New Mexico Callers Collective Handbook
This resource outlines a number of considerations for callers and callers collectives. This includes having a growth mindset, how to give feedback, how to prepare for calling, teaching a beginner lesson, how to cover when a dance breaks down, rolling starts, and so much more. The resource touches upon calling both contra and square dances although many of the ideas are likely applicable to most calling situations.
From Erik Erhardt
This how-to is for those interested in learning to call contra dances. The resource assumes that you have experience dancing contra dances (i.e. you know the basic figures well enough to explain them to others), but that you are calling for and teaching a group of dancers that includes a sizable portion of beginners.
From CDSS
All things shape note, provided by the Sacred Harp Musical Heritage Association.
Singalong and Song Circle Locator
Rise Up and Sing provides a list of regular song swap/singalong groups that are open to the general public, organized by geographical location.
From Annie Patterson and Peter Blood
Traditional Music Today Facebook Group
This Facebook group “attempts to be a safe(r) space to discuss traditional music, culture and our lives as members of it.”
Sacred Harp Singing Discussion Lists
Two Sacred Harp singing email lists. One focuses on events and individuals while the other focuses on the historical and technical aspects of shape note singing.
From Sacred Harp Musical Heritage Association
Shared Weight: Song Organizers Discussion List
This mailing list (email group) welcomes anyone interested in organizing song events. List members ask/answer questions, discuss issues that come up for them, and share helpful resources. There are both new and experienced organizers from throughout North America and beyond. Join the discussion!
An archive of almost 1600 Ozark Mountain folk songs, recorded between 1956 and 1976.
From Missouri State University
The MacEdward Leach collection of Songs of Atlantic Canada
This collection includes songs from Cape Breton and Newfoundland.
From Memorial University
Early American Secular Music and Its European Sources, 1589-1839: An Index
This is a series of indexes derived from a database of musical information compiled from primary sources covering the 250 years of the initial exploration and settlement of the United States. It consists of over 75,000 entries that are sorted by text (titles, first lines, recitatives, chorus and burden), by music incipits (represented in scale degrees, stressed notes and interval sequences), with additional indexes of names and theater works.
Compiled by Robert M. Keller, Raoul F. Camus, Kate Van Winkle Keller, and Susan Cifaldi
Thanks to the Massachusetts Cultural Council for their generous support.