My Links to Music, Dance, and other essential fun

This page provides handy links to some of my favorite music and dance resources as well as other sources of fun and recreation. -- Sandy Ward

Music

• Amherst International Folkdancing. For 20 years (1993-2013) Ken and I played in “Panharmonium, ” the house band for AIFD. See photos of Panharmonium (band).
• Balkan Music & Dance workshops run by the East European Folklife Center (EEFC). See photo of me happily playing my drum for dancers at the 2003 camp -->
• Balkan Camp photo albums.
• New England Folk Festival (N.E.F.F.A.) Ken and I attended this annual festival of dance and music for many years. My NEFFA photos.
• We sometimes travel to California visiting relatives and have enjoyed Balkan folk dance events there:
  KOLO Festival
  Santa Rosa GLENDI
  New Year's Eve Balkan Bash at Ashkenaz Music and Dance Community Center, Berkeley.
• Balkan Music Night, Concord, MA. Another annual treat.
• Zlatne Uste Golden Festival in NYC every January. Not to be missed!
• The Expandable Brass Band. Ken and I joined this activist street band in fall 2010. What fun! We enjoyed playing at the annual HONK Festival in Somerville, MA. For 2020, we prepared this EBB video for the virtual festival.

Other fun

• Cross-country skiing. See photo taken Dec 30, 2012 at Community Field, Holyoke ->
• Fun with Writing! Weekly group at the Holyoke Senior Center. I participated from 2006 through 2018.
• Gardening, inspired by Barbara Kingsolver's book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.
• Rowing on the Connecticut River in an Alden Star single in 2006, which I borrowed as a member of Holyoke Rows. See my photos of activities at Holyoke Rows.
• Scrabble! My sister and I love to play Scrabble whenever we are together, and LEXULOUS via email [www.lexulous.com/] when we are apart.
• Zumba! or Hip/Hop exercise at the Y or at 413FamilyFitness

This page updated 2/1/2022.

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