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.
Lyrics / Midi / Chord / Tab / Sheet Music
Chordie - Guitar Chords. By no means limited to folk music, but includes hundreds of songs.
Irish lyrics and guitar chords by Martin Dardis.
- list of Celtic and Irish Songs &
Lyrics with streaming MP3s free.
GuitarFreeTabs.com - Guitar Tabs. Free and Simple!
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
The Session - A well-organized site where you can pass on and learn jigs, reels and other dance tunes.
All Guitar Chords - Chord finder, including split chords and chord variations. Also features standard and exotic guitar scales.
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.
Groeswen Music - Songs and Tunes for the Young Musician - Site designed with the young musician in mind. A collection of fine tunes for the performer who has already learned the basic techniques and fingerings. Each site features music and background midi files for you to play along to.
Guitar Chords - http://www.guitarchords.co.za/ - Helpful interactive list of chords with fingering etc. Click on the chord to see the fingering.
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
- Europe's Folk, World & Roots Music Scene: News & Gossip, Articles, Interviews, CD and Live Reviews, Competitions
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
FolkWords - Tim Carroll's website features album reviews, links to interesting musians and bands, and a lot of interesting observations and comments about all things folk. Well worth a look.
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
Folk and Roots - A guide to the folk and acoustic scene, with information about UK folk gigs, folk concerts, folk festivals and hundreds of links!
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 library of Folk Music Links - The Folk Library Index is an on-going attempt to index information on the World Wide Web that is related to the fields of Folk Music.
A page of links from the California Traditional Music Society
A page of links from the Indiana University School of Music
Bright Young Folk - Keeping a beady eye on the bright young british folk scene.
Folk Talk - provides information on folk music events within the Linconshire and east Yorkshire region (UK) and festivals beyond.
Folk and Traditional Music Groups / Artists
http://www.myspace.com/peterjwebster - This is my myspace site, where you can listen to some of my music and find out about my upcoming shows. Please give it a visit.
Webster - Fergusson (website) - Website of the duo that I have with guitarist Ross Fergusson, including information about us and contact details for bookings.
Michèle Welborn - The website of the English singer-songwriter, Michèle Welborn, a lady with a wonderful voice.
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.
Michael Cardenas - The MySpace site of Michael Cardenas, a folk singer from Sante Fe Springs, California.
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.
Bill and Kristin Morris - Bill and Kristin Morris have performed together for more than ten years, singing songs and telling stories of steam railroading and Appalachian traditions. Bill Morris has been performing over thirty years and is recognized throughout the South and Midwest as a professional musician and Appalachian storyteller.
Guitar Lessons
http://guitarsecrets.com - Lead Guitar Made Easy and Free online Guitar Lessons.
Mad Guitar Licks - Free resource that offers dozens of guitar licks and lessons via video (with tablature), guitar lesson reviews, and famous “Rock God” biographies detailing how famous guitarists learned to play.
Cyberfret.com Guitar Lessons - Free online guitar lessons using audio and video. This site also features a tablature section and links to many guitar and music resources.
Acoustic Guitar Workshop - Home of acoustic fingerstyle guitar tuition on the net, free newsletter, free mp3's, tab and lessons.
Free Guitar Lessons - Guitar enthusiast of 15-years, Crazy Dave, operates the nets largest database of free video guitar licks and lessons. Styles of play include rock, metal, shred, and blues guitar. He also offers quality reviews of the net's many guitar courses available today.
Rick Payne's 'Folk in a Day' - The latest in the series of easy guitar courses written by
Rick Payne. Over 150 exercises all supported by video and powertab (costs £12.99 to download).
GuitarPlayerWorld - Learn & Play Guitar | Free Guitar Lessons Online.
Free Guitar Lessons - Guitar enthusiast of 15-years, Crazy Dave, operates what claims to be the net's largest database of free video guitar licks and lessons. Styles of play include rock, metal, shred, and blues guitar. He also offers quality reviews of the net's many guitar courses available today.
Learn and Master Guitar - Learn-and-Master-Guitar.Com is a non-biased review site. It takes a look at some of the web's more popular "learn to play guitar" programs.
Folk and Acoustic Music Clubs and Venues
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.
www.myspace.com/barleyfolk - BARLEY FOLK is a new venue for folk, traditional and acoustic music at The Barley Sheaf, Liskeard, Cornwall.
Other Folk / Roots / Traditional Music Links
Folk Music Images - Atmospheric photographs of folk musicians in action from North-West England and beyond.
Ivy Creek Recordings and Publications - Old-time traditional music from the Blue Ridge and Smoky mountains, featuring Appalachian Banjo & Fiddle Music, Storytelling, Ballads & Bluegrass, and the songs and sounds of Steam Railroading.
- Free MP3 and video hosting for folk and acoustic musicians, ezFolk is also an instructional site for banjo (bluegrass & clawhammer), folk guitar, ukulele, and harmonica. Hundreds of pages of tablature, tutorials, and more!
- Order traditional music CDs online.
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.
Topic Records - probably the oldest independent record label in the world......
A Wikipedia article about British Folk Songs
Links to Information About Copyright
Miscellaneous Links
Guitar Notes - Large guitar directory - 9000+ guitar links, 150,000+ tabs, lessons, gear, reviews etc.
- Folk Music around the World.
www.guitarcds.net - Guitar CD's Ltd was set up by guitarist Geoff Robb to help musicians reach a wider market and enable guitarists to sell their CDs worldwide, and to offer a one-stop shop for fans of all genres of guitar music.
CD replication - Community Musician is a leading provider of CD replication, duplication, and DVD manufacturing.
Beyond Concepts CD Duplication - specializes in short run CD.
Bollywood Entertainment - Bollywood entertainments and shows!
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!
