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The Willow Tree
26 English dance collected and written by Hugh Rippon. over 4 decades as a caller. There are invaluable notes for beginners and teachers. Dave Mallinson has arranged the music to match the dances.
Size A4 contains 26 dances with instructions and tunes with chords.
Hebridean Dances
Contains 12 solo dances from the island of Barra. Detailed instructions are given for head, hand, foot, and foundation movements for each dance.
Size A4, Contains history and instruction.
Balance and Swing
by Ted Sannella
This book was recommended by leading Contra dancers in Australia as the benchmark publication on Contra music and dance.
Contains dance instruction, music and history.
Swing the Next
by Ted Sannella
The much awaited sequel to Balance and Swing
Contains 80 Square, Contra, Triplet and Circle dances including music, chords and history
The Portland Collection
Vol. 2
Contra Dance music on the Pacific North West
This book contains 300 pages of tunes, notes on the tunes and an historical perspective of Contra Dance.
It compliments Ted Sannella's dance and tune books.
Book size A5, contains music, chords and history
The Portland Selection
CD Volume 1
An excellent CD
containing many of the tunes from the Portland Collection.
The Portland Collection Book Volume 2
Contra Dance music on the Pacific North West
This book contains another 300 pages of tunes, notes on the tunes from the
contra dance music of the north-west US.
Book size A5, contains music, chords and history
The Portland Selection
CD Volume 2
Another excellent CD
containing many of the tunes from the Portland Collection Vol. 2
The Portland
Play Along Selection CD
A double CD tunes from the Portland Collections, that are not
repeated in the two earlier CDs.
The tunes are played at a steady pace, twice each, to allow you to play
along with the CD
Last updated 13/7/2010
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