International Folk Dance Festival

Every year, our town hosts the International Folk Dance Festival. Many different countries are represented as natives fly here and demonstrate part of their culture through dance. These dancers stay with volunteers around town and travel to different parts of Eastern ID to perform. The festivities begin with an opening ceremony, then there is a parade where all the participating countries dance through the streets, evening performances, and a closing ceremony. Last year, Annabelle and I went to the parade and I was amazed at all the countries that were here. I think there were about 15 countries. It was awesome to watch. This year had a very poor showing, only 3 countries coming. Anyway, it was still fun to watch the parade. Before it started, the crowd was entertained by a jump roping group that won some national awards. This video shows some of the jump roping followed by a short clip of the countries, with our own wonderful USA being last to go.