Chris Smith: Links
- CJS blog
- Music, community, radical politics, and the occasional ray of sunshine, on blogspot.com. This is the most current material, including the epic "100 Greats in 100 Days" project--which is kicking my ass!
Brothers and sisters in music
- Chipper Thompson
- Alabama-Taos roots rocker
- Roger Landes
- Bouzouki virtuoso
- Randal Bays
- Fiddle master
- Gearóid ÓhAllmhuráin
- Ethnomusicologist and concertina virtuoso
- Grey Larsen
- Flute/whistle master
- John White
- "Dr Jolt"- keyboardist, improvisor, educator
- Jann Cosart
- Early strings virtuoso and Altramar colleague
- Larry Young
- Fiddler; my oldest (earliest?) musical collaborator
- Sam Bartlett
- Great three-way (bluegrass, old-time, Irish) banjo virtuoso
- Jessica Ziegler
- Top-notch Irish fiddler and musical "baby sister"
- Jeff Sherman
- Master violin-maker and bodhranist
- Kay Stonefelt
- Frame-drummer and duo-partner
- Heather Maxwell Adou
- Singer, dancer, linguist, ethnomusicologist, duet-partner
- Jacques and Virginia Cesbron
- Dancers, teachers, choreographers
Last Night's Fun
- Last Night's Fun
- Traditional Irish music (flute/whistle, guitar/voice, bodhran/voice, banjo/bouzouki/box) from Lubbock TX.
Mentors
- Thomas Binkley
- The late, great, incomparable medieval-music master Tom Binkley. They broke the mold.
- David Baker
- The indestructible jazz master. A 50-year career making jazz players. My teacher.
- Larry Baeder
- The self-described and well-deserved "baddest Jewish blues guitarist from Kansas City." My principle jazz guitar teacher.
- Dean Magraw
- Zatoichi of the guitar. Wes Montgomery and Norman Blake's brilliant mutant offspring.
- Dick Bauman
- Folklorist and semiotician; a key shaper of my own thinking.
- Henry Glassie
- Anthropologist, folklorist, and author. He sets the bar.
- Peter Burkholder
- Musicologist. My dissertation advisor and still one of my most trusted professional mentors.
- Tom Mathiesen
- Musicologist and Ph.D. coach. Possibly the most brilliant intellect I've ever encountered.
- Austin Caswell
- Musicologist. The crazy/brilliant uncle I wanted and never had
Friends and relations
- Angela Mariani
- Still my most treasured musical partner
- David Smith
- My big brother. How to write, and think, and create housing that people can afford.
- Justin Smith
- My little brother. Master craftsman and "man of his hands."
- Rebecca Weller Brown
- My baby sister. Writing, public policy, community advocacy.
- Rich Remsberg (and Lisa Nilsson)
- Old friends from Bloomington. Music, arts, design, archival research.
- Dagom Ganden Tensing Ling monastery
- Bloomington Tibetan monastery. Revered teachers and treasured friends.
- Trijang Buddhist Institute
- Home base of Geshe-la, revered teacher and friend
Vendors
- Ossian USA - best trad-music vendors on the Web
- Mary Lou & Charlie have been great friends to the music and the musicians for many years. Even if it costs a couple more bucks to buy from them--do it anyway. They have an inventory that amazon, cdconnection, cdbaby, etc can't even touch.
- Clareen Banjos
- Best Irish tenor banjos in the world, and Shaskeen, the greatest ceili band.
Trad artists & resources
- Andy Irvine
- Kieron's excellent Andy Irvine site: resources, clips, lyrics, gig schedule, etc
- Andy Irvine
- Andy's own site: links, road journals and diary, lyrics, etc
- Irishtune.info
- Alan Ng's exemplary online database indexing recordings of tunes. An invaluable resource for learning.
- Fiddler's Companion
- Andrew Kuntz's enormous database indexing print and recorded appearances of tunes. Huge and indispensible.
Education
- CJS at TTU
- Faculty bio on the TTU School of Music website
- CJS courses at TTU
- Websites for courses (password-protected)
- TTU School of Music
- School of Music home page
- CJS Geocities site
- Lots of educational material here
- "Irishmusic.com" essays on instruction
- These are instructional essays that I wrote for Dan Beimborn's irishmusic.com site. Technique, ear-training, repertoire, etc.
Broadcasting
- The Celtic Shores
- Chris Smith radio program on TX public radio station KOHM (89.1 or kohm.org). Live, streamed, and archived.
- Harmonia
- Home page for Angela's nationally-syndicated public radio program on early music.
Public policy/arts advocacy
- Caprock Celtic Association
- Celtic music, dance, language arts and cultural events for the South Plains
- Caprock Early Music
- Early music advocay, concerts, and educational presentations for the South Plains