Every year an International folkloristic dancefestival is organised in which many members of the "Boalserter Skotsploech" participate. The organisation has been placed with an independent foundation.
The festival will take place every last full week of june during the "Heamielfeesten" (harvestfeast).
Balkan Festival Workshops Zetten will be held from June 26 to June 29 in Social Cultural Centre, "de WANMOLEN", Schweitzerpark 2, Zetten (near Arnhem), The Netherlands.
PROGRAMME:
• The organizers will be present at 16:00 hours on Thursday June 26.
• After 16:00 hours the participants will be able to obtain their festival badges, set up their tents, etc.
• Thursday evening: BALKAN FEAST – DANCE FAVORITES OF THE PAST" Conducted by Helen van Bochove.
• The first lessons will start on Friday, June 27 at 09:30 o'clock. There will be continuous lessons the whole day on Friday and Saturday, and on Sunday until 14:30 hours.
• Friday and Saturday evening: Ball with the teachers and orchestra.
• Friday and Saturday night after the evening folk dance programmes, we shall meet, talk, sing and dance together until early in the morning at the Balkan Corner.
TEACHERS
DANCING-CLASSES
Ben Koopmanschap from Albania to Croatia
Dick v.d. Zwan Greek
Ersin Seyhan Turkish
Eddy Tijssen Bulgarian
Silviu Ciuciumiş Roumanian
SINGING-CLASSES
Hedwig Schoots Balkan
MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT
Orchestra SULTAN - Balkan Ball
Orchestra TREDIKI - Greek, Bulgarian
In the occasion of awarding Professor Timothy Rice, Director of the “Herb Alpert School of Music” at the University of California, Los Angeles with the Order of “Sv. Sv. Kiril I Metodii” second class from The President of the Republic of Bulgaria, Georgi Parvanov, for his significant contribution to the scientific study of Bulgarian musical folklore and for the popularization of Bulgarian culture in the United States of America
AND
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary and 30 year professional artistic career of Ivan Varimezov, musician-bagpiper, solist at the Orchestra for Bulgarian Folklore Music at the Bulgarian National Radio, conductor of Ensemble “Pazardzhik”, and currently, Adjunct Professor of Bulgarian Folklore Music at the Department of Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles,
We are pleased to invite you to join us in celebrating these two occasions marked by a formal concert on June 27, 2008 from 7:00 pm in Concert Hall #11 at the National Palace of Culture in Sofia, Bulgaria.
The Concert will feature performances by:
- The “Balkan Ensemble” from the University of California, Los Angeles – Directors Tzvetanka and Ivan Varimezovi
- Folk Ensmeble “Pazardzik” – Director Atanas Cholakov
- Orchestra “Sredetz” and “Male Folkloric Group” – from the town of Sredetz – Directors Tzviatko Zhekov and Ivan Chervenkov
- The Folk Orchestra of The Bulgarian National Radio – Director Hristofor Radanov
June 27, 2008
from 7:00 pm, Hall 11
National Palace of Culture in Sofia, Bulgaria