2012 Staff ~ 25th Annual Weekend:

1. ★The Weekend is over, and it was an excellent one - one of the best ever I think. If you didn’t already fill one out, here’s a link to the Evaluation Form. We hope you’ll fill one out, preferably by the end of January so we can look at it during our next meeting.
   

2. ★Save the Date: Next year’s Ralph Page Weekend is on January 18-20. Hope to see you there.
   

3. Grand Dance Callers:
   

4. ‣Steve Zakon-Anderson
   Mary DesRosiers
   

5. Friday Night & Daytime Callers:
   

6. ‣Adina Gordon, Amy Cann,
   Ruth Sylvester, Mary Wesley
   

7. Sat. & Sun. Music
   

8. ‣Lissa Schneckenburger, David Kaynor &
   Bob McQuillen
   

9. ‣Nor’easter: Cedar Stanistreet, Julie Vallimont & Max Newman
   

10. Friday Night Music:
    

11. ‣Northern Spy
    

12. Retrospective dance session:
    

13. ‣Dancing in Nelson. The Nelson NH Town Hall is the home of the oldest continuously running dance in the country: traditional New England contras and squares have been danced uninterrupted for at least 200 years. The Nelson dance and the musicians, callers and dancers of Nelson ~ Ralph Page, Dudley Laufman and others ~ kept our traditions alive and healthy. In addition to the well-known callers of the past, it regularly features the young callers of the present and future. The Retrospective this year will feature the Nelson dance, both historically and as it is now.
    

14. ‣Event Schedule, All Forms ~ see the Sidebar on the right.
    

1. The New England Folk Festival Association in collaboration with the Center for the Humanities at the University of New Hampshire invites you to join us to celebrate our New England music and dance traditions. This weekend is named in honor of Ralph Page, who was pivotal in sustaining and reviving traditional contra and square dancing in New England.
   

Ralph Page Legacy Weekend Videos
on the Web

The Ralph Page Weekend was featured on Channel 9’s New Hampshire Chronicle. See the sidebar on the right for details and links to videos on the Channel 9 web site.

1. ‣Go to the sidebar on the right for details on what’s available, and for links to the videos available for viewing.
   

The Ralph Page Dance Legacy Weekend is held annually in Durham, NH at the University of New Hampshire in January on the weekend that ends with Martin Luther King Day. Look below for links to all the information you might want to know about the Weekend.

Forms, Admission Fees & Contact Information ~ 2011 Information for Reference Purposes.

Look in the Sidebar on the right for most 2011 forms.

Additional Information: About the Staff, Weekend Photos, Stories, Articles, etc. - Learn More About the Weekend!

Staff Information. This page has additional information about the weekend bands and callers.

Photos & Archival Information about Previous Weekends. The best way to see what it’s all about - or to see your friends!

1. Photo Pages: 2003-2006 | Tod Whittemore in 2006 | 2007 | 2008
   

2. Yearly Archives: 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011
   

3. Supplementary Articles & Stories about the Weekend: Index Page. These come from various sources: the Seacoast Country Dance Newsletter, various people who have had scholarships, others who have written things up for CDSS, DEFFA and other sources, etc.
   

Some Important External Links. These are some other pages with important information.

Directions to UNH. Link on the NEFFA site to a UNH web page with directions to UNH from various locations.

NEFFA. The New England Folk Festival Association sponsors the weekend; the RPDLW is a part of NEFFA. NEFFA is also a great festival every April.

New Hampshire Library of Traditional Music & Dance. Home of the Ralph Page collection, CDSS collection, Ted Sannella collection, material from many other sources