Schedule

July 15, 2023

10:00 AM: Play recording of Festspel - Hugo Alfvén
10:00 AM: Decorate Midsummer Pole - Jamestown Public Market * OUTSIDE
10:45 AM: Play recording of Midsommarvaka - Hugo Alfvén
11:00 AM: Procession of Midsummer pole * OUTSIDE
11:15 AM: Ring Dancing around Midsummer Pole * OUTSIDE
12:00 PM: Bonnie Loch Fiddlers
1:00 PM: Thule Children's Folk Dance Team - Svenska Spelmän
2:00 PM: Vasa Voices
2:30 PM: Smorgasbandet
3:00 PM: Smorgabandet and Svenska Spelmän
3:30 PM: Simple Gifts
4:30 PM: DemBones
5:30 PM: Thule Adult Folk Dance Team with Svenska Spelmän
6:45 PM: Smorgasbandet
7:30 PM: Smorgasbandet and Svenska Spelmän

Special Events

10:00 PM: Decorate midsummer pole and make a midsummer headwreath (Jamestown Public Market)
11:00 PM: Procession and erection of midsummer pole (Along W. Third Street between Market and Lafayette St.
11:15 PM: Community midsummer dancing on Lafayette Street between 2nd and 3rd.
12:00 PM: Learn how to play the spoons workshop
2 - 6 PM: Bumper Cars! ($3.00)
2 - 5 PM: Try Curling! ($3.00)
4:00 PM: Story Time for Children with Kathy Petersen
4:00 PM: KUBB Tounament Begins
5:00 PM: Learn-a-Tune workshop with Smorgasbandet
5:00 PM: Curling Exhibition Game

Lectures

12:00 PM: Mayor Edward Sundquist: Jamestown's Swedish Mayors
1:00 PM: Nancy Marie Brown: The Hidden Folk - How Iceland's Elves Can Save the Earth
2:00 PM: John Everett Jones: Early Swedes in our area
3:00 PM: Nancy Marie Brown: The Far Traveler - Voyages of a Viking Woman
4:00 PM: Randall D. Gustafson & John Everett Jones: When Swedes ran the circus
5:00 PM: Simple Things: Traditional music and instruments

July 16, 2023

10:15 AM: Religious Song Sing Along
11:00 AM: Bonnie Loch Fiddlers
12:00 PM: Smorgasbandet
1:00 PM: Simple Gifts
2:00 PM: Jamestown Municipal Band
3:00 PM: Thule Adult Swedish Folk Dance Team with Svenska Spelmän

Lectures

12:00 PM: Janet Wahlberg and John Everett Jones: Master Class in No Cost research of your Scandinavian ancestors
1:00 PM: Christin Curran: Nålbindning - History, design and demonstration
2:00 PM: Paul Leone and Greg Peterson: Mayor Samuel A. Carlson
3:00 PM: Michele Gerring: Frans Hugo Harald Svan

Special Events

12:00 PM: Noon Story Time for Children with Kathy Petersen
3:00 PM: Learn-a-Tune workshop with Simple Gifts

Date: July 15-16, 2023

Location:
Northwest Arena, 319 West 3rd Street
Jamestown, NY 14701

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