

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: DownEast Country Dance Festival 2025
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 28 Mar, 2025 at 07:30 pm – Sat, 29 Mar, 2025 at 11:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us for the full two-day version of the festival on Saturday March 28 and Sunday March 29 2025!

2025  Headliners:

• River Road with caller Rick Mohr both nights!
• Franklin County Fiddlers with Chrissy Fowler calling on Friday evening
• Pineland Fiddlers with Maggie Robinson calling on Saturday

The DownEast Country Dance Festival (DECDF) is an annual celebration of traditional dance and music in Maine. At the festival you can:
• Dance! contra, folk, swing, …
• Attend workshops and family activities! dancing, instrumental, singing, and more
• Perform! jam sessions and festival orchestra
• Enjoy performances! in the auditorium, the bistro, and more @ Mt Ararat Middle School

Sunday there is a  Survivor's Dance (Mar 30) @ Topsham Grange with River Road and Rick Mohr. This is a separate event/ticket from the festival on Friday/Saturday. 

Volunteer applications and online ticket sales will begin Feb 15.

Full event overview,  including schedule updates (when available) : https://deffa.org/festival/ 

Advance Tickets: https://deffa.org/buy-festival-tickets/

Volunteer Applications: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfxMMea6U9EnXaMaCMoifilvrJR8fVicZ0kN4KGgXxFbXYU3w/viewform

Draft Schedule: https://deffa.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Schedule-Grid-2.11.25.pdf

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COVID POLICY:

Participation in the Downeast Country Dance Festival includes risk of exposure to and illness from infectious diseases including but not limited to COVID-19. Attendance is at your own risk.

For the 2025 DECDF Festival, vaccination and masking are optional.

The current CDC guidelines for COVID-19 are available here:  https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2024/p0301-respiratory-virus.html

Please respect everyone’s personal choice to mask or not mask.

Symptoms or Testing Positive: If you feel unwell at all, have a positive COVID test result, or have had COVID very recently (with a positive test or symptoms beginning less than 5 days ago), please do not attend DECDF.  We’ll have another Festival next year and would love to see you then!
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/topsham/downeast-country-dance-festival-2025/200027889030800
- **Event Categories**: festivals, workshops, music, entertainment
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 169

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://deffa.org/buy-festival-tickets/?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=topsham-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Topsham
- **state**: ME
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Mt Ararat Middle School
- **lat**: 43.947690723389
- **long**: -69.965798243077
- **full address**: Mt Ararat Middle School, 66 Republic Ave, Topsham, ME 04086-1136, United States,Topsham, Maine

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: DownEast Friends of the Folk Arts (DEFFA) (https://allevents.in/org/downeast-friends-of-the-folk-arts-deffa/6333568)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Fri, 28 Mar, 2025 at 07:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Mt Ararat Middle School, 66 Republic Ave, Topsham, ME 04086-1136, United States,Topsham, Maine
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** DownEast Friends of the Folk Arts (DEFFA)
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** festivals, workshops, music, entertainment
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about DownEast Country Dance Festival 2025 ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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