Index   news & other pages
links below :  what's in the webpages listed in the top-of-page menu
First we list FW's area news webpages on this site;
then we list FW's other print pages (eg articles) on our other sites

      Left: FW's cover, shown full-size below this webpages Index
Updates page

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​Directory Updates 
& our free emailed
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Virtual Folk
​ Zoom, etc listings
detailed Directory
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ARTICLE webpage
#FutureOfFolk:  
Lynn Noel of Digital
Heritage Consulting
Info page 
(print page 3)
membership, ad rates, word limits
Folk News: Wales
on our
​Cymru/Wales
​website
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​Cymru/Wales
Folk News: SW​  South-West region:
​Kernow/Cornwall, Devon, ​Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire, ​Bristol, South Glos
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England - South-West region (The West Country)
Folk News: W.Mids
​West Midlands region, except Herefs & Worcs
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​England - West Midlands region

​Folk News: Other UK
England other regions §
and Scotland
​
§ South-East, East Midlands & East, 
Yorks & Humber, North-East, 
​North-West  
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Other UK
Folk News:  ​International
​EU, USA, World
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International 
In additional to Members' news:  our correspondents & local lists
CYMRU / WALES ∆ Wales: Mick Tems. ∆ N-E Wales & Cheshire Brian Bull ∆ Gwynedd Travelling Sessions list: local sessions
ENGLAND, WEST COUNTRY & OXFORDSHIRE     ∆  Kernow/Cornwall: Nigel Morson    ∆  Devon: S. Devon Martyn Hillstead
     ∆  Somerset, Dorset, Wilts: N. Dorset & S. Som, + listings John Waltham
     ∆  Bristol, South Glos
     ∆ Gloucestershire:  Chipping Sodbury Folk Night's list: local clubs.  ∆  Roving: Folklife area & beyond Cresby aka Mr Red
     ∆ Oxfordshire: Folk Arts Oxford's list
ENGLAND, WEST MIDLANDS
     ∆  West Mids (county). S. Birmingham + nearby Bob Bignell    
     ∆ Warwickshire+Coventry Malc Gurnham  ∆ Cotswold Folk: S.Warks/N.Cotswolds +listings Paul Bryan
     ∆ Herefordshire  & Worcestershire  S.W. Herefs and nearby
OTHER UK  . . .  currently less coverage than our usual areas above
     ∆  England South-East   ∆  England East Midlands & East     ∆  North of England: Yorks & Humber, North-East, North-West   ∆  Scotland 
INTERNATIONAL . . .  currently less coverage than our usual areas above
     ∆  ​EU (currently: Ireland, Germany)   ∆  ​World (currently: Israel)  ∆  USA    
  
∆ Illustrations Chris Beaumont  ∆ Photographs Eden Tanner, Colin Davies  ∆ Logos Chris Stewart   ∆ We thank our team, we're all volunteers - more welcome

BELOW: Folklife West print magazine pages on our other websites ---->

Folklife West is BIG !  -  60+ A4 print pages  -  copied online, ​ so:  folk news pages on this site; & other print pages on our other sites 

FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS  (FT)  online
www.folklife-traditions.uk
Researched articles, Archive, FT Directory

Download current FT issue:   FT:  this issue online​
​view online and free download
Folklife Members' DIRECTORY

www.folklife-directory.uk
​
​Detailed listings 
for the same areas as this news site
FESTIVALS pages * WORKSHOPS pages

​Detailed listings (same as printed in FW)
CYMRU / WALES                 

www.folklife.cymru 

www.bywyd-gwerin.cymru
​  
A dedicated site

for Wales:

​ Folk news,

Folklife Traditions,

​Directory
Keep in touch with
A form for new Folklife members, and/or for Folklife Newsletter

DATA POLICY (opt-in, opt-out), please see Data webpage
NEW permissions only (so if any changes, please email instead)

Permission to hold & use your personal information

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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​
Publicity bargain: get listed, news printed, FW by post: only £18 a year !

FOLKLIFE MEMBERSHIP only  £18  a year UK,  3 print issues, posted to UK.    Publishing your news and listings, in print & copied online. 
​Multiple copies with discounts see Info page   
              • Lockdown, same schedule, but online only, with all print subs extended, free., & regular advertisers, free adverts!   

New:  PDF COPIES.   Entire magazine (60+ pages) sent as a PDF via WeTransfer,  £3 each copy

OVERSEAS FOLKLIFE MEMBERSHIP:  posted to EU £27, to rest of world £36, and now includes 1 e-copy per issue on request!

New:  applies UK & worldwide
PDF Membership !, separate to regular posted Membership.  £18 a year (covers 1 copy x 3 issues via WeTransfer, plus Membership benefits)
• Lockdown, same schedule.
Still publishing & publicising your news & listings, in print, and copied here online, as usual, but you get a PDF, not a print copy.

PAYMENT.  BACS: Folklife, sort code 09-01-55, account 18675181.   For our overseas bank codes, please email sam@folklife.uk.  
Sterling only, bank transfers only.    SITE SECURITY:    X NO payments via this site X ​ (no cards, no cheques, no payment via this site)  
Special note:  Folklife West, Nº 66, 1 Jan 2021  News Online only!

"Folklife Traditions" pages only in print, ​Membership-subscriptions credited as smaller issue
• Standard 1 year Membership = 3 printed issues (each covers 4 months)

See  Folklife Newsletter (on UPDATES page)  for details

​Do join us  ---  New Members:  £16 (£18 - £2 credit for Jan. being a smaller issue) - you get 3 print issues
​
if you join now, you can publicise yourself now, be added to Directory, mentioned in UPDATES, etc

We are supporting our Folklife Members, who support Folklife ​(£18 a year, since you ask).
With recurring costs (websites, domains, email, repairs & upgrades for computers & software)
and no income from May printed magazine sales, we are losing even more money than usual !
Therefore, only Directory listings from our supportive Members are publicised.
This site, folklife.uk, covers the Folklife members' Folk News pages (pages 9-50), as images & PDF downloads
  • ​arranged by area, as in the page-menu above. Also includes listings - 1-line summaries.
 
Our Directory site, folklife-directory.uk,  includes detailed diaries for festivals & workshops
And our Folklife Traditions site, folklife-traditions.uk,  has researched articles, publications, news, plus an archive
                   Also: a parallel site, as above relevant to Wales,   www.folklife.cymru / www.bywyd-gwerin.cymru​
​
Updates webpage on this site includes our free emailed Newsletter

New!  see our "Virtual-Folk" webpage ​--- do let us know your live & recorded sessions
We are supporting our Folklife Members who support Folklife (£18 a year, since you ask).

With recurring fixed costs (upgrades for computers & software; fees for websites, domains, email)
and no income from printed magazine, we are losing even more money than usual !
​
Therefore, only information from our supportive Members is publicised.
Exceptionally . . .  for Zoom sessions only,
we now list others who have signed up for our NEWSLETTER mailing list, free

​New Members info published in Newsletter, and in Directory pages   folklife-directory.uk

---------------  More Details  -------------

YOU CAN DOWNLOAD FROM THIS SITE: 
  • all FOLK NEWS pages !  (each area has its own webpage, see above) ​
  • ad-rates & membership Info page
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 online ! free ! but it's big (60-64 A4 pages) so it's split over 3 websites - the majority (say 38 pages) on this main site has our members' news and summary listings.
  • NEWS pages by area / county (as listed above) --  we copy FW print pages online [jpegs] on this site, and you can download them [PDFs], Also we include each area's local festivals.
  • DIARY pages - Festivals Diary, Workshops Diary -- on our DIRECTORY website, which also has very detailed venue, performers, etc, listings
  • FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS pages articles and FT news & Diary --  we copy FT pages online [jpegs] on our FOLKLIFE-TRADITIONS site​, and you can download them [PDFs].  It's also a Folklife Traditions Directory, and has an archive of PDFs of past FT articles etc​
We print our Members' Folk News  --- including your CDs 
Folklife Members: publicise your CD in FW, up to 200 words (more if advert) + CD cover jpg.    To join Folklife, just £18 a year, see "Info" webpage
 As for 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 printed 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
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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

Cornwall & Devon - club/session details on folklife-directory.uk/Kernow-Devon.html
​   Cornwall    <> Bodmin Folk Club​   
​   Devon       <> Bideford Folk Club    
                    <> Topsham Folk Club
                    <> Pennymoor Singaround (Pennymoor runs various other sessions)
                    <> Teignmouth Folk Club (S Devon correspondent, Martyn Hillstead)
​
Somerset, Dorset, & Wiltshire,  incl BANES, N. Som., Swindon - club/session details on folklife-directory.uk/Som-Dor-Wilts.html
​   North Somerset  <> Nailsea Folk Club
   Dorset                <>  The Trooper Folk Song Night (North Dorset & South Somerset Correspondent, John Waltham)
   Wiltshire:            <>  Village Pump Friday Folk

Bristol area. South Gloucestershire. Gloucestershire:  - club/session details on folklife-directory.uk/Bristol-Glos.html
​   Gloucestershire:   <> Dursley Acoustic Music Nights
                               <> Queen Victoria Song Session, Stroud     
                               <> Forest Folk Club
                               <> various Ceilidhs, Sessions, Roving Correspondent (mid-west), Cresby Brown
​
SOUTH/WEST MIDLANDS

Herefs, Shrops, & 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 / sessionss in S Worcs, SE Herefs, N Glos, the editors

Brum and nearby; Shrops;  Warks; & Oxon - includes Walsall, Tamworth, 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)  

We publish a vast amount of information!
-- from Directory listings, to copies of FW's news pages
So, we have 3 sites, as appropriate ~ see below:

● 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

FW, the Folklife West magazine,
a c.52-page A4-size print publication,
has 3 sections:
​News, Listings, Folklife Traditions
Of these 3 sections, (1) and (2) are from our Folklife members only. (3) open to all.
Membership £18 a year, posting out FW three times a year, covers Members' news and online Directory listings

​( 1 ) FW's
News 
pages

THIS
​WEBSITE
FW's folk news from our Folklife members.  ➀ Clubs & Venues   ➁ Performers 
➂ Media ➃ Services (incl. Shops) 
• News webpages:  Wales. Then England: mostly West Midlands & West Country; mostly, a webpage for each county.
Note: these webpages are copies of FW's A4-sizes pages, so may be too big for mobiles.
Folk 21

We are members
of Folk 21.

​Folk 21 news is in FW.

2) FW's Listings summaries
FW's printed one-line listings summaries
fully-detailed online in our online DIRECTORY

FW ( 2 )  Listings
​ => see fully-detailed online DIRECTORY
​Listings are included in each area's News pages.   Listings are from Folklife Members only
In FW, we print 1-line listing-summaries, plus a next-12-months festival diary, a workshops diary.
Online, we have the full listings on our Members' DIRECTORY website

'Folk' listings, from our members   song, music, dance, story, poetry
➀ Clubs & Venues   ➁ Performers 
➂ Media 
➃ Services (incl. Shops) 
➄ Festival Diary 
​➅ Workshop Diary
These Diary pages printed in FW are copied to the Directory site.

3) TRADITIONS

The Folklife Traditions website
has ARTICLES and LISTINGS for
​➆ Folklife Societies  
➇ Folklife Studies & Institutions   
​➈ Seasonal Celebrations
The FT pages have articles and folklife news; plus 1-line listing-summaries for Folklife Studies & Folklife Societies, and seasonal local celebrations for this issue (covering 4 months)

The FT Archive
We have a fully indexed online archive for all issues on a new fully-interactive FT site!  Full listings plus Jan-Dec seasonal local celebrations.
PDFs of each issue (A4 size) are on an e-magazine website.

'Folklife Traditions' listings,
​open to all   
➆ Folklife Societies  
➇ Folklife Studies & Institutions   
​➈ Seasonal Celebrations

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