Links

Music

Yorkshire Concertina Club
Croppers Folk Club
Traditional Music - Nigel Gatherer's Traditional Music Pages
http://www.barndancenorth.co.uk/
www.tradheads.com New Irish Traditional Music site
www.boghill.com/Workshops.htm (for traditional Irish music workshop information).

Teachers

Jim Halsall: guitar-lessons

Instruments

Pickard Acoustics- Handbuilt Guitars and other Musical Instruments
Stanford Custom Guitars
Mandolin.org.uk - Resources for Mandolin Players: A great site for everything mandolin related.
Mr Violin
Concertina by Lachanel
Banjo by Helmut Rheigans
Bouzouki by Colin Kendal
Ron Darnbrough
Fiddle and Alternative Strings Community

Musicians/Bands

Crosscut Saw "Leeds' finest exponents of the blues" Yorkshire Evening Post
Ben Walker - Uilleann Piper, Multi-instrumentalist Singer/Songwriter
Robin Garside's - Art site
Mat Walklate - professional musician and music teacher
Tim Edey
John Bullard
Paraffin Ceilidhs - Barn Dances and Ceilidhs.

Festivals

http://www.naturalearmusic.com/
Sheply Festival
Shrewsbury Folk Festival

General

Entertainment in Shropshire
http://www.platypusproductions.co.uk/
http://www.clanconnelly.com/
http://www.searchmonster.org/
http://www.arabland.com/webdir/index.php/Arts/Music/Instruments/Stringed/Banjo/
http://www.jazar-music.com/directory/Instruments/Stringed/Banjo/
http://www.realfreesite.com/webdir/index.php?browse=/Arts/Music/Instruments/Stringed/Banjo/
http://www.barrel.demon.co.uk
The Irish Arts Foundation
Irish History Month
ezFolk.com
ABizDirectory.com