The Radio 2 Folk and Accoustic page gives another superb set of links and an extensive artist database. The page is jam packed full of features which may make it a little slow at times if you don't have a broad band connection.
For social dance and English ceilidh information go straight to Martin Kiff's Webfeet pages . The site we originally recommended for morris dance seems to have vanished from the web but the three morris organisations have set up their own joint site . For Irish set dances try William Lynch's Set Dancing News.
The EFDSSis the national organisation for folk music, song and dance in the England. They also maintain the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library which contains records of the major collections and provides extensive on-line indexes. Of course music, dance and song are not the sum total of the traditional arts so don't forget The Society for Storytelling and the Folklore Society.
Rod Stradling's electronic magazine Musical Traditions is packed with material on English and Irish traditional music. Rod has done an excellent job structuring the site for fast loading but there is so much superb material that your phone bill will still suffer if you have a pay as you go connection.
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