The Country Dance and Song Society (abbreviated CDSS) is a nonprofit organization that seeks to promote participatory dance, music, and song with English and North American roots.

[5][6][7][8][9] CDSS began in 1915 as a series of American chapters of the English Dance and Folk Society established by Cecil Sharp.

[10] Several US branches united under the English Folk Dance and Song Society of America in 1933,[11] and May Gadd was appointed as its first national director.

In 1949, its name was changed to Country Dance Society; “and Song” was added in 1967.

CDSS moved its office from New York City to western Massachusetts in 1987 and started a mail-order store for books, recordings, and supplies around the same time.