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Below are links that might be of interest. Note, member web sites
are not shown on this page but are shown under each member's entry on
the
Member List page
www.dosado.com - A site where you can buy square and round
dance music, books, amplification equipment and more. As of December
2015 they are only selling MP3 music on line. Buy Square Dance Music On-line - This page provides links to
all known web sites where you can buy square dance music on line.
Usually you can listen to a little of the music. Most files are MP3
files and are usually delivered immediately. Payment is usually by
PayPal.Inexpensive music - Starting in 2017 Lloyd Shaw music can be purchased at their
Bandcamp store
for $1.50 a tune with instant download. Also Buddy Weaver has $.99 hoedowns at his Rawhide site. Square Dance History YouTube Channel - This channel
showcases videos of historic square dances. The ones shot at the "Dare
To Be Square" dance in November 2011, at the John C. Campbell Folk
School, Brasstown, NC provide great examples of traditional square
dances that can be used at square dance partys. The callers are
experts, the tunes used are usually specified, and in some cases the
teaching of the dance has been videoed as well as the dance itself. The
quality is very good with multiple cameras used in some cases. It is
easy for a caller to learn a dance they have never done or one they have
only read about in a book. Find old record information This advanced search page at the
University of New Hampshire allows you to search for information about
recorded square dance tunes, and callers, or record companies. If you
put the tune's title in the "track" box it will show all the records in
their collection featuring that tune. Put in the "Artist" and you will
see all the records in their collection by that artist. Since their
collection is extensive you get a good selection.
You 2 Can Dance A web site started in 2010 by ARTS Promoting
Square, Round and Contra dancing. Helps people find dances and callers,
cuers, and prompters in their area of the US. Perry's Place is a store in Kentucky which has many of the
out-of-print records both square dance and round dance. They buy
collections of records on Ebay and also sell bunches of records on Ebay.
If you call (859-553-2495) or email them, however, they can search out
records you need. Used records are $3.00, new records $6.50, new
Royal's are $7.00, plus shipping as of January 2014. Their email is
orders@perrysplace.com
. United States Callers Associations - This is a page listing
United States
callers associations by state with their web sites where applicable.
There is also a short list of umbrella callers organizations. www.callerlab.org - The site of the international Association
of Square Dance Callers which holds (among other things) the widely
accepted lists of calls that are in the Mainstream, Plus, A-1, A-2, C-1,
C-2 and C-3A square dance programs. www.ceder.net/ - Vic and Debbie Ceder's Square Dance Resource
Net. This site has many valuable pages including lists of singing and
patter calls, which callers and record companies recorded them, and cue
sheets to replace those that have been lost. www.americancallers.com - The web site of the American
Callers Association which contains, among other things, the list of
calls in their "1"floor program. Lloyd Shaw Foundation - This site has a catalog of
Foundation music which contains contra dances, square dances, and folk
dances. Starting in 2017 Lloyd Shaw music can be purchased at their
Bandcamp store
for $1.50 a tune with instant download. Also by clicking on the tunes
on their web site page you can see the cue sheets for most of the music. The Square Dance History Project - This site, in a museum
multimedia format, offers a detailed discussion of the development of
the square dance. There are videos (modern and historic), audios, and
pointers to historic square dance publications. Square Dance Live Recordings - Courtesy of Square Dance
Foundation of New England and the Square Dance History Project,
recordings of many hours of Modern Western Square dancing is available
on the Internet Archive. Jim Mayo and Johnny Wedge digitized tape
recordings donated to the SDFNE and David Millstone of the SDHP
uploaded them to the Internet Archive. A partial index to these
recordings which can be sorted by artist and tune is provided at the
Internet Archive Square Dance Tapes Index.
A second more compact index by tape tape number where information for each tape can be expanded is at
Expand Internet Archive Square Dance Tapes Index Kentucky Dance Foundation - The Kentucky Dance Foundation no
longer seems to have a web site and this link points to a 2009 copy of
the website kept on the Wayback Machine. The foundation is the home of
Michael and Mary Herman's Folk Dancer records of which there are 28,400
different tunes. Many of these appear on the 63 CDs in their
catalog (of which this is a 2009 copy)
and many are on sale individually when available. In some cases music
not already on CD but in their archive can be made available on special
CDs. If you want folk dance music or music for traditional square
dances this is the site to visit. You may still be able to reach the
Foundation at 6290 Olin Road, Brandenburg, Kentucky 40108 or by email at
FDRC@aol.com. Another contact is the
Kentucky Dance Institute
at 4207 Woodmont Park Ln, Louisville, KY 40245, 502-243-2256.Many of the Michael Herman records can be heard at the
Internet Archive International Folk Dance Site.
http://www.d4bp.com/ - Dancing For Busy People, (authors
Calvin Campbell - Ken Kernen - Bob Howell) This is the web site of the
Country Dance Program. Site has lots of material for squares and other
dances using the 25 basic calls of the Country Dance Program. www.usda.org - United Square Dancers of America, the "only
national dancer's association organized by dancers for dancers and
operated by dancers". www.round-dance.de - German round dance server containing cue sheets to many round dances. www.kickit.to/ld/ - The KickIt line dance site. Contains
line dance step sheets to a large number of line dances as well as
surveys of popular line dances. Old Songs - Music With Roots -
A website about traditional dancing and old time songs for groups based
in the Albany, NY area. Some performers provide live music and even old
time calling for traditional square dancing. Australian Square Dancing - This web site has information about the development of square dancing in Australia with some sound clips.
Sets In Order Year Book Index - This page is an index into the Sets In Order Year Books in the digital archive at the Square Dance Foundation of New England. American Square Dance Magazine - This page can be used as an
index into the collection of 775 issues of American Square Dance
Magazine at the University of New Hampshire. Squares and Rounds Magazine - This page is an index into a
collection of Squares and Rounds magazine, a publication of the Mid East
Pennsylvania District Federation of Deleware Valley Square and Round
Dancers from 1975 to 1998. Multi-Cycle Regional Plan to Provide a Dance Program Below Mainstream
- This page describes how a club or a group of square dance clubs can
increase their membership by supporting a dance Program below Mainstream
using basically the same resources they now use to provide Mainstream
classes. Dancers in this new Program become dancers in 3 weeks and a
new class starts every 4 weeks so they can get their friends into a new
class quickly. The dancers in this Program then become candidates for 8
week Mainstream classes. Square Dance Sewing - Have questions about sewing for square dances outfits and accessories? This is the site for you
Your comments/questions are welcome. Please send them to ccnjcaller@gmail.com
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