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Folking.com - Categorised links, an events and festival calendar, reviews and MP3s. Also offer a bulletin board and a monthly newsletter.
Folk and Acoustic - BBC Radio 2's guide to folk, roots and acoustic music. Includes reviews, news, features, tour dates, and an artist database.
Celtic Roots - BBC Scotland site covering Celtic, traditional and folk music from Scotland and beyond. Includes gig listings, reviews and programme information.
Folk Blues and Beyond - The performers and their music in London of the 60's. Includes biographies and discographies of Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Davey Graham, Nick Drake, John Martyn, Roy Harper and Jackson C Frank.
Andy Farquarson - A folkrock, traditional and blues music resource with interviews and photographs including Fairport Convention, Cropredy, Ralph McTell, John Mayall, Jack Bruce.
The Radio Ballads - Between 1957 and 1964, Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger and BBC producer Charles Parker created a series of eight 'Radio Ballads' for the BBC's Home Service. Information about these seminal programmes, links, and details of recordings available.
Folk Roots List - Categorised listings of folk festivals, folk and roots musicians, singers, folk clubs and venues.
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year. -- P. J. O'Rourke "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. - Frederick (II) the Great "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. -- Dave Barry Folk The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. -- Abraham Lincoln Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. -- Hector Louis Berlioz Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves. -- F. Emerson Andrews Folk "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off! -- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Folk Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to run his, either. -- Anonymous Work is a four-letter word. -- The Smiths (Morrissey) Folk Music is the art of thinking with sounds. -- Jules Combarieu Is there life before death? -- Belfast Graffito "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. -- Erica Jong Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Folk blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. -- Salvador Dali Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. -- John Tudor Folk Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort I still live. -- Daniel Webster, dying words Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol Love is stronger than justice. -- Sting Folk "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Folk Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it. -- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house. -- Jean Ke A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. -- Arthur Schoperhauer "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Folk "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Folk If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. -- Francis Bacon Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toil "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up. -- Ogden Nash If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. -- Aristotle Onassis Folk "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 The covers of this book are too far apart. -- Ambrose Bierce Folk Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera. - James Stephens When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance." -- Anon. A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. -- Albert Einstein I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. -- English Professor, Ohio University Folk I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it ha Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true. -- Anon. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -- William Faulkner Folk An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The- Box. -- Wil Shriner "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Folk Does anal retentive have a hyphen? -- Seen on a t-shirt As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based Folk My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her. -- Lenny Bruce If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. -- Anne Bradstreet Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. -- H. L. Mencken "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. -- Oscar Wilde Folk If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get. -- John Watson, University of Canterbury "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) It is never too late to be what you might have been. -- George Eliot Folk Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The- Box. -- Wil Shriner "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. -- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!" -- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise. -- John Heywood Folk If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. -- Joseph Addison In the end, everything is a gag. -- Charlie Chaplin He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech. -- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be Folk It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Rick Radebaugh There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? -- Robert Francis Kennedy Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Folk I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. -- B. F. Skinner Folk
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