NYFS Resources: New York Folklore Organizations

A Who’s Who of Our Universe—Connect to organizations allied with the New York Folklore Society in fields of

Folklore and Folk Arts
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Ethnography & Anthropology       Ethnomusicology & Music
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History, Libraries and Museums

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ALLIED ORGANIZATIONS

Ethnology and Anthropology Organizations

History Organizations, Libraries & Museums

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New York Folklore Society
P.O. Box 764
Schenectady, NY 12301
518/346-7008
Fax 518/346-6617
nyfs@nyfolklore.org

ORGANIZATIONS

NEW YORK
FOLKLORE ORGANIZATIONS

NYFS Member	Center for Traditional Music and Dance Peter Rushefsky, Executive Director Ethel Raim, Artistic Director 32 Broadway, Suite 1314 New York, NY 10004 212/571-1555 Fax 212/571-9052 Email traditions@ctmd.org	The Center for Traditional Music & Dance is a New York City-based non-profit arts organization that works to celebrate and strengthen the practice of traditional performing arts. Since its founding in 1966, the Center has produced over 800 major presentations. Programs include concerts, festivals, audio and video productions, concert tours, technical assistance, collaborative projects and consultations with artists, cultural activists and with educational and cultural institutions.
NYFS Member	City Lore Steve Zeitlin, Executive Director 72 East First Street, #1 New York, NY 10003-9322 212/529-1955 Fax 212/529-5062 E-mail citylore@citylore.org	City Lore is a cultural center dedicated to the documentation, preservation, and presentation of New York City — and America’s — living cultural heritage. City Lore is committed to the belief that the quality of life is tied to the vitality of grassroots folk cultures, to the neighborhoods and communities in which we live. In an era where mass culture and commercial media increasingly threaten sameness, traditional culture is a resource for renewed inspiration and enhanced quality of life. Among City Lore’s numerous education, folklife, and public history programs and publications are special events such as the People’s Poetry Gathering and the annual People’s Hall of Fame; the public radio series American Talkers; music and film series; and a brochure/calendar on ethnic festivals in New York City. To learn more about their programs, visit City Lore’s website. To access their multimedia mail order Catalog, CARTS, which offers over 150 high-quality resources in folklore, history, and culture, and the arts, visit their education site, Cultural Arts Resources for Teachers and Students (CARTS).
NYFS Member	Hallockville Museum Farm and Folklife Center Jarod Kearney, Director Jennifer Neely, Curator of Education/Folklorist 6038 Sound Avenue P.O. Box 765 Riverhead, NY 11901 631/298-5292 Fax 631/298-0144 E-mail hallockv@optonline.net	Hallockville, Inc., is dedicated to the documentation, preservation and interpretation of the history, oral history and folklore of Suffolk County. The Hallockville Museum Farm is located at the historic Hallock Homestead, known as "The Shady Lawn Farm" in 1900. The earliest part of the homestead, built in 1765, is today interpreted as a farmstead representative of North Fork Farm Life c. 1900. The Hallockville Folklife Center, located adjacent to the Homestead in the c.1840 Terry/Hudson House, conducts programs including fieldwork documentation, folk arts-in-education, festivals, concerts, folk arts programming on local community access television, exhibits, workshops, and craft demonstrations, both on site and through Suffolk County.
NYFS Member	Long Island Traditions Nancy Solomon, Executive Director 382 Main Street Port Washington, NY 11050 516/767-8803 Fax 516/767-8805 E-mail info@longislandtraditions.org	Long Island Traditions is dedicated to documenting and preserving the living cultural resources of the region’s occupational, ethnic and architectural traditions. LI Traditions produces festivals, arts-in-education residencies and workshops, museum exhibitions, awards programs and apprenticeships, concerts and walking tours. LI Traditions publishes a quarterly newsletter. They also work with numerous folk artists including maritime and aviation folk artists, African American quilters and gospel singers, Trinidadian steelband players, occupational folk artists, Irish musicians and stepdancers, along with other tradition bearers.
	New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Folk Arts Program Robert Baron, Program Director 175 Varick Street New York, NY 10014 212/741-7755 800/510-0021 (toll-free in NYS) Fax 212/620-5676 E-mail rbaron@nysca.org	The NYSCA Folk Arts Program supports projects by eligible non profit organizations that present, preserve, and perpetuate the folk arts. It provides funding both for programming designed to reinforce traditions within the communities where they originate and for activities directed to general audiences involving traditional arts of New York State and other parts of the world. For more information, visit the NYSCA Folk Arts page in this web site and www.nysca.org
NYFS Member	Traditional Arts in Upstate New York (TAUNY) Varick Chittenden, Director 53 West Main St. Canton, NY 13617 315/386-4289 Fax 315/379-0784 E-mail info@tauny.org	Traditional Arts in Upstate New York (TAUNY) is a regional arts organization, dedicated solely to community-based folk arts and traditional activities. TAUNY was formed to collect, conserve, and present the traditional cultures of the 14-county region north of the Mohawk River. The primary service area is the northern Adirondacks, the St. Lawrence River Valley, and the Champlain Valley. TAUNY conducts field research; maintains a print, sound, and photo archive and a gallery for changing exhibitions; and presents its findings in concerts, lectures, media productions, and publications.
	World Music Institute 4 West 43rd Street, Suite 404 New York, NY 10036 212/545-7536 Fax 212/889-2771 E-mail WMI@HearTheWorld.Org	The World Music Institute (WMI) is dedicated to the preservation and documentation of traditional and contemporary music and dance from around the world. Since its founding in 1985, WMI has built the most comprehensive concert series of music and dance in the U.S. WMI presents more than 60 concerts a year in New York City from over 75 countries and ethnic minorities as well as regional music from North America. WMI also organizes tours; maintains an extensive catalog of more than 4,000 recordings, videos, and books; has built an extensive audio archive of digital recordings of its concerts and has recently begun a video archive; has produced radio series for National Public Radio; and provides concerts and lecture/demonstrations for educational institutions.