Folk Dance Resources – Fort Collins Folk Dance

Folk Dance Notes, Videos, Music, Lyrics, & Stuff Like That

Andrew Carnie’s Folk Dance Instructions & Musings Ever-expanding listing of IFD dances: choreography notes & example videos
Folk Dance Federation of California, South, Inc. (Dances page/Dance Notes) Dick Oakes’ extensive PDF collection of choreography notes now lives here.
Don Buskirk’s Folkdance Footnotes Notes, lyrics, music, culture, history
The Society of Folk Dance Historians (SFDH) Pioneers in IFD in the USA, Home of Folk Dance Problem Solver by Ron Houston
Folk Dance Federation of California, North Home of Let’s Dance! magazine, featuring notes, videos, & more
Stockton Folk Dance Camp (stocktonfolkdancecamp.org)
- Camp Videos unlisted on YouTube. You cannot find these in a YouTube search, so you need this index
- Individual Dance Notes extracted from camp dance syllabi
Dunav Balkan Folk Dance Videos, Music, & Lyrics (Jerusalem, Israel)

Bob Shapiro’s Folk Dance Notes Classis from the early days of HTML. No longer maintained, but still useful.
Dick Oakes’ Phantom Ranch International Folk Dancing (most IFD stuff moved to FDFC, South)
Evansville International Folk Dancers
Surrey International Folk Dancers
Horo.bg Folk Dance video, music, songs, costumes, and more. (Bulgaria. The site has some strange things going on with the domain???)
The Alien Diaries – Adventures in Balkan Music and Folklore
National Folk Organization (NFO)
International Folk Dancers Ottawa YouTube links
Folk Dance Videos on Pintrest
East European Folklife Center (EEFC) Host of Balkan Music and Dance Camp and more…
Israeli Dances.com – Site for Israeli dance choreography and music information with a shop and much more
Hakesher Online Israeli Folk Dance – Index to many Israeli dances on YouTube
Dancilla – This site brings dances from around the world with a focus on folk dances that are danced in Austria and Germany. (in German with translation options)
Danzas del Mundo in Spanish, but has links to videos and music.
The Eliznik pages – Traditional dance, music and costume (UK)
Folk Arts Center of New England (FAC) – Dances, workshops (live & streaming), music

MIT Folk Dance Club Songbook
Macedonian Song Words, compiled by Dick Oakes (Folk Dance Federation of California, South, Inc.)
Pesna.org – Macedonian Folk Songs collection by Zoran Stalevski

Folkloretanznoten – Martin Junghan (German & English) Sheet music for folklore dancing from Europe and beyond
Balkan Folk Music Archive – Heather Meeker
A-PESNI песенник анархиста-подпольщика (Russian)

Boulder International Folk Dancers (BIFD)
- Fridays, 7:30-11:00 PM, Sodal Hall at the Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, CO
Denver Area Folk Dancers (DAFD)
- Most Thursday evenings, 7:00-10:30 PM in the Fellowship hall of the Warren Church on the southeast corner of E. 14th Ave and Gilpin Street in Denver
Boulder Israeli Dance (BID)
- Sunday nights from 7:00-10 PM at the Avalon in Sodal Hall
Denver Israeli Dance
- Wednesday evenings 7:00-10:00 PM HEA, 3600 S. Ivanhoe, Denver
International Folk Dancing Colorado Springs (IFDCS)
The Boulder Dance Coalition (BDC)
- Information on all kinds of dance groups in Boulder and across the Front Range

Bandcamp – Self-published and small labels, with a few random major label releases (FLAC, mp3, & other)
Qobuz – Based in France, major & indie, this is my go to for albums I can’t find on Bandcamp (FLAC, mp3, & other)
Gega New – Bulgarian folk and other music genres (physical CDs & DVDs only; digital usually available at Qobuz)
The Internet Archive, Audio Collection – Many digitizations of LPs, 45s, and 78s that don’t have copyright restrictions, including the J Clement International Folk Dances collection of 555 tunes mostly from 78s.
kounadis archive virtual museum – 78s of Greek and Greek-adjacent music