Tucson Irish Seisun

Tucson organization	Tucson Friends of Traditional Music (official sponsor of the TFTM Slow Jam, the Rincon Session, and a wide range of jam and concert events.)
Session (Seisiun) Links (recordings of sessions with sheet music for you to play along with)
session	Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eirann online session (midi and abc)
session	BBC Virtual Session (real players and sheet music to play along!)
Digital recording equipment
guide	Vermont Folklife Center's Audio Field Recording Equipment Guide offers a user-friendly, wide ranging view of portable recording equipment options (doesn't include iPod options at this writing)
ipod add-ons	iPod Video: The video Ipod (5g) can be used for CD quality recording, we've tried Micromemo and the Griffin iTalkPro with good success. Reviews of each can be found at Griffih iTalkPro and Micromemo at the iLounge. iPod Photo: linux hack for the previous generation of ipods (photo, 4g) iPod Nano: Cd quality recording for the nano by Micromemo
Software - Here are some resources for working with music tracks and streaming audio
pc, mac, linux	Audacity, great and FREE, fully-functional multi-track recorder and audio editor, can be used to slow down music files holding the pitch constant!
pc and mac	Transcribe! allows you to slow tunes down and conserve original pitch among other neat things. Free 30 day demo
pc and mac	Amazing Slower Downer, similar to Transcribe but costs less/does less PC
	Noteworthy Composer, PC composition-lets you create sheet music and play it back
pc	Replay Radio for capturing streaming radio.
all	Hitsquad Musician Network: Big collection of shareware aimed at musicians, includes many slow down and sound file edition options.
Discographies and Reviews
reviews/discographies	The Irish Music Review - reputed to be the most extensive resource of it's type. new link
Sheet music, ABC, and/or tablature and/or midi files
Irish & related	www.thesession.org fantastic repository of Irish and other celtic traditional tunes (sheet, abc, midi, discussion, and discographies
tune collection	Irishtune.info - Alan Ng's Irish Traditional Music Tune Index. "Alan Ng's Tunography"
mixed, incl. Irish	http://www.ibiblio.org/folkindex The Folk Music Index
mixed, incl. Irish	TUNEdb, a database of traditional tunes in ABC format (can be played with ABCwin above
Irish	http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tunefind JC's ABC Tune Match [tunefind] on trillian.mit.edu - great collection - Plus anything in ABC format can be played as a midi sound file (see software below OR online at http://www.concertina.net/tunes_convert.html
abc Irish & related	abc standards, tutorials, and huge tune index http://www.walshaw.plus.com/abc/index/wwabc.html
fife & drum	fife and drum tunes (sheet music) should you feel like a wee march before before breakfast
celtic collections	Ceolas, a collection of links to tunes, sheets, abc, midi etc for celtic tunes. includes Fiddler's Companion, annotated database with ABCs and over 30,000 entries. Great source for research the provenance of tunes. Don't miss the links by instrument!
"folk music" -	Mudcat Cafe... see especially link to links and more. excellent for tracking down folksongs
celtic gone old-timey	Digital Library of Appalachia, loads of info including sound files - fascinating to hear how Scottish and ITM tunes "crossed over" into this region via the Ulster Scots (aka Scotch-Irish) in the eighteenth century.
Music and ABC Notation software resources
pc only	Noteworthy Composer, PC composition-lets you create sheet music and play it back
MAC	Barfly pretty good abc editor/player/converter for the Mac
pc	ABCwin shareware program that plays ABC notation
Streaming audio and video
trad & world	BBC Radio Player at http://www.bbc.co.uk has links to a HUGE number of trad music stations. Just select "Folk and Country" to see the selection.
guess what	LiveIreland.com - radio, music and "shopping"
Irish video(!)	Coimhaltas Live TV style audio-video programmes by subscription.
Irish	ClareFM, County Clare radio archives on a weekly basis, Also a TRAD podcast
videos	YouTube, I wouldn't want to spoil the fun of discovery, just search on Irish traditional music, Irish fiddling, and various such terms (also Scottish) and see what's there. (hint, great vintage footage from RTE and a video of the Bothy Band that looks so young ya'd weep.
Irish	Céilí House, famous radio show, not to be missed.
Irish trad music radio shows RTE Radio 1	Ceili House, Failte Isteach, The Late Session (tip: Replay Radio is software that will let you can record streaming radio) and http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~rauch/celticradio/ for a list of even more celtic programmiing on the Internet.
Trad music labels (among the many with loads of free downloads) and related resources
record label	Rounder Records, famous trad music label, many freebies at their site
record label	Shanachie Records
record label	Green Linnet famous celtic record label home to some of the greats!
record seller and ITM scholar	Celtic Grooves - Philippe Varlet's great resource... he can find it for you!
record seller	http://www.musicscotland.com/ Great place to find Irish and Scottish recordings
record seller	http://www.veteran.co.uk/ great ITM recordings on harder to find labels such as Ossian, Veteran's, Gael-Linn, and many more.
By instrument, misc (under construction, send your recommendations to the webmaster)
tin whistle pennywhistle	http://www.chiffandfipple.com/ Chiff and Fipple, THE tin whisle/pennywhistle site.
uilleann pipes	http://www.uilleannobsession.com/
banjo world	ezFolk.com Lose your tuner?.. here's an online electronic tuner page for banjos and links to clawhammer tutorials, mp3, etc.
small pipes	Smallpiper Audio Tutorial site
whistle & flute	http://www.rogermillington.com/tunetoc/index.html - transcriptions and mp3s of famous Irish players
Subscriptions to online newletters
Celtic MP3s	"Celtic MP3s Music Magazine" is a weekly publication by Bard Marc Gunn of the Brobdingnagian Bards, The Original Celtic Renaissance.
AZ Irish	Arizona Irish Music Society (signup to subscribe to newsletter and events calendar)

Ceili House, Failte Isteach, The Late Session (tip: Replay Radio is software that will let you can record streaming radio) and http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~rauch/celticradio/ for a list of even more celtic programmiing on the Internet.