Music and Sounds

Folk and Traditional

BBC Radio 2 Folk and Acoustic
News, reviews, music programmes online and links to other BBC folk sites. See the 'Links' section for a long list of other folk web sites.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ radio2/ r2music/ folk/

English Folk and Traditional Music on the Internet
A popular set of links to organisations, song and tune collections, performers and much more.
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ martin.nail/ Folkmus.htm

English Folk Dance and Song Society
Details of the society and its activities plus links to regional clubs and other sites, a festivals list and folk bibliographies and articles
http://www.efdss.org

Folk and Roots
Folk clubs (click 'Venues'), events, festivals, features and more
http://www.folkandroots.co.uk/

Folkinfo.org
A growing collection of traditional folk songs, with lyrics and melodies and midi files
http://www.folkinfo.org/

International Traditional Music Society
Search for links by country or by instrument. Also includes a link to TUNEdb where you can search through 14000+ traditional tunes from around the world.
http://www.worldtrad.org

The Folk Handbook
MIDI files providing tunes for the 90 songs in the printed book 'The folk handbook', which was produced in conjunction with the English Folk Dance and Song Society
http://www.folkhandbook.com/

Yet Another Digital Tradition Page
Gives an index to the 'Digital Tradition Folksong Database', a large collection of song lyrics. You can find the words of songs by searching words or phrases or by browsing a list of titles. Many songs have tunes available here as GIFs or PostScript scores.
http://sniff.numachi.com/ ~rickheit/ dtrad/

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