CALUMET, MI – A new festival celebrating the Slavic roots of Michigan’s northernmost peninsula is coming in August with mouthwatering eats, cultural music and folk dancing.

The Slovenian Grape Festival is Sept. 26 at the ... Valencic will distribute a song sheet of Slovenian folk songs so those on hand can sing along ... polka bands draw hundreds to dance, ...

Individual Slovenian lodges cover the costs of a band at the dances, but membership is waning at lodges, Blatnik said. ... was revived in the 1930s as a folk dance in Austria, ...

This year, over 125 representatives from five counties came together to showcase their diverse cultures, including Slovenia, ...

Ingrid Slavec Gradišnik, Slovenian Folk Culture: Between Academic Knowledge and Public Display, Journal of Folklore Research, Vol. 47, No. 1-2, Special Double Issue: Ethnological Knowledges / Edited ...

For Frank Bucar, Slovenian music is the genre to beat. "The music is just so catchy and very melodic," Bucar said. Luckily Bucar will be able to catch his dose of live Slovenian pop-folk music ...