Irish

• Colorado Irish Festival - annual event in July - 10-12 July 2009
• Silver Plume Irish Festival - annual event in July
• Fort Collins Irish Festival - annual event in June - 20-21 June 2009
• Step Dance Schools
  • Bennett School 303 750 3510 bennett-school.com
  • Heritage School 720 747 9377 heritageirish.com
  • Celtic Heels 303 258 7186
  • Liberty Irish Dance Academy 303 238 0577 libertyirishdance.com
  • Martin Percival School 303 534 0611 learnirishdance.com
  • McTeggart Irish Dance 303 696 1266 mcteggart.com
  • St Brendan's School stbrendansschool.org 303 771 1209 Denver or (719) 527-7092 Colorado Springs
  • Reed School 303 617 6051 reedschool.com
  • Wick School 303 987 2427 wickschool.com
• Denver Ceili Club: Thursday evenings 7pm-9. Venue: Friendship Irish Dance Center 1946 S Quebec St.
• Durango Friday nights 6:30 - 8:30pm at The Smiley Building, 1309 E.3rd Ave. Sessions through May and resume in the autumn. Enquiries: Maria on 970-382-9593 Irish dances, mostly ceilidh, and some step dance as well and Scottish Country

• There is an introductory class offered through Boulder Parks & Recreation
• Scottish Country Dance of Colorado ( scdcolorado.org) has details for Boulder, Denver and District, Fort Collins and Colorado Springs together with the monthly regional dance
• Festival and Highland Games in August in the Denver suburb of Highlands Ranch
• Longs Peak Scottish/Irish Highland Festival in Estes Park the weekend after Labor Day

• CFOOTMAD organises a monthly dance series. Venue & Schedule
• The Little London Assembly, under the direction of Joan Bryant, organises several classes and a regular evening ball in Colorado Springs. Enquiries: (719) 494-0563 . Venue & Schedule

• Ken Horwege, ring (303) 364-2278, organises classes through Swallow Hill (Denver)
• High Country Conservatory of Dance (Ft Collins)
• The Colorado section of Clogdancing.com

• Maroon Bells Morris Dancers. You Tube videos and on an Early Music Colorado page.

• Regular dance series in Boulder, Colorado Springs, Denver, Durango, Fort Collins, and Glenwood Springs. Schedules and venues on the Colorado Contra page
• An annual Dance Camp Weekend: Stellar Days and Nights (February near Buena Vista)
• Semi-annual Music Camp weekends with contra: Colorado Moon Festival (May and September near Gold Hill above Boulder)

• There was a workshop sponsored by the Denver Alliance Francaise in 1996.
• Doriane Rencker taught dances to Denver area groups in July 2004
• (Cape Breton Step Dancing is sometimes taught in conjunction with the Irish step dance.)

• Colorado Cornish Cousins
  Ms Marilyn Matthews, 11789 Ranch Elsie Road, Golden, Colorado 80403-8447

• The Colorado Welsh Socieity coloradowelshsociety.org.

  Those with an interest in Welsh Dance are urged to contact Dr. Elis Owens, (303) 427-7188 Email

• The Welsh Folk Dance Society's bi-lingual website www.welshfolkdance.org.uk in Wales

 Celtic

• The Celtic Connection monthly newspaper
• Cheyenne Celtic Musical Arts Festival, 26-28 June 2009 Website
• Spanish Peaks Int'l Celtic Music Festival - annual event in September in Huerfano County (sth central Colorado) - 24-27 Sept 2009

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