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American Folklife Center The collections of the American Folklife Center include Native American song and dance; the tales of "Bruh Rabbit," told in the Gullah dialect of the Georgia Sea Islands; an Appalachian fiddle tune that has been heard on concert stages around the world; documentation from the lives of cowboys, farmers, fishermen, coal miners, shop keepers, factory workers, quilt makers, professional and amateur musicians, and housewives from throughout the United States; first-hand accounts of community events from every state; and international collections from every region of the world. | |
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First Amendment page Includes links to Supreme Court decisions. | |
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Appalachian Cultural Music Association The Appalachian Cultural Music Association is dedicated to the preservation and promotion of traditional Appalachian Mountain music. | |
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Blackthorne Publick House A wonderful restaurant with a huge selection of craft beers and a long tradition of presenting great acoustic music in a friendly and intimate setting, from jazz to blues, country to folk. | |
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Blue Ridge Old Time Music Week Mars Hill College in North Carolina is the setting for this annual week of learning and fun. Excellent teachers and leaders offer instruction at all levels. There are concerts and lots of jamming opportunities, as well, and the setting is gorgeous. Very reasonable rates. | |
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The Blues Foundation The Blues Foundation is Memphis-based, but world-renown as THE organization dedicated to preserving our blues music history, celebrating recording and performance excellence, supporting blues education and ensuring the future of this uniquely American art form. | |
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The Blues Trail An excellent digest of accurate information on seminal blues artists, mostly from Mississippi, including bios, music clips, pics and further referential links. | |
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The Canadian American Club of Massachusetts A social organization that promotes the traditions of Gaelic & Celtic music and their branches in North America. They offer a wide variety of programs, including fiddle sessions, ceilidhs, and presentations of distinguished performers in the various traditions. | |
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Coggeshall Farm Coggeshall Farm Museum is a living history farm set on 48 acres in Bristol, Rhode Island. The museum depicts. The museum utilizes its entire 48 acre site as an educational environment. The museum's collection is focused on process, not objects. They also host a traditional music ceildih the first Thursday of every month. | |
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Cornell Folk Song Society The Cornell Folk Song Society is a non-profit membership organization that works to preserve and promote traditional and traditionally-oriented folk music both on and off campus. Membership is open to everyone (free for Cornell students). Founded in the 1950s. | |
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Cowboy Songs & Poetry This is a page on the WildWest.org site with a good explanation of the derivation and use of cowboys songs, along with complete lyrics to a goodly number of them. | |
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The Crooked Road Here you can find lots of good information about Virginian traditional music. Calendar of events, links to drill into for more, etc., abound here in an easy-to-navigate format with wonderful photos. | |
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The Digital Library of Appalachia The Digital Library of Appalachia provides online access to archival and historical materials related to the culture of the southern and central Appalachian region. The contents of the DLA are drawn from special collections of Appalachian College Association member libraries. You can find anything from Kentucky fiddle tunes to an interview with Joe Carter, son of A.P. and Sara Carter, talking about his father's method of collecting folk songs. | |
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Folk Music Society of New York The Folk Music Society of NY, Inc has been around since 1963 presenting and promoting participating in traditional music and song in the NYC area. They also present the Eisteddfod, a small festival each year in the Fall, which began down the street from Wepecket at UMass Dartmouth (then Southeastern Mass. U.) in 1969. | |
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Folk Stage & Midnight Special Rich Warren has hosted these back-to-back radio shows on WFMT Chicago for years. Folk Stage is a one-hour presentation of live folk music that has featured just about anyone who's anyone in the world of folk music. Midnight Special is three hours of thoughtful and delightful folk programming. Both shows can be heard through live streaming at links on the site. Their archive is extensive, as well. | |
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International Bluegrass Music Association If it happened or it's happening and it's bluegrass, you'll find it here. | |
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Live Blues Info A British on-line magazine devoted to American blues and other roots music from the States. Fresh reviews every month, lots of good information, especially about the active Brit blues scene. | |
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International Folk Alliance Their office is also in Memphis. This is the parent organization of several regional conference groups. Their annual conference is in February each year. IFA also does artist and venue advocacy work. Well worth joining and supporting. | |
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The Alan Lomax Collection The entire, vast collection of Lomax' life work is now available online here. | |
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Mississippi John Hurt Museum The museum and its namesake foundation and festival in Avalon, Mississippi. John got so many of us started on this music, this place just had to happen. |
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Mississippi Valley Blues Society The objective of the Society is to educate the general public about the native art form of blues-related music through performance, interpretation and preservation, thus enhancing appreciation and understanding. |
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Mudcat These Brits are pretty sharp on American traditional music, as well. This is a traditional music discussion board that has been around since Commodore computers. |
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Musical Traditions Internet Magazine Here come the Brits, again, this time with an easily searchable blog/site with a huge array of articles on American tradition-based music. |
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New England Folk Music Archives A natural outcome of the "Folk Scare" as it burgeoned in New England, and particularly Cambridge in the '60s. Their searchable archives are based on collections from the 1960's era folk revival stretching to the present the establishing collections include photographs, recordings, and memorabilia from The Club 47, the Cambridge MA folk music community, The Newport Folk Festival, and The Old Vienna Kaffeehaus. |
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Old-Time Herald A terrific journal with well-written and researched pieces on old-time players and current events. |
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Old-Time Jam Play along with the pros! We still prefer the old-fashioned, person-to-person method, but this online interactive service is a great way to practice without having to leave your room. "Fast" and "Slow jam" versions, and a variety of accompaniments to choose from. Good library of tunes and more coming on line almost daily. |
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Philadelphia Folksong Society The Philadelphia Folksong Society was founded in 1957 by a small group of folk artists and enthusiasts. The organization offrers programs of presentation, engagement, and education throughout Greater Philadelphia and the nation. PFS has acquired international recognition and local acclaim through popular programs such as The Philadelphia Folk Festival, Fall Fling, Spring Thing, and Cabin Fever Festival. | |
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Piedmont Blues Preservation Society These folks are doing a great job keeping the tradition alive. They also sponsor a blues festival. | |
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PineCone The Piedmont Council of Traditional Music was formed in 1984 to honor the traditional music heritage that makes North Carolina unique. | |
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The Rhode Island Fiddle Project Based in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Pawtucket, RI Fiddle Project offers music programming to students and families living in Pawtucket & Central Falls, RI including weekly fiddle group classes, monthly community jam workshop,community dance & performance events. | |
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Sandy's Music More of an institution than a music store, Sandy's is the center of the trad music universe in storied Cambridge, Mass. Perfectly situated between Harvard and Central squares, and a short walk from the Plough & Stars. | |
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Sing Out! This venerable (60 years and going strong) organization is not just a magazine, it's a resource for the whole world of folk music. They are well worth your subscription and support. | |
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Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Culture This is where all the archives wind up. Also has links, among others, to Smithsonian Folkways recordings and to lots of oral and pictorial history. | |
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Society for American Music The mission of the Society for American Music is to stimulate the appreciation, performance, creation and study of American musics of all eras and in all their diversity, including the full range of activities and institutions associated with these musics throughout the world. | |
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Southern Cultures Southern Cultures, the award-winning and peer-reviewed quarterly from UNC's Center for the Study of the American South, contains articles of interest to scholars and students of memory, public history, American studies, Southern studies, literature, sociology, political science, women & gender, religion, music, photography, and many other subject areas. It has also recently added an online section that includes reviews of 130 books from noted scholars and authors. | |
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Southern Folklife Collection The Southern Folklife Collection (SFC) ranks as one of the nation's foremost archival resources for the study of American folk music and popular culture. SFC holdings extensively document all forms of southern musical and oral traditions across the entire spectrum of individual and community expressive arts, as well as mainstream media production. | |
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Street Arts and Buskers Advocates Celebrating self-expression as a basic human right essential for the healthy growth of youth, individuals and communities. | |
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The Swannanoa Gathering Founded in 1991 by Warren Wilson College President Emeritus Douglas M. Orr, Jr., The Swannanoa Gathering is a series of week-long workshops in various folk arts held in July and August on the campus of Warren Wilson College just east of Asheville in the heart of North Carolina's beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. | |
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Traditional Adirondack Music These folks run a very active web site thoroughly reflective of the folk process as practiced in the Adirondacks. Lore, concert dates, instrument and tune information. Lots of hand-to-hand documentation of sources. Fascinating stuff! | |
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Traditional Ballad Index A fantastic resource for those of us who love ballads. A labour of love from Bob Waltz and David Engle who maintain it through a site from San Diego State University. | |
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The Traditional Music Foundation The Traditional Music Foundation, Inc. was incorporated in 2007 to support traditional music and education. The nonprofit corporation provides opportunities for the general public to explore and experience a range of traditional American music, as well as contemporary musical styles with strong traditional roots. | |
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Stefan Wirz' American Music Discography Another labour of love, this from German Stefan Wirz. You can find very thorough discographies here of artists and labels from Pink Anderson to Yazoo Records. | |
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