Welcome to the New Mexico Folk Music and Dance Society Website! FolkMADS is a non-profit organization which promotes and teaches traditional music and dance. Our reach includes Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Taos. To register online or here for more information. About the event in general! About the camp in general.

Clara Byom is a performer, scholar, and educator in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She performs klezmer, English Country, contra dance, Scottish dance, and classical music on clarinet, bass clarinet, piano, and accordion. Clara is a graduate student at the University of New Mexico in Clarinet Performance and Musicology. While Clara is classically trained in both clarinet and piano and particularly enjoys new classical music, as of late she has largely devoted her time and energy into studying folk music.