Links to other Folk Related Places

Pacific NorthWest Recreational Dance

• Philomath, OR - Shrewsbury Renaissance Faire
• Eugene, OR - U of Oregon's Ballroom Dance Club
• Portland, OR - Folk Events in Portland, OR
• Portland, OR Scottish & Irish Dance (Scott MacHaffie)
• Southeast WA (Tri-Cities) - Three Rivers Folklife Society contra dances

Western Canada Recreational Dance Links

• Vancouver, BC (The Rogue Folk Club) Lots of Dance information in and around Vancouver, British Columbia.
• Calgary Folkdance Fridays International folkdance in and around Calgary, Alberta -- includes links to other Canadian and US folk sites.

Other USA Recreational Dance Links

• TamburaWeb A great set of web pages describing folk music, instrument care, performing group info, music files available for download, and more! Recommended!
• Country Dance and Song Society Web Page
• Mainewoods Dance Camp (Raymond, Maine) holds International folk dance camps throughout the summer finishing with a long Labor Day party
• Northwest Folklife Festival Web Page
• North Carolina (Winston-Salem) (Carol Thompson)
• Folk Dance Fridays Dance Group (NYC) Home Page
  

European Recreational Dance Links

• Society for International Folkdancing A great resource for information regarding dancing throughout the greater British Isles (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Ireland). They also sell cute t-shirts and notecards in their on-line gift shop. You can also contact: Jeannette Hull, +44 (181) 640-5267.
• Webfeet: Dancing on the Web Lots of good information about 'What Is' and 'Where Is' English Ceilidh, Country, Barn, Morris, Cajun, French/Breton, ...

Links By Country/Cultural Area

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Performing Groups

• Balkanarama Seattle, WA
  
• Balladina Folk Orchestra Eugene, Oregon
  
• Duquesne Tamburitzans Home Page Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  
• Radost Folk Ensemble Home Page Seattle, Washington
  
• Zlatne Uste Balkan Brass Band New York
  

Other Resource Links

• BBC World Service news is said to be 'a user-friendly source for English-language information on any breaking news of things Balkan.'
  
• Radio Free Europe's daily digest of brief news updates throughout Eastern Europe and the former USSR. You can scan the full text of the news or search for particular topics.
  
• Albanian home page also has Albanian-oriented news, as well as links to Albanian news sources, and also all the major English- language newspapers and news agencies. There is also a link to "Obraz B92" (independent Serbian radio station in Beograd) which has daily RealAudio broadcasts in English.
  
• GMT information to figure out what time it is in other parts of the world. Also known as Zulu Time and UTC - Universal Time (Co-ordinated). GMT is 7 hours ahead of Pacific time.
  
• World Time Server to see, country by country, the local time and where the country is located on the globe.