New Mexico Folk Music and Dance Society - FolkMADS!


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.

Hoku's FolkMADness 2009 Camp Rap
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FolkMADS Road-Trip Blog

FolkMADS on YouTube

Links to New Mexico Resources

Albuquerque Folk Festival

Albuquerque Square Dance Center

Albuquerque Swing & Country Dance Club

Irish American Society of Albuquerque

Merri's Folk eNews

New Mexico Rail Runner Express

SNMMDS (Southern New Mexico Music and Dance Society)

Southwest Traditional & Bluegrass Music Association (AKA Southwest Pickers)

Ongoing Events in New Mexico & Beyond

Non-FolkMADS activities we happen to know about (list of events)

¡Globalquerque! (September)

Klezmerquerque (February)

Music and Dance Groups in Neighboring States

Durango Contra Dances

Durango Bluegrass Meltdown

Colorado Friends of Old Time Music and Dance (CFOOTMAD)

AZ We Dance - Cottonwood, AZ (and Northern, AZ)

Four Corners Folk Festival - Pagosa Springs, CO

Stellar Days & Nights - Buena Vista, CO

Flagstaff Friends of Traditional Music

Phoenix Traditional Music and Dance

May Madness - Prescott, AZ

Prescott, AZ Contra Dance (Folk Happens)

Tucson Friends of Traditional Music (TFTM)

Utah Contradance Information Page

Austin Friends of Traditional Music

Assorted Web Resources

ABC Music Notation (everything you've ever wanted to know, plus links to software)

Country Dance and Song Society (CDSS)

CDSS-Affiliated Groups List

Ceolas (Celtic Music Resources)

Ted Crane's Dance Database

Contradancelinks.com

Dwayne Johnson's Contra Corners Map

Fasola Home Page

Folk Music - Index to Recorded Resources

The Fiddler's Companion (search titles alphabetically for lots of info)

Old Time Herald Online

Old Time Music Home Page

Michael Dyck's Contra Dance Index
(100's of Contra Dances by author, title, formation, etc.)

The Dance Gypsy

Centralia Old-Time Music Campout (Second Full Week in August)

Instrument Jokes! (occasionally offensive)

FolkMADness
Music & Dance Camp