Franco-American folk dance teacher Cindy Larock leads a group of first-year French students in learning the traditional Quebecois dance Contre Calveniche. She can be heard in the background calling out the moves and playing the spoons.

Cindy Larock was interviewed by ethnomusicology students at Colby College as part of a project designed to document Maine Franco-Americans currently involved in preserving and promoting the French musical traditions of the state.

(8/20/2014, Lewiston, Maine) The Dirigo Rising Stars warm up for their upcoming American Folk Festival appearances with a concert for the residents of Montello Heights Retirement Community. Here they are performing the French-Canadian classic “Joys of Quebec.”

The Dirigo Rising Stars entertain residents of Montello Heights Retirement Community (Lewiston, Maine) with a lively rendition of “Golden Slippers” two days before they hit the road for their appearance at the 2014 American Folk Festival (Aug. 23 & 24 in Bangor).

The Great Falls Folk Orchestra performs a couple of classic New England dance tunes under the direction of Doug Protsik, on March 1, 2014, at the Franco Center in Lewiston, Maine.

"La Plongeuse/Franco-Jazz Kitchen Party,” an innovative collaborative work which fuses traditional French-Canadian contra dancing with contemporary choreography.

Members of the Great Falls Folk Orchestra joined forces with Ten Strings & a Goat Skin in a concert presented on Dec. 29, 2013, at the UU Church in Auburn, Maine.

The French-Canadian folk dance "Calveniche," led by Cindy Larock at a family dance workshop held 5/4/13 as part of the “Fun in French” cultural enrichment program at the Franco-American Heritage Center in Lewiston, Maine. Musicians are Victor So on fiddle and Don Cunningham on guitar.

Franco-American folk dancer Cindy Larock, a master artist with the Maine Arts Commission's Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program, is partnered with her former MAC master artist mentor Benoit Bourque in a performance at the 2010 American Folk Festival in Bangor, Maine.

Strawberry Hill Fiddlers play the Levi Jackson Rag at the Acadiana Center for the Arts, April 2010