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Folklife​ & Folklife West

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Illustrations by Joseph Crawhall of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1821-1896)
2021  Jan.-Apr.  news pages
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Folklife West magazine's print pages,  copied online 
     A4-size print  pages:  website unsuitable for phones 
Folklife,  www.folklife.uk,   sam@folklife.uk    [not .co.uk!]
            ●     JAN      (Jan to Apr) ,     print deadline 19 Nov *  
            ●     MAY   (May to Aug),    print deadline 19 Mar *  
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●     SEPT   (Sept to Dec),    print deadline 19 Jul *

* for deadlines during Covid, for online-only issues,
   or part-print, part-online issues,  see Updates page
Free emailed Folklife Newsletter ~ news & zoom updates, deadline-reminders
~  email us,
sam@folklife.uk,  or sign-up below ​
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Festivals & Workshops Diary
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Folk at the Prince © Eden Tanner
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Virtual Folk webpage
After INDEX  (1)  a form  for our free emailed newsletter (monthly-ish), or   just email sam@folklife.uk with same details

Also . . . . . . .  (2)  join Folklife, paid-for magazine (A4, 60 pages) by post or PDF, includes publicity for your news/listings
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INDEX news & other webpages -- a print magazine ​-- it's big !

What we do is first print & distribute the magazine for 1 Jan/May/Sept.  
Then we update online.  The 
current issue of the entire magazine is free online !
It's big (60-64 A4 pages) so 4 websites - the majority on this main site has our members' news and summary listings.
Copied online, with ④ websites:    

①  Folklife West, this site, folklife.uk, for area/national FOLK NEWS, c.40 print pages (out of FW's 60-64 pages)
       Each country or area has its own webpage:   copies of print pages, also each has a free PDF download. Pages 19-49.           
       
Also our Festivals & Workshops Diary, for the next 12 months  Pages 50-60. ​
Pages 2-10  are our Folklife Traditions page on FT website, pages 11-18 are our Wales News Pages on the Wales website, 
details of both are below the Index to this site.   
       Links = details of top-of-page menu webpages


Our webpages on our folk-news site: pictures & texts below give a summary of each webpage, with the same titles as top-of-page navigation menu.
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Updates page

News Updates &
​Directory Updates
 
& our free emailed
Newsletters
Keep in touch
 - do sign up!
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Virtual Folk
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 Zoom, etc listings
detailed Directory
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ARTICLE webpage

#FutureOfFolk :  Lynn Noel of Digital Heritage Consulting
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Diary:
Folk Festivals & Workshops Diary (formerly on our Directory website) 
- Festivals/Workshops -
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Folk News: Wales
on our
​Cymru/Wales
​website
------ Cymru / Wales ------
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Folk News: SW​
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South-West region:
Kernow/Cornwall,
Devon, ​Somerset,
Dorset, Wiltshire,
Bristol, South Glos
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Folk News: SW
​Gloucestershire
& 
Oxfordshire
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------ England - South-West  (West Country) ------
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Folk News: W.Mids
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West Midlands
​region

exc. Herefs-Worcs
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Folk News: W.Mids
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Herefordshire &
​Worcestershire
---------- ​England - West Midlands region ---------- 
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Folk News: Other UK
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Other UK

England other regions ;
​Scotland
 
--------------- Other UK ----------------
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Portsmouth
Maritime 
Folk Festival

Folk News: International
​International ​(online only)
EU, USA, World
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Info page 
(print page 3 & PDF downlaod)
membership, ad rates,
word limits
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Data
​Protection
​Policy
 Our other websites include some other FW pages.
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 Article:
 ​ 'The
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  Sailor'
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② FT

www.folklife-traditions.uk   "Folklife Traditions"
Researched ARTICLES, all issues can be downloaded as PDFs;
folklife organisations,
news,  FW pages 2-10.  
​Website also has an online 
ARCHIVE by author and by issue.
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Illustration from article & song: ‘The Saucy Sailor’, by Roy & Lesley Adkins.

Download current FT issue:   FT:  this issue online​   view online and free download   

③ FD

folklife-directory.uk   
Our online Folklife Members' Directory.
1-line summaries on this site on area News pages
On FD site, full details, arranged by the same areas
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④ Cymru

bywyd-gwerin.cymru  Cymru/Wales news
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​Wales folk news,  FW pages 11-18.
Plus Wales Members' Directory  and articles on Welsh traditions
This form is for our free emailed newsletter (monthly-ish), or   just email sam@folklife.uk with the same details. 

This is useful for you, with U​​pdates for News, Directory, & Folklife Traditions (& deadline reminders). 
    So we spend less time on admin/emails = more time for magazine & website.  And know how many read this, & where, and so resource appropriately!  
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Keep in touch with our free emailed occasional Newsletter
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Updates: News, Directory, Folklife Traditions (& Deadline Reminders).
 
A form to sign up to Folklife Newsletter and/or for new Folklife members
OR if you prefer, simply email same details to sam@folklife.uk
​      New permissions only ​(so if any changes, please email instead)
      We don't pass on details.  Data policy (opt-in) see Data webpage

Permission to hold & use your personal information

* indicates required
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 Folklife Membership  for Folklife West magazine, folk news & Folklife Traditions pages, post, or pdf via WeTransfer.
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For Folklife Membership payments  ('Folklife' is a non-profit group):
                        -- or -- a small donation    (our free-to-you websites cost us over £300 a year):
​BACS: Folklife, sort code 09-01-55, account 18675181.   For our overseas bank codes, please email sam@folklife.uk
Sterling only, bank transfers only.  No payments via this site (no cards).
   ∆  A posted magazine, and your publicity -- your folk news; + your folk listings added to Directory, mentioned in Updates.
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  TO JOIN FOLKLIFE ① ② ③ √     ①-- Data consent, opt-in form above √.    ②-- Please email your address: sam@folklife.uk √.
                                                                             ③--  Please pay by BACS, Folklife, sort code 09-01-55, account 18675181, cost details on next line  √.

​   ∆  Normally ... annual fee for members £18, UK post or overseas PDF via WeTransfer; or EU £27 posted.  But Jan & May are smaller than usual, so
         3 issues incl. Jan, £14 for 3 issues (Jan. & May each £2 less as smaller than usual).  Or  3 issues starting May £16.
   ∆  Your publicity: your news in FW, and listings for online Directory (with summary in FW)  -- we can draft, for you to amend, 
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   Or  new from Jan 2021: "Folklife Traditions" only.  Subscription, 3 issues, £10: Jan 2021 (this includes May, Sept 2020!); May 2021, Sep 2021
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 PRINTED PAGES, also copied online: on www.folklife-traditions.uk website. 
   <>    FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS (FT) pages only !  Printed, plus view/download on www.folklife-traditions.uk website. 
 Researched articles, plus Folklife news - about non-profit organisations promoting folk music, researchers, etc; your book news. 

 FW Jan 2020: a special print edition, combining FT pages of  FT 64 May online, FT 65 Sep 2020 online, plus FT 66 Jan 2021.
  • FT 64, May 2020 (was online only).  ◊  Article & song: ‘The Saucy Sailor’, by Roy & Lesley Adkins ◊  ‘The Worcestershire Three-handed Reel’, researched by Gwilym Davies  ◊ ‘Gwenynen Gwent’ / ‘The Busy Bee of Gwent’, Welsh traditional tune, Arr. Helen Adam ◊ Obit: Bill Pullen, p59  inside back cover
  • FT 65, Sep 2020 (was online only).  ◊ #FutureOfFolk: Lynn Noel of Digital Heritage Consulting Looks Ahead ◊Edi beo þu heuene quene: a love song by any name by Ian Pittaway  ◊    ‘Mwynen Meirionydd / The Pleasing Melody of Meirionydd’, Welsh traditional tune, Arr. Helen Adam ◊  ‘Early, early in the Spring’, sung by Norman Perks by Gwilym Davies 
  • FT 66, Jan 2021. ◊  ‘The Leaving of Liverpool’, by Roy & Lesley Adkins  ◊   ‘Y Ferch o’r Scêr’ / ‘The Maid of Sker’’,  Welsh traditional tune, Arr. Helen Adam ◊ ‘A New York State Folk Tale’, from Catherine LaBier by Gwilym Davies  ◊ Book reviews  The Death of the Pagan Mummer: ‘Mummers’ Plays Revisited’ by Peter Harrop; review by Stephen Rowley. ‘ “Catch it, Bottle it and Paint it Green” aka Tales of a Folk Song Collector’ by Gwilym Davies; review by David Kidman​. 
  • Folklife Studies & Traditions: Folklife News & Diary  Books & recordings announced, and Folklife Societies news​​​​
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​ ONLINE-ONLY in January, on this site
​  
<> FOLK NEWS pages

       as many news items are unchanged (such as general
   description of clubs), we have highlighted new news items 
​   for the January issue by green boxes around them thus --->

  <>  FESTIVALS & WORKSHOPS DIARY pages
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​  <> THE ONLINE DIRECTORY on folklife-directory.uk website, listing FOLKLIFE MEMBERS only
       LISTINGS for VENUES, PERFORMERS, MEDIA, SERVICES, WORKSHOP PROVIDERS 

​​Normally, only News from our supportive Members is publicised.
Exceptionally, during lockdown  . . .  we will include others who have signed up for our Newsletter mailing list, free, below
 news from non-members outside our area; plus Zoom sessions, anywhere

We are supporting our Folklife Members who support Folklife by paid subscription
Recurring fixed costs (upgrades for computers & software; fees for websites, domains, email) & less income from printed magazine, 
​we are losing even more money than usual !
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Your CDs
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Folklife Members: publicise your CD in FW, up to 200 words (more if advert) + CD cover jpg.  To join, see above.

Folk CD Reviews: see LT.  ​We work with the Living Tradition magazine
For reviews, which we don't have time to do (so don't send us CDs, please!), 
see the reviews page of Folklife Member THE LIVING TRADITION magazine, livingtradition.co.uk
     ​LT reviews online, on ​livingtradition.co.uk/magazine/reviews, as well as printing in LT.
For sending CDs for review to LT, please view livingtradition.co.uk/node/1979
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Where to buy Folklife West.

Many sales are 1 copy through the post, via £18 a year Folklife membership, see Info webpage

Most Members are actively involved - about 80% of Members are listed in our online Directory as performers & organisers of folk clubs, sessions, festivals

BELOW: some copies are available from clubs, shops, and correspondents, ................. see Info webpage for reselling discounts
  • WALES
  • ENGLAND WEST COUNTRY
  • ENGLAND WEST MIDLANDS
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WALES​ - club details on bywyd-gwerin.cymru/cyfeiriadur.html
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South-East:
<> Newport Folk Club
<> Llantrisant Folk Club (National Correspondent, Mick Tems)

North-East:  
<> Rhyl Folk Club (Correspondent, N Wales & Cheshire, Brian Bull)
WEST COUNTRY

South-West region except Glos- club/session details on www.folklife-directory.uk/south-west.html
https://www.folklife-directory.uk/south-west.html
​   Cornwall             <> Bodmin Folk Club​  
                             
<> Dreamers Folk Club​ (Cornwall Correspondent, Nigel Morson)
​   Devon                 <> Bideford Folk Club    
                              
<> Topsham Folk Club
                              <> Pennymoor Singaround (Pennymoor runs various other sessions)
                              <> Teignmouth Folk Club (S Devon correspondent, Martyn Hillstead)
​​   North Somerset  <> Nailsea Folk Club
   Dorset                <>  The Trooper Folk Song Night (North Dorset & South Somerset Correspondent, John Waltham)
   Wiltshire:            <>  Village Pump Friday Folk

Gloucestershire & Oxfordshire  - club/session details on https://www.folklife-directory.uk/glos-oxon.html
​   Gloucestershire:   <> Dursley Acoustic Music Nights
                               <> Queen Victoria Song Session, Stroud     
                               
<> Forest Folk Club
                               <> various Ceilidhs, Sessions, Roving Correspondent (mid-west), Cresby Brown
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WEST MIDLANDS

Herefordshire & Worcestershire - club/session details on  www.folklife-directory.uk/herefs-worcs.html
    Herefordshire:    <> Folk Night at the Crown Inn  (Correspondents, Tales from under Black Hill, John & Jane Baxter)
    Worcestershire:  <> Bromsgrove Folk Club (Correspondent, South Birmingham, Bob Bignall)
                              <> Somers Trad Folk Club, Worcester      
                              <> Various clubs / sessions in S Worcs, SE Herefs, N Glos, the editors

Brum and nearby;  Warwickshire & Coventry
- shop/club/session details on https://www.folklife-directory.uk/midlands.html
   Birmingham:     <> Hobgoblin Birmingham shop            
                            <> Black Diamond Folk Club 
   Warwickshire & Coventry:  <> Bedworth Folk Club  (Warks & Coventry Correspondent Malc Gurnham)  
​                                            
<> Shifting Sundays Sessions    (South Warks / Cotswold Folk Correspondent Paul Bryan)  

​FOLKLIFE WEST

​Print magazine
  (c.60 A4 print pages) with Folklife Membership, printing your news, copying online, online Directory:
 
  
£18 year for 3 issues: posted UK; or as a PDF via WeTransfer.    
email sam@folklife.uk
​It is copied free to our various websites - freely accessible.   Single issue: sold in UK clubs, £3; or  PDF via WeTransfer, £3​
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● we are a non-profit group ~ FW  runs at a healthy loss.
● for us to continue, we need your support - by membership (just £18/year for posted FW  plus your publicity in print & online) -- or by  advertising --- for contacting us, and for more detailed info .... see the Info page

for contacting us, and for membership, and for ads info .... see the Info page

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  • Folklife West
  • Updates
  • Virtual-Folk
    • FutureOfFolk
  • Festivals & Workshops Diary
  • [ Cymru / Wales site ]
  • England: South West region
  • Glos-Oxon
  • West Midlands region
  • Herefs-Worcs
  • Other UK
  • International
  • [ Folklife Traditions site ]
  • [ Folklife Directory site ]
  • Info
    • Sizes
    • Team
  • Data
  • ( Homend Poets )