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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:
CoOS: Arlington Church of Our Savior
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21 Marathon Street, Arlington, Mass, USA
PACC: Arlington Park Ave Congregational Church
map directions
50 Paul Revere Road, Arlington, Mass, USA
Schedule
Check the FolkFone 781-662-7476 for cancellations.

Fall 2006:
Sun Sep 10 2-5 pm Arlington PACC Gammaldans
Fri Sep 15 8 pm Arlington CoOS Norwegian Dance
Sat Sep 16 8 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance
Sat Oct 7 8 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance
Sun Oct 15 2-5 pm Arlington PACC Gammaldans [Note: 3rd Sunday]
Fri Oct 20 8 pm Arlington CoOS Norwegian Dance
Sat Oct 21 8 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance
Sat Nov 4 8 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance (John Chambers)
Sun Nov 12 2-5 pm Arlington PACC Gammaldans (John Chambers)
Fri Nov 17 8 pm Arlington CoOS Norwegian Dance (Toby Weinberg)
Sat Nov 18 8 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance (Matt Fichtenbaum)
Sat Dec 2 8 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance (Matt Fichtenbaum)
Sun Dec 10 2-5 pm Arlington PACC Gammaldans (John Chambers)
Fri Dec 15 8 pm Arlington CoOS Norwegian Dance
Sat Dec 16 8 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance (Christmas party)

Winter 2007:
Fri Jan 19 8 pm Arlington CoOS Norwegian Dance
Fri Feb 16 8 pm Arlington CoOS Norwegian Dance
Fri Mar 16 8 pm Arlington CoOS Norwegian Dance
Fri Apr 20 8 pm Arlington CoOS Norwegian Dance (tentative)
Fri May 18 8 pm Arlington CoOS Norwegian Dance
Fri Jun 15 8 pm Arlington CoOS Norwegian Dance

For further information on Scandinavian dance (Gammaldans and Saturday Evening dances), please call Erica at 781-891-3207 or send email to Eph (Eph@ieee.org).
For information on Norwegian Dances, please contact Scot: applegate@sover.net or call 401-434-2359.

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,
    1-617-803-1797 John Chambers (musician, web geek)
  • 1-781-646-8681 Elaine Gampp
  • 1-781-891-3207 Erica Zissman & Morty Isaacson
  • 1-781-862-8823 Wendy & David Ernst
  • 1-781-862-6096 Eph Weiss
  • 1-978-256-8546 Matt Fichtenbaum (musician)
  • 1-401-434-2359 Scot Applegate
  • 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.