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Live Music: Listings - Links |
Musi-Cal: How to Use It
This page explains how to use Musi-Cal's chief features for fans trying to find
concerts and musicians trying to list them. The original article (in immortal
prose) is here.
Dirty
Linen: Quarterly Tour Schedules
Many artists and venues submit their tour schedules to this magazine, which
updates them monthly on the web. International.
Festival
Finder
Searchable index lists many festivals around the world, with some significant
omissions.
Fleming-Tamulevich
Agency
Folk's premiere booking agency - most comprehensive tour schedules for many
top artists including Ani DiFranco, Greg Brown, Dar Williams, and more,with
dates well into the year 2000.
Irish
Sessions
A list of ongoing Irish jam sessions world-wide, city by city. These are generally
no cover bars and pubs, often the haunts of world-class musicians. Can't beat
this one!
Musi-Cal
Search concert listings by artist, venue, genre, or city. They'll even send
you weekly or monthly search results by e-mail. Listings only reflect what's
submitted by artists and venues.
Musi-Cal:
Searching for Concerts
This link takes you to a dialogue box where you can search by many criteria,
including keywords. For a simple search by performer, city or venue, use the
Simple
Search form on this page.
Musi-Cal:
Monthly/Weekly Query Results
Execute a search for an artist or city and at the bottom of the results is a
dialogue box offering to repeat this search weekly and e-mail you the results.
Musi-Cal:
Concert Submissions
This page, for musicians and agents, explains how to submit multiple concert
listings via e-mail. For single submissions, go here.
Musi-Cal:
Gig-Gopher
This FAQ sheet for musicians and agents explains how to create a table of gigs
at your website that will be periodically scanned and updated by Musi-Cal's
webcrawler.
Musi-Cal:
Shortcut: Paste a Search Form into Your Homepage
Musicians and Agents: This page gives HTML code for a search form you can insert
into your own webpage.
Tourdates.com
A growing number of independent artists - including many, many local bands -
list their gigs here. Cool site, but for now, spotty coverage compared to Musi-Cal.
Offers free artist pages.
Berkeley, CA
To get Berkeley house concert announcements, send an e-mail to berkeley_concerts-request@lists.best.com
(or click above link) and in the body of the message put: "subscribe".
Boston,
MA: Music for Robin
Site keeps a two-month calendar of folk concerts within 100 mi. of Boston plus
a listing of 34 open mics in addition to info on the organization's own respectable
Celtic music and dance series.
Boston,
MA: Folk Zone
Great site for up and coming working folk and folk-pop performers in Boston
area lists open mics.
Philadelphia,
PA: Fortissimo
This site covers folk music in the area, including pages for local venues and
a house concert series.
Seattle Area:
Victory Music
Victory Music site offers listings for the Seattle/Tacoma area.
Acoustic Live
Impressive site lists NYC area concerts.
Boston Coffeehouses
Lists...Boston area Coffeehouses.
EventLister.com
Free website allows you to list events. Can be searched by state and date. Seems
to work best for finding/listing major and municipal events.
Folkmusic.org: Venue Listings
Folkmusic.org made a good start listing venues, but they seem to have stopped
compiling about a year ago.
Fox Valley
Folk Society Venue Listings
This Illinois organization's informative pages include an extensive database
of Chicago Area venues.
Indra's Venue List
This list, still under construction, is an attempt to replace the excellent
list that once existed at a site called Hidden Water. Hidden indeed.
Musi-Cal
Musi-Cal's huge concert database may still be the best place to find a link
to a venue if you know its name, and definitely the place to look if you want
to find venues in a particular city.
Music For Robin
Provides listings for concert producers and venues in and around Boston, complete
with contact info.
Rochester Coffeehouses
A list of folk music happening in Rochester, NY
Songcraft Venue Listings
Mike Brandon's venue database is extremely limited, but very well thought out
and easy to use. Organized by state. Some states, like Tennessee and New Hampshire
are deeper than the rest.
Hugh Blumenfeld, Editor
hugh@balladtree.com
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