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.

Workshop for Serbian and Macedonian dances and songs, with:
Vladimir TANASIJEVIC (Serbian choreographer) and
Sasha SMREKIC (Serbian accordionist),
Erik BELANOV (Macedonian choreographer) and
Igor BOCVAROV (Macedonian accordionist)

Francoise DJOKOVIC

The Woodford Folk Festival is an event of international standing. Held over six days and six nights it presents more than 2000 performers and 400 events with concerts, dances, workshops, forums, street theatre, writers' panels, film festival, comedy sessions, acoustic jams, social dialogue and debate, an entire children's festival, art and craft workshops, late night cabarets and special events including a spectacular fire event. The Festival features the cream of Australian performers and a generous gathering of special international guests.

Contact the Queensland Folk Federation/Woodford Folk Festival by:
Phone: +61 7 5496 1066
Fax: +61 7 5496 3196
Mail: PO Box 1134, Woodford Queensland 4514

Street Address: 87 Woodrow Road, Woodford Queensland 4514

Teaching Bulgarian & Balkan dances at the annual Year End Dance Camp

The International Carnival of Rijeka is an annual event that has a hundred-year-old tradition and attracts numerous masks and carnival groups, spectators and media, as well as guests from around the country and abroad.

Carnival happenings in the city are a mixture of the bourgeois carnival and the ancient Slavs' folklore elements and mythology. Carnival customs include the making of "ugly masks", which scare away evil forces, calling the spring and celebrating the birth of new life. The Zvoncari, or local bell ringers, are identical to those who centuries ago protected their land from Turkish invasion.

Contacts:
Tel:++385 51/213-145
Fax: ++385 51/333-909
51000 Rijeka, Užarska 14, Hrvatska

Winter Dance Conference 2005 in Boca Raton, FL, hosted by Saint Mark Syrtaki of Boca Dance Group

The Bulgarian folk ensemble Gotse Delchev Ensemble is going to make a concert tour in Dubai and Oman and take part in the shopping festivals there. Singers, dancers and musicians from the Ensemble will participate.

Featuring the Martenitsa Choir, Macedonian Dance Ensemble Ilinden and Kim Sanders on Gajda.

At Footbridge Theatre, Sydney
1 concert only.

Tickets through Ticketek
(02) 9266 4800 or
www.ticketek.com.au.

If you are in folklore, national tradition or You are just fan of folk art and have desire to learn about other tradition, to get new friends then you are welcome to the Folk Gathering in Belgrade.

Vesna Lukic, Program Manager

23. Vladimira Tomanovica Str.
11050 Belgrade
phone/fax + 381-11-347-29-29
489-71-74
347-19-54
mobile: +381-63-309-312

17th annual celebration of dance and camaraderie.
This weekend-long gathering of the folkdance tribes brings together hundreds of folk arts enthusiasts to Madison for a variety of daytime dance workshops and huge live-music dance parties.

Folkball is FREE and open to the public due to the generous donations from the participiants and the sponsors.

Michael Kuharski: (608)-241-3655