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.
Filmed 5/19/12 at a community dance party held in Chase Hall at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, this clip features portions of two separate traditional French Canadian social dances. The first is " Calveniche," a contre danse.
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.
"La Plongeuse/Franco-Jazz Kitchen Party,” an innovative collaborative work which fuses traditional French-Canadian contra dancing with contemporary choreography.
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.
Members of the Maine Folque Co-op's multi-generational traditional music ensemble entertain residents at the Maine Veterans' Home in Augusta on Franco Day 2016 with a lively rendition of two beloved Quebecois reels:
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.
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.
