Links of Interest
General
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- Folk Alliance
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Information, conferences, newsletters, and links for all
things folk
- FARM - Folk Alliance Region Midwest -- The regional chapter of Folk Alliance; They put on an annual conference in the fall of each year.
- Folk
and Acoustic Music Exchange - Reviews of recordings,
etc.
- FolkJam.org - "Find jams. Post jams. Play well with others."
- Dirty Linen -
Web version of the folk/alternative magazine, with
articles, reviews, and tour schedules of your favorite
performers
- RootsWorld
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An online world music magazine with links, reviews,
articles, sound clips, etc.
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English Folk Music - English folk and traditional
Music on the Internet
- Folk Roots -
Home page of Folk Roots magazine, the UK's famous
folk/roots magazine
- About Folk Music
- Links, articles, etc.
- University of Wisconsin Digital Collections -- The Wisconsin Folksong Collection, 1937-1946 - searchable data, digitized audio and visual materials from
two collections housed in three discrete but closely related
repositories. The Collection reflects and documents the state's
colorful pattern of immigration and occupational development during
those years.
- The 111 Greatest (Anglo-American) Folk Music Artists
- A compilation undertaken for the sake of discussion, and library collection development purposes; by Charles H. Smith, Ph.D.
- AcousticMusicScene.com - Designed to promote quality
acoustic music by providing useful news and insightful
commentary. They also aim to foster a greater sense of community for
performers, presenters and fans of folk, roots and other acoustic music
styles.
- The Acoustic Music Archive - A place where you can
find lyrics and chords for folk songs, discover their origins and listen to
recordings of them.
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House Concerts
NOTE: Mad Folk as an organization does not schedule house concerts!
BUT, we are happy to help our members publicize concerts they are hosting but these events are not official Mad Folk events. (You just need to be a Mad Folk member to have your house concert event posted on our site - See the JOIN page if you are not already a member.)
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- Wisconsin Public Radio -
Simply Folk playlists, amongst other things
- WORT-FM, Madison
- Community sponsored radio station with lovely
folk/alternative programming - listening is real time
analog only (i.e. the radio)!
- www.MusicMadeInMadison.com - Internet radio station that exclusively plays the music of Madison area artists 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
- WKSU - Kent State
University Radio site, maintains a two week collection (24
hours) of excellent folk music shows for listening or
downloading
- WUMB - University of
Massachusetts - Boston site. Our vote for the best web
site for real time listening to folk music on the internet
24 hours per day
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WFMT – Midnight Special - Internet feed temporarily
(we hope) discontinued.
- FolkAlley.com
- 24-hour Internet folk music station
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- Topical/Seasonal Songs: Some artists such as John McCutcheon, make MP3 files of time-sensitive/seasonal songs available for downloading. Let us know if you have additions to this list!
* Here's a link to John's MP3 page: http://www.folkmusic.com/t_mp3.htm.
* A couple of songs by Tracy Jane Comer:
"This Losing Game": CLICK HERE to stream or download
"In This New Year": CLICK HERE to stream or download
- Mudcat
Cafe - Lyrics to many many songs, mostly folkish.
- OLGA - Lyrics and
guitar parts for all sorts of songs, but sadly reduced by
copyright conflicts
- Malvina Reynolds: Song Lyrics and Poems - Site created by Charles H. Smith and Nancy Schimmel - Malvina is the prominent topical and children's songs folkie, one of whose songs is currently being used as the theme music for the hit cable tv series "Weeds."
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Musicians who are MEMBERS of Mad Folk
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Musicians who have played/will play for Mad Folk concerts and Mad Folk member house concerts
(list started Jan. 2004, alphabetical)
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