Contra Dance SitesTraditional MusicContra BandsEmail discussion listsUsenet
Contra Dance Sites
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| "Youth Flock to Contra Dance" | Transcript of a 2010 NPR story on Contra Dancing. |
| Community Dance Project | the brainchild of Vancouvarian, Marian Rose. Marian does a heck of a job bringing country dance to schools throughout British Columbia (and the rest of North America as well!) |
| Contra Corners | A dance directory site which includes a clickable map of the US that will point you to other dance sites by locality. Produced by Dwayne Johnson. |
| Contra Dance Designer | Greg Hopkins’ way-cool computer-simulation game where you can design your own contra dance. It won’t run on every browser. |
| Contra Dance Links for the United States, Canada, and the World | Contra Dance Links for the United States, Canada, and the World |
| Country Dance and Song Society | "…continuing the traditions, linking those who love them" |
| Internet resources for contra dance callers | Internet resources for contra dance callers |
| Northwest Folklife Festival | …an amazing event which happens every year at Seattle Center over Memorial Day weekend. There are literally thousands of musical groups of all shapes, sizes and styles, and participatory dancing all weekend, great food, and much revelry. Not to be missed! |
| The Dance Database | is an incredibly comprehensive searchable data base of nationwide dances, bands, callers, and the occasional set of dance figures maintained by Ithaca NY caller, Ted Crane. Use this site to plan your next cross-country dance tour. |
| What is Contra Dance? | Click on this link and find out! Authored by Santa Barbara contra-enthusiast, Gary Shapiro. |
Traditional Music
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| Festival of American Fiddle Tunes | in Port Townsend, WA. 2011 marked its 35th year. Held during the week surrounding July 4th, the festival features intensive workshops in a wide variety of North American traditional music styles, evening concerts (open to the general public on the weekend |
| Floyd's Record Shop | This shop in Ville Platte Louisiana is THE definitive record store for Cajun, Zydeco and Swamp Pop music. |
| Old Time Music from 78s. | This is an AMAZING site which contains Real Audio samples from hundreds of the most important recordings of Old Time Music from the 20s and 30s. A MUST-VISIT site!!!!! |
| Roots of American Fiddle Music | is dedicated to old-time fiddle. Lots of bios and sound samples from many of the fine old-time string bands of the 20′s and 30′s. |
| The Old-Time Music Homepage | This is a remarkably thorough resource relating to the fiddle music of the Southern Appalachians. Maintained by David Lynch. |
| Thirty Below | brrr!!!…is a web resource and webstore devoted to the traditional music of Quebec. Maintained by Guy Bouchard and Laura Sadowsky |
Bands
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Description
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| Contra Sutra | "May all beings be free to dance to the most melodious and rhythmically funky Contra Sutra." | |
| Perpetual e-motion | The "propulsive, passionate, progressive" duo Ed Howe and John Coté | |
| Wild Asparagus | "Wild Asparagus takes an original approach to the traditional dance music of our folk heritage… drawing on m usic from New England, the British Isles, and Canada, as well as classical sources" |
Email-based discussion groups
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| Contra Sound Forum | is a yahoo discussion group relating to the arcane art of providing sound reinforcement at contra dances. | |
| FIDDLE-L | is an email discussion list relating to many aspects of fiddle music. Everything from old-time to Celtic to Swing is fair game for discussion as long as it can be played with a bow on 4 strings. | |
| SeattleContra | A yahoo group for Seattle Contradance |
USENET newsgroups
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| alt.culture.cajun. | alt.culture.cajun. | |
| news:rec.folk-dancing | ||
| rec.music.country.old-time | rec.music.country.old-time | |
| rec.music.makers.squeezebox. | rec.music.makers.squeezebox. |