First
Choice for
a quick Tune Search
Various genres
Folk / Trad Radios
Countries, Regions:
Music
France
Music Belgium
& The Netherlands
Music Brittany
Music Scotland
Music Northumberland
Music England
Music Ireland
Music USA
Music Canada
Music Austria & Germany
Music Northern Europe
Music Italy
Instruments
Bagpipes
Accordion
Hurdy Gurdy
Concertina
Dances:
Dances Brittany
Dances France
Events
Bal Folk
Miscelaneous
Music Player
Songs & Ballads Link List
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Andreas'
trad music and dance link list
On this website I mainly collected weblinks
containing information on traditional tunes,
dances and instruments of Western
European origin. The site is for musicians,
sessioneers and enthusiasts of Western European and
North American trad / folk music.
established in 2003
last modified in August 2024
First choice for
a quick tune search
abcnotation.com
Chris Walshaw's abc tune search / tune
finder gives you access to thousands of
folk & traditional tunes from across
the web - use the search form or browse the tunes or
visit the collections they are drawn from.
The Session
Swedish, nordic:
Folk
Wiki
Danish, nordic:
Spillefolk
Musiques traditionnelles en liberté
tune search
Link
Tab
Search Engine of the Accademia
del
Mantice
Wikitrad
French traditional song and dance wiki
Wikitrad
on facebook
Wikitrad Songs on Soundcloud
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Folk / Trad Radios
Toutes les
couleurs du trad (France)
Radio stream from Paris, France
European folk music from yesterday and today
Toutes les
couleurs du trad on Facebook
Radio TradCan
(Belgium)
a project run by the non-profit organization
Le Canard Folk
Various Genres
Toutes les
couleurs du trad
Radio stream from Paris, France
European folk music from yesterday and today
Toutes les
couleurs du trad on Facebook
John Chamber's
abc Tune Finder
John
Chamber's Online Music Books
List of historical tunebooks
some of which are available on the internet
by EFDSS Folkopedia
Digitized and abc music from England, Northamerica and
Celtic Countries and regions
Folk Tune Finder
the folk & traditional music search
engine
Richard Robinson's Tunebook
Link
Tab
Search Engine of the Accademia
del
Mantice
Nigel Gatherer's Tunes Collection
Folk Dancing Etiquette
by the Int. Folk Dancers of Ottawa
Taylor's Traditional Tunebook
maintained by Lesley Nelson
Chris Peterson's Traditional Music
Tune collections on the Internet
by Mickey Koth
The
Traditional Tune Archive
The Semantic Index of North American,
British
and Irish traditional instrumental music
with annotation, formerly known as
The Fiddler's
Companion
Simon Wascher's online Trad-Archiv
English
and French Folk Music
an online manuscript by Matt Coatsworth
Sheffield university's ceilidh society
tune pages
Early
Music
online
Early Music Online has digitised over 320
volumes of 16th-century anthologies of printed
music, from holdings at the British Library.
abcnotation.com
Chris Walshaw's abc tune search / tune
finder gives you access to thousands of
folk & traditional tunes from across
the web - use the search form or browse the tunes or
visit the collections they are drawn from.
The Lesession pages
Steve Mansfield's abc music
notation tutorial,
tune collections in abc, and more ...
Ross Anderson's music
page
Jack Campin's
homepage
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Countries, Regions
Music France:
Toutes les
couleurs du trad
Radio stream from Paris, France
European folk music from yesterday and today
Toutes les
couleurs du trad on Facebook
Link
to stream
Website
BalLibre
links with copyright-free balfolk-music ordered by
dances & bands. Here music can be freely shared -
You are welcome to submit a link to your music!
Base
inter-régionale patrimoine oral
France
Portail du
patrimoine oral
France
Groupe La Cascade:
collection
of
links to trad music
repertoire websites
a tresure trove for French trad music repertoire
Les Maîtres
sonneurs
historical novel by George Sand,
published in July 1853
as an audio
book on archive.org
in French
Musical
Library of the
Association d'Ètude, de Promotion et
d'Enseignement des Musiques Traditionnelles
des Pays de France (A.E.P.E.M.)
in French
Mémoire
du
folk en Nord Pas de Calais (F)
Blog in French
Patrimoine
oral
du Massif Central
Online database for searching the archives
for French trad music
in French
Trad France
Traditional Music from France
maintained by Sylvain Piron
Travak tunebook
Dutch bal folk group from Venlo
AgendaTrad
Vector of information on Trad/Folk music and dance
Musique Centre France
Musique d'Auvergne
23 original remanufactured recordings interpreted by
singers and musicians who originated from the French
regions Cantal, Aveyron, Corrèze, Lozère and
Puy-de-Dôme
Musiques traditionnelles en liberté
A.M.T.A: Parcours
sonores
La Compagnie
du Rigodon
Montreal Session Tunebook
French bal folk , as well as scottish
and irish tunes
infrasons: Balades sonores
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes' sound heritage
La Biaça
For more than twenty years, the Institut
d'études occitanes du limousin has been conducting and
compiling surveys to safeguard the Occitan memory in
Limousin.
Today, this collection includes several hundred
archives: audio recordings, videos, films, writings,
photographs and more.
Partitions
Folk
by Pascal Peyremorte
Disque-O avec
Travaque - Les anciens
compilation of French trad music from 78
rpm
recordings on youtube. The movie as seen during
the 'Disque-O avec Travaque' at the Folkwoods
festival in Eindhoven, The Netherlands,
aug. 14th 2011. by Nikolaj Marks
Wikitrad
French traditional song and dance wiki
Wikitrad
on facebook
Wikitrad Songs on Soundcloud
La Bourrée
about 100 dance and song tunes collected in
Joseph Canteloube's book "La Bourrée"
published in 1929
- abc-transcription
by
Steve Mansfield
- pdf-file
with
index created from the
abc-tunebook
by
Chuck
Boody
- scanned pages of the whole book on
Gary Chapin's Accordeonaire
website
- Collections
of Canteloube on apem.com
(in French)
Arpalhands
-
Répertoire
Association Arpalhands - traditional music and
dances in Occitania
Arpalhands
on Facebook
Des
montagnes d'Auvergne au Bal Musette
on youtube, in French
Répertoire
d'airs traditionnels
"les Épinettes des Vosges"
maintained by Christophe Toussaint
pdf-book, research:
Le violon populaire en Massif Central
Les violoneux et leur musique
The traditional fiddle from Massif Central (France)- The
fiddlers and their music
hosted at CMRT en Limousin in French
violoneux.fr
The site offers worthwhile background
information
on fiddlers of different French regions in
the nineteenth and twentieth century.
in French
Music Belgium / The
Netherlands:
Oude
en
Nieuwe Hollantse Boerenlieties
en Contredansen
This collection of 996 melodies, published
between 1700 and 1716, has now been compiled by
Simon Platinga in the form of pdf and abc files,
website in Dutch
Oude
en nieuwe Hollantse Boeren lietjes en Contredansen
(1700)
digitized collection in the Royal Dutch
Library
Hollantse
boeren lieties en contredansen
(1701-1714)
Background information and sources:
Lusthof-der Muziek-Blog, in Dutch
Lusthof
der Muziek
webblog in Dutch
De Lusthof der Muziek - or the Garden of Musical
Delights - delves into 750 years of musical
tradition in the Low Countries:
Flanders and the Netherlands. Music sources that
were inaccessible, sometimes for hundreds of years,
are becoming available again due to the merits of
the internet.
Musiques traditionnelles de
Wallonie
by le
Canard Folk, partitions
Le Troubadour Wallon
transcripted music manuscripts of old dance music of
Wallonia (Belgium)
Projet Melchior
Resources for traditional music in Wallonia
Ressources pour les musiques de tradition en Wallonie
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Music Brittany
/ Bretagne:
Partitions de musiques de Bretagne
by Breizh Partitions,
celtic music
Collected Tunes by Bernard
Loffet (+)
Airs de Bretagne, Irlande, d'Écosse
maintained by Pascal Rose
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Music Scotland:
hms.scot
This database includes over 200 printed
sources of Scottish fiddle music from before 1850.
Glen Collection of printed music
National Library of Scotland
Nigel Gatherer's Tunes Collection
Scottish Midi Music
Provided by Tom Lorimer
Books
from the music collection at the National
Library of Scotland
Hosted at the Internet Archive
The
Highland Music Trust Collections
free
pdf downloads
Music Shetland Islands
Haand me doon da fiddle
1979, compiled by Tom Anderson & Pam Swing;
found on the discussions forum of the 'The
Session' website
as abc files in Chris
Walshaw's abcnotation.com
Nigel Gatherer's Shetland Collection
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Music
Northumberland
FARNE
Folk Archive Resource Northeast
Northumberland etc., UK
Henry Atkinson Manuscript
article on the Village Music Project
website
H.A.
manuscript transcribed into abc
for the Village Music Project
Northumbrian music can also be found on
Ross Anderson's
music page
The Traditional Music of
Northumbria and the British Isles
tunes in mp3 and wma
Music England
List of historical tunebooks
some of which are available on the internet
by EFDSS Folkopedia
Digitized and abc music from England, Northamerica and
Celtic Countries and regions
The
Village Music Project
Manuscripts List
Researching England's traditional music,
dance and song
Chris Partington's Links Page
English traditional dance music
by Andrew Wigglesworth
recordings, Internet Archive
Several editions of
John Playford's 'Dancing Master' hosted at the
Petrucci Music Library
Background information on the
'Dancing Master' on Wikipedia
The Playford Collection
revised by John Chambers
'The Dancing
Master'
edition 1651, on archive.org
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Music Ireland
The Irish Traditional Music Archive
English, Gaelic
Comhaltas
Ceoltóirí Éireann
Digital Tradition Folk Music Database,
Songs, text, midi , abc, Pennywhistle notation and
Dulcimer tab
The Traditional Music Database -
TUNEdb
Maintained by Richard Moon
midi, abc
O'Neill's
Music
of Ireland
Music Northern
Europe
Nordic Folktunes Collection of Stefan
Lindén
Södermanlands
Spelmansförbunds samlingar
hosted at Södermanlands
Spelmansförbund
in Swedish
Spillefolk
Denmark
Folk
Wiki
Sweden
spelman.de
Music Archive from
Finland:
Den
Digitala Utgåvan av Finlands
Svenska Folkdiktning
Music Archive from Sweden:
Folkmusikkommissionens
notsamling
och Musikmuseets spelmansböcker
about 45,000 pages of tunes and songs;
in English and Swedish
Svenskt visarkiv's Web Catalogues
Radio Sweden's Recording Journeys
Collection
Svenska Låtar
- on Swedish Wikipedia
- on folkwiki.se
Collection
Gotlandstoner
Sheet music from Gotland, Sweden
by August Fredin
pdf download
"Gotlandstoner" was originally published in small booklets between
1909 and 1932. In order to make the music
accessible to new generations of musicians and
sessioneers and thus to support the folk life in
Gotland, the Roxy Culture Club initiative worked for the
re-release of "Gotlandstoner"
JC's
Scandinavian Folk Dance Music
Norsk
Folkemusikksamling - Norwegian Collection of Folk
Music on facebook
related links:
Hardanger
Fiddle Association of America
Sheet Music Collection for the
Hardanger Fiddle
from the Norwegian National Library
Check out the
collection in the Internet library
Feleverkene - Hardanger Fiddle Website
provided by the Norwegian National Library
Books:
Folkmusikboken - Books about Folk
Music
hosted at svensk visarkiv
read online - in Swedish
Bluerose Scandinavian Folk Music
Karen Myers' collection of tunes
Music from The Notebook of Rasmus Storm:
Denmark (1760s)
- Digitised copy
of the tune book in the
Royal Danish
Library
- Andy Hornby's website (14 tunes,
pdf, abc)
- Use the term "Rasmus Storm" in the
search fields of these websites:
Spillefolk
(14 tunes)
abcnotation
(83 tunes)
on soundcloud
(8 tunes, audio)
Dansk Folkmindesamling in the Royal Danish Library:
Digitised
copies of Danish dance music
manuscripts(handwritten)
Treatise about the difference between Danish and
and Swedish playing style in fiddling music
by Hans-Arne Hausted , danish
Om forskellen
på dansk og svensk spillestil i
spillemandsmusik
Music Italy
Il
camino
della Musica (Italy)
Collections on Youtube
Archivio
Sonoro
Dove comincia l'Appennino
Video musicali
You Tube channel of
Dove comincia l'Appennino
Le vecchie danze italiane
by Gaspare Ungarelli, 1894
on archive.org
Italian Trad
Music
youtube compilation
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Music USA
The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection
trad. American Songs
Fiddle Tunes of
the Old Frontier:
The Henry Reed Collection
American Folk Life Center / Library of Congress
The John and Ruby Lomax 1939
Southern States recording trip
Collection
American Folk Life Center / Library of Congress
California Gold -
Northern California Folkmusic from the
Thirties
American Folk Life Center / Library of Congress
Special
Collections
& Archives
of the Berea College, KY, USA
The
Lomax Kentucky recordings
Briggs'
1855 Banjo Instructor
In 1855 this was the first instruction booklet
for playing what came to be called the Minstrel style
banjo. Hosted on the Internet Archive
Timothy Twiss plays music from the
Briggs' Banjo Instructor of 1855 on
the fretless Minstrel banjo:
video
playlist on youtube
Briggs tunes played by
the
Carolina Chocolate Drops
Briggs
Corn Shucking Jig &
Camptown Hornpipe
De
Gal Wid De Blue Dress On
Music Canada
Le violon de Jos
a lively and dynamic multimedia encyclopedia project on
the Quebec's fiddling tradition.
The uniqueness of Le violon de Jos lies in the idea of
combining intangible heritage, digital development and
open source emergence
Cranford
Publications
Bowing Down Home
Prince Edward Island Fiddling Tradition
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Music Austria &
Germany:
Deutsch-Folk
Initiative
German-Folk Initiative
The DeutschFolk-Initiative is a growing network for all
those who are enthusiastic about traditional or
traditionally inspired music from the regions of
Germany. It deals with this material in a
forward-looking and cosmopolitan way, be it folk songs,
dances or self-penned music with traditional borrowings.
Their interests are neither nationalistic nor purely
commercial.
Tanzmusik Archiv
Dance Music Archive
This page deals with everything that is related in many
different aspects to historical dance music sources in
German-speaking countries - as a digital copy, original
in the library, copy or facsimile.
Community-forum, videos, digitized music,
manuscripts in German
Trad Tanz Musik
Youtube channel
Traditional dance music of the German-speaking world -
collection of tunes from manuscripts from the 17th to
the 20th century.
At the end of a video the melody is played in a slow
version in order to facilitate learning.
You also get the source to each tune and, if available,
a source of supply.
in German
The
Dahlhoff
Dance Music Collection
10 volumes (Band) or 1400 pages of 18th
century dance music collected by Johann Dietrich
Dahlhoff of Dinker, Westphalia, Germany.
The music was rediscovered by Simon Wascher. He and
other German musicians made digitizing possible.
The collection is hosted at the Berlin
State Library. Website in German
The Dahlhoff Dance Music Collection
Internet Archive
Dahlhoff
music
In 1764 Dietrich Dahlhoff, who worked as a sexton and
organist, started to write down the dance music that was
collected by his family.
Now, nearly 250 years later this music was played by a
session in the churchyard of the village of
Dinker, Westphalia, Germany, the former working place of
Dietrich Dahlhoff.
youtube
Dahlhoff music in modern notation
Transcriptions of the Dahlhoff manuscripts into modern
music notation by Richmud Rollenbeck(+).
See downloads in pdf and music-xml format at the
end of the webpage.
bd = Band = volume, in German
The transcription is published under a
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 licene.
Dahlhoff music in ABC notation
by Simon Wascher, in German
4th Dahlhoff-Meeting in August 2018
in Dinker, Westphalia, Germany
Youtube Video
The
Folksong and Tune Archive
of Westphalia-Lippe
hosted by the Folk-Cultural Commission of
the Regional Association of Westphalia Lippe; tunes
from the region and folksongs, partially in the old
Low-German Westphalian language. More
than 16,000 data-sets of field-recordings, sheet
music and notes; in German
Volkslied-
und Tonarchiv der
Region
Westfalen-Lippe
von der Volkskundlichen Kommission des
Landschaftsverbandes Westfalen-Lippe; Musik und
Volkslieder, teilweise in der alten
niederdeutschen, westfaelischen Sprache.
Mehr als 16.000 Datensaetze mit Feldaufnahmen,
Notenbblaettern und Aufzeichnungen.
Volkstänze aus Deutschland und Europa
by Thomas Walker, pdf
The Karl Gottlob Wiegand Manuscript
1854
pdf - in German
The Wiegand Music In Modern Notation
Transcriptions of the Karl Gottlob Wiegand manuscript
(1854) into modern music notation by Richmud
Rollenbeck(+).
The transcription is published under a
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 licene.
in German
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Instruments
Various Instruments:
The instruments of celtic music
Association
Rivatges
Association that promotes the Languedoc oboe and music
and dance in the Mediterranean area
in French
Pipes-cornemuse-Dudelsack-
doedelzak-zampogna-gaita:
Thorsten's Sackpfeiffen Seiten
The
Lowland and Border Pipers' Society
Bagpipe
Society
Promoting the bagpipe revival
since 1986 (UK)
- Northumbrian Smallpipe:
Northumbrian Smallpipes
Northumbrian Pipers' Society
- Spanish and Portuguese
Bagpipes,
Gaita:
Associação
Gaita de Foles
Portuguese Bagpipe Society
- French Bagpipes
Le site "Musette"
Website of the Group "Avalanche Compagnie"
Le
Pipasso, la cornemuse picarde
- Swedish Bagpipes
Olle
Gällmo's
Website
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Accordion:
Accumulated Accordion Annotations
De Harmonicahoek
By Eduard Bekker
Dutch website on all matters concerning
the accordion
Concertina:
KonzertinaNetz
Everything about the concertina
by Klaus Wenger, in German
Hurdy gurdy - vielle -
Drehleier -draailier - ghironda:
La Maison du Luthier Musée à
Jenzat
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Dances
Dancilla Wiki
Tanzbeschreibungen von Regina Krohne
Folkstanz
in Berlin.de
Dance descriptions by Regina Krohne, German
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Dances Brittany /
Bretagne:
The On Bouge! Breton Crib Sheet
by Webfeet
Dances France:
AccroFolk.net
Music
and dances, folk and trad.
in French
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Events
Agenda
Trad
Traditional Music Calendar for France
Folk Festival Marsinne,
Belgium
2nd weekend in September
Bals et Roses
Florenville, Belgium
Dafodil
Diest, Belgium
Festival
de Cornemuses in Cassel, France (59)
Lautenbach, Alsace, France:
Rencontre de
Lutherie - Dancerie Met Müsik
on Pentecost weekend
Comboros
Saint-Gervais d'Auvergne, France(63)
Fête de l’Accordéon
Luzy,
France(58)
Gran Bal Trad
Vialfrè, near Turin, Northern Italy
Gennetines,
France
Le Grand Bal de l'Europe
July 26 - August 9, 2024
Festival de
Cornouaille
Quimper, Bretagne, France
Sommerbordunale
small festival in Schaephysen,
near Krefeld, Western Germany
KlangRausch
Hoesseringen, Germany
June 14 - 16, 2024
Winneweh, Germany
The
Piper's Gathering
North America's most comprehensive
alternative bagpipe event (USA)
Nordic Fiddles
And Feet
Scandinavian music and dance
Moultonborough,
New Hampshire, USA
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Bal Folk Links
Bal Folk in Belgium:
boombal
Bals
folk
en Nord-Pas-de-Calais
et Belgique occidentale
published by Chti-Folkeux
Rif Zans l'Fiesse
Promotion of traditional music and dance
in the Liège region, Alleur near Liège
Folk
in
Limburg
Le Canard Folk - Agenda
Bal Folk in The
Netherlands
balfolk.nl
Bal Folk in
Germany:
Bal Folk in
Köln
Bal Folk in Cologne
Bal Folk in Bonn
Bal
Folk eV. München
Bal Folk in Munich
Bal Folk and other Folk Dance events
in Berlin
Stuttgarter
balhaus e.V.:
Live Events in Germany and Europe
and neighbouring countries
see "Regiolinks"
Bal Folk in France:
Agenda
Trad
Traditional Music Calendar for France
Bals
folk
en Nord-Pas-de-Calais
et Belgique occidentale
published by Chti-Folkeux
L'agenda
d'AccroFolk
bal folk in Alsace and neighbouring regions
Bal Folk / French
Dance in UK
Traditional French music and dancing
in Cambridge
Pied
à Terre - European Dance in Norwich
Ockbrook
French
Music & Dance Session
French and Breton traditional music and dance in
Leeds, West Yorkshire, Les Panards
Dansants
French
Dance and sessions in UK
Dansez-Francais
Brighton
Lancaster
Eurodance
Lancaster Eurodance is a
friendly music and dance group, specialising in the
folk dances of Europe;
web site contains as well a tunebook, dance videos
and an interesting link list, Lancaster, UK
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Various Links
Musée de la
musique
CIMP Centre Internacional de Música Popular
Céret, France
Muziekcentrum
Dranouter
Belgium
Stichting
Volksmuziek Nederland
Traditional / Folk Music in the Netherlands
Stichting Draailier en Doedelzak
Dutch association round the hurdy gurdy
and the bagpipe
bordun.de
German trad music association, with diary
Tradivarium
Sessions, Bals Folk and concerts in Austria,
maintained by Stephan Steiner, Vienna, in German
Musical Traditions
Folkclub Frankfurt -
Link List for Folk im the
German-speaking Countries
in German
Smithonian -
Center
for
Folklife
and Cultural Heritage
Folk Session in Wageningen, NL
by Rolf Adriaan Groeneveld
AccroFolk.net
important Folk-website from
the Alsace and Belfort region
in France, in French
archive.org
online archive, find free sheet music,
audios and videos
Wikipedia articles:
Music
of
France
French
folk
music
Italian
folk music
Folk
music
of Italy
Traditional
Nordic
dance music
Nordic
folk
music
Swedish
folk music
Danish traditional music
Finland
-
folk music
Folk
music
/ Traditional music
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Audio und Video
Plug-Ins,
Programs
VLC
Media Player
SM
Player
Audacity,
Cross-Platform Sound Editor, open source
Myriad Melody Assistant
MuseScore
Mandolin Tab online abc converter
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see also:
Andreas' Songs & Ballads Links
Crosslinks:
Memoire
du
folk en Nord Pas-de-Calais (F)
Konzertina-Netz (D)
Foldies
(D)
Groupe
La
Cascade (F)
Lancaster
Eurodance (GB)
Contact: Andreas Heising
Cologne, Germany
last modified: August 2024
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