Links to other websites

A selection which will lead you on to all sorts of other discoveries!

Veteran Mail Order Our sister organisation specialises in recordings of English, Irish and Scottish traditional performers.

Suffolk Folk Regularly updated events diary for Suffolk and beyond. Publishers of Mardles magazine four times a year.

Essex Folk Association Regularly updated events diary for Essex and beyond. Publishers of EFN magazine four times a year.

Peterborough Folk Diary Regularly updated events diary for Cambridgeshire and beyond.

King's Lynn Waits perform traditional music from a more ancient time, and run occasional workshops.

The Folk and Roots website has folk club listings and other information for the eastern counties.

English Folk Dance and Song Society The long-established national organisation for folk music, includes the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, the biggest archive of folk music in the country. Also publishes books and recordings.

Folk Arts England is the national umbrella organisation for folk development, which includes Shooting Roots (youth events at festivals), Direct Roots (invaluable resource for contacts), the Association of Festival Organisers which provides information for music festivals and runs an annual conference and the The Folk Arts Network which runs conferences and training events for people involved in folk arts development work.

Regional members of the Folk Arts Network include Folkworks in the north east, Folk South West, the Wren Trust in Devon, Yorkshire Folk Arts, Ryburn Three Step and Yorkshire Dales Workshops in Yorkshire, South East Folk Arts Network, TAPS in the mid south, Folkus in the north west. In the east, there's us, the East Anglian Traditional Music Trust!

Musical Traditions Internet magazine with masses of articles including Keith Summers' survey of traditional music in east Suffolk in the 1970s, Sing Say or Pay. Own recording label featuring several recordings from the region.

Folk Archive Resource North East  A treasure trove of music and information about the traditions of north east England.

Devon Squeezebox Foundation Runs events and hires instruments for those of you too far west for us!

Wesson Accordions Supplier of hire melodeons to the East Anglian Traditional Music Trust, and specialist supplier of new and used melodeons.

Thrift Music  Essex-based folk music instrument suppliers.

Jollybox Northampton based instrument suppliers specialising in melodeons. Also repairs and tuning. Supplier of hire concertinas to EATMT.

Music Room Folk music instruments and accessories.

Hobgoblin  Folk music instruments and accessories.

Dave Mallinson stocks a wide range of books and tutors on his website.

Hedingham Fair stock books on traditional song, dance and music and folklore, as well as a distinctive range of greeting cards and t-shirts on folk music themes.

Museum of East Anglian Life The venue for our Traditional Music Day, an outdoor museum with buildings including mills, barns and farmhouses, and displays featuring steam engines, domestic life and agricultural customs.

The Village Music Project is home to manuscripts of music from all over the country, and the Traditional Song Forum hosts discussions on folksong.