Bernard Chenery has released
ABCplay, a Windows player for ABC files.
Bernard Chenery has released
ABCplay, a Windows player for ABC files.
The seasonal Pick of the Month is Celtic Spirit
from Narada Records, a luscious treat of of Christmas and other celtic spiritual
music music from Aoife Ni Fhearraigh, Connie Dover, Billy Jackson and others...
Richard Robinson's Tunebook is now in it's
fourth edition, bigger and better than ever, with both picture (.gif) files of
tunes and abc versions.
The
December edition of Claddagh Record's newsletter of new celtic releases is available.
Erick Fal'cher has updated his French language
celtic music site at Ceolas.
CelticMusic.Com is a new ezine/celtic music
site hosted by celtophile Dan Beimborn. Looks very promising!
The
november edition of Claddagh Record's newsletter of new celtic releases is available.
Brad Hurley's
Ceolas Flute guide is updated with a new section of
interviews.
New musician pages:
Texan readers should check out the
Austin Celtic Music Network and
Celtic Texas Homepage
for the local low-down.
The Irish Traditional Music Archive is now online.
The
October edition of Claddagh Record's newsletter of new celtic releases is available.
Fans of the Irish traditional/early music group Anúna now have their own
club.
A new release from fiddler
Theo Paige; the site has background and sound clips.
A new 'official' site for
Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann in Ireland
with information on branches around the world.
Richard Jordan has several dozen celtic
dance tunes in midi format.
New music software: ab2ps (converter from
abc format to postscript) is upgraded to version 1.2.2 and a Macintosh verson (0.5)
of
abc2midi (abc to MIDI converter) program is now available.
Playford's Dancing Master, a tune collection from 1651 is now
available in abc format, thanks to Michael Robinson.
New musician pages:
Viva Voce is Harry Bradshaw's Irish record
label, "devoted to the reissue of recordings made by Irish traditional performers during the
opening decades of this century".
A new collection of tunes in bagpipe.tex format
and a home page for bagpipe.tex.
Update to the fiddle bibliography by Richard Mende.
Read an interview with top
Irish fiddler Martin Hayes, reproduced by kind permission of Fiddler magazine.
This is a great piece, with a lot of insight into Martin's playing, and about
the state and future of traditional music.
The Donegal fiddling style
is the subject of Larry Sanger's new site.
Maggie's Music
now has a Web catalog featuring latest releases, upcoming events,
artist biographies, and sound samples. Artists include: Bonnie
Rideout, Karen Ashbrook, Al Petteway, Robin Bullock, Sue Richards,
Ceoltoiri, Maggie Sansone, and Ensemble Galilei.
Flute-maker Chris Wilkes has a home page with some information on his flutes.
New musician pages:
After many long months of preparation, we are proud to annouce the
trial edition of the IrishNet directory, a
searchable database of
Irish resources, organizations and businesses in America. Check it
out and let us know what you think!
The Irish Music Store is the first fully-fledged
Web music store specializing in Irish music, with about 2,000 titles available and a special-order
service for other items.
The August issue of the Claddagh Records' new releases
newsletter is out.
New promo pages:
Pick of the Month is
Celtic Treasure, a great collection of Carolan tunes from
traditional and non-so-traditional musicians.
For some light relief, try a hilarious piece by Bill Black on
The Regulars Discuss Traditional Singing.
Lyrics of Clannad's more traditional songs, with translations, in table format.
Finally! Macintosh users have an easy way to view and print tunes written in abc format:
Wil Macaulay has released his Macintosh version of
abc2ps (abc to postscript converter).
Empty your heart of its mortal dream
isn't an injunction you hear every day, but it is the title of Distant Oaks' new (second)
CD. The site has .au and .wav sound samples.
Version 1.2 of Micheal Methfessel's abc2ps
program for converting abc-format tunes to postscript is now available.
Henrik Norbeck's is expanding his abc-format tune collection
to one thousand tunes.
A new page for ambient/celtic group Nightnoise
The July issue of the
New Releases newsletter from Claddagh is out, with new CDs from
Arcady, Four Men & a Dog, Altan and more.
New promo pages:
Lyrics to many Scottish songs,
courtesy of Ken McGirr.
Midi <-> abc converters
programs by James Allwright to convert from Midi to abc and abc to Midi. Available as
C source code or as binaries for PCs.
The June issue of Claddagh Records' new releases is out.
New promo pages:
Review and sound samples of
Meitheal a great new album of trad. dance tunes
by Seamus Begley & Steve Cooney.
Ceolas is happy to announce an online,
searchable edition of The Fiddler's
Companion by Andrew Kuntz, a new annotated index of over 20,000 fiddle
tunes.
New promo pages:
Pick of the Month this month goes to
The Coming of Spring, a bright and cheerful solo album by Cliff Moses on
hammered dulcimer.
The 1996 listings of
music festivals in Ireland is now available.
Erick Falc'her has set up some Web pages on
Irish traditional music, including a bibliography, an
introductory discography and several French articles
from his upcoming thesis.
The Ceolas tour schedules sevice has been revamped, with a new page listing
tour schedules for each artist, a new format for
the state-by-state listings, and daily updates
to the database.
Gary Newman has a new listing of celtic music events in
Alaska.
New Promo pages (Canada month!):
To kick of the month, we have the first Pick of the Month, which will be a monthly
review of a new album release, including sound samples from the album. The Pick
this month is Celtic Voices from Narada records, a compilation from
singers Mary McLaughlin, Connie Dover, Mairéid Sullivan and Emma Christian.
Iona Records one of the main Scottish
traditional record companies is now online.
George's Music is now selling (fairly cheaply)
fonts that show different notes in tabulature
format, for tin whistle or harmonica.
It's finally here! The long awaited MacABC gives
Mac users the ability to typeset and print tunes in abc format.
Rob Minchin has a page or two on those legendary folkies, the
Dubliners.
A Ceolas profile on Kevin Burke one of Ireland's
greatest fiddlers and member of many groups, from the Bothy Band and Patrick Street
to his own group, Open House.
More abc goodies! Michael Methfessel has written
abc2ps, a C program that
converts directly from abc format to postscript, for printing. No Mac or PC
versions yet, but it's easy to compile on a Unix machine.
Celts in DC is a listing of
celtic music and dance happenings in the Washington, DC area.
A new (hypertext) edition of the Ceolas flute guide
by Brad Hurley.
Michael Moll's folk pages
(English and German) cover celtic as well as folk music in Germany.
Dan Beimborn has a quick note on bouzoukist (!)
Roger Landes.
New Promo pages:
Ceilis for Guelph organises Ceili's (Irish traditional dances) in
Guelph, Ontario.
Bernie Stocks has written book 2 of his abc-format collection
of lesser-known traditional tunes, with a postscript version for those who just wish to
print it out. European users may get it faster from Bernie's
tunes page.
Bill McKenty's tin whistle site (good!)
Olivier Salaun's site for Breton Music has
lyrics for Irish and Breton tunes, instrument information and many other links.
Thirty Below/Trente Sous Zero has all the low-down
on folk and celtic music in Quebec.
More links for English folk happenings, this time in Leicestershire.
The Highland Pipes and Drums band
from North Carolina have a Web page with some audio clips.
The Colorado Folk Harp Society are online
(and graphics-heavy!).
County Mayo are an Irish ballad group based in Pennsylvania.
Manuel Carro has a site devoted to the Galician bagpipe, or
gaita.
The Celtic
Klezmer Concert is a newly released recording featuring bands and
artists from the D.C. area.
The
Cornish Media Archive
has music and much more from Cornwall, a celtic region in the southwest of England.
Celtic Music Scribe extraordinaire
Steve Winnick has a
site with his articles from
Dirty Linen and Sing Out, on Cherish the Ladies, Mick Moloney
Tommy Sands and more.
Pages in Spanish on celtic/Spanish folk group
Celtas Cortos
A fan site for the
Saw Doctors, a rousing folk/pop/trad/whatever Irish group.
A new summer school (Jul/Aug) in traditional music in Cape Breton, the
Ceilidh Trail School of Music,
with an impressive list of instructors from Ireland, Scotland and America. Close by
will be the
Irish Week by the Sea,
in Beach Meadows, Nova Scotia.
Promo pages for
A guide to celtic and other
folk sessions
in Buckinghamshire and environs, England, and another for
Sussex.
Two new collections of celtic tunes in MIDI format, courtesy of
Brian Hicks and
Aine Sheridan.
Dan Beimborn does it again, with a new
Cittern Website.
David Daye's Bagpipe site, covering Scottish and Uilleann pipes.
A New list of places to hear traditional music in Ireland.
New promo pages for: