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#FutureOfFolk
by  Lynn Noel
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WEBSITE
Researched Articles with index &
archive PDFs.
Organisations' news.
🄵🅆  
Print pages 2, 4-9
🄱🄶  Wales Trad'ns
WEBSITE​
​Wales Folklife Traditions
articles, plus
Wales
Traditions'
Directory

(not part of magazine)
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​🄵🅆  NEWS & Directory  ​AREA WEBPAGES   links to these area webpages:
---- Cymru ----
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​Cymru
​/Wales 
​Print
pages
10-16
-------- England - SW  (West Country) -------         
🄵🅆 Kernow
/Cornwall
​Print pages
17-18
🄵🅆 
​West Country
Devon, ​Som.,
Dorset,
Wiltshire,
Bristol,
South Glos
​Print pages
​19-23
🄵🅆 Glos
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​Print pages
​24-28
-- England - East & West Midlands --
🄵🅆 Midlands
East & West,
​exc. Here.-Worc.

​Print pages
​28-34
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​ Herefs-Worcs

Print pages
​ 34-40
--------- Other areas (in UK) --------
🄵🅆 
​South-East
England SE,
London,
​Print pp 41-43 
🄵🅆 North
England
NE, NW,
Yorks.
​Alba/
​Scotland
​Print pages
​44-46 
-- International --
⎈ ​International
Folk News
EU, USA,
​& rest of World
⎈ Online only
  2022 Jan issue new page Kernow/Cornwall (ex West Country)
  Other UK split to South-East and North pages, with South-East to include Oxon [ex Glos-Oxon], and East Midlands combined with West Midlands
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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 7th.    The current issue of the entire magazine is free online !
It's big (52-64 A4 pages) so 3 websites - the majority on this main site has our members' news and summary listings.

​Copied online, with 3 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.  
​*  Cymru/Wales Traditions link goes directly to the Cymru/Wales traditions website.

🄵🅆  Folklife West print news pages copied to website; + pdf downloads.   ⎈ Online only

​Here's a form for our free emailed newsletter (monthly-ish)  -- or --  just email sam@folklife.uk with the same details.
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And info about joining Folklife, paid-for magazine (52-60 A4 pages), posted or PDF; your news & Directory listings.
free emailed newsletter  (FOR DETAILS, cliCk to open)
A form for our free emailed newsletter (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!  
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OR if you prefer, simply email same details to sam@folklife.uk
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FOLKLIFE MEMBERSHIP  (FOR DETAILS, CLICK TO OPEN)
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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):
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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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​   ∆  Annual fee for members £18, UK post or overseas PDF via WeTransfer; or EU £27 posted. Post outside EU not recommended (too expensive)
        Back issues: 3 issues for 2021, £14 for the 3 issues (Jan. & May had Folklife Traditions Journal articles only, no folk news). 
   ∆  Your publicity: your news in FW, and listings for online Directory (with summary in FW)  -- we can draft, for you to amend.
To join: £18 a year UK or £27 EU.  Please send by BACS  to:  ​Folklife, sort code 09-01-55,  account 18675181.
or send us a cheque details Info webpage.   Sterling only.   No card payments.
Also, please use form above, or  email 'Opt In' + same info (name; country. or for England, region)
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You will receive 1 copy of 3 issues per year,  and for each issue you can send in
​              ------ your folk listings, as in online area Directories  ------ your folk news. Word limits apply: 200 words, more if advertising, see below.
Anywhere in the world - £18 for PDF via WeTransfer instead of print version.
Your CDs
​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
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
A FEW COPIES AVAILABLE, £4 BY POST OR PDF VIA WETRANSFER
 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

​  <> 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 !
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
FOLKLIFE WEST NO. 68    Oct, NOv, Dec 2021.  
Folklife TRaditions Journal,    Festivals & WORkshops Diary,    area folk news.   60 a4 pages.  £6 by post

● 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

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