Online trad resources

If you are miles away from good traditional players then the next best thing are online resources. My two main resources to study other harpers are comhaltas.ie and youtube. The video archive (http://comhaltas.ie/music/video) is particularly useful.

Youtube is a little trickier to navigate so I tend to search for names I know or series - like the Transatlantic Sessions or the Highland Sessions series. You can also look for anything from Ayepod.

Other online resources can include tune sites and discussion boards. The discussion boards are particularly interesting as they provide access to an otherwise very spread out network of people. Probably the most established of these are:
thesession.org - very established online community dedicated to sharing tunes. The first tune was submitted on 15 May 2001
mudcat.org - online community to discuss blues and folk tunes. The Digital Tradition Song bank has evolved from this and is searchable here
www.tradsong.org - whilst not all resources are available without you becoming a member, this has some excellent starting links.

If you're just searching for tunes / songs you can also use:
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tunefind - wide ranging ABC & title search site
http://sniff.numachi.com/ - mirror for the Digital Tradition Song bank also available on mudcat. I find this mirror easier to search
http://www.ceilidhsoc.org/ - run by Sheffield University Ceilidh Society
http://folktunefinder.com/ - ABC tune search site with an keyboard interface as well for those non-abc fluent (including me)
www.tradfrance.com - ABC site for French and Breton tunes

Not forgetting good old Google. Long live ABC!
And of course the magic switch back from ABC - Tune-O-Tron at Concertina.net