12/28/03 Eldarion posted to the board: "I thought it would be a good idea if we compiled a set of links where people who are just starting out can take a listen to some clips of older recordings of Irish music for free. So to start the ball rolling:
http://www.rogermillington.com/tunetoc/index.html http://www.sligofiddler.com/tracks.htm http://tedmcgraw.com/recimages/Irish_clips.htm http://www.lafferty.ca/music/irish/flute-geezers/ http://www.irishfiddle.com/legends.html
http://www.dempseys-lot.co.uk/mp3-samples.htm
http://www.comhaltas.com/seisiun/video.htm

Slip jigs - "Wigsborough hunt", "The Irish jig", and "Jack in the green" which in all fairness to the artists is part of http://www.h-p-t.com/tunes.htm

http://www.sligo-man.com/Pages/mp3.htm http://www.uptospeed.net/mp3/eskin/

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/herve.gourdet/dwalin/repertoire.htm

http://www.uptospeed.net/hoi/ http://www.lafferty.ca/music/irish/flute-geezers

http://members.nuvox.net/~on.rsim/music.htm

http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~smc/mp3/

http://mp3.washingtonpost.com/browse/ You can browse by Genre -> Celtic

These are music clip files in the OGG format:

http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~smc/mp3/

http://www.rogermillington.com/tunetoc/index.html

http://genres.mp3.com/music/world_folk/world_traditions/european/celtic/

Some midi links:

http://www.traditional-music.org/show_category.asp?cat=5&alpha=Ohttp://www.downie65.freeserve.co.uk/irish%20sets.htm

http://perso.club-internet.fr/pybertra/ceol/tunes.htm

http://thebards.net/music/complete_list.shtml

http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/aidx/aidxA.html

http://ingeb.org/catei.html http://www.wtv-zone.com/phyrst/audio/nfld/smal.htm

http://www.mytunebook.de/search/listname.html

Some links to Scottish music sites:

List of session tunes:
http://www.nigelgatherer.com/sess/ss3.html

http://www.nigelgatherer.com/sess/ss2.html

Whistle Tutorial from the Scottish perspective:
http://www.nigelgatherer.com/whistle/tut.html

A few other Scottish music sites:
http://www.rampantscotland.com/songs/blsongs_index.htm

http://www.glasgowguide.co.uk/wjmc/wjmc-a.shtml

http://www.springthyme.co.uk/ballads/childballads_enter.html

http://www.springthyme.co.uk/wwwboard/index.html