Roots of Folk: Old English, Scots, and Irish Songs and Tunes

Broadside ballads and related stuff. If you're wondering exactly how many songs there are to the "Captain Kidd" tune, this is the place to go.

to folk lyrics song tunes ... on 21 January 2012

Folk Festivals in Scotland

to festivals folk music ... on 21 January 2012

Shruti Box UK - Home of the Shruti Box M1

Saw Mark Dunlop playing one of these at Glenfarg in October -- very neat!

to folk instruments music ... on 03 December 2011

Andrew McNabb - Pipe Music

A useful overview of what you can do with a set of bagpipes.

to bagpipes folk instruments music ... on 01 September 2011

LeSession: Steve Mansfield's Abc music tutorial

Useful quick reference to ABC notation.

to abc folk music notation ... on 23 August 2011

The Session: Tunes - Balls To Hall (jig)

Suspiciously similar to the tune in Gary Moore's "Over The Hills and Far Away"...

to folk music tunes ... on 14 August 2011

the village music project

"English" (which is to say Scottish and Irish too) collections of tunes.

to folk music tunes ... on 13 August 2011

Index of /sgb

Tunebooks from rl.ac.uk (Justin Greenhalgh et al).

to folk music tunes ... on 13 August 2011

Root Hog Or Die

Long list of links to world traditional music sites.

to folk music trad world ... on 22 July 2011

The Roots Music Listening Room

American recordings from the early 20th century. (I came here looking for "Angeline the Baker", I think... but there's lots more American folk here too.)

to america folk music roots ... on 10 July 2011