Another possibility for finding like minded people, if you are at all into traditional or folk dancing you might check out some of those groups as well. I used to contra dance (old country dancing) quite frequently and met people from several groups, including a Civil War re-enactment group and a Scottish country dancing group that does demonstrations at the local Highland games. I also met several people that were into Irish step dancing and other Celtic interests at a weekend long dance. Many other dance groups and some other types of groups would also leave (or bring) flyers and brochures for their events at our dances. I am sure that each area and group is different, but it seemed to me that contra dancing draws quite a cross section of folks who had other areas of historical interests as well. If you don't know what Contra Dance is... http://www.sbcds.org/contradance/whatis/
and a list of links to Contra Dance groups from all over the world. http://www.contradancelinks.com/ Annette M ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 15:24:42 -0700 From: Kimiko Small Subject: Re: playing in period societies? Re: [h-cost] why renaissance and not 18th century? At 11:26 AM 9/22/2005, you wrote: >Or, if not, if there's a group that focuses on the Irish/Celtic/Welsh (I >think they are all different and distinct groups) history, language and >costuming, I'd also love to know about them, too. > >Elena/Gia I don't know about your area, but in my area we have a local Celtic Society that I used to be semi-involved with. We used to do Scottish country dancing and we often were asked to either dance at Scottish caellies (sp?)), work the local Highland games, or dance with the Irish dance groups on St. Paddy's day, or give talks on costumes of the 16th c. Irish & Scots. They also tried to promote Breton, Welsh, and Cornish history as well, although those weren't as "popular". They are still around and are involved with a new Irish pub we have in town. Perhaps you can find something similar that may be associated with a pub in your area, or maybe listed in your news paper events page. And if you do, please let me know as well. My best friend and former dance mistress lives and works in your area, and she's commented that she hasn't found much to do up there like she did around here for re-enactment or even dancing opportunities. She even sent me her old box of faire stuff because she didn't know what else to do with them (that almost broke my heart for all the fond memories we had.) Kimiko ------------------------------ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
