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On the Web
- The EntsWeb Directory - folk music section - Categorised listings of folk festivals, folk and roots musicians, singers, folk clubs and venues.
- Folk Dance Association - Helping newcomers discover folk dance: from contra dance to Balkan dance. Publishes Folk Dance Directory, an on-line directory of folk dance groups, events and activities in the US and Canada.
- Folk.de - Die LAG Folk, Folk-Paradise, Dreyheit sowie der Hamburger Singewettstreit stellen sich vor.
- Folk Roots List - Categorised listings of folk festivals, folk and roots musicians, singers, folk clubs and venues.
- Folk-Legacy Folk Music - Traditional and contemporary folk music label. Includes CD and song list, top sellers and tour information.
- International Folk Dancers of Ottawa - Non-profit group for the support and preservation of recreational folk-dancing in the Ottawa-Hull area of Canada. It sponsors events for local folk-dancers and the community at large, and stays in touch with other folk-dancing groups and their events nationally and internationally.
- Folk Australia - The folk scene in Australia. Includes an ezine, a folk search, and links to folk clubs and performers.
- The Folk Art Society of America - A non-profit organization which advocates the discovery, study, documentation, preservation and exhibition of folk art, folk artists and folk art environments.
- A Variety Of Folk - Broadcasting traditional folk, contemporary folk, bluegrass, old-time, celtic, and blues. Site features a playlist archive, contact information, and links to other folk sites.
- Sunday Folk - BBC Radio Shropshire's folk music programme; includes a diary of folk events, and presenter profiles.
Wikipedia Articles
- Progressive folk music - Progressive folk is a type of Folk music that rejects or de-emphasizes the conventions of traditional folk music and encourages stylistic or thematic innovation. While folk music has always purported to be a highly innovative form, given its late-coming into institutional circles and its ties to the "common man" or ordinary people, ...
- Pirin Folk Ensemble - The Pirin Folk Ensemble (, Folkloren ansambal „Pirin“) (also Pirin Folk Song and Dances State Ensemble, Bulgarian National Folk Ensemble) is a Bulgarian performance group. It consists of a folk orchestra, a dance troupe, and a women's choir.
- Winnipeg Folk Festival - The Winnipeg Folk Festival is a summer folk music festival held over the second weekend of July in Birds Hill Provincial Park, 15 minutes north of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It features a variety of folk artists from all around the world, as well as a number of local folk performers.
- Philadelphia Folk Festival - The Philadelphia Folk Festival is a three-day festival of folk music that has been held annually in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania in the vicinity of Philadelphia by the non-profit Philadelphia Folksong Society since 1962. Gene Shay has for the entire history of the festival been the Master of Ceremonies, and continues to be a personality of folk music ...
- Indie folk - Indie folk is a genre and musical style primarily categorized by "independent" smaller music labels supporting progressive folk music artists. Greatly influenced by the American folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, indie folk arose in the 1980s and 1990s from singer/songwriters affected by indie alternative/rock music.