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Arts Music Styles F Folk
The term Folk Music has come to encompass a wide variety of styles, traditional and contemporary, based mainly on the musical roots and traditions of Europe. It includes:
  • Regional and ethnic traditional musics of the continent, performed by people for and within their own community, passed on and evolving through live performance.
  • Recorded collections of the aural tradition.
  • Composed songs and music which have become so well known that they can be said to have "entered the tradition," and are evolving through repeated performance.
  • Interpretations of the tradition, using different vocal styles and instrumentation.
  • Maintainers and interpreters of European traditional musics in diaspora communities of North America and Australasia.
    • Since the 1960s folk revival, particularly in North America, the UK, and Australasia, it has also come to include music of singer-songwriters, who sing their own (usually personal and introspective) material, with no direct connection to the original folk tradition other than style of performance.
You are welcome to submit English language sites for Folk Bands and Artists who have a substantial international presence or influence; we will only list sites which demonstrate substantial international touring and recording histories, or a seminal influence in the development of the genre of Folk Music.

Please consider whether your submission would be more appropriate in a national category, or in a locality; submitting a site inappropriately will lead to delays in your site being listed.

Bands and Artists

Folk bands and artists.
You are welcome to submit English language sites for Folk Bands and Artists who have a substantial international presence or influence; we will only list sites which demonstrate substantial international touring and recording histories, or a seminal influence in the development of the genre of Folk Music.

Please consider whether your submission would be more appropriate in a national category, or in a locality; submitting a site inappropriately will lead to delays in your site being listed.

Clubs and Venues

International and National directories of Folk Clubs and Venues.
Please submit national or international directories of Folk Clubs and venues. Listings for smaller areas, or for individual clubs should be listed in an appropriate locality.

Thank you.

Education

For websites offering tuition, classes, camps, or other activities training folk musicians and performers.

Filk

Filk is music about SF or SF fandom or is music sung by those interested in filk. It can be original music, lyrics written to existing music, or musical settings for existing text.
Sites that are not in English should be submitted to the appropriate category under World.

Resources

Collections of tunes in MIDI format should be submitted to Arts: Music: Sound Files: MIDI: Folk.

Sea Shanties

For general websites about Sea Shanties. Websites for performers in this genre should be submitted to the Bands and Artists subcategory. Thank you.
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