The 2025 edition of the Grand Bal Trad will be held
from Monday, July 7 to Saturday, July 12!
Festival schedule 2025
Date of the 2025 edition
Monday 07 July – Saturday 12 July 2025
Reception opening hours
Monday:
from 11:00 to 01:30.
Other days:
from 9:30 to 01:00
Evenings only:
from 19:00 onwards.
(For Monday only, again at a cost of €15, evening admission is early at 11:00am.)
Access hours to camping areas
You can access the campsite to settle in with the tent or camper Monday 07, from 06:00 to 01:00, the other days from 07:00 to 23:00.
In the days before the festival the toilets and showers are not accessible, there is no surveillance service.
Schedule
Activities will take place simultaneously on four large halls (dance workshops and evening dance) and five gazebo (music workshops) with the following schedule:
10:30 – 12:30 atelier
12:30 – 14:30 dinner
15:00 – 17:00 atelier
17:30 – 19:30 atelier
19:45 – 21:00 conferences
19:45 – 20:15 `pillole di danza`
19:30 – 21:30 supper
from 22:00 – evening dance
At the end of the evening dance, possibility of continuing to play and dance without amplification in the hall number 4 and 2.
(`pillole di danza` are short lessons: one dance in 30 minutes)
Instrument storage service
Monday: from 11:00 to 03:30
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday: from 10:00 to 03:30
Saturday: from 10:00 to 04:00
Sunday: from 10:00 to 12:00
Artists and activities 2025
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Auvergne – Denis Mercader & Traucanèu
Balkans – Silvio Lorenzato & Barbapedana
Brittany – Ronan Autret & Duo Le Goff – Kerno
Catalunya – Ballaveu
Dances for children – Mariarosa Montebianco & Associazione Carolando
Dauphiné: Rigodon – Duo Vargoz
English Country dances – Flora Sarzotti, Mario Proietto & Tiramisù
Forrò – Nicola Andrian
Gascony – Géraldine Constans Wallon & Boha en Viu !
Irish set dancing – John O’Leary & Cogar Ceili Band
Italy: Marche region – Lu Trainanà Trio
Let`s discover balfolk ! – Deborah Isocrono
Mazurka – Gérard Godon
Morvan – Gallica
Northern Italy: Quattro Province dances – Rosy, Cecilia & Trio Lampetròn
Northern Italy: Alta Val Varaita – Marisa Dogliotti e Silvio Peron
Northern Italy: Emilia – I suonatori della Valle del Savena
Northern Italy: Val Varaita. Lesser-Known Dances – Marisa Dogliotti e Silvio Peron
Odd Meters Waltz – Gérard Godon
Romani people – Vittoria `Jolina` Iavicoli & Romani Project
Sardinia – Tres di Carlo Boeddu
Southern Italy: Lucania – Vola Palomma
Southern Italy: Pizzica salentina – Terra Battuta
Southern Italy: Sicily – Orchestrina di Tavola Tonda
Southern Italy: Tammuriata dell`Agro Nocerino Sarnese – Raffaella Coppola & Paranza Mediterranea
Southern Italy: Tarantella Cilentana – Aniello Tancredi & Kiepo`
Sweden – Flora Sarzotti, Mario Proietto & Duo Vaaje-Gatti
Vendée – Arbadétorne
Pillole
Cuban salsa (dance practice) – Giacomo Bisio
Dances from all over the world [Domino Five – Scotland] – Associazione Baldanza
Dances from all over the world [Toblana Eck – Val Pusteria Italy] – Associazione Baldanza
Forró – Nicola Andrian
Tango (dance practice) – Giacomo Bisio
Telegangar (Norway) – Duo Vaaje-Gatti
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)
Celtic Harp – Katia Zunino
Children`s Music Workshop – Brigada Corsara
Chromatic accordion (Quattro Province repertoire) – Matteo Burrone
Chromatic accordion (tammurriate repertoire) – Nino Dario Conte (Paranza Mediterranea)
Cupa-Cupa (instrument making) – Vola Palomma
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 (beginners) – Marcello Alajmo & Velverde Trio
Diatonic accordion (Ireland repertoire) – Seosamh Ó Fátharta (Cogar Ceili Band)
Diatonic accordion (Sardinia repertoire) – Carlo Boeddu
Diatonic accordion (Tarantella repertoire) – Paranza Mediterranea
Didjeridoo – Luca Mantello
Ensemble playing – Massimo Enrico
Guitar (beginners) – Massimo Enrico
Guitar DADGAD (intermediate level) – Claudio De Angeli
Hurdy-gurdy (beginners) – Gabriele Gunella
Marranzanu – Michele Piccione (Orchestrina di Tavola Tonda)
Tambourine – Kiepo`
Tambourine (Sicily) – Michele Piccione (Orchestrina di Tavola Tonda)
Tambourine (Southern Italy) – Terra Battuta
Tammorra (Southern Italy) – Ugo Maiorano
Tin whistle – Maidhc Ó hÉanaigh
Violin (Piedmont repertoire) – Gabriele Ferrero
Violin (Southest Alps repertoire) – Duo Vargoz
Violin (Vandée repertoire) – Maxime Chevrier (Arbadétorne)
Singing – Catalunya repertoire – Ballaveu
Singing – Emilia repertoire – I suonatori della Valle del Savena
Singing – France repertoire – Bal de l’Éphémère
Singing – Piedmont repertoire (Biella) – Gabriele Gunella e Marco Pettiti
Singing – Sicilia repertoire – Barbara Crescimanno
Spontaneous singing in the Western Alps – Silvio e Cristina Peron e Mathieu Aymonod
Songs around the table
Songs around the table – Lu Trainanà Trio
Songs around the table – Coro Bajolese
Songs around the table – Chacho Marchelli
Coro Bajolese (`1966-2018 – I canti Opera omnia` Book presentation)
Gennaro Spinelli & Romani Project (From knowledge to coexistence)
Igor Ferro (`Ridde e Cornamuse` : Music in the Witch Trials in the `Canavese` area)
Mariarosa Montebianco (Dancing stories for children)
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
Detailed program 2024
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The Artists 2024
Previous Editions
Other activities for the Gran Bal Trad

CHILDREN’S ENTERTAINMENT SERVICE
Free service provided during the hours of the workshops reserved for children from 3 years old, with entertainment, games, dancing and various activities. Reservations must be made at the moment of booking.
Music workshop for children:
Brigata Corsara and Marco Volpatto will propose a musical workshop exclusively dedicated to children. During the workshop children will work alternating moments with individual instrumental groups (flute, violin, guitar, keyboard owned by individual participants and percussion provided by teachers) to moments of orchestral ensemble.
Workshops will be in the morning from 10.30 to 12.30.
On Sunday there will be a public execution.
The workshop will be free for participants and will also welcome any last minute members. But we urge those concerned to register as soon as possible in order to send the scores adapted for each component giving the opportunity to study their own part in these months of waiting.
In order to facilitate the organization of the workshops please send to the laboratory coordinator Marco Volpatto (Marco.volpatto@tiscali.it) the following data: name and surname, age, instrument and degree of experience, the day of arrival and starting.
Children’s “nap” area. A closed structure will be available where mothers and dads can bring their children for naps. Surveillance in this area will not be provided by the organization, therefore parents have to organize surveillance turns by themselves.

NATURE AND CULTURE IN VIALFRÉ
The Vialfrè Proloco organizes and promotes numerous initiatives based on the combination of Nature and Culture, to discover Vialfrè and its woods.
For other walking and cycling routes and activities you can visit: https://www.morenaovest.it/esperienze-2/ and https://visitcanavese.it/

EXPOSITION AND SALE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
There is a large exhibition area, called “Il Bosco dei Liutai”, where luthiers and artists will exhibit musical instruments, CDs, music videos and other educational material.

ROX RECORDS
An exhibition area with publications (CDs and books) of all Festival participants and music produced by Rox Records.