Fun Dance and Music Sites

Looking for more information about your favorite dance? Getting ready to travel to another city and want to know where to got to dance or listen to music there? How about information about finding vintage albums for sale? Whatever your dance or music needs, chances are that there’s a web site with the information you need. Here are some links to get you started:

• FolkSchoolStL.org "The mission of the Folk School of St. Louis is to build community by providing educational programs that promote the learning, teaching, renewal, and perpetuation of traditional music and folk arts"
• www.FairFolk.org a Fairfield, Iowa complement to FolkFire
• www.folk.org North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance (aka: FolkAlliance)
• www.musicfolk.com St. Louis' Folk music, instruments, books, etc supplier.
• Visit the Augusta Heritage Center for their event schedules in West Virginia
• The Folk Alliance See our article What is the Folk Alliance, Anyway?
• St Louis Focal Point Here's the article we ran about them in Jan 1999.
• Smithsonian's FolkLife
• www.gracefamilymusic.com/ The Grace Family Homepage Hear music samples, read their bio's and Current Schedule here
• St. Louis English Country Dancers
• KDHX FM 88.1 St Louis Community Radio with listings and sounds.
www.folkmusic.org/ offers information about artists and venues, resources for musicians and lists pointers to other folk-related World Wide Web and Internet information.
• Brave Combo Home Page Contains the band’s itinerary, information about the band and how to contact them.

St Louis region (Missouri/Illinois)
• Childgrove Country Dancers St Louis' Contra dancers
• Carbondale IL's dance site

Farther afield

• www.thedancegypsy.com focuses on New England, but has other info, as well.
• Goshen Community Contra Dancing Goshen,IN Old Time Dancing
• The Indianapolis Contradancers
• The Folk Project (New Jersey)
• The Chicago Barn Dance Company. This is a site covering the Chicago Area.
• Central Iowa Barndance
• C D S S Homepage The Country Dance and Song Society's (New England) own source and resource
• The Lloyd Shaw Foundation in the rockies (with a good bibliography page)
  
• Visit ContraDanceLinks.com for many more choices

• www.TangoStLouis.com
• St Louis Salsa and Salsa Power
• Flying Cloud Vintage Dance Society in Cincinnati. American Vintage dance. Good web site.
• Strictly Ballroom Site Contains East Coast Ballroom dance information and some interesting articles.

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