| Suppliers,
instrument makers etc |
| Alec Anness - Autoharp man, making "seriously good harps" according to Mike Fenton Bodo Vosshenrich - Maker of the Neolin, the amazing fretted violin as seen at Gainsborough 2010 Bluegrass Books Online - Books and CDs to help you learn. Bluegrass College - Enrole and you get up to 12 lessons per year, in video and mp3 format. All instruments! Brooks Banjos - If they sound as good as they look then they must be superb! From Portland, Oregon Brown Dog Banjos - Everything for banjos, mandolins and ukuleles - spares and accessories for the player - parts, materials and tools for the banjo maker and repairer - Based in the UK Bruno Torres - A luthier from France making a range of instruments including old-time banjos Field Recorders Collective - A group of enthusiastic American collectors whose excellent work is available to buy online. Mucho Fino Violins - USA supplier but with excellent stock and will ship worldwide Old Time Imports - Just about every old time recording currently available - and delivered to your door! Orb Music - Helmut is back on the web! Pickard Acoustics - Hand built acoustic guitars by Ivor Pickard R M Anderson Banjos - Handcrafted masterpieces from Bob Anderson in Ohio Red Dog Music Books - Some interesting material here Wildwood Records - Recording some important UK artists Wishbone Stringed Instruments - Makers of the unique "Wishbone" dulcitar (as seen at Gainsborough 2010), fiddles, mandolins and bouzoukis. Musical Traditions - A UK site with occasional old-time articles and
reviews. Also sells some old-time CDs, including the new West Virginia University
Press CDs of Edden Hammons. |
| Publications (including on-line mags) |
| Banjo Newsletter - A US site with lots of content and a fair amount of old-time material FiddleOn Magazine - Covers more than just old time but a good all-round fiddlers magazine Fiddler Magazine - More than just old-time stuff but good nevertheless Musical Traditions - A UK site with occasional old-time articles and reviews. Old Time Herald - An important publication on all things American old-time. The Folk Mag - An on-line magazine with some old time interest, mostly covering the west Midlands
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| Artists/Bands |
| Beverley Smith & Carl Jones - Great tunes, superb songs and harmonies! Black Diamond Bluegrass Band - All the way from the US of A. Carolina Chocolate Drops - Straight up Carolina piedmont string band tunes playing regularly with traditional fiddler Joe Thompson Debby McClatchy - Our friend from the USA and ardent supporter of fish and chips! Ebony Hillbillies - a great band out of New York The Forge Mountain Diggers...hell yeah - All the way from North Carolina! Green Grass Cloggers - Site for the "touring" group, maintained by Julie Mangin Kerry Fletcher - Appalachian and all-round percussive dancer and teacher. The KittyHawks - Lucy Ray, Mo Jackson et al. The New Ballards Branch Bogtrotters - Stars of the Gainsborough Festival 2009 Pete Cooper - Mr Fiddle!! The Rattletrap String Band - High energy old-time string band. From Ohio? Reed Island Rounders - More of our friends from over the pond Rough Deal String Band - Our friends from over the small pond Sankofa Strings - Old timey, early blues, early jazz and minstrel tunes; banjos, fiddle, guitar, jug, kazoos, bodhran, washboard, harmonica and bones String Band Home Page - Some familiar names here
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| Organisations |
| Acousticart - All about American Folk Music, Old Time, Bluegrass & Folk-Blues - From Cornwall UK! CDs for sale too! Amerikanska Folkmusik Föreningen - Our friends in Sweden have there own American Folk Music Society
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| Miscellaneous Sites |
| David Lynch's Old Time Page - Well worth a visit FiddleFork - A site for all fiddlers FiddleHub - Learn fiddle online for free, using slow motion video and tablature
Kelli's Clogging Page - Much of today's American clogging tends to be performed to pop/country/rock music and, compared with the UK scene, doesn't appear to be very traditional. However, it's very popular and this is an excellent site to get an idea of what's going on across the pond. Having said that, there are still some excellent traditional clogging teams over the pond Old Time Music - Some excellent links Old Time Music in Portland Bill Martin's website has been active for 13 years, covering the entirety of oldtime music and square dancing in Portland, Oregon, US. The website has facilitated the emergence of a vibrant young scene here. Portland is attracting traditional "roots" musicians from across the country, and our oldtime square dance revival is energizing a national interest among young people in traditional square dancing to live oldtime music. Old Time Music on the Web - A good starting point for some old-time surfing! Old Time Music Home Page - Another good starting point. Rheinhard Gress's Old-Time Music Site - An excellent German site from an old-time enthusiast in Germany. Well worth a visit. Some excellent links. Tom Joad's Web Site - Some good stuff here, including tab Virtual
Bluegrass Band - over 200 back up midis of bluegrass and old time tunes
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Ray Banks' Recommended Sites |
The following is a set of links to internet sites where you can hear Old Time music, live and recorded. They're all great for listening to while you're writing your novel or playing Solitaire. Kennedy Centre Millenium Stage, Washington The numbered links are a series of free concerts preserved on video. The newer ones may require broadband, but the older ones (Molsky, Krack) don't.
New
Ballard's Branch Bogtrotters of Galax, Virginia Bruce
Molsky - Fiddle, Banjo, Guitar Jake
Krack (age 15) - Fiddle. A wonderful young fiddler taught by Melvin Wine. Ken
Waldman & Doug Van Gundy - poetry and tunes from West Virginia. Mike
Seeger - the man! Archives
of The Secret Museum of the Air Sugar
In The Gourd. The
Honking Duck Berea
College, Kentucky Henry
Reed - Fiddle Tunes Of The Old Frontier If you stumble across any more good ones, please let me know at |
| UK dance teams |
| Alive & Kicking Appalachian Clog Dancers
- From Exeter Bluefields Appalachian Dancers - From Somerset Cornucopia Appalachian Dancers - From Oxfordshire Feet First - From Chesterfield Firestone - From Exeter Hi Jinx - From Horsham Kick Start Appalachian - Warwickshire Kick the Cat Cloggers - From Edinburgh Kickin' Alice - From Shropshire Knickerbocker Glory - From East Hampshire Leap to your Feet - From Bolton Mind the Step - From Cheshire Raise the Dust - From Shropshire Tanglefoot - From Kent
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