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April 2025
Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
	1	2	3	4 4:00 pm–Sun 6 4:00 pm Music, dance and song (Facebook) Halsway, UK S W English ceilidh 7:00 pm–Sun 6 6:00 pm Epicenter Contra Dance Weekend (CDSS) Mill Valley, CA, USA S W contra	5	6
7	8	9	10 4:00 pm–Sun 13 4:00 pm Balfolk Ratisbonne Regensburg, Germany S W balfolk	11 –Mon 14 Springdans Northwest Seabeck, WA, USA S W scandi 6:00 pm–Sun 13 11:59 pm Funambals Lyon, France S W balfolk 7:00 pm–Sun 13 6:30 pm Oxford Folk Festival (…) Oxford, UK S W balfolk contra English ceilidh 6:00 pm–Sun 13 3:00 pm Springforth Ball & Dance Weekend (Facebook) (CDSS) Richmond, VA, USA S W contra 6:30 pm–Sun 13 2:30 pm Call of the Loon (CDSS) Minneapolis, MN, USA S W contra	12 10:00 am–Sun 13 8:00 pm Elfia Haarzuilens (…) (…) Haarzuilens, Netherlands S W balfolk	13
14	15	16	17	18 –Sun 20 Dandelion Romp Oberlin, OH, USA S W contra 6:30 pm–Mon 21 2:00 am ComSiBal Festival (Facebook) Boutersem, Belgium S W balfolk 7:00 pm–Sun 20 3:00 pm Dancing Fish Melrose, FL, USA S W contra	19	20
21 4:00 pm–Fri 25 10:00 am Easter House Party (Facebook) Halsway, UK S W contra ECD	22	23	24	25 –Sun 27 Hadleigh French Weekend Hadleigh, UK S W balfolk –Sun 27 Hands Four Spring Dance Weekend Berea, KY, USA S W contra –Sun 27 Trillium Twirl Dowling, MI, USA S W contra ECD –Sun 27 Portland Raindance Weekend Portland, OR, USA S W contra –Sun 27 Spring Dance Romance Carrboro, NC, USA S W contra ECD 4:00 pm–Sun 27 4:00 pm Falconers Dance Club Halsway, UK S W ECD 6:00 pm–Sun 27 10:00 pm Set Dance Weekend (Facebook) Prague, Czechia S W Irish set 6:00 pm–Sun 27 6:00 pm Folkarria Eco Festi-bal Madrid, Spain S W balfolk 6:00 pm–Sun 27 5:00 pm New England Folk Festival (NEFFA) (CDSS) Marlborough, MA, USA S W balfolk contra ECD scandi SCD	26	27
28	29	30 6:00 pm–Sun 4 May 6:00 pm Sofia (bal)Folk Weekend (Facebook) Sofia, Bulgaria S W balfolk
May 2025
Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
			1 –Sun 4 BalSoleil Mogelsberg, Switzerland S W balfolk	2 –Mon 5 May Heydays at Evesham Evesham, UK S W contra ECD balfolk –Mon 5 Scandimoot Clapham, UK S W scandi 4:00 pm–Sun 4 4:00 pm Irish Set Dance Weekend (Facebook) Halsway, UK S W Irish set 7:00 pm–Sat 3 9:00 pm Dancing Fish Melrose, FL, USA S W contra 7:30 pm–Sun 4 3:00 pm Whitewater Whirl (Facebook) (CDSS) Fayetteville, WV, USA S W contra ECD	3	4
5	6	7	8 –Sun 11 Lake Eden Arts Festival - Spring Black Mountain, NC, USA S W contra	9 10:00 am–Sun 11 11:59 pm BalMostFolk (Facebook) (Plug) Kraków, Poland S W balfolk 4:00 pm–Sun 11 4:00 pm Contra Camp (Facebook) Halsway, UK S W contra English ceilidh 7:30 pm–Sun 11 3:00 pm Holmfirth Festival of Folk Holmfirth, UK S W balfolk English ceilidh 4:00 pm–Fri 16 12:00 pm Contradancers Delight Holiday Mountain City, TN, USA S W contra 7:00 pm–Sun 11 1:30 pm Apple Blossom Bliss (CDSS) Ann Arbor, MI, USA S W contra	10	11
12 4:00 pm–Fri 16 10:00 am American Spring Contra (Facebook) Halsway, UK S W contra	13	14	15	16 –Sat 17 Trad i Malung Malung, Sweden S W scandi 7:00 pm–Sun 18 5:00 pm Mad Robin Ball (CDSS) Petaluma, CA, USA S W ECD	17	18
19	20	21	22	23 –Mon 26 Dancing Bears Dance Camp (CDSS) Wasilla, AK, USA S W contra –Mon 26 FolkMADness Music & Dance Camp (CDSS) Socorro, NM, USA S W contra ECD –Sun 25 Butterfly Whirl Decatur, GA, USA S W contra 12:00 pm–Mon 26 11:55 pm Chippenham Folk Festival (Facebook) Chippenham, UK S W balfolk contra English ceilidh Irish céilí Irish set ECD 3:00 pm–Sun 25 5:30 pm Folk College (CDSS) (CDSS) Huntingdon, PA, USA S W contra Scottish cèilidh 7:00 pm–Mon 26 3:00 pm Meet Me In St Louis (CDSS) Webster Groves, MO, USA S W contra ECD	24	25
26	27	28 –Sun 1 June Tanz und Verbindung Waldheim, Germany S W balfolk	29 12:00 pm–Sat 31 12:00 pm Hovrastämman (Facebook) Korskrogen, Sweden S W scandi 2:00 pm–Sun 1 June 4:00 am Festival Balilas (Facebook) Janzé, France S W balfolk	30 12:00 pm–Sun 1 June 3:00 pm Musik- und Tanzfest Krebsow, Germany S W balfolk 1:00 pm–Sun 1 June 4:00 pm Dafodil Diest, Belgium S W balfolk 4:00 pm–Sun 1 June 4:00 pm Halsway Playford Assembly (Facebook) Halsway, UK S W ECD 6:00 pm–Sun 1 June 3:00 pm Chain Reaction Surry, ME, USA S W contra	31
June 2025
Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
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2	3	4	5 6:00 pm–Sun 8 3:00 pm Ransätersstämman Karlstad, Sweden S W scandi	6 –Sun 8 Dance Trance Weekend Lexington, KY, USA S W contra –Sun 8 Gender-Free Dance Camp Plymouth, MA, USA S W contra –Sun 8 Taste of Haven Syracuse, IN, USA S W contra 7:00 pm–Sun 8 10:00 pm Les Trad'Yvresses Le Mans, France S W balfolk 6:00 pm–Sun 8 6:00 pm Bal-Curious (Facebook) Burneside, UK S W balfolk 9:00 pm–Mon 9 9:00 pm RenoFolk Festival Bologna, Italy S W balfolk Italian	7 –Mon 9 Moulin d'Andé Weekend Val-de-Reuil, France S W contra	8
9	10	11	12	13 –Sun 15 Flamingo Fling (CDSS) Oklahoma City, OK, USA S W contra –Sun 15 Summer Soiree Asheville, NC, USA S W contra 8:00 pm–Sat 14 11:00 pm Across the Lake (CDSS) Colchester, VT, USA S W ECD	14 4:00 pm–Sat 21 12:00 pm Dance, Music & Spice Lexington, MI, USA S W contra ECD	15 3:30 pm–Sun 22 10:00 am BACDS Hey Days (CDSS) Los Garos, CA, USA S W ECD
16	17	18 6:00 pm–Sun 22 4:30 pm Folk Weekend Mattstedt Apolda, Germany S W balfolk	19 12:00 pm–Sun 22 11:45 pm Numinosum Festival: Midsummer Night (Facebook) (Plug) Liw, Poland S W balfolk Polish	20 7:00 pm–Sun 22 5:00 pm Lichfield Folk Festival Lichfield, UK S W contra ECD	21 –Sun 22 Midzomer Fair Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands S W balfolk	22 2:00 pm–Sat 28 9:00 am Acadia Festival of Traditional Music & Dance (CDSS) Bar Harbor, ME, USA S W contra 3:00 pm–Sat 28 11:00 am Lady of the Lake June Week (CDSS) Harrison, ID, USA S W contra ECD
23	24 –Sat 28 74th National Square Dance Convention (CDSS) (…) Shreveport, LA, USA S W contra ECD SCD	25	26 –Mon 30 July Fourth Plymouth, MA, USA S W contra ECD Irish set	27 –Sun 6 July Stämmoveckan Rättvik, Sweden S W scandi 4:00 pm–Mon 30 4:00 pm Dañserlà Erlangen, Germany S W balfolk 8:00 pm–Sun 29 8:00 pm Bals et Roses (Facebook) Florenville, Belgium S W balfolk	28	29 –Fri 4 July AmWeek Ben Lomond, CA, USA S W contra –Fri 4 July Cumberland Dance Week Pleasantville, TN, USA S W contra ECD
30 –Fri 4 July Pinewoods English-Scottish-Contra Plymouth, MA, USA S W contra ECD SCD
July 2025
Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
	1	2	3 –Sun 6 Roanoke Railroader Salem, VA, USA S W contra	4 6:00 pm–Sun 6 4:00 pm Stegastomp Harbury, UK S W contra	5	6 8:00 pm–Sun 13 1:00 pm Folk dance summer school @AKDT (Facebook) (FBB) (…) Grandvoir, Belgium W balfolk
7 –Fri 12 Gran Bal Trad (Vialfre) Vialfre, Italy S W balfolk Irish set Italian ECD scandi 4:00 pm–Fri 11 10:00 am Social Country Dance Week (Facebook) Halsway, UK S W contra ECD	8	9	10	11	12	13 1:00 pm–Sat 19 2:00 pm Ashokan Northern Week Olivebridge, NY, USA S W contra scandi
14	15	16	17	18	19 3:00 pm–Sat 26 10:00 am American Dance & Music Week Plymouth, MA, USA S W contra	20
21	22	23	24	25 –Sun 27 Southern Aire Mountain City, TN, USA S W contra	26 –Sat 2 August Harmony of Song & Dance Plymouth, MA, USA S W contra ECD	27
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August 2025
Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
				1 –Fri 8 Sidmouth Folk Festival Sidmouth, UK S W English ceilidh contra ECD SCD balfolk scandi Irish set Irish céilí –Sat 9 Lark Camp (CDSS) Fort Bragg, CA, USA S W contra ECD	2	3
4	5	6	7	8 –Fri 15 Broadstairs Folk Week Broadstairs, UK S W English ceilidh contra	9	10
11 –Sun 17 Family Week Poland, ME, USA S W balfolk contra ECD 4:00 pm–Sun 17 10:00 am Cascade of Music & Dance Cascade, MD, USA S W contra ECD	12	13 –Sun 17 Bal Focus Šumperk, Czechia S W balfolk	14 4:35 pm–Sat 16 11:59 pm FESTI'FOLK Lambesc, France S W balfolk	15 –Sun 17 Mentone Mentone, AL, USA S W contra 7:00 pm–Sun 17 4:00 pm Good Life Gallop Omaha, NE, USA S W contra	16 3:00 pm–Fri 22 11:59 pm Whitby Folk Week Whitby, UK S W English ceilidh contra ECD Irish set 3:00 pm–Sat 23 10:00 am Campers' Week Plymouth, MA, USA S W contra ECD	17
18 4:00 pm–Mon 25 10:00 am Halsway Folk Dance Holiday Halsway, UK S W ECD	19	20 8:00 pm–Mon 25 12:00 am Boombalfestival (Facebook) (FBB) Lovendegem, Belgium S W balfolk	21	22 –Sun 24 Sugar Hill Dance Weekend Bloomington, IN, USA S W contra 2:00 pm–Mon 25 6:00 pm Shrewsbury Folk Festival Shrewsbury, UK S W balfolk contra English ceilidh 6:00 pm–Sun 24 10:00 pm Found Festival Middle Claydon, UK S W English ceilidh	23 –Fri 29 TradMaD Plymouth, MA, USA S W contra	24
25	26	27	28	29 –Mon 1 September Dance Camp North (CDSS) Fairbanks, AK, USA S W contra –Tue 2 September Pinewoods Labor Day Weekend Plymouth, MA, USA S W contra ECD 4:00 pm–Sun 31 4:00 pm Halsway Regency Assembley Halsway, UK S W ECD 4:00 pm–Mon 1 September 1:00 pm Northwest Passage (CDSS) Rhododendron, OR, USA S W ECD 6:00 pm–Mon 1 September 1:30 pm Rocky Mountain Rendezvous Boulder, CO, USA S W contra	30	31
September 2025
Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
1	2	3	4 4:00 pm–Sun 7 2:00 am Simmelfolk Simmelsdorf, Germany S W balfolk	5 –Sun 7 Bear Hug Dance Camp Rollins, MT, USA S W contra –Sun 7 South Folk Festival (BOK) Balingen, Germany S W balfolk	6	7
8	9	10	11	12 –Sun 14 Butterfly Twirl (Facebook) Chagrin Falls, OH, USA S W contra 6:00 pm–Sun 14 11:45 pm 32e Folk Festival Marsinne (Facebook) Marsinne, Belgium S W balfolk	13	14
15	16	17	18	19 –Sun 21 Feet Retreat Ellerbe, NC, USA S W contra –Sun 21 Squirrel Moon Contra Dance weekend Dodgeville, WI, USA S W contra –Sun 21 Chehalis Dance Weekend Vancouver, BC, Canada S W contra –Sun 21 Wasatch Wiggle Salt Lake City, UT, USA S W contra 6:00 pm–Sun 21 6:00 pm 5ème Festival des Bals Combiers Lausanne, Switzerland S W balfolk	20	21
22	23	24	25	26 –Sun 28 Adirondack Dance Weekend (CDSS) Silver Bay, NY, USA S W balfolk contra ECD –Sun 28 Cascade Contras Dance Camp Springfield, OR, USA S W contra 12:00 pm–Sun 28 12:00 am Infinitumbal (Facebook) Vilnius, Lithuania S W balfolk 4:00 pm–Sun 28 4:00 pm Halsway Harvest Weekend Halsway, UK S W English ceilidh ECD	27 –Sun 28 Kurs: Tänze aus Frankreich (BOK) Kirchheim, Germany W balfolk	28
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October 2025
Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
		1	2	3 –Sun 5 Moondance Dance Weekend Pickens, SC, USA S W contra –Sun 5 Lady of the Lake Fall Camp Harrison, ID, USA S W contra	4	5
6 4:00 pm–Fri 10 10:00 am Autumn Contra Dance Week Halsway, UK S W contra	7	8	9 –Sun 12 John C Campbell Fall Dance Weekend Brasstown, NC, USA S W contra	10 –Sun 12 Harvest Moon Santa Barbara, CA, USA S W contra 4:30 pm–Sun 12 7:30 pm NAIF Balfolk Festival (Facebook) Sorrento, Italy S W balfolk Italian	11	12
13	14	15	16	17 7:30 pm–Sun 19 3:00 pm Pittsburgh Fall Dance Weekend (CDSS) Pittsburgh, PA, USA S W contra	18	19
20	21	22	23 6:00 pm–Sun 26 7:00 pm CaDansa (Facebook) (…) Steenwijk, Netherlands S W balfolk	24 –Sun 26 Music City Masquerade Nashville, TN, USA S W contra 7:30 pm–Sun 26 5:00 pm Contra NYC New York, NY, USA S W contra	25	26
27	28	29	30	31 7:00 pm–Sun 2 November 3:00 pm Hey Fever Ottawa, Ontario, Canada S W contra
November 2025
Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
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3	4	5	6	7 –Sun 9 Head for the Hills (CDSS) Kunkletown, PA, USA S W contra ECD 5:00 pm–Sun 9 5:00 pm Skint (Facebook) Ashover, UK S W balfolk scandi 3:00 pm–Sun 9 3:00 pm Dance in the Desert (CDSS) Oracle, AZ, USA S W contra	8	9
10	11	12	13	14 –Sun 16 Fire Ant Frolic Austin, TX, USA S W contra 3:00 pm–Mon 17 10:00 am Balfolk weekend Intensive 2025 (Plug) Nijmegen, Netherlands W balfolk	15	16
17	18	19	20	21 4:00 pm–Sun 23 4:00 pm Zesty Contra Weekend Halsway, UK S W contra	22	23
24	25	26	27	28 –Sun 30 ContraCopia Philadelphia, PA, USA S W contra	29	30
December 2025
Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
1	2	3	4	5	6 –Sun 7 Midwinter Fair Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands S W balfolk	7
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22	23 4:00 pm–Sat 27 10:00 am Christmas House Party Halsway, UK S W contra	24	25	26 –Wed 31 Contradancers Delight Holiday Morgantown, WV, USA S W contra	27	28
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January 2026
Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
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5	6	7	8	9 4:00 pm–Mon 12 10:00 am What the Trad?! - Weekender (Plug) Nijmegen, Netherlands S W balfolk	10	11
12	13	14	15	16 3:00 pm–Mon 19 1:00 pm Stellar Days & Nights (CDSS) Buena Vista, CO, USA S W contra ECD	17	18
19 4:00 pm–Fri 23 10:00 am Winter Warmer Halsway, UK S W ECD	20	21	22	23 –Sun 25 Florida Snow Ball Gulfport, FL, USA S W contra	24	25
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February 2026
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23	24	25	26	27 –Sun 1 March Lava Meltdown Lava Hot Springs, ID, USA S W contra	28
March 2026
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23	24	25	26	27 –Sun 29 Pigtown Fling Cincinatti, OH, USA S W contra	28	29
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June 2026
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15	16	17	18	19 7:00 pm–Sun 21 5:00 pm Lichfield Folk Festival Lichfield, UK S W contra ECD	20	21
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