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Some of these sites belong
to businesses, but
they are still labors of love -
I won't lead you to any big corporate sites.
I like to start with our
local community, so here's
a great resource that happens to be close by -
If it hadn't existed, my life would surely have been
the poorer for it.
The
House of Musical Traditions
Offering instruments from many lands, expert advice, sheet music,
access to instructors, concert info, and local recordings
Next circle outward - our very fine
Folklore
Society of Greater Washington
and
its
Links page
Lots of great possibilities here
Local, but with a broader reach:
Smithsonian
Center for Folklife
and Cultural
Heritage
They put on the
incomparable annual
Smithsonian
Folklife Festival
"a national, even
international,
family reunion
asserting the ability of people to
converse with and understand each other.
. . . the Festival has featured exemplary tradition bearers
from 54 nations, every region of the United States,
scores of ethnic communities,
more than 100 American Indian groups,
and some 50 occupations"
and what a happy
time it is each hot summer
when we all meet on the fields of the Mall
to dance and sing together
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a new permutation of the old midsummer traditions
that Le Guin imagined as the Long Dance of Earthsea. . .
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The
Mudcat Café
A fabulous project linking folkies in
online community with
discussion forums, song lyrics, links, and much more. . .
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And then leaping across the
water, we have
the website of
fROOTS
magazine
The premier publication on roots, world and folk music
from the UK - a treasure
trove of music resources
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Favorite Songs
I'll be posting
links here to some of them
as I find them
Gone,
Gonna Rise Again
Words & Music : Si Kahn
link courtesy of Dick
Gaughan's website - check it out!
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