I've done Bob Dalsemer's Dance Caller's Week at the Folk School. It's a wonderful place. But, I agree, in the dozen years since then I've seen little singing in their catalogs. The year I was there there was a Christian Harmony singing school the weekend immediately prior to Caller's Week, and I did that. (We had a Sunday field trip to sing with the folks at a little Baptist church in Ellijay, Georgia, which was pretty cool.) There was a sing-around session every morning, before breakfast, I think. It was nice, but that was hardly a civilised time to hold it! (Of course, that week we were busy dancing every night, maybe it's different during different weeks.)

There's very little available out there that's oriented toward traditional song. CDSS's Pinewoods Folk Music Week in Massachusetts and Augusta Heritage Center's Vocal Week, of which trad's just a part, and classes during Irish Week, and Blues Week, in West Virginia, are among the very few that I know of (and very best, maybe).

And Folk Music Week at Pinewoods, which I'd go to nearly every year if I had the choice is struggling to survive. (Sign up now, folks!!)

~ Becky in Tucson