Folk music

MudCat Café
www.mudcat.org
An online magazine for blues and folk music with a lyrics search engine.

Dirty Linen Home Page
www.DirtyLinen.com
The magazine of Folk and World Music offering links and information about performers, events, and news.

Folkmusic
www.folkmusic.org
This is a comprehensive source for folk and acoustic music resources available on the World Wide Web. Includes venues, festivals, and artists.

Kent State Folk Festival
www.kentstatefolkfestival.org
For almost forty years Kent State has hosted the Folk Festival. Concerts, workshops, guest appearances, tickets, and calendar are offered on the site.

Country and Country Western

Country Music Association
www.cmaworld.com
The Association sponsors the CMA Awards and Fan Fair, the world’s biggest country music festival. This site provides links, news, and publications of interest to country music fans.

Country Legends Association
www.clalonestar.com
CLA was formed to promote traditional country, gospel, and bluegrass music. The site offers merchandise, news, a talent agency, magazine, and much, much more of interest to fans.

Branson
www.bransonconnection.com
The popular resort for country music fans is Branson. Branson’s site gives a calendar of events and performances. Here you will learn what’s going on at Branson and be able to make reservations and other visiting arrangements.

Blues

House of the Blues and Funk
www.hob.com
Information about artists, concerts, festivals, tickets are provided. Venues are listed by geographical region, too.

The Blues Foundation
www.blues.org
This site provides news about performers, concerts, awards, and everything “blues.” Many links to blues oriented sites are given. Also included is a Blues Forum for blues fans to discuss and ruminate about the “blues.”

The Blue Highway
www.thebluehighway.com
This site provides a chat room, radio listings, news, links, and archived blues radio broadcasts.

Cajun

Cajun French Music Association
www.cajunfrenchmusic.org
Based in Louisiana, this site hosts a Hall of Fame, a list of Cajun radio stations, a discussion forum, and a list of performing venues and concerts.

Celtic

Central Ohio Celt Page
www.caseweb.com/aoh/celtic.html
This page contains information for many Ohio Scottish and Irish organizations and activities. The contents include information about performing artists and links to many of them.

Latino Music

Latino Music Directory
www.ed.pdx.edu/multi/latinomusic.html
This directory is a general guide to Latino websites. Links for a large variety of Latino music are provided. Anyone interested in Latino music should start here.

All Latino Music
http://alllatinomusic.8k.com
Lots of bios of popular Latino performers. Lots of Mp3 song downloads are available, too. Meeting and chat rooms are available.

Religious music

Christian

CCM Magazine
www.ccmcom.com
This site features Christian oriented media and provides information about performers, recordings, concerts, and news relevant to Christian music. Many links are also given.

Christian Music Place
www.christianmusic.org/cmp
This site provides offers information about Christian artists, recordings, festivals, and help for developing one’s talent. There is also information about Christian music distribution.

Islamic

Islamic Music
www.muhajabah.com/music.htm
At this site one finds links to other websites with Islamic music. With each link given there is a brief description of the type of music. Users may want to use the Figh of Music link, “. . .which contains a brief summary of the Islamic regulations about music and a message to young Muslims.” You will need the Real Audio Player, which can be downloaded from Real Networks, to listen to most of the songs at the various sites.

Jewish

Jewish Music WebCenter
www.jmwc.org
An online forum of academic, organizational, and individual activities in Jewish music. Performers, festivals, societies, and schools that teach Jewish music are listed. A link to the Table of Contents for Musica Judaica, Journal of the American Society for Jewish Music, is provided.

Jewish Music Research Center
www.jewish-music.org
This site is based at the University of Jerusalem and is dedicated to the documentation, research, and publication of Jewish music. The site offers news and events related to Jewish music and offers CD’s of Jewish music for sale. It also offers an extensive Jewish music database that is searchable by country, tradition, style, etc.

Classical

Cleveland Orchestra
www.clevelandorch.com
Tickets, schedules, concerts, and news about the orchestra and its activities can be found at this site. Information from the Concert Program about the music being performed is also available.

Akron Symphony Orchestra
www.akronsymphony.org
Tickets, schedules, concerts, and news about the orchestra and its activities can be found at this site.

Apollo’s Fire
www.apollosfire.org
The website for Cleveland’s premiere Baroque music group offers tickets, schedules, information about tours, and news about forthcoming events and recordings.

Tuesday Musical Club
www.tuesdaymusical.org
Tickets, schedules, and performers are available on the Club’s site. This Akron-based organization presents several well-known classical musicians each year.

Canton Symphony Orchestra
www.cantonsymphony.org
Tickets, schedules, performers and news about the orchestra can be found at this site.

Summit Choral Society
www.summitchoralsociety.org
The Society has been serving Northeast Ohio since 1989, and its site offers information about schedules, concerts, programs, and news of the Society.

Cleveland Opera
www.clevelandopera.org
News about productions, performers, tickets, and opera links are available. Information about the Opera’s education and tour programs is also here.

Metropolitan Opera
www.metopera.org
The Met is America’s leading opera house, and its site offers tickets and information about the season’s productions. Information about performers and a complete schedule is available. Information about Met broadcasts and the stories of the operas are also given.

Cleveland Chamber Music Society
www.clevelandchambermusic.org
Information about the current season, tickets, performers, and news can be found here.

Cleveland Chamber Symphony
www.clevelandchambersymphony.org
The Chamber Symphony, based at Cleveland State, focuses on performing new music. Their site includes concert dates, a list of recordings, and information about the musicians.

Andante.com
www.Andante.com
Get news, reviews, and a calendar of events at this popular site. Almost anything about classical music is here.

ClassicalNet
www.classical.net
Get repertoire lists, CD buying guides and reviews, book recommendations, composer biographies as well as links to other classical music sites.

Choral Public Domain Library
www.cpdl.org
The CPDL has over 4500 choral scores from the Renaissance up to the Romantic period available as downloadable .pdf files. English translations are available for some works. Some special software may be necessary for some of the site’s offerings.

Gilbert & Sullivan Archive Home Page
http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/
The archive is devoted to the operas of Gilbert and Sullivan. The site includes clip art, librettos, plot summaries, photos and pictures, audio files, and a newsletter.

Jazz

Cleveland Jazz Orchestra
www.clevelandjazz.org
The CJO is a professional repertory big band and provides audiences with big band music from the 20’s through contemporary jazz. CD’s, concert schedule, tickets, and more are available.

Cleveland Tri-C JazzFest
www.tricjazzfest.com
The JazzFest is supported by Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C). Festival schedule, tickets and merchandise are provided. Information about the performers is also given.

JazzWeb
www.northwestern.edu/jazz/
A “user-built, volunteer project,” JazzWeb features a strong section on jazz artists (biographies, discographies, reviews) and websites of jazz record labels.

JazzOnline
www.jazzonln.com
Learn about jazz artists, recording information and reviews and get audio and video presentations.

Yahoo Jazz Page
http://dir.yahoo.com/entertainment/music/genres/jazz
A comprehensive listing of links to WebPages of jazz artists and jazz groups.

World Music

International Music
www.unesco.org/imc/
The website for the International Music Council, IMC’s page provides news and information about projects, festivals, and concerts around the world. Many links to ethnic music and performers are provided.

World Music
www.worldmusic.org
This site offers a lot of information about music from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Tickets, venues, concerts and live music from around the world are offered, as well as a mailing list.

Rock

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
www.rockhall.com
The Hall’s website offers a calendar of programs and exhibitions. Information about Inductees is given, as well as a shop and timeline related to Rock ‘n’ Roll.

Ultimate Band List
http://ubl.artistdirect.com
The Ultimate Band List, now called Artist Direct, is a great site for keeping up with what’s going on in the music industry, including music news, band of the week, and even features on various labels. It also offers plenty of links, downloads, chat rooms, message boards, and polls.

Billboard Online
www.billboard.com
The charts, news, and reviews that all music lovers want. Lots of information and links.

MTV Online
www.mtv.com
Music and more music. If it’s to do with popular music, it’s on this site.

Teen Music
http://teenmusic.studentcenter.org
Music-related articles, reviews, chats, and contests. This site covers much more than just music, but its music section is large.

VH1
www.vh1.com
The latest in music, news, and reviews. An extensive number of links and a great source of music related information.

Wedding Music

University of Virginia’s Wedding Music Guide
www.lib.virginia.edu/MusicLib/guides/wedding.html
Listen to excerpts of wedding music, find suggestions for pieces to play during the different sections of the ceremony and get lists of wedding CD’s and articles that offer advice on choosing music for your wedding.

Ultimate Wedding Music
http://www.ultimatewedding.com
This site is all about weddings, and its music section is huge. Nearly 4000 songs are listed, and one can search by song title or artist. Music for different aspects of a wedding, such as reception music, recessional music, etc. is listed in subgroups. One can also purchase CD’s of the music selected on this site.

Hanukkah Songs
www.ort.org/ort/hanukkah/song.html
Get the words and music to some traditional Hanukkah songs.

Schools of Music The schools listed here offer a large number of concerts, festivals, and other musical events. Calendars, ticket information, and performers are given on each school’s site.

Local Schools of Music

Cleveland Institute of Music
www.cim.edu/index.php
University of Akron. www3.uakron.edu/faa/schools/music.html

Kent State University, Hugh Glauser School of music
dept.kent.edu/music

University of Akron

www3.uakron.edu/faa/schools/music.html

Oberlin Conservatory of Music

www.oberlin.edu/con/

General Music Sites

National Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame
www.clevelandstyle.com
A weekly calendar is offered as well as a quarterly newsletter. One can also listen to music with the use of some added-on software.

Lyrics World
www.lyricsworld.com
Lyrics to popular songs from 1930 to 2003

Grammy Awards
www.Grammy.com
Search for winners by year, category, artist name or album title and get music news.

Internet Beatles Album
www.beatlesagain.com
Facts, information, stories, and links, all related to the Fab Four.

Blossom Music Center
www.hob.com/venues/concerts/blossom
This is the official Blossom Music Center’s webpage for information about tickets, schedules, performers, maps, and box office numbers.

All Music Guide
www.allmusic.com
This site covers just about any type or format of music. There are articles about music, musicians, and vocalists. One can order books, CD’s and other items such as posters and sheet music at this site. One can search by artist, album, song, style, or label. Lots of links to other music oriented Web sites. The site also has an excellent and comprehensive Glossary.