Links & Resources

Radio Programs

Whiskey in the Jar
• Old time and Irish, Saturdays at 11 a.m. on KUPR in Placitas (click on the "Listen Now" button), hosted by Marc Robert.

Old Time Music Hour
• (OTHM) Weekly program hosted by Bill Smedley. Full archive available, easy to find each show's content.

Groups & Associations

NM Folk Music & Dance Society (FolkMADS)

ABQ Megaband (open band, plays every other month for FolkMADS contra dance)

Southwest Traditional & Bluegrass Music Association (AKA Southwest Pickers)

A few Old-Time-ish Facebook groups (some are public, others you can join):

Web Resources

The Fiddler's Companion Search titles alphabetically for lots of info, sources, history, etc.

Traditional Tune Archive (Formerly The Fiddler's Companion) Info as above, but in wiki format.

Folk Music - Index to Recorded Resources

Old-Time Music entry on Wikipedia

The Founding Fiddlers - article on Galax fiddlers' history

Old Time Herald Online

Old Time Music Home Page

Field Recorders Collective

John Lamancusa's Old Time Fiddle Tunes Collection (transcriptions and audio)

Tater Joe's Old-TIme Musical Mercantile (transcriptions and chords for lots of tunes)

Looking for recordings of specific tunes? Try these:

Slippery-Hill (large collection of mp3's, many old recordings)

John Lamancusa's extensive collection of old-time tunes

Canote Brothers Stringband Class recordings

Berea College Digital Collections - Traditional Music Resources

Digital Library of Appalachia

Juneberry78s.com (Early American Roots Music)

ABQ Megaband Tune Archive

Music Teachers

Fiddle: Marjorie Mullany (kids and adults)