Folkrocks Links

Amazing Grace Bakery is a Duluth bakery/eatery that hosts concerts by both local Minnesota as well as National talent.

Big Top Chautauqua is a treasure that's nearly in our back yard. If you would like some of the excitement of Winnipeg, but closer to home, this could be your weekend ticket. It runs throughout the summer beginning in June.

Cedar Cultural Center is the premier Twin Cities venue for folk music from around the world. If the music is vital, it can usually be seen at "The Cedar".

Ginkgo Coffeehouse is one of the Twin Cities premiere acoustic and folk music venues, with a Thursday night "ticketed" concert series as well as weekend music and more.

Humphrey's Concerts By The Bay If you're planning on visiting the San Diego area, and you like all styles of music, check out this site. It's only open during the warmer months, and it's right on the San Diego harbor. Concert schedule and pictures are on this site. Very cool place.

Hwy 61 Folks Festival and Songwriters Contest near Duluth in Mahtowa, Minnesota. I don't know about this event first hand, so check out the link.

The Living Tradition is a non-profit organization working to support and preserve traditional music and dance. The Living Tradition sponsors regular contra dances, folk music concerts, and folk music jams in Bellflower and Anaheim, California.

McCabe's Guitar Shop. If you're planning to visit the Santa Monica/LA area, this is a very cool acoustic music store, with tons of instruments, sheet music, and instructional stuff. They hold concerts in the back room, and the musicians are the tops. Check it out. You'll be happy you did.

Minnesota Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Association MBOTMA is a non-profit, volunteer-based organization serving Minnesota and the Midwest. They preserve and promote bluegrass and old-time string band music in Minnesota.

Minnesota Folk Festival is a non-profit organization that hosts concerts and workshops and is community and corporate sponsored.

Club Passim - Boston is a Boston/Somerville, MA non-profit music club that is host to the thriving Boston area singer songwriter community, as well as talent from around the country and the world.

Winnipeg Folk Festival is the internationally known host to world music each post 4th of July weekend.

Radio Programs:

WUMB- FM is a non-commercial radio station licensed to the University of Massachusetts with studios at the UMass Boston. My personal favorite for online listening. It just doesnt' get any better than this for folk music on the radio or the web. If you have Apple's iTunes, you can fine a link to this station under the "Americana" radio button. If you don't have iTunes, hit the link above and download it free. iTunes is now available for PC users as well.

FolkScene is a program of traditional and contemporary music featuring live music, interviews, remote recordings, and the finest in recorded music, hosted and produced by Roz & Howard Larman. Aired on Pacifica Radio Station, KPFK in Los Angeles, California at 90.7 FM and in Santa Barbara at 98.7 FM Saturday Mornings @ 8:00am. Check their website for online listening, including WUMB Boston (see above).

FM, Minnesota Public Radio's lastest station devotes the schedule to full-time eclectic music, beginning with The Moring Show with Dale Connelly and Jim Ed Poole. This 4 hour program airs from 5am-9am weekdays, playing a broad range of music that includes lots of folk music by local, national and world musicians, many appearing here in the Twin Cities and surrounding area. Check the stations web site for full scheduling information.

radioioAcoustic is earthy, folksy, sophisticated, acoustic - and definitely 'radioio' a soothing mix of folk, alt-country, pop, rock, jazz, and blues. If you're looking for acoustic based music without the annoying ads you hear on commercial radio, and you're not exactly a dyed in the wool folkie, this may be for you. If you have Apple's iTunes, you can fine a link to this station under the "Americana" radio button. If you don't have iTunes, hit the link above and download it free. iTunes is now available for PC users as well.

KFAI's Urban Folk, a great Sunday mid morning hosted by Ellen Hayman, and Red House Records' Bob Feldman, and emphasizes a broad range of acoustic folk and singer songwriter music.

KFAI's Womenfolk hosted by Ellen Stanley with Ellen Stanley. This is just what it sounds like, a program dedicated to music by women. This show follows the Urban Folk Show.

KBEM's String Theory Kevin Barnes brings an eclectic mix of acoustic style music from some of the greatest string slingers around today.

Grassy Hill Radio provides some of the Internet's finest all-music folk/acoustic stream, including the Grassy Hill Barn Concerts - as well as a monthly series of folk concerts in the beautiful rural hills of Lyme, CT, Internet support for a variety of folk related activities, Sponsorship of folk festivals and conferences throughout the Northeast US and beyond, including the North American Folk Alliance . If you have Apple's iTunes, you can fine a link to this station under the "Americana" radio button. If you don't have iTunes, hit the link above and download it free. iTunes is now available for PC users as well.

Acoustic Guitar is the magazine of choice for serious acoustic musicians. Available at most hip music stores as well as Barnes and Noble bookstores. Keep up on the acoustic scene with this mag. Plenty of music in tab by the featured musicians as well as lesson pages.

Minnesota Folk Artists Directory is a listing of Minnesota Folk Artists and samples of their work including: images, sound clips and video.

ezFolk.com The ezFolk website is an instructional website for guitar, banjo, and ukulele mostly geared towards beginners.

Folkblues.com a local site that focuses on the folk & blues community and more. Nice site with lots of useful links to venues, music stores, lessons, etc. 2 thumbs up!

Folklib.net The FolkLib Index is an on-going attempt to index information on the World Wide Web that is related to the fields of Folk Music, Bluegrass and Old-Time Music, Acoustic Blues, Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar, Harp (the stringed kind) Players.

Folkweb is a nationally known site that assists the working musician to find their way through the business. Many useful resources.

The Guitar Foundation of America

Best Irish Music.com is a very large site that brings together many Irish and Celtic style music resources for the Midwest and some international locations.

Performing Songwriter has so many resources you'll have to take your time going through this one. Everything from interviews of many top as well as up and coming musicians. The DIY section is great. As with the Acoustic Guitar magazine, there are always gear tips and recording information.

Twin Cities Acoustic Music Calendar: The comprehensive Twin Cities acoustic music calendar for Minneapolis, St. Paul, and surrounding Minnesota communities, covering bluegrass, old-time, country, Celtic, Cajun, Nordic, blues, folk, Americana, singer/songwriter, and contemporary folk music. It includes major events in the upper Midwest, including Wisconsin, Iowa, North Dakota, and South Dakota.

Brentrup Mandolins isa local high end mandolin company. These instruments are becoming available at some of the bigger music shops around the country.

Hoffman Guitars is the top instrument repair shop in the Twin Cities. Eveyone from Leo Kottke to Emmylou Harris have been here at one time or another.

Stefan Sobell Instruments if you like the new Irish music that's so big these days, chances are you've heard a Sobell octave mandolin or bouzouki. Great stuff from across the pond.

The Podium is what many would refer to as a boutique guitar shop. Most of the top names in acoustic guitars can be found here. If they don't have them yet, they're probably working on getting them right now.

Calton Cases are for those musicians lucky enough to own one of the aforementioned boutique guitars or mandolins. These cases are airline approved.

Daedalus Music is a east coast company that builds specialty amplication equipment for studiios and the road. As heavy duty as the Calton Cases.

L R Baggs Electronics makes one of the best known pickup systems available. If you plug your acouistic instrument in, it may well be running with a LR Baggs unit.

Pendulum Audio produces audiophile quality preamps and other equipment. Musicians such as James Taylor and David Wilcox are usually playing through these units.

Sunrise Pickups is the premier magmetic pickup for acoustic guitars. Made famous by such musicians as David Lindley , Emmylou Harris and the Twin Cities own fingerpicker Phil Heywood.