pdn & kodak have a bigtime mainstream thing going on with lots of bigtime mainstream photography as you might expect, Sabastiao Salgado has this image there. he also has this site

more brilliant sacred music from dovesong.com this being Good Friday with the choir of the Abbey of Saint-Pierre de Solesmes

Olivier Messaien's Le Banquet Celeste

and from the mid-20th century, the secular but divinely captivating Vera Lynn with an apocalyptically willing love ballad.

mice with umbrellas diving down drains in Noe Venable's cartoon heaven do so to this

Jia Pengfang erhu

bitchin drums bitchin absolutely totally bitchin drums

broketoerezo.com

Two small boys dancing Karyobin on a boat on the Arashi River in Kyoto. The dancers represent the Kalavinka, the magic bird that was said to have appeared when the Buddha attained enlghtenment.

{again Robert Garfias to whom my heartfelt gratitude for the Malagasy joy and the Yaeyama Hatoma Bushi and so much more. everything I thought the web could be}
also this indonesian choir

Virginia Lee Hunter photography

Danny Goldberg & artemis records earn the undying respect of millions

Rickie Lee Jones ladies and gentlemen

ali farka toure @afromix

ms. Joanie has a online presence and some links for instance to Betty Elders

Folk & Roots Online Guide

alex degrassi's links

Carol Aust has something going on

Noe Venable is alive and dreaming.
uhm...and she sings a little too

Harry Belafonte shtick from 60's w/ pertinency galore

and a fulsome list of HB friends tho from the 90's, many many folks

Q: What guitar tuning do you use?
A: Very Low : Here it is
Gauge: 68--48--36--24p--18--15
Note: Low A--A--E--A--C#--E

Bob Log

fat possum

extensive Monterey County historical photographs

edna st vincent millay by arnold genthe