Australian social dancing resources

 These websites contain useful information on resources – books, music and recordings – available to purchase. In addition, the asterisked site includes instructions for many dances.

Celtic Southern Cross http://www.celt.com.au/index.html
Bush Dance & Music Club of Bendigo & District
[Select ‘Publications’ ‘Recordings’ and ‘Videos’]
http://www.bendigobushdance.org.au
Trad & Now On-line Shop
[Select ‘Dance’]
https://www.tradandnow.com/
Victorian Folk Music Club
[Select ‘Publications’]
http://www.vfmc.org.au/
Wongawilli Colonial Dance Club *
[Select ‘Music & Book Resources’ and ‘Bush Dance Instructions’]
http://www.wongawillicolonialdance.org.au/

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Take Your Partners (3rd edition 1979) by one of Australia's pioneer social dance historians, Shirley Andrews (1915-2001).
Take Your Partners (3rd edition 1979) by one of Australia’s pioneer social dance historians Shirley Andrews (1915-2001). Out of print but available from some libraries and second-hand book dealers.
Cover of The Merry Country Dance (2005) by Peter Ellis
Cover of The Merry Country Dance (2005) by Peter Ellis (1946-2015), one of Australia’s pioneer social dance historians. Available from http://www.tradandnow.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=63