Triple-X Trio
Triple-X has been a staple of the Belgian balfolk scene for years. In their trio lineup — featuring Bert Leemans, Björn Van Hove, and Jeroen Geerinck—the band delivers a powerful, groovy, yet delicate sound that instantly draws dancers to the floor.
With a successful blend of original compositions and reimagined traditional tunes, Triple-X combines musical virtuosity with pure joy of playing. Their repertoire ranges from high-energy jigs, schottisches, andros, suite gavottes, and hanter-dros to soulful polskas, mazurkas, and waltzes.
Since its founding in 2006, the band has performed at numerous European folk and balfolk festivals, thrilling audiences with its infectious energy, powerful melodies, and unmistakable groove. Whether for dancing or just listening—Triple-X Trio ensures an atmospheric and varied balfolk evening.
Bert Leemans – accordion
Björn Van Hove – fiddle
Jeroen Geerinck – guitar
TriBot
A newly formed band, holding inside all the national and international experiences that the three musicians gathered in the scene along the last decade.
TriBoT is the sum of the influences and sonorities gathered from different situation: from old Piedmontese ballrooms to big festivals, from circoli to rock stages, looking at new sonorities but with roots firmly on the Trad music.
Never stepping back or sleeping untill the morning, the TriBot!
Jacopo Ventura – guitar and stomp box
Lorenzo Prealoni – flute and pipes
Massimo Losito – accordion
Tersycore
Tersycore is a new Italian trio that brings a breath of fresh air to the European balfolk scene, blending tradition and avant-garde sounds, destined to become a reference point for the dancing communities of Montelago and beyond.
Striking a perfect balance between innovation, versatility and authenticity, the band, whose name evokes the young Muse of dance in classical mythology, is Italy's answer to the new wave of electronic balfolk projects from across the Alps, animated by French, Irish and Mediterranean melodies revisited with deep bass, immersive synths and infectious rhythms. On stage, vibrating strings, hypnotic reeds, pulsating sounds and magnetic energy create an irresistible musical journey in which groove meets folk dance, defining vigorous and emotionally rich soundscapes that draw you in to dance and never want to stop.
Jacopo Ventura – guitar
Dario Gisotti – flutes, Irish bagpipes
Andrea Sica – electronics and synthesizer
RadisnoiR
A piano-and-drums duo that explores the world of folk music and fills the dance floor with Caribbean rhythms, a pinch of pop, and a splash of jazz.
Their performance is energetic, tinged with pop and neo-soul sounds. The drums incorporate rhythms drawn from rock and Caribbean jazz. It’s a spicy mix softened by the two voices that paint a picture of a sunny, festive dance party. The lyrics capture the dancers’ attention and invite everyone to sing along.
The entire world of folk dancing you love, seen through a Creole and pop lens: a rich and sensitive fusion.
Patrick Chamblas – piano and vocals
François Collombon – drums, flute and vocals
TriOblique
In 2018, the melting pot of different cultures that is Genoa, brought together these three musicians over a shared love for Irish traditional music. Uniting their very different backgrounds, both geographically and musically, their own repertory to make people dance, came to be.
TriOblique’s music stays true to the rhythm and soul of the traditional Breton music, all the while experimenting with influences that range from hard rock to dance, and delicate fingerpicking to funk. The music of their first album, “Danse avec les renards”, traversed our continent, conquered stages big and small, creating thousands of smiles and even more wildly dancing feet.
Aurélien Congrega – Irish bouzouki and lead vocals
Susanna Roncallo – guitar and vocals
Dario Gisotti – Uillean pipe, Irish whistles, accordion and vocals
Valentin Barray
Since 2015, pianist Valentin Barray has been making dancers move at bals folk and festivals across
France and Europe. Playing his own compositions — sometimes from the very centre of the dance floor —
he turns the piano into the beating heart of the bal, where dancers circle and swirl as if celebrating around
a midsummer bonfire.
Blending the driving pulse of traditional dance with a rich, deeply emotional piano language, his music
carries dancers through waves of intensity, mystery and poetry. From calm and melancholic to veiled and
intense melodies, it often evokes the ocean — stirring passions or soothing them. Energetic or intimate,
nothing is missing: strength, dreams, magic and mystery, brought alive at the fingertips for the whole
length of a bal.
Valentin Barray – piano
Fravil
Why form a new quartet? Because something was missing: that shared sound that drives, carries, and makes music danceable — beyond genre labels, yet deeply rooted in the living tradition of Northwest European dance music.
The four musicians bring together experience, curiosity, and a joy of playing. They find their common ground where music flows directly into the body — with a rich groove, driving melodies, and a virtuoso interplay that sparks excitement.
The pieces are newly composed, reimagined from musical traditions, and bear their own distinctive style: energetic, transparent, and full of movement. No frills, no standing still. Fravil promises modern folk music that’s finding its own path and has so far managed to blow every audience away.
Marie Eberle – violin
Camilla Czempin – accordion
Pay Bandik Nonn – double bass and guitar
Melf Torge Nonn – clarinet, flutes and saxophone
Xenia Twarz
In her new solo program, “Baltics Meet Balfolk,” Xenia invites you to a dreamy balfolk experience — perfect for dancing and listening.
With her voice and the unique sound of the kokle (a traditional Latvian zither), she performs her own compositions and Baltic folklore that tell stories from her musical journey. In addition to melancholic mazurkas and lively circle dances, dancers can look forward to one or two dances from Latvia that are still unknown here.
Xenia Twarz – vocals, kokle and stomp pad
Wings & Tales
The band’s core formed during a jam session at a notorious student club in Dresden, where a few people shared a love for danceable folk music. It quickly became clear that a double bass was also needed. A bassist was invited from Berlin to join the session as soon as possible — and lo and behold, the band was born. A few weeks later, a wonderful violinist joined them, who mastered the band’s entire repertoire within a week. And with that, Wings & Tales was finally complete.
Fili – violin, vocals and overtone singing
Martin – guitar, vocals and frame drum
Niklas – double bass and vocals
Helena – flute and vocals
Folk Knock
Folk Knock is a Prague-based balfolk band, that was founded in 2024 in the midst of late sessions and bals, by multi-instrumentalist Emil Riumkin and chromatic accordion player Zoe Perrenoud.
Their first album "Lights of Prague" was released in January 2026, and since then duo has grown to trio and occasional quartet (involving saxophone, flute, clarinet and percussion).
Playing mostly original compositions of band members, the band brings good mood to the dance floor with highly energetic schottisches and circles, mellow and intimate mazurkas, meditative chain dances and some nice not so common balfolk dances, that are popular in Prague.
Zoe Perrenoud – chromatic accordion, piano and vocals
Emil Riumkin – flutes, banjo, guitar and stompbox
Dina Abramenko – clarinet
Anna Kurková – saxophone
Dancing Octopus
Selma & Anne will get you in the mood to dance: sometimes calm and intimate, sometimes lively and playful. Playing the violin, guitar, vocals, diatonic accordion, and more, they perform enchanting music — traditional tunes from France and Sweden, mixed with more modern songs and their own compositions. What’s important to them is connecting with the dancers and fostering a two-way exchange. And, of course, the French balfolk dances are peppered with polskor and slängpolskor.
Selma Emiroglu – violin, vocals, diatonic accordion and sansula
Anne Lüken – guitar, violin, vocals and drum
Marion & Steve
Marion and Steve play exclusively their own compositions, inspired by traditional European dance music with influences of other musical elements, in particular from classical music, jazz and musette. Their music offers a variety of sounds, attuned to the characteristics of the different dances, from quiet and romantic to rhythmic and upbeat. The melodies accompany the dancers into the world of emotions.
Marion Ludwig – accordion
Steve Ellis – clarinet, accordion and piano
Triaz
David, Jonathan, and Antonin met by happy coincidence in the Leipzig bal folk scene in the spring of 2025 and immediately realized that the combination of their instruments formed the perfect foundation for a band. As they search for their sound, they play a series of original compositions, complemented by traditional tunes and selected covers of other bal-folk musicians. Rhythmically complex yet clear, powerful yet sensitive, they create a sound and dance experience that brings them ever closer to their own unique style!
David – clarinet
Jonathan – accordion
Antonin – double bass
You!
Five days of music, from the beginning to the end, from the first up to the last floor. And you right in the middle of it all or only for you. Music and ensemble workshops will be awaiting you. Rehearsal rooms will want to be filled and fulfilled with the sound of your ideas.
Alas, take your flutes, hurdy gurdies and accordions, violins, guitars and pianos, rattles, boxes and spoons! Take your feet, hands and voices and make music! For you, for us, for everyone; from breakfast 'til session! :-)
