inks
Some of our favorite links:
Dancing
Royal Scottish Country Dance Society | RCSDS New Mexico Branch
FolkMADS: New Mexico Folk Music & Dance Society
Contra Dance Links resource site
Music Sources and Information
Ceolas: huge resource for celtic music and dance
The Session: Irish music archive and community
JC's Tune Finder: abc archive of folk music
JC's Music for Scottish Country Dance: abc archive for SCD music
Modes and Key Signatures: demystifying the Irish modal thing
Contemplator: History, musings, and tunes from Britain, Ireland, and America
Streaming Music on the Web
Folk Alley: Public radio source for folk, Irish, Americana, blues
LiveIreland: Traditional and contemporary Irish
Artists
Dervish: traditional Irish band
Lunasa: traditional Irish band
Alasdair Fraser: Scottish fiddler
Old Blind Dogs: blend of traditional Scottish and world music
Roger Landes: Bouzouki, mandolin, cittern family
Festivals
Rio Rancho Highland Games and Scottish-Irish Festival
Zoukfest (that's bouZOUKi and more....)
Instrumental Interest
Han Speek's Irish Bouzouki site: great resource for Irish bouzouki players: technical details, chords, history...
Mandolin Cafe: mandolin community
Misc.
ABC notation:
- Jim Vint's ABC2Win shareware music program
- JC's ABC tune finder archive
- Tune-O-Tron converter: from ABC to sheet music
