Here is our ever-growing, ever-changing list-'o-links.
Please feel free to suggest
new ones.
Categories:
Advertiser
Festival Artist
Festival Supporter
Festival Vendor
Instrument Maker
Instrument Retailer
Music Retailer
Musician/Band
Other Festival
Other Music Association
Reference
Sponsor
Sponsor, Music In The Schools
Sponsor, October Festival
Sponsor, Solstice Festival
Storyteller
@LA - http://www.at-la.com/
Everything you want to know about Los Angeles.
Acoustic Music Network - http://www.acousticmusic.net/
Everything you want to know about acoustic music.
AcousticMusicScene.com - http://www.acousticmusicscene.com
News & Commentary for the Folk, Roots & Singer-Songwriter Communities
Alive & Picking - http://www.aliveandpicking.com
Mary Katherine Aldin's website. Contains one of the better folk music calendars for Southern California, as well as a news section, and some very nice notes on how to enjoy music in New Orleans.
All Digital String Band Internet Radio - http://www.alldigitalradio.net
URLs to folk music sites and resources
ALLMusicianNews - http://www.allmusiciannews.com
ALLMusicianNews is a free newsletter and resource site for Musicians, Composers and Songwriters. Each issue includes a featured article, reviews of chosen Musical Instruments, Music Gears, Apps, VST/DX plugins, Audio Sample Libraries, Site of the Day and much more.
Banjo Sites - http://www.banjosites.biz/
Great Banjo sites, human verified . The online directory of all things related to Banjo
Bridge to Music, Music school Education - http://www.bridgetomusic.com
If you're looking for a school, festival or workshop, this is the place. Our easy to use music school listings allow you to view, compare, then make the best choice.
Search our extensive listing of over 2,000 music schools,
festivals and workshops.
Browse through our Featured School listing to find the countries top programs.
Request Information directly from the program to receive more details and to apply.
Calendar For Folk Music - http://www.aliveandpicking.com/calendar.html
One of the more complete listing of folk/roots music events in Southern California. Maintained by Mary Katherine Aldin.
John C. Campbell Folk School - http://www.folkschool.org
In the mountains of western North Carolina, this school offers folk dance weekends, folk music classes, and an annual Fall Festival.
Country Dance and Song Society - http://www.cdss.org
English and Anglo-American dance, music and song. Find information on our 11 weeks of summer camps, including Folk Music Week; grants and loans for dance or music-related projects; and our extensitve catalog of unique recordings and songbooks.
Dulcimer Players News - http://www.dpnews.com/
Since 1975, Dulcimer Players News (DPN) has guided players, builders, and dulcimer enthusiasts on their musical journey. Devoted to both hammered and fretted dulcimer with tunes, tips for beginners, reviews, instrument care and repair, interviews, festival information, dulcimer history, and more. Their web site contains articles from the magazine, news and more.
Encino Chamber of Commerce - http://www.encinochamber.org/
The website is your access to the businesses, schools, activities, and community of Encino. The Chamber sponsors the Taste of Encino each year.
Experience LA - http://www.experiencela.com
ezFolk.com - http://www.ezfolk.com/
Richard Hefner’s instructional site for banjo, folk guitar, and ukulele. The site contains hundreds of pages of tablature and tutorials as well as links to over 2500 music sites!
Festival Finder - http://www.festivalfinder.com/
Festival Finder has the details on more than 2,500 music festivals in North America.
Festivals.com - http://www.festivals.com/
Descriptions and links to festivals of all types world wide.
Fiddlers Magazine - http://www.fiddle.com/
Fiddlers Magazine's aim is to provide an informative, educational, and entertaining resource for fiddlers, accompanists, and appreciative listeners. Site includes selected articles of current and past issues, as well as links to fiddle music.
Folk Music Web Rings - http://dir.webring.com/rw?d=Music/Genres/Folk_and_Traditional
Links to folk and traditional music web pages.
Folkjam.org - http://www.folkjam.org
folkjam.org is a community site that allows users to share their favorite area jam sessions with others. Contributed jams, festivals and workshops/camps are easy to find on maps and calendars. Simply tell folkjam.org where you are, and the site shows you events in your area.
FolkWorks - http://www.folkworks.org/
FolkWorks is a newspaper dedicated to promoting Folk Music, Dance, Storytelling, and other folk arts in the greater Los Angeles area.
Jay Glicksman's Folk Music Homepage - http://www.jg.org/folk/folkhome.html
Jay's attempt to cover the explosion of folk music information on the web, lots of links.
Guitar Guide - http://www.guitar-guide.us/
A one-stop destination for anything you can think about Guitar. This Guitar Web Directory designed to help its users find the Guitar information, source, companies, products and services.
Guitar-Advisor.com - http://www.guitar-advisor.com
All about guitars! Electric guitars, Acoustic guitars, Guitar history, Famous guitarists!
Hopstudios - http://www.hopstudios.com/
Website of the CTMS Webmaster, Susannah Gardener
Hornpipe: Southern US Folk Music - http://www.hornpipe.com/hp/
An online magazine dedicated to acoustic music in the southern US. You'll find articles about musicians, a performance calendar and reviews of various genres of folk music, from regional Celtic performers to shape-note hymnody to African-American spirituals to contemporary singer/songwriters to blues and bluegrass.
Los Angeles FreeNet - http://www.lafn.org/
Los Angeles FreeNet is a volunteer nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing people together, providing community information, and offering Internet access at the lowest possible cost.
Judy Nahman-Stouffer Photography - http://www.geocities.com/hipadoodle/
Judy has been photographing CTMS's festivals for a number of years (see The Gallery). Her site features examples of some earlier festivals as well as her other photographic work.
Daniel Pearl Foundation - http://www.danielpearl.org/
The Daniel Pearl Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the memory of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and killed in Pakistan. The Pearl and Weissman families are longtime friends.
A Psimple Psaltery - http://www.apsimplepsaltery.com/index.htm
Building, tuning, and playing a bowed psaltery: from start to finish.
Quebec Association Of California - http://www.quebec-californie.org/
Quebec Association Of California's web site is in French. With links to sites in Québec and in California for travelers or emigrates to the U.S.
StarPixie Productions - http://www.starpixie.com
Professional website for the designer of the CTMS Website, Bronwen Aker.
Swedish Folk Music - http://home.swipnet.se/%7Ew-11382/swedtrad/swedtrad.htm
Swedish Folk Music is definitely alive and this site is a great place to start to learn about it. Contains a large number of links
This Thing Called Filk - http://www.kayshapero.net/FilkPage.htm
A basic introduction to Filkmusic, which is a truly weird branch of Folkmusic. Includes links to archives, dealers, and more information pages.
Valley Cultural Center - http://www.valleycultural.org/
Their mission is to enlighten, educate and enrich present and future generations by providing diverse programs of the performing and visual art.
Wallace Music Publishing - http://www.wallacemusic.co.uk/
Wallace Music Publishing, established in 1991, publishes books related to traditional music in Scotland and Northern England. They are dedicated to reviving interest in such neglected musicians as Robert Whinham, Ron Purvis and James Hill.
The Working Party Folk Music Education V - http://www.theworkingparty.co.uk
A series of slow motion and full speed Video Podcasts that enable the user to play along with five famous folk musicians from the UK. Starring "The Working Party". a.k.a Chris Leslie, Troy Donockley, Martin Allcock, Chris Parkinson and Simon Mayor. The slow motion versions of the videos also feature an animated "Lead Sheet" which helps even the most inexperienced musician to learn standard music transcription.
WUMB - http://www.wumb.org/
WUMB-FM is a non-commercial radio station licensed to the University of Massachusetts with studios at the UMass Boston Campus. They broadcast folk music 24 hours a day over the Internet. The site has details to start listening. A broadband connection is non required but is a definite plus when listening.
Yahoo Folk Music Section - http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Genres/Folk_and_Traditional/
Links to 389 folk and traditional music sites.
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