Useful Trad Links - Look here for links to sheet music/gigs/festivals!

Suaimhneach

Feel free to suggest more!

Festivals
http://www.besttradsession.com/ - 29th Sep - 1st Oct, Quin, Co. Clare
http://www.feilefrankmcgann.com/ Traditional Music Festival Strokestown, Co. Roscommon

General
http://www.tradcentre.com/
http://www.madfortrad.com/
http://www.gael-linn.ie
http://www.vincentpeters.nl/triskelle

Online Radio
http://www.celticradio.net
http://www.liveireland.com/


Learning/Tutorials
http://www.feadogonline.com/ - online learning course [not free]
http://www.thesession.org/ - free notes/tunes to learn
www.woodenflute.com - Tunes
http://www.ierland.com/lyrics/lyrics.html - Irish Song Lyrics
http://sniff.numachi.com/ - Digital Tradition Folk Music Database
http://www.geocities.com/celticlyric...r/songlist.htm
http://www.guntheranderson.com/v/index.htm - lots of guitar tabs and lyrics
http://www.blackflute.com/music/tunes.html - some nice tunes
http://www.contemplator.com/ireland/ - folk music of Ireland

Lessions
Banjo, Fiddle and Tin Whistle, Galway City.
Contact: galwaytradlessons@gmail.com for further info.


Thanks all for your contributions, and keep em coming!--

dinos

If you are looking for tunes, go to
www.woodenflute.com

The tune database link is really good - and you can play the tunes slowly to hear what they really sound like. may have to download free software.

Kwekubo

Some nice flash and video tutorials for the tin whistle:
http://www.whistletutor.com/

dublinmark3072

this is also great http://www.eire.fm
Listen to all irish radiostations available on the internet with just one single click

fillmore jive

http://www.madolincafe.com

has both tabs and music scripts for for mandolin/banjo. everything from trad to bluegrass.

Moonbeam

http://www.freesheetmusic.net/top100irish.html

banjopaul

JC's tunefinder, Very useful:
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tunefind

Joneser

This is a great site that im amazed isnt up there yet (unless im not looking hard enough).
It has just about every trad tune you could think of aswell as alot of other stuff too..its called www.thesession.org

Suaimhneach

Joneser, it's on the first post, under Learning/Tutorials.

flanum

http://www.chiffandfipple.com

great for whistles,pipes and flute.

http://www.pipers.ie

the npb site.

gearoidkeane

I know that i have often come across tunes that i liked on cds but they are always in awkward keys or too fast.

I found a piece of freeware software that is amazing!

Its called BestPractice and it allows you to change the tempo and pitch of an mp3 file or a track from a cd.

Heres the link to the site:
Best Practice

Hopefully you'll be able to learn all the tunes you hear from now on!

fillmore jive

caomhin o raghallaigh is doing a good few gigs in bray over the next month or so with ronan browne, mick o'brien and brenndan begley. and excellent and unique fiddle player that caomhin...

http://mermaid.ticketsolve.com/performances/all_shows

Sagittarius79

For those of you who may be in the north Dublin area.....and even for those who arent

www.rinceoilfingal.com

This weekend, the annual RinCeoil festival takes place in the seaside town of Rush, Co. Dublin to remember, Chris 'Kitty' Langan (you'll find more info on Kitty on the website). There'll be workshops all day Saturday from the likes of Eoin Dillon & Ronan O Snodaigh (Kila), Aoife Ni Chaoimh (Fiddle), Paudie O'Connor (Tin Whistle), Mairead Hurley (Concertina) and Irish Dance classes from Enda Dunne.

Kila also play a gig in the Millbank Theatre on Sat 28th June, tickets are 30 eur. Please call 01 8437475 to book.

Plenty of evening sessions in the local pubs during the Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening aswell .

shaywest

www,tinwhistler.com
hundreds if midi's
download some"music notation" freeware from download.com
drop any midi file onto the desktop icon
the tune will majically appear
then slow it right down and off you go
also windows media player has a tempo feature that slows down music and keeps it in tune

Daithinski

Some trad tab links

Banjo/Mandolin

http://www.theinternetlol.com/mandolin/


Banjo/Mandolin/Fiddle/Bass tabs also some mp3s of tunes

http://www.jaybuckey.com/free_tablature.htm

sunnysummer

Sixmilebrdige Winter Music Weekend

http://www.wmw.ie/index.php?Home

Dr Strange

Listening to the Folk Radio UK for the last three weeks and really liked it so I thought I include the link here:

Folk Radio

It has two streams: a Celtic and British Folk stream and a Frukie (Folk/Roots/Alternative) stream. Personally I am only listening to the Celtic one but I am sure there's something for everyone there.

EDIT: There's a mini playlist accessible on the right side of the main homepage. Very useful for info on who is playing at the moment and what has been played before.

genie

This week is Heritage Week and on Sunday 30th August Boyle Traditional Music Group will be performing in the cloister at Boyle Abbey, Co. Roscommon at 14:00. Entry is free and all are welcome!

paulclesham

Comhaltas live is really good for videos, tunes, tutorials etc.

nuttz

Patrick D'Arcy's Uilleann Obsession site dedicated to Uilleann pipes and the Southern California Uilleann Pipers Club

http://www.uilleannobsession.com

nuttz

Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
http://www.irishtune.info/

Online shops
Claddagh Records
http://www.claddaghrecords.com

Custys Music Shop
http://www.custysmusic.com/index.php

Other
Cork Pipers’ Club
http://www.corkpipersclub.com/

galwaybabe

gearoidkeane wrote: »

I know that i have often come across tunes that i liked on cds but they are always in awkward keys or too fast.

I found a piece of freeware software that is amazing!

Its called BestPractice and it allows you to change the tempo and pitch of an mp3 file or a track from a cd.

Heres the link to the site:
Best Practice

Hopefully you'll be able to learn all the tunes you hear from now on!

Nice one. that's a really clever program. thank you

nuttz

From Na Píobairí Uilleann:

The IMCO (Irish Music Collections Online) facility was launched by Terry Moylan at the Breathnach Commemoration on Saturday 5th December.

It consists of modern interactive settings of tune and airs from music collections dating back to the early 18th century. Users can see the tune onscreen in staff notation, cna make it play, and can change the speed, key and pitch of the playback.

This new feature of our site is at www.pipers.ie/IMCO

From Comhaltas:

Just wanted to announce that the first bunch of content from the Comhaltas Traditional Music Archive is now online at
http://ComhaltasArchive.ie
You are all most welcome, of course, but please be a bit nice to me if there are any bugs with this first release! I'd be delighted if you'd email me with any you come across, at archive@comhaltas.ie.
The core of what's up there now comes from the open-reel tapes recorded by Séamus MacMathúna (the other one), mostly in the 70s and 80s, but includes a number of tapes that were donated to us by various good folks over the years.
In January I'll be putting up the audio from all of the Comhaltas-issued LPs and cassettes, and there's lots more to come.
The archive site is designed to encourage comments and participation -- once you've created an account, you can leave comments on any of the items there, and also suggest people, tunes or other keywords that ought to be included - just like here!
I'm afraid that for copyright and other reasons I've had to interrupt the audio files every 30 seconds with a brief noise --
I hope that you'll understand that we're trying to honour the agreements we have with musicians. For new material that we're gathering, we're doing our best to get permission such that new tracks go up without interruption.
All completely free, of course -- this is meant to be a resource for the ITM community globally. Comments welcome.
So, here I go holding my breath ....

knockane_ali09

thanks they are really helpful

andr3w103

http://unitedireland.tripod.com/ has loads of irish chords.. especially the wolfe tones and the dubliners chords ..there mostly simplified aswell

ruaidhr

Anybody interested in traditional Irish harp should try this brilliant festival- end of June into beginning of July, just before Willie Clancy summer school. Best teachers, concerts, workshops. And the food......

tarbolton

The website of Ceoltóirí Chluain Tarbh the Traditional Music activists is
www.cluaintarbh.net

Contains details of activities, events, classes, tunes, etc.

SEANYBOY1

I checked out this trad band called 'Gravel Walk' in FitzSimmons in Temple Bar, Dublin after the parade. It was a 4 piece with a girl doing vocals and fiddle, a fella on acoustic guitar, a fella on an electric bass guitar and a fella on a Bodhrán. I'd say they were in their mid 20's and great to see young people into the trad scene.
They were brilliant and the foreign tourists were loving it as was myself.
They mixed it up with traditional Irish music and contemporary stuff like Amy Winehouse and Michael Jackson, the raw talent out there in Dublin would put the hairs up on the back of your neck.

reelkidmusic

Sligo based group Téada are playing in Ionad Cois Locha, Dunlewy, Co.Donegal this Friday coming, 23/04/2010.

Support on the night will be provided by Derry based group Cinnte who appeared on the 2009 All Ireland Talent Show.

Tickets are €15

Further information available from www.canaghpromotions.com

tonyon

Looking for the Words to Among the Wicklow Hills recorded by, among others, Larry Cunningham. An occasion coming up in France and want to entertain some Wicklow natives. Thanks in anticipation

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