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Dance & Music Links

Dance-Front Range:

Fort Collins Dance Directory -- all types of dance hosted in the Fort Collins area
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
Tango In Colorado
Storm Mountain Folk Dancers --An international folk dancing performance and teaching troupe homegrown in Fort Collins, Colorado

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

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
Halden Woffard and the Hi Beams --Denver-based and dedicated to the performance of Pure-D, Grade-A Honky-Tonk Country Music
High on the Hog--Olde Tyme string band from Nederland

Lavolta Press --Books on historic costuming and vintage clothes, including dance wear (sewing patterns).
The Squirrel Hill Press

The Lincoln Center --Concerts and events in Fort Collins
Dirty Linen "Concerts in Colorado" --Concert listings from the Dirty Linen Folk and World Music monthly magazine
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
Mishawaka ampitheater concert schedule and more --Mishawaka is north of Fort Collins, up the Poudre Canyon. Great place for concerts.
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

Contracopia --I just came across this one. They have all the strange (and not so strange) contra dance contra bands (not to be confused with contraband). This is where you will find contra dance music CDs from all over the United States. They have Real Audio and MP2 samples so you can check out new music that you have never heard of before and find something you wonder how you ever got along without! 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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