Lyrids Folk Dance Festival Article written by Chrisanne Pennimpede was published in NFO News December 2024 Excerpt: Save the date for Lyrids 11th Folk Dance Festival, May 9–11, 2025! We’re excited about having Željko Jergan teaching Croatian dances and Joe Kaloyanides Graziosi teaching dances from Greece. The Saturday evening party band will be Zakuska (Jana [...]
Lyrids Folk Dance Festival Article written by Kathy Sandstrom was published in The Northwest Folk Dancer, June 2024 Excerpt: With great teachers, a new location, a new big Festival Committee, excellent band, new caterer, and some new volunteers, a terrific fragrance-free Lyrids Festival was pulled off April 19–21 in Pitt Meadows, B.C., Canada, about 40 [...]
An interview with Tom Bozigian March 13, 2024. Tom was interviewed and the article below was written by Bev Neilson. Tom is looking forward to returning to see the dancers he met at Salt Spring Festival in 2008. “It’s been a long time”. Some of his popular dances have been loved around the world for [...]
The Story of Kitka by Vania Zaharieva-Аlexieva Celebrating 20 years of Bulgarian Folk Dance and Music in Vancouver, this 2023 documentary consists of four 7-8 minute parts. You can find all of them in this YouTube playlist: The videos are in Bulgarian with English subtitles, and capture the vibrant community spirit. Happy birthday to our [...]
Lyrids Folk Dance Festival Article written by Chrisanne Pennimpede was published in NFO News February 2024 Excerpt: Dear Folk Dance Enthusiasts, we are thrilled to extend a warm invitation to our 10th Lyrids Folk Dance Festival, which will take place from April 19 to 21, 2024. This year promises to be a remarkable celebration of [...]
Article written by Kelley O'Neill This year a new tour was added to the Jim Gold lineup, the Western Canadian Tour. Led by Canadian Cathie Dunklee -Donnell; it included 2 maestro teachers, and 18 lucky participants. And they all visited the Lyrids Folk Dance Festival!
The Lyrid Meteor shower is lighting up B.C.’s skies right now. A few skywatchers in Abbotsford have already staked out their piece of the heavens to watch the fiery display. @GordonLoverin met with astronomy hobbyists to learn more about the cosmic event. pic.twitter.com/KK6LjRKbMF — CBC British Columbia (@cbcnewsbc) April 20, 2021
Lyrids/Kyklos Online Festival 2021 - submitted by Sonia Connolly and Lori Larsen The Lyrids Folk Dance Festival has joined forces with Kyklos International Folk Dancers for a joint online festival on April 23-25, 2021. It has been a delightful side benefit of the pandemic to work together across national borders. The two committees have gotten [...]
This is the email that was sent to all registrants on March 14, 2020: Dear Lyrids festival registrants, Thank you all for registering in a timely manner. We were going to have such a fabulous festival! However, due to COVID-19, we are hitting the pause button. The teachers and band* have agreed to do the festival on [...]