Links by region and genre [return to top]
Britain
EFDSS	the homepage of the English Folk Dance and Song Society - many useful resources
Fol-de-rol	a comprehensive listing of folk music recordings and postal addresses to get them. There is also a diary of events, What's On, Where to See Who, Where to Join In.
Folklore Society
UK folk club index
English folk and traditional music on the Internet	useful resource plus info on some London clubs plus links, maintained by Martin Nail.
Acoustic London	includes links.
The Sussex Folk Guide
Avon Folk Diary
Bristol folk	Bristol area (maintained by Jo Lougheed)
Folkwrite	a regional magazine covering the area: Bristol, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Oxfordshire, Somerset, Wales, England Border, Wiltshire and Worcestershire.
South Midlands Sessions Guide
Folksong Gatherings in and Around Oxford (maintained by Ian Page)
Peterborough Folk Diary
FolkFax	Loads of useful info, especially Warwickshire
Leicestershire Folk Diary
Lancashire - Trouble at' Mill
Yorkshire Folk Music	and more, including links, from Barnacle Bill.
South Riding Folk Network (Yorkshire)
Traditional music in Northumberland
folkwales.org.uk	Definitive guide to traditional arts in Wales.
Scottish Music And Dance
Africa
The Mbira Home Page	Music from the indigenous cultures of Zimbabwe.
Motherland Nigeria	Nigerian music and samples of different styles.
baka.co.uk	Info about the Baka Forest People (Cameroon) and the band Baka Beyond, also "One Heart", the charity set up to channel money back to the Baka from their royalties. Excellent.
Afro-Caribbean
Afro-Caribbean Musics	Devoted to the promotion of the Afro-Caribbean culture by means of its music.
Trinidad Calypso Tent	Choc Full O' Facts About Calypso And Soca Music, Featuring Artists from Trinidad and Tobago
North America
American Folklife Center	The Library of Congress's amazing resource.
World Folk Music Association	The Washington DC based WFMA is a non-profit, tax exempt organization with a mission to help folk artists and their fans keep the light of folk music burning brightly.
Country Dance & Song Society	Founded in 1915 with the help of Cecil Sharp
Folk Alliance	Founded in 1989, Folk Alliance was created to increase public awareness of the vital artistic and cultural importance of folk music and dance
Native American Music Resources
Intermountain Acoustic Music Association	Intermountain Acoustic Music Association is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization dedicated to the preservation, furtherance and spread of acoustic music, including bluegrass, British isles, folk, old-time and related musical forms.
Old Songs	Old Songs, Inc. is a not-for-profit, educational, tax-exempt organization dedicated to preserving traditional music and dance, centred in Guilderland, New York.
Baltimore Folk Music Society
Folk Zone	Boston MA.
Bob Leigh's links to folk music information	Boston MA.
Triangle Folk Music Society	North Carolina.
Folk Dance Council of Chicago
Fox Valley Folklore Society	a great source of Chicago area folk music info.
Ed and Theresa's homepage	includes Kansas area and dulcimer links.
Philadelphia Folksong Society
San Diego Folk Heritage
Seattle Folklore Society
Tucson Kitchen Musicians' Association
Three Rivers Folklife Society (3RFs) Home Page	SE Washington and NE Oregon.
Northwest Folklife
Southern Songbirds	the women pioneers of early country and old-time music.
South America
Andean Music And Culture
Cultures Of The Andes	Quechua, songs, music, poems, stories, photos
WWW Of Peru	including a collection of Traditional Peruvian music.
La Musica
World-Wide Samba
Picadillo	The starting point for Salsa surfers
musicavirtual.com
Arabic
The Arabic Music Page	loads of references.
Insights into Arabic, Indian and other Asian and Western classical traditions.
Australia
Australian Folk Songs
Australian Dance Music
Australian Folk Festivals
Folk Australia	Australia's heritage and traditions through word music and song.
The Wongawilli Colonial Dance Club Inc	features information about Australian Bush Music and Dancing.
Balkans
Balkan Tunes and links	For Dance, Music & Folklore.
Bluegrass
International Bluegrass Music Association
Planet Bluegrass	Telluride Festival, RockyGrass, Rocky Mt. Folks, Song School, etc.
Bluegrass Lyric Site	Motoya Kitagawa's amazing bluegrass lyric collection.
Terry's Banjo and Bluegrass page	bluegrass in the UK.
Blues and Jazz
The Blues Foundation
UK Northern Blues Guide	site for blues in the north of England
Breton
The Spiral Dance	Ray Price's excellent overview site includes many links.
Breton Folk Music, Breton Identity, and Alan Stivell's Again	Steve Winick's learned article originally published in the Journal of American Folklore.
Webfeet's Breton & French dance in the UK
Cajun and Zydeco
The Gumbo Pages	a musical, cultural and culinary guide to New Orleans and French Louisiana.
cajunzydeco.net	Cajun/Zydeko Music and Dance
Cajun Zydeco Web Resources	- from San Francisco
The Chicago Cajun Connection
Cajun Music and Dance in the UK	The Cajun Times Online
Canada
Northern Journey Online	Canadian Folk Music
UFOJOE Canada Folk Music Site	Canadian Folk Festivals and more
COMA	Canada Online Musician's Association Website
Greenbank Folk Music Society	concerts and sessions in Ontario
Finland
Music of Finland	Rootsworld's Finland feature pages
Folk Music and Dance in Finland	The Sibelius Academy's Folk Music Department.
France
musictrad.org	The home for traditional music in France
Musiques traditionnelles Rhône-Alpes	events, concerts, festivals, groups and workshops in the south-east of France. Includes good links. English version available
French Music Database
French Canadian
Thirty Below	Catalogue of Québec traditional folk music, including recordings, books and videos.
Hungary
Hungarian Folk Music Dance & Handicraft	details of festivals, dance groups, bands, teachers, clubs, camps, education and an agency for artists.
India
Batish Institute of Music and Fine Arts
Eastern Harmony	Demos and instructions for those learning how to play Indian classical music instruments.
Classical Music of India
Ireland and other Celtic
The World of Celtica	contains information about all things Irish.
Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann Ireland Home Page (Ireland)
The other Comhaltas Home Page (USA)
Every Celtic Thing on the Web
Fiddlers Green	Irish resources
G8INA	G8INA's Irish Music Page
Gaelic and Gaelic Culture
Amhrán Gaelach	Gaelic Song Archive
Traditional Gaelic song and singing sean-nós	Pages maintained by Craig Cockburn.
i WEB	Introduction to Dojo's web resources.
Irish Music Jukebox	Audio files hosted by Dojo.
Irish Music Box	Great e-zine hosted by Dojo.
Jigtime	JigTime is a company dedicated to promoting Irish Music and other events of an Irish or Celtic nature in London, Ireland, the UK and Worldwide.
The Just Irish Music List	J.I.M. is a subscription list open to all who are interested in Irish Music, much useful info.
MusicWeb Ireland	dedicated to promoting music and music-related activities of Ireland on the Internet
Tara Music in Dublin
Ulstersong	Ulstersongs principal aim is to make available songs, mainly from the province of Ulster. It also seeks to make available reliable information concerning other aspects of the Ulster and Irish singing and musical traditions.
The Virtual Irish Pub	fun and contacts.
Israeli and Jewish
Jewish Music Home Page	Recordings, Videos, Books, Links & More.
Jewish Music Heritage Trust
Klezmer On Line
Ari Davidow's Klezmer Shack
Italy
Vox Neapolis	The Virtual Museum of the Neapolitan Song offers lyrics and some scores.
New Zealand
New Zealand Folk and Acoustic Music
Pakistan
pakistanimusic.com
Reggae
Reggae Links
reggae.com
The Reggae Source
Jah Radio's Reggae Pages
Jammin Reggae Archives
Resource Links [return to top]
General
AudioNet CD Jukebox	Folk, blues, bluegrass, jazz, polkas, available in RealAudio format.
Fast Folk (USA)	A non-profit making organisation dedicated to bringing folk to the world.
Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange Home Page	excellent site for album reviews.
Folk Den	maintained by Roger McGuinn, dedicated to keeping the folk tradition alive.
A Folk Music Homepage	by Jay Glickman, lots of useful links and info.
Folk Stuff	includes many links to instrument pages including didgeridu, theramin, accordion, bagpipes etc.
folkmusic.org	This is a necessary bookmark for any lover of roots music, with listings for artists, labels and all sorts of other resources.
FROG	The Folk and Roots Online Guide - from the Editors of Folkworld
Folk Music Resources on the Internet	Mauro Ravera's pages include many links including artists - highly International!
Global Music Centre	A music institute based in Finland dedicated to the different musics of the world.
Harmony Central	general music resource, useful esp. for technology.
Hungry For Music (USA)	organisation helping disadvantaged people through music, very worhtwhile.
Folk Music Index	Jane Keefer's large searchable database of recordings, excellent.
International Music Collection, British Library National Sound Archive
The Library of Congress' Folk Music Gopher
Media Usage in the Folk Music Community (USA)	Interesting analysis
The M.et.al Archives: Folk
The M.et.al Archives: Singer/Songwriter
Robert Mizik's collection	World-music related sound samples, pointers to other interesting Web sites, and more.
Musi-Cal	Search on-line for live performance dates world-wide.
Music Alive! (USA)	acoustic music and venues.
Worldwide Music Resources on the Internet	contains a huge number of links - web sites, gopher sites, artist-specific sites, local music sites, record label sites...
Music Search	A new but growing database of everything related to music.
Nerd World : Folk Music
Rogue Folk Club World Resources
RootsWorld	Superb roots, folk and world music resource - unsurpassed.
The Ultimate Band List	includes folk and roots artistes.
Vaughan Williams Memorial Library
Africa Iwalewa - World music + links
Yahoo Folk	Yahoo folk resources.
Song resources
The Digital Tradition	An amazing searchable database of thousands of folk songs, many of which include tunes.
Pre-1600 English Ballads
Songs for Social Change
The Traditional Ballad Index
Zaphod's Irish Songbook
Songwriter resources
The Muse's Muse	Resources for songwriters.
lyricist.com	Jeff Mallett's songwriter resource site.
songs.com	Songwriter resources and much more.
Performance Rights Information from PRS (UK)
Performance Rights Information from MCPS (UK)
Performance Rights Information from ASCAP (USA)
Performance Rights Information from BMI (USA)
Tunebooks
The abc home page	Not so much a tunebook, more a way of life. Links to almost every source of abc tunes on the Web, abc software for PC and Mac, and a lot of useful info.
The Virtual Tunebook	Dan Beimborn's Tune Collection
Henrik Norbeck's Tunebook
Michael Loehr's Tune Collection
Nottingham Music database	vast collection at Nottingham University.
Richard Robinson Tune Book	is an excellent source of varied tunes.
TuneWeb	Richard Darsie's tunebook.
Taylor's Traditional Tunebook	quite a collection of tunes, predominately Scottish and Irish, but with a smattering of Welsh and English.
Folk Music, Tunes, Lyrics and Info	Lesley Nelson's great Folk Music and Turlough Carolan MIDI files site.
Standard MIDI Files on the Net	The definitive list of all MIDI related sites on the 'net.
Dance
Folk Dance Resources on the WWW
International Folk Dance Resource Guide
World-Wide Web European Dance Server
World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Dance
Webfeet	Webfeet is English Ceilidh, Folk Dance, Barn Dance, Cajun, French, Breton, Morris... Reviews, links and events listings.
Yahoo! - Arts: Performing Arts: Dance: Folk
Web Cloggers
Bob's Contra Page	maintained by Bob Stein
Contra Dance Web Site
The Dance Gypsy (USA)	calender of dance events
Ann's Place - Irish Dance
Irish Set Dancing
Hungarian Dance	home page, including Tanchaz info.
International Folk Dance and Midi links Page	Maintained by Piet Carels
Morris Federation
Open Morris
Mainly Morris Dancing
Morris Dancing FAQ
Morris & Sword Dance Team Home Pages
The English Dancing Master by John Playford (1651)
Scandinavian Dance	pages by Roo Lester
Western Square Dancing
Chicago Traditional American Folk Dance Web Site
Suppliers of recordings, books and instruments
The Music Room	Britain's Centre of Excellence for traditional musical instruments
Free Reed Records & Music (UK)	Neil Wayne's Free Reed - source for rare Free Reed vinyl albums etc
David Mallinson Music and Publications (UK)
Veteran Mail Order (UK)	records and tapes
Elderly Instruments (USA)
House of Musical Traditions (USA)	instruments, books,recordings
Lark In The Morning (USA)	specializes in hard to find musical instruments, music and instructional materials
Multicultural Media (USA)	Traditional & Roots Music & Dance From Around The World
Magazines
Acoustic Musician Magazine On Line (USA)
Banjo Newsletter
Blues and Soul
CelticMusic.com (USA)	On-line Celtic music magazine
banjo.com	Cybergrass-The Internet Bluegrass Magazine
78 Quarterly	for collectors of vintage recordings
Bluesworld e-mag
Dirty Linen	Excellent American magazine of Folk, Electric Folk, Traditional and World Music
Fiddler Magazine
Folk London Magazine
Folk Music Journal	Magazine of the English Folk Dance and Song Society
Folk Roots Magazine	the UK's leading mag has an excellent website
folkmusic.org's media list	Indexes folk and world music related media resources.
Folklore	magazine of The Folklore Society (UK)
The Folk Mag	Events and news from the UK Midlands.
Goldmine Magazine	speciality record collectors periodical
Acoustic Guitar Magazine (USA)
Guitar Player Magazine (USA)	Archives & Information
Flat Picking Guitar Magazine (USA)
Vintage Guitar Magazine On The Web (USA)
Hot Press	Ireland's fortnightly music paper
Living Tradition Magazine	Useful links and resources as well as a great mag.
Musical Traditions Magazine	Now in e-zine format, rich and satisfying.
The Old Time Herald	a magazine for traditional American old-time country music
Sing Out!	One of America's oldest and most quoted folk music magazines
Stirrings Magazine	Magazine covering the areas of South Yorkshire and North East Derbyshire
Traditional Music Maker
Festivals
Folk Roots 1999 Europe and Britain Festivals Index
Festival Focus	On-line guide to music festivals in the British Isles.
US Folk Festivals
Links by instrument [return to top]
Accordion
Accordiana
Accordion Worldwide Homepage
Jeroen Nijhof's Accordion Links	Squeeze box players' Heaven
Banjo
Banjo Music: Acutab	Tablature and more for the banjo
Terry's Banjo and Bluegrass page	bluegrass in the UK
Bodhran
The Ceolas Bodhran Page
World of Bodhrans
Bouzouki
The Kalis and Co. Bouzouki Pages
Bombarde
The Bombarde
Bombarde FAQ
Concertina
Concertina FAQ
Chris Timson and Anne Gregson's home pages	includes links esp. concertina
The Concertina Pages	including a tour of a concertina, by Bob Nichols
Crumhorn
The Crumhorn Home Page
Dulcimer
The Hammered Dulcimer Web Page
Jerry Rockwell's Mountain Dulcimer Page
The Nonsuch Dulcimer Club
Music Magic	Tim Manning, maker of dulcimers and other fine instruments
Fiddle
The Fiddle Web
George Keith's fiddle page
Chris Ricker's fiddle page
Michigan University violin teaching	useful info
Flute
Secrets of the Flute
Mark Shepard's Flute Page
Irish and Scottish Flute Books
Guitar
Acoustic Guitarists' Annotated Guide to the Internet
Acoustic Guitar Workshop	Excellent courses, free newsletter and loads of interesting links.
Brad's Page Of Steel	Info on steel and slide guitars (lap, resonator, Indian etc) and their players
Guitar Net	Useful source of info.
The Official Guitar Chord of the Week!
Harmonica
Harmonica.org	Great resource for all things harmonica.
Cyber-Harp-World (Harmonica) Home Page
Harp
The European Harp Page
Harp.net	from Mayo, Ireland
The Harp Page (Folk Harp Resources)
Annual Harpers' Escape! Weekend in Spring Lake, NJ
Hurdy-Gurdy
Alden and Cali Hackmann's Hurdy-gurdy Site
Matthew Szostak's Hurdy-gurdy Page
Lute and Cittern
Lutes
Guitar and Lute
The Lute Page
The Cittern Pages
The Renaissance Cittern Page
Mandolin
The Mandolin Cafe
Mandolin Brothers Home Page
Peter Coombe	mandolin maker
Pipes
The Bagpipe Web
Northumbrian Smallpipes page	maintained by Julia Say, includes lots of useful links and information
Rootsworld bagpipes feature
Virtual Pipes	Dan Morrill's Virtual Pipes web page
Uilleann Pipe Information List
Uilleann Bagpipe MIDI Page	MIDI files for traditional Irish dance music
Shakuhachi
Shakuhachi Links
Tai Hei Shakuhachi	Lots of info.
Japanese Shakuhachi Home Page
Tin Whistle
Ceolas Tin Whistle Guide
Mike Simpson's Sessioneer pages	Loads of Tin Whistle info, great tutorial and much more.
Whistling Low	Low whistle info galore!
The Tin Whistle Page	Loads of useful info and fun!
General instrument info
Sibelius Academy	Comprehensive links to information on all kinds of instruments
Mugwumps Instrument Herald Online
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