Folk Dance Links & Resources
Petaluma Snap-y Dancers makes available mp3 teaching recordings to accompany the dances being learned during each session. There are also a series of links to further informatin on the steps, styling, and cultural aspects of each dance. The information changes from session to session.
Special Notes & Topics - Petaluma area dance groups. see current list
Current session folk dance list: links, information & videos. open blog
Reviews of Some Good Books
Bulgarian music & musicians, as told by UCLA's Timothy Rice: May It Fill Your Soul (1994), & Music in Bulgaria (2004)
University of Illinois' Donna Buchanan learns to play the kaval: Performing Democracy; Bulgarian Music and Musicians in Transition (2006)
Digitized Folk Dance Music
Petaluma Snap-y Dancers' 25-year collection of nearly 750 audiotape music recordings has now been converted to digital .mp3 format. Copying defects were repaired, clicks and scratches removed, monaural changed to stereo presentation, and the sound levels normalized.
The newly digitized collection is available to all current and former Sonoma County folk dancers and teachers. The associated .pdf files can be downloaded here.