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Speledans
Boston's Scandinavian Dance Group

Speledans is the Boston area's Scandinavian folk dance organization. We put on public dances on a fairly regular schedule. We also list a few other Scandinavian-related dance and music events here. The schedule is often sparse during the summer (because so many of us are off at Scandinavian dance events).

The usual schedule each month is:

Places where our dances are held:
Arlington Church of Our Savior
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21 Marathon Street, Arlington, Mass, USA
Arlington Park Ave Congregational Church
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50 Paul Revere Road, Arlington, Mass, USA

2005 Schedule

Fall 2005:
Sun Sep 11 2-5 pm Arlington PACC Gammaldans
Sat Sep 17 8-10:30 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance
Sat Oct 1 8-10:30 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance
Sun Oct 9 2-5 pm Arlington PACC Gammaldans
Sat Oct 15 8-10:30 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance
Sat Nov 5 8-10:30 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance
Sun Nov 13 2-5 pm Arlington PACC Gammaldans
Sat Nov 19 8-10:30 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance
Sat Dec 3 8-10:30 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance
Sun Dec 11 2-5 pm Arlington PACC Gammaldans
Sat Dec 17 8-10:30 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance

For further information, please contact Erica (781-891-3207) or Eph (Eph@ieee.org).


Special events


Related Web sites

Folk Arts Center
The Boston area's folk dance clearing house. If you want to know about folk dancing in the Boston area, contact these folks.
The Boston Phoenix
A weekly publication that tells you what's happening around Boston.
MIT Folk Dance Club
An international dance club that does a lot of teaching. Primarily Balkan, with a few Scandinavian dances at most events, and occasional Scandinavian workshops.
NEFFA
The New England Folk Festival Association, which runs the Boston area's annual weekend folk festival and a number of other events.
Revontulet
The Fitchburg area's Finnish folk dance performing group.
Boulder Colorado dance group
Send email to Eric Meyer
Scandia D.C.
Send email to Linda Brooks or Ross Schipper
ANA
American Nyckelharpa Association
Skandia Folkdance Society of Seattle
Scandinavian Dancers of Vancouver BC
Northern California Spelmanslag
HFAA
(Hardanger Fiddle Association of America
scandlist
Scandinavian folklore mailing list.
Roo Lester

Some Speledans people:
  • 1-781-647-1813, 1-781-910-1813 John Chambers & Shelley Drowns (musicians)
  • 1-617-277-2496 Hilkka & John Williams
  • 1-781-891-3207 Erica Zissman & Morty Isaacson
  • 1-617-924-2705 John Hostage
  • 1-781-862-8823 Wendy & David Ernst
  • 1-781-862-6096 Eph Weiss
  • 1-978-256-8546 Matt Fichtenbaum (musician)
  • 1-781-224-0575 Vivian Peterson

  • Musicians might be interested in checking out the phenomenon of sharable, emailable music using the ABC notation. I have a music directory / that is full of music in ABC notation; the Scand subdirectory contains some Scandinavian tunes that the Boston gang plays.
    Please send updates and corrections to John Chambers at MIT or to John Chambers at google mail.