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Speledans
Boston's Scandinavian Dance Group
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30 Dec 2002
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 Park Ave Congregational Church
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50 Paul Revere Road, Arlington, Mass, USA
Brookline Church of Our Savior
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25 Monmouth Street, Brookline, Mass, USA
(In case of bad weather, call the Brookline Police Department at 617-730-2222 to see if there's a parking ban.)
Arlington Church of Our Savior
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21 Marathon Street, Arlington, Mass, USA
Admission to most events is now $6.

2002-2003 Schedule

Winter 2003:
Day Date Time Location Event
Sat Jan 4 8-10:30 pm Brookline Scandinavian Dance (Matt)
Sun Jan 12 2-5 pm Brookline Gammaldans
Sat Jan 18 8-10:30 pm Brookline Scandinavian Dance (John)
Sat Jan 25 8-11 pm Brookline Norwegian Dance (check with David Golber)
Sat Feb 1 8-10:30 pm Brookline Scandinavian Dance (Matt)
Sun Feb 9 2-5 pm Brookline Gammaldans
Sat Feb 15 8-10:30 pm Brookline Scandinavian Dance (John)
Sat Feb 22 8-11 pm Brookline Norwegian Dance (check with David Golber)
Sun Mar 9 2-5 pm Brookline Gammaldans
Sat Mar 15 8-10:30 pm Brookline Scandinavian Dance
Sat Mar 29 8-11 pm Brookline Norwegian Dance (check with David Golber)
Sat Apr 5 8-10:30 pm Brookline Scandinavian Dance
Fri-Sun Apr 25-27 7 pm Fri - 5 pm Sun NEFFA NEFFA
Sat May 3 8-10:30 pm Brookline Scandinavian Dance
Sun May 11 2-5 pm Brookline Gammaldans
Sat May 17 8-10:30 pm Brookline Scandinavian Dance
Sat May 24 8-11 pm Brookline Norwegian Dance (check with David Golber)
Sat Jun 7 8-10:30 pm Brookline Scandinavian Dance
Sun Jan 15 2-5 pm Brookline Gammaldans
Sat Jun 28 8-11 pm Brookline Norwegian Dance (check with David Golber)

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.
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 members:
  • 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
  • 1-781-643-0924 John Hostage
  • 1-781-862-8823 Wendy & David Ernst
  • 1-781-862-6096 Eph Weiss
  • 1-978-256-8546 Matt Fichtenbaum (musician)
  • 1-617-862-5327 Jim & Heidi Hipple.
  • 1-617-625-2764 Toby Weinberg (musician)
  • 1-617-661-3670 David Golber
    • 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 RCN (an ISP) or to John Chambers and Shelley Drowns at the World (another ISP).

    The nice banners at the top came from Glenn R. Wichman at the Nordic-American Web Ring. You can find them at http://ritaren.tripod.com/norden.html.