like …
Calling by Steve Pike, Music by CHIRPS SMITH, Roger Diggle, & friends
Info: Roger / 608-242-0373
Suggested donation $7.

HUNGARIAN TANCHAZ (village-style "dance-house")
Beefeaters Room (3rd floor east)
7:30pm -- music by SZASZKA (traditional string band)

Presented by Madison Folk Dance Club (a UW Registered Student Organization).
Sponsored by Department of Slavic Languages, College of Letters & Science.
Welcomed by WORT 89.9FM Community-Sponsored Radio.
Website (workshop details, band links, schedule updates, lodging info, photos...)

www.plantpath.wisc.edu/~tdd/folkball.html
Further Info: Michael 608-241-3655

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