Favorite Links

Music

The Association of North Country Fiddlers of Northern New York State, USA: The Official Website for Old-Time Fiddle Music in Northern N.Y.

The Bernstein-Bard Trio: An acoustic trio of mandolin, guitar, and bass playing a variety of styles including swing (Ellington), Latin and Tango (Jobim, Bizet) and traditional and popular melodies (Sting, Simon Grisman, Garcia). Their new cd features Jay Ungar, Peter Davis, Steve Gorn, and Brian Melick.

Bernunzio Vintage Instruments

Cajun & Zydeco Radio

Cajun UK

CajunZydecoNet

Cascade Zydeco

Center for American Music

Festival International: Festival International de Louisiane is a FREE family event celebrating the French cultural heritage of southern Louisiana - primarily a combination of French, African, Caribbean and Hispanic influences.

FestivalTrek.com

Fiddle Discussion Board: A collection of individual forums to discuss all things related to the fiddle and the violin.

Fiddle Farmers: Everything you always wanted to know about fiddling but were afraid to ask.

fidl Ventures: Website of 5-time National Fiddle Champion Tony Ludiker. Home to fidl Press (fiddling instruction books/tapes), Northwest Fiddle Contest schedule, Ludiker Fiddle Camp, and the Tony & Darin Fiddle Contest.

Folk Music Home Page

Folk MusicWeb Pages: The Fortissimo Web project provides web space and design services to folk artists, clubs and festivals at no cost.

Folk Music Society of NY: The Folk Music Society of New York, Inc. / New York Pinewoods Folk Music Club runs concerts, weekends, classes, singing parties, and get-togethers, all with an emphasis on traditional folk music of all flavors.

folkmusic.org: Offers information about artists and venues, resources for musicians and lists pointers to other folk-related World Wide Web and Internet information.

Fret 'n Fiddle - Joe Dobbs: "Music From the Mountains" radio show in West Virginia.

Hawkesbury National Fiddle Festival (Aust)

Homespun Occasions

I Hear America Singing/PBS Great Performances: A Program that Jay & Molly appeared on. Great Site! Pictures from the show, sound clips and reference material.

Let's Zydeco!

David Levine Workshops: Information on publications and workshops for students, parents and staff in school systems and communities on social skills, reducing risk and building resiliency.

Louisiana Folk Roots: Dewey Balfa helped Jay & Molly establish Ashokan's Cajun program at Southern Week in the 1980s. Christine and Dirk met at Ashokan in the 90s and Jay & Molly were privileged to be involved with the first Dewey Balfa Cajun & Creole Heritage Week in 1999.

Ludikermusic.com: Home to KimDem Publishing and RainBows violin bows.

National Public Radio: NPR serves nearly 20 million listeners weekly via more than 680 NPR member stations. NPR also distributes programming to listeners in Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa via NPR Worldwide, to military installations overseas via American Forces Network, and throughout Japan via cable.

Native Ground Music: Native Ground Music publishes books, cassetes and CD's focusing on different musical genres of the 19th century to include railroad, Civil War, cowboy, pioneer, nature, children and more.

Old-Time Fiddle Festival: 3 Stages of Old-Time, Irish, Bluegrass, Blues, Contradancing, English Country Dance, Ceili, Clogging, and Sing-alongs.

Old Time Herald

The Online Music School: Featuring the music of master fiddle player and fiddle maker Jim McKillop in Video/DVD and CDs.

Orangeville Fiddle and Step Dance Camp

The Portland Collection Homepage: Internet home of "The Portland Collection" book, available on our Books page.

Prairie Home Companion - Garrison Keillor

Rocky Mountain Fiddle Camp

SF Bayou

Sheet Music Online: Find all your favorite sheet music. Musical instruments at low prices!

Spencertown Academy

SummerSongs: Explore all aspects of songwriting, music, singing & the music business at this Summer Songwriting Camp!

WAMC Radio: Northeast Public Radio Station in Albany, NY. It is now 'broadcasting' on internet radio via RealAudio. You can listen right now if you have RealAudio.

Writing Fiddle Tunes

Music Production

Hudson Valley Weddings: On-line Wedding Resource for Information & Services.

Nevessa Production: Recording studio where Jay & Molly's album "The Lover's Waltz" was recorded.

Oasis CD Duplication: A Musician's Guide to CD & Cassette Duplication & Promotion.

Vincitore's Pianos & Organs

Watch City Arts: A producer of fine folk music concerts in the Greater Boston area.

Dancing

Ballroomdances.org: The primary site for ballroom dance information in Western Massachusetts and the New York Capital District -- featuring a calendar of dances in the area, lists of instructors, and links to other ballroom dance information on the Internet. Updated weekly or more often.

CLOG, Inc

Country Dance New York: English Country and Contra dancing at Metropolitan Duane Hall.

Dance Flurry: A festival of music and dance held yearly in February in beautiful and historic Saratoga Springs, New York.

DanceSpots Network: Locate Dance Spots and Teachers throughout the US & Canada!

FeatherSite: Dancing and Chickens!

Gerry & Chuck's Square Dance Homepage

got2lindy.com

Hoedown Productions: Your source for country, folk, and western entertainment.

The Lindy Library: A collection of Lindy Hop steps.

The National & New England Swing Dance Server: Everything swing including the National Swing Dance Calendar, Teacher Directory, Partner Network, Classified Ads, Discussion Forums, music recommendations and more.

Time2dance.com: Your information resource for dancing in the Delaware Valley.

Tompkins County Country Dances: Information about the Tompkins County Country Dances in Ithaca, NY as well as other very interesting links.

Victoria's Revenge Dancefest: Spring contra dance weekend in Cape May, NJ (May 11 & 12, 2001) and American Buffalo Fall dance weekend at Buffalo Gap, WV (Sept. 14-16, 2001).

Yehoodi.com: Yehoodi is a website for the hardcore lindyhopper with the intent of fostering the community online and off. Founded in Sept 1998 by Manu Smith and Frank Dellario, it is now managed by a volunteer staff of over six administrators (Yehoodistrators) and various technical advisors covering news, calendar events, a discussion board, a biweekly talk show and a 24/7 internet radio show.

Civil War

The Civil War Home Page

Gettysburg College Civil War Institute

Guide to the Civil War

Ashokan

Western & Swing Week Pictures: New York Swing Dance Server, includes photos of Western & Swing Week by Carlos Cardona.

Southern Week Pictures: George Touchstone has put up some wonderful pictures he took at Southern Week.

Ted Crane's Northern Week Pages: Ted's pictures from Northern Week.

Thomas Locker: Award winning painter and author. Painter of the cover art for our CD "The Catskill Collection."

Buy CDs

Amazon.com: Online warehouse of books and music CD's, including several by Jay & Molly.

CDNOW: Online discount music warehouse offering over 300,000 titles by over 50,000 artists, including several by Jay & Molly.

Public Radio Music Source: You can get most of our recordings and many others from them online.

Regional - Hudson Valley, NY

catskillart.net: Catskill History, Art Reproductions, Original Artwork, and Regional Interest.

History and Culture

PBS American Experience: Ulysses S. Grant

Tradition Magazine: Tradition is a quarterly magazine featuring mainly British traditions & customs; music, song & dance; history, myth & legend, with worldwide CD reviews and listings of festivals and diary dates.

Musicians / Bands

Claudine Arcand

Balfa Toujours: Traditional Cajun band from Southwest Louisiana whose goal is to carry on in the footsteps of their mentors, the Balfa Brothers.

The Blue Rays

David Bromberg

Catskill Cajun Band: Bringing Cajun, swing and Zydeco music to dancers and traditional music lovers up and down the Hudson Valley.

Chanka Chank: A Cajun/Zydeco Band from Rochester, NY.

Charivari

Judy Collins: Send e-mail directly to Judy, talk with her fans, learn about Judy Collins' work with UNICEF, check out Judy's discography and more.

John Doan: National touring and recording artist.

Steve Gorn: World respected bansuri master.

The Grateful Dead

Lloyd Green: Pedal steel legend Lloyd Green's new CD featuring Ashokan Farewell.

Nanci Griffith

GROOVEMONGERS: Our repertoire reflects diverse musical interests and includes New England, Southern, French Canadian, Celtic, Klezmer, and ragtime, as well as original tunes.

Thomas Hampson: Hailed as the leading baritone of his generation, he has been recognized for his versatility and breadth of achievement in opera, song, recording, research and pedagogy.

Lyn Hardy

John Hartford: His unique combination of bluegrass, folk, country, and old-time music is chronicled in his complete discography.

Donna Hébert: Franco-American fiddler and singer, fiddle workshop leader and teacher, contradance musician.

Priscilla Herdman: New York-based interpreter of a wide variety of contemporary songwriters.

Susan Kevra: Contra and square dance caller.

John Kirk and Trish Miller: John Kirk and Trish Miller travel the US and abroad and play traditional and original stringband music.

Cleo Laine and John Dankworth

Laurie Lewis: During the past two decades, the Berkeley, California-based band leader/singer/songwriter/fiddler/guitarist/bass player has quietly established herself as one of the finest, most diversely talented artists in traditional music.

The Mammals

Laurel Massé

Marley's Ghost Home Page

Margaret Mathews

Kathy Mattea

Mary McCaslin: Known for her songs about the West, its landscape, and its outlaws as well as her insightful songs about relationships, Mary has influenced countless other performers..

L.E. McCullough: Irish Tinwhistle, Flute, Etc. - Prize-winning performer, composer and producer, L.E. McCullough plays on several of Jay and Molly's recordings including Lovers' Waltz. Also played on the PBS soundtracks for Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery (RCA) and The West (Sony Classical).

Kate & Anna McGarrigle: Singers, musicians and songwriters of international reputation. They have performed to critical and popular acclaim throughout North America, Europe and the Far East.

Victor Mecyssne: Singer & songwriter.

Abby Newton / Celtic Crossing: A cellist who specializes in traditional Scottish music.

Cindy Overstreet: Has been teaching & performing swing dancing for over 10 years.

Stacy Phillips: Plays dobro and violin and has written many books on various aspects of these instruments.

Popcorn Behavior: These Vermont youngsters evoke a passionate whirlwind tour of various world styles from upstream traditional folk to downtown jazz.

Bonnie Raitt

Jean Redpath: Jean Redpath's website contains the traditional Scottish performer's biography, index of recordings,audio samples, order forms and booking information.

Jean Ritchie

Leslie Ritter and Scott Petito

Peter Schickele

John Sebastian: The place for all John Sebastian fans from Lovin' Spoonful to Welcome Back Kotter on to The J-Band.

Siren Songs: Singer and guitarist John Hall (of the band Orleans) and his songwriting partner Johanna Hall have a new record coming out. They have written songs for artists ranging from Ricky Skaggs to Bobby McFerrin, from Janis Joplin to Bonnie Raitt, from the Oak Ridge Boys to Chaka Khan.

Swingadelic

Thirty Below: Quebec Traditional & Folk Music Site.

Butch Thompson: The official website of jazz pianist Butch Thompson. You'll find many pages of resources for presenters and fans alike.

Artie Traum: Folksinger-instrumentalist Artie Traum is considered one of the premier guitar players today. In performance, teaching workshops for Taylor Guitars, or producing albums, he is a legend in the world of music.

Vananver Caravan: Their concerts include music, song and some dance, with the artistry and dynamism for which their company is known. Bill and Livia perform as a duo and also offer solo concerts.

Glenn Weiser: Fingerstyle guitarist and harmonica player who performs Celtic music and country blues. Free Celtic fingerstyle guitar and harmonica tab, and information about his Celtic guitar and harmonica books.

John Whelan

Wild Asparagus: A five-person band from Western Massachusetts. Drawing upon music from New England, the British Isles, and Canada, as well as classical sources.

Dar Williams

Last modified: January 05, 2011

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