Resources
A LIBRARY OF ARTICLES
- A High and Lonesome Sound (Hazel Dickens)
- The Amish Barn Dance (kind of large files)
- Bluegrass That Can Twang and Be Cool, Too
- Casey Jones
- Desperate Man Blues
- Devoted Indies Serve Public as Curators of Musical Past
- Life at 78 Rpm Is Different From Today
- Oran do Shep
- The Untamed Sounds of ‘Outside Music’
- White Blues
- Cornbread When I’m Hungry: Dock Boggs and Rock Criticism
- Cornbread When I’m Hungry: Dock Boggs and Rock Criticism
THE OLD-TIME HERALD
MUSICAL TRADITIONS ONLINE MAGAZINE ARTICLES – selected for old-time content
- Appalachian Traditional Music – A Short History
- Cecil Sharp in America – Collecting in the Appalachians
FROM THE VOYAGER RECORDS WEB SITE
- So You Think You Can’t Play by Ear
- The Circle of Fifths
- Jam Session Etiquette
- Relaxed Picking on Guitar and Mandolin
- Tendinitis Problems of Musicians – Identification, Prevention, Treatment
- Contra and Square Dance Playing
AUDIO ON THE WEB
- Across the Blue Ridge hosted by Paul Brown
- Spud Mountain RFD
GENERAL OLD-TIME LINKS
- Ahmet Baycu’s Roots of American Fiddle Music
- Chicago Barn Dance Company
- Ed Haley Fiddle Tune Transcriptions
- Fasola – The Sacred Harp
- Fiddler Magazine
- Five Strings Inside: Celtic & Old Time Banjo
- Folk Music: An Index to Recorded resource
- Gordon Banks’ Old Time Music
- Joe Bussard
- John & Ruby Lomax’ 1939 recording trip
- Henry Reed Memorial
- Mike Seeger
- Native Ground Music
- Old Time Music and Dance
- Old-Time Herald
- David Lynch’s Old-Time Music
- Roots Music Report
- Jane Keefer’s Folk Music Index to Recordings
- FolkLib Index
BLUEGRASS
JUGBAND
OLD TIME MUSIC RECORDINGS
- 5-String Productions
- County Sales
- Document Records
- Dust-to-Digital
- The Field Recorders’ Collective
- Juneberry78s
- The Missouri State Old Time Fiddlers Association Bandcamp Page
- Old Blue Records
- Old Hat Records
- The Old-Time Tiki Parlour
- Slippery-Hill
- Smithsonian Folkways
- Valcour Records
- Voyager Recordings & Publications
VIDEO
SOCIAL NETWORKING
RELATED PORTLAND ORGANIZATIONS
- Abbie Weisenbloom’s House Concerts
- Artichoke Music
- Cascade Blues Association
- Cascade Zydeco
- Community Music Center
- Contra in the Couve!
- Eastside Bluegrass
- Ethos
- Making Music Together
- Neighborly Music
- Oregon Bluegrass Association
- Oregon Old Time Fiddlers Association
- Portland Ceili Society
- Portland Country Dance Community
- Portland Dixieland Jazz Society
- Portland FolkMusic Society
- Portland Sacred Harp
- S and A Irish Entertainment
- Taborgrass
- Washington Old Time Fiddlers’ Association
RELATED REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
- Central Oregon Old Time Jam
- Centralia Parlor Pickers Society
- Corvallis Folklore Society
- Eugene Folklore Society
- Mud City Old-Time Society
- Old Time is a Good Time
- Old Time Seattle
WEST COAST FESTIVALS & CAMPS
- January – Portland Old Time Music Gathering
- January – Bellingham Folk Festival
- February – Olympia Old-Time Music Festival
- April – Alaska Folk Festival
- May – Willamette Valley Old-Time Social
- May – Los Angeles Old-Time Social
- May – Topanga Banjo-Fiddle Contest & Folk Festival
- May – Northwest Folklife Festival
- June – National Old Time Fiddlers’ Contest & Festival (Weiser)
- June – Stickerville!
- July – Festival of American Fiddle Tunes
- July – Mule Barn Camp
- July – Rocky Mountain Old-Time Music Festival
- July – Wallowa Fiddle Tunes Camp
- August – Centralia Campout
- September – Zigzag Old Time Music Campout
- September – American Banjo Camp
- September – Berkeley Old Time Music Convention
- November – Dare to Be Square – West!
OTHER FESTIVALS & CAMPS
- May – Fiddler’s Grove
- August – Old Fiddlers’ Convention (Galax)
- August – Appalachian String Band Music Festival (Clifftop)