FolkMADS offers small grants and scholarships to our members, to help defray the costs of attending workshops, camps, and other training for musicians, dancers, and callers. We are especially dedicated to helping encourage and develop youth participation in FolkMADS events, and offer this outreach program to members of all ages.

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FolkMADS also sponsors sister organizations with the similar vision and mission. For more info on grants, scholarships, and sponsorships, please contact us.

2016

• Sponsor at the Albuquerque Folk Festival
• Scholarship to members of rising new youth contra dance band to attend FolkMADness to learn from attending national bands.
• Grant to the Academy for Technology & the Classics (ATC) college prep charter school in Santa Fe to support workshop and concert by local American folk musicians to enhance study of New Mexican folk music.
• Grant to Academy of Technology & the Classics (ATC) college prep chart school in Santa Fe to support workshops and concert by local band, to expose students to Old-Time String Band music and inspiring them to learn traditional music.
• Grant to FolkMADS UNM Student Chapter to support dance hall space for monthly dances that expose students to contra dance and music.

2015

• Sponsor at the Albuquerque Folk Festival
• Grant to FolkMADS UNM Student Chapter to support dance hall space for monthly dances that expose students to contra dance and music.

2011

• Scholarship for a member to attend the Village Harmony summer camp to learn and bring back to the community a wider variety of traditional folk songs and build skills as a singing teacher and youth leader.
• Scholarship for a young member of the Santa Fe Megaband to attend Hummingbird Music Camp, to further develop skills as a musician.

2010

• Scholarship for a member to attend the Village Harmony summer camp to learn and bring back to the community a wider variety of traditional folk songs and build skills as a singing teacher and youth leader.
• Scholarship for one of our local callers to attend the Southeast Dance Leadership Conference to build skills as a dance community leader.
• Grant to acquire Lloyd Shaw dance materials for one of our callers to enhance dance leadership and teaching skills, especially for young audiences.

2009

• Scholarship for one of our local musicians to attend the Northern Week at Ashokan Fiddle and Dance Camp, to further develop skill as a musician and youth leader