Past Events
Oct
2019
Celebration at Botev Academy in Takoma Park
Save the date! Details about this event are slowly trickling in but the event will take place from 6pm to 9pm.
Visit Botev Academy‘s web site.
Venue: Botev Academy, Takoma Park
Location: 8120 Carroll Ave Silver Spring, MD 20912
Admission: TBD
Jul
2019
Saturday night with Lyuti Chushki at Bossa Bistro
Bring all of your friends and we will cook up an awesome party of Bulgarian music and dance in the heart of Washington DC where all the action is on a Saturday night!!!
Venue: Bossa Bistro
Location: Adams Morgan
Admission: TBD
Jun
2019
Bossa Bistro
Join us for a night of Balkan music and dance at Bossa Bistro in Adams Morgan! This is a unique opportunity to spend a few hours with Lyuti Chushki in the heart of Washington, D.C. Bring your good mood and dance shoes!
Cost: $10 at the door
Venue: Bossa Bistro
Location: Adams Morgan
Admission: $10
Jun
2019
Bulgarian Sabor
The annual Bulgarian Sabor (Reunion) is happening again at Calleva Farm in Poolesville, MD. Bring a picnic basket and lots of friends to celebrate everything Bulgarian at this fabulous outdoor venue.
Venue: Calleva Farm
Location: 19120 Martinsburg Rd. Dickerson MD 20842 (aka Markoff’s Haunted Forest, Dirty Dinners, CHAP)
Admission: TBD (fee is per car at the entrance)
May
2019
Spring Balkan Festival with the Bulgarian Cultural Center of Central Pennsylvania
The Bulgarian Cultural Center of Central Pennsylvania will hold its first Balkan Spring Festival in May!
Join us for a fun afternoon with traditional balkan food, alcohol (cash bar), music and folk dancing!
Tickets at the door will be $30/adult, $15/child 5-16 years old, and free for children younger than 5 years.
Do not hesitate to contact us at info@bulgariansofcentralpa.org.
Purchase tickets here
Download the brochure of the event.
Venue: The Vineyard and Brewery
Location: Hershey, 17057
Admission: $30/adult, $15/child 5-16 years old, and free for children younger than 5 years
Apr
2019
Bulgarian dance party with Lyuti Chushki
Venue: Glen Eden Pilot Park
Location: Raleigh, NC
Admission: TBD
Mar
2019
Bulgarian Music Society
The Bulgarian Music Society of Washington, founded in August 2009 through a grant from the St. George Foundation, presents Bulgarian musical culture to Washington area audiences by providing free concerts to the public. We invite you to view our list of scheduled performances during the 2018-2019 Concert Season and to learn more about the Society.
The Bulgarian Music Society is proud to host a night with Lyuti Chushki as part of the 2019 concert line-up.
Venue: The Embassy of the Republic of Bulgaria
Location: 1621 22nd Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20008
Admission: Free
Mar
2019
Bossa Bistro
Join us for a night of Balkan music and dance at Bossa Bistro in Adams Morgan! This is a unique opportunity to spend a few hours with Lyuti Chushki in the heart of Washington, D.C. Bring your good mood and dance shoes!
Cost: $10 at the door
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Venue: Bossa Bistro
Location: Adams Morgan, Washington, D.C.
Admission: $10 at the door
Mar
2019
Celebration with the Bulgarian Community of Richmond
The Bulgarian school and community of Richmond invites you to celebrate! There will be a short performance by the kids of the school, Zunica (the local Richmond group) will perform and then the dance party will commence with music from you favorite Bulgarian band.
Venue: Richmond University
Location: Richmond, VA
Admission: Donations
Mar
2019
Annual Baba Marta Celebration - 2019
Baba Marta Celebration
7:30-11:00 pm
Church of the Redeemer
6201 Dunrobbin Drive, Bethesda, MD (just off MacArthur Blvd)
Glen Echo, MD
Teaching basic Bulgarian dances: 7:30 pm
Party: 9 – 11 pm
Please bring a snack/beverage to share
Admission $10
Directions: http://www.dancingplanetproductions.com/folkdance.htm
A little background of Baba Marta
Before the beginning of March each year Bulgarians present to relatives and friends martenitsa (also known in some Bulgarian regions as martenka) – a double red and white tassel – to bring health and happiness. On the first day of March, people in Bulgaria put the martenitsa-s on their clothes or wrists and wish each other health and happiness with “Chestita baba Marta” – (in English, “Happy Grandma Marta”). “Marta” comes from the word for March (Mart) in Bulgarian.
This is an ancient Bulgarian (pagan) tradition (well – nobody knows how old but most probably it’s more than one thousand years old) and symbolizes the end of the cold winter and the coming of the spring.
Martenitsa-s are supposed to be worn until the person sees the first stork (supposedly returning from the South and not the one in the Zoo). Then martenitsa-s are thrown onto a tree. The red and white colours symbolize the snow and the blood from an old story where, a stork brings the blessing for health to a small child from its parents, who are far away. The giving of the martenitsa makes you feel to expect the Spring very soon. The “arrival” of the stork indicates that this has happened.
The lack of “real” winter and storks (not a lot of them in the cities) raises some difficulties in implementing this tradition nowadays but Bulgarians are still celebrating and very fond of the 1st of March (in a traditional and “modern” way at the same time).
Info: Jamie Platt or 301-466-3018
Venue: Church of the Redeemer
Location: 6201 Dunrobbin Drive, Bethesda, MD (just off MacArthur Blvd) Glen Echo, MD
Admission: $10