Music

Because of the ever-changing nature of the Internet, the operation of these links cannot be guaranteed. Your mileage may vary.

Archives

• The Digital Tradition Folksong Database at The Mudcat Café.
• Folk music archive at Penn State University.

Magazines

• Dirty Linen, the magazine of folk, electric folk, traditional and world music.
• Folk Roots, Britain's premier world-music magazine.
• Sing Out! The Folk Song Magazine, a quarterly journal of traditional and contemporary folk music.

Record Companies

• Koch International, US distributors of, well, a whole bunch of interesting stuff, including a lot of Arlo Guthrie's back catalog, for which I have a soft spot.
• NorthSide, a new label with a spectacular lineup of Scandinavian folk and folk-rock artists.
• Temple Records, purveyors of some of Scotland's finest folk.

Other Resources

• The abc home page, home of a useful cross-platform file format for notating tunes.
• The wonderful Ceolas site, a trove of information about Celtic music.
• There's an interesting collection of folky material at www.contemplator.com, including lushly arranged MIDI files of lots of (mostly British) folk songs, and lyrics to a lot of stuff.
• Fasola.org, a real nice website dedicated to the tradition of Shape Note singing (primarily The Sacred Harp branch).
• Hidden Water's list of Folk Venues across the USA.
• The RootsWorld home page.
• The rec.music.folk Usenet newsgroup.
• Not limited to folk music (by any means!) but interesting nonetheless: the Internet Underground Music Archive. In fact, we have our very own page here.
• Not really folk music at all, but very enjoyable: the Gilbert and Sullivan archive.

Philly Specials

• Philly Folk Info
• WXPN, 88.5 FM - Public radio from UPenn, now the last station I know of in Philly with any broadcast power to speak of that plays any folk music.
• WHYY, 90.9 FM - Public radio formerly featuring the inimitable Gene Shay, folk DJ par excellence. (We can't believe they cut Gene's show ... can you?)