Listings, websites & whatever
More contra pages | Related dance forms in Colorado | Bordering states | International folkdance | Dance in general
More contra pages | Related dance forms in Colorado | Bordering states | International folkdance | Dance in general
- Events
- Rocky Mountain Ranch Dance, Colorado - dance camp, Martin Luther King weekend, 17-20 January 2020, Adventure Unlimited Ranch, near Buena Vista, website [05/19]
- Mountain MoonFest, Colorado, music and dance camp, two great weekends May & Sep, Harvest MoonFest & Planter's MoonFest in Gold Hill in the mountains near Boulder, May 17-19, 2019 & Sep 27-29, 2019 website [10/18]
- Desert Spring Contra, Arizona, April 26-28, 2019 website [10/18]
- FolkMADness Dance and Music Camp, Socorro New Mexico, Memorial Day Weekend May 24-27, 2019 website [10/18]
- Boo Camp, near Taos New Mexico (new venue), November 1-3, 2019, website. featured musicians are Rodney Sauer & Sandra Wong, and, the Cheap Shots [05/19]
- Wasatch Wiggle, Salt Lake City Utah, September 20-22, 2019 website [2/19]
- Dance in the Desert, Arizona, November, November 8-10, 2019 Dance camp website [05/19]
- Pilgrim's Progession, Kansas, November, November 15-17, 2019 Website [2/19]
- Rocky Mountain FiddleCamp, Colorado, August 4-11, 2019. Music camp with evening dances. website [2/19]
- Northwest Folklife festival in Seattle has one (of its many venues) for mostly contra dancing all Memorial day weekend
- NEFFA organises a huge festival in April near Boston
- CDSS Country Dance and Song Society
- Wild Asparagus is the country's most popular contra band
Related dance forms in Colorado
- Irish, Scottish and other Celtic dance in Colorado
- Lyons Old-time Square Dance with live music. American squares, reels, circle and couple dances. Beginner and experienced dancers of all ages. Beginners and kids are welcome. Enquiries: 303-827-6322 or [5/19]
- Lloyd Shaw was the father of modern American Square Dance. The LS Foundation is a great source for historical and current information.
- Colorado Round Dance Association CRDA.
- Colorado State Square Dance Association
- Colorado State Square Dance Festival website June 14-15, 2019 [8/18]
- Maroon Bells Morris Dancers (or older site)
- Elizabethan / Renaissance dancing
- Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) may offer Renaissance and early English Country Dancing - Kingdom of Outlands
- Idaho - Boise Contra Dance Society or Palouse Folklore Society Moscow
- New Mexico Folk Music and Dance Society folkmads.org (Albuquerque, Santa and Taos)
- Southern New Mexico Music & Dance Society SNMMDS (Las Cruces)
- Lincoln Nebraska: website
- utahcontra.org
- Arizona
Phoenix Traditional Music & Dance
Tucson Friends of Traditional Music
Both the above sites have info on other Arizona dance venues
- Boulder Dance Coalition - Boulder / Denver, formerly Village Arts Coalition
- The Alex Wilson Legacy Fund fosters folklife projects in the Boulder area
- Colorado Springs International Folkdancers website 1st, 3rd Sundays (and 5th) 7-9pm at the International Dance Club, 2422 Busch Avenue. Enquiries (719) 488-3926 [8/18]
- National Folk Organization
- New Mexico August Folk Dance Camp held on the campus of New Mexico Tech in Socorro organised by the Southwest International Folk Dance Institute
- rec.folk-dancing Google archive or as newsgroup
- CFOOTMAD organises waltz nights (as well as contra)
- Fort Collins Friends of Traditional Dance organises waltz nights (as well as contra) [8/18]
- Dance of Puerto Rico with Barrio-E [8/18]
- Colorado Friends of Cajun/Zydeco Dance and Music cfcz.org
- rec.arts.dance Google archive or as newsgroup
- FACC Filipino American Community of Colorado