Balkan Music &
Dance Workshops
Virtual Camps 2021

Mark your calendars for our 2021 Virtual Camps! West Coast will be held June 25-27, 2021; and East Coast will run August 13-15, 2021. Each camp will feature three days of immersive music and dance classes, live performances, and community gatherings.

Registration is open for West Coast Virtual Camp! Click here for more information and to register.


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Current Members & Donors

Thank you!

2021 Members & Donors

Members and donors updated as of April 1, 2021. Our 2021 drive has brought in $50,505 — which includes $47,480 in memberships, pledged sustaining memberships, and general donations, $1460 for the Kef Scholarship Fund, and $1565 for the Nest Egg Endowment Fund. If you aren’t a member, please consider joining or renewing your EEFC membership today.

Donations of any size are always welcome, especially during these uncertain times.

Bands, Choruses & Dance Groups

Humboldt Folk Dancers
Kypseli Greek Dance Center
Rakiya
Razzmatazz Folk Dance Club

Corporate Donors & Matching Donations

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass
Network For Good
PayPal Giving Fund

Individual, Family & Sustaining Members & Donors

Carol Akawie
Shelley G. Allison
Abby Alwin
Donald Anderson
Barbara Babin & Jim Avera
Susan Barch
Gloria L. Barello
Ralph Bates
Michelle Benoit
Fran Berge
Frederick Bialy
Belle Birchfield & Michael Ginsburg
Joseph & Barbara Blumenthal
Marion Blumenthal
Leslie Boden & Jerry Kisslinger
Susan Bolotin
Jessica Bondy
Stephen F. Boyer
Dean Brown & Dee Ramee
Nancy Butowski
Marilyn Cable
Priscilla Carlson
Debra Cohen
Emily Cohen & Eric Frumin
Martha Cohen & Marc Wolman
Steve Collins
Gladys M. Comeau-Morales
Lacey Cope
Jane Corey
Jo Crawford
Susan & Teymour Darkhosh
Rebecca Deja, in memory of Joe Mandell
Joyce DeSaussure
Judy Donaldson
Elyse Dubin
Marchette DuBois
Nicholas Dudler
Marlene Dworkin
Marian Eines
Jordan Ellison
Sarah Ennes
Marilyn Morrison Erway
Sheila Ewall
Sarah Ferholt
Melinda Fields
Sylvia Fine
Jonathan Finger & Carol Kycia
Shel Finver
M.J. Fischer
Carol Friedman
Mark Forry
Martha Forsyth, in honor of Barb MacLean
Catherine Foster
Catherine Fredrickson
Michael Gage & Sandra Cherin
Bob & Sharon Gardner
Rodney Garnett
Eugene Gauggel
Brent Geary
Erica George
Valeri Georgiev
Kate Gerson
Ira Gessel
Anna Goldberg
Eva & Eugene Goldwater
Ginger Gordon
Barbara Gottfried
Chilton Gregory
Kris & Tom Grinstad
Bryn Hammarstrom
Joan E. Hantman
Emerson Hawley & Rose Tannenbaum
Glynis Hawley & Andy Kacsmar
Biz Hertzberg & James Hoskins
Frances G. Hoenigswald
Robert Hoffnung & Marsha Beller
Shira Hopson
Stasha Hughes
Jeremy Hull
Lanita Hyatt
Leslie K. Hyll & Edmund Cordray
Arlene Imagawa & Mark Jenkins
Morty Isaacson
Patricia Iverson
Scherri Jacobsen
Marta Jaremko
Emily Jarrett Hughes
Jill Johnson
Connie Strohbehn Kaczmarczyk & Michael Strohbehn
Nina Kavardjikova
Luba Kazacoff
Bette Kelley
Karen Klevanosky
Nicholas Koluncich
Urszula Konczewska, in memory of Anne K. Wilson
Marlis Kraft & Miriam Zemel
Noel Kropf, in honor of Lauren Brody & Steve Kotansky
Sheila Krstevski
Rick Kruse
Ari Langer
Michael Lawson & Lori McConnell
Michael Leach
Bob Leibman
Suzanne Leonora
Roberta Levine
Mark Levy
Lise Liepman & George Chittenden, in memory of Kathy Mitchell, Allan Cline, & Ken White
Sonia Lipson
James Little
George Long
Jim Madigan
Linnea Mandell
Mary Marshall
Helen Marx, in honor of Lynn Levine
Evy Mayer
Katia McClain
Michael McKenna & Debbie Webb
Amy Mills
Bill Mize, Atife Caglor & Kris Clark
Philip Morley
Kathleen Mratinich
Clayton Newman
Julie Orth & Frank Garcia
Asako Oshiro
Edward Owen, in honor of Ari Langer
Craig Packard & Joan Dubinsky
Laura Pannaman
Ann Partlow
Holly Plotner
Paul Poresky
Jill Poris
Nada Putnik
Monica Ravinet
Richard Rawson
Polly Reetz
Chris Rietz & Debora Huxtable
Suzanne Rizer & Tom Hixon
Thomas Roby
Lois Romanoff
Nancy Ruyter
Deborah Sallee
Owen & Barbara Saxton
Barbara Sardarov
Betsy Schiavone
Rich Schult & Christine Montross
Bob Schulz
Marjorie & Bill Selden
Alysha Shaw
Joan & Matt Shear
Wendy & Doug Shearer
Bonnie Silver
Catherine Smith
Lewis R. Smith & Melissa Miller
Elaine Sohn
Mani & Karen Soma
Cathie Springer
Greg Squared
Michelle Srbinovich, in honor of all of the teachers from camp who gave lessons and shared their music with us from their homes and kept our spirits up this year
Suze Stentz & Richie Leonard
Jane Sugarman
Debby Szajnberg
Terri Taggart
Mary Ann Downs Tanaka
Demetrios Tashie
Benjamin Thomas
Randy Trigg
Teresa Twomey & Drew Harris
Barbara & John Uhlemann
Carmen D. Valentino
Annemoon van Erp
Tzvetanka & Ivan Varimezovi
Sandy Ward & Ken Harstine
Frances Wieloch
Mary K. Wolff
Marcia Wolter
Flora van Wormer & Family
Beth Wright
Loretta M. Yam
Naomi Zamir
and four anonymous donors

 

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THANK YOU!
 

2020 Members & Donors

Members and donors updated as of September 30, 2020. Our 2020 drive brought in $85,996 — which includes $79,317 in memberships, pledged sustaining memberships and general donations, $4752 for the Kef Scholarship Fund, and $1797 for the Nest Egg Endowment Fund.

Bands, Choruses & Dance Groups

Balkan Sundays San Francisco
Boulder International Folk Dancers
Chubritza International Folk Band
Hajde
Humboldt Folk Dancers
Mixed Bag
Orkestar Banitsa
Rakiya
Svirači
Tuesday Night Revival Balkan Folk Dancing
Zlatne Uste Balkan Brass Band

Corporate Donors & Matching Donations

AmazonSmile Foundation
Network For Good

Individual, Family & Sustaining Members & Donors

Carol Akawie
Douglas Lane Allen, in honor of Zuvuya
Shelley G. Allison
Donald Anderson
Evgeniya Angelova, in memory of Alexandr Eppler
Jim Avera & Barbara Babin
Martha Awdziewicz
Atilla Aydin
Annie Bachar
Diane Baker
Ralph Bates
Fran Berge
Gail Berlin
Susan Bernacki
Frederick Bialy
David Bilides
Belle Birchfield & Michael Ginsburg
Barbara Bleisch
Joseph & Barbara Blumenthal
Marion Blumenthal
Susan Bolotin
Jessica Bondy
David Brock
Dean Brown & Dee Ramee
William Bucher
Nancy Butowski
Marilyn Cable
Bart Carpenter
Jean Cate
David Charlebois
Sandra Cherin & Michael Gage
Donna Clark
Morgan Clark & Batja Bell
Joyce Clyde
Beth Bahia Cohen
Debra Cohen
Emily Cohen & Eric Frumin
Martha Cohen & Marc Wolman
Lorraine Cohn, in memory of Mary Ann Hermann
Steve Collins
Roger Cooper & Judy Olson
Lacey Cope
Edmund Cordray & Leslie K. Hyll
Jane Corey
Jo Crawford
Jennifer Dantchev
Teymour & Susan Darkhosh
Naomi Segal Deitz
Boël Denne-Hinnov
Joyce deSaussure
Susan Cohen DeStefano, in memory of Myra Rosenhaus
Teodora Dimitrova
Elyse Dubin
Nicholas Dudler
Rebecca Dwan
Marlene Dworkin, in memory of Hilda Dworkin
Karen Eckhart
Marian Eines, in memory of Gary Zema
Rachel Birtha Eitches
Jordan Ellison
Leah Erez
Sheila C. Ewall
Polly Tapia Ferber
Sarah Ferholt
Melinda Fields
Charlotte Finegold
Jonathan Finger & Carol Kycia
Mark Forry
Barbara Friedman
Carol Friedman
Rodney Garnett
Brent Geary
Ken Genetti
Erica George
Sarada George, in memory of Craig George
Kate Gerson
Ira Gessel
Steve Ginzbarg
David Golber & Helen Snively
Barbara Golding
Eva Goldwater
Rosemary & David Good
Barbara Gottfried
Chilton & Patricia K. Gregory
Tom & Kris Grinstad
Sharon Grodin
Steven Gruverman
Francesca Guido
Kathleen Gygi
Jill Halloran
Bryn Hammarstrom
Joan E. Hantman
Walter Harley
Tamberlaine Harris & Jennifer Brosious
Susan Hatlevig
Emerson Hawley & Rose Tannenbaum
Glynis Hawley & Andy Kacsmar
Mary Hawley
Marie S., Jim & Jaze Hayes
Martha Henzy, in honor of Helen Marx
Frances Hoenigswald
Vita Hollander
Biz Hertzberg & James Hoskins
Carole “Shirah” Hopson
Susan Hovorka
Melinda Hunt
Lanita Hyatt
Arlene Imagawa
Morty Isaacson
Patricia Iverson
Les James
Connie Strohbehn Kaczmarczyk
Lea Anne & Tom Kangas
Paul & Carole Kantor
Nina Kavardjikova
Luba Kazacoff
Marcia Kemble
Jenny Kilgore
William King
Monica Kirkland
Eduard & Pauline Klak
Karen Klevanosky
Marlis Kraft & Miriam Zemel
Judy & Noel Kropf
Sheila Krstevski
Rick Kruse
Ari Langer
Michael Lawson
Lazarovic Family
Michael Leach
Beth LeaMond
Sonne, Nicholas & Tamara Lemke
Roberta Levine
James Little
Sonia K. Long, in memory of Silvia Cornell
Margaret Loomis & Larry Weiner
Everett Lunsford, in memory of Norma Huff
Barbara MacLean
Jim Madigan
Linnea Mandell
Mary Marshall
Helen Marx
Katia McClain
Jim & Nancy McGill
Sally & Mark McIntee
Michael McKenna & Debbie Webb
Eileen Menteer
Amy Mills
Matt Moran & Jaquetta Bustion
Kathleen Mratinich
Fanche Nastev
Clayton Newman & Nancy McGhee
Peter Notarfrancesco
Marilyn Novosel
Robert J. Nowak, in memory of Olga J. Nowak
Kenneth Olcott
Julie Orth & Frank Garcia
Asako Oshiro
Craig Packard & Joan Dubinsky
Laura Pannaman
Nancy Peterson, in memory of Silvia Cornell
Susan Pinkham
Eva Salina Primack, in honor of Rosa Caswell
Mary Proudfoot
Nada Putnik
Maclovia Quintana & Adam Waite
John Ridgway
Chris Rietz & Deb Huxtable
Suzanne Rizer & Tom Hixon
Lucy Roberts
Thorn Roby
Ariana Rosen
Sanna Rosengren, in honor of Lise Liepman
Nancy Ruyter
Bruce Sagan
Sophia Sarafova
Mary Ann Saussotte
Owen & Barbara Saxton
Stuart Schaffner
Betsy Schiavone
Daniel Schleifer & Johanna Walczak
Rich Schultz & Christine Montross
Leslie Scott
Marjorie & Bill Selden
Matt & Joan Shear
Wendy & Doug Shearer
David Shochat & Gini Rogers
Jonathan Skinner, in memory of Judy Anscombe & Stefni Agin & in honor of Laura Pannaman
Lewis R. Smith & Melissa Miller
Matt Smith
Mani & Karen Soma
Cheryl Spasojević
Greg Squared & Rima Fand
Mila Stamenova
Leigh Starcevich
Suze Stentz & Richie Leonard
Olea Stevens
Cara Beth Stevenson
Elizabeth Stuart
Jane Sugarman
Corinne Sykes & Myroslava & Gordiy Symonenko
Teri & Jon Sykes
Debby Szajnberg
Terri Taggart
Sarah Talbot
Yoshimichi Tamura
Nikola Tošić
Dina Trageser
Randy Trigg
Dr. Stephen R. Turner
Barbara & John Uhlemann
Carmen D. Valentino
Annemoon van Erp
Sandy Ward & Ken Harstine
Kimberlee Wollter
Beth Wright
Merideth Wright
Loretta M. Yam
and three anonymous donors

Susan K. Anderson Scholarship Fund Donors

This special fund raised $48,885 to go towards camp scholarships in memory of the late Susan K. Anderson, who was a gajda aficionado, beloved member of the Philadelphia-area Balkan music community, and a loyal supporter of EEFC.

Ashley Alter
Donald Anderson
Arbutus Park Manor
Michelle Benoit
Anne Bonn
Bernard Burke
Joan Casello
Deborah Cohen
Rita Coleman
Susan Darkhosh
Boel Denne-Hinnov
Enid Diamante
Dianne Dickson
David Ewing
Catherine Feskanin
M.J. Fischer
Folk Dance Council of the Delaware
John L. Frank
Alison Frysinger
Cynthia L. Geiger-Jenkins
Anne E. Greenwald
Steven Gruverman
Margit Julicher
Charles Edward Karl
Linda Kauffman
Jeanne Kitselman
Catherine Kness
Yoana Koleva
Delores Kramer
Peggy Leiby
Clark Loveridge
Millard MacKall
Morley Marks
Kathleen McNamee
Tatiana Metody
Judith Militello
TJ Molinaro-Friedman
Claire Ann Molton
Ruth Neifeld
Peter Notarfrancesco
Jacqueline D. Ohls
Betty Parker
Ilene Blitzstein Poses
Kerstin Potter
Princeton Folkdance
Joan Goldman Rosen
Susan Rup
Carol Sandler
Patricia Segal
Violet Shenkman
Janice Smith
Beverly Spiece
Mingo Stroeber
Kathy Gordon Talvitie
Joan Vidal
Bill Wadlinger
Carol Wadlinger
Jackie Walden
Andrew Wallace
Ada Wilson

2007-2013 Lifetime Members

Gail Berlin
Barbara & Joseph Blumenthal
Louise Brill & Mary Donnelly
Jeanne Busch
Denys Carrillo
Sarah Cohen
Delores Crawford
Béla Foltin
Barbara Friedman
Lynette Garlan & James Rumbaugh
Leslie K. Hyll & Edmund Cordray
Loretta Kelley
Noel & Judy Kropf
Mark Levy & Carol Silverman
Linnea Mandell & Craig Kurumada
Janice Mendelson
Len Newman & Lisa Shochat
Alina Niemi
Laura Pannaman
Susan Pinkham
Jamie, Betsy & Hannah Platt
Holly Plotner
Barbara & Norman Rosen
Daniel Schleifer
Mary Sherhart
Jonathan B. Skinner
Dr. Stephen R. Turner
Meg York