Днес, 10.02.2007, за първи път Австралийско-българско дружество "Младост" представи България по време на Националния мултикултурен Фестивал, Канбера 2007.


По време на "Food and Dance Spectacular" дружеството представи свой щанд с вкусни сладкарски изделия приготвени от сръчните ръце на българките.


Фестивалът е с 12 годишна история и това е първия път в който българското дружество представя българската общност живееща в Канбера.


Всички, които посетиха щанда на дружеството имаха удоволствието да се насладят на българската кухня, да усетят аромата на българската роза и да се полюбуват на българската природа, традиции, история и култура събрани на ДВД предоставено от Агенцията по туризъм.

10 February 2007 - Канбера, Австралия Balkanfolk Team

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Българката, чийто глас лети в Космоса на американската совалка “Вояджър”, този месец изпълни 65 години.



Валя Балканска е родена през 1942 година в махала Лагът, недалече от село Арда в сърцето на южните Родопи. Двегодишна загубва баща си, загинал като участник във Втората световна война, но знае, че когато той пеел, планината се люлеела. Осемгодишна запява на сцената и днес репертоарът й съдържа около 300 песни.

29 January 2007 - България Balkanfolk Team

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Once again, the City of Palma de Mallorca will open its doors to a multitude of folkdance enthusiasts for the XII edition of the World Folkdance Festival.


We will celebrate our 20 years anniversary at this next edition which will take place during the dates 10 - 14 April 2007 and as in the previous editions since 1985, the World Folkdance Festival will be the centre of a concentration of folkdance groups from the five continents.

12 January 2007 - Palma de Mallorca, Spain Balkanfolk Team

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Days before Bulgaria join the European Union “Gega New” Music House published a unique disc. Eleven women from Bely Iskar village from the region of Samokov recorded 21 authentic songs the way they remember them from their mothers and grandmothers.
The village is a part of the big folklore region Middle West Bulgaria and the most typical there is the two voice singing. Once, the great researcher of Bulgarian folklore Vassil Stoinov collected 1115 songs from that region (1935).

5 January 2007 - Sofia, Bulgaria Gega New

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On December 20, 2006 in hall 2 at the National Palace of Culture in Sofia, hundreds of folklore fans had the chance to see Zdravets ensemble’s performance and celebrate the 70th anniversary of the choreographer Vassil Valchev.



Vassil Valchel was born in the town of Yambol, south-east Bulgaria. In 1959 he graduated at VIF (Physical Education Institute) at the Pedagogic department. He spent 29 years as a soloist at the National Army Ensemble and meanwhile worked as a dance teacher at the Rosna Kitka Ensemble. 7 years he was the director of the ensemble at the Ivan Vazov cultural club in Kostinbrod and 9 years worked with Zdravets’ children.

20 December 2006 - Sofia, Bulgaria Vera Genova

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On December 19 some of the most popular folklore singers and musicians will perform at the prestigious stage. The concert will be a reverence to our precious Bulgarian songs, which kept our national spirit through the times.



The professionals of folklore singing – Slavka Kalcheva, Ivan Dyakov, Poli Paskova, Nikolay Slaveev, Yuri Krumov and Yanko Nedelchev, will perform their most loved songs. As to the colouring, dynamics and the live spirit of the concert, a few more troupes will contribute – ‘101 kaba gaidas’, ‘Smolyani’ dance formation, ‘Slavey’ band, ‘Pirin’ ensemble, ‘Ethno rhythm’ dance formation, ‘ ‘Chinari’ ensemble and ‘Trakia’ ensemble. The singers, players and dancers are rehearsing hard to prepare their performance.

17 December 2006 - Sofia, Bulgaria Payner Music

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On 25th november 2006 (saturday) at 6:00 pm, at the Drama Theater Dragomir Asenov, Montana, a concert of the folklore ensemble Mladost will take place at the Town hall in honor of their 30 year anniversary.


Among the guests are: the Minister of Culture Mr. Stefan Danailov, The Head of State Mr. Todor Vurbanov,the mayor of Montana Mr. Zlatko Jivkov, community counselors, choreographers from the country and abroad,( Ukrain, Check Republic, Macedonia, Turkey and Serbia).

23 November 2006 - Montana, Bulgaria Boris Dimitrov

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Cafe Aman is a folk dance "event" that takes place on the second Saturday of each month, in the location of the folk dance house called "Cafe Danssa" on Pico Boulevard, in Los Angeles.

This time the event took place on Saturday, October 14, 2006, at "Cafe Aman" in Los Angeles, California. The dance courses were led by Jatila Jatila van der Veen.She taught Novoselska Shira and Pazardzhiska Kopanitsa, which she had learned from Todor Karapchanski in summer of 2005 at Balkanfolk workshop in Bulgaria.

14 October 2006 - Los Angeles, CA, USA Balkanfolk site

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The Municipality of Blagoevgrad, under the patronage of Blagoevgrad’s mayor Lazar Prichkapov, organised the second edition of the international festival ‘Macedonia Folk’ from 21 to 24 September 2006.

The festival is a competition in four categories.

More than 400 groups and individual performers took part in the frames of the festival. They all represented their artistic skills on the three stages: in the area of Bachinovo, the open air theatre in the Varosha quarter and the main square George Izmirliev.

24 September 2006 - Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria Boris Dimitrov

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Balkanalia’s tenth edition was held this year from 24 to 27 August in Camp Angelos, near Portland, USA.

It was a three-day incredible gathering of campers, musicians, dancers and singers in the idyllic atmosphere of Camp Angelos, a superb way to share your love of Balkan music and dance with other people.

1 September 2006 - Camp Angelos, Portland, USA. Vera Genova

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