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Australian Folk/Acoustic Performers

New Zealand Folk/Acoustic Performers

Australian Folk Festivals Online

Australian Folk Clubs Online

Australian Folk Venues Online

Australian Music Organisations, etc

Sites of interest to Event Organisers

Australian Instrument Makers and Repairers

Australian Folk Dance

Australian Magazines Online - with folk content

Australian Folk Music Stores Online

Australian Music Directories

General Folk Music Links

  • Australian
  • New Zealand
  • Selected Overseas Folk Sites

    Music Studios

    Online Live Folk Music

    Songs, Lyrics and Traditional tunes

    Tutors

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    Australian Folk/Acoustic Performers

    Australia has a great selection of very talented folk/acoustic performers.
    Do you need a website? Contact us for details.

    A
    Acapelicans
    Neil Adam and Judy Turner
    Andy Alberts
    Gillian Alcock
    Azure

    B
    Balkanology
    Ballyhooley
    Steve and Ros Barnes
    The Beenies
    Ian Blake
    Blindman's Holiday
    Blue Gum
    The Blue Grassy Knoll
    Bluegrass Parkway
    Eric Bogle
    Bernard Bolan
    Boola Boola Band
    The Borderers
    Leeann Botham
    Alison Boyd
    Margaret Bradford
    Vince Brophy
    Kate Burke and Ruth Hazleton
    The Bush Bandicoots
    The Bushdrovers Bush Band
    Bushrangers Bush Band
    Bushwahzee

    C
    Cahoots
    Bernard Carney
    Celtic City Sons
    Celtic Dreamtime
    Greg Champion
    Dave Clark
    Andrew Clermont
    Closet Klezmer
    Cloudstreet
    Colcannon
    Mic Conway's National Junk Band
    Mary Cook
    Cotters Bequest
    Kerrianne Cox

    D
    Dalriada
    Damon Davies
    Craig Dawson
    Dirranbandi
    Pat Drummond
    Emaline Delapaix Band
    Duolian

    E
    Earthbound
    Earthly Delights
    Rory Ellis
    Eureka!

    F
    Ken Ferguson
    Finnegan's Wake
    Michael Fix
    Fling
    Richard Frankland
    Carole and Roger Fyfe
    G
    John Garden
    GengGong
    Merri-May Gill

    H
    Anne Harkin
    Robert Hart
    Greg Hastings
    Dieter Hauptmann
    Peter Hicks
    Hobson's Choice
    Home Rule
    Rachel Hore
    The Hottentots
    Marcia Howard
    Shane Howard
    David Hyams

    I
    iOTA

    J
    Jonathan Jones Jugularity
    Jumping Fences
    JustaBoutEverything

    K
    Peter Kearney
    Paul Kelly
    Denis Kevans
    Klezmania
    Klezmeritis

    L
    Laszlo (Lotsi) Lakk
    Jeff Lang
    Lazy Harry
    Jim Lesses
    Stephen Lomas
    Jim Low

    M
    Malumba
    Mango Jam
    Dave McFarlane
    The McCarthy Brothers/God's Country
    Richard Mills
    Lee Morgan
    Mundy - Turner
    Neil Murray
    Mythica

    O
    Dennis O'Keeffe
    Kristina Olsen and Peter Grayling
    Hilary O'Neill

    P
    Brent Parlane
    The Ploughboys
    The Poachers
    The Promise
    Gillian Pratten

    R
    The Rambling Bilbies
    Rantan Bush Band
    Margret RoadKnight
    Rocky River Bush Band
    Robbie Robinson Home Page
    Rough Red  

    S
    Salty Dog
    Scafell Pike
    The Spud Club
    Sensitive New Age Cowpersons
    Mark Seymour
    Hannah Sless
    Judy Small
    Broderick Smith
    Ray Smith
    Spindrift
    Spot the Dog
    Pete Stone
    Straight Ahead

    T
    Steve Tallis
    Tantallon
    Pete Titchener
    Tingali
    Touchwood
    Mick Thomas
    Touchwood
    Tulipan

    U
    Us Not Them

    V
    Valanga Khoza
    Peggy Van Zalm
    Vardos
    Vento Del Sud
    Voices from the Vacant Lot

    W
    Waifs
    Emma Wall
    Walters and Warner
    Weddings, Parties, Anything
    Wheeze and Suck Band
    Peter Willey
    John Williamson
    Windjammers
    Scott and Louisa Wise
    Women in Docs
    Wongawilli Band
    The Wren Boys

    X
    Xenos

    Y
    Yothu Yindi

    Z
    Zulya

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    New Zealand Folk/Acoustic Performers

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    Australasian Folk Festivals Online

    Does your festival need a website? Contact us for details.

    NEW SOUTH WALES
    Australian Folk Gathering at Kiama
    Baerami Bush Dance and campout
    Blue Mountains Festival of Folk, Roots and Blues
    Cobargo Folk Festival
    East Coast Blues & Roots Music Festival
    Hawkesbury National Fiddle Festival
    Illawarra Folk Festival at Jamberoo
    John O'Brien Bush Festival
    Music At The Creek
    Scarecrow Music Festival
    St Albans Folk Festival
    Tamworth Country Music Festival
    Thredbo Global Music Festival
    Uranquinty Folk Festival
    Wollombi Folk Festival

    VICTORIA
    Apollo Bay Music Festival
    Beechworth Celtic Festival
    Brunswick Music Festival
    Dandenong Ranges Folk Festival
    Frankston International Guitar Festival
    Gippsland Celtic Festival
    Annual Harrietville Bluegrass & Traditional Country Music Convention
    Maldon Folk Festival
    Mildura Country Music Festival
    Mt Beauty Music Muster
    National Celtic Folk Festival
    Port Fairy Folk Festival
    Red Cliffs Folk Festival
    The Lake School of Celtic Music, Song and Dance

    ACT - CANBERRA
    Ausgrass Bluegrass & Old Time Country Music Convention
    National Folk Festival

    QUEENSLAND

    Palm Creek Festival
    Redlands Bluegrass Convention
    Tableland Folk Festival
    Wintermoon Festival
    Woodford Folk Festival
    Yag'ubi Multicultural Festival

    SOUTH AUSTRALIA
    Kapunda Celtic Festival
    Frances Folk Weekend
    The Medieval Festival
    South Australian State Folk Festival - Festival in the Forest
    Womadelaide

    TASMANIA
    Aquarius Folk Festival
    Cygnet Folk Festival
    Tamar Valley Folk Festival

    WESTERN AUSTRALIA
    Araluen Folk Festival
    Fairbridge Festival
    Midland Folk Festival
    Nannup Music Festival

    NORTHERN TERRITORY

    NEW ZEALAND
    Auckland Folk Festival
    Wellington Folk Music festival
    Whare Flat Festival of Music and Dance

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    Australian Folk Clubs Online

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    Australian Folk Venues Online

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    The Basement- NSW - lots of folk (not just Jazz!)
    The Boite - highlighting Australia's extraordinary cultural diversity.
    The Corner Hotel - Richmond in Victoria - wide variety including folk and acoustic
    South Australian Folk Centre
    The Gov - Adelaide's leading live music venue.
    The Harp Irish Pub - 900-920 Princes Hwy - Tempe, NSW - Tel: (02) 9559-6300
    KULCHA - Fremantle - fostering and promoting world cultures within Western Australia.
    Mooonstone Concerts - concert series in Geelong
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    Sites of interest to Event Organisers

    Somersault Productions - they hire out big tents and organise big events
    Wizid Pty Ltd - a young dynamic Australian company established in February 1997 to supply simple effective wristbands for identification in the entertainment & hospitality industries.
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    Australian Instrument Makers and Repairers

    Please note that some of these are email addresses only.
    Gillian Alcock - hammered dulcimers
    Peter Coombe- mandolins
    Peter Daffy - maker of guitars and bouzoukis - (based in Camperdown, VIC)
    Christiaan Dolislager - accordions and concertinas
    Robert Hart - master harp maker of Paraguayan and Celtic harps
    Adrian Jefferies - Uilleann Pipes and Accessories Made to Order
    Bruce Lemin - Canberra-based harp maker
    Graham McDonald - stringed instruments
    Terry McGee - flutes
    Lawrence K. Smith - an Australian Luthier specialising in fine quality hand-made mandolins and guitars

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    Tutors


    NEW SOUTH WALES
    • Alison Boyd: Tin whistle, bodhran, flute.
    • Glenn Skarratt: - 25 years experience in playing and teaching guitar and mandolin. Acoustic blues, bluegrass, jazz classical and fingerstyle folk guitar. Bluegrass and Irish mandolin. Private lessons in the Inner Sydney area - Coogee to Gladesville. email Glenn or Mobile 0407-217866

    VICTORIA
    • Barb Scott - Tin whistle tutor. Classes in tin whistle offered through Flinders Street (Melbourne) C.A.E. - and private lessons from her home in the Dandenongs - all levels, all ages. There is no need to know how to read music as Barb prefers to teach by ear.

    WESTERN AUSTRALIA

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    Music Studios
    These studios are sympathetic to the recording of acoustic music.

  • Huon Delta Studios- This studio ONLY records acoustic music! Run by Geoff Francis, it's a thoroughly professional setup. It is at Pelverata (25 minutes from the centre of Hobart) Phone (03) 6266 3010. The studio offers sizeable discounts to anybody who's a member of their state folk federation.
  • Ramrod Studio- has been recently moved to Davidson, in Sydney's Northern Suburbs . A relaxed recording environment with classic analogue (24 tk MCI ) and digital ( Ensoniq Paris - 128 tk) recorders. Beautiful cedar and pine room gives a great sound! The studio's Herm Kovac has recently produced the Golden Guitar Award winning "Rose and Rodeo" for Brendon Walmsley to add to the list of great recordings coming out of the studio.
    • Glenn Skarratt - producer/engineer specialising in acoustic music. Credits include Damon Davies, The Woodpickers, Ray Beadle and the King Brothers, Crosby Sisters, Smoky Dawson, Mark Lucas & the Badhats, Sam McNally etc.
      Mobile 0407-217866
    • JeeveS Audio Services - (Melbourne) - specialises in vocal and acoustic instrument performances
    • Hullabaloo Music - specialising in original music composition and audio post production. (Sydney)

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    Australian Music Organisations, etc

    APRA- Australasian Performing Rights Organisation
    Australian Songwriters Association
    The Australian Music Centre - promotes the music of Australian composers
    Folk Alliance Australia
    Folk Federation of New South Wales
    Folk Federation of South Australia
    Sydney A Cappella Association
    Folk Federation of Tasmania.
    Folk Federation of Western Australia
    Harper's Heath - a Harping circle, whose primary aim is to get together on a regular basis to share and enjoy harping, music and friendship.
    The Monaro Folk Music Society - ACT
    Queensland Bluegrass Music Association
    SCALA (Songwriters Composers and Lyricists Association).
    SONGLINES Music Aboriginal Corporation - provides assistance to indigenous musicians

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    Places to find those elusive lyrics and tunes:

    Radical Songster's Online Handbook
    New Zealand Folk Song

    American History in Song
    Bob Dylan Chords
    California Folk Music: - songs from the 1930s collected by Sydney Robertson Cowel
    Ceili House Band Music - Most are simply transcriptions of tunes the way the band plays them, others come from various abc-sources on the net.
    The Digital Traditionhas lots and lots of songs.
    Folk Midis, Lyrics and information
    Irish Folk Lyrics
    My Bluegrass Song Book - the words to almost any bluegrass song.
    Nottingham Music database- over 1000 traditional British related folk dance tunes
    The On-Line Guitar Archive (OLGA)
    Richard Robinson's Tunebook - This is a collection of traditional tunes, and new tunes in traditional styles. Scots tunes, Irish tunes, Scandinavian, French, Balkan and more. There are lists of tunes, indexed in various ways, containing pointers to small black-and-white gif images representing the standard musical notation for each tune.
    Scottish Folk Songs
    Shanties and Sea Songs
    Shanties and Sailor Songs
    Tunes at CeolasCeolas carries notation for several hundred traditional tunes, in various formats, along with music software and an index of most published tune sources and links to other sites with tunes and songs
    The Virtual Tunebook - 87 Tunes
    Voices From The Dust Bowl - Migrant Worker Collection

    Sites that may help you play them!

    The Guide to Tab Notation: HOW TO READ AND WRITE TAB

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    Australian Magazines Online - with a folk content:

    SIMPLY AUSTRALIA - Australian folklore, history, heritage and folk music
    Folk Odyssey - Online literary magazine edited by Dermott Ryder
    Folk Rag - an independent Folk newsletter covering the Brisbane Area.
    Fiddlers Festival Onlinepublished every quarter
    Monaro Musings - available in HTML format + some zipped back issues
    Monaro Folk Music Society Dance News
    3RD - a new Melbourne quarterly celebrating cultural diversity. 3RD is published by the Boîte, and this is a text only version of the magazine.
    In Music and Media - weekly music e-mag - sometimes folk content
    Australian Folklore - A Yearly Journal of Folklore Studies
    Voice Moves - WA's acappella magazine
    Tain - an Irish/Australian magazine - includes music reviews and concert/festival information

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    Australian Folk Dance:

    Alastair Wilson's Bush Dance site
    Cajun Queen's House of Dance - Cajun Dance in Australia - a site by Margot Hitchcock, Cajun Dance Teacher and Performer of Melbourne - .
    The Scottish Dancing Association of Australia
    Australian Pioneer Dancers and Musicians
    Earthly Delights - contact John & Aylwen Garden
    Folk Dance Canberra
    Folk Dance Australia
    Folk Dance in Tasmania
    Illawarra Dance Events
    Monaro Colonial Dancers
    Newcastle Irish Dance
    Sydney Irish Ceili Dancers
    Wongawilli Colonial Dance Club
    Victorian Folk Music Club
    Woolshed Balls and Ringwood Colonial Dances


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    Australian Folk Music Stores Online:

    THE SHED - our own site for independent folk music and books with a heritage theme.
    Indie-CDs.com - CDs and RealAudio sample tracks from independent Australian folk, world and roots music artists
    Hard Yacka Records - a South Australian owned independent label producing recordings of folk music by local South Australian artists, and also distributing selected folk CDs from elsewhere.
    Grub Street Bookshop - Has Australia's largest collection of Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Cornish books with a section on music and dance.
    Lochrian Records - independant recording label based in South Australia specialises primarily in modern, contemporary Celtic and folk music.
    Celtic Southern Cross
    Mulga Music Promotions - Australian independent folk and country music distributors
    Friends of Folk Music by Mail
    Downunder Music
    Accordions 'n Folk - a music shop in Sydney
    AngelTrain - A company offering on-line sales as well as a range of other services. Also run the blackboard sessions at the National Folk Festival.
    VORTEX Distribution - specialises in challenging and different product. Main genres are contemporary Classical, Contemporary World, Traditional World, Medieval, Experimental and Electronic Mabuhay Records

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    General Folk Music Links

    New Zealand

    Guitar Association of New Zealand
    Acoustic Routes -Promoting Acoustic Music in the Wellington region
    Kiwifolk
    New Zealand Folk Clubs
    Bayfolk - folk music and dance in Hawkes Bay.
    Madness Music Co - Specialists in Celtic and folk music CDs
    New Zealand Dances
    Folk Dance New Zealand - Folk-dance Events Calendar and Directory
    The Penguine Club

    Australia:

    Australian Dulcimer Page
    Australian Music Monolith
    Bluegrass In Australia
    Brisbane Folk Scene.
    Caer Australis - Celtic Events page
    FolkClub Online - Dedicated to folk music and related subjects with user-friendly chat, messaging and resources.
    Illawarra Events Page.
    Marcel Safier's Folk Home Page - Qld based site devoted to folk acts touring Australia
    The Oz Acoustic List
    Perspectives on the traditional Aboriginal didjeridu: - instruments, technique and cultural appropriation
    Queensland Button Accordian Home Page
    Ray Downes folk organiser for international acts
    South West Music Archive - Site containing information on music from the South West Region of Victoria - some folk content
    Waltzing Matilda - Denis O'Keeffe
    Waltzing Matilda - Roger Clarke
    webwidow.net - interesting folk resource based in Victoria
    Peter Richens Folk Site

    Music Directories

    Australian Country Music Festivals Guide
    Australian Country Music Directory
    Australian Music Industry Directory
    Australian Folk Directory
    Directory of Tasmanian folk/world/roots Musicians



    Overseas Sites

    If you are interested in anything Folk from the other side of the world, you will find the following links excellent jumping off points.

    Festivals.Com
    The Folk Times - online version of the magazine covering what's on in Albany-Saratoga area + east to Vermont, USA
    Folkalpoint - Mandola Man's Anglo Australian Folk Music Site
    Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange - album reviews of new releases by folk and acoustic artists. You will find contemporary folk, Celtic, bluegrass, traditional, and a variety of ethnic styles. Artists and reviewers from around the world contribute to this unique Internet service
    Folk Music Org. (Folk Book)over 800 links to overseas folk artists
    Folk Music - A site by "fans" of Folk Music for Fans of Folk Music
    Folk World - an online folk music magazine
    The Mudcat Cafe - an online music magazine with interactive chat
    The Folk Index - a huge database of folk
    The Folk File - A Folkie's Dictionary
    The North American Festival Finder
    South Folk Music Network - Diary dates and contact information for UK
    Music-Cal - Musi-Cal provides easy access to live music information worldwide: concerts, festivals and other musical events.
    History & Styles of Rock- by Dr. Scott D. Lipscomb
    The Great Folk Scare - The Folk Music Revival of the late 50's through early 60's in America
    Folk Roots Festival Index -a list of contacts for festivals in UK and Europe
    UK Folk Club Index
    Canadian Folk Festivals
    The Blues Harp Page
    The bodhrán
    A Barn Dance Repertoire - - This is a basic list of simple dances for barn dances, also known as English-style ceilidhs - indexed by formation. There are also tips for callers.
    Contra Dances
    English Country Dance Archive
    The Washtub Base - will be of interst to anyone wanting a bush base
    Accumulated Accordion Annotations - lots of accordian and concertina links
    The Mandolin Cafe has great links for mandolin players.

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    Online Live Folk Music

    Australia's Cygnet Folk Festival - selections from the festival concerts and artists
    All Things Acoustic - archived programs
    Folk Image - the Internet’s D.J.’d Folk Music Audio Program
    WMNF Community Radio from Tampa Springs - Sunday Morning Folk Show + Polka Party + Bluegrass on Monday
    Into The Blue - the largest syndicated bluegrass program in the world.
    Music Sojourn - great new site includes celtic and folk programs in half hour segments
    Mountain Folk - or here - The Radio Show For People Who Enjoy Bluegrass, Folk & Mountain Music!
    Celtic Folk Music
    The Folk Den - Roger McGuinn's site which aims to continue the tradition of the folk process
    Folk Music Online - WKSU on the weekends available online all the time.
    Acoustic Cafe - Acoustic Cafe showcases new acoustic music. The nationally syndicated radio show includes interviews and rare performances. They post a new show here each Monday afternoon.
    The Midnight Special - 3 hours of folk archived or live each week.
    The KingPup Radio Hour - Bluegrass and old-time music on the WWW in RealAudio
    Green Linnet - A collection of Green Linnet albums you can listen to in Real Audio.

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    Music Shareware

    (Thanks to Terry McGee for suggesting the next 2 programs.
    They are both shareware and can be used for free in limited ways)

    ABC2Win
    This shareware program permits you to write out tunes such as Irish folk tunes, print them, play them, store them and swap them with other 'net users. There is a library of over 5000 tunes already on the net.

    Cool Edit
    It's basically a digital audio editor, but one of it's many functions allows you to record music on to your hard disk (providing yu have a sound card!) and slow it down without changing pitch. Great for learning tunes by ear!

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