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Folk music resources

Wolfsbayne
Wolfsbayne Posts: 514 Forumite
in Music MoneySaving
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!

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  • knithryn
    knithryn Posts: 233 Forumite
    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
    Wolfsbayne Posts: 514 Forumite
    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
    baxie Posts: 208 Forumite
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    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
    Wolfsbayne Posts: 514 Forumite
    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
    Oldernotwiser Posts: 37,425 Forumite
    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
    Gazing_On_Sunsets Posts: 342 Forumite
    edited 22 March 2010 at 1:46PM
    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/
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