Banjo links [up]
- Banjo Newsletter - BNL
- Gérard de Smaele is a real banjo lover, he is the producer of "Banjo Frolic" for the exhibit held at the Musical Instrument Museum in Brussels, Belgium. Don't miss his pages "Banjo" and "Banjo Attitudes". he also is the author of two great books about the banjo (in french)
- Have a look at Dirk Lefebvre's page about Derroll Adams foremost american banjo legend and great poet (the opening verses of Five Striings Inside V2.0 are by Adams), songwriter and painter. Walter de Peuter, from Belgium, has set up a website concerning the Derroll Adams Banjo Techniques. Derroll Adams story by Allen J.Redman. See also Youra Marcus great french banjo player, banjo teacher and respectful admirer of the man and his style. Beautiful photos of Derrol Adams there - a site by Patrick Ferryn maker of the film "Derroll Adams I was born in Portland Town". Hope it will be available as a DVD soon…
- Revel banjos gorgeous open back banjos by Philippe Revel in Lyon (France)
- Bruno Torrès in Saint-Germain-de-Confolens (Limoges - France) offers a wide range of open back or resonator banjos and beautiful fretless appalachian style banjos. He also build mandolin, banjuke, and bouzoukis.
- Charles Kelly’s Tunes for Clawhammer Banjo is a collection of 217 tablatures he wrote to supplement his book : “A Systematic Approach to Clawhammer Banjo”. All tabs are now available for free on the Web. [view online or download]
- The Johnny Keenan Banjo Festival is a "Celebration of Irish Traditional and American Bluegrass Music".
- Harry Bolick as we share the same passion for music, graphic design and photography
- Uncle Ben's banjo homepage by Benny Bough includes some great graphics on learning how to play both bluegrass and frailing style
- Sedo Luthier skilful instrument maker who made my working banjo,
- The Banjo Project is a documentary film and web site that chronicles the musical odyssey of America’s instrument…
- Tony Trischka
- Taj Mahal
- clawhammer.com
- Banjo.free Le banjo dans tous ses états
- Tom Hanway yes it's not clawhammer, but there's a lot to learn from his playing in the celtic style
- Otis Taylor - Transe Blues Certified…
- Bob Carlin - Car Tunes Recording
- Benjamin Fleming's music appeals to listeners across the musical spectrum. It is a unique and powerful form of entertainment.
- Joan Dickerson page
- Stealth Banjo - Scott Vestal's innovative 5 string banjo design
- Terry Holland's banjo site with tablatures and links
- Black Banjo Then & Now certainly the best banjo thing recently happening
- Dwight Diller
- New Criterion Banjo Orchestra
Béla Fleck personal page- Flecktone Home page (Tour Schedule, past performances, description of equipment, merchandise, photographs, other stuff), and also Flecktones members : Future Man Roy Wooten, Jeff Coffin Mu'tet, Sandip Burman, Victor Wooten Home page, Howard Levy
- Béla by Nathan Torkington (has biography, photos, bulletin board)
- Nancy has a terrific concert gallery
- Wendell Norman, discography of the Flecktones
- My own Flecktones gallery showing black and white shots made in Paris
- Harmonias's Big B. MusicalExcessories
- Jubilee Gourd Banjos, the roots of banjo making, african style
- Looking for good banjo or any fretted instrument information? Mugwumps has it, and also Mugwumps Online Guide To Banjo Family Articles
- Find what you need at BanjoTeacher.com
- Nechville Musical Products the most creative and innovative banjo maker out there today.
- The story of BanjoSessions™ began in august 2003, hoping to become a valuable asset for the banjo playing community providing great tips, tunes and techniques from some of the world's best players. The focus will be on all banjo styles, Old Time, Classical, Bluegrass, Dixieland, etc.
Old time music [up]
- What is Old-time Music? A brief description and personal selection of 20 currently available compact discs and Mike Seeger Links
- In Germany, Reinhard Gress is an Old Time Music enthusiast living in Munich.
- stringband.com
- The oldtime music home page
- Old-Time Music Resources
- The Old-Time Herald Online Edition
- Intermountain Acoustic Music Association lots of links there
- The Library of Congress American Folklife Center
Celtic music and related [up]
- Tunes at Ceolas lots of celtic music, the biggest
- Nickel Creek
- It's back! Jeremy Keith's The session was missing for a while, but now it's back online in a new, improved version. Every week it features a traditional Celtic tune in gif and abc formats, and it is...
- Irish and Celtic Music on the Internet
- G8INA's Irish Music Page, G8INA has decided to re-open his page to sell his nearly famous Traditional Music and Song CDROM, 17,000 tunes and song lyrics and all the software you need - lots of links to irish stuff
- Irish Music Magazine for news, views and more on the Irish Folk and Trad scene
- Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Eireann a Web Site for traditional Irish Music and Culture
- Trad@Harp includes Festivals, Summerschools, Irish Harp
- tunebook
- The Virtual Tunebook a small collection of sheet music, sound clips, and the occasional midi file online.
- Morris dance abc
- Richard Moon's TuneDB a huge serchable collection of traditional tunes
- The Irish Fiddle videos and an audio jukebox! Index of Fiddlers
- Traditional Celtic Music from Scotland, Ireland, Cape Breton, Shetland, Orkney, the Scottish Highlands and more - including Fiddle music, Fiddle Lessons, Gaelic music, Scots and Gaelic songs, Gaelic Names, Bagpipe Sheet music, Free MP3s, & Free downloadable sheet music online.
- abc Library of Morris Tunes
- Northumbrian pipe home page
- Dragonfly who proposes books of traditional northumbrian music, and others including Massif Central music and the famous "Encyclopaedia Blowzabellica", a compilation of many tunes among those which were recorded on the first six albums of mythic Blowzabella
- Ceili House Band home page
- Traditional Celtic Music & Dance in Nederland
- Jacqui McShee and "The Pentangle"
- Chris ricker canadian fiddler
- FolkFax “The starting point for all things Folky”
- Folk Project (Northern New Jersey)
- Harmony Central
- Henrik Norbeck's abc Tunes
- Irish Fest
- O'Neill's Music of Ireland Eighteen Hundred and Fifty Melodie
- Wayne Cripps's New Music Bookmarks
- Cambridge Folk Playlist
Misc [up]
- vishwa Mohan Bhatt famous indian slide guitarist (Mohan vina)
- Batish Institute Indian music, Ragopedia may be of interest to every musician to understand the complex architecture of north indian music
- Musical Instruments of India
- TablaBase articles online
- Friends of Tuva, everybody loves throat singing in which excels Huun-Huur-Tu
- A Jazz Improvisation PrimerSandip Burman
- The Number One Of Music Zone is an organized alphabetical directory of internet music links and music related web site around the world with over 94,000 listing....
- Cheap and light, easy to travel : the ukulele and Dennis Taylor site all about banjo uke… and don't miss a look at Bob Armstrong's racy Keyhole Uke
- Le Ciel est Bleu
- Eternal Circle is the database of Bob Dylan's excellent works. You can find all lyrics of Dylan in this site
- A Traditional Music Library
- Aniar Records, Claddagh Records, Green Linet,
- Magnetic Music, Ossian, Shanachie Records, Tara Music Company
- FolkWorld - the online music magazine, Home of European Music.
- Folk-Legacy Records
- Welcome to the world of Gourd Music
- Folkways Records
- Sing Out! the original Folk Music magazine -simply the best in its field with great music articles etc.
- Lark In The Morning instruments, books, lot of articles
- The hobgoblin music shop an instrument shop on the web
- Custy's music shop
- Les Rencontres Internationales de Saint Chartier 14, 15 et 16 juillet 2006
abc, software and music [up]
- Search for collections and abc softwares on The abc home page
- qu'est-ce que le format abc ?
- Search a million tunes with JC's ABC Tune Finder
- BarFly is a Mac OS X shareware integrated text editor/player/viewer for abc music files
- Audacity is a free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems
- Harmony Assistant and Melody Assistant, from Myriad, are both wonderful composing tools and music/tablature editor
- A repertoire of music fonts
- Mac or PC ? looking for a tab software? try Easy Five-String Banjo Links for Beginners or Paul Hawthorne's site which includes an amazing gestalt banjo page
- Free-Scores, the steadily growing World Wide Directory of Free Sheet Music
- Musica Viva the Internet center for free sheet music downloads and more. It also offers an interesting instruments gallery
Newsgroups [up]
- Banjo-L discussion list
- Black Banjo: Then & Now discussion list
- Banjo Ring
- Banjo Revolution
- IRTRAD-L Irish Traditional Music List
- IrlandeTradFR une liste francophone consacrée a la musique traditionnelle irlandaise et à ses voisins
- Banjo_pickers Le groupe de discussion des Banjoïstes francophones !
Litterature [up]
- Don Swaim's Ambrose Bierce Site
- The most complete page about James Joyce's Ulysses
- The Barbara Kingsolver Page
- Flann O'Brien
- Bound for Shady Grove, Steven Harvey
Useful css sites: [up]
- alistapart
- zen garden of css
- position is everything
- Typetester, part of the maratz.com personal website of Marko Dugonjic
- Alsacréations - Meyerweb - Stu Nicholls my favorites sources for CSS stuff
- Charles Wyke-Smith whose book taught me so much
