with Petur Iliev and Vassil Bebelekov.

At 8.00pm, $12
Slavonic Cultural Center

Kolo dance workshop will be followed by live music for dancing.

Highgate Newtown Community Centre London N19

Tickets will be available September/October

For tickets and further information contact Irene Keywood on 020-8592 4427

At Grace United Methodist Church, 56 Magazine St., Cambridge (near Central Sq.), 7-11 pm.

Dance Party with the Gogofski Trio, Skordalia, Zdravets, Turgay Ertürk & friends, and Rakiya to benefit the Grace Arts Project (GAP), a music and art program offering lessons and performance opportunities for students ages 7 and up. $12.

For information:
tel: 617/233-6691 or 617/787-1868.

Festive concert on occasion the 4th meeting of the Serbian Ensembels in Slovenia

Moravac - Ljubljana
Vuk Karadžic - Radovljica
Sveti Nikola - Maribor
Sava - Hrastnik
Sa rukom u ruci - Kranj
Mladost - Ljubljana
Brdo - Kranj
Branko Radicevic - Maribor

According to the trdition every year participates a Slovenian guest folklore group too. This year this will be Tine Rožanc from Ljubljana

Saturday, 4th of December, at 6.30pm
At Španski borci Cultural Center
Zaloška ulica 61

Information and reservations:
tel 014304530

The Commemorative Ceremony for Mevlana, the great Sufic saint (1207-1273), is one of the world's greatest spectacles. More than a million people descend on Konya, the ancient Seljuk capital, for the festival of the Whirling Dervishes.
At the Mausoleum of Mevlana in Konya, mystical ceremonial dances are performed in honour of the great teacher and thinker. Mevlana (which in Arabic means `Our Lord`) taught the preeminence of complete tolerance, positive thinking and awareness of God through love. He also believed that a union with God could be achieved through dance. Thus the Mevlana followers have been performing this religious `whirling` dance for centuries.

At the Museum of Mevlana in La Rende Caddesi, Konya, Turkey

Contacts: Turkish Ministry of Tourism
Tel: +90 (0) 312 212 8300 (UK +44 (0) 20 7629 7771)
Fax: +90 (0) 312 212 8391

Presented by the Academy of Serbian Folk Dancing - Miroslav Bata Marcetic

Program for your evening includes:
The Academy's dynamic and energetic dancers, singers and musicians, togethe with our renowned guests of highly aclaimed folk ensembles.
Truly an evening of cultural mosaic, friendship and charm for all.

Bathrust Jewish Community Centre Theatre
4588 Bathrust Street in Toronto
Friday, December 10, 2004, 7.30pm
Tichets - 20$ in advance, 22$ at door

For details call 416 695 4364

Bagpipe Music from Around the Winter Solstice

`Drone Magic` presents 8 bagpipers in an anthology of international bagpipe music, featuring "local" pipers who have brought their music to our community. Several of the pipers actively involve either part or all of their families in a rather remarkable achievement of passing age-old traditions on to the next generation despite the influences of the high-tech urban society all around them.

At 7:30PM, $15
Slavonic Cultural Center

The very popular and beloved Bulgarian folklore singer and soloist of The Filip Koutev Ensemble presents her new disk in which are included her genuine songs – pearls of the Bulgarian vocal art.

At the National Palace of Culture at 6:00pm

Participate the singer’s most talented students, as well as First Prizes bearers from the Valkana Stoyanova Competition held by the Tundzha Municipality – city of Yambol.

Daniel Spasov - soloist of `The Mystery of Bulgarian Voices`
Stoyan Varnaliev - Vulkana Stoyanova's student
Binka Dobreva - soloist of `The Mytery of the Bulagarian Voices`
Darina Salcheva - soloist of Trakia Ensemble, Plovdiv
Ivan Peychev - kaval player - State Ensemble Philip Koutev
Chamber Choir from the The Academy of Music and Dance Art, Plovdiv - conductor Vladimir Vladimirov
Veneta Dimitrova - Vulkana Stoyanova's student
Maria Koleva - Vulkana Stoyanova's student
Simo Krastev - town of Stralzha, awarded the Special prize at the competition `With the Songs of Vulkana Stoyanova`
Penko Atanasov - 12 years-old, town of Nova Zagora, Ist prize at the competition `With the songs of Vulkana Stoyanova`
Iliya Panteleev - folklore singer, General Inzovo village (Tundzha Municipality)

Paul Boizot will be playing for the evening session of Sophia Hatch's Winter Solstice celebration. The band will be Richard and Olivia Hunt ("Kopanitsa"), Helen O and Paul Boizot. Recorded music for the afternoon session - come to one or both.
Contact Sophia Hatch on 01422 843000.

The Bisserov sisters & daughters - folk singers performing band from Bulgaria are going on a concert tour in Australia in the end of 2004 and the beginning of 2005.