Welcome!
Hello, dear ones! This year, as always, the 7th New Year's Eve*Folk Festival will take place at Colditz Castle near Leipzig from the evening of 27th December 2025 to morning of 1st January 2026. A 5-day dance holiday including a place to sleep and good food. Top Balfolk bands are waiting to get you dancing and there will be no shortage of workshops either. What better way to start the new year than to dance the night away with friends and music?
News
♫ 16 August 2025
This website is slowly waking up from its long deep sleep and we are happy to welcome you to a new edition of our festival. The great bands playing for you this year are:
Accords Perdus, Alex & Stefan, Cosmopoly, Duo Plodocus, Emily & The Simons, Fyndus, Le Driadi, Marion und Steve, Mizu & Mizi, Poolidor und Rudemà
The pre-sale for the next edition starts on 31 August 2025, 8 pm.
This year's motto
Winter has arrived. Darkness creeps across the land, and we open the gates of our castle to dance-thirsty wanderers — for five nights of music and whispering, flickering, shimmering light.
As every year, we adorn the ancient walls with love and imagination, but this time, our theme leads us deep into the night:
„Fireflies & Goosebumps.“
Picture this:
The Colditz Forest cloaked in darkness, the soft chirping of crickets, the gentle glow of tiny light beings — and suddenly — a whisper in the wind, a rustle in the underbrush, and tiny tip-tapping steps making their way through the marvellous moss. Adorable castle ghosts sneak up on the forest creatures and begin to dance with the flying forest lights in the rosy-blue twilight.
On the final night, we invite you to become creatures of the night yourselves: luminous apparitions, fluttering dreamers, or eerily beautiful shadows.
Come in costume — mysterious, playful, ghostly or glowing — and dance with us until the last fireflies curl back into their many hidden resting places...
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