Winter Folk Dancing In The Sun
2026-01-24 - 2026-02-03 | Hotel Alay, Av. Alay, 5, Benalmádena, Málaga, 29630, Spain
Our 6th annual Winter Folk Dance Festival in the Sun
at the Hotel Alay, Benalmadena, Costa del Sol, Spain
(overlooking the World Famous Marina and just 15 minutes from Malaga Airport)
Ten glorious days and nights of music, song, English folk dancing, including contra, square, Playford, and of course a ceilidh evening, plus tutorials and workshops daily!

BACDS Family Week
2026-06-21 - 2026-06-27 | Monte Toyon Camp & Conference Center, 220 Cloister Ln, Aptos, CA, 95003, United States
Family Week is a place to bring your whole family to learn music and dance together in the beautiful redwoods of California.
Our program is structured to provide daytime dance, song, theater, and crafts classes for children with their own age groups, and separate classes for adults. The evenings feature dances for all, with the younger children sung off to bed with the Pied Piper parade, and our roving babysitters checking on them so that parents can keep dancing. This could be your chance to try stilt walking too.
We welcome families of all shapes and sizes, and always have some single adults who enjoy the slower pace of a family camp and the opportunity to share these traditions in our multigenerational setting.

Lady of the Lake Music and Dance Week
2026-06-21 15:00 - 2026-06-27 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | N-Sid-Sen Camp & Retreat Center, 36395 S Hwy 97, Harrison, ID, 83833, United States
Lady of the Lake Music and Dance Week on the shores of Coeur d’Alene Lake, 75 minutes from Spokane, WA, features a unique blend of contra and English country dance, including workshops in dancing, calling, and playing music.
Our community, made of campers from 20 different states and four Canadian provinces, is welcoming and supportive. Program includes singing and art as well. And there is plenty of time for swimming, hiking, canoeing and bicycling. Fabulous food with gluten-free, vegan, vegetarian and dairy-free options.
Staff include: Lisa Greenleaf and Maia McCormick calling contras; Joanna Reiner Wilkenson caling English country. Contra Sutra and Audrey Jabor, Rachael Bell, and Karen Axelrod will play for both English and contras along with Countercurrent playing contras.
Transportation provided from the Spokane Airport to camp and back.

Cumberland Dance Week
2026-06-28 - 2026-07-03 | Nacome Camp & Retreat Center, 3232 Sulphur Creek Rd, Pleasantville, TN, 37033, United States
An intergenerational folk dance and music camp. Includes 5 nights of dancing, 4 days of classes created for each dance group, air-conditioned lodging, and meals. Staff from around the country and opportunities for campers to engage with leadership.

BACDS American Week
2026-06-28 - 2026-07-03 | Quaker Center, 1000 Hubbard Gulch Road, Ben Lomond, CA, 95005, United States
Five days of contra dancing, music, and more in Ben Lomond, CA, in the Santa Cruz mountains south of San Francisco.
It’s a dance camp with music! It’s a music camp with dance!

Freight x Lark Youth Music Camp
2026-06-29 - 2026-07-03 | The Freight, 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, 94703, United States
Early Bird Registration open now through March 31st.
The Freight x Lark Youth Music Camp is designed to strengthen foundational music and rhythm skills for youth aged 8-14 through hands-on experience in a range of global artistic traditions. Running from June 29 through July 3rd, the camp is anchored by daily harmonica lessons with the Bay Area’s King of Bollywood Blues, Aki Kumar. Campers will learn through Aki’s genre-bending lens that opens harmonica up to a world of new practices. In addition to daily harmonica and basic music theory lessons, students will receive global percussion instruction from a rotating cast of percussionists from Lark Camp and The Freight’s teams. Afternoons will be filled with movement and dance activities, building upon themes from the day’s lessons. Parents are able to opt in to optional aftercare as needed.

New London Assembly at AEMF
2026-07-19 - 2026-07-26 | Muhlenberg College, 2400 W. Chew St, Allentown, PA, 18104, United States
Directed by Mark Weinstein, with Andrew Shaw and Victoria Yeomans
Musicians:
Karen Axelrod piano
Ben Schreiber violin
Molly Tucker violin
New London Assembly is a week-long series of dance classes, lectures, workshops, and evening dancing, all done to fabulous music. Although focused primarily on historical 17th- and 18th-century country dance, we will also include some of the modern dances they have inspired.
Over the years of our existence starting with Andrew Shaw’s first visit in 2013, we’ve developed a culture with strong attention to detail during the daytime workshops and spirited community recreational dancing in the evenings. Of special interest are the excellent Amherst Early Music Festival evening concerts and lectures.

Country Dance Tour to Prague and the Czech Republic 2026!
2026-09-30 - 2026-10-12 | Prague, Prague, Czech Republic, Prague, Manitoba, 10400, Czech Republic
A fantastic way to experience Prague and the Czech Republic in the company of folks interested in dance, music and culture. The tour will feature many different activities and interesting locations. You’ll have a chance to meet Czech folk and country dancers, see interesting places listed as UNESCO heritage sites, visit historical towns, meet people who are engaged in traditional folk production, take short hikes in beautiful surroundings, and also explore different aspects of local folklore.
The last three days of the tour are spent in Prague attending the Country Dance Festival Jasana Bonuše, that includes: contras, squares, English Country dances, and more.
The complete program, prices, and registration details can be found here.

Contra Holiday in Medieval England
2027-04-07 - 2027-04-14 | King’s School, Ely, England, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, CB7 4EW, United Kingdom
Seven night residential contra dance camp for 150 participants in a former monastery in Ely, near Cambridge, England, with Wild Asparagus and George Marshall and Lisa Greenleaf calling. Food and accommodations included. Dancing each evening, excursions during the days. Our tenth such event.
