folklife.uk
  • 🄵🅆 Folklife West
  • ⎈ SEND NEWS form
  • ⎈ UPDATES
  • 🄵🅆 Cymru
  • 🄵🅆 West Country
  • 🄵🅆 Midlands
  • 🄵🅆 South-East
  • 🄵🅆 North
  • 🄵🅆 Alba
  • ⎈ International
    • ⎈ International Archive
  • 🄵🅆 Festivals, Workshops
  • 🄵🅆 Info
    • Data
    • Sizes
  • 🄵🅃🄹 Journal
  • 🄵🄳 Directory
  • 🄵🄳 Zoom
  • [Homend Poets]
Picture

​ABOUT FOLKLIFE:   
publishing print & online information.
---------------------------------------
   "FOLKLIFE WEST" print magazine, paid for; copied free online;
    deadlines apply.
 52-60 pages - news (copied to this site);  articles (separate site).

​     ①  This site:  Folk News area pages; Festivals/Workshops Diary; International; &
           Updates page  (Directory Updates; Members' News) + free emailed Updates 
    ②
  Articles on  www.folklife-traditions.uk : "FTJ" ~"Folklife Traditions Journal"  
           
~ Researched Articles, Folklife Studies, related news. From Jan 2023,  also available 
separately

---------------------------------------
 "FOLKLIFE'S DIRECTORY", Online Folk Directory  
     ③ See www.folklife-directory.uk   Free entries. Live & zoom.  No deadlines.
          
Your new & amended entries appear on our Updates page, & in our emailed Updates.
Picture
Picture
Picture
logo top left & top right,  Chris Beaumont; 
logo lower right, John Crane
Folklife: a non-profit group,
all of us unpaid volunteers.
Editors:
Sam & Eleanor 
Simmons
sam@folklife.uk​​
 
"Folklife is doing a great job of bringing us all together all over the world in these hard times" xx Heather & Huw, Pontardawe Valley FC
"That densely packed information sandwich that is Folklife West" - Tony Watts, former Acoustic Calendar
"Just wanted to thank you for sending the magazine it really is brilliant"  - Jan Ramsey, of Jan & Paul Ramsey, Hull ​
Picture
FW cover
Folklife & Folklife West

​Bywyd Gwerin . Bewnans Gwerin . Beatha Dùthchail

www.folklife.uk
​FOLKLIFE WEST magazine, print pages, copied online;  + online extras
  • www.folklife.uk,   sam@folklife.uk   (not .co.uk, .org.uk !)
  • Published JAN (deadline 20 Nov), MAY (20 Mar), and SEP (20 July),
  • FOLKLIFE is a non-profit group of volunteers.
  • A4-size print pages, so website is not intended for phones
  • In webpage index top of page: 
    • ​🄵🅆 = news print pages, copied online, ⎈ = online-only pages
Picture
Picture
Minehead Hobby Horse ​© J K Simmons The Prince, ​Ledbury  ©  Eden Tanner
​
.        
Picture
⎈ SEND NEWS webpage
FW Festival/Workshops: send Diary entries
⎈ UPDATES page to read
​
This site Folklife West print magazine, copied online; folk news ​from Folklife members
​
🄵🅆 ​Webpages, and our Correspondents         
🄵🅆 Cymru  .... Tudalen Cymru / Wales page, Mick Tems.   .......................................  N-E Wales & Cheshire, Brian Bull.  
                         Gwynedd, Travelling Sessions list local sessions.

England  🄵🅆  West Country (S-W)  Kernow (acting) David Harley.  .....................  Glos-based & Roving, Cresby aka Mr Red
               🄵🅆  Midlands    S. Birmingham & nearby, Bob Bignell.  .......................  Warwickshire with Coventry, Malc Gurnham.
                           Cotswold Folk: S.Warks/N.Cotswolds + listings, Paul Bryan.   S.W. Herefs and nearby, John & Jane Baxter.

               🄵🅆  South-East   Folk Arts Oxford website list: local folk
               🄵🅆  North:    North-West  Cumbria & North Lancashire, Steve Harrison   North-East    Yorks & Humber
🄵🅆 Alba          ⎈ International [online only]          🄵🅆 Festivals & Workshops Diary

Editors: Sam & Eleanor Simmons (Worcs).  Editing Team: David Harley (Cornwall).  Zoom, web advice: Paul Clarke (Southampton).
Illustrations & Logos:  Chris Stewart (Worcs), John Crane (Wolverhampton), Chris Beaumont (Glos).  
Photographs:  Eden Tanner
 (Herefs), Colin Davies (Worcs).                 We thank our Team, we are all Volunteers --- more welcome!​


Picture
 🄵🅃🄹 Folklife Traditions Journal pages in FW: on website www.folklife-traditions.uk

​    Researched articles + archive, news. Folk studies and cultural traditions.  
​    Membership welcome but not required for appropriate contributors.
    

    Current FTJ issue copied online: www.folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html, read, or download PDF.

And 🄵🄳 Folklife Directory free listings for all (online only), www.folklife-directory.uk

Anyone - Members, and any others (non-members) - can be listed free in our Directories;  forms for your listing on the website.
This includes our
 🄵🄳 Zoom/Virtual List


​free  emaileD  UPDATES  (6 to 12 a year)           for DETAILS: cliCk to open

​join our mailing list,  and get  free  directory listingS !  online, and  IN FW PRINT MAGazine !
 **** From Feb 2022,    FREE LISTINGS in our DIRECTORY  if you are on our emailed Updates list  ****
  • VENUES:  How often [e.g. Wkly, 1st],  Day,  County,  TOWN, NAME, website,  + optional contact name + optional phone
  • PERFORMERS, SHOPS, ETC (categories see online Directories):  County, NAME, website, + optional contact name + optional phone
​
A form for our free emailed Updates (monthly-ish)  
                    
-- 
or --  just email sam@folklife.uk with the same details. 

This is useful for you, 
​
with Updates
 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!  
​
Picture
Picture
Keep in touch with our free emailed occasional Updates

​​Updates: News, Directory, Folklife Traditions 
(& Deadline Reminders).

 
A form to sign up to Folklife Updates
​
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
INDEX --  top of page navigation menu   🄵🅆 = print & copied online   ⎈ = online only
Picture
Picture
​
​
🄵🅆  NEWS & Directory  ​AREA WEBPAGES   copying print pages 17 to 50,  links to these area webpages: 
Cymru • Wales
print pages
Picture
🄵🅆 
​
Cymru
England West Country
 ​print pages         
Picture
🄵🅆 
​
West Country

Kernow, Devon, ​Som.,
Dorset, Wiltshire,
Bristol, South Glos
​Glos
England East & West Midlands ​​print pages 
Picture
🄵🅆
Midlands
East Midlands &
​West Midlands
counties

England South-East ​print pages
Picture
🄵🅆
​South-East

England SE,
London

England North
​
​print pages
Picture
🄵🅆
North of England

NW, NE,Yorks & Humber regions
Alba • Scotland
​
​print pages
Picture
🄵🅆 
Alba
 
-- International --
⎈ Online 
⎈ ​International
Folk News
EU, USA,
​& rest of World
Picture
Also on this website ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------       On our other websites -------------------------------------------------------
🄵🅆  area NEWS
​WEBPAGES

​as above
Picture
⎈ Send news
Updates forms
 
Picture
webforms
⎈ Updates
Folk  News 
& Directory
Updates
 

​Our free email
Updates

Keep in touch
- do sign up!
Picture
emailed
​Updates
🄵🅆 UK Festivals,
Workshops
Picture
UK Diary
🄵🅆  
Print pages 
​1, 47-52
🄵🅆 Info+Team
Picture
membership, ad rates, word limits; our team​
🄵🅆
​
Print print p3; or download PDF
​-----------------------
Data ​Protection
​Policy
🄵🄳

​Folklife
Directory

​
​
includes
Picture
Directory
+ Articles


⎈Online only
🄵🅃🄹  Folklife
​Tradit'ns Journal
Picture
WEBSITE
Researched Articles with index &
archive PDFs
.
Organisations' news.

🄵🅆  
Print pages 
​2, 4-16
🄱🄶  Wales Trad'ns
Picture
WEBSITE​
​Site currently on hold

​Wales Folklife Traditions
articles, plus
Wales

Traditions'
Directory


(not part of magazine)
Picture
​
INDEX
 for our webpages (top of page) -- 
a print magazine ​-- it's big !
          What we do is first print & distribute the magazine for 1 Jan/May/Sept.  
Then we update online., usually by 14th.    The current issue of the entire magazine is free online !
It's big (52-64 A4 pages) so 2 websites - the majority on this main site has our members' news and summary listings.

​
Copied online, to 2 websites:  this is our main site (folklife.uk) 

Folklife West, this site, for area/national folk news.  About 40 print pages (out of FW's 52-64 pages).
Webpages index below: pictures & texts below give a summary, with the same titles as top-of-page navigation menu.
*  Folklife Traditions Journal link redirects to our Journal pages site.  

🄵🅆  Folklife West print news pages copied to website; + pdf downloads.   ⎈ Online only
Picture
   If you find this free website useful . . .  as FW print magazine always makes a healthy loss . . .  plus, these free websites cost c.£300 a year . . . 
​​   you may wish to donate £3 very occasionally,     by clicking the yellow box (for our "Ko-fi" site) for a 1-off £3 card payment. Thank you!
​

Folklife West 52-page print magazine, copied online *** Folk news on www.folklife.uk *** Researched articles on www.folklife-traditions.uk
If you can afford it, you may wish to support us, by a very occasional £3 donation, or buying a printed FW magazine, or a Pdf of FW, or by 
subscribing 

​–– Copied online - always free to view !     There's no obligation to buy magazines -- or to donate !
​PAYMENTS:  

​BACS / phone BANK

Folklife,  sort code 09-01-55,
account 18675181

 
Overseas, email
sam@folklife.uk for bank details.
​

Or CHEQUE to "Folklife",
16 Barrett Rise,Malvern, WR14 2UJ.


Or CARD - our payments site   
ko-fi.com/folklife/shop
Picture
---- Emailing PDF of current FW  
​--  £3
  Worldwide, via WeTransfer (sent as size A4 or US-letter)
​Link to card payment for PDF
ko-fi.com/s/8e92e77df9
Picture
---- Posting the current FW 
     (UK, EU only)  
​     UK £6.  EU £9.

​Link to card payment 1 copy
ko-fi.com/s/42287c6234
Picture
Annual Membership (3 issues) with
your news,

UK £18, EU £27.   Discounts for 2+.
​Link to card payment to subscribe
ko-fi.com/s/8624d72d04
Picture
----  Adverts from 1/8 A4 mono to A4 colour
​Link to card payments for adverts
ko-fi.com/s/34cd1547ab
Your CDs
​
Folklife Members: publicise your album 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, see the reviews page of Folklife Member THE LIVING TRADITION magazine, livingtradition.co.uk

LT will be closing later this year - see UPDATES page


Picture
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
WHERE to buy folklife - wales
WALES​ - club details see Directory - Venues on  🄵🅆 WALES  webpage
South-East:
<> Newport Folk Club
<> Llantrisant Folk Club:  National Correspondent, Mick Tems

North-East:  
<> Correspondent, N Wales & Cheshire, Brian Bull
WHERE TO BUY FOLKLIFE - West country
WEST COUNTRY

South-West region except Glos- club/session details on   SW Directory - Venues on 🄵🅆 West Country webpage 
​   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)
​​   North Somerset  <> Nailsea Folk Club
   Wiltshire:            <>  Village Pump Friday Folk

Gloucestershire & Oxfordshire  - club/session details on  Gl-Ox Directory - Venues​ on 🄵🅆 Glos-Oxon webpage ​
​   Gloucestershire:   <> Queen Victoria Song Session, Stroud     
                               
<> Forest Folk Club
                               <> various Ceilidhs, Sessions, Roving Correspondent (mid-west), Cresby Brown
WHERE TO BUY FOLKLIFE - WEST MIDLANDS
​
WEST MIDLANDS

Brum and nearby;  Warwickshire & Coventry
- shop/club/session details on  WM Directory - Venues on 🄵🅆 W.Mids webpage 
   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)  

Herefordshire & Worcestershire - club/session details on  H-W Directory - Venues on 🄵🅆 Herefs-Worcs webpage 
    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

​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​
FOLKLIFE WEST NO. 66    JAN, FEB, MAR, APR 2021.   COMBINED FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS JOURNAL PAGES (Articles):   FT 64 MAY & FT 65 SEP 2020 ONLINE; + FT 66 JAN 2021.  no news pages.  24 A4 PAGES.  £4 BY POST
Picture
A FEW COPIES AVAILABLE, £4 BY POST OR PDF VIA WETRANSFER
Picture
Picture
Picture
 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​​​​
​
​ 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
Picture

​  <> THE ONLINE DIRECTORY, 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 !
Picture
FOLKLIFE WEST NO. 67    MAY, JUN, JUL, AUG 2021.   
FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS JOURNAL,    FESTIVALS & WORKSHOPS DIARY (AREA FOLK NEWS ONLINE ONLY).   24 A4 PAGES.  £4 BY POST
Picture
FOLKLIFE WEST NO. 68    Oct, NOv, Dec 2021.  
Folklife TRaditions Journal,    Festivals & WORkshops Diary,    area folk news.   60 a4 pages.  £6 by post
Picture

● 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

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • 🄵🅆 Folklife West
  • ⎈ SEND NEWS form
  • ⎈ UPDATES
  • 🄵🅆 Cymru
  • 🄵🅆 West Country
  • 🄵🅆 Midlands
  • 🄵🅆 South-East
  • 🄵🅆 North
  • 🄵🅆 Alba
  • ⎈ International
    • ⎈ International Archive
  • 🄵🅆 Festivals, Workshops
  • 🄵🅆 Info
    • Data
    • Sizes
  • 🄵🅃🄹 Journal
  • 🄵🄳 Directory
  • 🄵🄳 Zoom
  • [Homend Poets]