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NEW SITE FOR AUDITION WORKSHOP

The Audition Workshop scheduled for Saturday August 23 has been moved to a new site. The address is:

MC Dance Academy 2150 South 3700 West

You must approach this studio on 3600 West. 2150 South is a short dead-end street that connects to 3600 south. It is the last building on the right. The workshop begins at 9:00. Read more about the workshop on Up-coming Events.

Toker Timothy Many Hats named as the Offical Host of FRONTIER FEST

CLOG AMERICA Europe-bound in July 2008

CLOG AMERICA Shines in Sardinia, Poland and Italy

Cloggers Win An Award at Polish Fest

By Carma Wadley Deseret Morning News

Clog America, Utah's international folklore festival ensemble, has just finished participating in the 44th annual Beskidy Highlanders' Week of Culture in Zywiec, Poland. At the festival, the group captured the award for "Expressive Presentation of Program in Music and Dance," one of only six awards given out. In presenting the award, festival director Anna Stachowska noted that "every festival has a star, and the star of this festival is Clog America." Also receiving recognition at the Week of Culture celebration was Mary Bee Jensen, former director of the Brigham Young University Folkdancers. Jensen was introduced to the audience at the closing performances as a "living legend of folkdancing." The Beskidy is the third festival where Clog America has represented the United States this summer. The group also participated in folkdance fests in Quartu Sant'Elena and Ittiri, Sardinia, Italy, in July, and will be going on to the 39th International Festival of Folklore Aviano-Piancavallo, also held in Italy. The tour company consists of 27 dancers and nine musicians from Utah, Idaho and Wyoming. While in Poland, members of the troupe also delivered hundreds of blankets, winter hats, gloves, scarves and coats, and dozens of school kits, newborn kits and hygiene kits to a local children's home, Dom Dziecka in Bielsko-Biala. That, too, was their third humanitarian visit this summer. Previous donations were made in Italy.

PRE-TOUR BENEFIT CONCERT SET July 2 at Thanksgiving Point

Clog America will perform a pre-tour benefit concert on July 2 at The Barn in Thanksgiving Point beginning at 7:00 pm. The concert will also feature Cherie Call. All benefits for the concert will go to the Cameron Sevy fund. Cameron was paralyzed this February while sledding with his son. For more information about Cameron go to www.cameronsevy.com.

Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. Tickets can be purchase at the door or by calling Sharon at 427-9548. Ticket prices are: $5 per person, $25 per family. Children under 3 are free.

The pre-tour concert schedule on June 30 at Cottonwood High School has been rescheduled for next year.

CLOG AMERICA RETURNS TO EUROPE IN 2007

From the '41st Beskidy Highlanders Week of Culture' in Bielsko-Biala, Poland to the '29th Festival del Folklore' in Aviano/Pordenone, Italy, CLOG AMERICA will represent the USA during the summer of 2007 in two of the largest and most established annual folklore fes

THANK YOU FROM BRAZIL

Cultural Society, Rec & Benefit Sao Joao Bosco Socrebe

Passo Fundo, Brazil

We would like to start by sending our cordial greetings. It is good to know that there are people that believe it is possible, one day, that we may live in the solidarity where people everywhere help each other, transforming dreams into reality. In the context in which we live, with many injustices and much social despair, it is very nice to walk with people like you to seek for a better world.

Your donation brought so much happiness to our attendants, not to mention the great usefulness of the kits in their homes. The children and adolescents adored your visit, the artistic presentation, the possibility to get to know a new culture and the donation of hygiene kits, quilts, baby clothes and school supplies, of which were taken to their homes with great satisfaction.

This activity was long awaited for with enthusiasm from the children, adolescents and community, other than seeing the beautiful presentation by the Clog America group, they showed diverse activities and artistic numbers of which they participated in in our entity.

Your noble gesture and the great human courage makes it possible for us to duplicate your efforts to continue on the path to a better world, guaranteeing the possibility of a honored for our attendees.

We are sending some photos of our time together on August 18, 2006 and of the deliverance of the donations to the children.

May the light of Jesus directly illuminate your hearts giving you the opportunity to practice good works and may the blessings of The Lord constantly be in your lives, and the lives of your families and friends.

Our most sincere THANK YOU.

With love

Maria Amabile Zambenedetti General Director

Cloggers keeping folk arts alive

Folk art, which comes from the ground up, unites people and defines culture in ways few other things can. "Immigrants from many lands brought to America their own cultural heritage and together wove a tapestry of culture unique in all the world," says Shawnda Bishop, founder and director of one of America's premier folk-art groups, Clog America, based in West Valley City. "Generations of Americans have expressed their hearts and minds through the music, dance and other folk art that make up this cultural tapestry," Bishop says. "But this tapestry is beginning to unravel. Young Americans are growing up without knowing or experiencing our traditional American folk art." To counteract that trend, Clog America has launched a couple of initiatives. For one, Clog America is spearheading a campaign to build an American Cultural Heritage Institute. "ACHI" will be dedicated to the preservation and cultivation of such American folk arts as dance, music, craftsmanship art and poetry. The facility will be a center for classes and workshops and will have dance studios, music rooms, office space, costume-storage space and a Preservation Hall for community performances. Among programs on the agenda will be a free monthly Kids Culture Club that will help expose children to American folk arts. Read More at DeseretNews.com

Introducing The AMERICAN CULTURAL HERITAGE INSTITUTE