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Folklife * Bywyd Gwerin * Bewnans Gwerin * Beatha Dùthchail

🄵🅆 Folklife West print pages: UK folk-news pages copied to this site

⎈ online only webpages: Directory; Virtual-Folk; International

@ Updates: free email Folklife Newsletter, news, zooms, deadline-reminders; email sam@folklife.uk name + country or English region, or sign-up below
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Folklife West magazine May 2021:

In print: Folklife Traditions Journal researched articles, and Festivals & Workshops Diary,
+ copied online: Folklife Traditions website updated √, free download on that website.
+ copied online: Festivals & workshops pages √, free download on webpage on this site.

This issue, online only: News pages (normally in print); news webpages as header menu

Updates welcome for Newsletters & online pages.
News welcome from Folklife members,

 and from Associates[those signed up for Newsletter 'Other UK' and 'International']

Up to 200 words - folk clubs/sings/sessions (closed, open, reopening, virtual); performers, albums.

After INDEX (1) our free emailed newsletter (monthly-ish): a form or just email sam@folklife.uk

(2) join Folklife, magazine (A4, 60 pages) posted or PDF, incl. publicity for your news/listings print & online

WEBPAGES INDEX -- a print magazine -- it's big !

What we do [in normal times] 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: this is our main site (folklife.uk)

Folklife West, this site, for area/national folk news. About 40 print pages (out of FW's 60-64 pages).
Webpages index below: pictures & texts below give a summary, with the same titles as top-of-page navigation menu.
Links to our other websites are included in the webpages index below:
* The Folklife Traditions Journal link redirects to our Journal pages site.
* The Directory webpage gives links & details of that online-only site.
* The Cymru/Wales link goes directly to the Cymru/Wales news pages.

🄵🅆 the Folklife West print pages: news pages copied to this site, plus pdf downloads. See also FW print pages on Folklife Traditions Journal website.
⎈ other webpages on this site, and other websites, are online only. @ Updates -- Emailed Newsletters

⎈ www.folklife-traditions.uk
FTJ: Folklife Traditions Journal" pages in FW.
Researched Articles.
Folklife organisations news.
FW pages 4-12, 14-15.

⎈ folklife-directory.uk
Our online
Folklife Members' Directory.
Full details, arranged by same areas as the News webpages on this site.

1-line summaries on area News webpages, this site.

@ Updates
News Updates &
Directory Updates
& our free emailed
Newsletters
Sing up & keep in touch

@ Emailed Newsletters -----

Virtual Folk
Zoom etc Directory
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#FutureOfFolk : Lynn Noel of Digital Heritage Consulting

⎈ Virtual Folk ---------------------

UK Folk Festivals & Workshops Diary (formerly on our Directory website)

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Festivals & Workshops
Print pages 1-2,13,16-24

Folk News: Wales
on our
News webpage
on Cymru/Wales
website

🄵🅆 Cymru / Wales ---
Print pages 25-31

⎈ FTJ WEBSITE: [link] FTJ: this issue online, view online & free download. Website also has an online archive by author & by issue. All issues as free PDF downloads.
⎈ CYMRU / WALES WEBSITE: bywyd-gwerin.cymru Wales Folk News (see above), plus Members' Directory, and articles on Welsh traditions.

Folk News: SW
South-West region:
Kernow/Cornwall,
Devon, Somerset,
Dorset, Wiltshire,
Bristol, South Glos

Folk News: SW
Gloucestershire
& Oxfordshire

🄵🅆 England - South-West (West Country)
Print pages SW 32-39, Gl-Ox 40-45

Folk News: W.Mids
West Midlands
region
exc. Herefs-Worcs

Folk News: W.Mids
Herefordshire &
Worcestershire

🄵🅆 England - West Midlands region --------------
Print pages WM 46-50 , HW 51-57

Folk News: Other UK
Other UK
England other regions
Scotland

🄵🅆 Other UK ------------
Print pages 58-61

Portsmouth
Maritime
Folk Festival

Folk News: International
International
EU, USA, World

⎈ International ------------
Online only

Info page
🄵🅆 as print p3; online PDF download
membership, ad rates, word limits
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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 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!

Keep in touch with our free emailed occasional Newsletter

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

Folklife Membership for Folklife West magazine, folk news & Folklife Traditions pages, post, or pdf via WeTransfer.

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.

TO JOIN FOLKLIFE ① ② ③ √ ①-- Data consent, opt-in form above √.   ②-- Please email your address: sam@folklife.uk √.
③-- To pay: Folklife, sort code 09-01-55, account 18675181, by BACS, or phone banking
   Or by cheque, email sam@folklife.uk for details. 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

DETAILS OF PREVIOUS ISSUE, JAN 2021, FW 66, 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 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 !

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

WALES
ENGLAND WEST COUNTRY
ENGLAND WEST MIDLANDS

WALES - club details on bywyd-gwerin.cymru/cyfeiriadur.html

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

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
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£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

Folklife & Folklife West

● 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**