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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 2007:
Sun Sep 9 2-5 pm Arlington PACC Gammaldans
Fri Sep 14 8 pm Arlington CoOS Norwegian Dance
Sat Sep 15 8 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance
Sat Oct 6 8 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance
Sun Oct 14 2-5 pm Arlington PACC Gammaldans
Fri Oct 19 8 pm Arlington CoOS Norwegian Dance - Røroslaget
Sat Oct 20 8 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance
Sat Nov 3 8 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance
Sun Nov 11 2-5 pm Arlington PACC Gammaldans
Fri Nov 16 8 pm Arlington CoOS Norwegian Dance
Sat Nov 17 8 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance - Toby Weinberg
Sat Dec 1 8 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance
Sun Dec 9 2-5 pm Arlington PACC Gammaldans
Fri Dec 14 8 pm Arlington CoOS Norwegian Dance
Sat Dec 15 8 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance

Winter 2008:
Sat Jan 5 8 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance
Sun Jan 13 2-5 pm Arlington PACC Gammaldans
Fri Jan 18 8 pm Arlington CoOS Norwegian Dance - Kenneth DeGala, from Norway
Sat Jan 19 8 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance
Sat Feb 2 8 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance
Sun Feb 10 2-5 pm Arlington PACC Gammaldans
Fri Feb 15 8 pm Arlington CoOS Norwegian Dance
Sat Feb 16 8 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance
Sat Mar 1_ 8 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance
Sun Mar 9 2-5 pm Arlington PACC Gammaldans
Fri Mar 14 8 pm Arlington CoOS Norwegian Dance
Sat Mar 15 8 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance

Spring 2008:
Sat Apr 5 8 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance
Sun Apr 13 2-5 pm Arlington PACC Gammaldans
Fri Apr 18 8 pm Arlington CoOS *NO Norwegian Dance* See you at NEFFA!
Sat Apr 19 8 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance
Fri Apr 25-27 8 pm NEFFA New England Folk Festival
Sat May 3 8 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance
Sun May 11 2-5 pm Arlington PACC Gammaldans
Fri May 16 8 pm Arlington CoOS Norwegian Dance
Sat May 17 8 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance
Sat Jun 7 8 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance
Fri Jun 13 8 pm Arlington CoOS Norwegian Dance
Sun Jun 15 2-5 pm Arlington PACC Gammaldans
Sat Jun 21 8 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian 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 Gideon Morse: gsmorse@comcast.net or call 413-253-0525.

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)
  • 1-413-253-0525 Gideon Morse
  • 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.