Become an official member of Balfolk Toronto and have access to our Listening Library as well as a Dropbox folder organized by dance type which holds recordings and charts of the tunes most commonly played at Balfolk Mondays in Toronto!
Looking for Balfolk music? Check out these bands:
Flor de Zinc
Bougnat Sound
Les Poufs a Cordes
Lausa
Duo Rivaud Lacouchie
Adar
Duo Jonsson Coudroy
Dani Padpé
Naragonia
Parasol
Sextet à Claques
Té
And have a look at balfolk.org’s amazing list of bands: http://balfolk.org/bands.php
Going to Europe? Go to these Balfolk festivals!
Le Grand Bal de L’Europe (France ) Gennentines – July / St Gervais – August
Boombal (Belgium) Gent – August
Cadansa (Netherlands) October
Or check out bals in any of these European cities: http://balfolk.org
Curious to learn more dances? Here is a whooooole giant list of them, with video links! BalFolk Dances
Lyrics to some songs that are popular on Mondays in Toronto:
Les Moutons
J’ai (9 à 10, 8 à 9, etc) moutons dans mon village en haut, j’ai 9 à 10 moutons dans mon village en bas x2
Dans mon village en haut, dans mon village en bas x2
Chain chan-tu, Madeline, Madeleine, chain chan-tu Madeline djus tu x2
Quand on bois
Il y a bien 10 (9, 8, etc) ans que je me mariais, quand on aime on aime, on a que de bonheur x2
Quand on boit on a le coeur en joie, quand on fait l’amour on a l’oeil ma mignonne, quand on bois, on a le coeur en bois, et le lendemain matin on a la gueule de bois x2