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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

2004 Schedule

Fall 2004:
Sat Oct 2 8-10:30 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance (JC & friends)
Sun Oct 10 2-5 pm Arlington PACC Gammaldans
Sat Oct 16 8-10:30 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance (Matt & friends)
Sat Nov 6 8-10:30 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance (Matt & friends)
Sun Nov 14 2-5 pm Arlington PACC Gammaldans
Fri Nov 19 8-11 pm Arlington Church of Our Savior Norwegian Dance
Sat Nov 20 8-10:30 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance (JC & friends)
Sat Dec 4 8-10:30 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance (JC & friends)
Sun Dec 12 2-5 pm Arlington PACC Gammaldans
Fri Dec 17 8-11 pm Arlington Church of Our Savior Norwegian Dance
Sat Dec 18 8-10:30 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Christmas party (all musicians)

2005 Schedule

Winter 2005: flyer
Sun Jan 9 2-5 pm Arlington PACC Gammaldans
Sat Jan 15 8-10:30 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance (Matt Fichtenbaum & friends)
Sat Jan 22 8-11 pm Arlington Church of Our Savior Norwegian Dance
Sat Feb 5 8-10:30 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance (John Chambers & friends)
Sun Feb 13 2-5 pm Arlington PACC Gammaldans
Fri Feb 18 8-11 pm Arlington Church of Our Savior Norwegian Dance
Sat Feb 19 8-10:30 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance (Matt Fichtenbaum & friends)
Sat Mar 5 8-10:30 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance (John Chambers & friends)
Sun Mar 13 2-5 pm Arlington PACC Gammaldans
Fri Mar 19 8-11 pm Arlington Church of Our Savior Norwegian Dance
Sat Mar 19 8-10:30 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance (Matt Fichtenbaum & friends)

Spring 2005:
Sat Apr 2 8-10:30 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance (Matt Fichtenbaum & friends)
Fri Apr 8 9-10 pm NEFFA Gammaldans (sit-ins welcome)
Sat Apr 9 1:30-2:30 pm NEFFA Gender-free hambo workshop (Wendy & Morty, Matt & Rachel)
Sat Apr 9 9-10 pm NEFFA Røroslaget
Sun Apr 10 1:30-2:30 pm NEFFA One Good Turn workshop (Eph)
Sat Apr 16 8-10:30 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance (Matt Fichtenbaum & friends)
Fri Apr 22 8-11 pm Arlington Church of Our Savior Norwegian Dance
Sun Apr 24 2-5 pm Arlington PACC Gammaldans
Sat May 7 8-10:30 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance (John Chambers & friends)
Sun May 15 2-5 pm Arlington PACC Gammaldans
Sat May 21 8-10:30 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance (Matt Fichtenbaum & friends)
Sat Jun 4 8-10:30 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance (John Chambers & friends)
Fri Jun 10 8-11 pm Arlington Church of Our Savior Norwegian Dance with Toby Weinberg and Anne Hytta
Sun Jun 12 2-5 pm Arlington PACC Gammaldans
Sat Jun 18 8-10:30 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance party (all musicians)

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 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
  • 1-617-924-2705 John Hostage
  • 1-781-862-8823 Wendy & David Ernst
  • 1-781-862-6096 Eph Weiss
  • 1-978-256-8546 Matt Fichtenbaum (musician)
  • 1-617-862-5327 Jim & Heidi Hipple.
  • 1-617-625-2764 Toby Weinberg (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 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.