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DANCEFEST SPOKANE 2008
Who/What: DanceFest Spokane 2008 - presented by the Inland Northwest
Dance Association
When: April 26th - 10:00 am to 8:00 pm
Where: The Lair Building - Spokane Community College - 1810 N Greene
Street Spokane, Washington, 99202
Free Community Event
DanceFest is an event in honor of National Dance Week and is being presented by the Inland Northwest
Dance Association. This free festival will feature all forms of dance in performance on the main stage, a
public social dance area where free dance classes will be offered all day, a health fair with lectures on nutrition
and the body, arts & crafts, an art gallery, a children’s area, vendor booths selling items, nonprofit organizations
sharing information, and a silent auction. There will also be a spaghetti feed for everyone and a
free performance by Spokane Ballet. The Ceili round dancers will perform with a live band at 7:00 pm to
finish the night off.
The Inland Northwest Dance Association is a non-profit association which works to empower and
unite our communities by providing artistic, educational, and cultural opportunities, and by celebrating diversity
through dance activities, collaborations and partnerships.
For more detailed information, visit our website: at http://www.indaspokane.org/
or contact - Isabelle Cook, isabelle@isabelledancetime.com - 509-927-0972 or Gail Bongiovanni, gaildancer@
juno.com - 509-922-4493

Inland Northwest Bluegrass Association presents:
 Spring String Thing: Bluegrass workshops and jamming for beginning and intermediate level musicians in: banjo, guitar, mandolin, dobro, fiddle, bass, vocals, song writing, mic use, & band business; plus a concert by workshop teachers.

Saturday May 10, 2008 from 11:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

 Colbert Presbyterian Church; 4211 E. Colbert Rd., Colbert, WA (about 7 miles north of Division “Y”, just off Highway 2.

Bring: Your instrument and a potluck dish to share

For more information, visit INBA website: www.spokanebluegrass.org.

 

           Lady of the Lake Music and Dance Camp will take place during the week of June 22-28, 2008.  We hope that you can join us for two great contra and square dance bands plus harmony singing, band and instrument workshops, couples dances, and more.  The Horseflies; with Judy Hyman, Jeff Claus and Ritchie Stearns, joined by Mark Murphy and Larry Unger as the Tractor Family, and Notorious; with Eden MacAdam-Somer and Larry Unger, joined by Sam Bartlett, will play for contras and squares and lead instrument and band workshops.  Seth Tepfer and Becky Hill will call dances and lead a caller's workshop.  The Grace Sisters will lead harmony singing and clogging. The camp takes place on beautiful Coeur D'Alene Lake in Idaho and is sponsored by the Spokane Folklore Society.  Join us for a fine week of music, dance, jamming, hiking, swimming or hanging out on the porch.. Applications are available on line at www.ladyofthelake.org.

 

Dates:June 22-28, 2008

 

Cost: $495 including great meals and housing

 

Contacts: For registration and general information-Vickie Marron at vickiemarr@aol.com or kbowman@Iomet.com

Check out the website for info on performing applications, (Deadline March 31 for this year), see  who has been accepted already etc.  The festival will be in  Butte for 3 years.

http://nationalfolkfestival.com/

The National Folk Festival features performances and demonstrations by over 250 of the nation’s finest musicians, dancers and craftspeople. It will feature 25 Artists/groups on seven stages including a dance pavilion dedicated to non-stop participatory dancing, a family stage with performances appealing to both the young and the young-at-heart, and a Montana folklife stage. In addition to the performance stages, there are several themed festival areas: the Montana Folklife Area, the Family Area, two Festival Markeplaces and the Festival Food Courts.

The National Folk Festival is a large, FREE outdoor event. The Butte, Montana festival site will be located adjacent to, and partially within, the fascinating Uptown Butte Historic District. A mix of open air and tented sites will provide a variety of performance venues ranging from intimate stages to amphitheater size. The Amphitheater Stage, which offers a panoramic view of Butte and the surrounding mountains, is being developed on the site of the historic Original Mineyard, with its dramatic deep shaft mine headframe that is a remnant of Butte’s days as an underground copper mining center.

One of the country’s largest and most prestigious celebrations of the arts, the National Folk Festival, is coming to Butte for a three-year tenure beginning in July 2008. First presented in 1934, it is the oldest multicultural festival in the nation. The National Council for the Traditional Arts (NCTA), the organization that has produced the National Folk Festival since its creation, recognized Butte’s and Montana’s unique natural resources, cultural assets, and strong community spirit.

A large-scale three-day outdoor event presented free to the public, the National Folk Festival celebrates the roots, richness, and variety of American culture. It features a broad array of music and dance performances, participatory dancing, workshops, children’s activities, regional and ethnic foods, storytelling, parades, craft exhibits and demonstrations, and more. A “movable feast of the deeply traditional folk arts,” the National brings a jubilant and dizzying array of offerings that appeal to audiences of all ages.

Historic Uptown Butte will be the site of the 70th, 71st and 72nd National Folk Festivals in 2008, 2009 and 2010. This is the first time the National Folk Festival has been held west of the Mississippi River in over 40 years*, and its first time ever in Montana.

Steven King, USA Fingerstyle Guitar Champion, is hosting "Guitar Week at
Fort Wright" this year, July 28-Aug 1, 5 full days of incredible bliss for
any advancing guitarist. Minimum requirement is to know basic bar chords. In
addition to Steven's fingerstyle jazz instruction sessions and private
coaching sessions, you will have guest professional guitarists giving
lectures, instruction and coaching on an eclectic array of guitar styles and
techniques. And this year the event is set at an incredibly low promotional
price of $199 for the entire week event!  To lock in your reservation send
your check and contact information, made out to
Holy Names Music Center Guitar Week 2008
3910 West Custer Drive
Spokane, WA 99224
509-326-9516
www.hnmc.org