FolkLib Index - What's New?

          This page lists major changes, if any, made to the Index and installed during each site update date listed. An exception to the general site rule that all links in bold go off-site, bold links on this page indicate newly created FolkLib Index pages first installed on a particular date. All other links on this page, whether on-site or off-site are not bolded.
          Work in Progress: A compact year-by-year chronological list of every new page listed below.

          Environmental Log - What I am doing to save gas and cut back on polluting the planet. What are you doing?

Trivia: Web site size: 11-25-1995 (788 K), 11-12-2009 (per FreeFind's count) 964 pages, 23,649,402 total bytes.
            Per atomz.com indexing, as of 11-12-2009, this site has over 2.2 million different words.

.08-25-2010

          Deleted the 1995-2005 entries from this page.

.08-23-2010

          Added Irish Fest-La Crosse: Past Performers Index - Irish Fest-La Crosse: 2005-2009 Performers.

.07-30-2010

          Added Design Records Labelography & Discography.

.07-21-2010

          Added Oshkosh Schools, Churches, Organizations Labelography.

.07-16-2010

          Added Mountain Railroad Records Labelography.

.07-05-2010

          Added Oshkosh High Schools Labelography.

.04-12-2010

          Added Wisconsin Labelography: Gallery A-G - Gallery H-P - Gallery Q-Z.

.04-11-2010

          Added Wisconsin Labelography: 0-9.

.04-01-2010

          Added Wisconsin Labelography - Wisconsin Labelography: A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - Y - Picture Sleeves - Unknown Label Names.

.03-30-2010

          Removed all Archived links to the old "Every Celtic Thing on the Web" site by Michael McNeill because the new owner of "og-man.net" has permanently blocked all access to all the backups via robots.txt .

.03-18-2010

          Added Oshkosh Irish Fest: 2010-14 Performers.

.01-14-2010

          Added Wisconsin Video Discography - Wisconsin Reggae Discography - Wisconsin Punk Discography.

.01-13-2010

          Added Wisconsin Hip Hop Discography.

.01-09-2010

          Added Index for "Complete Library" books by Jerry Osborne.

.12-31-2009

          Changed all of Terry E. Gordon's "Rockin' Country Style" links from "http://els51.law.emory.edu/rcs/" and "http://rcs.law.emory.edu/rcs/" to "http://www.rcs-discography.com/rcs/" .

.12-22-2009

          Added Oasis Sampler Discography - Oasis Acoustic Samplers #1-9 Discography.

.11-25-2009: Trivia, the Folk Library Index is 14 years old today!

.11-24-2009

          Added Kerrville/Silverwolf Records Collections Discography.

.11-20-2009

          Added Red House Records Discography.

.11-12-2009

          Added Old Time Music & Craft Festival: History - Old Time Music & Craft Festival: Program Cover Scans.

.11-10-2009

          Oops! I found that I have two copies of the same page installed in two different places and both have internal links to them from other pages. Obituary Index was originally installed on 03-30-2007. On some unknown date since then, I moved the page, but forgot to change all of the obsolete links. All internal links to the old location have been changed, and the old page has been permanently replaced with a "moved" notice.

.11-09-2009

          Added Bluegrass Hall of Fame Inductees - What's New Count.

.11-08-2009

          Added Tomorrow River Music Discography.

.11-05-2009

          Added a text-to-HTML discography conversion, Robbie Clement Discography.

.11-02-2009

          Added Gourd Music Discography.

.10-24-2009

          Added Bio-Bibliographies by Greenwood Press - All Greenwood Press Bio-Bibliographies - Wisconsin Reggae Musicians.

.10-14-2009

          Added Bio-Bibliographies in Music, Greenwood Press.

.10-08-2009

          Added Bibliography: Dirty Linen.

.10-06-2009

          Added Dirty Linen Magazine CD Sampler Discography.

.10-05-2009

          Major updates of indexa.shtml and indexq.shtml. I went through each page line by line, making sure every link worked, both internal and external, and every entry was as complete as I could make it, a separate entry for every known member of every group, what known city(ies) they live/lived in, what known instrument(s) they play(ed), every known group each individual has been a member of, and the known "ACTIVE" dates for every group, i.e. when it was founded and disbanded.
          Possibly frustrating to people who link to specific musician's entries, many, MANY anchor tags have been changed. Fourteen years ago, when I started this site, I had no idea that someday I would list over over 8,000 different Wisconsin musicians, and an estimated 15 to 20,000 different, Folk, Bluegrass and World Folk musicians, solo guitarists and harpists, and that each and every one would require a unique anchor tag so that anyone and everyone could link to an artist or group and not have identical anchors to more than one making any link not work properly. I apologize that for a long time I was somewhat sloppy in assigning anchors that would someday conflict with other anchors. I am fixing that now. For example, indexa.shtml#ACU is now indexa.shtml#Acuff,Ry
          The other biggest change of this revision project is that, if an off-site link no longer works, I just delete it. I am making no effort to find new home pages for artists, links that didn't exist the last time I searched. In the long term view, as I turned 68 six days ago, there will come a time when I will not be around to update anything on this site. I am taking steps so that this site will remain on-line for hopefully a long time after I am gone. In that future, the importance of this site will be the information that I have researched, accumulated and installed here which will have long term benefit to my readers. At least that is my hope. To that end, if I foresee that at a given point in the future, I will become physically or mentally unable to continue site maintenance, before I stop, I will remove every off-site link, so that the body of knowledge contained on this site will serve for some time to come after I have to stop maintenance. If my demise is sudden, then the future permanently broken off-site links will have to stand as is, and hopefully will not unnecessarily detract too much from the hoped for continuing usefulness of this site's internal information about musical artists, groups, discographies, bibliographies, venue histories, festival histories, and specific book indexes I have created that exist nowhere else, or at least do not exist together in any one single location, either on-line or in print.
          Work has begun on indexb.shtml. As each page is completed, I will list it here. Understandably this particular clean-up project will take many months. Stay tuned.

.09-26-2009

          Added Venue History: Two Rivers Bluegrass.

.09-08-2009

          Added Index for Wisconsin ASCAP Members 1948-1980.

.09-05-2009

          Added two more non-music related pages, Highland Park High School (IL), Class of 1956 - Class of 1958. This completes the 1956-1959 Senior Class Lists in all four Year Books I saved from when I was in High School.

.08-30-2009

          Added Wisconsin Dance Halls and Ballrooms.

.08-23-2009

          Added Title Order List of my Wisconsin Discographies.

.08-20-2009

          Added Authors of Music Books.

.08-13-2009: As the site is gone, deleted all links to http://www.eyeneer.com/, "Eyeneer Blues Profiles", etc.

.08-11-2009

          Added Big Band & Swing Band Book Indexes.

.07-25-2009

          Added Music Wall Calendar Cover Scans.

.07-16-2009

          Added Music Calendars (Wall Calendars).

.06-30-2009

          Added Rough Guide Discography / World Music Network Discography.

.06-27-2009

          Added Fond du Lac Jazz Festival.

.06-26-2009

          Added Fox Jazz Fest: Past Performers Index - Neenah Jazz Fest 1995-2003 Performers / Fox Jazz Fest 2004-2009 Performers.

.06-25-2009

          Added Big Bull Falls Blues Festival: Past Performers Index - Big Bull Falls Blues Festival: 1992-1999 Performers - Big Bull Falls Blues Festival: 2000-2009 Performers.

.06-23-2009

          Added Big Bull Falls Blues Festival: Publicity Brochures.

.06-13-2009

          Added Madison Made Music Project Discography.

.06-07-2009

          Added Manitowoc Acoustic Fest: Past Performers Index - Manitowoc Acoustic Fest: 2000-2009 Performers.

.06-03-2009

          Added Black Hawk Folk Festival: Past Performers Index - Black Hawk Folk Festival: 1988-1999 Performers - Black Hawk Folk Festival: 2000-2009 Performers.

.06-01-2009

          Added Oshkosh Irish Fest: Past Performers Index - Oshkosh Irish Fest: 2009 Performers.

.05-21-2009

          Added MusicHound / VideoHound (books) Discography.

.05-11-2009

          Added UW Oshkosh Music Source Cover Scans.

.05-04-2009

          Added Non-Marquis Who's Who Books and Master Title List.

.04-19-2009

          Added Who's Who in the Midwest, and all other known Marquis titles.

.04-03-2009

          Added UW Oshkosh Music Department Faculty Schools.

.03-25-2009

          Added UW Oshkosh Music Department Faculty Index - UW Oshkosh Music Department History - UW Oshkosh Music Department Gallery - UW Oshkosh Music Department Sources.
          For those who have looked for it in the past, I created and installed a 32x32 color "Favorites Icon" (favicon.ico) which will now display in the "URL Address" area of many browsers. To add it to your list of bookmarks saved to any page at my site, just click on each bookmark.

.03-09-2009

          Added UW Oshkosh Music Department History (deleted articles).

.02-10-2009

          Added First Congregational Church: Chancel Choir Members.

.12-03-2008

          Added a text-to-HTML discography conversion, Odetta Discography.

.11-25-2008: Trivia, the Folk Library Index is 13 years old today!

.10-20-2008

          Added Wisconsin Handbell Choirs.

.10-12-2008

          Added An Inconvenient Truth: Closing Credits.

.09-30-2008

          Added House on the Rock Pictures.

.09-18-2008

          Added Venue History: TruBlu Lounge, Fond du Lac.

.09-01-2008

          Added Wisconsin Composers.

.08-10-2008

          Added a text-to-HTML discography conversion, Bill Miller Discography.

.07-28-2008

          Added Wisconsin Churches Discography.

.07-23-2008

          Added Wisconsin Folk Discography. This is a new file which includes every album title that used to be listed at wi_discog.shtml (Wisconsin Discographies).

.07-11-2008

          Added Cuca Records (Missing) Discography.

.06-24-2008

          Added Various Wisconsin Labels (45's) Discography - Blue Eagle (45's) Discography.

.06-20-2008

          Added KL Records (45's) Discography.

.05-20-2008

          Added Wisconsin UW Oshkosh Graduate Musicians.

.05-09-2008

          Added WAMI Album of the Year Awards.

.05-08-2008

          Added WAMI Song of the Year Awards.

.05-07-2008

          Added WAMI Jazz Awards.

.05-05-2008

          Added WAMI Awards Show Presenters.

.05-04-2008

          Added WAMI Polka Awards.

.05-03-2008

          Added WAMI Award Nominees & Winners (A Combined list of all Artists/Groups on all Genre pages).

.05-01-2008

          Added Unanswered questions about the WAMI Awards and its Award Shows.

.04-27-2008

          Added 2007 WAMI Award Nominees & Winners - 2008 WAMI Award Nominees & Winners.

.04-24-2008

          Added Wisconsin Heavy Metal Musicians - Wisconsin Heavy Metal Discography.

.04-22-2008

          Added Venue History: Concert Logs of Wisconsin Music Venues - Venue History: First Tuesdays at FCC, Oshkosh - Venue History: Live at Lunch at Grand Opera House Square, Oshkosh - Venue History: Live at Lunch at Mi-Taza Coffeehouse, UW Oshkosh.

.04-19-2008

          Added WAMI Boards of Directors.

.04-10-2008

          Added Bibliography: Folkscene - Bibliography: Inside Bluegrass - Bibliography: The Jongleur - Bibliography: Musician - Bibliography: Tell it Like it is - Bibliography: The Valley Scene / The Scene.

.02-27-2008

          Added Article: Leaders take a journey through the years.

.02-21-2008

          Added Article: Railroad Ron has musical milestone.

.01-29-2008

          Added Wisconsin Country Recordings Documented in Print - Wisconsin Folk Recordings Documented in Print - Wisconsin Jazz Recordings Documented in Print - Wisconsin Native Recordings Documented in Print - Wisconsin Polka Recordings Documented in Print - Wisconsin Pop/Rock Recordings Documented in Print.

.01-27-2008

          Added Jazz and Big Band Bibliography.

.01-24-2008

          Added Wisconsin Blues Recordings Documented in Print.

.01-23-2008

          Added Wisconsin Big Band Recordings Documented in Print - Wisconsin Bluegrass Recordings Documented in Print.

.01-10-2008

          Added Wisconsin Recordings Documented in Print.

.12-28-2007

          In order to simplify searching, changed all occurrences of "H.S." to "High School", and all occurrences of its being implied to its being specifically stated, e.g. changed "Oshkosh North Madrigal Singers" to "Oshkosh North High School Madrigal Singers". Also, all occurrences of "Lourdes Academy" were changed to "Lourdes High School".

.12-27-2007

          Added Index for "Classic Guitar, Lute and Vihuela Discography" by Ronald C. Purcell - Index for "Famous Wisconsin ..." Series by Badger Books.

.12-17-2007

          Added Daniel Hecht Discography.

.12-12-2007

          Added "Wisconsin Discography" - Name Index - by school (High Schools K9-12).

.12-06-2007

          Added "Wisconsin Discography" - Name Index - by school (Colleges & Universities).

.12-04-2007

          Added Wisconsin Punk Rock Musicians - Sub-genre pages of Wisconsin Pop/Rock: Help Wanted - Article: Apple Blossom Books slated to open next month downtown.

.11-25-2007: Trivia, the Folk Library Index is 12 years old today!

.10-22-2007

          Added Domain Alphabetization Rules

.10-21-2007

          Added Opera Bibliography

.10-20-2007

          Added Opera Singer Index

.10-14-2007

          Added WMMM Radio CD Collections Discography - WMSE Radio CD Collections Discography.

.10-10-2007

          Added Afghan Press Discography (Wisconsin Composers only)

.09-24-2007

          Added GoGirlsMusicFest Discography

.09-20-2007

          A great big THANK YOU!! to http://www.websitegrader.com/ for evaluating my site and FINALLY telling me exactly how to invalidate the link of those people who I have asked to consistently link to me at "http://www.folklib.net/", and NOT "http://folklib.net/", but who have refused to change their link. Because of the resulting confusion to Search Engines, an indexing problem called "link fragmentation" occurs. Search Engines, like Google, think they are two different sites instead of the same site. Website Grader considers it an ERROR if they find indexed links to otherwise identical URL's both with and without the "www." They pointed out that this error can be corrected by installing what they call a "permanent 301 redirect". I have just done so, and everyone who clicks on what I personally feel is an incorrectly installed link, "http://folklib.net/", will now be automatically redirected to "http://www.folklib.net/". Yippee!

.08-21-2007

          Added Irish Fest: 1981-1985 Performers - Irish Fest: 1986-1990 Performers - Irish Fest: 1991-1995 Performers - Irish Fest: 1996-1999 Performers - Irish Fest: 2004 Performers - Irish Fest: 2005 Performers - Irish Fest: 2006 Performers - Missing Liner Notes Information

.07-12-2007

          Connected to Time Warner Cable's "Roadrunner", after a frustrating year of Dial-Up Service from Milwaukee PC, getting my Internet connection dropped twice a day on average. I bought a DSL Modem from Milwaukee PC and paid them a year in advance for AT&T DSL Service, but their Modem never connected to the Internet for even a single second, so I could only connect via their Dial-Up for the past year. AT&T on-site repairmen do not exist. If your DSL problem cannot be fixed by AT&T over the phone, you're screwed! AT&T and Milwaukee PC had my money so why should they give a damn whether their DSL modem ever worked or not? On 06-27-2007 I paid Milwaukee PC for a second year of Dial-Up Service, but their service crashed that night and never came back up. Milwaukee PC cashed my check and kept my payment, but neglected to tell me their Dial-Up Service had been permanently discontinued. Screwed again! Two strikes and Milwaukee PC is OUT, and Roadrunner is IN.

.05-22-2007

          Added Doug Henkle's Environmental Log .

.04-27-2007

          Added Bibliography: Weekend - Fond du Lac (was Go!)

.04-24-2007

          Added Bibliography: Weekend - Appleton (was Encore)

.04-11-2007

          Added Bibliography: Maximum Ink

.03-31-2007

          Added Venue History: Amherst Coffee Co. - Venue History: Between the Pages - Venue History: Ecotopia - Venue History: Foxley's - Venue History: Jensen Theater - Venue History: Kaukauna Coffee & Tea - Venue History: St. Brendan's Irish Pub - Venue History: Thrasher Opera House - Venue History: Trilogy Pizza - Venue History: Wolf River Theater.

.03-30-2007

          Added history/obits.shtml. Date?: moved to Obituary Index.

.03-09-2007

          Removed top-of-the-page information on this site which listed serious site problems, in chronological order: 12-15-2005 and 06-12-2006. Unfortunately, these problems significantly affected how this site is now updated. The original concept since 1995 of uploading at one time all pages updated since a specific date is no longer possible at this time, or for the foreseeable future. From this point forward, until further notice, pages will be updated individually as needed, and as noted by the "(last updated .mm-dd-yyyy)" note at the top of every page.
          A number of new pages have been installed since 12-15-2005 which were not listed here until now.
02-26-2006 WOCT-FM 101.9 "Oshkosh Artists"
03-27-2006 Wisconsin Soul Discography
03-27-2006 Wisconsin R&B (Rhythm & Blues) Musicians
03-27-2006 Wisconsin R&B Discography
04-28-2006 Wisconsin Hip hop Musicians
04-28-2006 WAMI Website Awards
05-02-2006 WAMI Award Categories
05-02-2006 1996 WAMI Award Nominees (Winners unknown)
05-04-2006 WAMI Hall of Fame Biographies
05-06-2006 1997 WAMI Award Nominees (Winners unknown)
05-28-2006 WAMI Awards Show Programs (scans, long load)
05-31-2006 2004 WAMI Award Nominees & Winners
05-31-2006 2005 WAMI Award Nominees & Winners
05-31-2006 2006 WAMI Award Nominees & Winners
06-01-2006 2003 WAMI Award Nominees & Winners
06-08-2006 Past Wisconsin Music Festivals (2004)
06-08-2006 Past Wisconsin Music Festivals (2005)
06-08-2006 Past Wisconsin Music Festivals (2006)

06-15-2006 Wisconsin Concert Poster Collection
07-30-2006 Wisconsin Radio Discography
08-06-2006 Desiderata
09-01-2006 Wisconsin Solo Guitarists
10-08-2006 Wisconsin Concertina Players
10-23-2006 House on the Rock Discography
10-23-2006 House on the Rock Music Machines
11-01-2006 WAMI Producer Awards
11-17-2006 1998 WAMI Award Nominees & Winners
11-17-2006 1999 WAMI Award Nominees & Winners
11-18-2006 2000 WAMI Award Nominees & Winners
12-10-2006 Getting Published Bibliography

.02-25-2007

          Due to requests, re-ordered and changed the Domain Site Map, replacing the URL text with each page's actual title. In case you prefer the old version, which will no longer be maintained, here is the only link to it. However, as of 05-15-2007, this changeover process is not complete. See the bottom of the page (#480 or so, on) for what it will eventually all look like.

.11-25-2006: Trivia, the Folk Library Index is 11 years old today!

.09-05-2006

          Changed all Mike Moroney's KiwiFolk links from "http://www.kiwifolk.org.nz/" to "http://www.kiwifolk.com/".
          Changed all Minnesota Public Radio links from "http://www.mpr.org/" to "http://minnesota.publicradio.org/".

.08-07-2006

          Vacation -- 8/07-12/2006, no computer or E-Mail access for 6 days. I was in New York City. The highlight of the trip for me was the Iridium Jazz Club and seeing Les Paul for the first time! 91 years old and still playing two 1-1/2 hour sets every Monday night, year 'round, simply AMAZING! Icing on the cake was one guest artist that night, also seen for the first time in person, Muriel Anderson! A few memorable pictures of that night can be seen at, Les Paul.

.06-12-2006

          Now that I finally have a VMS editing account again, why will it take awhile before I can resume installing updates to the Web site? I did a double backup of all source files (aka web pages) in my old VMS account. Neither of those backup copies have been changed since. However, I have been using a UNIX text editor to manually edit pages live on the Web site since the backup and my old account was deleted. Thus my source files and what is on the Web site are now grossly out of sync. I have to find every page changed on the Web site since 12-05-2005, download each one to my new account, compare each one with its original matching source file, and install the Web site changes in the source files. There may be as many as 700 pages that have to be re-synced like this, one by one, before I can resume normal editing and installation of updated source files. I don't know how long this will take, but it may be a month or more.
          The Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC, pronounced "deck") created the VMS Operating System that ran on thousands of its VAX, MicroVAX and Alpha Servers and Workstations in the 1980's and 1990's. As Digital was bought out by Compaq, which in turn was bought out by HP, VMS was phased out and replaced by Micro$oft Windows at the corporate level, but it remains in continuing demand at the user level.
          My new account is at http://eisner.decus.org/, an entire Web site and organization devoted exclusively to a large community of VMS users! In the 1980's, it started out as DECUS (DEC User's Society), evolved into Encompass, but is now a separate organization no longer with any direct corporate support. It is fully supported by volunteers and donations. Associating myself with an organization like this, it is unlikely that I will ever lose my VMS editing account again.

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