News

Wednesday 31 December 2008 the Monaro Folk Society presents a New Year's Eve Dance for the Public, with Canberra's famous bush band Franklyn B Paverty at the Yarralumla Woolshed

New Year's Eve Dance Flyer 31 December 2008, Yarralumla Woolshed. Flyer 2-up on A4, 43KB PDF

Regular Events

Friday night is Merry Muse night, resuming Friday 30 January 2009. Please click here for information about the Merry Muse.

Except, the first Friday night each month is Settlers night, resuming Friday 6 February 2009. Please click here for information about Settlers, run by Bush Traditions.

Saturday night is dance night - please click here for the Canberra Saturday Dance Diary prepared by the Monaro Folk Society

On Mondays, why not come along to Dancing in the Park on Stage 88 in Commonwealth Park, 6:45pm Free, December and January (22Dec08, 5, 12, 19Jan09), and Bush Dance Group workshops, February to November.

On the 1st & 3rd Tuesday of the month, you can kick up your heels at the Monaro Folk Society's Contra Dance workshops. 7.30pm at St Margarets, Hackett, resuming Tuesday 3 February 2009

Then, every Wednesday, you can learn Irish Set Dancing, another activity of the Monaro Folk Society. Resuming Wednesday 4 February 2009.

Monaro Folk Society Club Nights are usually held on the second Wednesday each month, at the Old Canberra Inn, 195 Mouat St Lyneham. These are blackboard/walk up gigs, with a session-out-the-back.

This website belongs to the Monaro Folk Society - the premier channel in the ACT-Monaro region for access to an enormous range of folk culture ~ music, dance, poetry ~ Australian and other cultures ~ spectatory or participatory ~ traditional, contemporary, and in between.

For four decades the Monaro Folk Society and its predecessors have promoted folk culture in the Monaro region. For details of the Society's activities, follow one of the links in the navigation bar at the head of each page. (If you are using Internet Explorer you should see descriptive "flyouts" when you pass the mouse over the navigation bar. Other browsers might not do this, in which case look at the Site Map.)

• MFS publicity material is available for members and the wider public to download from the Catalogue, either to post on the fridge as a reminder or to distribute in workplaces etc - volunteer publicity is always welcome! The Membership Application/Renewal form is also downloadable there. Ongoing links to the Catalogue will be found on various other pages.

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