Cricket demystifies the Google Drive structure and how to navigate it. She explains how to locate, star, and un-star Google folders and documents. Then learn how to create, share, update, and print Google docs and sheets.

Dances brought to America by Armenian immigrants over the last century.

Colombian-born Gigi Jensen will share her experiences in Latin America through photos & videos of music, dance, crafts, & beautiful places off the beaten path.

We will guide you through the use of this powerful interactive tool, and include some other fun aspects of Zoom.

Bill Cope and his special guests explore how music moves between musicians, dance teachers, and dancers.

Bianca de Jong joined us from The Netherlands, and led a discussion of what it takes to be a good folk dance teacher.

NFO hosted Steve Kotansky doing a F.O.L.K. Chat on Albanian Dance Thursday, April 13. We love the Albanian dances and music. Steve has made several trips researching dance in Albania and is a wonderful speaker. This unique opportunity to hear about his trips, the Albanian people, and the evolution of their 2 dance forms will be available on video soon. Click here for his music. Thank you Steve!

Learn about the equipment, schematics, settings, and tricks to use for Live Music Events. Presented by Asaf Ophir.

Sherry Cochran hosted this panel discussion. NFO is making the video of the session available for viewing.

Another request had to do with editing music files. Many of the older dance music files were originally records that were converted to audio tape, then converted to digital files. The result is often files with pops and clicks, a back-ground hum, volume issues, etc. In late September and early October, we presented beginner workshops on audio file editing. The September workshop was about using Goldwave; the October workshop was about using Audacity. Here is the link to those workshops. As a result of these workshops, several people have asked for an intermediate-level workshop on audio file editing. We’re pulling that together and will offer it in the near future.

Many people are not particularly happy with the app they are using to play music for their groups, and they requested information about what other groups are using. In August, we offered two workshops discussing the two most popular music apps being used by folk dance groups, MusicBee and MITPlayer. If you missed those workshops, videos of them are available on the NFO Google Drive. Here is the link to those workshops.

The first two F.O.L.K. Chat presentations, which were held in July during the 2021 Stockton Folk Dance Camp event, featured Michela Mallozzi, creator of the Emmy award-winning TV program, Bare Feet. Michela has traveled around the world folk dancing with people while also learning about their foods, traditions, and culture. Michela was a presenter at our 2021 NFO Conference and was so well received that we invited her back for these July presentations. She shared the story of her journey, taught a dance, and talked with us about things she has done and learned.