Alf's Place 

• ABC explained - If you are going to use abc you need to read this at least once in your life or go here where you will find an excellent tutorial and other material.
• ABCEditor from Elizabeth Scarlett is on this site. This is a 32 bit multiple document interface (MDI) version of the popular features of ABCTools and ABCFind. It also provides a GUI interface to abcm2ps (and the like) and provides a tune index for multiple ABC files. The zip file has some short instructions for setting up ABCeditor, Ghostscript and the other files you need to print music.
• ABCTools & ABCFind - Programs for working with abc files by Elizabeth Scarlett. These versions were re-compiled to deal with long file names. ABCtools lets you make cheat sheets or cards to help remember tunes and sets.
• Ceolas abc stuff - The master site for Celtic music
• John Chambers Tune Finder - web site for finding tunes in abc format
• ABC Navigator - A very nice program that plays abc tunes at whatever speed you select. The program will also export midi files that can be read into BIAB
• Henrik Norbek's site - A terrific source of celtic music in abc format. You will also find ABCmus there; a very good abc player.
• abcm2ps - Program to convert multi-voice abc tunes to postscript files.
• JA ABC2ps - A modified version of ABC2ps by John Atchley.
• James Allwright's DOS programs for manipulating abc files.
• ABC listserver - abc Discussion group.
• Ghostscript and Ghostview - programs for printing and viewing postscript music files

Band in a Box Links

• PG Music - Band-in-a-Box - Where you can buy the BIAB and PowerTracks software
• A Yahoo users group where you can get BIAB files of all kinds and communicate with other users of BIAB.

Other links

• If you are looking for a fine fiddle, you must visit Dennis Alexander's page and - even better - arrange to try one of his instruments.
• If you are looking for a Bodhran tipper you have to visit Jim Hunter's page.
• Craig Hamm's site gives lots of information about Celtic music in Ottawa.
• Rasputin's - The folk music café in Ottawa. Go visit the site
• I play with the Ottawa Fiddle Ensemble, a group of amateur musicians playing a mix of Canadian, Irish, and Scottish tunes.
• Ottawa - about Canada's capital
• Alfredo de Pietra's page has links for Celtic guitar and Band in a Box.
• Alisdair Birch's page is a good place to go if you play guitar, especially jazz guitar. You will find lots of useful information about and links to guitars, Band-in-a-Box, Scotland etc.