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Tom Deering
with live music by
David Bilides •
Adam Good
Jerry Kisslinger •
Mark Levy
Carol Silverman
March 12 - 14, 2004 •
St. Louis, Missouri
No experience needed • No partners needed
Special workshop session on Balkan drumming
| Friday, March 12 University United Methodist Church (see Locations below) | ||
| 7:30 - 10:00 p.m. | Workshop session with live music | $10 |
| Saturday, March 13 University United Methodist Church | ||
| 9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Workshop session | $8 |
| 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. | Lunch * | $5 * |
| 1:30 - 4:00 p.m. | Workshop session | $8 |
| 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. | Balkan drumming * | $20 * |
| 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. | Potluck Dinner | |
| 7:30 - 10:45 p.m. | Dance Party with live music | $10 or $15 ¶ |
| Sunday, March 14 The Focal Point (see Locations below) | ||
| 10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | Workshop session | $8 |
| 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. | Lunch on your own | |
| 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. | Review session | $8 |
| * By arrangement (not included in package price) | ||
| ¶ $10 for IFDA members; $15 for non-members | ||
A workshop package is available at $45 for IFDA members or $50 for
non-IFDA members. This package includes the four workshop sessions, the dance party,
and the review session, but not the Saturday lunch or the Balkan drumming session.
For those who prefer not to buy the package, the individual sessions and dance party may be
paid for at the door (see schedule for prices).
Attendees of ages
Saturday lunch reservations must be made no later than Monday, March 8 (you may use the registration form. The Saturday dinner is potluck (no charge, but bring a dish), and Sunday lunch is on your own. Contributions of fruits and sweets for snacks would be appreciated.
If you are interested in the Saturday Balkan drumming session taught by
Jerry Kisslinger, please contact Gitry at
Tom Deering has been teaching and performing Balkan dance in the Northwest since the early 1970s. After a short tenure with Seattle's Koleda Ensemble, he helped found the Radost Folk Ensemble in 1976, with which he has been involved ever since. He also dance mastered and soloed in a Macedonian Suite set on Radost by Atanas Kolarovski in 1979, and performed with the Ensemble from 1979 to 1987. Tom taught a regular advanced Balkan dance class for many years and still teaches Macedonian and Bulgarian dance at local festivals. Tom also plays Macedonian, Serbian and Bulgarian music on tupan and doumbek with Orkestar RTW. He has been to the Balkans three times: in 1976, in 1981 on a performing tour with Radost, and in 1991 with Mary Sherhart.
David Bilides' initial encounters with Balkan folk music were the weddings and dances of the Asia Minor Greek community. After hearing other Balkan music while attending international folk dancing in high school, he took the first of several trips to the Balkans in 1974, visiting Romania, Greece, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Turkey. He learned dances, made field recordings, and collected instruments. On returning to the United States he taught himself the music and instruments, formed groups, and eventually began teaching others. He continues to play and teach music from Greece, Macedonia, Bulgaria, and Turkey on a variety of traditional instruments and is a frequent guest performer with different groups and at traditional folk music and dance events across the country.
Multi-instrumentalist Adam Good is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music in Boston and has lived in New York City since 1996. With a foundation in jazz guitar, Adam has lent his inventive sound to many downtown projects and has performed at the Knitting Factory, Tonic, alt.coffee, and CBGB's Gallery. His talent on the tambura (small lute-like instrument) playing Macedonian and Bulgarian folk music, and on the ud and cümbüs playing other folk music, has made Adam a fixture of New York's Balkan music scene. As a member of Harmonia, the Macedonian Izvorno-style ensemble 9 Olives, Izgori, and the Bulgarian Kolevi 6, he has performed at Hungarian House, Zlatne Uste's annual Golden festival, Balkan Cabaret, D.C.'s Kennedy Center, and the Philadelphia Folk Festival.
Mark Levy created the first week-long Balkan Music Workshop in 1974, and co-founded the East European Folklife Center in the early 1980s. He has a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology and is a professor at the University of Oregon School of Music, where he teaches courses in world music and directs the university's East European Folk Music Ensemble. He has made numerous research trips to Bulgaria and has performed on the gajda, clarinet, and other aerophones with Aman, Pitu Guli, The Balkantones and Slavej (currently Trio Slavej).
Jerry Kisslinger has played tapan/dauli and other drums for folk dance and ethnic communities throughout the United States since the early 1970s. A specialist in Macedonian dance rhythms, Jerry is a founding member of Zlatne Uste Balkan Brass Band, and currently performs with Zlatne Uste, the Macedonian band Turli Tava, Beth Cohen and Demetri Tashie, and with other Macedonian, Klezmer and Greek ensembles. He has also performed with the Yuri Yunakov Orchestra, Akshambelah, and the Balkanizers, and has been honored to learn from master musicians in the United States and Europe. Carol Silverman is a professor of folklore and cultural anthropology at the University of Oregon. Since the 1970s, she has done extensive field research on Bulgarian music and politics, and has worked with Roma (Gypsies) in Macedonia, Bulgaria and New York on human rights and culture. As a vocalist with the Yuri Yunakov Ensemble, she has performed in festivals in the United States, Canada and Australia. In 1999 she toured with the Ensemble as part of Gypsy Caravan, also serving as its educational coordinator. She currently sings with Trio Slavej.To hear examples of the type of dance music that will be featured at this workshop, tune in to Music from the Hills on Saturdays from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. on radio station KDHX, 88.1 FM in St. Louis, co-hosted by IFDA members John Uhlemann and Gitry Heydebrand. You can also listen online -- see KDHX's web site at www.kdhx.org.
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University United Methodist Church (Friday and Saturday): 6901 Washington Ave., University City, Missouri; on the northwest corner of Washington and Trinity south of the Lion Gates on Delmar -- see Yahoo! Map. Parking is available in the church lot and on Trinity, but please do not park on the residential part of Washington. Walk by the playground in front of the church, and enter by the door at the inner corner of the L-shaped building.
The Focal Point (Sunday): 2720 Sutton Blvd., Maplewood, Missouri; 1 1/2 blocks south of Manchester -- see Yahoo! Map. Watch for one-way streets in the area. Park on street. Directions will also be available at the Saturday sessions.
Joan Amsterdam of International Folk Rhythms, Ltd. will be selling ethnic recordings, books, clothing and accessories, and crafts from around the world on Friday and Saturday.
Crash Space is available.
Please call Diana Blanchard at
For More Information: Please call Gitry at
Sponsored by the
International Folk Dance Association
of University City
Made possible by grants from:
The Regional Arts Commission
of St. Louis
The Arts and Education Council
of Greater St. Louis
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