Discontinued: SF Bay Area Contradances and English Country Dances

Updated June 1, 2007
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Notice: As of Sept. 30, 2005, I am no longer maintaining this web site. Please go to the BACDS web site and use their Dancefinder to get dance schedules.

When I started it 7 years ago, this site provided information that was not available from the BACDS site, like BACDS dance camp pages, timely schedules, directions to dances, links to dance information, and links to information about bands and callers. BACDS now has a comprehensive, well maintained, and reliable web site that provides all this information, plus weekly email notifications of BACDS dances to people who sign up for the BACDS-ANNOUNCE email list.

This site will remain on the web for some time to come, but the BACDS schedules, dance pages, and maps will no longer be kept up to date.

Paul Fussell

Most contradances and English Country dances in the San Francisco Bay Area are sponsored by the Bay Area Country Dance Society (BACDS), a non-profit, tax-exempt organization that teaches and supports traditional American dance (New England and Southern contradance and square dance), English country dance, and English ritual dance (Morris, Longsword, Molly, etc.). BACDS sponsors dances in the San Francisco Bay Area, including dances in San Francisco, Berkeley, El Cerrito, Palo Alto, and Mountain View.

Beginners are welcome and are encouraged to come a half hour early to most dances for an introductory lesson.

Admission prices to BACDS dances:
Weekends (Fri, Sat, Sun): $10 general, $8 members
Weeknights (Mon
—Thur): $9 general, $7 members

Join BACDS or renew your membership. If you join BACDS, you can get the discount price at dances. (Get a membership form at left).

Email BACDS at BACDS@ssrl.slac.stanford.edu. You can also subscribe to the BACDS-ANNOUNCE email list on the web page at http://www.bacds.org/mailman/listinfo/bacds-announce and get weekly notices of BACDS dances.

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Dance Camps and Festivals


Dance and Folk Pages

The Dance Gypsy
A comprehensive list of dance festivals of all types throughout the United States.
NEFFA US Contradance Links
The New England Folk Festival Association's list of contradances by state.
Contradance in the United States, Canada, and the World
Charlie Seelig's site is a great source of U.S. contra dance and dance camp information.
National Contra Dance and English Dance Info
Kiran Wagle's site includes links listed by state, by region, and even by day of the week.
Bob's Contra Dance and Related Links
Includes links listed by state, links to folk and dance festival information, and dance band links.
National English Country Dance List
A list of English Country dance groups around the US, maintained by our very own Alan Winston.
Morris and Sword Groups
An international list of Morris and Sword web pages.
CDSS (Country Dance and Song Society)
The original national country dance society--includes information about Ritual dance in the US, as well as Contra and English.
Artswire National Dance Info
A national list of all kinds of dance groups.

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