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Alliance of Round, Traditional and Square-Dance, Inc. (ARTS-Dance) is an association to promote round, square, line, and other forms of traditional and folk dance.It is a non-profit/charitable foundation under the U.S. Internal Revenue Service section 501(c)(3) incorporated in North Carolina in 2003 with its main address in San Diego, California.
The suffix "-ville," from the French word for "city" is common for town and city names throughout the United States. Many originally French place names, possibly hundreds, in the Midwest and Upper West were replaced with directly translated English names once American settlers became locally dominant (e.g. "La Petite Roche" became Little Rock ...
Folk Alliance International (previously the North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance) is a non-profit organization that produces an annual conference that is the world's largest gathering of the folk music industry and community. Founded in 1989, FAI is an advocacy, professional development and networking organization, and is one of the ...
French America (French: Amérique française), sometimes called Franco-America, in contrast to Anglo-America, is the French-speaking community of people and their diaspora, notably those tracing back origins to New France, the early French colonization of the Americas. The Canadian province of Quebec is the centre of the community and is the ...
Fayetteville has received the All-America City Award from the National Civic League four times. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 208,501, [5] It is the 6th-most populous city in North Carolina. Fayetteville is in the Sandhills in the western part of the Coastal Plain region, on the Cape Fear River.
North Carolina is a state located in the Southern United States.According to the 2020 United States census, North Carolina is the 9th-most populous state with 10,439,388 inhabitants, but the 28th-largest by land area spanning 53,819 square miles (139,390 km 2) of land.
The Shag is recognized as the "North Carolina Popular Dance". [126] The Greater Triad Shag Club meets monthly at Thirsty's 2 [127] in Greensboro. Greensboro Ballet and School of Greensboro Ballet: [128] A traditional December production of The Nutcracker is just one of the many artistic and educational activities offered by the ballet company ...
Wilmington is a port city in New Hanover County, North Carolina, United States.With a population of 115,451 as of the 2020 census, it is the eighth-most populous city in the state. [7]