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MUSIC "Music for Your Favorite Folk Dances," "The American Renaissance Series of Barbershop and Early Pop," and "Balkanalia," printed tunes from Village & Early Music Society, published by Richard Geisler. For his catalogue, send stamped, self-addressed business envelope to him at 15181 Ballantree Ln., Grass Valley, CA 95949; 530/477-2293; richgeis@jps.net. Putumayo World Music has a wonderful collection of CDs. Visit http://www.putumayo.com/ It's a record label and online store featuring reggae, Afro pop, folk, Celtic, and world beat artists and CDs. Multicultural educational kit for children. Titles include:
Michael Herman's Records Again Available As reported in the NFO News (July-Sept 1997), Michael Herman's records--all 71,000 pounds of them--were donated to the Kentucky Dance Foundation, of which Stew is president. He has built a storage facility in Brandenburg, Kentucky, and with an inventory database created by his son, Troy Schwartz, and invaluable help from his wife, Kathie, is now able to sell the MH records as well as other labels that Michael Herman had. Contact Stew for a catalog or specific recordings at Folk Dancer Record Center, 6290 Olin Road, Brandenburg, KY 40108; 502/422-3655; stews@bbtel.com. Folkraft has issued a series of CDs that includes music from many of its original record albums--or not. There is Serbia 1 as well as music of Macedonia and Bulgaria, Croatia and Slovenia, and Hungary. These can be ordered from David Henry at folk things, POB 13070, San Infernio, TX 78213; 210/530-0694, folkthings@msn.com. David has lots of other goodies, also. Ninety-nine Polish dances can be found on two 90-minute cassettes produced by Ada Dziewanowska, to accompany her book, Polish Folk Dances & Songs. Cassettes include 12 extra tunes for your listening pleasure and inspiration. $29 for set of 2, plus $2 postage; book, with autograph, is $39.50 plus $3 for postage. Contact Ada, 3352 N. Hackett, Milwaukee WI 53211; 414/964-8444. Norsk Limited is an excellent source of Norwegian and Swedish music and some books available in the US at http://norsk.us/ If you're looking for a particular piece of music, this a site with international folk dance music in mp3 format that you can download: www.geocities.com/balkanfolkdances/ Need sheetmusic? There is a small collection at: www-linux.gsi.de/~karlson/index_e.htm Rokdim is a web-based Israeli music and video store. Note: Most dance teachers have music and videos available. For example, Yves Moreau has a collection of videos and CDs for sale. If you are looking for material introduced by a particular teacher, contact him or her directly. Need to add or update your information to this page? Just email the webmaster |