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.
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
17:30 – 19:30 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 2024
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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
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 – 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 – 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
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
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.