Cherven Traktor at Bloomsburg University with a potluck and dance party afterwards at the Milk Palrour Ballroom, Saturday September 10th, 6pm on

The Susquehanna International Folk Dancers and Bloomsburg University's International Student Association are super excited to invite to an evening filled with South Slavic music and dance lead by
Cherven Tractor (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cherven-Traktor/103259283107958), a New York based ensemble specializing in music from Bulgaria, Macedonia, and southern Serbia. The event will kick start an international folk dance prog...ram taking place every Sunday from 4-6 pm at the Centennial Hall dance studio beginning September 18th. All our welcome!

We will start the evening off with an outdoor concert and dancing at Bloomsburg University's Scranton Commons (cafeteria) amphitheater from 6 till 7 pm. Come by, stay for a bit or for the whole show, listen to some excellent tunes you might have never heard before and join the dance line if you wish!

We will follow the festivities with an evening dance party beginning at 8 pm at the Milk Parlour Ballroom located on rt 42, 6 miles outside of Bloom. See the side panel for directions to the Ballroom. Bring a dish/drink, come to dance and/or socialize. Donations at the door. Contact me if you would like to carpool.

Cherven Tractor ("red tractor") was formed in 2009 by two preeminent Balkan families in New York: Nikolai Kolev & Donka Koleva, masters of village music of Bulgaria, and Michael Ginsburg & Belle Birchfield, noted musicians from the Serbian brass band Zlatne Uste. The four are also highly regarded teachers at and strong supporters of the Eastern European Folklife Center (EEFC). In forming the band, they wished to both preserve the authentic traditional music of the South Slavic region and also to create a new, pan-Slavic music appropriate for listening and dancing.

Michael Ginsburg, the ensemble member and a renowned dance master will also lead a beginning Balkan dance workshop the following day, Sunday, Sept. 11th from 10:00 to 12:00 at the Centennial Hall dance studio at Bloomsburg University.

It is such a treat for Bloomsburg to have this talented group of musicians and dancers stop by on their tour! With three events to choose from you have no excuse not to attend:) Come to one or (better) all of them! You will not regret!

Saturday:

6-7pm Concert and dancing at Bloomsburg University's Scranton Commons (cafeteria) amphitheater

8pm - ? Dance party at the Milk Palrour Ballroom on rt. 42

Sunday:

10am-12 noon Basic Balkan dance workshop with dance master Michael Ginsburg at the Centennial Hall dance studio at Bloomsburg University.


Looking forward to dancing with you!!!