Links

How to Be Your Own Booking Agent: The Musician's & Performing Artist's Guide to Successful Touring by Jeri Goldstein.

A highly recommended book for musicians making income from performing.

Good articles here: http://www.performingbiz.com/?content=articles

 Local Musician's Websites

Bucket of Shrimp Ears

Cass Marie and the Black Feather Band

Zoe Chilco

 

Folk Music Organisations

The Woods Music and Dance Camp  August 11 - 16, 2010

Ontario Council of Folk Festivals  Check this site for the schedule of festivals

Folk Under the Clock (Peterborough)

Hugh's Room (Club in Toronto that specialises in folk performers)

Live@Jives  (Orillia and area)  Jennifer Ives' website. She maintains a comprehensive calendar of local folk events.

Green Bank Folk Music Society  (Green Bank  ON)

Renée's Café (South River ON)

Orillia Folk Society

The Canadian Guitar Festival

Penguin Eggs Magazine  ( A great bi-monthly publication on all music that forgoes distortion)

The Canadian Folk Music Awards

Northern Journey Folk Music (Gene Wilbur's website....has a great list of resources including a list of Canadian Folk Festival websites)

Fiddle Farmers  Everything you always wanted to know about fiddling but were afraid to ask

 

Folk Music on the internet

CBC Radio on the internet or http://www.cbc.ca/listen/index.html#

CBC Concerts on Demand

Folk Alley FolkAlley.com is a listener supported 24-hour, online music service featuring folk, traditional, Americana, Celtic, singer/songwriter, world, and acoustic music.

Hober Presenting a cornucopia of unvarnished music from around the world!

Sunday Coffee House  A weekly radio program hosted by Greg Schatzmann, featuring music from the genres of folk, acoustic, singer-songwriter, Celtic, roots and beyond.

                                            Also on Canoe-FM (100.9), Haliburton, Ontario, Sundays 11:00am.