Tour Pictures

2024 Tour

Poland (Grodzisk Mazowiecki), Switzerland (Interlaken parade) and France (Port-sur-Saone, St. Priest la Marche, Mont Gargan)

2023 Italy Tour

Aviano and Sappada

2022 France and Portugal Tour
Folk Moncao, Portugal and FFIR in Rodez and Plozevet in Quimper, France 

2019 France Tour, July 25 - August 19
Paris, Normandy, Mont St. Michel, Le Pouliguen, Sarran, Amelie-les-Bains, and Montoire
 



Summerfest 2019, our home festival
 

 

 

  
Paris/Normandy/Mont Saint Michel

 

 

 D-Day beaches and American Cemetary

 Carcassonne!

Amelie Les Bains

playing Awkward 

2300 people in the audience for the Galas!

 Swimming in the river during free time

 Typical dorm room during a festival

laundry on the roof

 Paella!

Papa Didier (our bus driver from 2012 and 2015) and his wife Eve came to spend a few days with us in Amelie!!! Quel joie!

Visiting and performing at the Mediterranean! Banyuls-sur-Mer

 We grew very close to the Georgians - they were young and many spoke English

 Our guides, Patty and Michele

Montoire!

 Such a beautiful village

 sad goodbyes

 

2018 ITALY TOUR
Rome, Cupramontana, Ranica (Bergamo), Milan, Aviano, Venice, Sappada

And we're off! 

 Only when you get stuck in an airport in Detroit for several hours - or overnight - you put on a show!

ROME

 FLORENCE

Fun at the Uffizi, above, and the Duomo, below

CUPRAMONTANA - our first of four festivals!

 

 MILAN, DARLING, MILAN!

 RANICA/BERGAMO

 

We like to help clean up!

 Touring lovely Bergamo

The funicular was fun, but the pastries were FANTASTIC

 

 Thank you dear Ranica hosts!

AVIANO, the third festival

 

  

Singing at a mass
 

 Villa Manin

Piancavallo

 On the US Airforce Base in Aviano

 International Cuisine Night

 Pukana!

 Venice!!!

 Festival Life

 Every night a different, beautiful little town

We love our new friends from Uzbekistan, Russia, Serbia, New Zealand, Bulgaria, and of course Italy!

 Performing in a castle in Trieste!

 Team USA won the field games!

SAPPADA, in the Dolomite Alps

Indonesia Tour, August 10-30, 2016
Bali, Surabaya (Java), Tenggarong (Borneo)




 

FRANCE 2015!!!

Festival Folklorique de Rouergue and Festival de Confolens

2014 Idaho Summerfest

 Opening Ceremonies

 Playing cards at the Kelly's

Teaching the Russians partner tag at the Root Beer Float party at the Kelly's house.

 Youth Culture Day workshops at the high school - each team teaches their national dances and the kids perform them at the matinee.

 Parade and Street Fair performances

 Gala performances

 Closing Picnic at Smith Park - hula lessons!

 Katia, Masha and Vlad were some of our favorite Russians! Only Masha actually spoke English though.

 Aren't the Cambodians beautiful???

 The Russians wanted to learn clogging, so after the closing gala, we took them to our studio and taught them as much as they could handle - we danced until 2 AM with our new Russian best friends!

And yes, we cried when it was all over! :-(

2013 - Summerfest and Portugal

 Performing at Summerfest in Rexburg

PORTUGAL!

Castelo de St. Jorge

Lisbon

Pena Palace!!!

I love tile!

One couple of each nation planted a flowering tree of peace. Good work Jarom and Katherine!

Teaching the Virginia Reel to the lovely Indian ladies.

Rehearsal back at the school - tour is great fun but a lot of work!

 Putting up the chairs at the end of the show - an American Rhythm tradition!

 Our guides, Joana and Vitor

We love teaching workshops!

Beach day!

One of my favorite new friends, Mostapha from Egypt

Look at that lovely pavement! It was everywhere!

Vitor saying goodbye to "Monkey Poo"

 

 Our last night in Faro - we love our new Puerto Rican, Indian, Portuguese and Egyptian friends!

 

Viana do Castelo! 

 

The main square of Viana do Castelo, where the gala performances took place.

Viana do Castelo is right on the northwest coast of Portugal

My happy place in Portugal - swimming in the river with the crumbling ruins on one side and the diving board on the other.

Field day with the other teams (Slovenians, Lithuanians, Mexicans, Uruguayans, and Croatians)

Love the walking streets!

Closing ceremonies in Viana - who needs sleep? Not us!