Bob Stepno's Music & Dance Bookmarks
First, if you're looking for this month's concert list, I keep the Triangle Folk Music Society web page, including coming events, links to performers' sites on the web and other folk music resources. This page you're reading is a less-up-to-date collection of links and personal babbling...
When not glued to the computer keyboard, I like to listen to or play folkish music on the guitar (mostly), banjo and mandolin, and learn songs that I'm often too shy (or aware of my artistic limitations) to sing in public. I don't have the hang of keeping a lots of tunes in my head, but I can generally pick them off a page, as in the photo.(Pretty soon I'll try to learn this tune to surprise the other guy in the picture, who wrote it.)
When I'm too tired to sit down, I go to contradances, an old New England form of country dancing that has spread across America.
In a valiant effort to get some of my online information organized, commented, and shared, here are some country dance and folk music sites that I have found...
While browsing these pages note that "Bob" is a popular name for musicians, dancers, and bands. I wish I could take credit for all of them, but I can't.
Dance stuff
- Triangle Area
Contradances are now listed online by Virgil Sealy, after the launch
by Dan Poirer.
- Bob Dalsemar was my first clogging teacher at Pinewoods Camp, but is better known as president of The Country Dance and Song Society, and as a caller and composer of dances, some of which are on his own home page.
- Bill Tomczak's Contra Dance Page, complete with a state-by-state database!
- a list of Bands, Musicians, and Callers...
- NEFFA Webserver, especially if you'll be in Eastern Massachusetts in April!
- a Contradance Page...
- Bob's Contra Page
- ...A Band Named Bob...
- What Is Contra Dance?
- Triangle area contra dance schedule by Dan Poirer
- CDSS Webserver
- The Clogging Page
- John C Campbell Folk School
- Bob Dalsemar was my first clogging teacher at Pinewoods Camp, but is better known as president of The Country Dance and Song Society, and as a caller and composer of dances, some of which are on his own home page.
Music stuff
Groups:- Banjo in the
Hollow
- Pinecone (Piedmont Traditional Arts)
- The Digital Tradition Folk Song Full Text Search was last seen at this address, after living at Xerox for some time. It may be on the move again.
- Bob Franke
- The Bobs not to be confused with any other Bobs. Ask for them by name.
- Steve Goodman.
- John Prine.
- Bob (used to be "Bobby" on the Campus Restaurant jukebox copy of "Blowin' in the wind" in the '60s)
- Anne Hills
- Eric Von Schmidt (thanks to Karl Erik, keeper of the Dylan directory).
- The Nields -- our geographical and musical roots are a little tangled... And as a lifelong reader of album jackets when "albums" were big square things with lots of room for type and pictures on the cover or even INSIDE, I really appreciate their newsletter and web pages. I am not the Bob of their CD "Bob on the ceiling." But I own the CD -- and T-shirt.
- The Bobs not to be confused with any other Bobs. Ask for them by name.
- Folk Music Home
Page
- Dirty Linen Magazine
- Concerts in NORTH CAROLINA
- Folkways Records
- Sacred Harp
- Martin Guitar Co. I can't believe the price of the M-38 that I bought for $800 in 1978 and (sigh) sold a few years ago for less than half what Martin's listing them for today. I heard that Eric Clapton wound up with my old one. I hope he likes it.
- Instructions, messages, places to play, and even used instruments for sale I haven't done business with these Backporch guys, but it's a neat website.
- The Folk Project may be in Northern New Jersey, but it has great taste otherwise (that's a JOKE, Lis...) Great links to artists and a great sense of the music community..
- Dirty Linen Magazine
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