Friends and Colleagues

David Lally - Singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

Christa Burch - contemporary California Celtic - singer and bodhran player extraordinaire!

The Clay Colton Band - classic and alternative rock.

Brehon Law - Traditional Irish and original rock.

Gregory Page - Singer/songwriter

Patric Petrie with Skelpin - Irish rock infused with flamenco.

Dumitru Lazarescu - Violinist/Composer/Instructor

Carl Prescott - awesome web and graphics design ... and no slouch on jazz trumpet either!

Julianna Waller - Bluegrass to country swing.

Other Fiddlers on the Web

Wikipedia's list of Violinists - a long list of violinists and fiddlers from the Baroque era to modern times. Contains bios and homepage links for some of the music industry's best fiddlers. Also look at the directory of violinists on Violinist.com and FiddleChicks.

And some favorites:

Loreza Ponce * Natalie MacMaster * Darol Anger * Mark O'Connor * Susie Hansen * Elana James * Liz Knowles * Eileen Ivers * Solas * Buddy Spicher

Violin/Fiddle

Fiddler Magazine - on-line informative, educational, and entertaining resource for fiddlers, accompanists, and appreciative listeners.

Bowed Electricity - a comprehensive site covering the electric violin.

Jazz Strings

Violin and Bow Makers Homepages

Hans Johannsson's guide to violin care and maintenance

The Electric Violin Shop

Sheet Music, MIDI Files, Charts, & Lyrics

Ceolas: The Fiddler's Companion An online database of over 50000 fiddle (violin) tunes from the Celtic, British and American traditions, by Andrew Kuntz. Search the tunes database.

Henrik Norbeck's Abc Tunes - An extensive searchable database of Irish and Swedish tunes in ABC file format.

The Session - A collection of Irish traditional tunes in abc and GIF formats contributed by members.

Harmony Central: Guitar: Tablature - Intro to tablature, search the OLGA tab database, and links to other tablature databases.

OLGA - the Online Guitar Archive - archive of guitar tab (tablature) and crd (chord) files.

RAMA - The Royal Academy of Music Archive. Mostly classical works. Sheet music downloads.

Lyrics and Songs Database

Irish Folk Songs - A collection of Irish and other folk song lyrics.

Software Applications

Music Software - The Shareware Music Machine

Sibelius - Professional scoring software for composers.

Cakewalk - Sequencing software for your home/professional studio. (Cakewalk Forum)

Steinberg Cubase - Music production software (Cubase Forum)

Harmony Centeral Software Pages - All types of music software!

Equipment & Supplies

Just Strings - Musical instrument string superstore.

Zeta Music Systems, Inc. Home Page

ROLAND U.S.

zZounds - Music equipment and supplies

Theory/Music Education/General

Electronic Music Interactive - from the University of Oregon. An online electronic music course.

Jazz Tutorials - Online jazz education - theory, improvizing, arranging - from Pete Thomas.

Harmony Central - The Internet Resource for Musicians