|
Andy Hornby's website with his own tunes in midi,. PDF and abc
formats. Also music from the Winder manuscripts from Wyresdale near Lancaster with pictures and info about the Winder tunes, village bands & dancing masters. Also, miscellaneous traditional & early music in PDF form. |
www. andyhornby.net |
| Very useful folky site with listings of bands,events, folk music news etc. | Folking.com |
| The FARNE project (Folk Archive Resource North-East) A wealth of information about North Eastern music and traditions. | http://www.asaplive.com/Free Reed Band, Ceilidh Band, LancasterFARNE/Home.cfm |
| Another great collection of tunes, including Carolan, O Neil's and Allen's Irish Fiddler in Midi, ABC, dots and Noteworthy Composer format. Noteworthy is cheap, straightforward and worth investigating for producing notation and converting midi files | http://www.oldmusicproject.com/oneils1.html |
| The Fiddler's Companion-
A Huge collection of fiddle tunes |
http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/index.html |
| Fantastic collection of mostly Irish tunes | http://www.thesession.org/index.php/search?q=polkas&start=0&scope=The+Session |
| Search for English Broadside ballads | http://www.english.ucsb.edu/emc/ballad_project/sample_songs/index.asp |
| Very useful links to all things folky in the North West of England | http://www.folknorthwest.co.uk/links.htm |
| Contacts details for bands, callers, folk clubs etc across Lancashire | http://www.lancashirefolk.co.uk/index.htm |
| Community
& Arts centre in Freehold, Lancaster's answer for all
things musical and artistic. It has recently opened
a mini cinema (free to members). We have an anything goes
(well at least most
things!) music session upstairs on a Thursday night. This is likely to
feature fiddles, mandolins, banjos, accordions, hurdy gurdys,
guitars bagpipes
of various
sorts, and tin whistles. The tunes range from medieval &
renaissance
stuff, Irish/Scottish/English/European to Klezmer and Spanish
fandangos! There is also a thriving regular Irish session on Tuesdays. |
http://www.gregson.co.uk/ |
| The Virtual Lancaster Lancaster web site, with listings of bands, events and lots of information about what's going on in Lancaster | http://www.lancasterukonline.net/market/gallery/music/music_hq.htm |
| Priceless resource for info & chat about folk related topics. Search for song lyrics. | http://www.mudcat.org |
| "Folkopedia" Up and coming "Wikipedia" for Folk Music of all kinds | http://folkopedia.efdss.org |
| Richard Robinson's Tunebook. A vast and invaluable collection of tunes from various sources. In ABC notation and the dots (PNG). The full Winder manuscripts are here as are copies of some of the printed books that the Winder family band used as a source of tunes. | http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Info/RRTuneBk/tunebook.html |
| The Village MusicProject:
A central repository for manuscripts of village band music and Dancing Masters. Full of useful background to English dance music traditions |
http://www.village-music-project.org.uk |
| Julian Taylor's useful site all about fiddles and fiddle music. Also useful links to folk related things, especially in the North West | http://www.fiddlemusic.co.uk/index.htm |