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ABC - ABC Notation. Tunes/Songs recorded in text files and displayable as standard treble staff notation.
 ABC Basics - http://abcnotation.com/blog/2010/01/31/how-to-understand-abc-the-basics/ - abcnotation.com/blog/2010/01/31/how-to-understand-abc-the-basics/
 ABC notation home page - Welcome to abcnotation.com, home of abc notation - the text-based music notation system and the de facto standard for folk and traditional music. Around 67,000 tunes (available as free sheet music or midi sound files) at this site alone - abcnotation.com/
 ABC Tune Finder - John Chambers' all-inclusive abc tune finder, a comprehensive search engine for finding abc tunes on the web. - trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tunefind
 ABC Wiki - This is a wikified version of the draft revised abc standard - abcwiki.selfthinker.org/abc:syntax
 AbcMus - AbcMus is a program for tunebooks in ABC format, - www.norbeck.nu/abcmus/index.html
 About ABC Notation - Getting Started & Understanding ABC Notation. - abcnotation.com/
 Folk Tune Finder - FolkTuneFinder.com is a web-wide search engine that catalogues tens of thousands of tunes from across the web. You find tunes by title or a piece of the melody. Search for tunes transcribed in the ABC format - www.folktunefinder.com/
 SPUDs Tunes - A Contra dance band from Philadelphia provides Notation in ABC for Reels, Jigs, and Everything Else! - www.thursdaycontra.com/~spuds/TuneLinks.html

Bluegrass -
Bluegrass Music Topics - The Music, history, and locations.
 Atlanta Bluegrass Happenings - A Web Newsletter about Bluegrass happenings around Atlanta. - www.atlantabluegrasshappenings.com/
 Bluegrass Bonanza Band - The Bluegrass Bonanza Band performs ole-time favorites, gospel tunes, bluegrass, and original songs. You're going to like what you hear so check the calendar and come for good music!, (each 2nd Sunday of the month 6 PM at the Old Tucker Fountain where they serve Bluegrass with your BBQ.) See the calendar for other performances. - www.bluegrassbonanzaband.com/
 Bluegrass Lessons Online - Take Lessons in your home with video conferencing - bluegrasslessonsonline.com/
 Everett's Barn - Everett’s Music Barn has been a fixture on the Bluegrass Scene for over 38 years. Open Every Saturday night, you can find the best talent in the bluegrass world picking in the Barn. - www.everettbrothers.com/about.php
 Music of Coal - Mining songs from the Appalachian coal fields. - www.musicofcoal.com/music.htm
 Old Time Music - Bands, Events, Jams, Music - oldtimemusicanddance.homestead.com/
 Old Tucker Fountain - Firefly Mike and the crew at the Old Tucker Fountain invites you in every Sunday evening for Bluegrass with your BBQ. Doors open at 5:30 PM with a performance featuring a SEBA Band from 6 to 7 PM followed by a jam. Seating is limited So arrive early, come hungry and bring your instruments.... - www.sebabluegrass.org/members/detail.php?id=1664
 SEBA - SouthEastern Bluegrass Association. Events, Bands and Bluegrass resources in Atlanta and north GA. - www.sebabluegrass.org/

Fiddle -
Information about fiddles and fiddling.
 Atlanta Area Friends of Folk Music - This site lists information about folk music and related activities in the greater Atlanta area and the Southeastern U.S. - aaffm.org/
 Electric Fiddler - We bring you the last news and info from the electric violin world. - electricfiddler.com/
 Fiddle Hangout - The mission of the Fiddle Hangout is to become the world's most comprehensive fiddle resource. We're doing it by bringing the world's fiddle players together with powerful community-building tools created for musicians, by musicians. Has tabs for a bunch of great tunes. - www.fiddlehangout.com/ and www.fiddlehangout.com/tab/
 Folk Of The Wood - A full featured Fiddle information site - www.folkofthewood.com/Web_Site_Map_for_Violin_Fiddle.html
 Folk of the Wood - Folk of the Wood is a publishing-based web site consistent with our acoustic music support mission, we are still contributing and distributing music instruction online and offering up all of our FAQ's, instrument set-up instruction along with all of our other online acoustic music support resources completely free of charge. - www.folkofthewood.com/
 Huthmaker Violins - Luthier and general information on violins - www.huthmakerviolins.com
 Ronald Sachs - Violin Luthier - Luthier & showroom in Lilburn, GA - www.ronaldsachs.com/

Midi -
Midi
 Hetzler's Fakebook - Midi for Old Time & Celtic tunes - hetzler.homestead.com/music_2.html
 Jack's Midi Music - An amazing collection of many Midi tunes - www.ajsmidi.com/
 Karaoke Karen's Karaoke - Lyrics and midis for tons of songs in many categories here: - www.soundpiper.com/mln/midi.htm

Miscellaneous Music -
Music
 Alan Lomax - Music Collector. - www.culturalequity.org/
 ASCAP & BMI - History & basic info - www.woodpecker.com/writing/essays/royalty-politics.html
 Atlanta Area Friends of Folk Music - This site lists information about folk music and related activities in the greater Atlanta area and the Southeastern U.S. - www.aaffm.org/
 Atlanta Concert Band - An amateur orchestra that performs around Atlanta. - www.atlantaconcertband.smallsitesolutions.com/
 Autoharp - Autoharp Resources
  Autoharp - d'Aigle Autoharps. Retailer & autoharp info. - www.daigleharp.com/
  Autoharp Page - This page is for all autoharp lovers, pickers and grinners in the hope that it will help you connect with players, performers, lutheirs and other resources for the instrument. - www.autoharp.org/
  Autoharp Radio - Autoharp Music Tips and Autoharp Folk Radio - www.autoharpmusic.com/
  Autoharp Repairs and Questions - Autoharp Repairs and Questions by Arnold M.J. Hennig of the Elderly Instruments Repair Dept. - userdata.acd.net/amjh/autoharp/
 BagPipes - Bagpiper.com - Links to info and to tunes! - bagpiper.com
 BandCamp - Artists: sell your music & merch directly to your fans. - bandcamp.com/
 Banjo - Banjo Resources
  Banjo - Banjo Hangout. Loads of Banjo Stuff - www.banjohangout.org/
  Banjo - Banjo.com - Banjo Info and Instruments in Atlanta - www.banjo.com/
  Banjo - Dr Banjo. Pete Wernick. Banjo Info and lessons like Jamming Techniques - www.drbanjo.com/instructional-bluegrassjammingtips.php
  The Canonical List of Banjo Jokes - The Canonical List of Banjo Jokes - www.bluegrassbanjo.org/banjokes.html
 Bluegrass Shack - Bluegrass Shack Productions! We specialize in acoustic instruments and accessories for bluegrass and folk musicians. - www.thebluegrassshack.com/
 Cakewalk Desktop Music Handbook - Welcome to the World of DESKTOP MUSIC! Everywhere you turn, you're likely to hear music made with a computer. From the concert hall to the local club, to radio, television and the movies, desktop music can be found all around. Today, making music with a computer is easier and more exciting than ever. - www.cakewalk.com/tips/desktop.asp
 CD Recordable! - This FAQ for info on recordable CDs covers all aspects of what it is and how to use it. - www.cdrfaq.org/
 Celtic Music - Welcome to Ceolas, the home of celtic music on the internet, since 1994. Ceolas houses the largest online collection of information on celtic music, and has links to hundreds of related sites. - www.ceolas.org/ceolas.html
 Chord Charts - Chord Charts - Pick a chord and see the notes on a piano keyboard - www.8notes.com/piano_chord_chart/C.asp
 Chords to Folk Songs - Chords to Folk Songs - folkguitar.us/chords/
 Christmas songs - Welcome to The Hymns and Carols of Christmas! - www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/
 Digital Library of Appalachia - The Digital Library of Appalachia provides online access to archival and historical materials related to the culture of the southern and central Appalachian region. The contents of the DLA are drawn from special collections of Appalachian College Association member libraries. - www.aca-dla.org/
 Dulcimer - Dulcimer Resources
  Three Rivers Dulcimer Society - Here is some of the music you’ll hear us playing. The links below will bring up a printable sheet of music with (usually) both dulcimer tablature and standard musical notation, and sometimes even some guitar chords. For some songs, both melody and harmony parts are available. - www.threeriversdulcimersociety.net/index.html
 Elderly Instruments - Elderly Instruments - A great store for bluegrass and folk instruments and associated equipment - www.elderly.com/
 Florida Folk Festival - The annual Florida Folk Festival, the oldest state folk festival in the U.S., celebrates the rich and diverse folklife of the state. Throughout this three-day event, tradition bearers present music, dance, stories, crafts and more -- making the program a favorite for thousands of visitors. - www.southfloridafolkfest.com/
 Folk Musician Instruments - Bluegrass instruments - www.folkmusician.com/
 Folk Of The Wood - A full-support web site offering instructional materials on our favorite acoustic instruments: banjo, mandolin, fiddle, violin, Dobro®, mandola, octave mandolin and acoustic guitar. Many new support files will be loaded for instrument set-up instructions, tablatures, basic fundamental exercises and even instruction on how to tune your acoustic instrument of choice. Our video samplers demonstrate many of the makers instruments while also revealing the many directions you can take in styles, genres and mediums on a variety of acoustic instruments. - www.folkofthewood.com/
 Guitar - Guitar Resources
  chordie.com - guitar tabs, guitar chords and lyrics - chordie.com/
  e-chords.com - Guitar lessons by video. Some free, some pay - www.e-chords.com/
  Guitar - Acoustic Guitarists' Annotated Guide to the Internet - www.museweb.com/ag/
  Guitar Chords - Click a chord name and see the fingering for the chord. Includes Circle Of 5ths - www.all-guitar-chords.com/index.php
  Guitar.com - All about guitars: the physical instrument, the music of guitars, artists, software, and the current music scene. - www.guitar.com
 Instrument Jokes - Jokes about violin, banjo, bass, woodwinds, horns and bunches more. - www.mit.edu/people/jcb/jokes/
 John C. Campbell Folk School. - On our 372 acre farm-campus in the mountains of western North Carolina we offer more than 450 week long and weekend classes for adults year round covering a wide variety of traditional and contemporary crafts, folk music, folk dance, photography, nature studies, food, writing, and storytelling. - www.folkschool.com/
 Karaoke Karen's Karaoke - Lyrics and midis for tons of songs in many categories here: - www.soundpiper.com/mln/midi.htm
 Go Sing - Free Karaoke player with songs. - www.gosing.com/
 Karaoke vanBasco Karaoke - Lyrics and midis for tons of songs in many categories here. And a great player, too! - - www.vanbasco.com/
 LearnBluegrass.com - Lessons for fiddle and banjo with notes on how to select one. - www.learnbluegrass.com/
 LenMus - Books and lessons on music theory. Includes an score editor. - www.lenmus.org/sw/page.php?pid=noticias&lang=Eng
 McGuinn's Folk Den - Roger McGuinn of the Byrds has recorded lots of folk songs: - metalab.unc.edu/jimmy/folkden/
 Mckinney Washtub Two - Thanks for coming by to check out the storysinging and songtelling of The McKinney Washtub Two! Great singers and good people! They play at The Fountain in Tucker, GA, among other places.... - mckinneywashtubtwo.com/home.php
 Monty Python - Lyrics - - www.montypython.net/songlyrics.php
 MP3 Beginner's Guide - Getting started. Players, music, how-to.... - www.mp3now.com/
 On-Line Music World of Wendy - A great collection of links to other sites for: Old-Time, Banjo, Fiddle, Notes/Tab, The Music, Videos - www3.telus.net/On-LineMusicWorldofWendy/
 Pan Flutes - Brad White's Pan Flute shop. Good flutes and good info - - panflute.net/
 Piano - Piano Resources
  Piano Education Page - is a one-stop resource for teachers, students, parents of students, and fans of the piano with over 450 pages of free information, upgraded biweekly. Here you can get tips on learning to play the piano including getting the right kind of piano lessons .... - pianoeducation.org/
  Piano Lessons - Free online piano lessons for beginner piano players. Includes Chords, Keys, Scales, Virtual Keyboard. - www.free-online-piano-lessons.com/index.html
  Piano Nanny - Piano Lessons & Music Instruction - www.pianonanny.com/
  Piano Page - Tons of info all about pianos. - www.ptg.org/
 Remove noise from LPs recorded to PCs - www.diamondcut.com/
 Rick's Pianos - Piano sales, repair, and tuning right here in Tucker,GA. Rick has a constantly changing and interesting collection of pianos. - rickspianos.com/
 Sing Out Magazine - Folk music resources. - www.singout.org/
 Sound Effects - FindSounds.com lets you search the Web for sound effects and sample sounds. - www.findsounds.com/
 The MudCat Cafe - The Digital Traditions Folksong Database Search Page. News, Lyrics, and sounds. - www.mudcat.org/
 Tin Whistle - Tin Whistle Resources
  Whistle Away - Whistleaway.com brings you this Free Tin Whistle Tutorial, developed especially for people who have just discovered the Joys of the Irish Tin whistle. Find out how to finger each note, how to breath correctly and how to blow properly! - www.whistleaway.com/whistletutorial.asp
 Transpose Keys - Paste lyrics with chords and pick a new key - www.logue.net/xp/
 Transposer - Transpose songs to any key using our chord transposer, here at TheoreticallyCorrect.com.any chords and lyrics you type or paste. - www.theoreticallycorrect.com/transposer
 Tropical Glen on-line Jukebox Player - Play music from 1950 - 1989 plus many genre's - www.tropicalglen.com/
 Woodstock69 - A collection of Woodstock Facts, Figures, Stories, Photos, Current Happenings, Memorabilia, Links, and Assorted Tidbits. Assembled to give you a clearer picture of an event that reshaped Music and Society. - www.woodstock69.com/

People -
Musical People
 Buffy Saint-Marie - Her home page with biography, discography. - www.creative-native.com/ and www.cshvof.com/buffy/
 Cindy Lou Harrington - A great country music singer from Atlanta - www.cindy-lou.com/cindy-lou/Welcome.html
 Hank Williams - www.hankwilliams.com/
 Joan Baez - www.joanbaez.com/
 John Hartford - www.johnhartford.com/ and www.cmt.com/artists/az/hartford_john/artist.jhtml
 Kossoy Sisters - Good singer - www.kossoysisters.com/clips.htm
 Pete Seegar - www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/unitarians/seeger.html and www.mudcat.org/pete.cfm
 Rockapella - www.rockapella.com/
 Ruth Bloomquist - Fantastic musician with great sound and lyrics - www.ruthbloomquist.com/
 The Demented Music Database! - Welcome to the only official Dr. Demento playlist archive! This is your source for details about everything played on "The Dr. Demento Show" from 1970 to today. - dmdb.org/

Search -
Search for Lyrics, Tunes, Notation, Chords, Tabs
 ABC - Text File Format for many, many fiddle tunes, Celtic, Scotch, Irish, and more
  ABC Tune Finder - John Chambers' all-inclusive abc tune finder, a comprehensive search engine for finding abc tunes on the web. - trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tunefind
  Allan's Irish Fiddler collection - Irish tunes in ABC, Notation, Midi - www.oldmusicproject.com/allans.html
  Folk Tune Finder - FolkTuneFinder.com is a web-wide search engine that catalogues tens of thousands of tunes from across the web. You find tunes by title or a piece of the melody. Search for tunes transcribed in the ABC format - www.folktunefinder.com/
 General
  Bite Your Own Elbow - An amazing collection of musical information including Fiddle Resources, tune collections, banjo jokes, much more.... - www.biteyourownelbow.com/
  HamieNET.com - is a free resource dedicated to educate the world with music. We feature some unique and revolutional functions for use in the field of music. Examples include Melody Search: searches through all MIDI (more than 220,000 tracks, 10 millions note events) for a particular melodic sequence; Lyrics Content Search: searches the text of the lyrics. Both of these functions and many more can be found on the Advanced Search page. - www.hamienet.com/
  Musipedia - Search for a tune by name, entering the melody with a virtual piano keyboard, or by whistling into a microphone! - www.musipedia.org/
  Traditional Bluegrass Music - A large archive of traditional, folk & old music - song-books with lyrics & chords, tune-books, sheet-music, scores, old songs, midi backing tracks, tabs, music lessons & theory, learn to play guides for various instruments, chord diagrams, scales and other music educational & academic reference materials. - www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/
  Traditional Bluegrass Music - Songbook and Tune-book with Sheet Music, Lyrics, Chords & Midi - www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/bluegrass-songbook/idxv13as.htm
 Lyrics - Search for song lyrics (and words)
  Bluegrass Lyrics - Lyrics for Traditional Bluegrass & Early Country Music - www.bluegrasslyrics.com/
  Bluegrass Lyrics - from Bluegrass Messengers - Bluegrass Lyrics Page. This site is an ongoing collection of bluegrass and bluegrass related lyrics. Right now I have finished roughing in the Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes.... - bluegrassmessengers.com/bluegrass-lyrics.aspx
  Brazos River Pickers - A great group of pickers with a great songlist - Words & Chords - www.brazosriverpickers.com/Songlist.html
  Bus Songs - The largest collection of children's music on the Internet - with lyrics, videos, and music for 2,112 kid's songs and nursery rhymes. - bussongs.com/
  chordie.com - guitar tabs, guitar chords and lyrics - chordie.com/
  CMT.com - CMT.com is your official source for authorized, legal lyrics from your favorite country music artists - www.cmt.com/music/lyrics/
  COWPIE Lyrics - Notation: COWPIE Song Corral- Song lyrics with chords! - www.roughstock.com/cowpie/songs/
  COWPIE Song Corral - Song lyrics with chords! - www.roughstock.com/cowpie/songs/
  Folk Music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and America - Tunes, lyrics, and information - www.contemplator.com/intro.html
  Folk Music Welcome to Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - You can search the 35,000 track database of all the Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Folkways, Paredon, and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings that we distribute through mail order. Take a look at our magazine. - www.si.edu/folkways/
  Folk Songs - Folk Songs - American and Multicultural Folk Song Lyrics. Such as: Buffalo Gals, Erie Canal, I've Been Working On the Railroad - www.songsforteaching.com/folk/
  Freek Lyrics - words for many songs. - www.lyricsfreak.com/
  Gospel Lyrics - LYRICS TO SOME GREAT OLD SONGS. There's a lot of Bluegrass Gospel song lyrics here, but there is also a good sprinkling of some other favorites as well. - www.pine-net.com/babcocksstore/bluegrlyrics.html
  List of Lyrics Sites - From the Librarian's Index To The Internet- - lii.org/pub/topic/music and sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/InternetIndex/
  Lyrics - A collection of web sites which offer lyrics. - www.audiomusic.info/lyrics/
  Lyrics Connection - Links to lyrics sites. - www.lyricsconnection.com/
  Lyrics World. - Top-40 Hits of 1930 to 1998 - ntl.matrix.com.br/pfilho/html/main_index/ and ntl.matrix.com.br/pfilho/html/top40/
  Music Potential - Lyrics for BLUEGRASS songs with chords and GUITAR TAB, MANDOLIN TAB - www.musicpotential.com/songs/song_archive.htm
  PUBLIC DOMAIN MUSIC - MIDI files, and text files of their lyrics, created by Benjamin Robert Tubb based on original sheet music sources - www.pdmusic.org
  Soundtrack Lyrics - Lyrics from movies! Like Sound of Music, West Side Story, Grease, Annie - www.stlyrics.com/songs/index.html
  Traditional Bluegrass Music - Songbook and Tune-book with Sheet Music, Lyrics, Chords & Midi - www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/bluegrass-songbook/idxv13as.htm
  Ultimate-Guitar - Lyrics, Chords & Tabs. - www.ultimate-guitar.com/
 Notation - Search for music with real notes!
  8notes - Welcome to 8notes - Free Sheet Music, Riffs, Lessons and Tools for musicians who play - www.8notes.com/
  Allan's Irish Fiddler collection - Irish tunes in ABC, Notation, Midi - www.oldmusicproject.com/allans.html
  Free Sheet Music .NET - A collection of links to sites offering Free Sheet Music - www.freesheetmusic.net
  Jay Buckey - FREE TABLATURE and FREE SHEET MUSIC for the Banjo, Guitar, Mandolin, Bass, Dobro, Fiddle! - www.jaybuckey.com/free_tablature.htm
  Old Time Fiddle Tunes - Sheet Music, Midi for Appalachian, Old Timey, Waltzes, and a bit of Bluegrass. ALso Celtic Jigs, Polkas, Hornpipes, etc. - www.mne.psu.edu/lamancusa/tunes.htm
  Old Time Sheet Music - Print sheet music from song books that have passed the copyright limit. - www.sheetmusicplus.com/
  Sheet Music - Free Sheet Music - - www.freesheetmusic.net
  Sheet Music - You can download sheet music from music books that have passed the copyright limit. One book is from 1908 and has some of my favorite songs. Check it out.... - www.musicofyesterday.com/
  SPUDs Tunes - A Contra dance band from Philadelphia provides Notation in ABC for Reels, Jigs, and Everything Else! - www.thursdaycontra.com/~spuds/TuneLinks.html
  The Kitchen Musician - Downloadable tunes with notes and MIDI - www.kitchenmusician.net/pages/kmmusicbyorigin.html
  Three Rivers Dulcimer Society - Here is some of the music you’ll hear us playing. The links below will bring up a printable sheet of music with (usually) both dulcimer tablature and standard musical notation, and sometimes even some guitar chords. For some songs, both melody and harmony parts are available. - www.threeriversdulcimersociety.net/index.html
  Vocalist - Free Sheet Music. A collection of Links to free sheet music sites - www.vocalist.org.uk/free_sheet_music_links.html

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