Folk Informations Needed

[Juryl]

Hello (and sorry for the not-so-good thread title),
I am looking for informations on the types of dancers, festivals and costumes associated with the folk songs of Russia. I couldn't find any informations on the web(or maybe I am not searching hard enough or I haven't been using more descriptive keywords) and I've been searching for 3 straight days! >.< Even if I have found a good site, the page won't work(Error 404 - Page not found).

I was really disappointed on that until I found this site.. I hope that you all can help me! This is for my music assignment, which is about Folk Songs and my teacher also wanted informations on the types of Folk dancers, costumes and festivals in Russia(the country I chose to research about). Or you can just give me the site URL if you want.

Thank you,
~ Juryl

PS. If you know a couple of instruments used in Russian Folk Songs, that would be tons cool!

[mastodon]

Here is a page with many samples of Russian folk music:
http://russia-in-us.com/Music/Folk/

Here is the best Russian consortium on the net and their page concerning Russian folk music:
http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/music.html