What is the Gran Bal Trad
The Festival
Gran Bal Trad is a festival dedicated to traditional dance and music, born out of a desire to bring together different ways of expressing dance and music. It aims to offer participants a varied picture and the greatest number of examples of the various cultures found in Europe and in all regions of our Italy.
The 2025 edition of the Grand Bal Trad will be held from Monday, July 7 to Saturday, July 12!
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Edition 2025
The Artists 2025
The program and line-up for the 2025 edition will be released in the spring!
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Edition 2024
Artists and activities 2024
EDITION 2024
DANCE WORKSHOPS
EVENING DANCE
MUSIC WORKSHOPS
SINGING WORKSHOPS
CONFERENCE AND MORE
EDITION 2024
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DANCE WORKSHOPS
Auvergne – Denis Mercader & Duo Esbelin Simonnin
Balkans – Silvio Lorenzato & Barbapedana
Basque Country – Patxi eta kompania
Brittany – Duo Baron-Anneix
Catalunya – Orquestrina Trama
Come and dance balfolk ! – Deborah Isocrono
Dances for children – Mariarosa Montebianco & Associazione Carolando
Dauphiné: Rigodon – Duo Vargoz
English Country dances – Flora Sarzotti, Mario Proietto & Tiramisù
Gascony – Géraldine Constant Wallon & Versus
Irish set dancing – Timothy Flaherty & Cogar Céili Band
Morvan – Gallica
Northern Italy: Quattro Province dances – Rosy, Cecilia & Trio Lampetròn
Northern Italy: Emilia – I suonatori della Valle del Savena
Northern Italy: Val Resia – Gruppo Folkloristico Val Resia
Northern Italy: Val Varaita – Jan Peire dë Bousquìer & Duo Domenico e Gianluca
Northern Italy: Val Vermenagna – Marisa Dogliotti e Silvio Peron
Occitania: dance and singing – Joachim Montbord
Poitou – Maria Guerbigny & Versus
Sardinia – Ballade Ballade Bois
Southern Italy: Pizzica salentina – Terra Battuta
Southern Italy: Sicily – Simona Ferrigno, Antonella Romana & Le Matrioske
Southern Italy: Tammuriata dell`Agro Nocerino Sarnese – Raffaella Coppola & Paranza Mediterranea
Southern Italy: Tarantella Cilentana – Aniello Tancredi & Kiepo`
Sweden – Flora Sarzotti, Mario Proietto & Controcanto
Vendée – Arbadétorne
Waltz – Parasol (Gérard Godon e Lucile Jouis)
Pillole
Dances from all over the world [Erva Cidreira – Portogallo O Regadinho – Portogallo] – Associazione Baldanza
Dances from all over the world [Ingerlitiss – Lettonia Siwi Golabeczek – Polonia] – Associazione Baldanza
Dances from all over the world [Red Carpet Waltz – Canada] – Associazione Baldanza
Dances from all over the world [Topportzer Kreutz polka – Austria Maggie mixer – Inghilterra] – Associazione Baldanza
Dancing together: a feasible alchemy. Mazurka – Deborah Isocrono
EVENING DANCE
Arbadétorne (Vendée)
Balarù (Bal folk)
Balarù (Northern Italy: Lanzo Valleys / Bal folk)
Ballade Ballade Bois (Sardinia)
Ballati Tutti Quanti (Southern Italy: Pizzica)
Banda Brisca (Bal folk)
Barbapedana (Israel / Balkans)
Bifólc (Bal folk)
Bilaka (Basque country)
Che Tango Trio (Tango)
Cogar Ceili Band (Irish)
Controcanto (Bal folk)
Controcanto (Sweden)
Duo Artense (Auvergne)
Duo Clément Le Goff e Titouan Gautier (Brittany)
Duo Peron Ferrero (Northern Italy: Occitania)
Duo Valla Scurati (Northern Italy: Quattro Province dances)
Duo Vargoz (Dauphiné)
Gérard Godon (Bal folk)
I suonatori della Valle del Savena (Northern Italy: Emilia)
Le Matrioske (Sicily)
LyraDanz (Bal folk)
Man Encantada (Gascony)
Nòu (Nouvelle-Aquitaine: Gascogne – Poitou – Limousin)
Orquestrina Trama (Catalunya)
Rémi Geffroy (Bal folk)
Tammorra Felix (Southern Italy: Agro Nocerino Sarnese)
Telefon Duo (Bal folk)
Tiramisù (Bal folk)
Tiramisù (Contra dance)
Topette!! (Bal folk)
Tre Martelli (Concert Music from Piedmont)
TriBoT (Bal folk)
MUSIC WORKSHOPS
Celtic Harp – Katia Zunino
Children`s Music Workshop – Brigada Corsara
Chromatic accordion – Gérard Godon
Chromatic accordion (Quattro Province repertoire) – Matteo Burrone
Diatonic accordion – Benoit Guerbigny
Diatonic accordion – Duo Laloy Le Tron
Diatonic accordion (advanced) – Andrea Capezzuoli
Diatonic accordion (beginners) – Claudio Fiabane (Tiramisù)
Diatonic accordion (beginners) – Mathieu Aymonod
Diatonic accordion (beginners) – Marco Volpatto (Brigada Corsara)
Diatonic accordion (Ireland repertoire) – Seosamh Ó Fátharta (Cogar Céili Band)
Diatonic accordion (Sardinia repertoire) – Carlo Boeddu (Ballade Ballade Bois)
Diatonic accordion (Tarantella repertoire) – Paranza Mediterranea
Didjeridoo – Luca Mantello
Ensemble playing – Massimo Enrico
Friscalettu (Sicilian flute) – Antonio Putzu (Le Matrioske)
Guitar (beginners) – Massimo Enrico
Hurdy-gurdy (beginners) – Gabriele Gunella
Tambourine – Kiepo`
Tambourine (Sicily) – Simona Ferrigno (Le Matrioske)
Tambourine (Southern Italy) – Terra Battuta
Tammorra (Southern Italy) – Ugo Maiorano
Tin whistle – Maidhc ò éanaigh
Violin (Alps repertoire) – Duo Vargoz
Violin (Piedmont repertoire) – Gabriele Ferrero
Violin (Vandée repertoire) – Maxime Chevrier
SINGING WORKSHOPS
Singing – France repertoire – Bal de l’Éphémère
Singing – Friuli-Venezia Giulia repertoire – FESTinVAL
Singing – Gascony repertoire – Arnaud Bibonne
Singing – Lombardia repertoire – La Zobia Mata
Singing – Piedmont repertoire (Biella) – Gabriele Gunella e Marco Pettiti
Singing – Sardinia repertoire – Ballade Ballade Bois
Singing – Sicilian repertoire – Ciccio Piras
Singing – Veneto repertoire – FESTinVAL
Spontaneous singing in the Western Alps – Silvio e Cristina Peron e Mathieu Aymonod
Songs around the table
Song around the table – Orquestrina Trama
Song around the table – Chacho Marchelli
Song around the table – FESTinVAL
CONFERENCE AND MORE
Jan Peire dë Bousquìer (Jouan Bernardi: accordionist from Val Varaita (Piedmont, Italie) – talk)
Kiepo` (Traditional instruments from Salento area)
Mariarosa Montebianco (Dancing stories for children)
Patxi Perez (The carnival in Lantz)
Placida Staro, Michele Cavenago, Romana Barbui (Bauscia. The `Ambrosian dance`: improvisational forms, music and contexts)
And …
`Sbrando` square to dance and play all together
Children`s final recital musical workshop – Brigada Corsara
Celtic Harp and final recital – Katia Zunino
Ensemble music recital – Massimo Enrico
Edition 2024
Detailed programme 2024
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