Bekki,
This is an excellent online virtual session. It's probaby worth checking out.
BBC Virtual Session

A lot of people here have recommended it for learning tunes and playing along.

There is a useful thread, which is about fiddle playing, but there are some good links there that are worth looking at, too. See my personal favourite (I play lever harp, not fiddle) which is the Old Time Music MIDI Archive - 19th and 20th Century dance which is worth it just for a listen to some very fine music.

Also you may be interested in the e-mail Harplist. There are lots of wonderful people on the list and we share a lot of info, and experiences, etc, just like here at Mudcat.

For full membership with access to the yahoo harplist website, which of course is a good option, you need to go to

Harplist

You'll be walked through the sign-up.

If you just want the emails, and never plan to go to the yahoo harplist site, you can send a blank message to
harplist-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
You will have to "reply" to a message Yahoo will send you, but you'll be signed up just that easily.

Once you are a member, there are several commands which can be activated with an email.

To switch to digest, send a blank message to harplist-digest@yahoogroups.com
To unsubscribe, send a blank message to harplist-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
To go "no mail", send a blank message to harplist-nomail@yahoogroups.com
To go to individual messages (from digest or nomail status), send a blank message to harplist-normal@yahoogroups.com

The above commands may not go into effect unless you "reply" to a message yahoo sends you.

Helen
in Australia