Big Branch Festival
of Balfolk Music & Dance
September 11-13 2026
Save the date: 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 late into the night!
Tickets and lots more information coming soon - for now, mark your calendars 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!
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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
