Mats Lundblads GAMMALDANS gada.se

(Written 2012, renewed 2018 but not all info)

Mats Lundblads GAMMALDANS-newspaper: ... (Gammaldans = Old traditional dances as hambo, schottis, vals ...)

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Report of Musik vid Siljan and Ransäter 2009 (will be continued). Nice to see good dancers/fiddlers from France, USA, Germany, Denmark .. !

DANCES: (Mats Lundblads Folkdanslista) (pdf in Swedish) Mats Lundblads DANSBESKRIVNINGAR (=Descriptions of dances) ...

Gammaldans (schottis, hambo, snoa/polka, mazurka, vals ...) (=gd) Gillesdans(er) (= pariserpolka, snurrebocken, sternpolka ...)

Polskor Bingsjö+Boda+Ore+Rättviks-polska Älvdalspolska Bakmes Hamburgska, Slängpolska (on the same place!), Bondpolska,

Rørospols, Finnskogspols, Jämtland: Gammalvänster, Föllinge ... ...) (=po)

Folkdans/er (mainly in groups, usually 8-16 persons) (=fd)

Modern dans = foxtrot, bugg, tango, salsa ... (=mo). 1+2 = 1 gammaldans + 2 modern dances. // US/jazz..: Lindy Hop, Balboa ... ...

Where to dance in Stockholm in winter (to folk music)

Folkmusikhuset (English)(Deutsch)(Franc.)(Italiano) i Stockholm "Skeppis" Skeppsholmsgården: Every Sunday Sep-May (in some holidays on Monday). Free!

FolkDance Groups (some very active, some less) The Academic Folkdance Society ("AF") with Links (Try free some weeks / 400 SEK/year, 2012)

Polska dancing groups: Polskedansarna (Thursdays) Mälparingen (Fridays) Bygdedansens Vänner (not now)(leader Don Gillam)

Other places, irregular dates, se calendars: Dansglad.se (English) Gammaldans (this page!) =>

Where to dance in Stockholm in summer

Skansen (English) Gammaldans on Wednesdays in July and first half of Aug, and in Midsummer Fri+Sat. (Modern dances Mon Tue(14-18h) Fri Sat.)

Gröna Lund (English ...) Pay ca 200 SEK "Gröna Kortet" for a whole summer, modern dancing Wed-Sat, concerts ... dansprogram 2009 (pdf). May - Sep

Stockholm Free Evenemang Kulturfestival 11-16 Aug 2009, 16-21 Aug 2011, 14-19/8 2012 free entrances Uppsala kulturnatt progr 2nd Saturday in Sep.

Where to dance in Sweden in summer / big "spelmansstämmor" Festivals

Ransäter (Thursday-Sunday always 2 weeks before midsummer) Bus Stockholm-Ransäter and much info (dep Thursday 14.00) Program 2009 Started 1971.

Dancing all night till: To/F F/L L/S: 2009: 03.18.43 06.59.24 12.25.49 2010: ... 08.26.37 13.10.25 (record) 2011: 02.34 07.13 08.58 2012: 02.36.02 06.57.08 09.10.44.

Österbybruk (Sat-Sun always 1 week before midsummer. Free.) map map with own text.

Go cheap by pendeltåg (Eng) Stockholm-Upplands Väsby / Upptåget + bus 823 (Eng) Upplands Väsby - Skyttorp - Österbybruk bus station (cheap 10-tickets not now)

Delsbo: Delsbostämman (First Sunday in July, and 1-2 days before Forngården

Svaben (Svabensverk) on the Monday, usually the day after Delsbo, depending on "Siljan". 150:- Fiddlers 0:-. Dance courses 17-17.45 0:-. Maybe last time 2018 because of "knott".

Musik vid Siljan (English) (usually week 27) Program Started 1969. Very good dancing events: "bystugekvällar" in different small villages, and Svaben-Bingsjö-Boda!

Bingsjö (Wednesday and the evening before) (small village 38 km east of Rättvik, no buses) Folkmusikens Hus i Rättvik (Dalarna) Photo from above

Old info: There are no buses to Bingsjö. Take train (or bus) to Borlänge and then Dalatrafik: buses Borlänge-Falun-Enviken-Lamborn (the bus goes to Svabensverk, dancing on Monday!)

Bus 254(place 2) Borlänge 1547 (every 10 min)- Falu C(Ö Hamngatan) 1611/1617 (place H/J) Enviken 1652/1652-Lamborn 1717 total only 70 kr (or buy a 200+50 kr-card get -20%)

From Lamborn (hitta map) about 6 km north to Bingsjö (bath place halfway leftside just after middle of that lake) (Bingsjö ticket selling is 600 m after Lamborn) try to ask cardrivers ..

there are coming very many cars on that Wednesday! / Alt: Cheap bus MasE SweB or train to Rättvik, then 38 km to the east (bus only first 10 km to Ingels)!

Östbjörka (Thursday)

Boda (20 km N of Rättvik) bus (Eng) (Friday in the Musik vid Siljan-week) Very famous for folkmusic/dance-lovers, very good dancing but many dancers.

Nedre Gärdsjö (Saturday 10 km N of Rättvik) ...

Hälsingehambon (Home page not valid not payed) Competition in hambo dancing. Saturday after the first Sunday in July) Near/south of Bollnäs in Hälsingland

OBS The main big Hälsingehambo finished incl 2011. A smaller competition from 2012. From 1965; maximum 1979-1988: 1500 couples/year; 2009: 52+11+5 couples. .. 2012: 22 couples.

Rättvik (not any longer)17-21 July 2012 ... (Wed Vikarbyn: Rättviks sml, Thurs Nedre Gärdsjö, Friday Boda: Boda sml, Sat: Rättviks gammelgård: Aspeboda sml) sml = fiddlers group

Korrö Folkmusikfestival WorldPress 26-29 July 2012 (much slängpolska, on the same place of the floor = fläckpolskor!) Folk music group: Sågskära

Go by SJ train or cheap old train (cheap to by 90 days in advance) Stockholm(or Malmö)-Alvesta, change train to Växjö, then bus abt 40 km south. Or bus Stockholm-Växjö: Svenska Buss SweBus

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Where to dance in Europe:

Gennetines France Sun 15- Sun 22 July 2012 (300 km SSE of Paris), and St-Gervais Fri 3-10 Aug 2012 Buy InterRail and visit for ex Paris, Marseille, Barcelona ..

Denmark (Spillefolk)=> Roskilde 4-5 Aug 2012 Program 2012pdf Sat 100(50) Dkr (afternoon free). Sunday (1-2 big dance floors outside?) free. Accomodation 45 Dkr in advance!

2012 Sat: 10.30-13 in street Algade.., 14-15 ws, 1530 genrep fiddlers, 16-17.30 dancing?, 18 dinner(pay adv), Big dancing: 20 Roskilde sml, 21 Slättafolk, 22.15 FH sm, 23.30 Habadekuk, 01-03 play/dance.

Where to read about folk music:

Folklore Centrum, a very good newspaper of Swedish Folk Music by Izzy Young. In Swedish. Finished last issue 2012 Feb! The shop/office/performances will remain!

Gammaldans (this page)

Lira Musikmagasin

RFoD has NOT very many good links

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Be a member of Nordiska museets och Skansens vänner (=friends), get a year card, for 500 kr, one couple only 700 kr ! link ok

Valid to Skansen and Biologiska, and: Nordiska, Svindersvik, Tyresö slott, Julita, Härkeberga, Jamtli and in Trondheim, Oslo, Lillehammer, Århus!

Book and newspaper incl. Buy in Nordiska Museets shop M-S 10-17. (English) Valid 1 year (or first period about 15 months).

Year 500 (pens 400) kr, valid first + 12 months (buy f ex 1 July and dance incl whole July next year...). Entry fee (grp>10 -20 kr) summer 110, mids.eve 130 , allsång 120, FriSat-dance fr 19 150 kr.

True Midsummer Eve = ... Shortest night:.. Sommarsolstånd

.... kl 00.50: The shortest nights darkest minute. kl 12.50: Sun as highest, do not look! Stjarnhimlen.se Up/down 2012 Sth 2012 (obs add 1 hour sommartid=summertime).

PRACTICAL INFORMATION: (Time, money, health, food, train, hostels..)

The Weekdays (veckodagar) in Swedish: Må Ti On To Fr Lö Sö = Måndag Tisdag Onsdag Torsdag Fredag Lördag Söndag = M Ti O To F L S.

The Months: Jan Feb Mar Apr Maj Jun Jul Aug Sep Okt Nov Dec.

Date: We write 120727 = 2012-07-27 = 27 July 2012 = 27/7 (2012). kl = klockan (time, from 00-24 h). 1 hour more than Greenwich. Sweden has summer time.

Maps/photos from above and tel/adresses: hitta.se eniro.se water deep-cards Info/search: google.se wikipedia(S) doctor: vårdcentral! hitta

SMALL ANIMALS / DANGER

Be careful in the archipelago: Very small animals , may cause serious sickness, be careful of grass, blueberries .. , use high boots, often check your entire body! =>

Vardguiden map Sth map Europe(yellow=dangerous) Vardguiden/Borrelia entomologi fasting.nu FästingNo doctor: vårdcentral! hitta

If you have got, take it slowly out with tweezers (S: pincett, fästingborttagare) or nails, fix it on tape. If you get sick (illness, head...) or get a red circle, quickly go to the doctor!

In Germany they sell a "tweezer" like a credit card.

Mosquitos (mygg/myggor) usually not in towns, but (≈June July) some in suburbs, maybe many sometimes in countryside.

"Sand-fly" (knott) (smaller than mosquitos but the same methods..) usualy not in Stockholm surroundings, but in middle-northern Sweden, in forests, where animals are ... few-rather many.

SAVE MONEY / CHEAP LIVING:

Currency: 1 kr = 1 krona = 1 SEK = about 0,10 Euro. You can change money at Forex (Engl), X-change (Engl) (all have rather high +%, try to ask if Swedish friends need to change)

Stamps (Engl) (bad info) letters abroad 20 g: 12 SEK Prioritaire!

Buy food: Rather expensive: Hemköp, ICA, Coop. Often till 21/22 h. Cheaper: Lidl (and Netto only in S/SW Sweden, not Stockholm), Willys (not downtown). More expensive: 7/11.

SL: SL/biljetter Engl/Tickets(bad info) Local traffic in Stockholm - tickets (they forget to tell that there are 30 days tickets etc, sorry! fy!) Not personal! 30 days 790, 325/7d, 250/72h, 125/24h.

Card 20 SEK. Single ticket 31 SEK (all area) (OBS with Reskassa, else 44 or 62 SEK!) (unlimited changes within ?? min) 75 min (many very bad leaders of SL...) /2018

Waxholm boats 30 days 750(450):- not personal / or oneway: Vaxholm-Grinda 60/40 -Möja 90/60 Stockholm-Grinda 90/60 -Möja/Sandhamn 130/80:- bus change/-Sandhamn 90/60

Stockholm/Saltsjöbaden-Utö 130/80 110/70 Bike with period card: not summer/summer 0/15:- else 35:-. OBS Free ships with SL-card before/after high season where is info??/2018

To Finland/Balticum: Very cheap (return 1-2 days tickets) with Viking Line (11H Sth(-Marieh)-Helsinki 16.45-10.00 / Hels 1730-Sth 0945 kampanj 90:- SKKAMP -110222 (Åbo 40:-, Åland 19:-) ) /2012

Train travel: SJ very cheap, 95 SEK, if you book 90 days in advance / or 1-2 days before (Tradera not any more). Sista minuten = Last minute for ≤25/≥65 years, students

SJ Prio card (no fee)* gives 50 % in 1kl journeys 1 July - 12 Aug! (Write last 8 numbers of the 16 in "kampanjkod"): Now Mon 16h: Tue 0744 o 1144 209 kr, Wed+Thu 195 kr.

* Lösenord = Own secret word, at least one number in it. Jag har inget svenskt personnummer = I have no Swedish person-number. You get 1000 free "poäng".

SJ/Tradera Auktion - finish 21-21.45 2 days before, ticket for 05-09.59 10-14.59 or 15-04.59 (incl shorter) Sth-: Gbg Køb Falun Karlstad Sundsvall+H Storlien and Gbg-Køb Luleå-Narvik.

Uppland: cheap local trains and buses, cheapest if you buy (unpersonal, more at the same time) 10-tickets. Long distance buses see links here!

Cheap train Snålis Stockholm-Malmö 299 (youth+stud 60+ 199) kr (else 449/349) -10% STF-member tab.pdf (12S) 0923-1440, 1823-2340To-M // 0933-1445, 1633-2201To-M /120618

Museums: Some have free entrance: Sjöhistoriska free entrance in 2012! Historiska Fridays 13-17h Nordiska Wednesdays 17-20h (NOT jun-aug) (and some more for young people) State free.

Youth hostels (often rooms for 2-4 p) (abt 200 SEK/p): STF (Engl) SVIF (Engl) Vandrarhems-map* //Folk dancers/fiddlers.. are welcome to my house, T-train 14 min N of Stockholm C.//

Mail if u want: Please mail: xx@gada.se and change xx to ml *Not use Mac/Safari

Swedish language:

Hej=Hallo Dans=Dance V=Vänster=L=Left H=Höger=R=Right Y=Ytter=Outer foot I=Inner=Inner foot D, Dam=Lady K, Kavaljer=Man Par=Couple

Får jag lov ≈ Vill du dansa = Do you want to dance (with me) Tack för dansen = Thank you for the dance /when you want to finish dancing

Försteg=Step forward before turn Fram=Forward Gå, Prom(enad)=Walk Runt=Round Varv= Turn Omdans=Together turn Snurra=Turn Hopp=Jump

Dal=Dalsteg(in begin of Hambo): Från=From each other Mot=Together Första=First Sista=Last Valfritt=As you want På fläck=On the same place

sml = spelmanslag = Fiddlers group sms = spelmansstämma(-or) = Fiddlers/(dancing) meeting (not all have dancing) (from a few persons to 40 000 persons)

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Citybanan 25 nackdelar Citybanan 25 disadvantages (070416) by Mats Lundblad. (Nobody, Government.., has answered about the very big disadvantages!!!)

A very very expensive and difficult/many years to make railway tunnel deep below Stockholm and its waters (why??? - are cars more important than trains!!!???) ---

very much better, more nice and cheaper above ground and sea level where the trains go today, where you can enjoy our beautiful town and its waters from the trains,

and change at Slussen (between the big lake Mälaren and the Baltic Sea) to trains to the east, to quick every 1 minute interval-trams, boats west+east, buses, T-trains; culture, bath!

Mats Lundblads DANSBESKRIVNINGAR (=Descriptions of dances) ... Folkdanslista

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Links: dansglad.se kalender AF links (melodies, sheet notes ... ...) Spillefolk/Nodesamling Search

Trains and buses: SL UL SJ InterRail DB GoByBus Swebus Waxh Flygbuss Resplus Sörml Bus4you (M-G 69, M-O 99) Blåklint Harjedal Eurolines TaxiSth Taxikurir