Useful folk sites around the Net

• The Digital Tradition: database of songs and tunes, plus active disucssion boards


• Floorsinging for Beginners: most British folk clubs still welcome people who want to get up and do a couple of songs before the main guest appears. If you want to be one of those people, this summarized thread from uk.music.folk can help...


• Notes on starting a folk club (UK)


• Max Hunter field collection: original field recordings, with transcribed lyrics and often sheet music, of a variety of Arkansas traditional singers, including Almeda Riddle


• Hetzler's Fakebook: transcriptions and MIDI files of a load of old-time and Irish fiddle tunes


• The Session: sheet music and ABC transcriptions of many commonly played Irish and Scottish fiddle tunes.


• The Wandering Whistler: sheet music and MIDI recordings of many Irish and Scottish tunes for tinwhistle.


• Richard Robinson's Tunebook: big collection of sheet music for tunes from all over the world. Searchable in all sorts of neat ways -- key, time signature, type of tune, country of origin.


• Folk London: monthly listing of who's on at all the folk clubs in the greater London area.
• For everything else, there's Google...

Webcast folk radio shows

• Archie Fisher's Travelling Folk -- broadcast Thursdays 20:05-22:00 and repeated Saturdays 22:05-24:00 GMT/BST on BBC Scotland.
• Bound for Glory -- live from Cornell's The Commons coffeehouse during term time and dead from the studios the rest of the time. Broadcast Sundays 20:00-23:00 EST/EDT on WVBR-FM in Ithaca, NY.
• Folk Roots/Folk Branches with Mike Regenstreif -- broadcast Thursdays 9:00-11:30 EST/EDT on CKUT, Monstreal.
• Mike Harding Show -- broadcast Fridays 19:30-21:15 GMT/BDT on BBC Radio 2.
• Prairie Home Companion -- Saturday's live show added to the archives on Mondays.
• WUMB Folk Radio -- broadcast 24/7 on WUMB, Boston.

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