Catherine Foster—our featured profile.
Catherine Foster
Catherine Foster attended her first EEFC Balkan Music & Dance Workshop at Buffalo Gap in the early 1990s and has taught brass band ensemble or clarinet and saxophone at the East Coast workshops numerous times since 1994. But she has been performing Balkan music for more than 30 years. Continue Reading
Golden Festival Turns 30
The landscape for Balkan music in the United States was very different 30 years ago. Zlatne Uste had formed two years earlier. It was composed of amateur musicians, many of whom were folk dancers. Continue Reading
Sharing with the Future: Workshop Scholarships
In 2014, two longtime campers stepped forward to honor the memories of folk-inspired family members with long-term scholarships for new campers. Continue Reading
2014 Scholarship Recipients
Recipients of the 2014 Dick Crum/Kef Scholarships, Balkan Night Northwest Scholarship, Leah and Nez Erez Scholarship, and Stefni Agin Scholarship write about moments that made their Workshop experiences unforgettable. Continue Reading
Connecting Through the Music and Dance We Love
This year was the first Thanksgiving I had ever gone to a friend’s house to celebrate. There were close to 30 people there, almost all of them with roots in the Balkan, klezmer and old-time music worlds. There were kids and spouses and siblings and ban … Continue Reading
New and Notable
New recordings and books by folks in the EEFC community. Names in bold type indicate EEFC Workshop campers, staff, teachers, and other EEFC supporters. Continue Reading
Making Sausage the Romanian Way
Or, how lessons learned in 1972 Philadelphia paved the way for succulent treats at this year’s Iroquois Springs Balkan camp kafana. Continue Reading
Looking at the Edge
An exploration of some knitted lace edging on a chemise from Kjustendil, Bulgaria. Continue Reading
EEFC Program Committee: Who We Are and How We Work
You’ve told us at many times and in many ways what a magical experience camp is for you. Behind that magic lie hours and hours of diligent and selfless labor, both to run the workshops themselves and to create the program of activities that we offer to our participants. Continue Reading
Gems from the Listserv
In this section we bring you highlights of two recent discussions from the EEFC listserv: one about the scheduled 2015 Bulgarian national folk festival in Koprivštica, Bulgaria, and one on the dance Godečki Čačak. Continue Reading