The Friends Of American Old-Time Music and Dance

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Friends Of American Old-Time Music and Dance

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Sacrewell Interactive Web Site This interactive site has been running for some time having been established and maintained by Colm Daly. The FOAOTMAD have now adopted this site for use by members, although it it still under Colm's management. It will be the main interactive site for the organisation. To view it you need to follow the above link (www.sacrewell.myfamily.com) and use the universal login of ‘sacrewell_camp’ (note the underscore) and ‘visitor’ as password. To join and make the best use of it, for an invitation.
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The roots of the Society go back to a Sara Grey banjo workshop in Ripponden, in November 1993, when two pupils discovered that they were virtually neighbours. So Keith Johnson, another pupil, set up a mailing list and arranged a meeting which developed into the first Gainsborough Old Time Festival, which took place in February 1994. The rest, as they say, is history.

The FOAOTMAD aims and constitution can be found here

The Friends of American Old Time Music and Dance run an annual old time festival, spring and summer camps and instructional workshops. There is also a quarterly newsletter, the Old Time News, and a CD of old time music, song and dance.

Session Finder - Old Time might be closer than you think!
Other festivals and events of interest to old-time enthusiasts may be found on the Links page

The copyright and intellectual property right of everything appearing on this web site remain with the person who wrote it. Nothing may be reproduced without first obtaining the written permission of the author and citing the FOAOTMAD website as the source. For more information contact the
This site is maintained by with help from Alan Messenger
Last updated on 3rd July 2008