Websites


Magazines (hard copy)

- The Living Tradition (www.folkmusic.net)
- South Riding Folk Network (www.folk-network.com/)
- Music Maker (www.tradmusic.net)
- Froots (www.frootsmag.com)
- Irish Music (www.mayo-ireland.ie//IrishMusic.htm)
- Acoustic Guitar (www.acousticguitar.com)
- Dirty Linen (USA)(6 per year)(www.dirtylinen.com)
- Sing Out! (USA)(www.singout.org)
- Penguin Eggs (Canada)(www.penguineggs.ab.ca)
- HMV Choice (free magazine available from HMV stores)

Magazines (on line)

- Martin Nail (web.ukonline.co.uk/martin.nail/Folkmus.htm)
- Musical Traditions (www.mustrad.org.uk)
- Musical Traditions album reviews (www.mustrad.org.uk/reviews/r_uk.htm)
- BBC Radio 2 (www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/r2music/folk/reviews/atoz.shtml)
- Trad Music (gigs) (www.tradmusic.com/index.asp)
- CD Roots (www.cdroots.com/britain.shtml)
- FROG Folk Roots Online Guide (www.folkworld.de/frog/irlart.htm)
- www.folkworld.de/frog/
- FolDeRol www.piper-kj.demon.co.uk/diary.htm
- Irish Music Review (www.irishmusicreview.com/)
- Pay The Reckoning (www.paythereckoning.com/index.html)
- Rambles (www.rambles.net/celtic_trad.html)
- Global (www.globalvillageidiot.net/reviews.htm)
- TSMA (Traditional Music and Song Association of Scotland)
(www.tmsa.org.uk)
- Selected English Folksingers (http://www.goldilox.co.uk/engfolk/shirley_collins.htm)
- Grahams Celtic Folk Links
(www.users.zetnet.co.uk/gsivills/gscelt.html)
- Folklib Index (www.folklib.net/)
- ITMA (www.itma.ie/)
- Ireland’s Internet Directory (www.niceone.com/)
- Folk and Roots (www.folkandroots.co.uk)
- Folk and Roots gig guide (www.folkandroots.co.uk/gigguide.htm)
- Folking (www.folking.com/)
- Foot Stompin' (www.footstompin.com/home)
- Traditional Music (www.tradmusic.com/index.asp)
- Acoustic music (www.acousticmusic.com/)
- Folk Archive Resource North East (www.asaplive.com/farne/home.cfm)
- www.netrhythms.co.uk/reviews.html
- Search Europe venues for traditional music
England - 
(www.searcheurope.com/search/Countries/United_Kingdom/England/Arts_and_Entertainment/Music/Styles/Traditional/Clubs_and_Venues/index.shtml)
Scotland - 
(www.searcheurope.com/search/Countries/United_Kingdom/Scotland/Arts_and_Entertainment/Music/Styles/Traditional/Clubs_and_Venues/index.shtml)
N Ireland - 
(www.searcheurope.com/search/Countries/United_Kingdom/Northern_Ireland/Arts_and_Entertainment/Music/Styles/Traditional/Clubs_and_Venues/index.shtml)
Flaxey Green (South Devon) (www.flaxey-green.co.uk/)

Labels

- Arhoolie (www.arhoolie.com) 
- Culburnie (www.culburnie.com) 
- Claddagh (www.claddaghrecords.com/www/default.asp) 
- Cooking Vinyl (www.cookingvinyl.com) 
- Fledg'ling (www.thebeesknees.com/bk-fr-in.html) 
- Gael-Linn (www.gael-linn.ie) 
- Green Linnet (www.greenlinnet.com) 
- Greentrax (www.greentrax.com) 
- Scottish-Irish (www.scottish-irish.com/asp/) 
- Hannibal/RYKO (www.rykodisc.com) 
- Higher Octave (www.higheroctave.com) 
- Humming Bird Records (www.hummingbirdrecords.com) 
- Park (www.parkrecords.com) 
- Rounder (www.rounder.com) 
- Shanachie (www.shanachie.com/) 
- Takoma (www.fantasyjazz.com) 
- Talking Elephant (www.talkingelephant.co.uk) 
- Tara (www.musicscotland.com) 
- Temple (www.templerecords.co.uk) 
- Topic (www.topicrecords.co.uk) 
- Folk legacy recordings (www.folk-legacy.com/recordings/SongList.asp?cmd=resetall)

CD sales

- www.hmv.co.uk
- www.towereurope.com
- www.musicwords.nl/index.htm
- www.irishmusicstore.com/
- http://www.musicscotland.com/acatalog
- Musical Traditions Records (mtrecords.co.uk)
- Veteran (www.veteran.co.uk/main.htm)
- Freak Emporium (www.freakemporium.com)
- Chart music (www.charts-music.co.uk)
- Amazon (www.amazon.co.uk)
- Folk legacy recordings (www.folk-legacy.com/recordings/SongList.asp?cmd=resetall)
- Scottish-Irish (www.scottish-irish.com/asp/genresearch.asp)
- Fish Records (www.fishrecords.co.uk/index.html)
- English folk music (www.englishfolkmusic.net/catalogueatoe.html)
- or					(www.englishfolkmusic.net/search.html)
- Gracenote (*) (www.gracenote.com/)
(* this site allows searching by album, by artist or by track)
- CD Universe (*) (www.cduniverse.com)
(* this site allows searching by artist, title or by song)
- Cube Roots (www.cuberoots.com/index.php)

Book sales

- Mally's Traditional Music Store (www.mally.com/default.asp)
(click on "publishing")

Downloads/ MP3s

- (www.mp3.com/)
- Music Match (from AllMusic guide)(www.mmguide.musicmatch.com)
- Music.com (www.music.com/)
- Woven Wheat Whispers (www.wovenwheatwhispers.co.uk/folk_community/pc/mainIndex.asp)
- Rate Your Music (www.rateyourmusic.com/artist/)
- Trad tunes (www.tradtunes.com/shop.php)
- Music download (music.download.com/gordontyrrall/3600-8979_32-100289121.html)
- Radio 3 (Canada) (radio3.cbc.ca/)

On-line video

- WeShow videos(www.weshow.com/uk/c/99/folk)
- Music.com (www.music.com/)
- Youtube (www.youtube.com/)
- Myspace (http://www.myspace.com/)
(search video for "Spanfest", "Bellowhead", "traditional", "folk" etc)

Web radio

- The Acoustic Stage(www.theacousticstage.net/index.htm)
- Cool as Folk (www.coolasfolk.co.uk)
- Uilleann Obsession (www.uilleannobsession.com/links_radio.html)
- Folk Radio UK (www.folkradio.co.uk/component/option,com_magazine/Itemid,1/)
- Celtic Storm (www.celticcenter.org/celticstorm.php)

Dance Websites

- English Folk Dance & Song Society (www.efdss.org)
- English Country Dance (www.cdss.org/sales/english_dance.html)
- The Morris Ring (www.themorrisring.org/)
- Open Morris (wserv.langcen.cam.ac.uk/OpenMorris/)
- Morris Federation (www.morrisfed.org/mf/home.html)
- Webfeet (www.webfeet.org)
- Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann (www.comhaltas.com)
- Welsh Folk Dance Society (www.welshfolkdance.org.uk)
- Shave The Donkey (www.capers.co.uk/donkey)
- Royal Scottish Country Dance Society (www.rscds.org/)
- Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society
(http://www.dhds.org.uk/main.html)
- The NUT on the Net (http://www.geocities.com/~johnasher/the-nut)
- Dance history (http://www.earthlydelights.com.av/history.htm)
- Alternative Morris
(fp.millenas.f9.co.uk/almanac.htm)
- eCeilidh - directory of folk band artists
(www.candleford.com/eceilidh)
- Scottish Dance Bands - directory of bookable dance bands
(www.scottishdance.net/bands/A.html)
- Woven Wheat Whispers (folk customs)
(www.wovenwheatwhispers.co.uk/TheFolkYear.htm)
- Mummers' Plays/ Folk Plays
(www.folkplay.info/index.htm)
- Licensing Act 2003
(www.folkplay.info/Forum/TD_Forum_8_Licensing.htm)
- Dance History Archives
(www.streetswing.com/histmain/z1a.htm)
- Mixed Pickles Vintage Dance History
(www.angelfire.com/pn/vintagedance/home.html)
- 19th Century Social Dance. Jonathan Still's "Dance Rhythms"
(www.jsmusic.org.uk/articles/dance_rhythms.html)
- TRAMIS (Traditional Dance and Music Schools)
(www.tramis.co.uk/index.htm)

- Dance-related activities
(www.dancingdance.com)

Database Websites

- Jane Keefer (www.ibiblio.org/keefer/pf_frset.htm)
- Traditional Ballads (www.csufresno.edu/folklore/BalladSearch.html)
- Dave Roud
- James Madison Carpenter (www.hrionline.ac.uk/carpenter/search.html)
- Digital Tradition (sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/aidx/aidxA.html)
- Argo (www.nigelgatherer.com/perf/group.html)
- Slipcue (www.slipcue.com/music/international/celtic/celticmain.html)
- Alex Helm Collection (www.shef.ac.uk/~tdrc/Helm/index.htm)
(email: eddie.cass@btinternet.com and peter.milligan1@virgin.net)
- Trad Music (www.tradmusic.com/index.asp)
- FolDeRol (www.piper-kj.demon.co.uk/diary.htm)
- Ceolas (www.ceolas.org/artists)
- Ballads in Bodelian Library (www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ballads/)
- The Child Ballads (www.thechildballads.com/)
- The Child Ballads (www.via-francigena.org/ballads/nos.php)
- The Child Ballads (members.chello.nl/r.vandijk2/)
- The Child Ballads (www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ballads/early_child)
- The Child Ballads (words) (www.peterrobbins.co.uk/ballads/)
- The Child Ballads (www.springthyme.co.uk/ballads/index.html)
- Folktrax (www.folktrax.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk)
- Celtic musicians (www.celtic-musicians.net/index.html)
- J Prescot (http://www.telusplanet.net/public/prescotj/data/music/fs_notes.html)
- North East Folk Archives (www.nefa.net)
- Belgian folk music and folk-rock (home.tiscali.be/claude.calteux)
- Gibraltar prog-rock/folk-rock (www.gepr.net/bandlist.html)
- English Folk Music (www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/folk/records/)
- Folksy links (www.folksylinks.it/index.html)
- English Country Dancing Master (www.izaak.unh.edu/nhltmd/indexes/dancingmaster/)
- Colonial Dancing (www.colonialdancing.org/Easmes/Index.htm)
- Ecto Guide (www.ectoguide.org/genre)
	(select the "Folk/Rock option")
- Wyrd Folk (www.theunbrokencircle.co.uk/albums__history-of-wyrd-folk__0_intro.htm)
- MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music (www.musicweb.uk.net/encyclopaedia)
- Ultimate Charts (www.ultimatecharts.com)
- The Session (www.thesession.org/index.php)
- World/Roots music (www.rootsworld.com/rw/)
- Folk rock/Roots/World (www.audio-music.info/index.html?/a/CD-1116.htm)
- English folk music (www.englishfolkmusic.net/catalogueatoe.html)
- IMDb - database of film-related people, including folk musicians (us.imdb.com)
- Irish tunes (www.irishtune.info/)
- Contemplator (www.contemplator.com/)
- VH1 - database of pop,rock and folk artists, together with biographies
and tour dates (www.vh1.com/artists/az)
- Iceberg Radio - Database of recording artists biographies, together with
star ratings (www.icebergradio.com)
- Various music links (users.ox.ac.uk/~worc0337/recreation/music.html)
- Trade Union Songs/Songbooks (unionsong.com/muse/unionsong/books.html)
- Folk legacy recordings (www.folk-legacy.com/recordings/SongList.asp?cmd=resetall)
- English Ceilidh Webring (h.webring.com/hub?ring=eceilidh)
- The Cloosterman Celtic Links page (www.lnqs.com/chqlinks/)
- English Dance Tunes (www.webfeet.org/eceilidh/track/index.html)
- Mad for trad (www.madfortrad.com/home.htm)
- eCeilidh - directory of folk band artists
(www.candleford.com/eceilidh)
- Music.com (www.music.com/)
- British Library Sound Archives (www.bl.uk/collections/sound-archive/cat.html)
- The Fiddler's Companion (www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/FCfiles.html)
- National Library of Scotland (Broadsides)
(www.als.uk/broadsides/search.html)
- Scottish Music Centre www.scottishmusiccentre,com/section
- Rate Your Music (www.rateyourmusic.com/artist/)
- UCLA (catalogeth.library.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First)
- The Folk Roots List www.folkrootslist.co.uk/
- Discogs (www.discogs.com)

Databases - list of websites

- The dmoz project
(dmoz.org/Arts/Music/Styles/Folk/Bands_and_Artists/)
- Google (directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Music/Styles/Folk/Bands_and_Artists/)
- Scottish dance (www.scottishdance.net/links/Music.html)

Database - Words of songs

- ingeb (ingeb.org/folksong.html)
- Henry and Susanne's Folksong-index (mysongbook.de/msb/songs/a/a_titel.html)
- Yet another Digital Traditional Page (sbiff.numachi.com/~richheit/dtrad/)
- 17th Century Ballads (www.lunsfords.fsnet.co.uk/history/songs/index.htm)
- Traditional Music Library (www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/traditional-music/index.htm)

Database - Songs listed in alphabetical order

- Discogs (www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/folk-song-lyrics/fsl-J.html)
- Discogs (www.dickalba.demon.co.uk/links/folk/songlink/songs_j.htm)
- Discogs (www.folkinfo.org/songs/browsetitles.php?letter=J)

Database - Words of hymns (some of the tunes are traditional)

- Oremus (www.oremus.org)

Database - Words of carols

- Carols (www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/index.htm)

Database - Dates of death of musicians

- Necrology (library.wustl.edu/units/music/necro)
- Find a grave (www.findagrave.com/)

Database - Pictures of musicians

- Music pictures (www.musicpictures.com/propxt/main/letter~A)
- Flickr (www.flickr.com)

Books about folksongs

- Songbooks (booksandwriters.co.uk/writer/F/folksongs-english.asp)

Festivals

- List of Festivals (www.tradmusicfestivals.co.uk)
- efistivals (www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/)
- Return To Camden (www.returntocamden.org)
- Sidmouth (www.sidmouthfolkweek.co.uk)
- Green Man (www.thegreenmanfestival.co.uk)
- Cambridge (www.cambridgefolkfestival.co.uk)
- Ceilidh Culture (Edinburgh) (www.ceilidhculture.co.uk)
- Rushbearing (www.rushbearing.co.uk/Links/index.htm)
- Beverley & East Riding (www.beverleyfestival.com/)
- Cleethorpes (www.cleethorpesfolkfestival.org.uk)
- Trowbridge Village Pump, Wilts (www.trowbridgefestival.co.uk)
- Scoil, Achill (www.scoilacla.com/)
- Haddenham, Aylesbury (www.box-com.biz/haddenham/ceilidhs)
- York Early Music Festival (www.ncem.co.uk)

Fans/artists websites

- Albion (www.folkicons.co.uk)
-        (www.grunthos.demon.co.uk)
- Altan (www.altan.ie)
- Amazing Blondel (www.gaudela.net)
- Battlefield Band (www.battlefieldband.co.uk)
- Blowzabella (www.users.waitrose.com/~pauljamesmusic/page14.html)
- Blowzabella (www.musicweb.uk.net/encyclopedia/b/B161.HTM)
- Capercaillie (www.capercaillie.co.uk)
- Eliza Carthy (www.robin-hoods-bay.co.uk/html/local_musicians/carthy_e.htm)
- Martin Carthy (geocities.com/carthy-online/disc.htm)
- Nollaig Casey (www.nollaigcasey.com)
- The Chieftains members.shaw.ca/chieftains)
- The Cluntha (www.nigelgatherer.com/perf/group1/cluth.html)
- Harry Cox (www.keepmedia.com/pubs/Muze/2005/07/01/635561)
- Andy Cutting and Karen Tweed (www.cutting-tweed.demon.co.uk/disc.htm)
- Fairport Convention (www.fairportconvention.co.uk)
- Fairport Convention (www.fcfansite.fsnet.co.uk)
- Four Men and a Dog (www.keepmedia.com/pubs/Muze/2005/07/01/635602)
- Vin Garbutt (www.vingarbutt.com/)
- Dick Gaughan (www.dickalba.demon.co.uk/)
- Gordon Giltrap (www.giltrap.co.uk/disc.htm)
- John Goodluck (www.sarcon.demon.co.uk/engfolk/21/frames/john_goodluck.htm)
- John Goodluck (www.goldilox.co.uk/engfolk/john_goodluck.htm)
- Gryphon (www.gaudela.net)
- Maggie Holland (www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/trg/focsle/maggieh/maggiebi.htm)
- Martin Hayes (www.globalvillageidiot.net/martinhayes.htm)
- House Band (www.ceolas.org/artists/House-Band.htm)
- Alistair Hulett and Dave Swarbrick (www.folkicons.co.uk/aliswarb.htm)
- Ashley Hutchings (www.keepmedia.com/pubs/Muze/2005/07/01/632024)
- Nic Jones (www.nicjones.net/biog.htm)
- Louis Killen (www.louiskillen.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/main.index.html)
- John Kirkpatrick (www.beesknees)
- Little Johnny England (www.littlejohnnyengland.co.uk)
- McCalmans (www.boroughloch.demon.co.uk/macs/discog.html)
- McCalmans (www.keepmedia.com/pubs/Muze/2005/07/01/635703)
- Susan McKeown (house-of-music.com/susan/smkrec.shtml)
- Dougie MacLean (www.dougiemaclean.com/dougie.htm)
- Dougie MacLean (www.keepmedia.com/pubs/Muze/2005/07/01/637881)
- Malinky (www.malinky.com/)
- New Scorpion Band (www.new-scorpion-band.com)
- Old Swan Band (www.sjfarthing.free-online.co.uk/english/osb/)
- Walter Pardon (www.keepmedia.com/pubs/Muze/2005/07/01/637090)
- Poozies (www.stoneyport.demon.co.uk/bio/poobio.html)
- Posh Band (www.poshband.clara.net)
- Maddy Prior (www.gaudela.net)
- Jean Ritchie (www.keepmedia.com/pubs/Muze/2005/07/01/637880)
- Tony Rose (www.goldilox.xo.uk/engfolk/tony_rose.htm)
- Susana Seivane (www.susanaseivane.com)
- John Spiers and Jon Boden (www.squeezy.fsnet.co.uk/spiers_boden/)
- Steeleye Span (www.information.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/steeleye/index.htm)
- Dave Swarbrick (www.folkicons.co.uk/swarb.htm)
- Joseph Taylor (www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/joseph.taylor/index.html)
- Richard Thompson (www.thebeesknees.com)
- Richard Thompson (www.richardthompsonforcompletists.com)
- Simon Thoumire (www.keepmedia.com/pubs/Muze/2005/07/01/626249)
- Kathryn Tickell (www.kathryntickell.com)
- Watersons (www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/watersons/index.html)
- Waterson-Carthy (www.watersoncarthy.com)
- Whistlebinkies (www.sol.co.uk/w/whistlebinkies/)

List of links to artists
- Bands and soloists (www.folkimages.com/artist-links.hm)
		(www.pigglet.co.uk/music/artists.htm)

Instrument websites/specialist

- Fiddles (www.fiddlingaround.co.uk/index.html)
- Hurdy-Gurdy (www.hurdygurdy.com/hg/links.html)
- Harp (www.harp.net)
- Concertina (www.concertina.net/)
- Free Reed (www.rootsworld.com)
- Melodeon (www.melodeon.net/links.html)
- Tam Lin (www.tam-lin.org/index.html)
- Shanties (Bitter End) (dspace.dial.pipex.com/alan.j.hardy/)
- Uilleann Obsession link to players(www.uilleannobsession.com/links_pipers.html)
- Bagpipe illustrations(www.prydein.com/pipes/index.htm)

Venues

- The Sage, Gateshead (www.thesagegateshead.org)
- The Green Note (www.greennote.co.uk/)
- Cecil Sharp House, London
- Royal Festival Hall, London
- Barbican, London
- Fairfield Hall, Croydon
- Hammersmith Irish Centre (www.ibhf.gov.uk/irishcentre)
- Watermans, Brentford
- The Mean Fiddler, Halseden

Last updated on 06/12/2007