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Other forums dealing with Irish Music

12 Mar 01 - 03:58 PM (#415957)
Subject: Other forums dealing with Irish Music
From: gnu

My finding the Mudcat and joining in has been a wonderful new experience for me. I have never been in a forum or chatroom or anything like it before.

Can anyone recommend similar sites which deal with Irish Traditional music ?

Thanks in advance.

gnu

12 Mar 01 - 04:04 PM (#415963)
Subject: RE: Other forums dealing with Irish Music
From: Jon Freeman

Try the rec.music.celtic newsgroup.

Jon

12 Mar 01 - 04:08 PM (#415971)
Subject: RE: Other forums dealing with Irish Music
From: Jon Freeman

Should have read your post more carefully; r.m.c is not a chatty place like this is - or it wasn't last time I went there. I like it though - just problems with newsservers have prevented me from reading often (and I can not stand Deja-News - did someone say Google have that now?) and you will find a few 'catters do enter discussions there.

Jon

12 Mar 01 - 04:12 PM (#415974)
Subject: RE: Other forums dealing with Irish Music
From: gnu

Tried typing rec.music.celtic in the address line and got "can't display". I guess I am just plain igorunt, but what's a newsgroup ?

confused gnu

12 Mar 01 - 06:10 PM (#416074)
Subject: RE: Other forums dealing with Irish Music
From: Burke

A newsgroup is another name for a usenet group. It's far older than the WWW, which made groups like Mudcat possible. Your access depends on your internet provider but search your provider's pages for news, newsgroups or usenet to see how you can get it.

Here's one page with information. There may be better ones around.
Usenet stands for "User's Network", is often called the "newsgroups", and consists of tens of thousands of virtual bulletin boards on different subjects available around the world. Anyone with access to the Internet can post a message to any newsgroup, read any message, and post a response to any message on the Usenet.

The Usenet is a useful place to turn when searching for the answer to a question since so many questions are asked and answered there, and when looking for information about late-breaking or underground subjects likely to be part of popular conversation.

Until recently you could interact with Usenet via DejaNews. That's gone but If you go to Google's pale imitation of Deja & click through the rec. then music. then celtic links, you'll find the conversation of a few days ago.

12 Mar 01 - 06:26 PM (#416088)
Subject: RE: Other forums dealing with Irish Music
From: GUEST

You have to subscribe if you want to get on IRTRAD-L

12 Mar 01 - 09:46 PM (#416248)
Subject: RE: Other forums dealing with Irish Music
From: Maryrrf

If you go on Yahoo under Clubs there is the "Irish Traditional Music Club". It used to be pretty lively but has gotten kind of quiet lately. Try it!

13 Mar 01 - 06:32 AM (#416450)
Subject: RE: Other forums dealing with Irish Music
From: gnu

Thanks guys. I appreciate your time and effort helping me with this.

gratefulgnu

13 Mar 01 - 07:47 AM (#416468)
Subject: RE: Other forums dealing with Irish Music
From: JedMarum

I have to say that I tried the IRTRAD-L newsgroup for a while. I had two weeks pure rubish Emails, people bitching about why so and so new record wasn't real trad, and how they'd gone the way of ruin. I gave up after two weeks.

14 Mar 01 - 12:31 AM (#417115)
Subject: RE: Other forums dealing with Irish Music
From: Peter Kasin

Hello, gnu, and welcome. If, by any chance, you're in California, there's a site called CAL-IRISH, which is primarily for letting people know about 3D get-togethers up and down the state, and to let people know of Irish musicians touring California.

BTW, I had a similar experience as Jed Marum on the IRTRAD-L site. I would come home to 50-70 e mails, mostly people arguing the ubiquitous tradition vs innovation and the "what is Celtic" debates and getting furious with each other. I left soon after I signed up.

-chanteyranger