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Contradance Links
Contradance Links

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This page is under construction. It will eventually give links to contradance related pages. Click on the arrows next to the subject headings for links and descriptions about that subject.

Festivals

Soratane Festival

Miscellaneous

Dance Descriptions

Link Lists

Music Theory

Chord Encyclopedia for 1400 Fiddle Tunes, celtic bluegrass contra dance
Book on traditional contra dance and other music
Devachan Music - Community Room
Devachan Music. The online home of Mark Simos's musical life
Contra Dance Music: A Working Musician's Guide
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CD Vendors

Contra Music Style Index
Contracopia specializes in contra dance music. Here you will find CDs from contra dance bands from all over the United States. Search for CDs from your favorite band, or browse and find a new favorite.
Contracopia
Contra dance music CDs by contra dance bands from all over the United States. Search for CDs from your favorite band, or browse the amazing spectrum of music that is played at contra dances.
Other Great Music - Great Meadow Music
Contra dance music on CD or cassette from Great Meadow Music
Contra dance collection- Great Meadow Music
Contradance music on CD or cassette from Great Meadow Music
the Portland Collection Books and CDs
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Andy's Front Hall - Front Hall Cassettes
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Andy's Front Hall - Bill Spence Recordings
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CD Baby: VARIOUS ARTISTS: Face the Creek: a tribute to the Kimmswick Dance Weekends
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Face the Creek: a tribute to the Kimmswick Dance Weekends The music on this CD captures the true feeling of an old-timey barn dance or contra dance in a way that might be unique. Recorded live at an annual dance festival held in the woods of eastern Missouri, the tunes on this CD showcase some of the Midwest's finest contra- and square-dance musicians in a way seldom heard in recorded music: the tunes are played for not just for 3 or 4 minutes like you commonly hear on recordings of traditional music, but for as long as needed for the dance that was happening at the time. While you may get fewer tunes on this CD, you instead get musicians playing in a groove for a room filled with dancers. When the music is this good, you don't ever want it to stop. Think of the music played here as representing the true origin of jam-band music, or as an extended dance mix from 100 years ago! The Kimmswick Dance Weekend is organized in St. Louis and draws heavily on that city's local musical talent, but attracts musicians from across the region. On this CD, the musicians come from the states of Missouri, Illinois, and Kansas. "Old-timey" musicians featured on this CD include National Heritage Fellow Bob Holt, Matt Wyatt, The Flying Mules, Barbara Weathers, Billy Mathews, Jim Nelson, Jeff Miller, Dave Landreth, Rhys Jones, Steve Rosen, Geoff Seitz, Curtis Buckhannon, Euphoria Stringband, and Roger Diggle, among others, with an interlude of swing-dance music provided by the St. Louis band Crazy Rhythm.
Childgrove Country Dancers - CDs by local musicians
full length contra music

Individual CD's

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Caller Resources

Dance Rhapsody

Dance Rhapsody home page
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Dance Rhapsody Handouts
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Childgrove Country Dancers - Callers
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How to call Contras
How you can learn by yourself how to call Contra Dancing
Notes on Calling Contra Dances by Cary Ravitz
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Notes on Choreography for Duple Minor Improper Contra Dances by Cary Ravitz
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Essays
List of Dance Essays
From Mary Dart's "Contra Dance Choreography"
Ideal teaching and calling of contra dances
Basic Rules for Contra Dance
Short Introduction for Square Dancer to Contra Dancing
Contra Dance/Contradance Links for Callers
Contra Dance Links for the United States, Canada, and the World

Callers

Rich Goss: Contra Dance Caller
Rich Goss, Contra dance caller from Portland, Oregon
Childgrove Country Dancers - Callers
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CDML: Who's Who
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David Smukler's Home Page
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Ralph Sweet
Ralph Sweet, caller. Contra dance and square dance.

If you can walk, you can contradance...

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