Czech banjo player Jiri Markalous wanted a better way to practice banjo. He was suffering from the monotony of the metronome; sitting in front of a metronome for hours was simply a pain. It’s a common complaint among average musicians. … Continue reading →
The English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) has been given a grant to create “the world’s biggest online portal of English folk music, song and dance manuscripts,” according to their news feed. The grant, awarded by the Heritage Lottery … Continue reading →
The English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) received £585,400 in funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to archive, conserve, and digitize material from six different archives containing some of the country’s most important folk music collections. The project … Continue reading →
Alan Lomax envisioned his collected fieldwork culminating into an amalgam of traditions, a sort of “global jukebox” available to the masses to learn from and enjoy. Finally, Lomax’s vision is palpable, thanks to technological advancements in online archiving. Today, what … Continue reading →
The International Bluegrass Music Association is overhauling much of its online content in order to create Bluegrass Nation, an online community for bluegrass lovers around the world. Here’s a list of plans IBMA has set forth as the new service’s … Continue reading →
The Gibson Guitar iPhone App has become one of the most popular free apps via the Apple iTunes store and has been downloaded over a staggering one-million times by fans worldwide, cementing Gibson’s reputation as the industry’s leader in innovation … Continue reading →
An exhibit of about 30 photos by Raeburn “Ray” Flerlage is underway at Alumni House at the University of Chicago from today until Sunday, June 7. The images are of performers from the first decade of the University of Chicago … Continue reading →
Performing Songwriter‘s June 2009 issue, sent to subscribers and newsstands this week and featuring Pink on the cover, will be the final edition of the 16-year-old publication, Editor & Publisher Lydia Hutchinson announced today. “As sad as change and letting … Continue reading →
Stanton Studio, LLC is pleased to announce the release of ToneTune 1.1, available on the iPhone App Store (http://itunes.com/appstore/tune). ToneTune is a multiple tuning fork that helps you tune the strings on your stringed instrument to the correct pitch by … Continue reading →
On March 1st, 2008, Sing Out! launched a new, folk-news centric news service blog. Built with the same philosophy used for our printed news column “What’s Happening,” the new service will be available through the Sing Out! web site, as … Continue reading →
