Updated: 8/20/02
Removed or fixed broken links. I have a lot of links that I haven't added yet, which is why some sections are skeletal.

Collections of Lyrics

  • Digital Tradition (Mudcat Cafe)
  • Arlo Guthrie lyrics
  • Kid songs
  • Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index to Recorded Sources

    Collections & Indexes of Tunes

  • Ceolas celtic music archive
  • James Stewart's tune index

    Folk Music - San Francisco Bay Area

  • SF Folk Music Club
  • SF Folk Music Club/Camp Harmony
  • SF Folk Music Club Hootenanny
  • Bay Area Country Dance Society (official site).
  • Paul Fussell's Bay Area Country Dance Society site. Also contains good links to other dance-related sites.
  • Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse Berkeley
  • Jim Scarff's Traditional Celtic Music in the Bay Area
  • Irish Music in San Francisco
  • Plough & Stars Irish Pub SF
  • Redwood Bluegrass Associates
  • The Northern Calif Bluegrass Society (formerly Santa Cruz Bluegrass Society)
  • South Bay Folk

    Misc Folk Music

  • The Folk Music Ring

    Performers

  • Tony Barrand Home Page
  • Mike Seeger
  • Arlo Guthrie
  • Donna Hebert

    Folk Music - regional

  • N.Y. Pinewoods Folk Music Club - some great links here.
  • Folklore Society of Greater Washington
  • New England Folk Concert Calendar
  • Folk Arts Center of New England
  • Ceilidh Trail Cape Breton Music School
  • Centrum Foundation (Port Townsend Fiddle Tunes & others

    Folk Music - Irish

  • Ceolas celtic music archive Includes tunes and tune indexes
  • Irish folk song lyrics
  • Ceòl Ghàidhlig - Gaelic Music
  • The Irish National Archive Server
  • Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann International organization dedicated to the advancement of traditional Irish music, language, dance, and culture.
  • Gearóid Ó'hAllmhuráin's Celtic Crossings

    Folk Music - commercial

    Mail order sources for music

  • Thirty Below (Trente Sous Zero) - Quebecois Music
  • County Sales
  • Lark In The Morning
  • Elderly Instruments
  • Oldtimemusic.com online CD store for independent productions
  • Down Home Music
  • Amazon track listings, sound samples.
  • Portland America - Cape Breton & Scottish recordings
  • Camsco Music
  • John Moulden Ulstersongs Mail Order (Books and Cassettes)

    Instruments

  • Gibson USA
  • Martin Guitars
  • Santa Cruz Guitar Co
  • House of Musical Traditions, Inc

    Record Companies

  • Rounder Records Group
  • Smithsonian/Folkways Records

    Folk Music - periodicals

  • Old Time Herald
  • Fiddler Magazine
  • Dirty Linen Home Page
  • Banjo Newsletter - Tablature, MP3's, Content Indexes
  • 5 String Quarterly
  • Flatpick Magazine
  • Musical Traditions (UK) Excellent online articles

    Folk Music - dancing

  • CDSS (Country Dance & Song Society)
  • Morris dancing
  • Nationwide Contra dance info

    Folk Music - Old Time & Bluegrass

  • David Lynch's Old Time Music Home Page. Highly Recommended!
  • Steve Goldfield's FAQ for rec.music.country.old-time. Highly Recommended!
  • Old Time Music and Dance Community Website . Lots of links, including audio.
  • CyberGrass
  • Kerry Blech's Home page . Includes lots of photos, and a comprehensive tune listing from the Lottie Mott Old Time sessions (Seattle)

    Folk Music - instrument-specific

  • FIDDLE-L web site
  • BANJO-L web site
  • CoMando (Mandolin) List web site
  • Mandolin Cafe
  • Subscribe to lists through Mandolin Cafe Subscribe/Unsubscribe/change-options to CoMando, BGRASS-L, BANJO-L, FIDDLE-L, FLATPICK-L through a web interface
  • Don Nichol's Concertina web page