Folklife.   www.folklife.uk  (from 2/2/2020; formerly folklife.org.uk)
Our email is now:   sam@folklife.uk  (was sam@folklife.co.uk - so .uk instead of .co.uk)
Our other sites:       www.folklife-directory.uk ,  www.folklife-traditions.uk

A4 PRINT MAGAZINE pages - so website not intended for viewing by phone
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​SITE SECURITY:    X NO payments via this site X ​   √ √ ​√  See "Info" webpage for details for paying by BACS or by cheque - never via this site.
​Directory listings: to avoid spam, we don't link your email addresses, we substitute <at> for @ for listing your email addresses.
Publicity bargain: get listed, news printed, FW by post: only £16 a year !

Only  £16  a year UK, for Folklife Membership = posted magazine  and  printing your news & listings  and   copying the news & listings online !

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​Folklife - print & online publishers. 
We print FW, the Folklife West magazine, and publish this & other material online. 
c.60 A4 print pages published 3 times a year (4-monthly):   1 Jan, 1 May, 1 Sept.
FW's Folk News pages are copied to this site.

News and listings - only from Folklife members.
We also print 'Folklife Traditions' articles.
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A very active Membership
       - about 80% are listed, as club/venue organisers, performers, festival organisers, etc 

Folklife West

FOLK NEWS

INDEX

for your  area webpage
area news+listings

FW ( 1) Folk news from our Folklife members, about 2/3rds of the magazine.
  • FW's print pages - A4-size - copied online.
  • ​Also as PDFs for you to download.
Covering
   ➀ Clubs & Venues   ➁ Performers 
   ➂ Media  ➃ Services (incl. Shops) 
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Just click on your area webpage below !

Cymru/Wales webpage :
England:  West Country webpages
South/West Midlands webpages :
​other areas; national webpage​​ :

1)  News pages, with summary Directory listings (full details in online Directory).

2) ​ Festival Diary & Workshop Diary
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3)  Folklife Traditions pages, with articles, news, & listings summaries.

2) LISTINGS
FW's printed summaries
fully-detailed online in our online DIRECTORY

FW ( 2 )  Listings => see fully-detailed ONLINE DIRECTORY
​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

FOLKLIFE'S
free emailed NEWSLETTER
Anyone can receive our free emailed Folklife Newsletter   with Directory Updates & Deadline Reminders.
  Folklife Membership is not required.   Occasional, say 9 times a year - varies.  
​         All we need for this free   email service is your name + email:
opt-in via simple form on Data webpage  ---or----  just email "OPT-IN to Newsletter" + your name to sam@folklife.uk
We're not a social media website or forwarding service, so please 
Do not send gig lists to circulate - we are a print magazine;   as a service, we copy it free online, 

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Latest changes:   see Folklife Newsletters  for a note of those Directory Updates which we have most recently added or changed on this site.

Folklife. 
YOU CAN DOWNLOAD FROM THIS SITE: 
  • all FOLK NEWS pages !  (each area has its own webpage, see above) ​
  • ad-rates & membership Info page
Folk 21 news is in FW.
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​We work with the Living Tradition magazine.
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 can publicise their CD in FW, up to 200 words (more if advert) + CD cover jpg.  To join Folklife, just £16 a year, see "Info"page
 As for reviews, see LT.
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, www.livingtradition.co.uk .
LT reviews online on ​www.livingtradition.co.uk/magazine/reviews as well as printed in LT.

For sending CDs for review to LT, please view www.livingtradition.co.uk/node/1979
Where to buy Folklife West.

Most sales are 1 copy through the post, via £16 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
  • WEST COUNTRY
  • SOUTH/WEST MIDLANDS
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WALES - club details on www.folklife-directory.uk/Cymru.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

Cornwall & Devon - club/session details on www.folklife-directory.uk/Kernow-Devon.html
Cornwall:   <> Bodmin Folk Club​     
                 <> Wadebridge Folk Club (Cornwall Correspondent Mike Walford, also at Padstow Folk Session, Cornwall Folk Festival Session)
Devon:       <> Bideford Folk Club    
                 <> Topsham Folk Club;   
                 <> Pennymoor Singaround (Pennymoor runs various other sessions)
                 <> Teignmouth Folk Club (S Devon correspondent, Martyn Hillstead)
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Somerset, Dorset, & Wiltshire,  incl BANES, N. Som., Swindon Districts - club/session details on  www.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  www.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


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SOUTH/WEST MIDLANDS

Herefs, Shrops, & Worcestershire - club/session details on   www.folklife-directory.uk/Heref-Shrop-Worc.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; & Warks; & Oxon - includes Walsall, Tamworth, Coventry 
- shop/club/session details on  www.folklife-directory.uk/Central-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 £16/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

THIS SITE is
FW ( 1 )
News
​pages 
​as top of 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 £16 a year, posting out FW three times a year, covers Members' news and online Directory listings

www.folklife-directory.uk
for FW ( 2 )  Listings

Listings (from Folklife Members only)
• venues • performers • services • festivals • workshops •
song, music, dance, story, poets

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. 

You will be amazed at how much we have on this Directory site!

'Folk' listings, from our members   
➀ Clubs & Venues   ➁ Performers 
➂ Services (incl. Shops, media) 
➃ Festival Diary 
➄ Workshop Listings ➅ Workshop Diary

www.folklife-traditions.uk
( 3 ) FT: Folklife Traditions pages

Picture
Minehead © J K Simmons
The FT pages have articles and folklife news; plus 1-line listing-summaries for Folklife Studies & Folklife Societies, and seasonal local celebrations for this quarter

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

​INFO page 
Membership, Ad Rates, Reselling, etc

DATA page 
Data Protection policies,
​DP form to opt in

more:   meet the Folklife Team

our Folklife CORRESPONDENTS and OTHER VOLUNTEERS

a note: "Folk What's On" (the ads from FW)

​​Note: for the benefit of advertisers, and the public, we also supply an ads-only version of FW, "Folk What's On', (4 to 10 pages), to libraries in regular-advertising areas, as a reference copy, & large concert-venues as free leaflets. This is not available otherwise eg by post (but you can email me for a (large) download). 

Other than FW

Our other online publications
  • Bywyd Gwerin: Cyfeiriadur -- Wales Folklife-Directory,  Welsh-language traditions​
  • Quite separately to Folklife:   we also host a webpage for The Homend Poets, Ledbury, Herefordshire
● we are a non-profit group
● for us to continue, we need your support ----------- by membership ----------- or advertising ----------- details at foot of page
FW  runs at a healthy loss.
     The English Folk Dance & Song Society has announced that Every donation you make between now and 2019 is matched by Arts Council England.
     We have no such outside funding, nor any sponsorship.  Our income is from your Folklife membership and limited advertising - since we focus on your news, & don't review CDs & avoid featuring folk personalities on the cover, we will not attract commercial adverts from record companies etc!
      We run at a healthy loss (say £1,000 a year) .... fRoots magazine was asking to be crowd funded for £20,000 ... well, we don't need quite that much, but if you would like to support us by taking out membership for 1 copy (£16 a year) or multiple copies for resale, and/or advertising, that will help us to carry on the good work!
● we can help - we draft Directory & Festival/Workshop Diary listings for you to approve/change, set up news items for FW, based on your listing, etc

for contacting us, and for more detailed information .... see the Info page