Related Resources
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*The Inspirations*
These are a few of the voices and pens that have carried the torch of the
Celtic song traditional in modern times.

The songs don't stand alone. To truly appreciate the songs of the Celtic
traditions, and the living tradition as carried on by modern bards who both
sing the old songs and write original songs, you must understand the context
of the tradition. A full-immersion experience aside, the best way to do that
is to listen to the voices that come from the same places the songs do...
the voices of those who grew up with "just songs" -- the people who say
"they weren't 'folk' or 'traditional' songs at home, they were just songs."
And remember, the ones whose names we know are the ones whose lights have
glowed bright and far. There are so many, many other voices that have kept
the traditions alive and continue to do so. Seek them out.

Here are a few of the inspirations that drive the rest of us to learn songs
and Sing Out. Who are your inspirations? Tell us!

Liam Clancy [1] Delores Keane Tommy Sands
The Corries [2] Tommy Makem
The Dubliners [3] [14]Peggy Seeger
Richard Dyer-Bennett [4] [9] Ewan MacColl [10]
Dick Gaughan [15]Pete Seeger [16]
Dougie MacLean [11] Steeleye Span [17]
[5]Len Graham Andy M. Stewart [18]
Niamh Parsons [12] The Wherries [19]
[6]Joe Heaney [7]
[11] Stan Rogers [13]
[5]Andy Irvine [8]
Featured new web site: The Songs of Donagh MacDonagh [20]

*Cantaria Recommended Songbook List (with reviews!)
*You've been asking for it, so here it is -- a list of our favorite print
resources, complete with links to Borders.com so you can buy them NOW.

Articles by Mattie Lennon from Co. Wicklow, Ireland
Bio and video review: The Songs of Sean McCarthy
Event report: The Bog isn't a place, it's a feeling
Band review: You're Welcome to the Rambling House

*Modern minstrels on the Web*

A mere sampling of groups we like Lists, databases and other directories
of musicians:
The Bards of Cantaria Early Music Vocal Ensembles List [28]
The Makem Brothers [21] Dick Gaughan's links page

[22]Schooner Fare [23] [29] WebScribe [30] - musicians list
[31]
Ed Miller - Songs of Scotland [24] The Dutch Choir Links page [32] (in
Tullamore [25] Dutch, but amazing)
Brollywacker [26]
Bodaich [27]
The Wherries [19]

General folk music/song resources
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Music Publishers Association [33]-- educate yourself about copyright law
Ceolas -- All about Celtic music

[34] Sean nos singing [35]-- a very good primer
Pre-1600 ballads [36]
Classical Net

[37] Traditional instruments [38]
The definitive scots glossary [39] (from the Tannahill Weavers)
Irish Traditional Music Archive [40]

SCA Minstrel home page [41] -- Also has recordings of 16th century ballads
and rounds. Check out the Ravenscroft Songbook [42] and Watkin's Ale [43].
The Black Book of Locksley, from Ioseph of Locksley

[44] Lucillus' Songbook of Filks [22]

[36] Gyldenholt Circle of Bards [45] -- be sure to see the "Bardic Primer,"
mainly for SCA bards, but good information for all folk performers.
House Lindsey Songbook [46]
The Early Music FAQ [47]
Period Story Telling Sources [48]
Jester's Court -- Fyne musick and storytelling from many folk traditions
[49]

*Places to talk about traditional songs and music with others*

The Bard Board -- just around the corner here at chivalry.com!

Yahoo! Irish Traditional Singing Club

[50]Yahoo! Irish Traditional Music club

[51]Yahoo! Scottish/Irish Folk Music club

[52]Mudcat Cafe folk song message board

[53]rec.music.celtic (Usenet news group)
Traditional Song Forum [54] (see the message board)

Lyrics resources
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Digital Tradition Folk Song Database [55] (original)
Digital Tradition Folk Song Database [56] (mirror site)
The Contemplator [57]
History of Ireland in Song [58] (well researched!)

Celtic-lyrics.com

[57] The Complete Guide to Robert Burns

[59]Liam Clancy's collection of lyrics and chords

[60]Makem Central lyrics [61] (no chords or tunes)

Seppo J Niemi's Irish song lyrics [62] lots of lyrics
Koala's List of Lyrics Sites

[63]Dick Gaughan's song archive

[64] SongFile [65] -- lyrics and licensing
Irish folk song lyrics [66] -- a few midis
MySongBook [67] -- lots of lyrics and midi tunes
Sea Shanties [68] (with some midi files)
International Shanty and Seasong Association [69]
American Folklore: Sea Shanties

[70] Gaelic lyrics [71] -- many songs have ABC notation
Koala's List of Lyric's Sites [63] -- very comprehensive
Rick's Music pages [72]-- lots of Irish songs and shanties (searchable,
too!)
Bruce Olson's source list for songs and tunes [73]
Researching songs so you can pay royalties? Here is a page with contact
addresses: http://www.freefolk.com/tdartistes.htm

*Tunes, tunes and more tunes*

JC's ABC music site [74]

Richard Darsie's Tuneweb [75]
Henrik's Traditional Tunes and Songs [76]
The Virtual Tunebook [77]
Taylor's Traditional Tunebook [78] (midi files)
Barry Taylor's Irish, Scottish, Welsh, English, etc. midi files [79]
Chris Ricker's Irish Music Page [80] -- lots of fiddle tunes

The Modern Middle Ages
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SCA Official home page [81]
The SCA Arts & Sciences page [82]
SCA -- Medieval Reenactment Page [83]
SCA Geography -- all Kingdoms [84]

*Media resources*

Sing Out! Magazine [85]

Irish Music Magazine

[86] Dirty Linen

[59] Folkfire Magazine [87](St. Louis and surrounding region)

*Misc*

Diddlee Dee [88] -- Jim McGinn's photograph archive of major figures in
Irish traditional music -- fantastic!
Oral Tradition [89]

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1: http://www.liamclancy.com/
2: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Gavin_Browne/
3: http://imol.vub.ac.be/Dubliners/
4: http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/Opry/2975/rdbweb.htm
5: http://www.dickalba.demon.co.uk/
6: http://www.irishsong.com/
7: http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/heaney.htm
8: http://www.andyirvine.com
9: http://www.makem.com
10: http://www.pegseeger.com/html/ewan.htm
11: http://www.dougiemaclean.com
12: http://www.niamhparsons.com
13: http://www.stanrogers.net/
14: http://www.tommysands.com
15: http://www.pegseeger.com/index.htm
16: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JimCapaldi/
17: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/RichardHollis/
18: http://www.andymstewart.com
19: http://www.wherries.co.uk
20: http://songbook1.tripod.com/
21: http://makem.com/brothers/index.htm
22: http://www.erols.com/ursus/lucillus.htm
23: http://schoonerfare.com
24: http://www.songsofscotland.com/
25: http://www.omniventure.com/tullamore/
26: http://www.concentric.net/~Brolly/
27: http://www.bodaich.com/
28: http://www.intr.net/~bleissa/lists/choral.htm
29: http://www.dickalba.demon.co.uk/links/folk/index.htm
30: http://www.faire.net/SCRIBE/WebScribe.htm
31: http://www.faire.net/SCRIBE/WebGroupType.htm#Music
32: http://koormuziek.pagina.nl
33: http://www.mpa.org/
34: http://ceolas.org/ceolas.htm
35: http://www.webcom.com/liam/gaelsong/seannos.htm
36: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ballads/ballads.htm
37: http://www.classical.net/
38: http://celtic.stanford.edu/instruments/
39: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/tannahill_weavers/glossary.htm
40: http://www.itma.ie/index.htm
41: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/minstrel.htm
42: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ravenscroft/songbook/
43: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ballads/songbook/
44: http://www.locksley.com/blackbook/
45: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/3145/index.htm
46: http://members.aol.com/scalindsay/songbook.htm
47: http://www.medieval.org/emfaq/
48: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cariadoc/miscellany.htm
49: http://millennianet.com/jester/
50: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/traditionalirishsinging
51: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/irishtraditionalmusic
52: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/scottishandirishfolkmusic
53: http://mudcat.org
54: http://www.tradsong.freeserve.co.uk/
55: http://www.deltablues.com
56: http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad
57: http://contemplator.com
58: http://home.t-online.de/home/shamrockshire/ireland/A_History_of_Ireland_in_Song.htm
59: http://kiwi.futuris.net/linen/
60: http://www.liamclancy.com/tabs.htm
61: http://makem.com/discography/lyrics/index.htm
62: http://ameba.lpt.fi/~zaphod/search/
63: http://www.gel.com.au/koala/links.htm
64: http://www.dickalba.demon.co.uk/songs/index.htm
65: http://songfile.snap.com/
66: http://indigo.ie/~icorb/irishlyrics/index3.htm
67: http://mysongbook.de/msb/welcome.htm
68: http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~ward/chanty/chanty.htm
69: http://www.shanty.org
70: http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/wpa/26040413.htm
71: http://www.webcom.com/liam/gaelsong/list.htm
72: http://www.acronet.net/~robokopp/index.htm
73: http://web.archive.org/web/20031225051905/http:/users.erols.com/olsonw/
74: http://ecf-guest.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/
75: http://www.darsie.net/tuneweb/
76: http://home1.swipnet.se/~w-11382/tunes/tunes.htm
77: http://www.celticmusic.com/cgi-bin/~celticmusic/tunes.pl
78: http://www.contemplator.com/tunebook/
79: http://www.islandnet.com/~btaylor/homepage.htm
80: http://tnt.vianet.on.ca/pages/rickere/
81: http://www.sca.org
82: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/arts_and_sciences.htm
83: http://www.missouri.edu/~ccjoe/sca/
84: http://www.sca.org/geography/
85: http://www.singout.org/
86: http://mag.irish-music.net/
87: http://folkfire.org/
88: http://www.jimmaginn.fsnet.co.uk/
89: http://www.missouri.edu/~csottime/info.htm
90: http://pub10.ezboard.com/bcantaria
91: http://www.chivalry.com