South Shields Folk Club Every Sunday from 7.30pm, Westoe Rugby Club, Dean Road, South Shields
The Davy Lamp Folk Club Every Saturday night at Washington Arts Centre
East Boldon Folk Club First Thursday in the month, from 7.30pm, at the Grey Horse, Front Street, East Boldon.
Irish Flute Tunes - bunch of mp3s of tunes played slowly then fast - very good resource
Irish Dance Music from the 20s to the 70s - a few hours worth of MP3s of classic old recordings.
GDAE Chord Charts - Hans Speek's comprehensive chord charts for mandolin, mandola, banjo etc.
Online Whistle Tutorials - Brother Steve's excellent resources for learning eveything about the Tin Whistle
Folk Roundabout Quarterly magazine covering Folk venues and events from Berwick to York; Sub £7 per year from Trevor Lister, 24, Ambleside Grove, Acklam, Middlesbrough TS5 7DQ email: trevorl@ntlworld.com
Comhaltas Session Tunes Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann - cultural organisation for preservation and promotion of Irish traditional music
Roger Millington - Technique and style ** Transcriptions of traditional players, with mp3s and comments - excellent resource
The Session The Session website has a searchable database of (almost) any tune you might want, plus variations on the tunes, commentary and discussions (which can get a bit geeky!). It also tells you which album you can find the tunes on - very useful.
Nova Irish Sessions - essay on modes Musical theory, but important to have some sort of inkling of it to have any real understanding of Irish (and indeed most British) traditional music.
Custy's Great shop in Ennis - loads of cd's available online, plus instruments and books. And you always get a nice hand written message from John with your cd - much nicer than a computer printed invoice from Amazon!!