I’m kind of bored of seeing the same stuff over and over again on iTunes, and I know that there are a lot of people from around the world on this board, so let me know what’s new and cool or old and good from where yall are from. I want to hear some new stuff (and unlike most Americans I am open to music that I’ve never heard of before, even if it’s in a language I don’t speak.
What are you listening to?
Have you tried Tony Hinnigan? www.tonyhinnigan.com You can even download songs from his website. He’s got a South American flair. I like listening to his Peso Whistle album.
Austin…
You might try going away from your computer, taking your whistle to a new environment…woods, park, lake, empty church, your room…whatever…and just begin to play. Play what you know. Simple or complex. You’ll begin to hear the musical “language” YOU speak. Everyone finds their own “music,” sooner or later. Now is a good time to start. Copying and replication are good, and so is finding your own way. Nobody’ll ever play like you. Cheers.
One of my latest discoveries is Christina Branco www.christinabranco.com .
Fado with a bit of modern flavor.
You said from around the world, try Katalena, slovenian ethnic music played with a modern twist, well really modern twist. It also has whistle in it.
http://www.katalena.net/ I know the site is in slovene, but you can listen to the music on it, and check out the videos.
Good idea, but I only listen to American music
Seriously, there are quite a few music groups in Hungary that are worth listening to.
My favorite is “moon light cinema networks” (www.moonlightcinemanetworks.com) caz it has very good collection of the music You must see for your choice and see if you can get the music of your choice.
Since I really know celtic music most of my stuf has celtic influence.
From Galicia, Spain you should check out the Galician Piper Susana Seivane her website is here. She occasionally has Whistle in her music.
A young American band that not many people have heard of called Millish is really good.
Here is their website they sound a bit like Flook and Shooglenifty (if those names are unfamiliar go download their stuff from iTunes right now). They are a bit more contemporary doing trad tunes, original tunes, one tune that Flook does written by Diarmaid Monyihan, a version of Stairway to Heaven, and a jazz tune written by Jazz Guitar great Dave Brubeck.
Try the youtube thread. There’s been a lot of new contemporary stuff posted in there as well as a heck of a lot of old classics (and not so classics).
Hi!
Fun topic 
Here are some of my Swedish favorites:
Anna Ternheim
Check out the videos under the “Music” section.
Elin Sigvardsson
Some nice videos and sound clips in the “Multimedia” section.
Laleh
some more stuff on her old site that is still up
And yes, I use to have a crush on Kate Rusby, Regina Spector … How could you tell? 
/MarcusR
Try Mugar. It is my current favorite along with Lunasa.
It is a melting of breton, irish and berbere music. The musics are melting so perfectly that sometimes you don’t know whether you are in the desert or looking at the ocean on the breton coast…
Sorry, but the site is in french.
http://www.mugar.info/Index3.htm
I also like Gwendal (I think some musicians comme from Mugar, or is it the contrary). They have various and interesting influences : jazz, galicians, breton, irish, spanish.
I could mention Plantec, a breton group that sometimes mixes techno rythms with bombarde sounds (very nice if you can stand the sound of a bombarde more than 5 minutes).
I recently found a very interesting group - Arz Nevez - that transposes trad celtic music for string quartets, or generally string instruments. Nonetheles they have guest musicians and singers.
Finally, I also like Tornaod and Shannon (the band not the accordion/concertina player).
You can find all those groups and many others on an interesting site that provide online celtic music :
Basically the site is in french but I am pretty sure that they have an english version.
Bump!
Would be fun to get some more input, especially something you don’t think made it out outside your own country yet.
Cheers!
/MarcusR
Eddie from Ohio is a great folk-rock group.
They are ironically based in Northern Virginia.
I’m lucky to live in an area that draws in music from all over the world so I usually buy Cds at concerts
but not too long ago I subscribed to “Sing Out” magazine.
“Sing Out” is a Folk Music oriented magazine that isn’t afraid of World Music. I’ve found the mag. very informative in giving me an overview of various folk musics.
There’s sections in the mag. where they review releases of music and tell you where the festivals are.
http://singout.org/
I realize there are other magazines that do all that but with each subscribed copy they also give you a Cd with songs on it done by some of the musicians featured in that issue
with the lyrics and music provided in the hard copy magazine.
Apart from the usual Irish stuff I’ve been listening to a lot of Central Javanese gamelan music nowadays. I’m learning it as a class in my school, and its been great fun.
http://www.ibiblio.org/gamelan/
You can get lots of free gamelan music from this ensemble that records all their concerts. They’re based in North Carolina, pretty good too. Click on “Audio” to listen to stuff…
Its a great music to play, very addictive.
A few weeks back I was listening to Astor Piazzolla
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y5iwCQ3pTw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOsGKW3Dvl0
I was also listening to Maria Callas around then..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvrHxQ3qjAE