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Upcoming Dance & Music Events in Richmond, VA, & Surrounding Areas ...

  • Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 - Shari's Beginning and Intermediate Belly Dance class sessions begin at Humphrey Caulder Community Center, 414 N. Thompson St.
  • Saturday, August 25th, 2007 - Lyuti Chuski 10th Anniversary Bulgarian Folk Dance & Music Celebration, Meadowbrook Community Center, Chevy Chase, MD. See http://www.lyutichushki.com/events.html for more details.
  • Sunday, September 9th, 2007The 33rd Annual Slavic American Festival will be held on Sunday, September 9th from 12:00 noon until 6:30 PM at the Epiphany of Our Lord Byzantine Catholic Church, 3410 Woodburn Road in Annandale, Virginia. See http://holyspiritchurch.us/plasma/core/site/hsc for more details. 
  • Friday through Sunday, September 14th through 16th - The 1st Annual Macedonian Festival in Garfield, New Jersey. Food! Music! Dance! Food! Souvenirs! See http://www.macedoniancommunitynj.org/ for more details.
  • Saturday, September 15th, 2007 - 43rd Street Festival, 10 am to 5pm. Arts and crafts, food, music and more. See http://www.43rdstgallery.com/events3.html for more details.
  • Friday, October 12th, through Sunday, October 14th, 2007 - The 68th National Folk Festival downtown Richmond, VA. For all of you that incessantly bemoan that there is never anythinng to do in Richmond ... DO NOT MISS THIS! The Festival organizers are still adding to the list of performers almost weekly. See http://www.nationalfolkfestival.com/ for more info as it develops.
  • Saturday, October 13th, 2007 - BALKTOBERFEST at the Hollywood Ballroom in Silver Spring, MD. See www.balktoberfest.com for more details.
  • Saturday, October 20th, 2007 - Tribal Jam 6! A wild, user-friendly assortment of belly dancing, Middle Eastern percussion, fire-spinning, live music, food, henna hand-painting, crafts and comraderie. BALKANIZE! will perform, and Shari and Geoff may do a drum solo performance as well. A great place to meet other dancers and musicians in Richmond's otherwise inaccessible and clique-oriented belly dancing scene.
  • Saturday & Sunday, November 10th & 11th, 2007 - The Women of Selket Middle Eastern Dance Troupe present a workshop and dance performance with Nourhan Sharif and others (Shari and Geoff will perform at this event) at John Tyler Community College. See http://www.womenofselket.com/news.shtml for more information.

If you are organizing or know of an Eastern music-, dance- or culture-related event that you would like me to post here, please email me at stupidroom@verizon.net . Thanks.