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Highly-Recommended Websites
Heroes
David "Stringbean" Akeman Emmett Lundy
Clarence Ashley Bascom Lamar Lunsford
DeFord Bailey David Harrison "Uncle Dave" Macon
Dr. Humphrey Bate and The Possum Hunters Joseph Emmett "J . E." Mainer and the Mountaineers
The Blue Sky Boys Wade E. Mainer
Dock Boggs Clayton McMichen
Charles Thomas "Charlie" Bowman James Corbett "Jimmie Driftwood" Morris
The Carolina Tar Heels Charlie Poole
Fiddlin' John Carson George Riley Puckett
The (Real) Carter Family "Blind Alfred" Reed
The Delmore Brothers Henry Reed
The Dixieliners Alexander Campbell "Eck" Robertson
The East Texas Serenaders Jimmie Rodgers
Ahaz Augustus "A. A." Gray John Morgan Salyer
Grayson and Whitter Mike Seeger
Ed Haley Arthur Leroy "Fiddlin' Arthur" Smith
Edwin "Edden" Hammons Hobart Smith
John Hartford John L. "Uncle Bunt" Stephens
Thomas Jefferson "Tommy" Jarrell Ernest Van "Pop" Stoneman
Louis Marshall "Grandpa" Jones The Stripling Brothers
Buell Kazee James Gideon "Gid" Tanner and the Skillet Lickers
Clark and Luches Kessinger Jesse Donald "Uncle Jimmy" Thompson

The Leake County Revelers

 Fields Ward
Dempson Lewis Melvin Wine
The Louvin Brothers

Other Performers of Old-Time Music
The 97th Regimental String Band Bruce Molsky
Atwater-Donnelly

Scott Odena

Cathy Barton and Dave Para

Don Pedi

Bob Bovee and Gail Heil

Prairie Land String Band

Wayne "Tiny" Cantwell

The Red Mountain White Trash

Bob Carlin

David Schnaufer
Clyde Davenport Beverly Smith and Carl Jones

"Banjo Dave" Douglass, Fine Artiste

Bill Spence

falderal

Rafe Stefanini

Fiddler Woman

Suzanne and Jim
Bob Flesher Time Was
Franklin George Jay Ungar and Molly Mason
Guy and Pipp Gillette

Kendra Ward and Bob Bence
Bruce Greene

Charlie Walden

Bill and Libby Hicks

Doc Watson
David Holt

The Wright Family
Dan Levenson

Old-Time Music Resources
America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets
African-American Sheet Music: 1850-1920, Selected from the Collections of Brown University
Berea College Appalachian sound Archives
Bluegrass Lyrics.com
BluegrassNet
Songs of the Original Carter Family
Ceolas: The Fiddler's Companion
The Civil War Music Site
The Colonial Music Institute
FaSoLa Home Page

Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection
Folk Music - An Index to Recorded Resources
Hill Country Tunes by Samuel Bayard
Historic American Sheet Music: 1850-1920, Selected from the Collections of Duke University
Irish Traditional Music Index
The John Quincy Wolf Folklore Collection
Jehile Kirkhuff: World Champion Old Time Fiddler
The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music
The Lewis Music Library Sheetmusic Collection at MIT
Max Hunter Folk Song Collection
The Mudcat Café
Mugwumps Online
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1820-1860 and 1870-1885
Musical Traditions Magazine
Nelson McGary's Oldtime Fiddle Pages
Nineteenth-Century California Sheet Music

The Old Time Herald
The Old Time Music and Dance Community Website

The Old-Time Music Home Page
Poetry and Music of the War Between the States
Radio YUR brings you the KingPup Radio Show – Radio in the Old Time Tradition
Ram Radio: Listen to what the Circle sounds like...Unbroken!

Roots of American Fiddle Music
Sacred Harp and Related Shape-note Music: Resources
Sacred Harp Singing in Texas
Sam DeVincent Collection of American Sheet Music
The Southern Folklife Collection of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion
Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip
Spud Mountain RFD: Traditional Rural Music Webcast

Stringband.com
Sugar in the Gourd: Old-Time, All the Time
Traditional Music Library
The Vintage Fiddlers Oral History Project from Morehead State University, Morehead, Kentucky
Virginia Roots Music: Creating and Conserving Tradition
The Ward-Hamlin Music Collection of the SECC Appalachian Archive

Traditional Dance Resources

An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, Ca. 1490-1920

An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals Video Clips

Arkansas Country Dance Society
Chatanooga Traditional Dance Society
Contra Dance / Contradance in the United States, Canada, and the World

Contra Dancing in the Mid-South

Country Dance and Song Society

Country Dance Society – Boston Centre

Folk-dancing Newsgroup
Houston Area Traditional Dance Society
The Lloyd Shaw Foundation: Preserving America's Dance Heritage

A Look at Southern Squares
Nashville Country Dancers

New England Dancing Masters

New England Folk Festival Association
North Alabama Country Dance Society

North Texas Traditional Dance Society
Online Dance Locator Database

Portland, Oregon Contra and English Country Dance Events
The Round: Cambridge University English Country Dance Club
Sharon Guli: Dance Mistress

The Victorian Dance Ensemble

West Virginia Square Dances

Banjo Resources

The Art of Gourd Banjo Construction

Banjo-L: The Banjo Discussion List

Banjo Newsletter

Clawhammer.com

The Clawhammer Banjo Newsgroup

Dulcimer Resources
David's Dulcimers

Dulcimer Newsgroup

Dulcimer Players News
Dulcimer Shofar Ethnic Instruments

East Texas Dulcimers

Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Hammer Dulcimer History and Playing

Everything Dulcimer

Gila Mountain Dulcimers

Jim Taylor Hammered Dulcimers
The Official Hammered Dulcimer Page
Texas Dulcimer Net

Wood 'N Strings

Fiddle Resources

Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index

FiddleFork Online Fiddler Community

Fiddle-L Fiddle Players' Discussion List

FiddleNet

Fiddle On Magazine

Fiddler Magazine

Fiddles.com

Missouri Old-Time Fiddling and More

Acoustic Music Venues

Acoustic Sounds Café

Camp Street Café

Laurel Theater
Uncle Calvin's Coffeehouse

Festivals
Appalachian Heritage Festival, Shepherdstown, West Virginia
Appalachian String Band Music Festival at Clifftop, West Virginia
Augusta Old-Time Fiddlers Reunion, Elkins, West Virginia

Cranberry Gathering Dulcimer Festival
Doc Watson MusicFest
Dulcimer Days at Roscoe Village
Fiddler's Grove, Union Grove, North Carolina

Gebhard Woods Dulcimer Festival

General Sam Houston Folk Festival

Lone Star State Dulcimer Festival
The Mountain State Forest Festival, Beverly, West Virginia
Old Fiddler's Convention, Galax, Virginia

Old Songs Festival of Traditional Music and Dance

Original Dulcimer Players Club Funfest (Evart)

Palestine Old Time Music and Dulcimer Festival

Texas Dulcimer Retreat

Texas Folklife Festival
Winter Creek Reunion Acoustic Music Festival

Winter Festival of Acoustic Music

Camps, Classes and Workshops
Allegheny Echoes Snowshoe Workshops, Marlinton, West Virginia
Augusta Heritage Center Workshops at Davis and Elkins College
Blue Ridge Old-Time Music Week at Mars Hill College
Fiddle and Dance at Ashokan
Old Time Music Camp North
Rocky Mountain Fiddle Camp
The Swannanoa Gathering: Folk Arts Workshops at Warren Wilson College

Friends of Traditional Music
Austin Friends of Traditional Music
Brandywine Friends of Old Time Music
Friends of American Old-Time Music and Dance (UK)
Nashville Old-Time String Band Association
The Oklahoma City Traditional Music Association
Old Songs
The Rackensack Folklore Society
Sam Houston's Friends of Traditional Music

Recordings of Old-Time Music
Allegro Music Ivy Creek Recordings and Publications
Arhoolie Records June Appal Recordings
Berea College Appalachian Center Native Ground Music
Bear Family Records Norms78 Record Room
Copper Creek Records Old Hat Records
County Records Old Homestead Records
Document Records Rounder Records
fiddletunes.com Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
The Field Recorders' Collective Venerable Music
Folk-Legacy Recordings Voyager Records and Publications
Heaheah Recordings

West Virginia University Press
Homespun Tapes

Yazoo Records

Vendors of Old-Time Music and Other Music Needs
Andy's Front Hall
Bernunzio Vintage Instruments
Elderly Instruments
Gruhn Guitars
The Independent Old-Time Music Store
Mandolin Brothers, Ltd.
Randy Wood Guitars
Wildwood Music
Recommended Reading
A Good-Natured Riot: The Birth of the Grand Ole Opry
A People and Their Music: The Story Behind the Story of Country Music
African Banjo Echoes in Appalachia: A Study of Folk Traditions
Classic Country: Legends of Country Music
Country Music, U. S. A.
Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity
The Devil's Box: Masters of Southern Fiddling
Don't Get Above Your Raisin' - Country Music and the Southern Working Class
Fiddling Way Out Yonder: The Life and Music of Melvin Wine
Mountaineer Jamboree: Country Music in West Virginia
Pickin' on Peachtree: A History of Country Music in Atlanta, Georgia
Play of a Fiddle: Traditional Music, Dance, and Folklore in West Virginia
Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers
Southern Exposure: The Story of Southern Music in Pictures and Words
Truth is Stranger Than Publicity
With Fiddle and Well-Rosined Bow: A History of Old-Time Fiddling in Alabama

Preservers and Purveyors of History and Heritage
3rd Texas Cavalry
7th Texas Cavalry
8th Texas Cavalry (Terry's Texas Rangers)
11th Texas Cavalry
12th Texas Artillery
The Appalachian Archive of Southeast Community College
Augusta Heritage Center of Davis and Elkins College
Blue Ridge Institute and Museum of Ferrum College
John C. Campbell Folk School
Center for the Study of the Civil War
The Early Arkansaw Reenactors Association (EARA)
Edsel T. Godbey Appalachian Center
Fort Concho National Historic Landmark
Fort Davis National Historic Site
Historic Arkansas Museum
Star of the Republic Museum
Texana Living History Association

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