Resources for Miscellaneous Genres
Resources for Miscellaneous Genres
updated 7/23/26
This page contains links for resources for trad music and dance genres that I have only a few links for - i.e. not enough to create a whole page for.
trycontra.com - Jeff Kaufman's excellent resource for locating contra dances by location and dance weekends/camps by location, date, performer or name.
https://www.jefftk.com/ - Jeff Kaufman's blog. Among other topics, he analyzes statistics from contra dance weekends e.g. Festival Stats 2025.
https://contradances.net/ - another site locating contra dances and events by location, created by Richard Lanham.
Internet resources for contra dance callers - William Watson
Seattle Rhythm Rollers Northern Jam - transcriptions and recordings by Laurie Andres, WB Reid, and Cathie Whitesides for tunes often played at the monthly Seattle northern jam.
All of these are available in electronic form as well as hardcopy.
The Portland Collection - 3 books of contra dance music in the Pacific Northwest. Cumulative Index (PDF - all 3 books).
The Waltz Books - compiled by Bill Matthiesen. Cumulative Index (PDF - all 4 books)
Randy Miller's Fiddlecase Books - New England Fiddler's Repertoire, The Fiddler's Throne, and other books.
Bob McQuillen's Note Books (iPad app). Some of the hardcopy individual note books are available through the CDSS Store.
Bal Folk music and dance resources - William Watson
Eloise & Co. - Becky Tracy & Rachel Bell with Bethany Waickman, Owen Morrison, or Rachel Aucoin. Website Bandcamp
Celtic Colours - week-long event in October. Each night one concert is livestreamed, and available for viewing until the end of the month.
KitchenFest - end of June/beg of July
Music Cape Breton - Daily listings, Festival lists, events
Cranford Publications - mail order for recordings and books. includes links to supplemental info such as musical notation, sound clips, articles, photos and links to other websites.
cbfiddle.com - Alan Snyder's excellent index for Cape Breton recordings.
cbisland.com - Official Cape Breton Island travel guide, filtered for trad music events. You can also add filters for dates and regions.
Celtic Music Interpretive Center - museum in Judique (Cape Breton)
Cape Breton Music Media Historical Society - Facebook page with some wonderful older videos (1980's onward)
Prince Edward Island Fiddlers Society, including a page of links for tune books, CDs and websites.
Bowing Down Home - Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island. Based on Ken Perlman's field recordings from 1991-1992 & 2006.
Ken Perlman's Prince Edward Island Fiddling Project
Pas à pas – Prince Edward Island Acadian Gigue - video archives
https://raretunes.org/ - A curated audio scrapbook of Scottish recordings that range from near-studio quality to crowded and noisy house sessions, from digital media to old bits of tape, vinyl and obscure 78s. In depth historical background for some of the entries. Includes a few decidedly non-Scottish sources, such as Benny Goodman playing Loch Lomond and Alf Edwards (the English concertina player who played accompaniment on many 1950s/1960s era English folk revival recordings e.g. Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, A.L. Lloyd)
Tobar an Dualchais/Kist o Riches - online archive of audio recordings from the School of Scottish Studies, the Canna Collection and BBC Radio nan Gàidheal
The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society. Branches include the San Francisco Branch and many others.