Last chance for full-weekend early-bird pricing is tomorrow. Lyrids is the only annual folk dance festival in the Pacific Northwest and we are flying in top-notch dance instructors for your benefit. Your timely registration will help us make this festival the best ever. Our thanks to everyone who has already registered. Dances are chosen to suit all ages and [...]
LYRIDS FOLK DANCE FESTIVAL IN BURNABY, NEAR BEAUTIFUL VANCOUVER, BC, CANADA Registration has already attracted 32 dancers. Thank you for your enthusiasm! This year I will post these news updates in the News tab of the website. Here is the "Registration is open" email.The festival on the weekend of April 22-24, 2016, features Roberto Bagnoli teaching mainly Balkan dances, [...]
LYRIDS FOLK DANCE FESTIVAL IN BURNABY, NEAR BEAUTIFUL VANCOUVER, BC, CANADA Registration for our third annual Lyrids Folk Dance Festival in Burnaby, BC is open! The festival on the weekend of April 22-24, 2016, features Roberto Bagnoli teaching mainly Balkan dances, George & Irina Arabagi teaching dances from Moldova and Ukraine, and Orkestar RTW leading the party on Saturday evening. [...]
Wonderful Lyrids DVD Review appeared in the latest Report to Members published by the Society of Folk Dance Historians on June 30, 2015.
Lyrids Folk Dance Festival 2016 We are excited to invite Roberto Bagnoli, George and Irina Arabagi to our 3rd annual Lyrids Folk Dance Festival in 2016. These three have such wonderful personalities I know the festival is going to be amazing. It seems impossible that we could top 2014 and 2015 but this may be [...]
Welcome to Lyrids Folk Dance Festival new website! Register on our new registration page, then follow the instructions to get a user id. Once you login to the site, you can help shape our Friday night playlist, not to mention all the recorded dances played during other breaks during the festival. Visit the playlist page [...]