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Some web pages of local interest are:Folk Dancing in Ottawa There are dozens of links here related to dancing of various kinds in the US and Canada. Mission Folk Music Festival, in Mission, BC, usually takes place the weekend following the Vancouver Folk Music festival. They have often featured one or two Scandinavian bands. Norsk Folkedans Stemne In Norway, a stemne is a gathering of folk dancers and musicians sharing their knowledge of dances and music. Locally, this gathering happens every year in August a bit north of Seattle. Northern California Spelmanslag This site has some great sheet music transcribed from workshops. Northwest Folklife Festival Memorial Day weekend (weekend with the last May Monday attached) at Seattle Center: 15-18 stages all day/all evening, all kinds of folk music and dance. Musicians come mostly from the Pacific Northwest, and many are likely to be people you know. Almost free. rec.folk-dancing newsgroup may have some interesting discussions, though their primary topic seems to be contra dance. Rogue Folk Club There are links from here to other dance groups in Vancouver. Scand discussion group: If you like receiving email, you might like to subscribe to a Scandinavian discussion
group. This mailing list is happy to have anyone with an interest in Scandinavian music,
dance, and folk traditions. Any topics of discussion related to this area are fair game,
as are requests for or posting of information. There there may be
several items per day if a hot item gets going, but lately it has only
been several per week at the most. You can also opt not
to get mail and just read postings on the site. Scandinavian Community Centre in Burnaby, BC, where we do most of our dancing, has activities that may be of interest and their website often has a description of events taking place at this location. Skandia dance group, Seattle Get your links here! Our Seattle neighbors have lots of interesting activities of their own, but also, their links are so complete that we're reluctant to begin to duplicate them on this page. Social Dancing in Vancouver As well as providing a listing of social dancing events in Vancouver, Jason Harrison also has links to other local dance sites. Vancouver Country Dance - The home page is subtitled 'old time country dances with live music'. This site has the schedule for contra dancing around Vancouver. Vancouver Folk Music Festival - This yearly event in July is one of the major folk festivals in Canada. Vancouver International Folk Dancers International dancing in Vancouver. Contact Kate Gerson (604) 734-4979.
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Further away, these links were recommended to us:American Nyckelharpa Association's music pages have sheet music and sound clips for lots of tunes, particularly nyckelharpa allspel tunes. Blue Rose Scandinavian Folk Music is Karen Myers's site for musicians, with the ultimate aim to make the spelmanslag (band) repertoire available online. So far, a lot of dances are listed within dance category, with the first line of each section (itself a wonderful resource). Some tunes have links to full sheet music pages, with the apparent intention of eventually getting the full scores for all the tunes referenced. Sheet music is also available indexed by the workshop at which it was taught. Tunes from workshops may also have an mp3 available. Dancilla.com With a database of 30.000 dances, more than 1.000 videos, 800 MIDIs, 1.000 dance-instructions, articles and pictures, Dancilla.com says it offers the worldwide largest archive for the dance-community and everything what is related to dancing, like traditions, costumes, songs, music. It has over 900 dances from Sweden, more than 60 from Denmark, 16 from Finland. The videos seem to be mostly from workshops rather than staged performances. Digelius Music in Finland - mail order pages for recordings from Finland, Samiland, Sweden, Norway, Greenland, Iceland and Baltic countries. Danish Folk Council serves as an information point for the Danish folk scene. You can order promotional Danish folk & roots music CDs, a DVD of folk music from the 1970s, and the magazine Folk&Musik. The site has news, links to musicians and festivals, articles, and interesting authentic recordings of - mostly old - musicians playing their traditional music from various parts of Denmark. Folk Dance Music with Improvisations is what amounts to the virtual course on Danish music. Actually, it's more a course on making music and how to improvise in a band setting. An incredible amount of detail on selected tunes used for folk dancing in Denmark, arranged with improvisations to vary the music when playing many repetitions. Sheet music and midi sound clips are included for all suggested variations. Folkets Hus Spillefolk. There's lots of written music at the website of this kind of community centre organization in Copenhagen, with midi soundclips to go with the music. And there are just enough hints in English for the Danish language-impaired to be able to get around easily enough. Folksy Links - This Italian page has zillions of annotated links (well, about 3000) to folk bands and musicians around the world. The Swedish links even include about 60 Spelmanslag groups. The Hardanger Fiddle Association of America home
page. Henrik Norbeck, in Stockholm, Sweden, has what amounts to a virtual course on Swedish music, complete with written music and sound clips to demonstrate what he says, and he has quite a bit to say about instruments as well. He also has links to other pages concerning Swedish music. Norwegian Radio program "Alltid Folkemusikk" ("Always Folkmusic"). At the top of the page is a button labelled "Hør På Nettradio" (it means "listen"). Next to it is a pulldown menu. Select Alltid Folkemusikk from the menu and then click on the button. Then just sit back and enjoy! Nordic Roots Radio - a Live365 "station" that plays music from the Nordic Roots Revival. The station owner claims to be always eager to hear comments and suggestions from listeners. There's a link on the page where you can check out what artists are featured. Richard Robinson's Tunebook - This is a collection of traditional tunes - Scots tunes, Irish tunes, Scandinavian, French, Balkan and more - and new tunes in traditional styles. A few of our sheet music pages point to this site. Spillemandsdansen. Folkets Hus (see above) have various subgroups such as the Spillemandsdansen allspel group, which has their tunes posted here. Mostly, they link to the Folkets Hus Spillefolk files, but they have some additional tunes and the occasional tune from the Folkets Hus collection that does not have a link on the Folkets Hus page.
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