The Traditional Song Forum

www.tradsong.org

Welcome to the Traditional Song Forum's website.  It is intended to be a gateway to a number of useful resources for those interested in researching or performing traditional folk songs. It is also a record of the Forum'sactivity since it was founded in 1997.

TSF is an open organisation - you will find out more about it further into the site but the bottom line is that if you want to be a member you just made the most important step by coming in. If you like what you find here then come back, contribute and become part of the Community!

This is the third incarnation of the TSF website and I have pushed a lot of the old material into the background.  The really useful stuff is still there, much of it in the 'Library'.  What I have culled hardest is 'Old News' (formerly known as 'New News').  Here the plan is to gather highlights of past newsletters into annual summaries, which you will find in the 'Old News' section

One of the most obvious and important changes is that we have moved on to become "www.tradsong.org" rather than ".com".  I always felt that the .com tag was inappropriate but it was a bit classy.  

I have tried to keep the site simple and easy to navigate.  There are four main sections.

TSF FAQ  -  Frequently asked questions about TSF, including details of membership and the things that we do
The Library  -  Where you can find reference documents and articles by members.  And a few other things as well.  
Meetings  -  About TSF meetings, including the archive of meeting reports and details of future meetings
Old News  -  Home for the digest of past newsletters and a collection of old photographs, etc.

I am using software that is still new to me (Namo Web Editor) and I am still finding my way round it, so there will be imperfections and things that don't work or look as well as I would ideally like.  You will also notice that I am making much greater use of PDF files since it gives much more predictable handling of some graphics..Most computers nowadays come with Acrobat Reader pre-installed but if you don't have it you can download it from www.adobe.com.  

Please let me know what you think of the site  -  feedback is always welcome, as are contributions of news, articles or general gossip.

Martin Graebe
April 2005