The Whistler's Page has a fair deal of information on the Tin Whistle.
Elizabeth Scarlet has created
new Windows programs which can transpose, search, and check abc format tunes.
The Whistler's Page has a fair deal of information on the Tin Whistle.
New musician pages
All about Celtic Music in Toronto.
The Manchester Irish Traditional Music Archive project in England.
Whistling Low is a site devoted to low whistles.
David Williams has put up a page of
Bagpipe Tunes
in BMW format, and another site (requiring frames) for
Bagpipe supplies.
New musician pages
New site dedicated to the Irish Tenor Banjo
The Irish Times has some recent relevant features, including a piece covering the
Blas summer school, one on learning the
Bodhran
and one on the Irish harp festivals at Keadue and Granard.
Pick of the month review is We Won't Be Home 'Til Morning a fine traditional
album by accordionist and singer Brendan Begley of Kerry.
Brent Santin has a major update to his article on
how to make a bodhran, now in HTML.
The latest issue of the Claddagh newsletter is out and says
very nice things about the Brendan Begley album!
New musician pages
New musician pages
The May edition of Claddagh's
New Releases newsletter is now out.
New festival pages:
New musician pages
The latest edition of Andrew Kuntz's Fiddler's Companion
is here, with an index to some 32,000 fiddle tunes from the Celtic, British,
and American traditions. I've also finished updating
James Stewart's TuneIndex with references to
55,000 published tunes.
TuneIndex
The new draft FAQ for
rec.music.celtic is now online. Please have a look and let Graham
know what you think of it, and if you have any suggestions.
Articles on Celtic Guitar
and Traditional music in the Isle of Man
by Cliff McGann.
Jim Scarff has a nice
website
with reviews of his favourite celtic music and celtic happenings in the San Francisco area.
A site dedicated to Wales' most famous song,
The Ash Grove.
New sites for
Scottish Dance in Minnesota and
Irish Dance in New York. The latter
also has an excellent guide to Irish music in New York.
The same site has an excellent guide to
Irish Music in New York.
New Festival pages:
New musician pages:
The tour schedules area has been revamped, with links to band profiles and
home pages where known, and some cosmetic changes.
An article on the development
of the uilleann and war pipes by Fintan Valleley, from the Irish Times.
Did you know that Beethoven wrote arrangements of Irish folk tunes? You can hear some
on the new release,
The Pulse of an Irishman.
A few dozen tunes in Midi format at
Richard Jordan's site.
There's a new version of
Richard Robinson's Tunebook at Ceolas, where you can see
graphic images of hundreds of traditional tunes.
The Grammies were good to celtic music this year, with Bill Whelan winning Best
Musical Show album (Riverdance), the Chieftains winning their umpteenth nomination,
for World Music Album (Santiago), and Enya taking the Best New Age award for
The Memory of Trees.
March Pick of the Month is the debut album from Calgary
band Scatter the Mud, a modern-traditional blend.
The March edition of Claddagh's
New Releases newsletter is now out.
New bands:
New festivals:
The Ceilidh Trail school of celtic music
in Cape Breton, directed by Jerry Holland, runs classes in Jul and Aug.
BarFly is a new, free Mac program for handling
abc musical notation. It can play, check, transpose and display tunes in musical notation;
this is an early test release, so beware of bugs!
The famed
Willie Clancy Summer School in Co. Clare, Ireland, now has a web page.
The February edition of Claddagh's
New Releases newsletter has albums from Altan,
Paddy Keenan and more.
New or updated festival sites include those for
San Francisco,
Dallas and
Lorient.
New musician pages:
The Artists listings has been revamped with new pages for
Canadian celtic music and celtic music in the
far flung four corners of the earth
(currently featuring the three corners of Australia, New Zealand and Japan).
KRL Records are on the net with
snippets of information on a whole bunch of Scottish groups.
New musician pages:
To the current What's New in Celtic Music on the Web