Thanks CET for starting this thread - and thanks Wolfgang and Susanne for the link to Profolk. For those interested, here are some more useful German websites: www.folker.de for the webpage of the German folk magazine "Folker" which in turn has links to anything and everything, mostly in German. If you don't understand (much) German but are interested, do look at this webpage as a lot of it is self-explanatory and lots of the links are in English as well as German.

To confirm what has been already said, a lot of the bands featured in Folker play Irish/Celtic, but there is also a great interest in early medieval music. For German speakers look at: www.mittelaltermusik.de (Minnesang, early instruments, performers, texts etc.)

A bilingual German/English website of the band "Spielleut": www.willis.de/spielleut/

JAMS are listed as a link on "Folker" on: members.aol.com/jamsberlin/index.html but it came up as "page not available" when I tried it.

The "Folker" website also has lots of links to Klezmer. Some slightly more obscure listings are for a band called Saltatio Mortis who play "medieval punk" and an on-line shop called "Ars Nordica" based in Hamburg, selling Viking music.

Hope some of this will be of help/interest. Mit freundlichen Gruessen !