The Digital Tradition has been a valuable resource to me since 1995. It has permitted easy access to folk lyrics and tunes for students and researchers.

More importantly, it has served as a central location where songs that have been orally passed from generation to generation within a family can be permanently catalogued and shared.

It is this unique ability to gather songs from around the globe; songs which otherwise might be lost to posterity, that makes the Digital Tradition a valuable resource worthy of funding.