Local
Links
Ulverston Online
Foxfield Brewery The
local pub that brews Furness Tradition Ale for the Festival
Links
to Folk Music Sites
Folkus NW
based Folk organisation - workshops and events
Folk In Cumbria. guide to folk music in
Cumbria
Trouble at Mill. Folk music around Preston.
Rising Sun Band -
a great band playing North West English dance music
Beside The Seaside. Guide to music in the Morecambe
Bay area
South Lakes Promotions.
Group promoting excellent acoustic based music in Ulverston
Harbourtown Records Locally
based record label
http://www.radiobritfolk.co.uk
the best of songs
tunes and stories, ancient and modern, from all the British islands, 24 hours
a day.
Folk Camps run holidays under canvas
with an emphasis on folk dance, music and song
Links
to music and song archives:
Legends
- Ballads and Broadsides
A comprehensive site, with links to, among other resources, the
Traditional Ballad Index, and some scanned texts
The
Digital Tradition folk song database
One of the longest-established and best resources for folk music words and
tunes. It includes modern as well as older material
The
Word on the Street
The National Library of Scotland's online collection of nearly 1,800 broadsides
lets you see for yourself what 'the word on the street' was in Scotland between
1650 and 1910. Crime, politics, romance, emigration, humour, tragedy, royalty
and superstitions - all these and more are here.
From
Traditional To Digital
A project in collaboration with the School of Scottish Studies to create the
basis for a digital audio presentation of the Child Collection of Scottish
Border Ballads
Greg
Lindahl's work in progress on Sixteenth-century
ballads
Francis
J. Child Ballads
Biography, lyrics, tunes and historical information about the Child corpus.
Bodleian
Library Broadside Ballads
scanned original broadsides.
http://www.scotskist.com
Scots song and ballad site.
English Folk Dance and Song Society -
owner of the iconic Cecil Sharp House and the Vaughan Williams
Memorial Library.