PERFORMERS

 

Two Fiddles - Dean of New England Contradancing - Jacqueline & Dudley Laufman - Dave Harvey's mentor

Julianne Carney - versatile and gifted violinist and teacher - plays a variety of styles: classical, old-time, improvisational

Pat Cannon's Foot and Fiddle - acclaimed company performing traditional music and dance styles

The Boston Kiltics - step dancing, set dancing, music, song from the Scottish tradition in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia

Tony DeMarco - fantastic fiddler in the Irish (Sligo) style

Trinity Irish Dance Company - internationally-acclaimed NYC Irish step dance company

The Forge Mountain Diggers - Tom Bailey's old-time outfit

The Wahoo String Band - new and old tunes in the Southern tradition

Niall O'Leary - World Champion Irish step dancer - performs, teaches and leads a dance company

The Bosco Stompers - cajun music for NYC - see web site for schedule

Henry Hample - fiddler in the French-Canadian and Cajun styles, currently lving in the other part of the U.S.

 

DANCE & MUSIC EVENTS

 

 

Balkan Dancing at the Hungarian House - dance to music from the Balkan region of Europe every Friday night

Zlatne Uste Golden Festival - there's nothing like this annual January weekend of dancing to Balkan music - 40+ bands!

Long Island Traditional Music Association (LITMA)- contrdances for L.I., great dance in beautiful Smithtown barn

Country Dance New York (CD*NY) - New York City weekly contradances - local and touring bands and callers

Gender-Role Free Contradance in NYC - great dancing without gender-specific dances and calls

World Music Institute - concerts of world-renowned artists in many styles: Indian, celtic and gypsy, to name a few.

The CasHank Hootenanny Jamboree - open-mic J. Cash & Hank W. in four chords or fewer! House band back-up.

The Dance Flurry - amazing annual weekend festival of contradancing every February

 

DANCE VENUES

 

The Hungarian House - our home base available for rent at reasonable prices

 

NYC SESSIONS

 

11th Street Bar - Sundays - fantastic Irish session - even some step dancing if you're lucky 9:30 pm - 1 am

Mona's - Mondays - arguably the best Irish session in town - but take a nap first - 11 pm - 4 am

Iona - Mondays - old-time on 9:00-11:00

The Baggot Inn - Wednesdays - huge session for old-time (front of bar) and bluegrass ( back of bar)

 

Irish Music Session Listings - Niall O'Leary's recommendations for Irish sessions

 

ON-LINE RESOURCES

 

Banjo Ben - event listings for old-time and other traditional style music in NYC

NYCBluegrass.com - event listings for the bluegrass and old-time community in NYC

 

MUSIC AND DANCE EVENT LISTING SITES

 

Bob Radcliffe's International Dance Events - event listings for international dance

The Dance Gypsy - contradance listings

Ted Crane's Dance Database - contradance, dance band, and dance caller listings and info

 

MUSIC AND DANCE RESOURCE ORGANIZATIONS

 

Country Dance and Song Society (CDSS) - huge number of resources for dancers, dance callers, and music listeners

Thirty Below Zero - primary resource for French-Canadian dance music, videos, books

 

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