Folk Marathon 2024/25 - in Vienna, Austria.

Name: Folk Marathon 2024/25 - in Vienna, Austria.
Start: 2024-12-28T21:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-01-03T00:59:00+02:00
Location: Vienna, Austria

Schedule

Sat Dec 28 2024 at 09:00 pm to Fri Jan 03 2025 at 12:59 am

UTC+02:00

Location

Vienna, Austria | Vienna, WI

The turn of the year is ... Folk Marathon time!
For New Year 2024/25, Folk Marathon is returning to Vienna, the place where it all started (14 years ago!): For five days, the lovely capital of Austria will be filled with folk & trad music & dance!
Concerts, bals, jams, exchange, different styles, traditions and approaches – people from many countries meeting and having, well, a ball with each other.
Come to Vienna!
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## What is Folk Marathon?
Folk Marathon is a five days nonprofit grassroots event around the turn of the year, for musicians, dancers and enthusiasts alike, from a folk / trad / world music background, happening at different venues once a year in a European city, this time Vienna. Neither small nor huge, we'll be welcoming about 300 participants.
We'll all meet to spend a great time together, to party, jam, dance, share knowledge, skills, tunes and songs on a voluntary basis with each other: Days full of jam sessions, workshops, new acquaintances and ideas, lovely evenings with concerts, bals and even more jams. And, of course, a big New Year’s Eve party.
Folk Marathon is a meeting rather than a "festival", in the sense that it's much more about participating, experiencing, experimenting rather than presenting something "finished". One could call it an open, communicative, creative space, a friendly (maybe a little bit utopian?) framework, celebrating togetherness as well as individualism.
It's carried by the enthusiasm, energy and experiences of the organizing team as well as of all its participants.
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## How does it work?
The local team provides the basic structure (places, timetables, venue bookings, info, technical support etc.) and jumps in by putting everything together as good and neat as possible, drawing from more than a decade of organizing experience. All workshops, concerts and dances will be voluntarily led by participants. The local team, together with volunteering participants, takes care that everything runs smoothly.
Every friendly human, independent of age and skill, is invited to join into Folk Marathon, in their own fashion: One may visit dozens of workshops or none at all, party and jam and dance all day and night or take it much more slowly, choose to go to this place or rather to that other one instead, explore everything on one's one, or rather together...
There's a modest participation fee, just to cover expenses.
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## So... When’s what happening?
The official schedule is still work in progress. But we can already give you some basic information:
- Warming up party / jam on December 28th evening.
- Official start on December 29, big New Year's Eve party on 31st (at lovely club "Reigen"), last day is January 2. On all five days, there will be lots of workshops as well as dances and concerts, jams, a friendly head quarter – all that. ;)
- There will also be a Mazurka Clandestina (informal outdoors dance), Interest Groups (to connect with like-minded, meet, discuss, organize jams), open jamming spaces - and much more!
- And there might still be a little afterparty on Jan 3…
The schedule will get more and more concrete over the next couple of weeks. You’ll soon find more specific details about the Vienna venues, about registration etc. here soon, as well as on our website https://www.folkmarathon.com/Vienna
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## Where to stay?
- There are still very affordable hostel spaces for the time around new year (see here, for instance: https://www.oejhv.at/jugendherbergen/wien/1070vienna/ )
- We will also look into the possibility to find at least a small communal sleeping place (can’t guarantee that yet), and…
- There will definitely be a couple of dozens floor / sofa spaces offered by friendly people from the Vienna folk music / dancing community.
- Many of the Folk Marathon venues will be west of the city center, so accomodation in districts like 6,7,8,(9) and 15,16,17,18 (if not too far out) will work well. If you’re not sure, contact us (see below).
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## Cost and Registering
- We’re still in the process of arranging some details, so we can’t yet tell you how much it will be per person, other than that it will be *very* affordable again. ;)
- Registering procedure will open after summer, at some point in September. We will announce the date in time.
- No stress! It will normally take a couple of days or even weeks of registration until we’re getting close to our capacities. ;) Therefore, take your time to decide when you want to come, whether you want to lead a workshop or play for a concert / dance, where you want to stay, etc.
- If you’re in the situation that you need to book your flight / accommodation already soon: Contact us ASAP, we will most certainly be able to put you on the list, so there will be a space reserved for you.
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## More info / contact
- To stay up to date about the registration date and about a more complete picture, as details become available, you can subscribe to our newsletter here: subscribepage.io/kY0Cwl or on Telegram: https://t.me/+hzeBuhgrFQZjNDY0
- You will also find more specific details about the Vienna venues, registration etc. on our Facebook page and on our website soon: https://www.folkmarathon.com/Vienna/ – we are putting all our efforts into planning the cornerstones of the programme as soon as possible and will let you know everything you need to book your travels / accommodation as soon as possible.
- Questions? Comments? Email us: [email protected]
We are looking forward to seeing you, sharing music, dances, smiles and experiences and ... having the best party ever! :)