Nifty Music Sources

Search for Concerts

- searchable online calendar.

The Musi-Cal listings for Chicago

Or, search Musi-Cal for anything:

Or, search on

Show and Gig Listings (mostly for the Chicago / Illinois area (what do you expect? I'm geographically biased!)

• City of Chicago Mosaic - information on City services and upcoming events, including neighborhood festivals (you just have to poke around a bit, searching for keyword music)
  
• The Chicago Reader Events Lists (Chicago Reader is one of the local free papers)
• The Chicago Reader's music section Online
  
• Chicago Centerstage Music
• DIRTY LINEN (a magazine about folk / celtic / acoustic music) Magazine's Gig List for ILLINOIS
  OR
  Live dangerously & search DIRTY LINEN magazine's overall Events/Festivals Listing

Great General Resources:

• Ceolas Celtic music archives
• Deb's Index of Music Links - great starting point for a variety of music
• The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music (what's an Ectophile?? check this out and find out !)
• Harmony Ridge Music (spotlighting women musicians) promotion information
• Internet Underground Music Archive (IUMA)
• Irish Music Box
• The Singer-Songwriter Directory
• (National Online Music Alliance) - hosts a variety of musicians, including Susan Werner, Janis Ian...

Looking for Lyrics? Guitar Tabs?

Lyrics

• The Digital Tradition - lyrics in the public domain
• Lyrics via LEO - Link Everything Online
• International Lyrics Server

Guitar Tabs

• OLGA: Online Guitar Archives

Magazines? CDs? Instruments? LPs?

Magazines

• Dirty Linen Magazine
• Folk Roots
• HOT PRESS on the 'net (Irish music magazine)
• RootsWorld: Music On The Net

CD Stores Online

Search Amazon.com:

Search: Popular Music Classical Music Keywords:

Instruments, Recordings, and More

• Elderly Instruments - acoustic, electric, new and used. In Michigan.
• The Folklife Family Store - Jean Ritchie's online source for her recordings, videos, books, etc.
• - On-Web CD Store and Listening Room
• House of Musical Traditions - great resource in Takoma Park, Maryland
• Hot Platters Online Music Store - all categories of: LPs, 45s, 78s, books, ... and more
• Lark In the Morning
• zZounds - Celtic musical instruments (bagpipes, bodhrans, penny whistles, dulcimers,...), instruments from around the world, music software, synths, free workshops. (in Chicago)

Sound

• RealAudio
• Audionet: The Broadcast Network on the Internet
• DAT-Heads Homepage

PRO's

• ASCAP: American Society of Composers and Publishers - this site includes ACE, their searchable database of performed songs in their repertoire
• BMI
• NMPA
• RIAA: Recording Industry Association of America
• Harry Fox Agency
• Fleming Tamulevich

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