Folk Music Links
The Acoustic Music Archive at the iTunes Store
The Acoustic Music Archive at the iTunes Store: - Download songs featured in the Acoustic Music Arhive from the iTunes store.
Guitar Lessons
Guitar Camera - Guitar-video lessons and Guitar-video tabs at GuitarCamera.com
GuitarPlayerWorld - Learn & Play Guitar | Free Guitar Lessons Online.
8notes.com - Free sheet music, music lessons and resources for every piano, guitar, flute, violin and other instruments.
Guitar DownUnder - Free Classical and Fingerstyle music downloads!
GuitarBasics.com - Free daily guitar lessons: chords, scales, and arpeggio routines w/ tablature. Gear, books, software, videos, links & more...
Lyrics / Midi / Chord / Tab / Sheet Music
- list of Celtic and Irish Songs &
Lyrics with streaming MP3s free.
A Traditional Music Library: - A large archive of traditional, folk, and roots music with lyrics, sheet music and midis. Includes Bluegrass, Old-time, Irish, Scottish, Country dance, Session tunes etc. Also many folk music reference & research works.
The folk music of England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and America
Chordie - Guitar Chords. By no means limited to folk music, but includes hundreds of songs.
The Session - A well-organized site where you can pass on and learn jigs, reels and other dance tunes.
Free Guitar Chords - A large listing of guitar chords. Learn chord progression and understand why some chords sound better together then others.
Real Lyrics - Free Song Lyrics from many genres.
Celtic and Ireland in Song and Story - Information about a detailed and comprehensive songbook surrounding key events in Ireland’s political, social and sporting history.
Organizations
The English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) - For over 100 years, the Society has acted to preserve and promote the traditional song and dance of England.
Madison Folk Music Society - Bringinging the best of traditional and contemporary folk music to the greater Madison, Wisconsin area.
Online Folk and Roots Magazines
The Living Tradition - Full colour, bi-monthly Folk & Traditional music magazine that has been in publication for over 14 years. Highlights the rich heritage of traditional music in the British Isles and further afield, and attempts to bring it to a wider audience.
Folk and Acoustic Music Links and Guides
Jay Glicksman's Folk Music Home Page
The Quartette Folksong page - carefully chosen folk music links.
acousticmusic.com - a site with some fantastic information about music. Also worth looking for the monkey pictures!
acousticmusic.net - Dedicated to acoustic music in Southern California ...and beyond.
English Folk and Traditional Music on the Internet - a Guide to Resources
Ron's Folk Chords - Guitar chords and lyrics to songs from today's top folksingers.
http://folk.startpagina.nl/ - a Dutch folk music site.
A page of links from the California Traditional Music Society
A page of links from the Indiana University School of Music
Folk and Traditional Music Groups / Artists
Peter Webster and Ross Fergusson (MySpace) - Accomplished acoustic music duo, with a combination of traditional songs, self-penned numbers and carefully-chosen covers. You can hear a couple of examples at this page, including an excellent version of 'Lord Franklin'.
Peter Webster and Ross Fergusson (website) - Peter and Ross's website, with more information about them, including contact details.
Quartette - Since their debut in 1993, the four members of Quartette have been both publicly and critically acclaimed for their lush harmonies and delightfully diverse repertoire. Cindy Church, Caitlin Hanford, Gwen Swick, and Sylvia Tyson are seasoned singer/songwriters whose influences range from blues and gospel to folk and country to jazz and pop.
Brobdingnagian Bards - (pronounced brob-din-nahg-EE-en) are The Original Celtic Renaissance music duo from Austin, Texas. Their unique brand of folk music on the autoharp, recorder, and mandolin has made them one of the most-popular Celtic music groups online where they give away thousands of free Celtic MP3 downloads daily.
Chris Butler - The homepage of folk singer, Chris Butler.
Calliope Creek - Guitar and fiddle duet playing traditional Celtic and Appalachian music, based in California.
Andy Irvine - Andy Irvine has been hailed as "a tradition in himself." Musician, singer and songwriter, Andy has maintained both personal integrity and highly individual performing skills throughout his 40-year career. From Sweeney's Men in the mid sixties to the enormous success of Planxty in the 70s, to THE Irish super group, Patrick Street, in the 80s, Andy has been a world music pioneer and icon for traditional music and musicians.
Folk Clubs
Bodmin Folk Club - Bodmin Folk Club, Cornwall, UK, established in 1968.
Penicuik Folk Club and Festival - The town of Penicuik (near Edinburgh in Scotland) has some 15 000 inhabitants. This is its folk club.
Other Folk / Roots / Traditional Music Links
Folk Music Images - Atmospheric photographs of folk musicians in action from North-West England and beyond.
- Order traditional music CDs online.
Folktalk - providing information on folk music events within the Linconshire and east Yorkshire region and festivals beyond.
Neil Brook - Hurdy-Gurdy and fretted instrument maker.
Cornwall and the Cornish - Brycchan Carey's website about (surprise, surprise!) Cornwall and the Cornish. An excellent site that includes a fascinating page commenting on several Cornish folk songs.
Songs of the West - a site that describes the life and work of Sabine Baring-Gould and the collection of songs that he made at the end of the nineteenth century. Sabine Baring Gould was the Squire and Parson of the parish of Lewtrenchard in West Devon, in the UK. He was also a scholar, antiquarian, collector and a prolific author of both fiction and non-fiction: a man who was, in many ways, out of step with the rest of his generation.
Bob Jensen's Links to Online Music and Video - a long list of interesting music and video links.
A Wikipedia article about British Folk Songs
Links to Information About Copyright
Miscellaneous Links
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UK Dance Record Store - DJ Vinyl - Global Groove Records - Browse our online record store and DJ shop for the latest Vinyl releases and DJ gear. Specialists in new and second-hand dance vinyl, promos, white labels, dj mixes and dj gear.
If you run a folk, roots or traditional music, or related, web site, I'll be happy to link to you from this page, so please feel free to contact me. But please add a reciprocal link from your site to my Lyrics and Chords page (http://www.acousticmusicarchive.com/lyrics_chords_and_downloads.html). I do check!
