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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
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50 Paul Revere Road, Arlington, Mass, USA
Schedule
Check the FolkFone 781-662-7476 for cancellations.

Winter 2009:
Sat Jan 3 8 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance
Sun Jan 11 2-5 pm Arlington PACC Gammaldans
Fri Jan 16 8-11 pm Arlington CoOS Norwegian Dance
Sat Jan 17 8 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance
Sat Feb 7 8 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance
Sun Feb 15 2-5 pm Arlington PACC Gammaldans (Note: 3rd Sunday)
Fri Feb 20 8-11 pm Arlington CoOS Norwegian Dance
Sat Feb 21 8 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance
Sat Mar 7 8 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance
Sun Mar 15 2-5 pm Arlington PACC Gammaldans (Note: 3rd Sunday)

Spring 2009:
Fri Mar 20 8-11 pm Arlington CoOS Norwegian Dance
Sat Mar 21 8 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance
Sat Apr 4 8 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance
Sun Apr 12 2-5 pm Arlington PACC Gammaldans
Fri Apr 17 8-11 pm Arlington CoOS Norwegian Dance
Sat Apr 18 8 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance
Sat May 2 8 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance
Sun May 10 2-5 pm Arlington PACC Gammaldans
Fri May 15 8-11 pm Arlington CoOS Norwegian Dance
Sat Mar 16 8 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance
Sat Jun 6 8 pm Arlington PACC Scandinavian Dance party
Sun Jun 14 2-5 pm Arlington PACC Gammaldans
Fri Jun 19 8-11 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 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:
  • 1-617-803-1797 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.