Various genres

Countries, Regions:
Music France
Music Belgium
& The Netherlands

Music Brittany
Music Scotland
Music Shetland Is.
Music Northumberland
Music Wales
Music England
Music Ireland
Music USA
Music Canada
Music Austria & Germany
Music Spain
Music Northern Europe

Music in ABC Format

Instruments
Bagpipes

Accordion
Hurdy Gurdy
Concertina

Dances:
Dances Brittany 
Dances France

Events

Bal Folk

Miscelaneous

Audio & Video Plug-Ins


Folk & Trad Radio Links
Songs & Ballads Link List
Andreas' Radio Linkts


Andreas'
trad music and dance link list


On this website I mainly collected weblinks containing information on traditional tunes,  dances and instruments of western european origin. The site is for musicians, sessioneers and enthusiasts of Western European and North American trad / folk music.

established in 2003 

 

see also:

Andreas' Trad & Folk Radio Links
trad & folk audio & video on the web
Andreas' Songs & Ballads Links
Songs and Ballads Link List
Andreas'  Radio Links
stations delivering tropical music,
public affairs programs;
webradio link-lists; TV




recently added:


Musicòla
Library containing Tunes and Songs mainly from the
Occitania Region in France;
maintained by the Association "La Còla Tarnesa"


Mémoire du folk en Nord Pas de Calais (F)
blog in french


archive.folx.org
an online archive of Trad & Folk music;
maintained by Stephan Steiner, Vienna

Association "L'Amuse Danse"
sheet music

Danses en Ile de Folk (F)




Various Genres


JC's Online Music Books

La mare dels ous
Catalan music

Wikimusica
Irish, Scandinavian, abc

Session Etiquette
by Nigel Gatherer 

Folk Dancing Etiquette
by the Int. Folk Dancers of Ottawa

Lesley Nelson 's Folk Music Site
Lyrics, Midi, Origins, Historical Information and 
Background for traditional tunes from Britain, 
Ireland and America, circa 1650 to 1900. Includes 
Child Ballads, Sea Shanties and Turlough O'Carolan

Taylor's Traditional Tunebook
maintained by Lesley Nelson 

Traditional Music Library
maintained by Rod Smith 

Richard Robinson's Tunebook

Chris Peterson's Traditional Music  

Session and Bal Folk Repertoire,
by "Grain de Phonie", France; requires Myriad Music Plug-in
see section "Partitions"

Tune collections on the Internet
by  Mickey Koth

John Chamber's abc Tune Finder

English Ceilidh Audio Samples
by webfeet.org 
A wide range of sources, English, Irish, Scottish, French / Breton, European, Various Jigs, Reels, Hornpipes, played with a
wide range of styles


boombaltunes.be 

The Banjolin Page
Tunes of different genres

musika viva tunebook


Musipedia - the open music encyclopedia
midi and sheet music; e.g. go to keyboard search,
then  click on piano keys or enter search options.
I found a lot of  tunes by searching keywords like
"bourree", "scottiche" or "mazurka"; however the Copyright
situation seems to be unclear in many cases

Folk Tune Finder
the folk & traditional music search engine

The Mudcat Café

Folkies unite
tune list by Rolf Groeneveld, in dutch

Link Tab
Search Engine of the Accademia del Mantice


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Countries, Regions


 

Music France:  

Simon Wascher's online Trad-Archiv

Musictrad
The server of traditional music in France/
Le serveur des Musiques Traditionnelles en France

Alerions
Tunes of the french group of the Alsace region

Festival St. Chartier

Trad France
Traditional Music from France
tunes in  ogg, midi and gif  format
maintained by Sylvain Piron

Musique Centre France

Les THIAULINS de LIGNIERES en BERRY
Musiques-Danses-Instruments

     
Travak tunebook

Dutch bal folk group from Venlo

Quelques petites vidéos
du Chti-Folkeux
Trad Music of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, and Western Belgium

Musique d'Auvergne
23 original remanufactured recordings interpreted by singers and musicians who originated from the french regions Cantal, Aveyron, Corrèze, Lozère and Puy-de-Dôme / 
23 enregistrements originaux remasterisés, interprétés par des chanteurs et musiciens originaires du Cantal, de l'Aveyron, de la Corrèze, de la Lozère et du Puy-de-Dôme

 

Musiques traditionnelles en liberté
partitions, midi files and MP3s,
maintained by Paul Guièze

 

Sheffield university's ceilidh society tune pages
french tunes, sheet music

cabrette.com
partitions  sur la rubrique "Jouer" /
for sheet music see section "Jouer"

Les Partitions du Groupe "bal 'taquin"
La musique Trad dans le Poitou /
Trad music of the Poitou region in France

Passeurs de Danse

Association "Passé composé"
accordion tablatures and midis

Coleur Chabrette
Trad Music presented by the Chabrette players of the National Regional Conservatoire of  Limoges and a dozen or so other musicians
   
     
Traditional Tunes published by the band Kazimodal


boombaltunes.be

La Compagnie du Rigodon:
extraits musicaux et partitions
musical abstracts and partitions

O'Regan's Session Tunebook
french bal folk , as well as scottish and irish tunes

diatojo.com-tablatures

Musique à partager
by Marc Lemonnier

       
Liste des partitions du disque "TAPAGE"



Association "L'Amuse Danse"
sheet music

  
Mémoire du folk en Nord Pas de Calais (F)
blog in french


Musicòla
Library containing Tunes and Songs mainly from the
Occitania Region in France;
maintained by the Association "La Còla Tarnesa"



Music Belgium / The Netherlands:

 

Musiques traditionnelles de Wallonie
par le Canard Folk, partitions, midi


 

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Music Brittany /  Bretagne:

 

Partitions de musiques de Bretagne
de Breizh Partitions,
celtic music in midi, abc, gif and jpg  format

 
Cyber Fest Noz

par / by Radio An Tour Tan

Collected Tunes by Bernard Loffet

'Drawn by lot'  Fest Noz
by rootsworld.com 

Airs de Bretagne, Irlande, Écosse
maintained by Pascal Rose

Panorama de la musique bretonne
et du patrimoine oral

par l'association Dastum / by the Dastum association

 

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Music Scotland:

 

Nigel Gatherer's Tunes Collection

Scottish Midi Music
provided by Tom Lorimer


Music Shetland Islands

Tunes from Shetland
shetland music development, mp3 

The Edinburgh Shetland Fiddler's Society

 

 

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Music Northumberland

 

The Traditional Music of  Northumbria and the British Isles
tunes im  mp3  u. wma  Format
 

Northumbrian Traditional Music
gif, midi, mp3


FARNE (Folk Archive Resource North East)
Radio FARNE

FARNE Audio Files
bringing Northumbrian folk music to people’s homes across the world - invaluable resource of Northumbrian Music, 
don't miss to search the archive in particular for the sound and video files at the bottom of the archive-page




Music Wales


Welsh Traditional Music
tunes in midi, abc u. gif





Music England

 

Eric Foxley's Music Database
gif , pdf    Format 

Nottingham Folk Music Database
maintained by Eric Foxley
ascii, pdf, gif, ,midi
 
Traditional Music in England
British Library Archival Sound Recordings



 


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Music Ireland

 

Hetzler's Fakebook -- Listen and Learn
celtic  and old time tunes in midi
partitions in pdf & gif format

Digital Tradition Folk Music Database, songs 
text, midi , abc, Pennywhistle notation and Dulcimer tab 

The Traditional Music Database - TUNEdb
maintained by Richard Moon 
midi, abc

Durty Linen Lyrics Link Page

Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Eireann

O'Neill's Music of Ireland

A further "O'Neill's" Project

Fiddle Net
maintained by Ron Wild

Tunes provided by the band "Wild Dismay"
in midi format 

Irish Music Archive 
in midi format 

Fiddle music of Donegal
by Japanese fiddler, Misao Komatsuzaki


Tradlessons
Traditional Irish Music & Instruction
maintained by Michael Eskin


Music Northern Europe

Spillefolk

Folk Wiki

spelman.de


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Music USA

Roots of American Fiddle Music

Hetzler's Fakebook -- Listen and Learn
old time und celtic tunes in midi
sheet music in  pdf  and gif format


The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection
trad. american Songs

Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier:
The Henry Reed Collection
American Folk Life Center / Library of Congress

The Old-Time Music Homepage
maintained by David Lynch 


Old Time Music and Dance  

All tabs . com  - tablature list  

The John and Ruby Lomax 1939
Southern States recording trip Collection
American Folk Life Center / Library of Congress

California Gold - 
Northern California Folkmusic from the Thirties
American Folk Life Center / Library of Congress

Rich Crew's Tune Book
sheet music, pdf 

John Lamancusa's Old Time Fiddle Tune Page  
 
Old-Time Music of America

ZEPP Country Music, Inc. Sound Files
mp3

Cranford Publications

Charlie Walden
for the tunes click the "Project" link


Music Canada


The Great Canadian Tunebook

Le Gramophone virtuel
Enregistrements historiques Canadiens /
Historical recordings from Canada
IdentitAirs Québécois
A Web site dedicated to
french-canadian traditional music


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Music Austria & Germany: 

 

Simon Wascher's online Trad-Archiv

Volkstänze aus Deutschland und Europa
by Thomas Walker, pdf






Music in ABC Format:


abc  collections - a comprehensive overview 
by Chris  Walshaw

abc musical notation language
by Chris Walshaw
Musiques anciennes et trad. au format ABC
Chansons populaires de l'Alsace,
abc format, by Eric Forgeot

Christoph Zeiler's
diatonic button accordion page:
try the following link and go to
section "transcription" in order to
see C.Z.'s collections of tunes
in abc format:
members.yline.com/~zeiler1/abc_eng.html



John Chamber's abc Tune Finder

Nigel Gatherer's abc Tunes Collection
mainly celtic and american

The Traditional Music Database - TUNEdb
maintained by Richard Moon 

Wikimusica
Irish, Scandinavian, abc

JC's Online Music Books







Music Spain


La mare dels ous
Catalan music


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Instruments

Various Instruments:

 

The instruments of celtic music

Folk Musik Instruments
maintained by Jay Glicksman


Pipes-cornemuse-Dudelsack-
doedelzak-zampogna-gaita: 


The Universe of Bagpipes

Thorsten's Sackpfeiffen Seiten

The Lowland and Border Pipers' Society

Stephans Sackpfeiffen Club
in german

 

 

- Northumbrian Smallpipe:

 

Northumbrian Smallpipes

Northumbrian Pipers' Society


 

- Spanish and Portuguese Bagpipes, 
  Gaita:

 
Galician Bagpipes
by Manuel Carro 

Associação Gaita de Foles
Portuguese Bagpipe Society




- French Bagpipes

Le site "Musette"
Website of the Group "Avalanche Compagnie" 

cabrette.com
 



- English and Scottish Pipes



- Bagpipes in Belgium

La Cornemuse dans la région du Pays des Collines 


- Swedish Bagpipes

Olle Gällmo's Website

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Accordion: 

 
Accumulated Accordion Annotations

Accordion  Links .com
by Jeroen Nijhof 

L'accordéon diatonique des amateurs
Tablatures de chants, danses, airs bretons,
celtiques,  marins ou populaires / tablatures of chants, dances, as well as breton and celtic airs, chanties and popular songs


Liens concernant l'accordéon diatonique
et la Bretagne
Bernard Loffet, luthier à Caudan en Bretagne /
instrument maker of Caudan, Britanny in France


Accordeon-en Harmonica Museum  de Muse
in Malden nearby Nijmegen, NL 

Trekzak Pagina
by / van Paul van Muijen, NL
dutch website around the diatonic accordion


De Harmonikahoek
van / by Eduard Bekker
dutch website around the accordion


 

 

Concertina:

 
KonzertinaNetz
umfangreiches Portal rund um die Konzertina 
von Klaus Wenger mit zahlreichen Stücken im 
midi u. mp3 Format,  Noten u. Tabulatur / 
comprehensive website round the concertina 
by Klaus Wenger, in german

 


Hurdy gurdy - vielle - Drehleier -draailier - ghironda:


Drehleier Wiki
hurdy gurdy wiki
by Simon Wascher
in german

Die Drehleier Seite
by Uwe Jendricke , in german

Matthew Szostak's Hurdy-Gurdy Page

Vielle à roue

Alden and Cali Hackmann's Hurdy-gurdy Site

La Maison du Luthier  Musée à Jenzat

 

Tin Whistle, Flutes

 
Whistletutor
by Sean Cunningham
 

The Scottish Whistle
Whistle Tutorial by Nigel Gatherer





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Dances

 
Gennetines: Le Grand Bal de l'Europe

Dance Instruction Manuals: Video Directory
American Memory from the Library of Congress, USA 

Renaissanse Dance


Del's Dance Book, Multimedia Page


The James Madison University Ballroom
and Folk Dance Club
Virginia, USA ; Check out the Classes section for
various learning tools 



dancilla.com


Tanzbeschreibungen von Regina Krohne
Folkstanz in Berlin.de
in german


Dance Descriptions
of the Celtic Bompa Website

Dansroddels
reports and dance descriptions on
folkroddels.be
in dutch

Dans Wiki
in dutch



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Dances Brittany / Bretagne:

 
Les chants et les danses  en Bretagne
by  bretagnenet.com

The On Bouge! Breton Crib Sheet
by Webfeet


 

 

Dances France:


Les THIAULINS de LIGNIERES en BERRY
Musiques-Danses-Instruments

La veillée limousine : danses

BAGATELLE  Folk Dances of France
Sponsored by Le Club Français, Dayton, Ohio, USA 

Le site d'Annick Bideault : danser

Association "Passé composé"
dance descriptions

Passeurs de Danse


Del's Dance Book:

Old Dances from France and Burgundy
and others


AccroFolk.net:
Description des danses folks


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Events


‘Trek er es Uut’
Nijmegen, The Netherlands,
yearly event at the Ascension Day holiday,
a get together around the diatonic accordeon



Festival de Cornemuses à Cassel, France (59)


Lautenbach, Alsace, France:
Rencontre de Lutherie - Dancerie Met Müsik

Isola Folk Festival, Bergamo, Italy

Gran Bal Trad
Italia / Italy
The Grand Bal Trad changes location
and will now be hold in Vialfre'


St. Chartier, France

Gennetines, France
Le Grand Bal de l'Europe

Festival de Cornouaille, Quimper, Bretagne, F
archive du Festival de Cornouaille

KlangRausch
Hoesseringen, Germany

Winneweh, Germany


Cyber Fest Noz
Le plus grand fest-noz du monde
filmé en direct de Quimper  et retransmis
sur internet dans le monde entier
archives des Cyber Festou Noz



Lancaster Hurdy Gurdy Festival


The Piper's Gathering
"North America's most comprehensive alternative bagpipe event"


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Bal Folk Links


Bal Folk in Belgiun:


boombal

Folkkalender of folkroddels.be


Bals folk en Nord-Pas-de-Calais
et Belgique occidentale

published by Chti-Folkeux


Folk in Leuven


Bal Folk in The Netherlands


balfolk.nl 



 

 

Bal Folk in Germany:

 

Folkstanztreff  Köln

Bal Folk eV. München

Bal Folk und andere Folkstanzveranstaltungen in Berlin

Stuttgarter balhaus e.V.:
Veranstaltungs-Termine in Deutschland
und Umgebung


Nordfolk Bal Hamburg



Bal Folk Music Sessions in Germany:


Bal Folk Session im Ruhrgebiet
Gaststätte Sonne, Herne
4. Montag im Monat, ab 20 Uhr


Musikanten-Treff des Folk Club Frankfurt


Nordfolk Session Hamburg
 

 

Bal Folk in France:

Liste non exhaustive de concerts 
et bals folks en région parisienne


Les infos sur le bals de la région parisienne

 

Bals folk en Nord-Pas-de-Calais
et Belgique occidentale

publié par Chti-Folkeux


Les dates folks en Alsace
et Territoire de Belfort
L'agenda d'AccroFolk


musictrad.org - le calendrier
Les dates de concerts, de bals,
de festivals et de stages dans
votre région ou sur votre lieu
de vacances



fest-noz.net


Folk à Lier:
Qquelques rendez-vous régulieres
sessions, rencontres, etc.



Danses en Ile de Folk


Bal Folk / French Dance in UK

 
Traditional French music and dancing
in Cambridge

Pied à Terre - European Dance in Norwich

Ockbrook French Music & Dance Session


French and Breton traditional music and dance in 
Leeds, West Yorkshire, Les Panards Dansants

On-y-va, Kelsale, Suffolk
 

Bal Folk in Italy  


Musica popolare in Piemonte


 

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Various Links

archive.folx.org
an online archive of Trad & Folk music;
maintained by Stephan Steiner, Vienna

Folk Music Webring

Folk Musik Homepage
by  Jay Glicksman 

Alte Volksmusik in der Schweiz

Stichting Volksmuziek Nederland

Stichting Draailier en Dudelzak

bordun.de
(mit Terminen) 

Tradivarium
Sessions, Bals Folk and concerts in Austria,
maintained by Stephan Steiner, Vienna, in german

Early Music Network Webring

Musical Traditions

Celtic Headquarter Links

Bert's Folk Club
Songs, Tunes, Links 

Folkclub Frankfurt - 
D I E  Linkliste für Folk im deutschsprachigen Raum 
in german

Smithonian - 
Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage

Smithonian Folkways Recordings

ezFolk Link Directory
maintained by Richard Hefner 

streetswing.com
dance history archives 

Folkies Unite
Folk-Website van Rolf Adriaan Groeneveld,
Wageningen, NL, in dutch

Zebedee's Folk Dance Pages
by Steve Earwicker 


AccroFolk.net
important Folk-website from
the Alsace and Belfort region
in France, in french



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Audio und Video Plug-Ins,
Programs

Real Player
Win Media Player
Quicktime Player
JetAudio
Gold Wave, Sound Editor
Audacity,
Cross-Platform Sound Editor, open source
Winamp
Winamp Help and Plug-Ins for Musicians
Myriad Music Plug-In (français)
Myriad Music Plug-In (english)
AbcMus, created by Henrik Norbeck


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go to:

Andreas' Trad & Folk Radio Links
Andreas' Songs & Ballads Links
Andreas' Radio Links




Thanks for a link to
andreas' trad music and 
dance link list to:

folx.org (AT)
Bal Folk Session im Ruhrgebiet (D)
Stuttgarter balhaus e.V. (D)
Folkstanztreff Köln (D)
Konzertina-Netz (D)
Folkclub Frankfurt (D)
Travak (Venlo, NL)
O'Regan's Tunebook (CDN)
Foldies (D)
Les Hommes ventrus (D)

 
 

Contact:  Andreas Heising 

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