Links

Below are lots of links to other Comhaltas branches, magazines, music sites and local websites.

Comhaltas

www.comhaltas.ie (the official Comhaltas site with links to branches all over the world and recordings)

http://comhaltas.ie/music (Includes ComhaltasLive video programmes highlighting some of the best contemporary players)

http://www.comhaltas.co.uk/ (Comhaltas in Britain)

CCE North America

http://comhaltas.ie/music/treoir (Treoir, the Comhaltas quarterly magazine)

www.fleadh2009.com (2009 All-Ireland Fleadh)

Music

www.thesession.org (great site with thousands of tunes- traditional and new, plus discussions, sessions, recordings lists)

bbc.co.uk/radio Virtual Session (BBC site where you can play standard session tunes along with musicians such as Mike McGoldrick at your own speed)

http://www.harp.net/ (this site contains links to festivals, summer schools and magazines)

www.ceolupnorth.co.uk/ Irish Traditional Music in NW England

www.tinwhistletunes.com/clipssnip/index.htm

www.tradlessons.com

Music Shops Specialising in Traditional Music

www.pjmusic.co.uk

www.hobgoblin.com

www.the-music-room.com

www.eaglemusicshop.com

www.bigwhistle.co.uk (for all the whistles you’ll ever need or want!)

www.howardmusic.co.uk (Sheffield-based Uilleann pipe and whistle maker)

Phil Bleazey (Irish flute, whistle and recorder maker based in the Nottingham area)

www.concertina.co.uk (Barleycorn Concertinas “almost certainly the largest selection in the world”)

Local

http://www.btinternet.com/~troubleatmill/ (contains a what’s on? section with folk/traditional music events within an hour’s drive of Preston)

http://www.uclan.ac.uk/guide2/preston/index.htm (University of Central Lancashire)

www.visitpreston.com (tourist information)