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Links last tested 26.9.96. Please e-mail me if you find something has changed.

Last updated 31st March 1999


Link Categories:

You may browse through the whole links page, or jump to a category of interest.

Folk Music and Events .... A variety of sites including magazines, whats-ons, and retailers.

Festivals .... Festivals that include at least some folk/roots acts.

Musicians / Bands.... Web pages giving information about folk musicians and bands.

Record Labels .... Folk-related record labels.

General Music Interest .... Music related sites that don't come under the previous headings.

Song / Composer Databases .... Three on-line databases that can be searched for song / composer / publisher.

Hastings / East Sussex Links .... PDCS is based in the Hastings (England) area - a few local links.

Useful Contacts .... A few other links that have proved useful.


Folk Music and Events:

Folk Roots .... Folk Roots is the world's leading roots, folk and world music magazine. Includes a useful links page to many folk-related Internet sites, as well as their festival guide.

The Sussex Folk Guide .... A guide to folk events in the county of Sussex. Based on the free publication "The Folk Diary".

Hobgoblin .... Hobgoblin Music are the largest source in Europe, of hard to find folk instruments. Also includes What's On guides to areas local to their stores.

Celtic Magazine List .... A guide to celtic music publications.

Tayberry Music .... An on-line retailer "providing a comprehensive collection of Celtic recordings including many hard-to-find selections".

Digital Tradition Folk Song Full Text Search .... This database of traditional songs proved useful until they ran into copyright problems. Still worth reviewing even though you can't get the all the words.

Reekie Nights .... Scottish music site.

Trehantiri Music .... Investigate Greek music.

Dirty Linen .... Bi-monthly magazine.from the US.

Adastra .... Home page of the Adastra Agency.

Folk London .... A What's On for the London area, provided through the Hobgoblin site.

Fol-de-rol Index .... Ken Piper's "Folk On Line Directory of Events and Recording Order Listings" - a comprehensive listing of folk music recordings and the postal addresses to get them with the emphasis on material produced by individuals, bands and small companies. Plus What's On listings for Buckinghamshire, tour dates and biographies.

Folk Alliance

Folk_Music Digest

FolkBook: An Online Acoustic Music Establishment.

Ellington Morris Men

Fabulous Folk (And Related) Links

Stirrings Magazine

Musical Traditions

Stoneyport Agency

Flatville Aces

UK Cajun and Zydeco Resource Page

Cajun Times Online


Festivals:

Folk Roots .... Folk Roots is the world's leading roots, folk and world music magazine. Includes a useful links page to many folk-related Internet sites, as well as their festival guide.

Festival Focus .... A listing of folk festivals and contacts.

Black Horse Music Festival .... "The biggest little festival in Britain" is held at the Black Horse, Telham, Nr Battle, East Sussex, England on the last weekend of May each year.

Hastings Traditional Jack in the Green .... This festival takes place around the town of Hastings, East Sussex on May Bank Holiday. Includes information of Morris sides participating as well as a history of Jack in the Green.

Cambridge Folk Festival .... One of the major English festivals.

Cambridge Folk Festival - Artists details .... Another site with details of the Cambridge Folk Festival.

Cleckheaton Folk Festival

The Craic Celtic Folk Festival .... A Netherlands festival.

Falun Folkmusic Festival

Fleadh Nua, Ennis

World Roots Festival, Amsterdam

Napa Valley Music Festival.... Festival at Napa, California, USA.


Musicians / Bands:

Fairport Convention .... A popular folk-rock band (understatement?) - loads of information.

Fairport Convention .... Another Fairport site - includes words of songs.

Fairport Convention .... Yet another Fairport site - is this the official one?

Steeleye Span .... The other popular folk-rock band; their recent studio album (Time) showed them at their best.

Richard Thompson .... Guitar heros respect this man!

The Oyster Band .... 1998 guests at the Black Horse Music Festival.

English Ceilidh Bands .... An index listing many bands with contact details.

Mrs Ackroyd .... Les Barker's home page.

Battlefield Band .... Includes tour dates; part of the Temple Records site.

Bloco Liberdade .... A Hastings-based band.

Barry Dransfield ... a star of the folk world of the '60's and '70's who in recent years has made an acclaimed come-back.

The Dharmas ... Hastings-based band now regularly touring and with a number of releases behind them.

Kilmarnock ... Australian-based duo that includes ex-Telham Tinker (from Hastings) Pete Titchener and fiddler Cathy Fraser (voted Best Traditional Folk Act for the 2nd year running at the 1997 South Australian Folk Festival).

Dick Gaughan

Wilko Johnson

Dr Feelgood


Record Labels:

PDCS .... A little bit about your host!

Terrapin Records .... Record label, shops, mail order and distribution.

Acoustics .... Information about Simon Mayor and Hilary James recordings.

Rhiannon .... An English label that has released some good CDs, including Barry Dransfield's two recent recordings.

Culburnie

Musikfolk (no link yet!!) .... A small mail order company specialising in folk and folk rock; also sell merchandise at a few of the small music festivals during the summer.

Green Linnet

Lismor

Rykodisc

Temple

Record Labels on the Web .... A general index to record labels on the Web.

Robin & Barry Dransfield on Free Reed .... Free Reed Records & Music site re Robin and Barry Dransfield's first new release for many years, which is a bumper, 39-track Double CD featuring both new recordings and rare 'lost' recordings from the boys' long career.


General Music Interest:

Sonic State .... You've got to see this! Lots of information.

Real World .... Peter Gabriel's Real World site.

Bebop`s Box-Office .... Another source of information.

Record Label Addresses .... A listing of many record company addresses on the Dirty Linen site.

Performing Right Society .... PRS is the UK association of composers, songwriters and music publishers. It administers the "performing right" in their music. Should you join? Should you get a licence?

Sounds Good .... CD and cassette manufacturers.

AES .... Audio Engineering Society.

APRS .... Association of Professional Recording Services.

Musicians Union

Re-Pro .... A subsidiary of the APRS for producers.

PLASA .... Professional Lighting & Sound Association.

SMPTE .... Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers.

NAB .... National Association of Broadcasters.

EBU .... European Broadcasting Union.

MusicSearch .... The Internet's Music-Only Search Site.

StudioMaster Pro Audio

Spirit (by Soundcraft)

Digital Audio Labs


Song / Composer Databases:

There are three US organisations that maintain databases of songs, composers and publishers. They are all accessible on-line.

BMI Home Page

ASCAP Home Page

The HFA Song List


Hastings / East Sussex Links:

Ultimate Alternative .... Find out what's happening in the Hastings' music scene.

The 1066 News Mag .... Hastings and 1066 Country what's on, music and general information magazine

Music Files .... A sub-section of the above site - the on-line version of the local music magazine 'Music Files'.

South-East England Tourist Board .... For the tourist. It has proved a useful site for visitors to the Black Horse Music Festival when looking for accommodation and places of interest. The town of Battle has its own pages on the site.

Virtual Hastings .... Another Hastings site with lots of info.

Secrets of the Norman Invasion .... An interesting site containing information about the Battle of Hastings (1066).

Observer Group .... The Observer Group of newspapers for Hastings and the surrounding areas.

Sussex Live .... This is a guide to the many WWW sites around and about the county of Sussex, England.

Hastings Borough Council .... The official Hastings' site - community and tourist information


Useful Contacts:

The Telework, Telecottage and Telecentre Association .... The TCA exists to support teleworkers and telecottages and to promote and lobby on their behalf. Could you benefit from membership?

The Article Number Association (UK) .... If you need to barcode a product, have a look at this site.

Netscape Navigator Software ... We are trying out Netscape Navigator Gold (v3.0) at the moment - these pages have been constructed using different editors, but most have now been modified using Gold.

WEB-COUNTER .... They run our visitor counter for FREE!

Nick's HTML Warehouse ... A source of useful GIFs to enhance your web site.

UK Department of Trade and Industry

The Economist


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