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Folklife, & Folklife West

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For many years, Folklife has used woodcut-style illustrations by Joseph Crawhall of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1821-1896)
2021  Jan.-Apr.  news pages (this issue: online only)
Folklife West magazine's print pages,
copied online 

A4 print  pages:  website unsuitable for phones
Folklife, www.folklife.uk
email  sam@folklife.uk
  ●  Our  usual  Folklife West PRINT DEADLINES
      ●     JAN      (Jan to Apr) ,     deadline 19 Nov ** 
      ●     MAY     (May to Aug), deadline 19 Mar ** 
​      
●     SEPT   (Sept to Dec),  deadline 19 Jul  **
**
 ONLINE-ONLY issues ​ --> Folklife Newsletter
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Virtual Folk webpage
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Folk at the Prince © Eden Tanner

a print magazine ​~ it's big!    Copied online, with ④ websites:

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① FW

FW normally has 
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60-64 A4 print pages
;
​about 40 pages on
  t
his site.
THIS SITE, folklife.uk, for area/national FOLK NEWS**
Each country or area has its own webpage:   copies of print pages,
plus a free PDF download of those area pages.  
FW pages 19-49.
Our other websites include some other FW pages.
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  Article:
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② FT

www.folklife-traditions.uk   "Folklife Traditions"
Researched ARTICLES, download issues as PDFs;
folklife organisations,
news,  FW pp 2-10.  
​Website also has an online 
ARCHIVE by author and by issue.
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Illustration from article & song: ‘The Saucy Sailor’, by Roy & Lesley Adkins.
  

③ FD

folklife-directory.uk   
festivals, workshops,  as 
FW pp 50-60.   ​
Plus our online Folklife Members' Directory​

④ Cymru

bywyd-gwerin.cymru  **Cymru/Wales news
​
​Wales folk news,  FW pages 11-18.
Plus Members' Directory  and articles on Welsh traditions
Free emailed Folklife Newsletter (updates incl. Zoom; deadline-reminders) - join our email list, sign-up form below
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 "Folklife Traditions" pages in print & copied online​; "Folk News" pages this issue, online only.
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 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 PAGES.
​  
<> FOLK NEWS pages ON THIS WEBSITE, 
folklife.uk

       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 --->
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  <> THE ONLINE DIRECTORY on folklife-directory.uk website:
       FESTIVALS DIARY and WORKSHOPS DIARY, LISTINGS for VENUES, PERFORMERS, MEDIA, SERVICES

  <> listing FOLKLIFE MEMBERS only, unless festival/workshop advertising  (free ads for our regular festival/wkshp advertisers) 

  <> FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS pages on folklife-traditions.uk website -- FT 66 copied from print as above. 

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

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Updates page

News Updates &
​Directory Updates
 
& our free emailed
Newsletters
Keep in touch
 - do sign up!
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Virtual Folk
​
 Zoom, etc listings
detailed Directory
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ARTICLE webpage

#FutureOfFolk:  
Lynn Noel of Digital
Heritage Consulting
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Info page 
(print page 3)
membership, ad rates, word limits
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Folk News: Wales
on our
​Cymru/Wales
​website
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​Cymru/Wales
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Folk News: SW​  South-West region:
Kernow/Cornwall, Devon, ​Somerset,
Dorset, Wiltshire, ​Bristol, South Glos
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Folk News: SW
​Gloucestershire
& 
Oxfordshire
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England - South-West region (The West Country)
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Folk News: W.Mids
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West Midlands region, except Herefs & Worcs
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Folk News: W.Mids
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Herefordshire &
​Worcestershire
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​England - West Midlands region
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Folk News: Other UK
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Other UK
​1 - members
England other regions,
​and Scotland [Members]
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Other UK 
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Folk News: Online Extra
Online Extra - Other UK​ 2
England other, ​& Scotland [from Newsletter signups]
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Folk News: Online Extra
​Online Extra - International
EU, USA, World
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Online Extra (news from Newsletter sign-ups)


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

Below,  Folklife West print magazine pages on our other websites:
 
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FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS  (FT)  online
www.folklife-traditions.uk
Researched articles, Archive, FT Directory

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

www.folklife-directory.uk
​

​Detailed listings 
for the same areas as this news site
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FESTIVALS pages * WORKSHOPS pages

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

www.folklife.cymru 

www.bywyd-gwerin.cymru

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A dedicated site

for Wales:

​ Folk news,

Folklife Traditions,

​Directory
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We are supporting our Folklife Members who support Folklife by paid subscription
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, normally, only information from our supportive Members is publicised.
Exceptionally . . .  for Zoom sessions only, and for non-members outside our area,
we include others who have signed up for our NEWSLETTER mailing list, free
Folklife Membership: for Folklife West magazine, folk news & Folklife Traditions pages, post, or pdf via WeTransfer.

Do join us, you can publicise yourself:  news items, added to Directory, mentioned in Updates
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3 issues incl. January issue, a special price of £16 for 3 issues 
(Jan. smaller than usual so £2 less).  Or  3 issues starting May £18.
  Normally, annual fee for new members £18, UK post or overseas PDF via WeTransfer; or EU £27 posted.  
Or
​NEW from Jan 2021: "Folklife Traditions" only. Subscription
, 3 issues, £10, to include Jan 2021 (3 issues included - May & Sept 2002, Jan 2021)

For Folklife Membership   ('Folklife' is a non-profit group):
                        -- or -- a small donation    (our free-to-you websites cost us over £300 a year):
​BACS: Folklife, sort code 09-01-55, account 18675181.   For our overseas bank codes, please email sam@folklife.uk
Sterling only, bank transfers only.  No payments via this site: ​no cards, no cheques, no payments via this site.
​
​Form below: we have a free emailed newsletter (monthly-ish).  We ask for just your name, email, country/region. We don't share that information.  
This is useful for you, with Updates for News, Directory, Folklife Traditions (& deadline reminders).
And so we'll spend less time on admin/emails, more time to add to magazine & website.  And we can respond to areas/countries which show more signups.
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Keep in touch with FOLKLIFE's
free emailed occasional 
NEWSLETTER
​
​
Updates: News, Directory, Folklife Traditions (& Deadline Reminders).
Membership required for your detailed online Directory & Festival listings.
  
A form to sign up to Folklife Newsletter and/or for new Folklife members.
​
We don't pass on details.  
Data policy (opt-in, opt-out): see Data webpage
NEW permissions only ​(so if any changes, please email instead)

Permission to hold & use your personal information

* indicates required
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​
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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
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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
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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 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)
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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)  
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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

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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
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​( 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.
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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

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FW ( 2 )  Listings
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 => 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

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FW ( 3 )  
FT: the Folklife Traditions pages: online archive & FT Directory
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 & In
stitutions   
​➈ Seasonal Celebrations

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

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  • Folklife West
  • Updates
  • Virtual-Folk
    • FutureOfFolk
  • Info
    • Sizes
    • Team
  • [ Cymru / Wales site ]
  • England: South West region
  • Glos-Oxon
  • West Midlands region
  • Herefs-Worcs
  • Other UK ①
  • Online Extra - Other UK ②
  • Online Extra - International
  • [ Folklife Traditions site ]
  • [ Folklife Directory site ]
  • Data
  • ( Homend Poets )