Music related links

Please forward suggestions for additional links or feedback on any of the sites listed here to webmaster@scvfa.org.

ORGANIZATIONS

• California Bluegrass Association (CBA) Newsletter, calendar, and more.
• California State Old Time Fiddler's Association (CSOTFA) The CSOTFA has 14 districts; find links here to all of them.
• CSOTFA District 9 Covers the SF Bay Area.
• Fiddling Cricket Music Live acoustic music at local venues.
• IBMA: International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Promoting Bluegrass music worldwide.
• NCBS: Northern California Bluegrass Society An active bluegrass organization based in Mountain View, CA.
• OOTFA: Oregon Old Time Fiddlers Association Heading North? Check them out!
• RBA: Redwood Bluegrass Associates Promotes acoustic music in the Bay Area.
• San Francisco Folk Music Club Has a good listing of music events in the Bay Area, and runs the annual San Francisco Free Folk Festival.
• San Francisco Scottish Fiddlers Scottish music jams, concerts, and workshops in the SF Bay area.
• South Bay Folks Runs a regular free open-mike session and maintains a claendar of acoustic music performances in the South Bay.
• SWBA: SouthWest Bluegrass Association Headquartered down south in Torrence, CA.
• WOTFA: Washington Old Time Fiddlers Association Contests, workshops, and campouts in beautiful Washington State.

VENUES - live acoustic music the the Bay Area

• Cayuga Vault In Santa Cruz: "Original music, emerging art, diverse culture ...."
• Clarion Music Center World music in San Francisco's Chinatown.
• Don Quixote's Music Hall Concert hall & restaurant in Felton.
• Fandango Pizza Weekly jams in Palo Alto: Old-time (Mondays), Irish (Tuesdays), Bluegrass (Wednesdays).
• Fox Theatre & Little Fox Wonderful concert venues in Redwood City, CA.
• Freight & Salvage Coffee House Nonprofit org. in Oakland promoting traditional music throughout the world.
• Make-Out Room A little of everything in the Mission (San Francisco).
• Mission Pizza Live music Friday and Saturday nights in Fremont, CA.
• The Plough and Stars Traditional Irish music in San Francisco (Pacific Heights).
• Sam's BBQ Bluegrass music most Tuesday and Wednesday nights and great food, in San Jose.

FESTIVALS, CONTESTS, AND EVENTS

• California State Old Time Fiddlers' Assn. Contests List CSOTFA contest calendar.
• Cloverdale Old-Time Fiddle Festival Contest helod in Cloverdale, CA every January.
• Festival of American Fiddle Tunes In Port Townsend, WA, always the week that includes July 4. "Is this heaven? No, it's Fiddle Tunes."
• National Old-Time Fiddlers' Assn. Callifornia Calendar Lists contests and camps in California.
• National Oldtime Fiddlers' Contest and Festival The "Big One" every June in Weiser, ID, the Fiddling Capital of the World.
• San Francisco Free Folk Festival (SFFFF) Not to be missed! In San Francisco mid-June.
• Valley of the Moon Annual Scottish Fiddling camp in Boulder Creek, CA.
• Western Open Fiddle Contest Late October in Red Bluff, CA.

TUNES & LYRICS

• COWPIE Song Corral Archive of Country & Western words and chords.
• Digital Tradition Folk Song Database Search the DT database for words to 6500 songs.
• Folklife The Library of Congress's online folk music collections, including a special section "California Gold" on Northern California music of the 30's.
• The Session Mostly Celtic fiddle tunes.
• Sing Out! Online site of one of the best magazines dedicated to preserving Folk Music.

OLD-TIME MUSIC

• American Memory A production of the Library of Congress American Folklife Center. Contains over seventy multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, motion pictures, and text, free to the public for educational purposes.
• Hertzler's Fakebook Old-time MIDIs by the score.
• Library of Congress Henry Reed pages Field recordings and some hand-written notations of West Virginia fiddler Henry Reed.
• Old-Time Fiddle tunes Miscellaneous MIDIs collected by John Lamancusa.
• Old-Time Music Home Page Old-Time Fiddlers Hall of Fame, Old-time resources on the Web.
• ZEPP Country Music Site Old-time fiddle tune MP3s.

CELTIC

• Ceolas Celtic music on the Internet.
• Hertzler's Fakebook Lots of Celtic MIDIs.
• Scotchsnap.com Scottish sheet music in a snap.
• Slowplayers.org Sheet music and listings for slow Celtic jams.
• TuneWeb MIDIs of Celtic fiddle tunes.

BLUEGRASS

• Bluegrass College Online Bluegrass learning resource.
• Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine
• Cybergrass The Internet Bluegrass Magazine.
• The Music Motel Americana Music, Lifestyle Products and Accessories

RADIO

Things are not looking good for Web radio these days, with legislation looming that would raise fees beyond the means all but those stations with corporate backing. Find out more at www.savenetradio.org.

You can listen to some Internet stations through iTunes.

• Planet Bluegrass Click the Bluegrass Radio link for online Bluegrass.
• Sugar in the Gourd Online radio. "All old-time, all the time."
• KKUP Listener-sponsored radio in Cupertino, CA - 91.5 FM Bluegrass, Celtic, and lots of other good music.

FIDDLE LINKS

• Ashokan Fiddle & Dance Camp Join Jay Ungar and Molly Mason for their music and dance programs at Ashokan, a rustic camp in New York's Catskill Mountains.
• Double Stop Fiddle Shop and Music Hall Fiddle shop, performance hall, and regular venue for the Byron Berline Band in Guthrie, OK.
• Fiddle Hangout Online fiddle community and resource.
• FIDDLE-L Fiddle players' discussion list.
• FiddleNet I nformation on Old Time Fiddling, upcoming contests, and links to other fiddle sites.
• Fiddler Magazine Excellent magazine covering all aspects of fiddling.
• Missouri Old Time Fiddling Info on Missouri old-time fiddling.
• Violin Making by Hans Johannsson A Rich resource, beautifully done.

BANJO LINKS

• BANJO-L Online discussion list for banjo players.
• Banjo Newsletter Online portal to the gold standard of banjo magazines.
• Clawhammer.com Links to several clawhammer banjo sites.
• ezFolk.com - Bluegrass Basic instruction for learning bluegrass banjo, some tabs.
• ezFolk.com - Clawhammer Basic instruction for learning clawhammer banjo, some tabs.
• Phillip Mann's Banjo Pages Lots of free banjo tablature.
• The Banjo A Short History by Mick Moloney.

MANDOLIN LINKS

• Bluegrass Mandolin Music from the Delnero family.
• Mandolin Cafe Lots of free mandolin tablature and other resources.
• MandoZine Online magazine for mandolin players.

GUITAR LINKS

• Flatpicking Guitar Magazine Online portal for the print magazine for flatpickers.
• FLATPICK-L A discussion list for flatpickers.
• Mike Wright's flatpick Guitar tablature Tabs plus WAVs and MP3s of flatpick tunes.

RESONATOR GUITAR LINKS

• Brad's Page of Steel Site dedicated to acoustic and electric lap steel guitars.
• Planet Dobro All things slide guitar.

PERFORMERS - Old-Time and Bluegrass Groups

• Bluegrass Intentions Bay Area-based Bluegrass group.
• Briarwood Bay Area-based Bluegrass group.
• Crooked Jades Bay Area-based old-time group.
• Harmon's Peak Terrific Bay Area-based old-time group, including the SCVFA president on banjo.
• Hillbillies From Mars Bay Area contra-dance band.
• Nickel Creek Bluegrass band originally from California.
• The Stairwell Sisters Good-time gals playing old-time tunes.
• The Waybacks "That ain't the way Bill played it."

PERFORMERS - Fiddlers

• Darol Anger
• Vassar Clements
• Alasdair Fraser
• Brittany Haas
• Natalie Haas
• Megan Lynch
• Bruce Molsky
• Mark O'Connor
• The San Francisco Scottish Fiddlers
• Suzy Thompson
• Joe Weed

PERFORMERS - Banjo Players

• Bill Evans
• Ken Perlman
• Mike Seeger

PERFORMERS - Mandolin Players

• David Grisman
• Mike Marshall
• Frank Wakefield

PERFORMERS - Resonator/Steel/Dobro Players

• Mike Auldridge
• Bob Brozman
• Jerry Douglas
• Stacy Phillips

INSTRUMENT MAKERS

• Allen Guitars
• Bart Reiter Banjo Co. Premium openback banjos.
• C. F. Martin and Company
• Deering Banjo Company
• Gibson Instruments
• Ome Banjos Home Page
• Phoenix Mandolins
• Santa Cruz Guitar Company
• Sound To Earth Weber mandolins, mandolas, octave mandolins and mandocellos.
• Stelling Banjo Works, Ltd.
• Wildwood Banjos Traditional openback and bluegrass banjos from California's north coast.

MERCHANTS

• AcuTab Aaccurate, artist reviewed banjo tablature.
• County Sales World's largest collection of Bluegrass and old-time music. CDs, videos, and more!
• Elderly Instruments Wonderful source of new and used instruments, strings, books, etc.
  Online ordering!
• Folk of the Wood Large selection of string instruments.
• Gruhn Guitars
• Gryphon Stringed Instruments In Palo Alto, CA.
• Hatfield Music Catalog Lots of banjo tablature.
• Highland Studios Work with Joe Weed, one of the country's best independent producer/engineer/musicians!
• Homespun Tapes Great source for instructional books, tapes, CD's and videos.
• Jack and Ruby's Guitar Shop Rare and unique acoustic guitars and mandolins
• Janet Davis Music Good discounts on strings
• Kamimoto String Instruments San Jose, CA.
• Mandolin Brothers
• Mandolin World Headquarters...and Guitars!
• Stringed Instrument Division
• Stewart-MacDonald Supplies for building and repairing stringed insturments.

Updated 11/20/07 - AMW