*The Colorado link will bring you to Dancing on the Web. The Iowa link will bring you to the Central Iowa Barn Dance Association. The Maine link will bring you to the Downeast Friends of the Folk Arts. The New Mexico link will bring you to the New Mexico Folk Music and Dance Society. The Utah link will bring you to Utah Contradance Information. These fine organizations and individuals already have complete listings for these states and there is no reason for me to duplicate their efforts.

**As far as I know, there are no regular dances or events in Louisiana, Mississippi, South Dakota or Wyoming, but I have created pages if something changes in the future.

No, not for the web site. But just as dances don't exist without dancers on the floor, they also won't exist if not enough dancers volunteer to help make the dances happen. The following dance series have publicized the need for volunteers and more dancers. If you want dancing to exist in your area, think about spending some time helping out along with spending time on the dance floor or coming to your local dance on a more regular basis. Typical volunteer duties include opening and/or closing the building on dance nights, taking money, bringing snacks or beverages, managing the snack counter, helping with promotion, and other jobs.

• Arizona, Cottonwood - dance organizers
• California, Cool - Everything from organizing to general tasks
• Connecticut, Granby - Everything from organizing to general tasks
• New York, Ithaca (Cornell): Variety of tasks need to be completed
• Ohio, Athens - many more dancers plus dance organizers
• Pennsylvania, State College - General coordinator and general volunteers
• Vermont, Norwich - 4th Saturday: Looking for "poster people"
• Vermont, Tinmouth: More dancers needed
• Virginia, Charlottesville - Hall Manager for five dances per year, board members and general volunteers
• Virginia, Greenwood: General volunteers
• Virginia, Norfolk - need another 25-30 dancers per dance; bring friends, bring yourself

How can the Country Dance & Song Society (CDSS) make dancing and music more rewarding for YOU? The Board wants to hear from members and non-members, too!

(1) Please take the survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/cdss-community

(2) Join the Board's strategic planning discussion (no login necessary): http://forums.cdss.org/.

The Chattahoochee Country Dancers have produced a video called Why We Contra Dance which might explain to your non-contra dancing friends and family (and maybe even to fellow contra dancers) why we enjoy this activity so much.

If you are looking for contra dance information and cannot find it here, please e-mail me or check one of the other sites listed below as no one person keeps up with everything that is happening on the contradance scene.

• The New England Folk Festival Association provides an exhaustive list of contra links.
   
  
• Ted Crane has been compiling a database of dances, musicians, and callers. Very extensive with information about future dances across the country.
   
  
• Gregg Scragg's The Dance Gypsy has a long history as a print publication for dance information in New England and New York State along with a festival calendar, then the addition of a web site and now as a web site covering the United States and a multitude of types of dance.
   
  
• Dwayne Johnson has created a contra dance map with links for the entire United States.
   
  
• Kiran Wagle's A Contradance Page is more than a simple page and includes links to a wide range of articles, groups, information, and dances and while it has not been updated in a while, remains worth visiting for the material that is not time or site sensitive.
   
  
• And, of course, there is the Country Dance & Song Society (CDSS), which has plenty of information about contra dancing along with links and contact information for numerous dance groups.

Bands and callers are listed twice, once in the region in which they are based, the other in the "All Bands and Callers" page. Organizations are listed once, just in the region in which they are based (although if they have an activity in another region, they will be listed there also). The United States is divided into several different regions. The dance at Rehoboth, Massachusetts is the one I attend most often.

http://www.contradancelinks.com
Produced by Charlie Seelig
This page last updated on October 15, 2011. Last update for the site was on January 20, 2012.