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DEFFA (DownEast Friends of the Folk Arts)
Visit this site to find out when and where the kind of music we learn at the Maine Fiddle Camp is being played – and danced to – around the state of Maine.

Fiddler Magazine
Good articles on fiddling, as well as music sales and links to more fiddle sites.

Old Time Herald
Magazine devoted to homegrown music and dance and grassroots tradition. Some back issue articles online.

Country Dance and Song Society
“Celebrating a Living Tradition of English and Anglo-American Folk Dance and Music since 1915”. Comprehensive online catalog of books and recordings of and about the kinds of music we play at Maine Fiddlecamp. (Of course we also encourage you to support your local music stores!)

NEFFA Link-Fest
Links to all things folk. Literally thousands of them! Maintained by New England Folk Festival Association.

Fiddle-icious
Fiddle-icious is comprised of a diverse group of enthusiastic fiddlers and other musicians of all ages and all walks of life. The group’s music features tunes passed on from our Scottish, Irish, Quebecois, and Acadian ancestors. The primary goal of Fiddle-icious is to keep the tradition alive by sharing Maine’s musical heritage with the community.

Other Camps We Know Of

Acadia School of Traditional Music & Arts
Acadia Trad School is a music school in Bar Harbor Maine where students come for one whole week of traditional music intensive learning and fun with world-class faculty. 2019 dates: June 23-29, 2019.

Fiddle and Dance at Ashokan
In the Catskills of New York. The title says it all!

Meadowlark Music Camp
Closed last we heard.

Mainewoods Dance Camp
Also right here in Maine. Folk dancing of all varieties

Jam Sessions
A list of regular jams that we know about.

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2021 Dates(Tentative):

All camp sessions for 2020 have been cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.  Here are the tentative 2021 dates.  We should know by the end of March, 2021 if the August in-person camps will be held.

August Week I – August 8-13, 2021
August Week II – August 15-20, 2021

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New Tunes Posted for 2020-2021:

  • A Hundred Pipers
  • After the Ball
  • Britches Full Of Stitches
  • Canadian Reel
  • Daleigh
  • Flop Eared Mule
  • Ganglot från Appelbo
  • Have You Been to Ireland?
  • Highland Laddie
  • In the Good Old Summertime
  • Indian Reel
  • Irish American Waltz
  • La Moquine
  • Maggie Brown
  • Monk’s March
  • Moonlight Bay
  • Quebec Reel
  • Rain
  • Saponette
  • Spotted Pony
  • Wait Till the Sunshines, Nellie

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Other Items of Interest

  • Doug’s Letter to Campers (6/18/2020)
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  • Music of Simon St. Pierre
  • MFC Staff Offering Private Instruction

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