Farne Database on Line and Accessible

29 Jan 04 - 10:37 AM (#1104316)
Subject: Farne Database on Line and Accessible
From: Folkiedave

FARNE (Folk Archive Resource North East) is an exciting new online archive offering access to over 4000 music manuscripts, songbooks, photographs and sound recordings from the North East of England. The project has been funded by a grant from the New Opportunites Fund and has ran in partnership with Gateshead Council, The Sage Gateshead and the University of Newcastle. After two years of gathering together material from libraries, museums and individuals in the region the site has now gone live. The site is free and available to all. In addition to the online archive www.folknortheast.com
offers learning journeys, forums, news, radio programmes and more. We also
have an extensive links section in which we were pleased to the Bodleian Broadsides. If you would like any further information
please visit www.folknortheast.com

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29 Jan 04 - 10:50 AM (#1104332)
Subject: RE: Farne Database on Line and Accessible
From: MMario

Browsing happily!

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29 Jan 04 - 11:15 AM (#1104351)
Subject: RE: Farne Database on Line and Accessible
From: John Routledge

Just been listening to Jack Elliot and Billy Pigg. Very nostalgic recordings. Great Stuff for an exiled Northeasternite.!!

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29 Jan 04 - 01:05 PM (#1104440)
Subject: RE: Farne Database on Line and Accessible
From: dick greenhaus

Like wow!

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29 Jan 04 - 02:08 PM (#1104484)
Subject: RE: Farne Database on Line and Accessible
From: Geoff the Duck

Just looked in. It's a big resource. I'm impressed.
Who do we have to thank for it?
Quack!
Geoff the Duck.

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29 Jan 04 - 09:26 PM (#1104812)
Subject: RE: Farne Database on Line and Accessible
From: Malcolm Douglas

Thanks for letting us know. I had more or less given up checking the site, which has been promising great things for a long time now, while delivering only "teasers" and weblogs. It's good to see it all come together at last, though from a purely personal point of view I'd have preferred it if they had added collections gradually, as they became ready, instead of waiting until they could mount everything all in one go; there does seem to be quite a lot of it.

There's some important material there, not least the Bell collections and the Atkinson and Vickers MS tunebooks. It will be a long time before I can go through it all, but it looks potentially very useful indeed. Funding for such initiatives is woefully limited in the UK as compared to the US, but now if ever is the time to be going for such funding, and this is an encouraging precedent; not least in view of the fact that a number of separate institutions have co-operated in its production.

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31 Jan 04 - 03:05 PM (#1106048)
Subject: RE: Farne Database on Line and Accessible
From: Folkiedave

refresh

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01 Feb 04 - 01:59 PM (#1106619)
Subject: RE: Farne Database on Line and Accessible
From: Little Robyn

It's wonderful - I spent several hours there last night! Didn't even get up to the 20thC stuff.
Robyn

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