Here are a few other sites you might find interesting:
(none of this rubbish about cool sites. We don't have cool sites in Manchester; we have wet and miserable ones)
FOLK CLUBS AND SIMILAR CULTURE EMPORIA:
Musi-Cal A database for gigs world wide, including the UK: all it needs is our input.
Folk Roots List
Britfolk Radio
Expats Radio
The Mining Company
Governor Hindmarsh, Adelaide
The Ark, Ann Arbor
River Theater, Astoria
Cactus Cafe, Austin
Baker's Vaults, Stockport
Godfrey Daniels, Bethlehem, PA
Biddulph Folk Club
Bideford
Bell, Driffield
The Boite, Melbourne
Barry Kasindorf's House Concerts, Boston
Bothy folk club, Southport
Virtual Brighton folk listings
Bury Met
Caffe Lena
Calgary folk events
Canadian artists and events
Matrix Coffeehouse, Chehalis
The Raven, Chester
Chichester Folk Club
The Ram, Claygate
Colchester Arts Centre
Croydon
Davy Lamp, Biddick Farm
Top End Folk Club, Darwin
EFDSS
Ely
Faversham folk club
Ferneham Hall, Fareham
Fiddling Cricket, San Jose
Focal Point, St Louis
Focsle, Southampton
Folk Australia
Folk Project (NJ)
Gainsborough
Grimsby Folk Club
Grove, Leeds
Hambledon
Herga
The Sun, Hitchin
McGonigel's Mucky Duck, Houston
Islington
Kuumbwa, Santa Cruz
Musician, Leicester
Little Rock Folk Club
Packhorse Folk Club, Loughborough
Maidenhead
Manchester area venues
Memphis Acoustic Music Association
Martin Nail's website (links to many UK sites)
Mid-Columbia Folklore Society
New Zealand
North Wales
Northwich folk club
Branford Arms, Norwich
Otley folk events
Oxford Folk Club
Palmerston North
Parkgate
Pontardawe
Lighthouse Theatre, Port Dover
Preston - Mr Kite's charity functions
Royal Oak, Lewes
Scottish venues
Rogue Folk Club, Vancouver
Seattle Folklore Society
St Neots Folk Club
Radio Shropshire Folk Diary
Fo'c'sle, Southampton
South Australia
South Coast Folk Club, Port Noarlunga
South folk music network
South Yorkshire folk events
Three Rivers Folk Society, Kennewick
Top End Folk Club, Darwin
Arc Theatre, Trowbridge
Walthamstow folk events
Red Lion, Wath
Wimborne Acoustic
Station, Wrexham
Wurzel Bush
FESTIVALS:
Alcester
Auckland
Bedworth Festival (and lots of useful links)
Brampton Live
Bromyard
Canadian Festivals
Chester Folk Festival
Chippenham Festival
Clearwater Festival
Cleethorpes
Fairbridge
Fylde Folk Festival
Great Days Festival, Clitheroe
Holmfirth Folk Festival
Hoy at Anchor, Leigh on Sea
Jack in the Green Festival, Hastings
Lancaster Clocks Back Festival
Middlewich Folk and Boat Festival
Minstrel Coffeehouse, NJ
Mrs Casey Music (Sidmouth, Towersey, etc)
National Folk Festival, Australia
North American Festivals
Old Songs
Oxford
Philadelphia Folk Festival
Port Fairy
Redditch Festival
St Neots Festival
Saltburn Folk Festival
Shetland Folk Festival
Shrewsbury Folk Festival
South Florida Folk Festival
Stanfest
Summerfolk, Owen Sound
Trowbridge
UK Festivals
Winnipeg Folk Festival
SONGS:
Contemplator
David Harris's Irish Music page
The Digital Tradition
Scottish songs
Ballads
Bodleian library ballad collection
War songs
RECORD LABELS AND SHOPS AND THINGS:
ADA
Beautiful Jo
Festival Distribution (Canada)
Harbourtown Records (including Pete Morton, Silly Wizard
Brian Peters, Janet Russell and more)
Hobgoblin (also includes Folk London diary)
Mother Earth Music (Saffron Summerfield)
Musikfolk
Old Bridge Music
Proper Music Distribution
Shetland Music Distribution
Temple Records
Topic
Veteran Tapes
Waterbug
MAGAZINES:
Dirty Linen
Folk on Tap
Folk Roots
Stirrings(including pages for South Yorkshire folk artists
such as Dave Burland, Roy Bailey, Kate Rusby, Tom McConville)
Sing Out
FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES:
John Adams
Agraman
Harvey Andrews
Artisan
Austin Lounge Lizards
Roy Bailey
Band of Rack & Ruin
JonBenns
Lou & Peter Berryman
Debashish Bhatacharya
Ian Blake
Eric Bogle
Bernard Bolan
Derek Brimstone
Ben & Joe Broughton
Bill Caddick
Eliza Carthy
Rick Christian
Christine Collister
Pete Coe
Johnny Collins
Debra Cowan
Doug Cox
Crasdant
Andrew Cronshaw
Phil Cunningham
Andy Cutting & Karen Tweed and their manifold activities
Dansaul
Bruce Davies
The English Country Dance Band
David Essig
Fairport Convention
Alisa Fineman
Bob Franke
Ken Galipeau
George Gao
Vin Garbutt
Dick Gaughan
John Gorka
Larry Gowan
Clive Gregson
Bob Hall & Hilary Blythe
Paul & Adele Hemphill
Hilary James & Simon Mayer
David K
Lucy Kaplansky
James Keelaghan
Christine Lavin
Rick Lee
Tom Lewis
McCalmans
Kate McDonnell
Eileen McGann
John McGee
Dougie McLean
Tony McManus
Mad Pudding
Markerr (Marilyn Campbell & Kerry Manning)
Susan Martinez (including a JuneTabor page)
Kate McDonnell
Rory McLeod
Syd Meats
Ed Miller
The Nields
Ken Nicol
Kristina Olsen
Tania Opland & Mike Freeman
Oyster Band
Pint and Dale
Maddy Prior
Kate Rusby
Dave Russell
Chris Sherburn & Denny Bartley
Show of Hands
Mike Silver
Martin Simpson
Emily Slade
Judy Small
Small Potatoes
Hilary Spencer
John Spiers & Jon Boden
Joe Stead
Strawhead
Tanglefoot
Steve Tilston
Tollhouse company
Trout Fishing in America
Waterson/Carthy
Annie Wenz
Chris While & Julie Matthews
Pete Willow
Bernard Wrigley
OTHER USEFUL SITES
Entsweb (a UK folk directory)
Folk Australia
The Folk DJ listThe Folk DJ list