Every year in autumn the folk festival “Oda Dibrane” is organized, the “guest room of Dibra”. This is a festival of several days with musicians, dancers and singers in groups or as individuals from what might be called the diaspora of Dibra: Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro and other countries. People from Dibra were spread all over the Balkan peninsula and into Turkey as they were craftsmen and traders during the Ottoman period. (The woodwork in the Sveti Sofia church in Skopje was made by craftsmen from Dibra). First of all there is the Valle dyshe Dibrane. A dance for two men as anywhere else in Albania, but with special footwork. The dancers perform intricate figures and may stand still or even dance on the knuckles of their toes. The Valle e Nuseve from the village of Sllova was registered by Zeki Kastrati and is adopted in Genc Kastrati’s program of traditional Albanian dances. The newly wedded brides come together and perform this dance. Their movements symbolize the showing of their presents to the villagers and thanking them by bringing their hand to the forehead , eyes to the ground. Another aspect is the sound of the çifteli. It has a deeper sound compared with the çifteli from other regions. Mr. Veli Vranici, director of the “Pallati i Kulturës” in Peshkopi, Dibra region explained the way the folklore is organized, preserved and shown in the Dibra region. The “Pallati i Kulturës” is the home of the Dibra Ensemble. The ensemble consists of local people from Peshkopi and the region around Peshkopi with older and younger people performing songs, music and dances. The ensemble presents a concert twice a year, the first one in May as a kind of try-out and a second one later in the year. The concerts are usually held in the “Pallati i Kulturës”. There also the costumes are stored, which are sometimes hired by couples for a wedding, which numbers increase year by year. This shows the interest of a younger generation in their own folklore. The most famous singer from Dibra is Vera Laçi.