Northwest Ohio Traditional Music and Dance
(NOTMAD)
Regional Dances
  1. Ann Arbor Council for Traditional Music and Dance (AACTMAD) maintains an exhaustive calendar of dances in lower Michigan

  2. Two web sites cover the dance scene in Cleveland: North Coast Contra Community and North East Ohio Community Dance Calendar

  3. The Big Scioty Barn Dance in Columbus organizes the dance and maintains a web site

  4. West of Toledo, Goshen Old-Time Dancing sponsors a dance in Goshen, Indiana

  5. Balance and Swing, based in Wooster, Ohio, holds contras and square dances

  6. Chicago Barn Dance sponsors contra and square dances and old-time music in the Chicago area. Also, Mark Gaines provides a web site with information about dancing in the Chicago area.

Comprehensive Sites

  1. Ted Crane's DanceDB is the most complete and up-to-date listing of dance events, people and organizations.

  2. The Country Dance and Song Society of America has a list of member groups' websites

  3. The Dance Gypsy Event Planner is a good resource for one-time dances, weekends, and camps. The Dance Gypsy is otherwise devoted to New England dances