Folk Dance Resources

Folk Dance Notes, Videos, Music, Lyrics, & Stuff Like That:

Go-To’s for Choreography:

• Andrew Carnie’s Folk Dance Instructions & Musings Ever-expanding listing of IFD dances: choreography & sample videos
• Folk Dance Federation of California, South, Inc. (Dances page/Dance Notes) Dick Oakes’ extensive PDF collection of choreography notes now lives here.
• Don Buskirk’s Folkdance Footnotes Notes, lyrics, music, culture, history
• The Society of Folk Dance Historians (SFDH) Pioneers in IFD in the USA

Also Great:

• Folk Dance Federation of California, North
• Bob Shapiro’s Folk Dance Notes Classis from the early days of HTML. No longer maintained, but still useful.
• Dick Oakes’ Phantom Ranch International Folk Dancing (most IFD stuff moved to FDFC, South
• Evansville International Folk Dancers
• Dunav Balkan Folk Dance Videos, Music, & Lyrics (Jerusalem, Israel)
• Stockton Folk Dance Camp
  • Stockton Folk Dance Camp videos on YouTube. You have to find videos on the Stockton page and click the link on to YouTube. The videos are not indexed on YouTube!
• Surrey International Folk Dancers
• Horo.bg Folk Dance video, music, songs, costumes, and more. (Bulgaria)
• The Alien Diaries – Adventures in Balkan Music and Folklore
• National Folk Organization (NFO)
• International Folk Dancers Ottawa YouTube links 
• Folk Dance Videos on Pintrest
• East European Folklife Center (EEFC) Host of Balkan Music and Dance Camp and more…
• Israeli Dances.com – Site for Israeli dance choreography and music information with a shop and much more
• Hakesher Online Israeli Folk Dance – Index to many Israeli dances on YouTube
• Dancilla – This site brings dances from around the world with a focus on folk dances that are danced in Austria and Germany. (in German with translation options)
• Danzas del Mundo in Spanish, but has links to videos and music.
• The Eliznik pages – Traditional dance, music and costume (UK)
• Folk Arts Center of New England (FAC) – Dances, workshops (live & streaming), music

Lyrics

• MIT Folk Dance Club Songbook
• Macedonian Song Words, compiled by Dick Oakes (Folk Dance Federation of California, South, Inc.)

Folk Dancing Groups on the Front Range:

• Boulder International Folk Dancers (BIFD)
  • Fridays, 7:30-11:00 PM, Sodal Hall at the Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, CO
• Denver Area Folk Dancers (DAFD)
  • Most Thursday evenings, 7:00-10:30 PM in the Fellowship hall of the Warren Church on the southeast corner of E. 14th Ave and Gilpin Street in Denver
• Boulder Israeli Dance (BID)
  • Sunday nights from 7:00-10 PM at the Avalon in Sodal Hall
• Denver Israeli Dance
  • Wednesday evenings 7:00-10:00 PM HEA, 3600 S. Ivanhoe, Denver
• International Folk Dancing Colorado Springs (IFDCS)
• The Boulder Dance Coalition (BDC)
  • Information on all kinds of dance groups in Boulder and across the Front Range

Other Dancing Groups on the Front Range:

• Friends of Traditional Dance (FoTD, Fort Collins, Contradance)
• Colorado Friends of Old Time Music and Dance (CFOOTMAD, Contradance)

Eastern European Music Groups on the Front Range:

• Planina: Songs of Eastern Europe
• Sherefe: Music from the Balkans and Middle East, in Boulder Colorado