May & Sept issues online   ~   Index: page links
These page links are also included in the webpage-links menu top of page
​Folklife, folklife.uk, contact email sam@folklife.uk
members' folk news  mainly Wales, England West Country & part West Midlands
New webpages - draft for Sept issue set up:  South-East; USA-Canada
​

Folklife West is BIG !   -   64 A4 print pages   -   copied online, ​so:
​folk news pages on this site, & some material is on our other sites :

• Detailed DIRECTORY :            folklife-directory.uk   Folklife members, includes FESTIVALS & WORKSHOPS.
• FT, researched ARTICLES  :   folklife-traditions.uk  & FT directory & Archive.   Download current issue.
• CYMRU / WALES  :                  folklife.cymru / bywyd-gwerin.cymru  A dedicated site for Wales info.

---   Index (page links; also on menu at top of page)  ---

Print magazine  (c.60 print pages) + Folklife Membership:
£16 year for 3 issues: posted UK; or as a PDF via WeTransfer
​It is copied free to our various websites ~ freely accessible.
Single issue: sold in UK clubs, £3; or  PDF via WeTransfer, £3

FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS pages ​	FOLKLIFE WEST on this site NEWS & LISTINGS pages   Ø Clubs & Venues Ø Performers Ø Media Ø Services/Shops	FESTIVAL & WORKSHOP diaries ​
on our Folklife Traditions website researched articles and news and folklife listings	Ø  FW's print pages - A4-size - copied online. ​ Ø Also as PDFs for you to download.​ News pages  include  summary  listings More detailed listings Directory website	on our Folklife Directory website
FT:  this issue online	Cymru/Wales website:  Wales news webpage	Festival Diary 2020, 2021
researched articles and news	Cymru/Wales (+ occas. Cheshire)  on our Wales website	Workshops Diary
Folklife Societies  ​	England - West Country webpages	fully detailed, as in the magazine
Folklife Studies & Institutions	Kernow/Cornwall, & Devon	.
Seasonal Celebrations ​listings	Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire ​ including Districts of BANES, N. Somerset, Swindon	.
FT: the Folklife Traditions pages include online archive & FT Directory	Bristol, South Glos, Gloucestershire	.
.	England - South/West Midlands webpages	.
.	Herefordshire & Worcestershire	.
.	"Central Midlands" = Shropshire; Brum and nearby; Warks; Oxon including Walsall, Tamworth (Staffs), Coventry From September, ​Oxon will be under new South-East webpage	.
.	​Other area webpages​​	.
.	South-East Draft only, applies from September Oxfordshire transferred from "Midlands" pages, other counties from "other areas UK"	.
.	other areas UK, incl. national agencies, magazines​​​​​​	.
.	USA-Canada Draft only, applies from September	.

Also on this website	Updates -- and our free emailed Newsletters keep in touch - do sign up for our free emailed Newsletters	Info (as page 3 of FW) membership, ad rates, word limits ​
.	Virtual Folk Zoom, etc	Article - #FutureOfFolk: Lynn Noel of Digital Heritage Consulting Looks Ahead

​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.
​
News and listings - only from Folklife members.
We also print 'Folklife Traditions' articles.​

Contact details are on the INFO page [link button]

Keep in touch - our free  Newsletter email 

for FOLKLIFE NEWSLETTER (1-4 per 4 months) + NEW MEMBERS
*** Data policy: please see Data webpage
NEW permissions only, please email instead if we have your details

See "Updates webpages" ,  includes latest  FN & any further updates

A very active Membership,- about 80% are Directory-listed: club/venue organisers, performers, festival organisers . . .

Publicity bargain: get listed, news printed, FW by post: only £16 a year !

FOLKLIFE MEMBERSHIP only  £16  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 £24, to rest of world £32, and now includes 1 e-copy per issue on request!

New:  applies UK & worldwide
PDF Membership !, separate to regular posted Membership.  £16 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)  

Folklife West magazine, Nº 64, 1 May 2020  -- Online only
 
 ***  Subscriptions (& prepaid repeat ads) will be extended  See  Folklife Newsletter (on Updates webpage)  for details

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

• folklife-directory.uk/festivals.html for cancelled 2020 festivals, we list 2021 dates to look forward to
• folklife-directory.uk/festivals.html and likewise for cancelled 2020 workshop events
• the Directory also has detailed listings for venues, performers, etc. arranged by area (same areas as this site)

And our Folklife Traditions site, folklife-traditions.uk,  has researched articles, publications, news, plus an archive

• folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html for the latest issue online as images & PDF download

                   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, and online tuition offered

We are supporting our Folklife Members who support Folklife (£16 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

​Sept also online; subscriptions & adverts will be extended, free, again

---------------  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 £16 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 £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
• ENGLAND WEST COUNTRY
• ENGLAND SOUTH/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​   
                    <> 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)
​
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 £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

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

​( 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

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 & Institutions   
​➈ Seasonal Celebrations

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