Dance-Front Range:

• CFOOTMAD web page --Colorado Friends Of Oldtime Music and Dance
• Boulder, Colorado Planter's Moon and Harvest Moon Festivals --Summer and Fall dancing extravaganzas
• Colorado Friends of Cajun/Zydeco Music and Dance--maintained by Elli
• The Jumpin' JiveCats --Swing dances, classes, and performances in Fort Collins
• Swing Colorado --Swing dance information for Denver
• Storm Mountain Folk Dancers --An international folk dancing performance and teaching troupe homegrown in Fort Collins, Colorado
• Argentine Tango --Tom Stermitz and Amy Beaudet teach Tango in Fort Collins and Denver

Dance-National:

• What Is Contra Dance? --Explained by Gary D. Shapiro
• Country Dance and Song Society (CDSS) --National society for our kinds of dances and music
• The Dance Gypsy--A website to complement the printed Dance Gypsy national event schedule and information, maintatined by Greg Scragg
• Dancing Across the USA -- lists dances by state, maintained in Boston
• Kiran Wagle's contra dance page
• Sapphire Swan Dance Directory
• New England Folk Festival Association
• Contra Corners Links
• Ted Crane's Dance Database

Dance Bands-Front Range:

• Balance and Swing --One of FoTD's contradance mainstays and the Lakewood Zesty Contra regulars: John (keyboards) & Susan (fiddle) Reading and Tina (hamer dulcimer) Gugeler
• Mont Alto Ragtime and Tango Orchestra --The preeminent Front Range Tea Dance and Paupers Ball orchestra, directed by Rodney Sauer

Music, Concert, and Event Listings:

• The Lincoln Center --Concerts and events in Fort Collins
• CBMS Home Page --The Colorado Bluegrass Music Society
• Planet Bluegrass! --Producers of fine music festivals in Colorado like The Telluride Bluegrass Festival, RockyGrass and the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival.
• Arkansas Valley Music And Dance -- music and dance events in Salida & Buena Vista; host of Stellar Days and Nights
• Colorado SCENE Calendar --Info for the Northern Front Range and Southeastern Wyoming
• Village Arts Coalition -- a non-profit organization — a coalition of groups and individuals — dedicated to promoting folk arts along the Front Range, Colorado area
• radio station -- based in Fort Collins, CO

Places to Buy Obscure Music Stuff on the Web:

• Cdbaby This is where you will find contra dance music CDs from all over the United States. They have samples so you can check out new music that you have never heard of before and find something that'll make you wonder how you ever got along without it! Full on-line ordering with shopping carts and secure credit card transactions.
• Elderly Instruments --Mail-Order music store in Lansing, MI. Elderly has just about the best selection of folk, bluegrass, and eclectic music I have ever found. I've been ordering from them since long before they put their catalog on the web. Their prices on CDs are just about unbeatable. Elderly also has instruments and accessories (strings, picks, rosin, etc.), songbooks, and all them other things that musicians need..

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