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, but still up - 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:
Cambridge Folk Dance Club Database
Hugh Stewart's Dance Directory, listing Dances, Books & Recordings. The database is augmented by interested parties, like us, filling out the details of new & old material
Genni & Darren Grainger's new website - the source of folk dance books & CDs worldwide
Carrying on where Derek & Ann Appleing left off - supporting the community once the EFDSS shop closed. (The EFDSS outlet is still open, but has only re-releases of the Community Manuals & the associated CDs.)
Thanks to Colin Hume for the website
Thanks also to Barry Bullimore, who has gifted his library to the Folk Sales
His database of over 20,000 country dances & associated music
Newly supported online by Colin Hume
[Some of it is a database of moves within a dance rather than of the dance notations themselves]
The website hosts collections of dances & research material from:
Charles Bolton
Ken Sheffield
Ted Sanella
His website of his own dances, books & recordings; he also gives the music notation
Notations of new dances that he particularly likes, from other choreographers from around the world
Constructive thoughts about old dances, style and arrangements
All his own dances and books explained
Plus details of minor corrections
Nederlandse Volksdans Stichting
Cor Hogendijk's dances from his book: English or Double Dutch Volume II
The compilation of his dances
Plus thoughts on old dances style & arrangements
All her own early dances (unfortunately the website cannot be updated)
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)
English Folk Dance & Song Society (of England)
Cecil Sharp House is the EFDSS base for dancing, & it is the home of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, which holds much of the old music & dancing documents
This lovely manor house, set in the Quantocks, is dedicated to encouraging & preserving folk traditions.
Royal Scottish Country Dance Society (of Scotland)
Nederlandse Volksdans Stichting (the Dutch Folk-dance Foundation)
Predominately for Dutch, English, Scottish & American dances in holland
Cecil Sharp House in London
Halsway Manor nestled in the Quantocks