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Show Romanian (tainiGers to come World Folkfest July 5, 2000 - The Springville Herald - Page Three Marstisorul is based' in Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, located in the heart of Transylvania in northwest Romania. Roma-nia. Cluj-Napoca is the second most important university city in the country, following Bucharest and the folk ensemble Marstisorul includes students from the city's six universities. They will visit Springville for the World Folkfest. Folk-fest. The group performs many types of dances inspired from Scottish group at Folkfest This dance company comes to the Springville World Folkfest from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada, representing their Scottish legacy. Forrester's Cape Breton Scottish Dance Company has a vast repertoire which includes in-cludes highland, national, specially special-ly choreographed numbers, nautical nauti-cal and novelty dances. Ownerdirector Own-erdirector of the erouo and its dance school, Eileen (Pottie) Forrester, has taught for 35 years and won many awards and recognitions recog-nitions during her career. The dance company performs in approximately 50 shows a year and has traveled internationally to many world festivals. The company is often accompanied accom-panied by local musicians, including in-cluding members of the Regimental Regimen-tal Pipes and Drums of the Nova Scotia Highlanders. Two members mem-bers of the Nova Scotia Highlanders High-landers will play bagpipes for the dance group during its visit to Springville. The main costuming of the group is the Cape Breton Tartan kilts which they wear with pride. The other tartans used in their repertoire have strong significance signifi-cance and all colors have a special spe-cial meaning. The colors of the cape Breton Tartan are black (for the wealth of the cape's coal mines), gray (for Cape Breton steel), green (for the area's lofty mountains, valleys and fields), and gold for the golden sunsets shining bright on ke Bras D'Or, showing residents that God's hand has lingered to bless Cape Breton's shores). The Cape Breton Island Step Dance is recognized worldwide as being unique to Cape Breton. The early styles of step dancing featured solo dancing, but groups are becoming more and more involved in step dance as a team work. Step dancing has a strong impact on Cape Breton's cultural industry and tradition. Mew guidebook out At every twist and turn of the highways through Southeast Utah, the earth is exposed to depths of thousands of feet revealing re-vealing an infinite variety of forms and colors that change with the light of each passing hour. 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The dance program includes in-cludes a large variety of country dances, with the dances often dances in groups of eight, 10 or 12 pairs. Some dances feature shouting, although it may be only the men or only the women shouting, or a mixture of both. Instruments in ihe group's orchestra include the violin, clarinet, accordion, bassoon, double bass and whistle. The vocal singer's repertoire is a wide one, including songs from different differ-ent parts of Romania. The themes of the songs are inspired by life, nature and love. Many of the songs are played on Romanian television and radio. FolCtfest YicCcetts Tickets for the fifteenth annual annu-al Springville World Folkfest are now on sale at the Springville Chamber of Commerce office, 50 S. Main, and at the World Folkfest Folk-fest Kiosk located in the Provo Towne Center mall. Tickets can also be purchased at the door each night of the performances. Ticket prices are $8 for adults,: $7 for senior citizens and $3 for children under 12. Group rates are available. Tickets can be purchased by phone or mail also. For ticket information, call 489-3657 489-3657 or 489-2726 between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. The World Folkfest mailing address is P.O. Box 306, Springville, Utah 84663. Those attending the festival are reminded that they can come early and purchase dinner from one of the many vendors who will be there this year. They can also purchase souvenirs from visiting folk groups. There are chairs and bleachers at the festival site, but many enjoy' bringing their own lawn chairs or blankets to sit on. The Folkfest has grown each year to be the biggest in the United States. At performances starting Sat. there will be seven countries represented in addition to' one from "fiie USA. The work is continuing this week to ready the festival site, finish housing the guests and see that they all get here safely and on time. Visa problems are part of planning event by Aaron Huff Each year, Springville World Folkfest directors make sure they get an early start in sending their invitations to performance groups around the world. Finding performance groups who want to come to Springville from India, Russia, China and many other countries is the easy part. Getting them here, however, howev-er, requires months of waiting for visa approvals, sponsorships and even a few miracles. "Getting the visas have always been a major problem," said Teddy Anderson, general director of the Folkfest. "You have to allow for delays." In addition to expecting visa delays, directors have grown accustomed to visa denials. This year, performers from the Ukraine and from several republics repub-lics of the former Soviet Union had their visa applications turned down. Unexpected political and economic circumstances are the reasons several groups are not able to attend this year's Folkfest. Folk-fest. The U.S. Embassy in Romania Roma-nia denied visas to a group of Romanian performers because the country is currendy having an election, Anderson said. Another unexpected circumstance circum-stance is the recent downturn in the European economy, making sponsors hard to find. The airfare to send a group of performers from Europe to Springville costs $15,000 to $20,000, Anderson said. As a result of die troubled European economy, three European Euro-pean groups are no longer able to come. The directors of the Folkfest seem to know by now that changes chang-es and cancellations of groups can happen at any time during the planning process. This year is no exception. Not long ago, the Folkfest directors were planning on 15 groups attending this year's event before two group dropped out, leaving them with 13 groups just one week ago. In the past week, three groups dropped out because of problems such as visa and financial setbacks, said Newman, the assistant director of the Folkfest. Folk-fest. Another group from India cancelled because their director recently died, leaving ten groups. Directors are still waiting to hear from China and the Ukraine, with the first performance just over a week away, she said. "That's just the nature of folk festivals. Every year it's a new adventure," she said. Newman has been involved in the Springville Spring-ville World Folkfest since it began 15 years ago, and has traveled to other countries as a folk dancer with an American group. Despite the challenges and disappointments that happen every year, the Springville World Folkfest has evolved into one of the largest folk dance festivals in the United States. Only three other events in the United States and Canada are comparable to Springville's festival, Anderson said. Thoujh some circumstances remain beyond the directors' control, such as foreign politics, the Folkfest directors are artfully developing the Arts Park and stage, hoping that the Springville World Folkfest will continue for many years. This year's festival will have more bleachers and an addition has been put on the stage to cover and protect the sound equipment. There is also a new pavilion and more grass area at the park. "We're continually working to improve it," Anderson said. Pick Your Potter Day! Story time witk Caralyn & Mark Buekner Tkis Saturday from 2 until 4 Hie Buehners wrote and illustrated Fanny's Dream, It's a Spam, Not a Shovel and many other happy hooks. Mark also illustrated Harvey Potter's Balloon Farml Pre-order Goblet oi Fire Harry Potter 4 Before July 8th and Save 20 As far as we can tell, though you can never he too sure about things in the world of hooks, Harvey Potter is no relation to Harry Potter. 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