2026 Door County Folk Festival ED-101 Schedule (v06) (Subject to Change)  
START END EVENT(S) WHERE THURSDAY JULY 9 - EVENT SCHEDULE  
8:00 AM 5:00 PM SETUP SBHS SETUP by Work Scholar/Volunteer/Setup/Sound/Tech Teams - Setup COMM/R-101/Kitchen  
5:00 PM 7:00 PM Dinner Break / Fish Boil Dinner   YOUR CHOICE or Fish Boil Dinner at Mary's Waterfront Inn (5pm & 7pm)  
6:00 PM   Registration Opens COMM Registration Opens - Workscholars/Volunteers  
7:00 PM 8:00 PM Social Hour (BYOW) COMM Dance Requests [Various Guest Leaders]  
 
8:00 PM 12:00 AM Opening Dance Party  (BYOW) COMM Dance Requests [Various Guest Leaders] / [Live Music by Bruce Sagan, Nan Nelson + TBA]  
 
START END EVENT(S) WHERE FRIDAY JULY 10 - EVENT SCHEDULE  
7:30 AM   Registration COMM Registration - Work Scholars/Volunteers  
8:00 AM 9:00 AM Early AM Dancing COMM Early AM Square/Contra/Round Dancing w/Paul Collins  
9:00 AM 10:15 AM Body Work R-110 "Butterfly Life-Cycle" Led by Marc Kotz  
10:15 AM 11:30 AM Singing Workshop-1 R-110 Bruce Sagan & Nan Nelson  
Singing Workshop-1  
11:30 AM 12:45 PM Lunch Break   Lunch Break  
Lunch & Learn with Tony Ortega R-110 Friday's Lunch & Learn Session - "The Shoe Is on the Other Foot”  
Aspiring teachers who want to bring new material home; experienced teachers eager to share their own best practices, etc.  
12:45 PM 2:00 PM Live Balfolk Music and Dancing COMM Live Balfolk Music and Dancing - Bob Walser/Bruce Sagan  
Culture Presentations R-110 The Walled Up Wife in Balkan Folklore Song to Dance: How Do Compound Rhythms Arise?  
by Dr Angelina Ilieva - University of Chicago by Michael Kuharski - Madison, WI  
         
Singing Workshop-2 Outside Singing Wkshp #2 - Nan Nelson (Outdoors if Good Weather)  
Singing Workshop-2  
2:00 PM 3:15 PM ED101-1 R-110 Michael Kuharski  
ED101-1  
3:15 PM 3:30 PM Break   Break  
3:30 PM 5:00 PM Singing Workshop-3 R-110 Bruce Sagan & Nan Nelson  
Singing Workshop-3  
5:00 PM 7:00 PM Dinner Break / Fish Fry Dinner   YOUR CHOICE or Fish Fry Dinner at Mary's Waterfront Inn (4pm to 9pm)  
7:00 PM 8:00 PM Social Hour (BYOS) COMM Dance Requests [Various Guest Leaders] / [Live Music by Bruce Sagan, Nan Nelson, Bob Walser + TBA]  
 
8:00 PM 12:30 AM Dance Party (BYOS) COMM Live Music [Orkestar Izvor, Bruce Sagan, Nan Nelson, Bob Walser + TBA]  
 
START END EVENT(S) WHERE SATURDAY JULY 11 - EVENT SCHEDULE  
7:30 AM   Registration COMM Registration - Work Scholars/Volunteers  
8:00 AM 9:00 AM Early AM Dancing COMM Early AM Square/Contra/Round Dancing w/Paul Collins  
8:45 AM 11:30 AM Birding and Nature Walk/Hike Parking Lot Strt Birding and Nature Walk/Hike led by Rick King and Paul Wagner - Inclement Weather Date Same Time/Place Sunday
Meet in Sturgeon Bay High School Parking Lot at 8:45am for car pooling, Depart 9:00am
 
 
         
9:00 AM 10:15 AM ED101-2 R-110 Tom Ott  
ED101-2  
10:15 AM 11:30 AM Singing Workshop-4 R-110 Bruce Sagan & Nan Nelson  
Singing Workshop-4  
11:30 AM 12:45 PM Lunch Break   Lunch Break  
Lunch & Learn with Jane Wieman R-110 Saturday's Lunch & Learn Session - "Digesting the Herman Method of Folk Dance Instruction”  
Learn dance instruction basics; get pointers on improving techniques, understand a master teacher's perspective, etc.  
12:45 PM 2:00 PM Live Bulgarian Music and Dancing COMM Live Bulgarian Music and Dancing - Bruce Sagan, Nan Nelson, Konstantin Marinov, Angel Dobrev  
Culture Presentations R-110 Bulgarian Folklore Dances: From the Village to the Stage A disappearing Minority: The Vlach of Vidin Bulgaria  
by Dr Dyliana Kurdova - Sofia, Bulgaria by Marvin Moehle - Granite City, IL  
         
2:00 PM 3:15 PM ED101-3 R-110 Linda Mansdorf & Michael Sternberg  
ED101-3  
3:15 PM 3:30 PM Break   Break  
3:30 PM 5:00 PM Singinging Workshop-5 R-110 Bruce Sagan & Nan Nelson  
Singinging Workshop-5  
Nature Hike with Mary Pat
(Ship Canal Nature Preserve)
Parking Lot Strt Nature Hike w/Mary Pat Schmidt (Ship Canal Nature Preserve) (If Good Weather)
Meet in Sturgeon Bay High School Parking Lot at 3:15pm for car pooling, Depart 3:30pm
 
   
5:00 PM 7:00 PM Dinner Break / Fish Boil Dinner   YOUR CHOICE or Fish Boil Dinner at Mary's Waterfront Inn (5pm & 7pm)  
7:00 PM 8:00 PM Social Hour (BYOD) COMM Dance Requests [Various Guest Leaders, Orkestar Verea, Bruce Sagan, Nan Nelson, Bob Walser + TBA]  
 
8:00 PM 12:30 AM Dance Party (BYOD) COMM Live Music [Orkestar Izvor, Orkestar Vera, Bruce Sagan, Nan Nelson, Bob Walser + TBA]  
 
START END EVENT(S) WHERE SUNDAY JULY 12 - EVENT SCHEDULE  
7:30 AM   Registration COMM Registration - Work Scholars/Volunteers  
8:00 AM 10:00 AM Early AM Dancing COMM Early AM Square/Contra/Round Dancing w/Paul Collins  
9:00 AM 10:00 AM Body Work R-110 Morning Warmup led by Penny Brichta  
10:15 AM 11:30 AM ED101-4 R-110 Melissa Boutell  
ED101-4  
11:30 AM 12:45 PM Lunch Break   Lunch Break  
12:45 PM 2:00 PM Singing Workshop-6 R-110 Bruce Sagan & Nan Nelson  
Singing Workshop-6  
2:00 PM 3:15 PM ED101-5 R-110 John Uhlemann  
ED101-5  
3:15 PM 3:30 PM Break   Break  
3:30 PM 5:00 PM Singing Workshop-7 R-110 Bruce Sagan & Nan Nelson  
Singing Workshop-7  
5:00 PM 7:00 PM Dinner Break / Fish Boil Dinner   YOUR CHOICE or Fish Boil Dinner at Mary's Waterfront Inn (5pm & 7pm)  
7:00 PM 8:00 PM Social Hour (BYOE) COMM Dance Requests [Various Guest Leaders]  
 
8:00 PM 12:00 AM Dance Party (BYOE) COMM Live Music & Singing [Bruce Sagan, Nan Nelson] + Requests by Melissa Boutell  
 
START END EVENT(S) WHERE MONDAY JULY 13 - TEARDOWN/CLEANUP  
10:00 AM 1:00 PM TEARDOWN & CLEANUP SBHS TEARDOWN & CLEANUP by Work Scholar/Volunteer/Setup/Sound/Tech Teams - Setup COMM/R-101/Kitchen  
Legend: COMM = Student Commons  Room /  R-110 = Room-110  /   Mary's = Mary's Waterfront Inn  /  BYOW = Whatever / BYOS = Snacks / BYOD - Desserts / BYOE - Everything