Music

Project34 Music Links - I am the P34 webmaster, so I have moved most of my Finnish music links to this page.
Project 34 has made a list of ways to preserve music and support musicians within the Finnish culture in America.
Soittoniekkojen Klubi - This is a group of musicians associated with the Finnish Cultural Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan. They have sessions or rehersals about twice a month.
Ameriikan Poijat - (Boys of America) "The Revival of the Finnish Brass Band tradition in America".
There will be (was) lots of music at FinnGrandFest 2000, FinnFest '99, Suurjuhlat '99, FinnFest '98, Suurjuhlat '98, and FinnFest USA '96.
Finnish Music in America - A directory of musicians.

Ceolas - The Stanford Univ. Celtic Music page. Concert listings, links, etc.
Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann - "A gathering of Irish musicians." See also CCE North America and CCE Detroit.
CRAIC homepage - Celtic Regional Arts Institute of California
IRTRAD-L - The homepage of a mailing list on Irish traditional music.
Foxglove Records is a small label in Portland. Artists include Dale Russ and Randal Bayes.
Green Linnet/Xenophile Records Homepage
Ossian Publications Homepage
Dirty Linen Magazine - Covers Irish music and musicians.
Tunes:
- The Fiddler's Companion - A monster index of over 20,000 fiddle tunes from the Celtic, British and American traditions. Very useful.
- TuneIndex - Find a published version of a tune with this index of over 200 tune books, with some 30,000 entries.
- A collection of traditional tunes (mostly European) which lets you download GIFs of the notation for each tune.
- Fiddle Tunes - a collection of sound files (aiff and au) of fiddle tunes, primarily in the Celtic and New England styles. Most of the tunes are connected with traditional folk dance.

Traditional Music Events in Michigan - my own list of places, events, and programs. Primarily an extraction from other sources.
PolkaNet - An information page dedicated to Contemporary Polka Music.
The Folk Radio List - compiled by Jeremy Butler.
Digitrad - A compendium of traditional songs and music
Cliff Furnald's folk music site

Traditional Genre - personal aquaintances
- Buzzworld is a mandolin based Celtic band from Los Angeles.
- Ceili House Band is a Celtic dance band from Redlands, California.
- Craicmore is a Celtic band from Los Angeles.
Traditional Genre - other
- The Suffering Gaels is an Irish band from Portland. Dale Russ, etc.
- Reeltime a band (Máirín Fahy, Chris Kelly, Banny Hayes, Éilís Egan) out of County Galway, Ireland.
- Paul Kotapish is a member of Open House (along with Kevin Burke, Mark Graham, and Sandy Silva).
- Jerry Holland - A Cape Breton style fiddler.
- Lorraine Lee-Hammond - A dulcimer player's homepage.
- A Celtic Sojourn - Play list for WGBH-FM's program hosted by Brian O'Donovan
- Irish Music Box - This site has links to other Irish artist homepages and other neat stuff
Contemporary Christian Genre
- Susan Ashton - A very pretty voice
- Phil Keaggy
- The Unofficial Kerry Livgren Page - Guitarist/composer extraordinaire from Kansas and AD.
- Kansas - The On-line Resource for Kansas Fans
- Michael W. Smith - Webpage by Stephen M. Schaefer
- Christian Music Directory
- Christian Music Resources - Artist contact info, discographies, and web sites
- ACML - Alternative Christian Music Links
- The Contemporary Christian Music Headquarters

Yahoo's Organ Links
broken!- organ related resources
broken!- Pipe Organ Builders and Restorers - A frequently updated index to pipe organ builders and restorers around the world.

Eric's Piping Page - my own stuff
WUSPBA competition results - Update (11/29/2001): My pipeband (Misty Isle - grade 4) has been in third place overall for the last three years. I am the solo grade 4 champion for 2001, and I will be competing in grade 3 in 2002.

Mandolin Café - A creative web page on mandolins.
Nashville Mandolin Network - Butch Baldassari's web page on mandolins.
The Mandolin Pages - Dan Beimborn's contribution of mandolin info.
Clay Guitar's - A massive source on collectible guitars and related insturments. Check out the section on Gibson mandolins!
Han Speek's Irish Bouzouki Home Page

Nathan Torkington's banjo pages
Deering Banjo Company
Hohner USA - audio samples, art work, histories and information on harmonicas.
Elderly Instruments - One of the largest mail-order instument dealers. They also have a showroom in Lansing, Michigan. They carry one of the largest inventories of acoustic music CDs.
Hobgoblin Music's Website - The Hobgoblin catalogue itself, and pages for The London Early Music Shop, The EFDSS Folk Shop, a Concertina FAQ, a Melodeon FAQ, festival listings, and various links.
Howard Musical Instruments - Descriptions of Instruments Used in Irish and Celtic Music, Players _Tip of the Month_ Specifications and price list of HMI instruments and Links to Other Sites.
A brief history of electronic instruments.
A Yahoo!s Instrument Listing
A Larrivee Guitars - I'm really impressed by these guitars. Made in Canada. Production is about 20/day.
A EMG - These are the pickups I prefer to use in my guitars.

Last Update: 20 January 2002