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New Mexico Folk Music & Dance Society • FolkMADS  

 
The New Mexico Folk Music and Dance Society - FolkMADS - is a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to promoting and teaching traditional music and dance. FolkMADS sponsors Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Taos contra dances, Megabands, concerts, camps, and other special events.

Band Pages (photos, info, schedules, etc.)

Albuquerque Area & East Mountains

Adobe Brothers

An eclectic group of identical quintuplets that play a wide variety of acoustic music including bluegrass, celtic, old timey, latin folk music, and western swing, a composite style they refer to as “international bluegrass.”

Albuquerque Megaband

Open band, plays for the third Saturday contradances in Albuquerque.  Click link to go to Megaband webpages.

Estrotones

5 Dog String Band

Hands Five

A string band playing Oldtime, "Newtime," Celtic, and Quebecois music for concert, contradance, and celebration.

Hey!

Old-time stringband; old tunes, new tunes, and a song or two.

Nabobs

Sandia Hots

Lively Southern Appalachian dance tunes and songs, cowboy and early 20th century swing numbers, songs and dance tunes from New Mexico, Mexico and Southern Arizona.

Virginia Creepers

Southern Appalachian stringband music. All old-time, all the time, since 1991!

 

Santa Fe & Los Alamos

Fast Pesos

A Santa Fe institution for over twenty years.

Hands Five

A string band playing Oldtime, "Newtime," Celtic, and Quebecois music for concert, contradance, and celebration.

Roaring Jelly

 

Silver City

Bayou Seco

Playing the music of the Southwest USA - from the Mississippi to the deserts of Arizona.

 

Alternate Universe

Peter White & the CloneTones

Strictly New-Age music.

 

 

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