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Organizations and Events
- Barleycorn Country Dancers
- Bay Area Country Dance Society - Modern ECD, Contras, dance camps, lists of Morris teams, and more...
- The Directorie - a registry of and guide to renaissance faires and medieval festivals
- English Folk Dance and Song Society - the U.K. national organization
- Faire Net is a portal for a lot of faire related groups and vendors
- Ye Gaskell Occasional Dance Society - Victorian Dances in an elegant setting (a Pryanksters favorite)
- Newcastle Country Dancers - the other white meat
- PEERS - Period Events and Entertainments Re-Creation Society
- REC - the Renaissance Entertainment Corporation - sometime called the evil empire
- Renaissance Faire and festivals guide - an umbrella site for renaissance faires
- Another Renaissance Pleasure Faire site
- The Scribe, a robust clearinghouse of information on renaissance faires, geared to the performer/patron
- Welcome to the Renaissance Faire - general information about renaissance faire sites and resources
Specific Faire Sites
- Calaveras Celtic Faire
- Fair Oaks Faire - Pirate Productions
- Folsom Faire - St. Matthew's Guild
- Fresno City Renaissance Faire
- Golden Gate Renaissance Faire
- Hanford Renaissance of Kings Cultural Arts Faire
- North Coast European Renaissance Festival - Ft. Bragg
- Northern California Renaissance Faire - a Play Faire production
- Pittsburg Scottish Renaissance Festival
- Placerville Renaissance MayFaire
- San Luis Obispo - History Revisited
- Santa Barbara Faire
- Shasta Highlands Renaissance and Celtic Faire
- Sonora Celtic Faire
- Stafford Lake, Novato - Heart of the Forest Renaissance Faire
- Valhalla - Lake Tahoe Faire
Dance and Music Notation
- The Dancing Master, 1651-1728: An Illustrated Compendium by Robert M. Keller
- English Dancing Master
- Articles and Letters Regarding Dargason
- MIDI and ABC-format files for music from Playford, 1651
- Society for Creative
Anachronism (SCA) Music and Dance homepage by Greg Lindahl
- A collection of dance cheat-sheets as done in the SCA
- Renaissance Dance - more than just ECD
- Songs of England - Ballads, Ditties, Folksongs, Hymns and Jigs
- Transcription of Playford, 1651
- Transition From Renaissance Dance To Baroque Dance includes a section on ECD.
- Words to English Dance Tunes
ABC format Music
Music sources
- John Chambers' Tune Archive - A good source for Traditional English music for ABC format.
- The music for The English Dancing Master first edition in ABC format.
- Ceolas is the number one information service for Celtic music on the Internet, an
independent, voluntary organization, dedicated to promoting Celtic music by supplying
information on all aspects of the genre through the Internet.
Software sources
| ABC home page | THE source of ABC music notation. The site is maintained by Chris Walshaw the originator of the ABC system. The web-wide tune index is over 750k in length with over 6000 listed tunes. |
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ABCMUS is a program for tunebooks in ABC format, created by Henrik Norbeck. This software plays the music through the computer's sound card or MIDI interface. |
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ABC Navigator - another PC client - highly recommended |
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ABC4mac - A program to display ABC music on the Mac. |
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Skink - Java based ABC 1.6 software |
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Barfly - another Mac client |
Other Links
- A brief Biography of Cecil Sharp, collector of English folk song and dance
- English Country Dance Webring - list of ECD sites world wide
- May Day Morris - a list of California teams and locations for dancing up the sun
- Norman Bradley's The True Origin of Morris Dance and English Dance in California
- Shakespear Plays - courtesy of the British Library
- The Tudor Pub & Doary Oar restaurant - a bit of 16th century English dining in South Lake Tahoe