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Folklife West, folk news print magazine. "FW this issue" May 2025, 48 A4 pages, online 

 "Directory", online    FW & Directory on this site.  We also publish a Journal, on a  separate site:
   

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  1. FREE:    Directory online - venues, performers, services.   Does not include dates, festivals, or folk news updates.
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UPDATES for Folklife West, online Directory, Journal on the  Updates webpage
Read/ download an A5 flyer for Folklife's publications  on the   A5-flyer webpage
Folklife's Directory
A directory (not a calendar), so
for dates, see 🄵🅆 this issue

Venues, Zoom, Performers,
Services, Media ~ by area
• name, web/media
• your contact details
• venues: date, times, address
• plus up to 40 words

We can draft entries,
for you to approve or change,
just email sam@folklife.uk
with your website details.
Or   send in details,
in our format

£ free entries !
Folklife Traditions Journal 
16 - 20 A4 pages. March, Nov.

folklife-traditions.uk

Researched articles;
news from societies,
researchers, book publishers.
Archive of all past issues.
And Folklife Traditions Directory.

£2 printed, £3 post UK;
or £ free PDF downloads 
Folklife West and Journal: to buy 1 copy or subs, print or PDF summary at foot of all webpages.
Or see full details on Info webpage :   Membership subs, sales/discounts, deadlines, advert rates.    
And you can buy at clubs & shops:
BUY  LOCALLY:    Shops, Clubs, and Correspondents @ £4 Folklife West, £2 Journal (3 or more copies sent)
     Reselling in your shop or club: 5 or more copies of each magazine are just £10 per year each (so 5 of each issue = £50), contact  sam@folklife.uk
In WALES.
•• S. Wales:  Newport Folk Club; Llantrisant Folk Club (Wales Correspondent Mick Tems).   
•• N.E. Wales & Cheshire Correspondent Brian Bull.
In WEST COUNTRY.
•• Cornwall:  Bodmin Folk Club; Cornwall Correspondent Lamorna Spry.    
•• Devon:  Bideford Folk Club; Pennymoor Singaround.
•• North Somerset:  Nailsea Folk Club.     
•• Gloucestershire: Forest Folk Club;   Roving Correspondent Cresby Brown (Mr Red).
In WEST MIDLANDS.          § = from the Editors
•• Birmingham:  Hobgoblin Birmingham;  Black Diamond Folk Song Club.  
•• Staffordshire: Potteries Folk Club (Staffs Correspondent David Barker).
•• Warwickshire:  Cotswold Folk Correspondent Paul Bryan.   Bedworth Folk Club (Warks & Coventry Correspondent Marc Gurnham).
•• Herefordshire:  Ledbury Homend Poets & Musicians §
•• Worcs: Bromsgrove Folk Club (S.Brum Correspondent Bob Bignell).  Bransford Folk at the Fold §; Rushwick Folk Club §; Worcester Somers Trad. Folk Club § 
In NORTH WEST.
•• Cumbria.  Lake District Folk & Acoustic Club (from S Cumbria & N Lancs Correspondent Steve Harrison).
In NORTH EAST.    
•• Sunderland. Stumble Inn Folk & Acoustic Afternoon (from Sept 2025 issue, NE Correspondent Eileen Richardson)
               So as yet, no resellers in  East Midlands, East, South-East, London,Yorkshire.
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