Other websites

• Folk Dance Federation of California
• Folk Dance Federation of California, South
• Folk Dance Links -- Many links to Folk Dance clubs and sites
• Sapphire Swan Dance Directory -- Links to all forms of dance, Ballet to Zydeco
• Folk Dance Association - Comprehensive folk dance directory
• Folkworks - A newspaper dedicated to promoting Folk Music, Dance, Storytelling, and other folk arts in the greater Los Angeles area
• Narodni Folk Dancers, 12405 Woodruff Ave, Downey, CA
• Contra and English
  • Pacific Contra Dance Links - Links to many contra dance events
  • Contra and English Dances in the Los Angeles area
  • English Country Dancing -- in the south bay area of Los Angeles
  • The Living Tradition -- traditional music and dance (mostly Anaheim/Bellflower area)

Contra dancing at Harwood Lodge

The last Mount Baldy Ski-Dance was held on Mar 20-22, 2009, sponsored by The Living Tradition. The caller was Jeremy Korr and musicians were Jim & Amber Mueller and Tom Wolverton.

Here's a gallery of 26 photos from the 2008 weekend.

The 11th annual weekend is scheduled for April 9-11, 2010. Save the date.

Caller: Karen Fontana, from Mountain View, CA
Musicians: Bandáge à Trois, from Idaho & Utah
                 Kristi Austin - flute
                 Tom Goodwin - bass
                 David Combs - accordion

Harwood Lodge - maps & info

Chris and I have been fortunate to have hosted and/or overseen many dance weekends at the Sierra Club's Harwood Lodge, at Mt. Baldy, north of Claremont, CA. Here's a writeup of lodge's history by Mary Morales and an article I wrote for Folk Dance Scene around 1984. In recent years we've overseen Contradance, Scandinavian and Scottish dance weekends.

American and International Folk Dance and Music around Los Angeles

I got started doing International dancing when I was a student at UC. There are lots of folk dance sites on the web so I'm listing only a few events I'm involved with. See links to other websites at the bottom of the page.