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To the best of my knowledge, all these links are currently working and
pointing to the right places. If you find one that doesn't, or isn’t, let me know.
Other Dance Sites of Interest
- Bay Area Country Dance Society for a
schedule of dances throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and great dance
camps.
- An "unofficial" BACDS web
site with somewhat different information from that above.
- BACDS-Discuss is a mail list
for discussion. To subscribe to BACDS-Discuss, go here.
- BACDS-Announce is a one-way
mail list that gets copies of the weekly BACDS
calendar, notification of Bay Area dance schedule changes, special events
announcements, etc. To subscribe to BACDS-Announce, go here.
- Del's Dance Book,
a good research tool for old French, Italian, and English dance. List of
recommended books and recordings.
- Country
Dance and Song Society for a wealth of nationwide and worldwide
information on all forms of country dance, plus music, books, and camps.
- A list of dances throughout
California
- Foothill Country
Dancers, the sponsors of the Nevada
City and Auburn contra dances and the annual Fall
has Sprung dance.
- A set of contra dance links throughout
the U.S.,
a lengthy list of
musicians and bands with links, and a set of resources
(compositions, books, recordings, organizations).
- PEERS (Period Events and Entertainments
Re-creation Society) produces an interesting and diverse series of period
balls in the Bay Area.
- The Bay Area English
Regency Society produces period balls celebrating the spirit of the
early nineteenth century.
- Webfeet: dance in England
- NEFFA (New England Folk
Festival Association), organizer of an amazing festival. Great list of
performers, teachers, and info about them.
- The John Campbell Folk School offers
dance camps, a Dance Callers' Week, and a Contra Dance Musicians' Week.
- For geographic balance with
the North Bay,
the Santa Cruz/Monterey site
with a list of countrywide contra dance links within
it.
- A contra
dance page with tons of links to other sites for calendars,
recordings, etc.
- A glossary
of dance terms
- Renaissance dance
page with plenty of resources.
- rec.folk-dancing,
a Usenet newsgroup with frequent interesting contradance discussions.
- ECD@playford.slac.stanford.edu
is an English country dance discussion mail list. To subscribe, send mail
to here with
no subject line and the text SUBSCRIBE [your name here].
- Dance instruction
manuals (c. 1490 to 1920) from the Library of Congress.
- Video clips of
many dance styles, related to the above Library of Congress site.
- SCA Music and
Dance page with many links.
Music Sites of Interest
- The dotgals Web
page.
- The Contrabandits Web page.
- The Hillbillies from Mars
Web page.
- Folkweb.com, an "on-web folk CD
store and listening room." Plenty of recordings to listen to,
organized by category, and includes a search engine.
- Folkmusic.org, a "comprehensive
source for folk and acoustic music resources."
- The Bare Necessities
Home Page
- Upcoming concerts by the San Francisco
Scottish Fiddlers
- Atlantic Shore, a local Celtic
band.
- List of all sorts of concerts in the Bay Area
- A handy set of links of tune databases
of mostly British Isles music in various
formats
- Fiddler Magazine "with the aim of
providing an informative, educational, and entertaining resource for
fiddlers, accompanists, and appreciative listeners."
- A good set
of links to sites about all aspects of accordions, concertinas, and
other free-reed instruments.
- The San Francisco Folk Music Club
with a calendar of Bay Area music and dance events, reviews, and more.
- Suggestions
for playing for folk dance
- A searchable music
database with more than 1000 traditional British folk dance tunes
- Digital Tradition Folksong Database,
with over 6000 searchable tunes (it works!).
- A library of
Morris tunes.
Other Sites
- The Colonial Dancing Master
offers books and tapes of colonial America
and eighteenth-century England.
- Lark in the Morning, a music shop in
Mendocino, with a large selection of folk instruments, music, instruction
tapes, etc.
- House of Musical Traditions with
"instruments, accessories, recordings, and books from the U.S. and
around the world, specializing in rare and exotic music." Good source
of information on instruments, also some articles on various subjects.
- Learn Gaelic
on-line!
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