Buying Contradance Music CDs
If you want to buy a CD with contradance-type music,
all you need to do is go to the "Contradance" section of
your favorite CD store.
It would be between the "Old Time" section and the "Québécois" section,
of course.
More realistically, you can visit a dance weekend that includes
vendors, or you can visit the website of one of the
businesses/organizations/non-organizations
that sell Contradance Music CDs online
(be sure to visit
Great Meadow Music
which does more than this site:
has CDs you can buy
)
or you can visit the website of one of the
bands or musicians of Contradance-music that sell their own CDs online.
This site is to assist,
with links to band and musician websites that sell their own CDs online.
This is a "virtual" Contradance section,
to be used your favorite CD store lacks one.
The criteria for inclusion is that
the site represent a band or musician that plays for contradances,
and that the site include information for ordering the band or musician's CD
that includes contradance-type music.
If you have or know of a site that fits this criteria, by all means,
let me know, at jwobus1@twcny.rr.com.
I have begun with some of the bands/musicians that come to mind:
bands I know or have known,
bands that play for dances that I frequent,
bands that I have heard about, etc.
Undoubtedly, I have a long way to go to cover much of the ground.
Buying Contradance Music CDs
Contra Corners
Contradance Links: See Bands and Musicians page.
The Dance Gypsy
NEFFA: see the site's LinkFest : Businesses : Recordings
Ted Crane's Database
Button Box
CD Baby
Contracopia: Online business to sell contradance music CDs (site has not shown updates in a while.)
Country Dance and Song Society
eFolkMusic: Info on artists/CDs, various folk idioms.
Elderly Instruments
Great Meadow Music: Online/Telephone/Mail-order business, specializes in contradance music.
Atlantic Crossing
Beeswax Sheepskin
Brittany Bay
Celtic Confusion
Changeling
The Clayfoot Strutters
Contranella
Crowfoot
Curt Osgood
Einstein's Little Homunculus
The Elftones
Eric Eid-Reiner
Ethan Hazzard-Watkins
Flapjack
FootLoose
Frank Ferrel
The Gawler Family
Gift of the Marcii
Great Bear Trio
The Groovemongers
Hell on the Nine Mile
Hotpoint Stringband
Jiggermeister
Kitchen Chair
Larry Unger: (Reckless Ramblers, Notorius, more)
Laura Light
Laurie Fisher
Laurie Hart
Lissa Schneckenburger
Nicholas Williams: and Tuq
Nightingale
Old Sod Band
Out of the Wood
Paul Gitlitz
Peter Siegel
Relative Harmony
Rich Sobel
Run of the Mill Stringband
Swallowtail
The Syncopaths
Tidal Wave: aka Raz-de-Marée
Turtle United
Wild Asparagus
Contra Dance Music on Compact Discs: A list of Contradance CDs, including links to sources.
Contra Dance UK
Contra Dance Music on Compact Discs: A list of Contradance CDs, including links to sources.
Contra Dance UK
NEFFA: see the site's LinkFest : Businesses : Recordings
Music Pages