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Folk Music Links

Here is our ever-growing, ever-changing list-'o-links.
Please feel free to suggest new ones.

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Acoustic Playground - http://newgrass.freeservers.com/
Acoustic Playground has links to acoustic festivals around the country.

Augusta Heritage Center - http://www.augustaheritage.com/
The Augusta Heritage Center is known nationally for activities relating to traditional folklife and folk arts of many regions and cultures.

Bean Blossom Blues Festival - http://www.beanblossomblues.com
Three days chalked full of the blues! Outside, beautiful venue. Three stages, camping, contests. Family event. 2nd weekend in September. Held at the historical Bill Monroe Memorial Music Park in Bean Blossom just 5 miles north of Nashville, Indiana on Hwy 135, call 1-800-783-7996

Berkeley Old Time Music Convention - http://www.berkeleyoldtimemusic.org
Sept. 9-13, 2009 - now 5 days! Various locations in Berkeley, Calif. Concerts, square dances, string band contest, workshops, kids activities, film showing, panel discussions, jamming, open mic.

California WorldFest - http://www.worldmusicfestival.com/
will be held at the Fairgrounds in Grass Valley, California during mid July. Family & friends, wonderful music and dance from around the world, all in the beauty of the Sierra Nevada Foothills….

Central Ohio Folk Festival - http://www.cfms-inc.org/central_ohio_folk_festival.htm
Sponsored by the COLUMBUS FOLK MUSIC SOCIETY, INC., & Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park, this festival is always held on the first full weekend of May and is held at the Battelle-Darby Creek Metro Park. The Festival features 30 or more mini-concerts and teaching workshops, with a main-stage concert in the evening. The workshops are for various traditional instruments, music & other folk arts.

Claremont Spring Folk Festival - http://www.claremontfolkfest.org/
The offical Website of the Claremont Spring Folk Festival, which occurs on the first weekend in May each year since 1979.

Harvest Festival of Dulcimers - http://www.scdh.org
The annual Harvest Festival of Dulcimers at Dana Point, CA in Sept. Concerts, vendors and more.

Hiawatha Music Co-op - http://hiawathamusic.org/index.php
The Hiawatha Music Co-op - is a well-established and well-regarded, non-profit organization for the support of traditional American music, in Marquette County in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Each July they present a 3 day traditional music festival.

Irish Studies Program (Gaelic Roots) - http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/irish/gr.html
A music, song and dance summer school. Séamus Connolly (a 2004 Summer Solstice Artist) is the director.

Lark Camp - http://www.larkcamp.com/
A celebration of music and dance from all over the world, Lark Camp takes place in the Mendocino Woodlands State Park a National Historic Landmark, in August of each year. Nestled in 700 acres of redwood trees, ferns, and glades along both sides of the Little North Fork of the Big River in Northern California, near the coastal village of Mendocino.

Live Oak Music Festival - http://liveoakfest.org/pages/home.htm
The Live Oak Music Festival is a three day concert and camping event held every year on Father’s Day weekend in the hills above Santa Barbara, California.

Long Beach Celtic Music Festival - http://www.longbeachcelticfestival.com/
Long Beach Celtic Music Festival-By-The-Sea is held in August. The festival started in 2001.

Soka University International Festival - http://www.soka.edu/festival
Soka University’s Annual International Festival features over 750 international musicians and dancers performing on three stages, international food, demonstrations and workshops, storytelling, crafts, non-profit and business exhibitors, games and inflatable rides. SUA’s International Festival is part of the Orange County’s Imagination Celebration held in cooperation with the OC Department of Education and Arts OC. This year the Festival is on May 5th, 2007,

Summergrass San Diego Bluegrass Festival - http://www.summergrass.net
Web site for the three day Summegrass Bluegrass Festival held in August in Vista, CA. Band lineups, kid activities, camping, tickets and info

Topanga Banjo Fiddle Contest - http://www.topangabanjofiddle.org/
Since 1961, this has been Southern California's Premier Old Time and Bluegrass Music Festival!