Texas International Folk Dancers' General Folk Links Page

On the Folk Arts and Folklore...

• New England Folk Festival Association. They have a large list of links -- nearly 2500 in June 2000, separated into categories like "Festivals" (80 links), "Folk Dancing" (1309 links), and "Organizations" (90 links). They also sponsor the annual NEFFA festival and publish a newsletter.
• Folk Dance Association web site. This is a site with a comprehensive listing of folk music and folk dance events and organizations around the country.
• The Folk Alliance, North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance, an umbrella organization supporting the folk arts in the U.S.
• Fox Valley Folklore links "Folk Music, Folk Dance, Folklore & Storytelling Resources Available On The Internet" Link categories include: Folk music by genre, Tune & lyric archives, Folk dance resources, Folk instrument info, Folk CDs and tapes, Schedules & playlists, The "business end" of folk music, list servers, and much more!
• The Folk Arts Center of New England.
• The East European Folklife Center (EEFC).
• The Smithsonian Institution's Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
• Northwest Folklife's web site. These are the people who put on the annual Northwest Folklife Festival in Seattle each year.
• Folkmusic.org, "the comprehensive source for folk and acoustic music resources on the World Wide Web".
• The Austin Music Web's list of music resources on the 'net.
• U.C.S.D. Music Library's World Music & Traditional Folk Music links.
• Lark in the Morning's Selection Of Interesting Information.
• Scandia Folkdance Society's Nordic surf links.
• Center for Traditional Bulgarian Arts and Crafts in conjunction with the Insitute for Folklore of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences provides information on issues concerning Bulgarian folklore and folklife.

(Folk) Dance

• International Folk Dancers of Ottowa has an amazing set of links for International Folk Dancing in The USA. Links for IFD in Canada, International, Contra dancing, Folk music and more are on their main links page.
• Bob Shapiro's Recreational Folk Dancing site includes an up-to-date (as of April 2002) list of where to dance in the US and overseas, folk dance notes, books, tapes, etc. Yea Bob!
• Henry Neeman's Dance Hotlist. Last updated 2000?, but WOW! Links for all kinds of dancing (except exotic), in the U.S. and international.
• Folk things has, among other things, a folk dance directory and a folk dance calendar.
• http://www.dancing.com pany, a highly dynamic all-purpose site for dance.
• Yahoo! has a Folk and Traditional Dance directory
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• The National and New England Swing Dance server.
• Bob's Contra page includes U.S. and Canada Dances by State/Province.
• The Dancy Gypsy. This site has a Festival Planner, listing major or special dance events throughout the U.S. and Canada. Also available: a calendar listing activities relevant to the New England dance community and the annual Dance Gypsy Summer Planner -- a comprehensive annual listing of dance-related festivals, dance weeks and weekends throughout the USA
• The International Folkdance Link Page has links to folkdancing around the world.
• Folkdance Animation Galleries. Animations of dancers dancing in costume... very nice.
• BalkanFolk.com, Balkan wallpaper, ring tones, MP3 downloads, more!
• Here's a site to find out about Israeli Folk Dancing locations.

Newsgroups

• rec.folk-dancing
• The rec.music newsgroups, including rec.music.afro-latin, rec.music.arabic, rec.music.brazilian, rec.music.celtic, rec.music.filipino, rec.music.folk, rec.music.indian.classical, rec.music.iranian, and rec.music.reggae.
• Culture: alt.culture, which has many newsgroups dealing with ethnic groups.
• A newsgroup for exotic music.
• alt.music.
• The soc.culture newsgroups, for just about any cultural group you can think of. Examples include soc.culture.albanian, soc.culture.bulgaria, soc.culture.costa-rica, soc.culture.greek, soc.culture.japan, soc.culture.kenya, soc.culture.mexican, soc.culture.pacific-island, and soc.culture.turkish, to name just a few.

Folk Music, radio shows, and concerts

• Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• World Folk Music Association
• WWW Folk Sites
• Balkanarama's list of Balkan bands outside the Balkans
• The Ceolas Celtic Music links (Irish music--good for what ails you...)
• The Hardanger Fiddle Association of America.
• Can't remember the lyrics to your favorite folk song? Try the Mudcat Cafe's Digital Tradition (Digitrad).
• the Czech Music folklore page.
• Archive of Hindi movide songs
• A homepage for Middle Eastern percussion.
• Speaking of which, here's the Turkish Music and Lyrics homepage.
• Cool world music programs: check out NPR'sThistle and Shamrock and PRI's Afropop Worldwide.
• UMass's WUMB Radio.
• Oddmusic.com, a collection of "non-standard" instruments...

Record Companies and music retailers

• Campfire Records (Texas folk music)
• Arhoolie Records (lots of conjunto, Tex-Mex, classic C/W, etc.)
• CD-NOW's World music collection.
• Interested in on-line music? Yahoo's list of digital distributors should be able to help.
• Looking for a guitar or other new instrument? Yahoo's Instruments and Equipment site is a good place to start.
• Lark in the Morning's catalog of world music recordings.

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