Photo by Erin Phillips
Photo by Jane Phillips
Photo by Erin Phillips
Photo by Jane Phillips
Photo credit: Peter Esherick
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.

 

 

 

Use the FolkMADness link in the navigation column on the left
or click here.

 

 

 


The following events are not sponsored by FolkMADS
but may be of interest to our members:



Mad Robin Dance Series

4th Friday of each month
English Country and Couple Dancing

7:30 - 10:30 pm
at Lloyd Shaw Dance Center
5506 Coal Ave SE, Albuquerque

 


 

Taos Historic Dance
the dances 'that both Jane Austin and George Washington loved to dance'.

Free!

First Wednesdays of the month

7-8:30 pm

Instructors: Hope Buechler and Rebecca Hall
With live chamber music

38 Christina Garcia Ln
575-770-5259 for more info and directions

 


 

Irish Dance Master Coming in May

Tom Quinn, Dundalk, County Louth
will teach long, round, and 2-hand Irish Country dances on

Wednesday, May 16th and on Wednesday, May 23rd

at the the Edelweiss German American Club
4821 Menaul NE
7-9 pm, $3
wood floor, no partner, water provided.

Tom will also have workshops (free) at the Rio Grande Valley Celtic Festival
Saturday & Sunday, May 19th & 20th, both in mornings and afternoons.

Through the years, Tom has taught all forms of Irish dancing, made teaching
videos, wrote dance manuels, participated in many workshops/festivals in
Ireland, of course, but also in England, Germany, Belgium etc.

Norita Callahan 298-2708 (for add'l info)

 


 

Planning to be "back east" next Memorial Day weekend and can't make it to FolkMADness?
Check out this new event (click image for info):

 


 

Saturday, June 2, 2012

Click the watermelon to go to the ABQ Folk Festival website, and check out
this year's line-up, plus fun photos and videos from previous years.
New location this year, with camping allowed! Don't miss it!

 


 

Also happening that same weekend, sponsored by our neighbors to the north:

 

Click poster for more info.
Find them on Facebook: (Festival) (CROMA)


(And, yes! That's our own East Mountain Serenaders:
Jim Mullany, Rob Pine, and Jerry Page)


 

See the "Links" page for organizations and events in neighboring states.
Lots of stuff happening within 8 hours of ABQ/SF!