Friday June 12 2026
June Bal
with Boing Boing Zoom Zoom
& Duo Lila
Join us for folkdancing to live music at our June Bal at the Owls Club on Dovercourt in Toronto!
Come dance (beginner lesson included), come listen, come enjoy the good community vibes.
Monday June 8 2026
BalfolkToronto's
Annual General Meeting
Balfolk Toronto is a registered not-for-profit group. Having a strong membership base supports us in applying for funding for future events!
Our AGM is coming up on June 8th, and all "Class-A" (Voting Members) are invited to come out and vote-in our next Board of Directors. Membership in Balfolk Toronto is FREE, and must be renewed each year to remain active. Become a voting member by filling out this sign-up form, and support your community!
Balfolk Toronto Annual General Meeting 2026:
Monday June 8th, 7pm
TacoTaco, 319 Augusta Ave (back room)
Meeting will be followed by dancing!
Big Branch Festival
of Balfolk Music & Dance
September 11-13 2026
Our beloved Big Branch Festival is back, September 11th to 13th 2026!
We can't wait to welcome you back to beautiful Fraser Lake Camp for a weekend of Balfolk music and dancing near Bancroft, Ontario. Join us for music, song, and dance workshops, shared meals, jamming, and dancing to phenomenal bands from across France and Canada late into the night! Get tickets now and start dreaming of dancing by the lakeside in the summertime.
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!
Balfolk Toronto offers:
- Drop-in, PWYC weekly dances with live musicians + music workshops on Monday evenings indoors 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
Spring 2026: Tune Learning Sessions AKA Slow Jam
Hosted by fiddler Cassie Norton with special guests, 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
