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, maintained by Mark Ohrenschall
• Colorado Contra Dance page --maintained by Jared Gottlieb, Colorado folk and contra dancer gone down under to Melbourne
• 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

Dance-National:

• Bob Stein's Contra Page --Directory of regular contradances in USA, listed by state.
• Bill Tomczak's contra page --Computer consultant, musician, & Contra dancer. Member of the New England Contra collective band: BLT
• 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
• Henry's Dance Hot List
• Contra Corners Links
• Ted Crane's Dance Database
• CID World Dance Directory

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
• 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

Dance Bands-National:

• KGB (King-Ginsburg-Bartley)
• George Marshall's Home Page! (for the unenlightened: he's the caller for the Wild Asparagus band)

Vintage/Ethnic/World Dance Books, Costumes, Etc.:

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

Music, Concert, and Event Listings:

• 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

Places to Buy Obscure Music Stuff on the Web:

• 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.
• Ultimate Band List --Information and links for lots and lots of bands across the country. Also has a good selection of CDs at great prices.CDs can be ordered on-line and some tracks can be heard with a RealAudio player.

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