Links to sites which you may find interesting
We are updating this page as we find time (pause for laughter).
If you have a folk-related site which you think may be of interest to people browsing the Goose site, please email us and we will consider it for inclusion.
Please note that The Goose cannot be held responsible for the content of external sites.
Also please note that the following links are in no particular order - at some point maybe they will be, but for now - not.....
SUPPORTING HOMELESS YOUNG PEOPLE
The Goose sponsors a room at Centrepoint. For more information or if you would like to do the same, please
Click here to find out more about Centrepoint's work with homeless young people.
FOLK AGAINST FASCISM
The Goose supports Folk Against Fascism. The extremely good news is that the BNP is now in such a state of disarray that the people who set up Folk Against Fascism are now disbanding (though ready to resurface should the need arise).
As at 9 December 2011 there were still a few tee-shirts, hoodies, bags, mugs etc left for sale on the website at reduced prices, but hurry if you want anything as they won't be there long!
For more information please seehttp://www.folkagainstfascism.com/
SPIRAL EARTH
A great resource for all kinds of news, features, interviews, videos etc about UK folk and roots music.
FOLK AND ROOTS
A very useful guide to what's happening where on the folk and roots scene, with a click-on calendar.
http://www.folkandroots.co.uk/
SIMPLY WHAT'S ON
Another very useful site - particularly useful as you can get regular emails sent to you telling you what folkie events are happening in your area in the next week or so.
Click here to subscribe to Simply What's On! It's free!
FOLK ON MONDAY
Folk On Monday is a great evening held - er - on Monday nights at the Green Note in Camden, a short walk from Camden Town tube, and very near Cecil Sharp House.
The Green Note is a lovely intimate venue so you can see brilliant folk artists right up close. You can also eat there!
Click here to find out more about Folk On Monday!
WALTHAMSTOW FOLK CLUB
OK it's a bit of a trek from Sarf East Lahndon, which was why we started the Goose in the first place, but hey it's a great friendly weekly club, so why not look to see who they've got on.
Give our love to Kevin, Sandra, Russ and Claire if you go!
Don't forget to check the trains are running - easy to get to if they are, not at all easy if they aren't. Well, depending on where you start from, of course!
http://www.walthamstowfolk.co.uk/
TONBRIDGE FOLK CLUB
Even if you live in London, it's nice to go further afield sometimes and see what other folkies are doing. Tonbridge is easy to reach by train from London Bridge, and the club is only a short walk from the station. They have some good people coming up - check out their website! - and they also have a singaround once a month.
KIT AND CUTTER
A great folk club which started off in Deptford and has now found a (permanent?) home at
in, er, Nunhead - within walking distance of the Goose, which is great news for us and far better than the two buses we had to get before!
Their MySpace page is a bit out of date (hey, we can talk) but here it is anyway:
http://www.myspace.com/kitandcutter
They're also on Facebook - well worth checking out, and you'll probably find the Goose at their club unless their night clashes with one of ours - gggggrrrrrrrrr !!!!
CECIL SHARP HOUSE
What can we say? Headquarters of the EFDSS (English Folk Dance and Song Society)
Half the Goose remembers going on a pilgrimage here around 1965, when there was a tiny little shop, and buying some books of morris tunes.
And now there's all sorts of things going on there!.
fROOTS
The website of the mag of the same name - "the essential worldwide roots music guide".
The same half of the Goose remembers fRoots when it was a little mag called Southern Rag. In fact she bought the very first issue, probably in Exeter.Where is it now? Sadly, unable to find a home for her vast collection of Southern Rags/Folk Roots they all went to that great Recycling Bin in the Sky, the internet not being around at the time.
Now there's sections of the website with folkie radio, playlists, and a forum which is useful partly for gossip (oh perish the thought) and partly for finding out about gigs which didn't get into the magazine (don't get us started on that ....)!
Check it out here .....
Please buy the mag and help support Ian Anderson's brilliant work!
R2 MAGAZINE
OK, to our shame we had never come across this before. All we can think is that we are generally too busy and/or skint to browse music magazines in shops.
Anyway, now that it's been brought to our attention, we are very happy to provide this link to what we are told is "The UK's Best Selling Eclectic Music Magazine". And hey, they've had features on Dick Gaughan, Martin Simpson, Ewan McLennan etc etc etc - how could we have missed it?
You can also subscribe via the website.
MUDCAT
This site is a very useful resource for finding half-remembered song lyrics, but also has quite an addictive forum.
Not the most user-friendly of websites, but worth persevering!
Though watch out you don't get caught in the cross-fire of forumites arguing over some of the finer points of folk music ........
FOLK TUNE FINDER
Know the words but forgotten the tune? Got a half-remembered tune going round your head but you can't think what it is? Check out this site! It's brilliant!
BRIGHT YOUNG FOLK
Another great site if you want to find out what's happening on the folk scene, with an emphasis as the name suggests on the younger end - though we wonder what they will call it when they all reach our age!! That's the Goose's age, not you of course, lol. Bright not-so-young folk? Bright middle-aged folk? Bright one-foot-in-the-grave-folk? :D
http://www.brightyoungfolk.com/
GREENWICH MORRIS MEN
If you're - er - a man, and you'd like to be a Morris Man, why not join Greenwich Morris Men?
They are desperate to keep their side going, and to do that they need to find new members.
Check them out on their website:
FLAT FOOT JOHNNY
A local maker of very very interesting instruments, including cigar box guitars and biscuit tin banjos!
Check him out at
He can also sometimes be found at the Saturday market in North Cross Road, SE22 and if you ask nicely he will demonstrate his instruments for you!
Well, maybe he will if you don't ask nicely, but we didn't try that option .....
HOPE NOT HATE
The Goose celebrates diversity, and supports Hope Not Hate.
To find out more, please click on the link below.
HOPE not hate
Celebrating modern Britain
OK that's it for now - please do send us links to sites you'd like to see included, we've only just started on this page, lots more to add - if your site or your fave site isn't up yet, bear with us, hopefully it will be soon! (though only if you let us know about it ....)
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