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John Osnes Violins Petr's Violin Shop Suzi's Woollies Celtic Treasures Hillside Music Turnagain Arts Association Denise Martin John Walsh Whistling Swan Productions The Dancing Bears Snow City Cafe Irish Music Session AK Irish Music Festival Amanda Kerr Alaska Fiddle Camp Information Sites The ABC Homepage This is the main resource for all ABC notation questions, with links to tutorials and downloads. ABC Tunefinder Mudcat Cafe massive repository of folk songs Online Session curious but somehow cool . . . Irish Fiddle Encylopedia of fiddlers and styles.   I should make this required reading for my students. online ABC converter for those of you who don't have an ABC program yet Ceolas celtic music archive tons of info on Irish music Dolmetsch Early Music excellent series of lessons on music theory Jazz Violin directory of players and styles International Bluegrass Music Association An Introduction to Historical Tunings Understand why your tuner doesn't tell the truth Alan Ng's Tunography Find what albums a tune is recorded on, what other names it has, what books its in. Uilleann Obsession So much more than pipes, as if that weren't enough. Patrick D'Arcy has collected a lot of information. TheSession.org Almost every Irish music question has lots of conflicting answers in the archives. Festivals and Events Alaska Folk Festival Juneau Anchorage Folk Festival Two weeks in January Alaska Fiddle Camp August Friday Harbor Irish Music Festival Spring, Friday Harbor, Washington Camp Bluegrass Levelland, Texas Acoustic Adventures Fairbanks folk artist concert series AlaskaFolkMusic.org Gary Newman's page; the most complete reference I know of for events in Alaska. Fairbanks Concert Association Anchorage Concert Association Whistling Swan Productions Anchorage folk artist concert series CD resources Claddagh Records Dublin, Ireland Celtic Grooves Imports Washington, DC Dara Records New York Custy's Music Ennis, County Clare, Ireland Rego Records New York The Living Tradition Cork City, Ireland Ossian USA Loudon, NH Aniar Records Record label in San Francisco, CA. You need Reeds & Rosin and it's cheaper from the source. Folktrax International Sound recordings and films of traditions worldwide free mp3s Tin Whistle Tunes Mp3s indexed by tune type, with a separate page for those played on the pipes. Tune of the Month Archived, from the Southern California Uilleann Pipers club San Diego Tune Swap Check out the rest of Michael Eskin's site while you're there, it's well worth it. Cranford Publications Canadian resource for fiddle music makes available mp3 clips of almost all the CD's they sell. Uillean Obsession Radio Archives The motherload! Wow, how did he do this? Aniar Records mp3 sampes of their albums Tunebooks online Index of tunebooks in ABC notation includes a *fantastic* search funtion. My new favorite, better than thesession.org, except w/out peoples comments on the tunes. Paddy O'Brien Tunebook Sets put together by Paddy O'Brien of Tipperary, found in his desk after his death. John Walsh's Session Tunes Not the John in Anchorage, but worth looking at anyway. :-) Blarney Stone Pub pdf file Blarney Stone Pub 2 also pdf The Feild Pub Session Tunebook another pdf; the last three are all the work of Michael Eskin O'Neil's Music of Ireland Online Includes "Dance Music" and "Waifs and Strays"
Information Sites
The ABC Homepage This is the main resource for all ABC notation questions, with links to tutorials and downloads. ABC Tunefinder Mudcat Cafe massive repository of folk songs Online Session curious but somehow cool . . . Irish Fiddle Encylopedia of fiddlers and styles.   I should make this required reading for my students. online ABC converter for those of you who don't have an ABC program yet Ceolas celtic music archive tons of info on Irish music Dolmetsch Early Music excellent series of lessons on music theory Jazz Violin directory of players and styles International Bluegrass Music Association An Introduction to Historical Tunings Understand why your tuner doesn't tell the truth Alan Ng's Tunography Find what albums a tune is recorded on, what other names it has, what books its in. Uilleann Obsession So much more than pipes, as if that weren't enough. Patrick D'Arcy has collected a lot of information. TheSession.org Almost every Irish music question has lots of conflicting answers in the archives.
Festivals and Events Alaska Folk Festival Juneau Anchorage Folk Festival Two weeks in January Alaska Fiddle Camp August Friday Harbor Irish Music Festival Spring, Friday Harbor, Washington Camp Bluegrass Levelland, Texas Acoustic Adventures Fairbanks folk artist concert series AlaskaFolkMusic.org Gary Newman's page; the most complete reference I know of for events in Alaska. Fairbanks Concert Association Anchorage Concert Association Whistling Swan Productions Anchorage folk artist concert series CD resources Claddagh Records Dublin, Ireland Celtic Grooves Imports Washington, DC Dara Records New York Custy's Music Ennis, County Clare, Ireland Rego Records New York The Living Tradition Cork City, Ireland Ossian USA Loudon, NH Aniar Records Record label in San Francisco, CA. You need Reeds & Rosin and it's cheaper from the source. Folktrax International Sound recordings and films of traditions worldwide free mp3s Tin Whistle Tunes Mp3s indexed by tune type, with a separate page for those played on the pipes. Tune of the Month Archived, from the Southern California Uilleann Pipers club San Diego Tune Swap Check out the rest of Michael Eskin's site while you're there, it's well worth it. Cranford Publications Canadian resource for fiddle music makes available mp3 clips of almost all the CD's they sell. Uillean Obsession Radio Archives The motherload! Wow, how did he do this? Aniar Records mp3 sampes of their albums Tunebooks online Index of tunebooks in ABC notation includes a *fantastic* search funtion. My new favorite, better than thesession.org, except w/out peoples comments on the tunes. Paddy O'Brien Tunebook Sets put together by Paddy O'Brien of Tipperary, found in his desk after his death. John Walsh's Session Tunes Not the John in Anchorage, but worth looking at anyway. :-) Blarney Stone Pub pdf file Blarney Stone Pub 2 also pdf The Feild Pub Session Tunebook another pdf; the last three are all the work of Michael Eskin O'Neil's Music of Ireland Online Includes "Dance Music" and "Waifs and Strays"
Festivals and Events
Alaska Folk Festival Juneau Anchorage Folk Festival Two weeks in January Alaska Fiddle Camp August Friday Harbor Irish Music Festival Spring, Friday Harbor, Washington Camp Bluegrass Levelland, Texas Acoustic Adventures Fairbanks folk artist concert series AlaskaFolkMusic.org Gary Newman's page; the most complete reference I know of for events in Alaska. Fairbanks Concert Association Anchorage Concert Association Whistling Swan Productions Anchorage folk artist concert series
CD resources Claddagh Records Dublin, Ireland Celtic Grooves Imports Washington, DC Dara Records New York Custy's Music Ennis, County Clare, Ireland Rego Records New York The Living Tradition Cork City, Ireland Ossian USA Loudon, NH Aniar Records Record label in San Francisco, CA. You need Reeds & Rosin and it's cheaper from the source. Folktrax International Sound recordings and films of traditions worldwide free mp3s Tin Whistle Tunes Mp3s indexed by tune type, with a separate page for those played on the pipes. Tune of the Month Archived, from the Southern California Uilleann Pipers club San Diego Tune Swap Check out the rest of Michael Eskin's site while you're there, it's well worth it. Cranford Publications Canadian resource for fiddle music makes available mp3 clips of almost all the CD's they sell. Uillean Obsession Radio Archives The motherload! Wow, how did he do this? Aniar Records mp3 sampes of their albums Tunebooks online Index of tunebooks in ABC notation includes a *fantastic* search funtion. My new favorite, better than thesession.org, except w/out peoples comments on the tunes. Paddy O'Brien Tunebook Sets put together by Paddy O'Brien of Tipperary, found in his desk after his death. John Walsh's Session Tunes Not the John in Anchorage, but worth looking at anyway. :-) Blarney Stone Pub pdf file Blarney Stone Pub 2 also pdf The Feild Pub Session Tunebook another pdf; the last three are all the work of Michael Eskin O'Neil's Music of Ireland Online Includes "Dance Music" and "Waifs and Strays"
CD resources
Claddagh Records Dublin, Ireland Celtic Grooves Imports Washington, DC Dara Records New York Custy's Music Ennis, County Clare, Ireland Rego Records New York The Living Tradition Cork City, Ireland Ossian USA Loudon, NH Aniar Records Record label in San Francisco, CA. You need Reeds & Rosin and it's cheaper from the source. Folktrax International Sound recordings and films of traditions worldwide
free mp3s Tin Whistle Tunes Mp3s indexed by tune type, with a separate page for those played on the pipes. Tune of the Month Archived, from the Southern California Uilleann Pipers club San Diego Tune Swap Check out the rest of Michael Eskin's site while you're there, it's well worth it. Cranford Publications Canadian resource for fiddle music makes available mp3 clips of almost all the CD's they sell. Uillean Obsession Radio Archives The motherload! Wow, how did he do this? Aniar Records mp3 sampes of their albums Tunebooks online Index of tunebooks in ABC notation includes a *fantastic* search funtion. My new favorite, better than thesession.org, except w/out peoples comments on the tunes. Paddy O'Brien Tunebook Sets put together by Paddy O'Brien of Tipperary, found in his desk after his death. John Walsh's Session Tunes Not the John in Anchorage, but worth looking at anyway. :-) Blarney Stone Pub pdf file Blarney Stone Pub 2 also pdf The Feild Pub Session Tunebook another pdf; the last three are all the work of Michael Eskin O'Neil's Music of Ireland Online Includes "Dance Music" and "Waifs and Strays"
free mp3s
Tin Whistle Tunes Mp3s indexed by tune type, with a separate page for those played on the pipes. Tune of the Month Archived, from the Southern California Uilleann Pipers club San Diego Tune Swap Check out the rest of Michael Eskin's site while you're there, it's well worth it. Cranford Publications Canadian resource for fiddle music makes available mp3 clips of almost all the CD's they sell. Uillean Obsession Radio Archives The motherload! Wow, how did he do this? Aniar Records mp3 sampes of their albums
Tunebooks online Index of tunebooks in ABC notation includes a *fantastic* search funtion. My new favorite, better than thesession.org, except w/out peoples comments on the tunes. Paddy O'Brien Tunebook Sets put together by Paddy O'Brien of Tipperary, found in his desk after his death. John Walsh's Session Tunes Not the John in Anchorage, but worth looking at anyway. :-) Blarney Stone Pub pdf file Blarney Stone Pub 2 also pdf The Feild Pub Session Tunebook another pdf; the last three are all the work of Michael Eskin O'Neil's Music of Ireland Online Includes "Dance Music" and "Waifs and Strays"
Tunebooks online
Index of tunebooks in ABC notation includes a *fantastic* search funtion. My new favorite, better than thesession.org, except w/out peoples comments on the tunes. Paddy O'Brien Tunebook Sets put together by Paddy O'Brien of Tipperary, found in his desk after his death. John Walsh's Session Tunes Not the John in Anchorage, but worth looking at anyway. :-) Blarney Stone Pub pdf file Blarney Stone Pub 2 also pdf The Feild Pub Session Tunebook another pdf; the last three are all the work of Michael Eskin O'Neil's Music of Ireland Online Includes "Dance Music" and "Waifs and Strays"
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