The Tara's Thistle links page



In 2005 Tara's Thistle was voted into the CONNTours Directory of Performing Artists, funded by the State of Connecticut's Commission on Culture and Tourism. Click here to link to their CCT listing. Your non-profit organization may receive in one fiscal year a matching grant from the State of Connecticut to host a concert by Tara's Thistle and another of the 244 CONNTours musical, dance, or storytelling ensembles. Click here for CONNTours applications.



LINKS to some ON-LINE MUSIC CALENDARS

Here is a great calendar listing all Celtic concerts with 100 miles of the Boston area.

FolkNotes is one of the most comprehensive calendars in our area encompassing all folk music. It is a monthly newletter of the Sounding Board Coffeehouse in West Hartford.

All genres of music are included in Musi-Cal, which is nationwide.



Some NEW LINKS


Click here for the WORLD'S BEST LOW D WHISTLE and for a series of great session books from Scotland. Merlin Music on Easdale Island off Oban publishes the best modern series of session books I've ever seen.

Here is a great source for wonderful photographs of Northern Ireland.


Here is BBC Scotland, both TV and radio. The evening TV news is live-streamed daily, and traditional music shows on radio include "Traveling Folk" on Thursdays, 2-5, and "Pipeline" on Saturdays at 3pm.

Both of our albums From There to Here and Crossroads Ceilidh are now available on-line through eFolkMusic.com, which also offers some free sound bits and Mp3 downloads. Click here to go to eFolkMusic.com

If you want a great tailor-made kilt, then click here for Ann Steward of Catskill,NY.

Here is a copy of Bruce's article "Folk Music in Scotland and Ireland Today," published in The Celtic Beat.

SCRAN is a huge Scottish database, drawing on archives from many museums, galleries, libraries, and universitites.

Here is the newspaper The Dublin Times on-line. It links to other Irish newspapers.

Here is the newspaper The Scotsman on-line. It's one of Scotland's oldest, beginning in 1817.

Scotland's oldest newspaper is the Aberdeen Journal, 1749. I am grateful to Alan Cameron of Aberdeen for pointing this out to me.

I am grateful to Alan Cameron of Aberdeen also for this meta-link to various Scottish newspapers.

When we visited the Burren in Ireland we had the world's best smoked salmon at the Burren Smokehouse. Click here to order on-line.

While in Edinburgh I bought a wonderful flute made by George Ormiston. Here's his website.

The Piping Centre in Glasgow has an impressive museum and on-line shop.

Coda Music in Edinburgh sells CD's of traditional music over the internet.

Balnain House in Inverness is a center for traditional Scottish music. Their book store has a wonderful collection of sheet music and CD's, which you may order through their catalog.

Want the phone number of someone in the UK? Here's BT's phonebook!

Here is my article "Folk Music in Scotland and Ireland Today," published in the Celtic Beat.


Our OLD FAVORITES

The Sir Harry Lauder website.

Click here to take a photo tour of Ireland and Scotland.

St. Andrews Society of Rhode Island, which links to other Scottish societies.
Clan MacKenzie's website links to many other clan and Scottish societies.

Where to Hear Celtic Music Live. This is Ceolas webpage.
This is the website of Celtic Beat, a great Celtic music calendar and magazine.
Music and Entertainers.
Here's the website of Katharsis, a great new Celtic band, whose piper is Nate Silva.
Live Music in Scotland.
A Guide to the Irish Flute.
A Website for the Bodhran, the Irish Drum.
Northumbrian Small Pipes and links into the Bagpipe Web.
The Eastern US Pipe Band Association has a great website with yellow pages.
This is Murray Henderson's website, who makes great bagpipe reeds in Kirriemuir, Scotland.

Need a piper in your locale? This links to Bagpiper Central.

The Tam O'Shanter Games in Easton, MA.
Glasgow Lands Scottish Festival, which links to many Scottish websites.
Scottish and Celtic Games Listings.

Lark in the Morning, Inc. for musical instruments and recordings.

IrishNet links to Irish groups, businesses, and resources in the USA.
The Irish Tourist Board's Award-winning Website.
The House of Ireland - merchandise and some great links
Treasure Ireland is a new store in California.
When we visited the Burren in Ireland we had the world's best smoked salmon at the Burren Smokehouse. Click here to order on-line.
Best of Ireland
The Eirepages
Irish Web Server Map
IRLnet
Click here for the website for Irish Books and Media, Inc., the oldest Irish bookstore in the USA, which is in Minneapolis.


Every Celtic Thing on the Web.
CD Universe is a great way to order albums over the internet.
Here is a website for ordering Scottish music.
Here is a website from which to order sheet music.
Green Linnet Records, an excellent publisher of Celtic music.
Rounder Records, an excellent publisher of Celtic music.
Greentrax Records, an excelelnt publisher of Celtic music.
This website for Winnipeg's radio program Prairie Ceilidh (hosted by Lyle Skinner) links to many Celtic musicians.



This links to all Principle Scottish WWW Servers, including Scotland Online, Electronic Scotland, and Scotland Org.
Scoot is a good search engine for businesses in the UK.

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