Please email me any links you think would be of interest to the FFS community. Please notify me of any broken links. Sites come and go and change often.

Fresno Youth Folklore Society is an organization which caters to the youth of Fresno, California.  The group is dedicated to the preservation of folk arts and culture in the Central Valley.  In order for these traditions to survive, culture must be passed down from one generation to the next.  For this reason, young people are instrumental in maintaining cultural identity.

Folk Home Page A very huge site with links to hundreds of musicians and folk music clubs as well as other folk related links.

Fox Valley Folklore Society Folk Music Links - All the links you may ever need especially combined with the Folk Home Page listed above! All the related newsgroups are listed too. This site has more links then a sausage factory.

British Columbia Folklore Society has links to clubs worldwide

Seattle Folk Society Page

Celtic Cultural Society of Central California

Scottish Society of Central California

The Irish American Social Club serves Northern California.

Butte Folk Music Society (Chico Area)

Lark in the Morning Music Camp - A music camp in Mendicino

The San Joaquin Valley Guitar Society

Fresno Philharmonic - The largest professional orchestra between San Francisco and Los Angeles, the Fresno Philharmonic’s mission is to provide high-quality classical music and music education programs to audiences and school children throughout the Central Valley.

Butte Music Society - Traditional and folk music in the North Sacramento Valley

The San Francisco Scottish Fiddlers - Check out their tune of the month archives

Chattahoochee Country Dancers - Contradance basics with video on their info page

El Dorado Scandinavian Dancers (EDSD) - Scandinavian folk dance group in the Sacramento area

Fresno Flamenco & Spanish Arts Society - dedicated to the promotion of flamenco and Spanish dance classes, workshops, and performances.

Mudcat Cafe hosts of the Digital Tradition Folksong Database... lyrics for lord knows how many songs, and a highly reliable search engine, as well as the opportunity to download the base, updated monthly, in either pc or mac format. Other blues related information and links, message boards and more too.

Traditional Song Forum Links This page links to all sorts of resources for those interested in Traditional songs from England, Ireland and Scotland

Traditional Ballad Index This is a heavy duty (3meg download) bibliographical index of traditional ballads that resides on the CSU Fresno computers.

Folk Music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and America This is an amazing site with lyrics and tunes. It plays the music while you read the lyrics. They have a good selection of Child Ballads, Sea Chanteys and more.

Early California folk songs, EZ. Marc's pages featuring sound files and links to early Californios music and also to other ethnic music pages. A visual and aural treat.

Folk Music Index - A database linking song and tune titles to books and recordings. Also has links to other databases online

Huapala Hawaiian Music and Hula Archives - Lots of lyrics and other info

Hetzler's Fakebook - Midi files for Oldtime, Irish, and Klezmer tunes. $35/yr membership adds sheet music with guitar chords

The How and the Tao of Folk Music - Daily banjo tabs and song lyrics with MP3 files to go with them.

tradlessons.com - a collection of short video lessons for learning tunes on a variety of traditional Irish session instruments, including Uilleann pipes, whistle, flute, Drop-D backup guitar, and later in 2007, anglo concertina

Riley School of Irish Music - Music downloads for learning their school's tunes slow and then to speed

Sam Hinton Harmonica Lessons on YouTube

Banjo Meets World - Banjo blog with tabs and instructional videos

The ABC homepage This is the ultimate resource for abc notation with tutorials, tune links and abc players for Mac and PC's.

Henrik Norbeck's Abc tunes. Here are about 900 reels, 600, jigs and hundreds of other Irish tunes in abc format. Also information and links about Swedish music.

Ceolus celtic resources and Celtic tune archives in abc and other formats

Kitchen Musician- Hammered Dulcimer music gifs and midi files

The Fiddler's Companion - Large annotated collection of tunes with abc format

The Session - Irish session tunes in abc and gif formats, tune discussion groups and more.

Eddie Karagozian's The Big Drums: Provides information on Central Valley belly dance events and his group Mirage

Evo Bluestein has information on his music and the Evoharp his custom built entrylevel autoharp. 

The Dirty Linen Gig Guide lists gigs. Search by state/province, artist, or events/festivals.

Musi-Cal is a listing of gigs. Search by performer, city, venue or event

Audio Hijack Pro - Program for recording audio from almost any source to your Macintosh in mp3, aiff, and several other formats.

WireTap Pro - Another program for recording sounds to your Macintosh computer.

Amazing Slow Downer - A truly amazing program for slowing down (or speeding up) CD or mp3 audio. You can also adjust pitch up and down so you can "tune" a CD to match the pitch or key of your instrument without speeding up the audio. Windows and Macintosh.

Audacity - free, open source software for recording and editing sounds available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.

UltimateUkeleleCollection.com - If you like ukeleles eat your heart out here

Notecannons - A gallery of National Guitar Factory instruments

Museum of Musical Intruments - Online collections and exhibits

khoomei.com - Throat Singing pages - videos and sound bites and a lot of other info. Be sure to check out the videos of Tran Quang Hai on spoons and jaw harp

International String Figure Association Have you ever done a Cat's Cradle or other String figure and wanted to know more? Be sure to check out the arctic string figure project

California Academy of Sciences Traditional Arts Program

Fresno Highland Dance - Highland Dance Instructers new page

Meux Home in Fresno offers an interesting glimpse into Fresno's past. They are open every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 12:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. and have space for weddings, parties and receptions.  Phone number is 233-8007

Fresno's Arte Americas is having concerts in their new plaza in addition to their exhibits of hispanic arts.

Radio Bilingue

The BBC Virtual Sessions - Join in and learn some Irish session tunes. Using the Shockwave plug in you can hear sets of Jigs, Reels and hornpipes as played in a studio session. The Sheetmusic for the playing tune is displayed and can be printed.

Gassio Mirror All sorts of useful online resources for teachers and students (among others) compiled by Fresno's own Mike Gassio. Graphics, encyclopedias, search engines, and more.

Charlie Seelig's Contra dance page Hundreds of contra dance links for sites in the Pacific region of the US giving locations, times and other information.

California Regional Directory - A large directory of informational websites serving California. Look under Counties to find info about Fresno

Petroglyphs and Rock Paintings - Beautiful photographs and commentary of American Indian rock art of the Southwest and Baja, Mexico

The Art of Gourd Banjo Construction - Site about the history and making of gourd banjos. Extensive photo galleries and full MP3 downloads plus some tabulature.

Banjo a Vicious Habit - A parody warning of the dangers of Banjo

The Canonical List of Banjo Jokes - 271 + banjo jokes.

Instrument Jokes - It doesn't matter what you play, there are jokes about it.

Digital Library of Appalachia - "Information in the database exists as reproductions of color or black and white photographs, reformatted typed pages, published books, unpublished manuscripts, personal diaries and correspondence, journal and newspaper articles, musical recordings, oral history recordings and transcripts, and other related reproductions. As of July 2003, there are over 2,000 items in this database."

Atlas of Plucked Instruments - Based on a large private collection of plucked stringed musical instruments (plus additional material from books and websites), this atlas provides photographs and information about plucked instruments in the lute, guitar, banjo and mandolin families and more.

Mandolin Cafe - Resources for Mandolin players

Clawhammer Banjo Tablature & Instruction

Color Stereograms - Just for fun and eyestrain

Tradtunes.com offers Celtic and Roots music downloads for purchase. Like Itunes you can listen to 30 seconds of each track They also have a radio show of full tracks of selected artists that is updated weekly.

Celtic Melt is a very nice celtic music program on Live365.com. You can find it listed on Itunes under Americana for some reason. Live365.com is a huge network of internet radio stations. You can also create your own radio show on their network for a fee.

Itunes is Apples online music store and music player interface. The streaming radio stations are easy to access.

Clare FM - Traditional music from Ireland

Magnatune.com lets you listen to full length albums and tracks before purchasing and downloading. They have some great stuff in their world music genre.

Weenie Campbell - Country Blues resource with streaming audio (Weenie Juke Radio)

Radio Bilingue Hear Carl Johnsen's international music on the first and fourth Sunday of each month at 2-5 pm and other fine programming. Follow the link to download Microsoft Media Player streaming audio

BBC's Radio 3 World Music . Listen to the WOMAD music festival and other amazing world music show archives with RealPlayer.

Tomorrow The Fox Will Come - a CD of traditional English music by Peter Kirby of England with 4 full mp3 downloads

Interview with legendary Kenny Hall with Marta Hall and Kent Steadman
http://www.radiorbit.com/audio/010206kentandkenny.m3u
http://www.radiorbit.com/audio/010206kentandkenny.mp3

The Roots Music Listening Room - a fantastic collection of old 78 recordings digitized into mp3's to download.

Cajun Music MP3 - full mp3's of old cajun recordings from the 1930's - 1960's

Irish and Celtic Music Podcast - Weekly podcast and archives

www.live-radio.net - A comprehensive list of links to streaming radio stations from around the world.

Lineonline.org Juliana Harris has created this online folk and fine arts journal to highlight Fresno's local artists, musicians, and writers.

Folkworks is a newspaper dedicated to promoting Folk Music, Dance, Storytelling, and other folk arts in the greater Los Angeles area. Published bi-monthly it is available as a PDF file download. You can also download just the Special Events Calendar page.

Celtic Events Calendar for Northern California