An area for irish session tune info - over 3,700 tunes available as of September 2003.

A wonderul collection of ragtime MIDI files. Lots of interesting stuff - with lyrics for most.

Traditional and Popular Music from 1600 to 1900. Child Ballads, Sea Shanties, Turlough O'Carolan. MIDI, Lyrics and History. Songs arranged by both category and country. With biographies of Percy French, Thomas Moore, Thomas D'Urfey and Charles Dibdin and more.

My collection of original jigs, reels, breakdowns and such in Canadian/Celtic styles. Enjoy!

Most of the files here have been sequenced by Kenn Gordon those that have not are there with permission of the sequencers

Locates ABC tunes on at various Websites, and can produce some tunes in gif format.

An outstanding collection of MIDI tunes and lyrics, mostly for old popular songs before 1920. Lots of graphics, so it tends to load slowly.

A great way to find MIDI tunes on the Web. (Joe Offer)

Extraordinary collection of classical MIDI files.
(Joe Offer)

upgrade of a program written by Alan of Oz, can be used for converting MIDI files into text for posting at Mudcat
(link good as of April 2009, but support for MIDItxt is limited since MIDI files can be submitted for direct posting now.- JRO)
If you see a posted MIDItxt file you'd like to hear, contact Joe Offer to get it converted to MIDI.

Small collection of nicely-done MIDI files of songs from the U.S. and from the Brithish Isles.
(Joe Offer)

Visit here to download a pretty good shareware music/MIDI program.

Old Time fiddle tunes - played with real fiddle effects, not just computer generated MIDIs. Check out the rest of this site, too.

Music on Piano Disks and Piano CD'S compatible with all brands of digital keyboards, acoustic pianos and disklaviers, computers and C. D. players. Our sheet music is coordinated to "Play Along" with the piano disks and CD's. Roaring 20's and Hymns of Praise.

some very nice midi files here

Barry Taylor's new home for his Canadian MIDI tunes. (still good April 2009)

Claims to have over 16,000 ABC tunes.

The creators of the famous Song-A-Week web site, Tom Flannery & Lorne Clarke, have dedicated a second all-free MP3 site to the Rwandan genocide of 1994. This site was recognized by the government of Rwanda with a 2004 Healing Hands Award. The site is loaded with essays, songs and lyrics as well as a play by Tom Flannery and a lengthy list of suggested reading materials.

Links to various sites with online Americana music.

Radio Bandcouver is a weekly Roots-Rock and Pop music show, hosted / produced / compiled and engineered by Mark Bignell, on listened-sponsered CFRO (Co-op radio) 102.7 FM. Featuring music, commentary, band-dates and live, in-studio musical guests. It's heard Fridays from 9pm-10:30 PST in Vancouver,B.C.,Canada. There's a link to Co-op radio to listen live online. Tip: if the live on line link doesn't work, try the direct link to Co-op radio and go from there. Happy listening!

A forum music community with free downloads, tracks, samples, VSTs, and sequencer programs. Users can post there tracks, and spam the forums ;)

This is actually a submission site for a collection, but as part of the process you can convert to gif or postscript or midi file in order to check your work before submission. Also has some good ABC links. (Joe Offer)

With funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the University of California at Santa Barbara Libraries have created a digital collection of nearly 8,000 cylinder recordings held by the Department of Special Collections. In an effort to bring these recordings to a wider audience, they can be freely downloaded or streamed online.

Folksinger's site. Free mp3 music downloads, lyrics and chords, South Florida pubs, sessions, entertainers

Lots and lots of historic Jewish recordings in a variety of languages. Sponsored by Florida Atlantic University.

An indpendent internet station playing a very wide selection of Folk music from the British Isles and ireland, both past and present. Plays non-stop without interruption or commercials. Site includes reviews, interviews, videos, forum, folklore traditions and a growing online community forum.

Online American folk music from the Smithsonian Institution.

Online music from all over the world, from Smithsonian Folkways.

Small group od independent record labels covering a wide range of genres across rock, americana, jazz, folk and acoustic based singer/songwriters. Investigate the pages and enjoy.

John Quincy Wolf began collecting Ozark ballads while an undergraduate at Arkansas (now Lyon) college. His first serious professional interest in Ozark folksongs dates Old Settlers Music Festivalfrom his attendance at the Old Settler's folk music festival at Blanchard Springs in 1941. He and his wife Bess began to seek out folksingers in the White River and surrounding areas, often placing advertisements in local newspapers for people who knew "old songs." Wolf recorded hundreds of Ozark folksingers between 1952 and 1963, including Almeda Riddle, Neal Morris, Oscar and Ollie Gilbert, and Jimmy Driftwood. He observed how many of these singers would add their own adaptations to songs, and chronicled this in "Folksingers and the Re-Creation of Folksong" in Western Folklore. The Wolf Folksong Collection at Lyon College contains hundreds of recordings. Transcriptions are being added to this online collection weekly.

A site commemorating the work of folklorist, collector and folksinger Kali Dasgupta (1926 - 2005). 86 tracks online as mp3s

Includes texts and recordings of songs from Cape Breton Island (all in Gaelic) and from Newfoundland (including some instrumental pieces), as well as background information and photos.

A collection of hundreds of folk songs collected by Max Hunter, mainly in the Ozarks of Arkansas and Missouri. Each song is on a page containing the lyrics. Virtually all of them contain buttons that allow you to hear the original field recording in RealAudio or using an AIFF file. Some pages also contain transcriptions onto a staff, and you can push a button to play these transcribed songs in MIDI. "The Max Hunter Collection is an archive of almost 1600 Ozark Mountain folk songs, recorded between 1956 and 1976. A traveling salesman from Springfield, Missouri, Hunter took his reel-to-reel tape recorder into the hills and backwoods of the Ozarks, preserving the heritage of the region by recording the songs and stories of many generations of Ozark history. As important as the songs themselves are the voices of the Missouri and Arkansas folks who shared their talents and recollections with Hunter. Designed to give increased public access to this unique and invaluable resource, this site is a joint project of the Southwest Missouri State University Department of Music and the Springfield-Greene County Library in Springfield, Missouri, where the permanent collection is housed." A righteous amateur collector and kindred spirit of Vance Randolph and Quincy Wolf.

A series with historic recordings by people like Alan Lomax, Seamus Ennis, et al, of traditional musicians singing and playing and speaking.

Raidió Fáilte: broadcasting traditional Irish Music, Celtic music, Gaelic music, folk music, and a variety of other music, 24/7. We also broadcast Irish language classes, all online at www.raidiofailte.com

Here's a link to the RealAudio feed of CIUT in Toronto. Tune in Mondays at 7 PM Eastern Mudcat Time to hear Mudcatter Heather Fielding, who has kept the show going since the death of Rick. You can listen to the show online any time.

Web-site from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation designed to promote music and performers. Various categories of music are covered.

SongRamp.com is a multi-genre music community, focused on the creative aspects of music and songwriting. The name implies a place where songs and songwriters can advance (ramp) based upon their merit.

Traditional music of rural North America, from Canada through Mexico, including square and contra dance music (often historic recordings with calls.) Bookmark it and listen in while you browse the web.

Sales of classic recordings, and a 24-hour Internet radio station playing all genres of music from the 78rpm era.

Selected recordings in the National Library of Canada’s collection of 78s, chosen for their Canadian content, were digitally reproduced for this site. (Joe Offer)

ALL FOLK, ALL THE TIME!!

88 freely downloadable recordings of traditional Yorkshire songs mostly sung by source singers, along with the dots, ABC, provenances, texts, searchable by genres, keywords.