2018 Northwest Folklife Festival: Full Schedule

Welcome to the Northwest Folklife Festival 2018 schedule!

12:00pm PDT

Intro to Appalachian Flatfooting

With Charmaine Slaven

Performers

Intro to Appalachian Flatfooting

Originally from Stevensville MT, Charmaine Slaven moved to the Seattle area in 2000 and she fell in love with old time music and dance at the 2005 Portland Old Time Gathering. There, she met The Tallboys and started performing with them, flatfooting and then playing guitar, and with... Read More →

Saturday May 26, 2018 12:00pm - 12:50pm PDT
Theatre 4 - Dance Workshops 305 Harrison Street, Seattle WA 98109

Dance Workshop

Genre Old Time Music

1:10pm PDT

Hungarian Folk Dance Workshop

Learn Basic Hungarian Dances

Performers

Hungarian Folk Dance Workshop

Thanks to the Hungarian government’s Kőrösi Csoma Sándor program, we are thrilled to have Attila Ciceri in Seattle for the Sept. 2016-June 2017 period. Born in Serbia as a Hungarian national, Attila’s family escaped from the Yugoslavian war to Hungary when he was a young child... Read More →

Saturday May 26, 2018 1:10pm - 2:40pm PDT
Theatre 4 - Dance Workshops 305 Harrison Street, Seattle WA 98109

Participatory Dance

Genre Central/Eastern Europe & Balkan - DANCE

3:00pm PDT

The Musical Socks with Amy Carroll Caller

Live Dance Tunes Here

Performers

The Musical Socks with Amy Carroll, Caller

The musical socks are students of Bonnie Zahnow. Their goal is to have fun playing old timey tunes.

Saturday May 26, 2018 3:00pm - 3:50pm PDT
Theatre 4 - Dance Workshops 305 Harrison Street, Seattle WA 98109

Participatory Dance, Family Dance

Genre Children's Programs - DANCE
Program Kids Programming

4:00pm PDT

Scottish Country Dancing for Ceilidhs and Parties

With Elinor Vandegrift

Performers

Scottish Country Dancing for Ceilidhs and Parties

Elinor Mackenzie Vandegrift has been dancing SCD since she was a child growing up in the U.K. She has taught all ages and ability levels for many years. She has taught throughout N. America, several Australian winter Schools and Summer Schools in the UK. She has taught at several... Read More →

Saturday May 26, 2018 4:00pm - 4:50pm PDT
Theatre 4 - Dance Workshops 305 Harrison Street, Seattle WA 98109

Dance Workshop, Scottish Country Dance

Genre British Isles/Ireland - DANCE

12:00pm PDT

Polka with Pat

With Patrick McMonagle

Performers

Polka with Pat

With Patrick McMonagle

Sunday May 27, 2018 12:00pm - 12:10pm PDT
Theatre 4 - Dance Workshops 305 Harrison Street, Seattle WA 98109

Dance Workshop, Polka Party

Genre Americana

12:10pm PDT

The Polka Guyz

Polka, Why Don'tcha!

Performers

The Polka Guyz

We're an agglomeration of friends from various musical backgrounds that enjoy polka and related music.

Sunday May 27, 2018 12:10pm - 12:50pm PDT
Theatre 4 - Dance Workshops 305 Harrison Street, Seattle WA 98109

Participatory Dance, Polka Party

Genre Contra/Square Dance Band

2:00pm PDT

Israeli Dance

With Live Music by Orkestyr Farfeleh

Performers

Israeli Dance

Harvey & Marianne play myriad Jewish folk musics including Israeli, Klezmer, Yiddish song & theatre, & Eastern European & also various American & International & English country dance musics with several local bands including Orkestyr Farfeleh & The Klez Katz.Bernice Maslan first... Read More →

Sunday May 27, 2018 2:00pm - 2:50pm PDT
Theatre 4 - Dance Workshops 305 Harrison Street, Seattle WA 98109

Participatory Dance

Genre Jewish/Israel DANCE

3:00pm PDT

Stuart Williams and his Sprouts with Claire Takemori Caller

Kids Play, You Dance

Performers

Stuart Williams and his Sprouts with Claire Takemori, Caller

Stuart Williams is one of the foremost fiddle instructors in the Pacific Northwest, as well as a great show and dance fiddler. He has probably taught the traditional fiddling of this region to more folks than any other fiddle teacher. In his teaching he focuses on the styles of fiddling... Read More →

Sunday May 27, 2018 3:00pm - 3:50pm PDT
Theatre 4 - Dance Workshops 305 Harrison Street, Seattle WA 98109

Participatory Dance, Family Dance

Genre Children's Programs - DANCE
Program Kids Programming

7:45pm PDT

Nicholas Petrish

Nicholas Petrish Teaches Lindjo

Performers

Nicholas Petrish

Nicholas Petrish is a principle dancer in the Vela Luka Croatian Dance Ensemble and has been performing at Folklife since 1975.Nick was born and raised into a Croatian fishing family in Anacortes, WA. Nick not only plays the lijerica, he also builds them. For the last 28 years, Nick... Read More →

Sunday May 27, 2018 7:45pm - 8:00pm PDT
Theatre 4 - Dance Workshops 305 Harrison Street, Seattle WA 98109

Dance Workshop, Balkan Dance

Genre Central/Eastern Europe & Balkan - MUSIC