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Celtic Music: Artist Pages - Folk Music
Links to the homepages of the world's top Celtic folk music artists.

Balnain House
This folk society in Inverness, Scotland hosts concerts and festivals featuring highland music.

Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar
This site is a fine, info-rich resource for Celtic guitar playing including its origins, tunings, techniques and practitioners.

Ceolas: Artist Index
Over 200 Celtic artist websites listed here, from traditional to new fusion groups that blend into the World Music category.

Ceolas: Celtic Internet Resources
A useful list of internet resources, some of which are listed on this page.

Ceolas: Music Archive
Ceolas is Celtic headquarters on-line. Lists and hosts many resources including artist pages, song and tune databases, session listings and more.

G8ina
A great Irish site, well designed pages link to artists, tunes & songs, venues and sessions.

Harp.net
A site for traditional Irish harp.

Irish Sessions
Upside: lists Irish jam sessions world-wide, city by city. Downside: last update is 1996 and e-mail link is gone. I'd call first, especially before getting on a plane.

Music for Robin
Not-for-profit org. produces fine Celtic music & dance series drawing many artists from the Isles at respectable performance spaces in and around Boston.

Piper's Cove
Kearny, NJ. Online retailer of bagpipes and imported supplies for the serious lover of Scots and Irish music.

Songs: Gaelic Lyrics
Supplies lyrics to 30 Gaelic tunes - in Gaelic, of course.

Songs: Lyrics
This Scandanavian afficionado of all things Irish has collected lyrics to over 300 tunes.

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