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:

• www.folk-school.com "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.MississippiNights.com "The Music Club In St. Louis" features folk and modern perfomers
• www.geocities.com/squaredancestl/ for Saint Louis, MO and surrounding Square Dance activities
• www.FairFolk.org a Fairfield, Iowa complement to FolkFire
• www.StLouisGatewayStorytellers.org is useful for tellers of and listeners to stories in St. Louis.
• www.FolkDancing.org lists thousands of groups, articles, and other information.
• 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.
• The Donna Page, Cajun and Zydeco and this weeks St Louis dance events
• American Czech Educational Center (StL) - Calendar of Events
• Smithsonian's FolkLife
• St Louis' Highland Mist Scottish Country Dancers
• www.eefc.org A gypsy music web site
• www.gracefamilymusic.com/ The Grace Family Homepage Hear music samples, read their bio's and Current Schedule here
• String Dancer St. Louis' own hot group has their own page maintained by David Kirchner. Other useful St Louis Contra info linked here.
• St. Louis English Country Dancers
• the Central Illinois English Country Dancers Website
• 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
• Cape Girardeau, MO Contra Dance site
• Carbondale IL's dance site
• Urbana Country Dancers List Champaign/Urbana (Illinois) Dances etc.

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)
• Kirin Wagle's Contradance Home PageAnything you need to know about contradance.
• Louisville Country Dancers Check out Dwayne's 2001 page.


• Visit ContraDanceLinks.com for many more choices

• March: The Mississippi River Celtic Music Festival Page
• April: Southern Illinois Festival of Irish Music and Dance
• October: St. Louis Scottish Games
• FolkFire's Complete Event Calendar

• www.TangoStLouis.com
• www.SaintLouisSalsa.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.
• Lavolta Press a Professional San Francisco Vintage Troupe site

• www.1st-In-Harmonicas.com is a primary internet reseller of harmonicas and harmonica accessories, and a secondary internet reseller of other musical instruments and accessories
• www.tompipes.com The site for Tommy Martin, an Uillean Piper (Irish Bagpipes) who's moved from Ireland to St. Louis, where he teaches and performs his craft.
• Acoustic Edge a guide to St. Louis acoutic music broadcasts and venues
• MrTitanium.com for unique titanium jewelry and sculpture, website design, and link to the personal pages of the guy who been doing the FolkFire website since its origin in 1995.
• www.docfilm.com"E T H N O S C O P E" Multicultural Films & Videos for sale
• Dominic's Band Instruments, in Massachusetts
• Russ Anderson Homepage Contains album samples from this St Louis singer/songwriter

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