Fall 2025: Tune Learning Sessions AKA Slow Jam
Hosted by fiddler Cassie Norton, the Tune Learning Session AKA Slow Jam is a pay what you can weekly workshop open to all people who are interested in playing balfolk music, but are either completely new to it, or find our dance jams a little too fast to pick up the tunes. We will learn all tunes by ear, very slowly, first singing and then playing. Come learn new tunes, and build confidence to join the jams! Open to all instruments, including voice.
Every Monday 7-8pm, before our weekly dance at the Super Wonder Gallery
Balfolk dancing to live music
weekly in Toronto, Ontario
Balfolk dancing is popular social dancing from Western Europe, a recent revival of traditional, mostly French, folk dances.
Bourrées, jigues, gavotte, mazurkas, waltzes, scottishes: some partner dances, some group dances, some snakey chain dances.
They are all fun and easy to learn, you don’t need any partners or prior experience. We’ll show you how!
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Balfolk Toronto offers:
- Drop-in, PWYC weekly dances with live musicians + music workshops on Monday evenings at the Super Wonder Gallery in the winter, in High Park in the summer
- Ticketed dances in larger spaces on special occasions!
- The annual Big Branch Festival, bringing Balfolk bands and dance teachers from Europe to Ontario every September
