- The Living Tradition (www.folkmusic.net) - South Riding Folk Network (www.folk-network.com/) - Music Maker - Froots (www.frootsmag.com) - Irish Music (www.irishmusicmagazine.com/) - Acoustic Guitar (www.acousticguitar.com) - Dirty Linen (USA)(6 per year) - Sing Out! (USA)(singout.org) - Shindig (folk-rock and psychedelia)(www.shindig-magazine.com/) - Penguin Eggs (Canada)(www.penguineggs.ab.ca)- HMV Choice (free magazine available from HMV stores)
- Martin Nail (www.englishfolkinfo.org.uk/folkmus.html) - 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) - CD Roots (www.cdroots.com/britain.shtml) - FROG Folk Roots Online Guide (www.folkworld.eu/frog/index.html) - Folkworld (3 times per year) (Click on "To the English FolkWorld")(www.folkworld.de/) - www.folkworld.de/frog/index.html - FolDeRol www.piper-kj.demon.co.uk/diary.htm (link dead) - Irish Music Review (www.irishmusicreview.com/) - Pay The Reckoning (music.paythereckoning.com/) - Rambles (www.rambles.net/celtic_trad.html) - Rambling House (homepages.iol.ie/~ronolan/index.html) - English Music (www.sjfarthing.free-online.co.uk/english/index.html) - 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 (folkandroots.co.uk) - Folk and Roots gig guide (folkandroots.co.uk/gigguide.html) - Foot Stompin' (www.footstompin.com/home) - Acoustic music (www.acousticmusic.com/) - Kevin and Maxine's Celtic and Folk Music Reviews (www.icogitate.com/~celticfolkmusic/ (link dead)) - Karl Dallas blog (folknews) (folknews.blogspot.com/2003_09_01_archive.html) - 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) - Flaxey Green (South Devon) (www.flaxey-green.co.uk/)
- Arhoolie (www.arhoolie.com) - Compass (compassrecords.com/artists/) - Culburnie (www.culburnie.com) - Claddagh (www.claddaghrecords.com/www/default.asp) - Cooking Vinyl (cookingvinyl.com) - Fledg'ling (www.thebeesknees.com) - Green Linnet (compassrecords.com/label/green-linnet/) - Greentrax (www.greentrax.com) - Hannibal/RYKO (www.rykodisc.com (link dead)) - Park (www.parkrecords.com) - Rounder (www.rounder.com) - Shanachie (www.shanachie.com/) - Talking Elephant (www.talkingelephant.co.uk) - Tara (www.musicscotland.com/cd/index.html) - Temple (www.templerecords.co.uk) - Topic (www.topicrecords.co.uk) - Folk legacy recordings (www.folk-legacy.com/store/Scripts/default.asp)
- www.hmv.com/ - www.musicwords.nl/index.htm - www.musicscotland.com/cd/index.html - Musical Traditions Records (mtrecords.co.uk) - Veteran (www.veteran.co.uk/main.htm) - Freak Emporium (www.freakemporium.com) (defunct?) - Amazon (www.amazon.co.uk) - Fish Records (www.fishrecords.co.uk/index.html) - CD Universe (*) (www.cduniverse.com) (* this site allows searching by artist, title or by song) - System Records(www.systemrecords.co.uk/folkmusiclist-c-16_137.html) - The Folk Store (www.folkstore.co.uk) - Discovery Records (www.discovery-records.com/folk.htm (link dead)) - ezfolk (CDs and MP3s) (www.ezfolk.com/audio/)
- Play.com (www.play.com/Music/MP3-Download/6-/DigitalHome.html (link dead)) - emusic (www.emusic.com/label/Topic-IODA-MP3-Download/137257.html) - 7Digital (www.7digital.com/) - HMVDigital (www.hmvdigital.com/)
- Music.com (music.com/) - Music download (www.last.fm/) - MP3pulse (mp3pulse.net/genres) (discography and biography) - MP3 (www.mp3.com/) (discography and biography) - Billboard (www.billboard.com) (discography and biography) - Playable free Midi files (www.pteratunes.org.uk/Music/Music/index.html) - Radio 3 (Canada) (www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-music-playlists/56-cbc-radio-3)
- Music.com (music.com/) - Youtube (www.youtube.com/) - iLike (www.ilike.com/artist/) - VideoCelt.com (www.videocelt.com/index.html) (search video for "Liam O'Flynn", "Joe Gordon folk Four", "Mactalla" etc) - Myspace (http://www.myspace.com/) (search video for "Spanfest", "Bellowhead", "traditional", "folk" etc)
- Uilleann Obsession (www.uilleannobsession.com/links_radio.html) - Worlds of Trad (www.live365.com/) - Folk Radio UK (www.folkradio.co.uk/) - The Music Well (www.themusicwellhome.co.uk/) - Thisteleradio (thistleradio.com/) - Celtic Storm (www.celticcenter.org/celticstorm.php) - Celtic Folk Podcast (www.celticfolkpod.com/) - Real.com (Genre Radio, single-artists radio) (Listen to BBC radio stations free, using Realplayer) (more...) + Real.com (Also Classic FM, Virgin, etc) (uk.real.com/music/) - Marc Gunn's podcasts (www.marcgunn.com/2007/08/marc-gunns-podcasts.shtml) - Various stations http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?genre=folk
- English Folk Dance & Song Society (www.efdss.org) - English Country Dance (www.cdss.org) - Cecil Sharp "The Country Dance Book" (www.srcf.ucam.org/round/dances/cdb) - The Morris Ring (www.themorrisring.org/) - Open Morris (www.open-morris.org/) - Morris Federation (www.morrisfed.org.uk/home.html) - Webfeet (www.webfeet.org) - Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann (comhaltas.ie/) - Shave The Donkey (www.capers.co.uk/donkey/) - Royal Scottish Country Dance Society (www.rscds.org/) - Renaissance Dance Database, including Playford (www.rendancedb.org/#/) - Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society (http://www.dhds.org.uk/) - The NUT on the Net (http://www.the-nut.net/)
- eCeilidh - directory of folk band artists (www.candleford.com/eceilidh) - Scottish Dance Bands - directory of bookable dance bands (www.scottishdance.net/bands/A.html) - 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) - 19th Century Social Dance. Jonathan Still's "Dance Rhythms" (www.jsmusic.org.uk/articles/dance_rhythms.html)
- Jane Keefer (www.ibiblio.org/keefer/pf_frset.htm) - Traditional Ballads (www.csufresno.edu/folklore/BalladSearch.html) - The Ballad Index (Discography page) http://www.csufresno.edu/folklore/BalladIndexDisc.html - Folklorist (Combines the Ballad Index and the Digital Tradition websites) http://trad.appspot.com/ - Steve 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) - Trad Music (www.tradmusic.com) - FolDeRol www.piper-kj.demon.co.uk/diary.htm (link dead) - Ceolas (www.ceolas.org/artists/) - Ballads in Bodelian Library (ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/) - The Child Ballads (members.chello.nl/r.vandijk2/) - The Child Ballads (www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ballads/early_child/) - The Child Ballads (www.springthyme.co.uk/ballads/index.html) - Irish music. Geoff Wallis's website (www.irishmusicreview.com/) Select ""Irish Music Discography by Label" - Celtic musicians (www.celtic-musicians.net/index.html) - J Prescott (jpnet.ca) - Music City Collaborative database (www.music-city.org/) - North East Folk Archives (www.nefa.net) - 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 (link dead)) - Colonial Dancing History (www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/learn/living-history/dance-dance-during-revolution/) - Ecto Guide (www.ectoguide.org/genre) (select the "Folk/Rock option") - The Session (www.thesession.org/index.php) - World/Roots music (www.rootsworld.com/rw/) - IMDb - database of film-related people, including folk musicians (www.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.accuradio.com/iceberg/) - English Ceilidh Webring (www.webring.org/hub?ring=eceilidh) - The Cloosterman Celtic Links page (www.lnqs.com/chqlinks/) - English Dance Tunes (www.webfeet.org/eceilidh/tracks/) - eCeilidh - directory of folk band artists (www.candleford.com/eceilidh) - Music.com (music.com/) - British Library Sound Archives (www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/sound/wtmusic/worldmusic.html) - The Fiddler's Companion (www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/FCfiles.html) - Rate Your Music (www.rateyourmusic.com/) - Last.fm (www.last.fm/) - emusic (www.emusic.com) - The Folk Roots List www.folkrootslist.co.uk/ - Discogs (www.discogs.com) - Bright Young Folk (gigs and discography) (www.brightyoungfolk.com/gigs/homepage/default.aspx) - MuziekWeb (discography [in Dutch]) (www.muziekweb.nl/shared/cat/pop) - Blogspot (roots music) Wrath of the Grapevine (www.blogger.com/profile/11424429160753219350) - Psychedelic folk (www.psychedelicfolk.com/Psychedelicfolk.html) - Traditional tunes and songs (www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/) - English Country dances 1650 - 1833 (www.danceandmusicindexes.org/DFIE/Index.htm (link dead)) - The Doc Rowe Collection (www.docrowe.org.uk/index.html) is in Sheffield - Music Map (www.music-map.com/) [Try "Pentangle" or "Fairport Convention"]
- Scottish dance (www.scottishdance.net/links/Music.html)
- ingeb (ingeb.org/folksong.html) - Henry and Susanne's Folksong-index (mysongbook.de/msb/songs/a/a_titel.html) - American songs 1866 to 1899 (www.pdmusic.org/1800s2.html#66) - "Beuk of Newcassel Sangs" mysite.verizon.net/cbladey/sang/alsang.html - "Folksongs of the Upper Thames" http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/folk_search.php - Traditional Music Library (www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/traditional-music/)
- Lyrics (www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/folk-song-lyrics/fsl-J.html) - Songlink (www.dickalba.demon.co.uk/links/folk/songlink/songs_j.htm) - Folkinfo (www.folkinfo.org/songs/browsetitles.php?letter=J (link dead)) - American songs 1800 - 1914 (www.ebrary.com/stanford/browse2/americanabrowse.html) - Christmas Carols (www.allmusic.com/artist/christmas-traditional-mn0002192087) - Digital tradition with tunes (www.8notes.com/digital_tradition/)
- Fresno (www.csufresno.edu/folklore/Olson/SCOTTUNS.HTM
- Oremus (www.oremus.org)
- Carols (www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/index.htm)
- Necrology (library.wustl.edu/units/music/necro/) - Find a grave (www.findagrave.com/)
- Flickr (www.flickr.com)
- Songbooks (booksandwriters.co.uk/writer/F/folksongs-english.asp)
- DigitalDreamDoor (digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_artists-folk.html) - Rhapsody (us.napster.com/search/playlist?query=greatest+folk+music+artists) - Charles H Smith's top 111 (people.wku.edu/charles.smith/essays/FOLK111.htm) - Toptenreviews (by critics)(Traditional folk) (music.toptenreviews.com/genres/list_genre146.htm) - Toptenreviews (by critics)(British and Celtic) (music.toptenreviews.com/genres/list_genre145.htm) - Kim Reuhl's 50 Best folk artists (https://www.liveabout.com/best-folk-music-artists-of-all-time-1321806)
- www.chartwatch.co.uk/ - www.everyhit.com - www.chartstats.com/index.php
- Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) - Freebase (mostly copied from Wikipedia) (http://www.freebase.com/ (link dead)) - MusicBrainz (mostly copied from Wikipedia) (http://musicbrainz.org/) - Folkopedia (folkopedia.efdss.org/wiki/Main_Page) - Folkipedia (www.folkipedia.org/docuwiki/doku.php (link dead)) - Uilleann wiki (www.nwup.org/uiwiki/index.php/Main_Page) - Morris dancing Wiki (morrisdancing.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page)
- Music in Europe (worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/view/page.basic/country/content.country/ireland_29) - Encyclopedia of Traditional Celtic Music (www.standingstones.com/musencyc.html) - AL Lloyd's Marxist approach (cjtm.icaap.org/content/25/v25art2.html) - Irish music before 1700 (www.standingstones.com/cmaoitm.html) - English Country Music (www.concertina.net/rd_ecm.html) - Rod Stradling on English melodeon styles (www.rootsworld.com/interview/stradling.html) - The Concertina in Ireland 1834 - 1930 (www.concertina.com/worrall/beginnings-concertina-in-ireland/) - Irish Traditional (worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/view/page.basic/genre/content.genre/irish_traditional_733) - Dutch folk music (www.folkworld.de/34/e/dutch.html) - Colonial Tavern Music (www.history.org/foundation/journal/Winter03-04/tavern.cfm (page missing)) - The Pure Drop (music genres) (English music) (www.girgarre.com.au/music-groups) - Roots world "Traditional music of Ireland" (www.rootsworld.com/celtic/) - (see also "A Selective Overview" on the left-hand panel) - Early Gaelic Harp (www.earlygaelicharp.info/history/) - Am Baile - Music of the Highlands (www.ambaile.org.uk/en/sub_section.jsp?SectionID=3¤tId=262 (link dead)) - J. Murdoch Henderson: biographies of Scottish Fiddlers (www.ambaile.org.uk/en/sub_section.jsp?SectionID=3¤tId=262 (link dead)) - Scottish Collectors (sites.scran.ac.uk/jmhenderson/web/collection/jmhcoll/collectors.htm) - British folk music in the USA (share.america.gov) - Irish folk Music (www.popmatters.com/search/?q=irish+folk+music) - Anglo-Irish msuic from 1701 to 1741 (www.libraryireland.com/IrishMusic/XXIV.php) - Rise & Fall of the Concertina (www.concertina.com/eydmann/folk-music-revival/) - "May Day Customs" by John Brand (www.nevadaobserver.com/Reading%20Room%20Documents/May-Day%20Customs%20(1813).htm) - Square and Contra dances (www.heinerfischle.de/history/index-e.htm) - History of Edinburgh in music (www.campin.me.uk/Embro/Webrelease/Embro/Embro.htm) - A.L. Lloyd's career (cjtm.icaap.org/content/25/v25art2.html) - The Celts and Music (sites.scran.ac.uk/jmhenderson/web/collection/fiddles/index.htm)
- List of Festivals (www.tradmusicfestivals.co.uk) - efestivals (www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/) - Return To Camden (www.returntocamden.org) - Sidmouth (www.sidmouthfolkweek.co.uk) - Green Man (www.greenman.net) - Cambridge (www.cambridgelive.org.uk/folk-festival/) - Ceilidh Culture (Edinburgh) (www.ceilidhculture.co.uk) - Beverley & East Riding (www.beverleyfestival.com/) - Cleethorpes (www.folkfestival.f9.co.uk) - Trowbridge Village Pump, Wilts (www.trowbridgefestival.co.uk) - Scoil, Achill (www.scoilacla.com/) - York Early Music Festival (www.ncem.co.uk)
- Altan (www.altan.ie) - Battlefield Band (www.battlefieldband.co.uk) - Capercaillie (www.capercaillie.co.uk) - Eliza Carthy (www.robin-hoods-bay.co.uk/directory/see-do/art-music) - The Chieftains members.shaw.ca/chieftains/) - The Cluntha (www.nigelgatherer.com/perf/group1/cluth.html) - Fairport Convention (www.fairportconvention.co.uk) - Vin Garbutt (www.vingarbutt.com/) - Dick Gaughan (www.dickalba.demon.co.uk/) - John Goodluck (www.goldilox.co.uk/engfolk/john_goodluck.htm) - Martin Hayes (www.martinhayes.com) - Nic Jones (www.nicjones.net/nic_jones/biography) - Louis Killen (www.louiskillen.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/main.index.html) - John Kirkpatrick (www.thebeesknees.com) - Little Johnny England (www.littlejohnnyengland.co.uk) - Susan McKeown (susanmckeown.com (link dead)) - Malinky (www.malinky.com/) - New Scorpion Band (www.new-scorpion-band.com) - Old Swan Band (www.sjfarthing.free-online.co.uk/english/osb/) - Posh Band (www.poshband.clara.net) - Maddy Prior (www.gaudela.net) - Susana Seivane (www.susanaseivane.com) - Dave Swarbrick (www.folkicons.co.uk/swarb.htm) - Richard Thompson (www.thebeesknees.com) - Kathryn Tickell (www.kathryntickell.com) - Waterson-Carthy (www.watersoncarthy.com (link dead))Instrument websites/specialist
- Fiddles (www.fiddlingaround.co.uk/index.html) - Harp (www.harp.net) - Concertina (www.concertina.net/) - Free Reed (www.rootsworld.com) - Tam Lin (www.tam-lin.org/index.html) - Uilleann Obsession link to players(www.uilleannobsession.com/links_pipers.html) - Bagpipe illustrations and confused illustrations (www.hotpipes.com/graphics.html) - Bagpipes illustrated on postage stamps(www.hotpipes.com/sts0001.html) - Bouzouki(www.acousticguitar.com/issues/ag89/bouzouki.html) - Flatback(groups.google.co.uk/group/rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic/msg/7f23a35b3862c102?hl=en&)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 - Watermans, Brentford - The Mean Fiddler, HarlsedenLast updated on 04/02/2011