My Irish born husband is running a podcast/streaming video show in preparation for the great traditional festival in his hometown in Ireland Ar Ais Aris.

Tune in now to watch and listen to his live show here until 11 AM Eastern time. Or check in anytime to hear the podcasts.

As part of my work for EFDSS, I've been asked to put together a list of traditionally-focused music, song, and dance competitions in the UK, with an eye to those with a national scope (although we'd like to look at healthy regional competitions as well ( Read more... )

I've been wondering about whether I could create a "Folk For Babies" collection, like the Classic FM for Babies one, that I could use when playing with my newborn daughter - and thought I'd put it out for suggestions for what I could include. And save me from going round the twist with the usual crap that's out there for kids ( Read more... )

Cecil Sharp House got a call from the BBC this afternoon, and they asked us to pass this information along. Please get in touch with us if you'd like us to pass along your information to the BBC ( Read more... )

A woman with an accordian and a dancing goat counts as trad folk, right? Right? Heeelllo?


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I can't find anything about this on the Sidmouth website so I'm hoping you guys can help ( Read more... )

Hi, friends!
I've written a simple funny book for recorder learning. Even if you don't know notes well, you can use it.
For a pity, now it's only in russian. Can somebody translate it into english or check my own translation?
You can download the book from hereIf you like the book, please help me to print it. If it wins in voting, it will be ( Read more... )

Kahala, I really hope you don't mind me posting this information in your community. Looking over the community's interest list, so many of my favorite things are on it. I definitely plan to stick around ( Read more... )

In light of the last post, I thought it would be interesting to get a quick and dirty geographic breakdown of where people are. I know this is totally skewed, but it's just to get an idea - please don't do me under Equal Opps legislation! :)

Poll Where is everyone from?

Hello. None of these bands are strictly traditional folk (and As All Die, Life Toward Twilight, Thomas Nöla et son Orchestre aren't folk music at all), but Changes and The Lindbergh Baby have elements of tradition running through them. (And I mean really old tradition, as in, ancient pagan/heathen themes ( Read more... )