Folk music resources

Wolfsbayne

Anyone know of any good and free folk music resources, particularly sheet music with lyrics of english folk.

Im a folk singer but want to expand my repertoire of lesser known material before I start hitting the festivals this year - any and all help welcome!

knithryn

The only one I know is for Irish music, but you might find it interesting, and you might just find a few English songs in there... it has music scores, lyrics, ABC tabs etc and a HUGE database of songs and tunes.
https://www.thesession.org

Wolfsbayne

knithryn wrote: »

The only one I know is for Irish music, but you might find it interesting, and you might just find a few English songs in there... it has music scores, lyrics, ABC tabs etc and a HUGE database of songs and tunes.
www.thesession.org

Thanks for that, im always a fan of Irish music.

baxie

Here are a few resources that I have used, sorry I can't post links yet, but if you google the titles below you should find the pages

"Thebards" - Mostly Celtic stuff, but has a few English Folk gems.

"mudcat" - This is a huge searchable forum of songs.

"McGuinn's Folk Den" - This is the website of Roger McGuinn, formerly of The Byrds. He searches for old folk songs and posts them here.

"contemplator/folk" Awesome site, full of interesting songs.

"folkinfo/songs" - Another database full of songs.

Wolfsbayne

baxie wrote: »

Here are a few resources that I have used, sorry I can't post links yet, but if you google the titles below you should find the pages

"Thebards" - Mostly Celtic stuff, but has a few English Folk gems.

"mudcat" - This is a huge searchable forum of songs.

"McGuinn's Folk Den" - This is the website of Roger McGuinn, formerly of The Byrds. He searches for old folk songs and posts them here.

"contemplator/folk" Awesome site, full of interesting songs.

"folkinfo/songs" - Another database full of songs.

Thanks so much, ive found mudcat already which is great but im really looking forward to investigating the others now!

Oldernotwiser

Also worth keeping an eye on the EFDSS website http://www.efdss.org/# as they're in the process of putting all their library online.

Gazing_On_Sunsets

Lyrics to some Lincs folk songs here: http://homepages.sover.net/~barrand/rgh/grainger.html

Cantaria folk song archive here: http://www.chivalry.com/cantaria/