Bournemouth
Folk Dance Club
Links to Folk Dance web sites:
- Local & UK Folk Events Diaries
- Sources of Folk Dances
- Folk Dance Organisations
Local & UK Folk Events Diaries:
Somerset and Dorset Folk Events Diary
The Local events & diary
Inactive - rumoured to be taken over by EFDSS
The directory of open folk activities throughout the UK
Folk Dancing of all types, Cajun, Contra, Ceilidh etc
Mapped by county
Current news
Sources of Folk Dances new & old:
His database of over 20,000 country dances & associated music
Including a Barn Dance Repertoire
Newly supported online by Colin Hume
[Some of it is a database of moves within a dance rather than of the dance notes themselves]
His website of his own dances, & books
Constructive thoughts about old dances, style and arrangements
Hugh Stewart's Dance, Tune & Book Directory
Genni & Darren Granger's new website - the source of folk dance books & CDs worldwide
Carrying on where Derek & Appleing left off - supporting the community once the EFDSS shop closed
Thanks to Colin Hume
All his own dances and books
Plus details of minor book corrections
The compilation of his dances
Plus thoughts on old dances style & arrangements
Nederlandse Volksdans Stichting
The website for the Dutch Folk-dance Foundation, who dance predominately English, Scottish & American dances.
It is also the location for Cor Hogendijk's dances from the book: English or Double Dutch Volume II.
All her own dances
Thomas Green's A Barn Dance Repertoire
His database of circa 150 barn dances
Calling cards & information about the music
Again supported & commented by Colin Hume
Sponsored by CDSS
Folk Dance Organisations:
Country Dance & Song Society (of America)
The website for the Charles Bolton Library
English Folk Dance & Song Society (of England)
Cecil Sharp House - the home of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library
This lovely manor house, set in the Quantocks, is dedicated to encouraging & preserving folk traditions.
Royal Scottish Country Dance Society (of Scotland)
Cecil Sharp House in London
Halsway Manor nestled in the Quantocks