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Music Sites:

• Music Teacher Resources for school closures March, 2020
• American Federation of Musicians New- includes COVID-19 resources for musicians
• Sheet Music Plus
• ReverbNation
• Puget Sound Guitar Workshop
• Bandcamp for Artists
• IPASource.com IPA pronunciations, and meaning translations, of your favourite tunes in other languages
• ClassicalSinger.com
• Spotify for Artists
• SPL Playback - Info for Artists PlayBack is Seattle Public Library's "free, online local music collection that captures the diversity of Seattle’s music scene."
• Victory Music
• UltimateGuitar.com
• Trance Audio high-performance acoustic guitar amplification
• H.E.A.R. (Hearing Education and Awareness for Rockers)
• Performing / Busking
  • Pike Place Market Permit Applications - including Busker Permits
  • Seattle Park Use Permits - Reserve a playfield, facility, stage or performing arts area, or to use a park for a gathering
  • Seattle Park Buskers Facebook Group

• iHeart Radio and Podcast Streaming
• Minnesota Public Radio
• Great Big Radio
• Upstream Music Festival
• Northwest Folklife Festival
• One Reel Productions - Bumbershoot, Summer Nights at the Pier, Womad, 1 Reel Film Festival, etc...
• Zoo Tunes concerts at the Woodland Park Zoo
• Female Singer-Songwriter Webring
• Pandora Music Streaming
  
• Spotify
  
• Soundcloud
  
• Best Music Streaming Services - March 2020 article in DigitalTrends magazine
  
• Daemon Records Amy Ray's Indie Label

• Indigo Girls Official Site
• Sarah McLachlan
• Joan Armatrading Website
• Melissa Etheridge Official Site
• West Seattle Community Orchestras
• Brandi Carlile
• Mark O'Connor.com
• Ballard Sedentary Sousa Band
• Seattle Symphony
• Music Ensembles - Classical Seattle

• Music of Alfonso X el Sabio
• Spanish Medieval Music
• Medieval Spanish Playlist on Spotify
• Sephardic / Ladino Playlist on Spotify
• Sephardic Music Festival Blog
• SephardicMusic.org
• Golden Land All sorts of Jewish Music, but this page has some downloadable samples that include a few ladino tunes.
• Camlann Medieval Village - I have occasionally heard musicians plaing medieval Spanish songs here

• Ultimate Guitar Tabs
• Underground Music Archive
• Shots on Ultimate Guitar Putting this here to check it out. Looks like people recording themselves playing and singing songs on the site
• Free Cello Sheet Music - Classical
• Big Bass Tabs
• Bass Tabs on Ultimate-tabs.com
• Best Apps for Learning to Play Cello - 2019 per Connolly Keys
• Bass-Playing lessons on Youtube
• Learning cello music on Youtube

Art-Related Sites:

• Web Museum network
• ArtSource - Online resources for Art and Architecture
• Art | Black Lives Matter
• Smithsonian Institution
• National Endowment for the Arts
• ArtsFund.org
• List of Museums in Washington State
• Artsy.net
  
• 2020 - Lists Museums offering virtual tours you can take on your couch:
  • Google Arts & Culture Tours
    1. MoMA The Museum of Modern Art - New York, United States
    2. Musée d’Orsay Paris - Paris, France
    3. Uffizi Gallery - Florence, Italy
    4. Getty Museum The J. Paul Getty Museum - Los Angeles, United States
    5. National Museum - New Delhi, India
    6. The Art Institute of Chicago - Chicago, IL, United States
    7. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum - Santa Fe, NM, United States
    8. Detroit Institute of Arts - Detroit, MI, United States
    9. The Met The Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York, United States
    10. La Caza Azul Museo Frida Kahlo - Ciudad de México, Mexico
    11. The Tate Tate Britain - London, United Kingdom
    12. Rijks Museum Rijksmuseum - Amsterdam, Netherlands
    13. The Guggenheim Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation - New York, United States
    14. Van Gogh Museum - Amsterdam, Netherlands
    15. The National Museum of Anthropology - Mexico City
    16. MASP - The Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo
    17. La Galleria Nazionale - Roma, Italy
    18. Pergamon Museum - Berlin
    19. MCMANational Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art - Gwacheon-si, South Korea
  • Museum-hosted Virtual Tours
    1. The Louvre
    2. The Vatican Museum
    3. Museum of The World The British Musem Interactive Timeline of historic artifacts
  
  

• ArtsSpace.org
• Artwork Archive
• Free Online Art Resources - My Modern Met
• Online Art Classes for Kids
• Online Art Classes
• SeattleArtists.com
• Chicago Artists Coalition
• Digital Education Resources

Pets

• Seattle Animal Shelter
  
  
• PetFinder.com - online pet adoption, homefinding, and lost & found resources - aka petfinder.org
  
  
• Petango.com online pet adoption, similar to PetFinder
  
  
• Rescueme.org online pet adoption, etc
  
  
• Seattle-area Regional Pet Shelters and Rescue Groups
  
  
• Petfinder Library - Which species/breed to adopt, behaviour/training, pet care, and more!
  
  
• Rescue Groups, Shelters, Adoption
  • Adoptable pets at Seattle Animal Shelter
  • Adopt a Dog or Cat in Auburn Washington — Auburn Valley Humane Society
  • Dogs Available for Adoption — Burien C.A.R.E.S.
  • Home - Emerald City Pet Rescue
  • Adopt a Pet | Everett, WA - Official Website
  • Homeward Pet | Available Dogs & Puppies
  • Adoptable Dogs | The Humane Society for Tacoma and Pierce County
  • Kitsap Humane Society | Available Pets
  • MEOW Cat Rescue - Home
  • PAWS | Progressive Animal Welfare Society | PAWS
  • Purrfect Pals
  • Rabbit Meadows - Quality Supplies for Companion Animals
  • Adoptable animals - King County
  • SAFe Home • Seattle Area Feline Rescue
  • Seattle Humane – Saving Lives, Completing Families
  • Seattle Purebred Dog Rescue
  • Available Breeds | Seattle Purebred Dog Rescue
  • Search Pets – Metro Animal Services
  • Pierce County, WA - Animal Adoptions
  • Feral Cat Spay/Neuter Project - Lynnwood, WA
• Pet Supplies
  • Pet Licenses - Animal Shelter | seattle.gov
  • Pet Food, Products, Supplies at Low Prices - Free Shipping | Chewy.com
  • https://www.1800petmeds.com/
  • https://www.hillspet.com/
  • Petco - Pet Supplies, Pet Food, and Pet Products
  • PetSmart - Pet Supplies, Accessories and Products Online
  • Amazon.com: Pet Supplies
  • All The Best Pet Care

Advocacy / Causes

• ACLU
• Seattle's Asian American Movement
• Black Lives Matter
• Global Down Syndrome Foundation
• National Organization of Women (NOW)
• AJC - Global Jewish Advocacy
• Washington Autism Advocacy
• Social Messages of the ELCA
• AJC Canadian Anti-Hate Network
• HRC Human Rights Campaign
• Puget Sound Association of the Deaf
• Federal Election Commission
• Learning Disabilities Association of Washington
• National Autism Association
• AJC Transequality.org
• GLAAD Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
• JACL Japanese American Citizens League
• The Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law
• College of the Environment University of Washington
• Seattle Homelessness portal
• Healthcare for the Homeless University of Washington
• Latino USA
• Imagen Awards
• NAACP Image Awards
• Native American Rights Fund
• CAIR Council on American-Islamic Relations | Become an Ally
• ING - Educating for cultural literacy and mutual respect
• Indigenous Peoples and Cultures - Government of Canada

Gardening

• http://www.washington811.com/ Call or use their app before you dig
• Free Trees for Neighborhoods - Seattle
• South Seattle College Landscape Horticulture Program
• Victory Garden Online
• Northwest Garden Nursery - Oregon
• Swanson Nursery - Seattle
• Garden Structures Better Homes and Gardens
• Landscape Horticulture Faculty | South Seattle College
• Gardening Tips from Rosso Gardens | Seattle WA
• WestSeattleNursery.com
• Ciscoe Morris Articles
• University of Washington Center for Urban Horticulture
• P-Patch Community Gardening
• City Fruit - help residential fruit tree owners
• Tilth Alliance
• 11 Free Garden Planners and Programs
• Tree Planting & Care
• http://www.urbanforestnursery.com/treeprofiles/profilepersianironwood.html
• Toolkit for Gardeners - Specifically for P-Patch gardeners, but lots of good resources for anyone
• Rainyside.com Northwest gardeners

Miscellaneous

• The Dialectizer
• HowStuffWorks.com
• Project Management Institute
• Despair, Inc. ;-} Check out the Suckcessories demotivational posters. Hilarious!

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