Folklife * Bywyd Gwerin * Bewnans Gwerin * Beatha Dùthchail
🄵🅆  Folklife West print pages: UK folk-news pages copied to this site.   And  ⎈ online only webpages: Directory pages; Virtual-Folk; International.
​@ Updates: free email Folklife Newsletter, news, zooms, deadline-reminders; email sam@folklife.uk name + country or English region, ​or sign-up below
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​Folklife West magazine May-Sept 2021:  

In print:  Folklife Traditions Journal researched articles, and Festivals & Workshops Diary, 
​+ copied online: Folklife Traditions website updated √, free download on that website.
+ copied online: Festivals & workshops pages  √, free download on webpage on this site.

May issue, online only:  News pages (normally in print); area news webpages as header menu

Updates welcome  for Newsletters & online pages. 
News welcome from Folklife members,
​          and from Associates [those signed up for Newsletter in areas: 'Other UK' and 'International']
Up to 200 words - folk clubs/sings/sessions (closed, open, reopening, virtual); performers, albums.​
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After INDEX  (1)  our free emailed newsletter (monthly-ish): a form or  just email sam@folklife.uk

                            (2)  join Folklife, magazine (A4, 60 pages) posted or PDF,   incl. publicity for your news/listings print & online
INDEX for our webpages -- a print magazine ​-- it's big !
          What we do [in normal times] is first print & distribute the magazine for 1 Jan/May/Sept.  
Then we update online.  The current issue of the entire magazine is free online !
It's big (60-64 A4 pages) so 3 websites - the majority on this main site has our members' news and summary listings.
Copied online, with 3 websites:  this is our main site (folklife.uk) 

Folklife West, this site, for area/national folk news.  About 40 print pages (out of FW's 60-64 pages).
Webpages index below: pictures & texts below give a summary, with the same titles as top-of-page navigation menu.
       *   The Folklife Traditions Journal link redirects to our Journal pages site.  
       *   The Cymru/Wales Traditions link goes directly to the Cymru/Wales traditions website.
🄵🅆  the Folklife West print pages: news pages copied to this site, + pdf downloads.     @ Updates, recent Emailed Newsletters + updates for next one
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News & Directory Updates & our free emailed Newsletters
Keep in touch - sign up
@ Emailed Newsletters
🄵🅆  Festivals &
Workshops: Print pages
​1-2,13,16-24
Folk News: Wales
Cymru / Wales
🄵🅆 Cymru / Wales 
​Print pages 25-31
Folk News: SW​
West Country
Kernow/Cornwall,
Devon, ​Somerset,
Dorset, Wiltshire,
Bristol, South Glos
🄵🅆 England - South-West (West Country) 
​Print pages SW 32-39, Gl-Ox 40-45
Folk News: W.Mids
​West Midlands
​region
exc. Herefs-Worcs
🄵🅆 ​England - West Midlands region ------------
Print pages WM 46-50 , HW 51-57
Folk News:
​Other UK
England
other areas; ​Alba/Scotland 
🄵🅆 Other UK --
​Print pages 58-61
Folk News: 
​International
EU, USA,
​& rest of World
 ⎈ International
-- Online only
On another WEBSITE
🄵🅃🄹  Folklife Traditions
​Journal magazine pages
www.folklife-traditions.uk   
Researched Articles.
Folklife organisations news.
​FW pages 4-12, 14-15.  
On another WEBSITE
 🄱🄶  Cymru / Wales
Welsh Traditions.
(not Folk News, see
above, on this site)
Folklife Members'
online DIRECTORY
Detailed listings.
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Links to webpages for Directory areas
as listed below
​(same areas
​as News)
⎈ DIRECTORIES 
⎈ Virtual Folk ----------
Info page 
membership, ad rates, word limits
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Data ​Protection  ​Policy
🄵🅆 Info page as print p3
+ online PDF download
⎈ 🄵🅃🄹 website:  view & download Researched Articles, Folklife organisations news.  Online archive by author & by issue, free PDFs.  Link FTJ: this issue online​,
⎈ 🄱🄶 ​ gwefan/website: Bywyd Gwerin / Folklife Wales:   bywyd-gwerin.cymru / www.folklife.cymru  Wales Folklife Traditions articles, plus Traditions' Directory
⎈ DIRECTORIES area webpages (links):    ⎈ Cymru Directory 1 Venues        ⎈ Cymru Directory 2 PMSW    PMSW = Performers, Media, Services, Workshop Providers
                    ⎈ SW Directory 1 Venues     ⎈ SW Directory 2 PMSW              ⎈ Gl-Ox Directory 1 Venues      ⎈ Gl-Ox Directory 2 PMSW
                    ⎈ WM Directory 1 Venues    ⎈ WM Directory 2 PMSW             ⎈ H-W Directory 1 Venues        ⎈ H-W Directory 2 PMSW       ⎈ Other areas of UK Directory
This form is for our free emailed newsletter (monthly-ish), or   just email sam@folklife.uk with the same details. 

This is useful for you, with U​​pdates for News, Directory, & Folklife Traditions (& deadline reminders). 
    So we spend less time on admin/emails = more time for magazine & website.  And know how many read this, & where, and so resource appropriately!  
Keep in touch with our free emailed occasional Newsletter
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​Updates: News, Directory, Folklife Traditions (& Deadline Reminders).
 
A form to sign up to Folklife Newsletter and/or for new Folklife members
OR if you prefer, simply email same details to sam@folklife.uk
​      New permissions only ​(so if any changes, please email instead)
      We don't pass on details.  Data policy (opt-in) see Data webpage

Permission to hold & use your personal information

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For Folklife Membership payments  ('Folklife' is a non-profit group):
                        -- or -- a small donation    (our free-to-you websites cost us over £300 a year):
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Sterling only, bank transfers only.  No payments via this site (no cards).
   ∆  A posted magazine, and your publicity -- your folk news; + your folk listings added to Directory, mentioned in Updates.
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  TO JOIN FOLKLIFE ① ② ③ √     ①-- Data consent, opt-in form above √.    ②-- Please email your address: sam@folklife.uk √.
                                                                             ③-- To pay: Folklife, sort code 09-01-55, account 18675181, by BACS, or phone banking
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​   ∆  Normally ... annual fee for members £18, UK post or overseas PDF via WeTransfer; or EU £27 posted.  But Jan & May are smaller than usual, so
         3 issues incl. Jan, £14 for 3 issues (Jan. & May each £2 less as smaller than usual).  Or  3 issues starting May £16.
   ∆  Your publicity: your news in FW, and listings for online Directory (with summary in FW)  -- we can draft, for you to amend
Your CDs
​Folklife Members: publicise your CD in FW, up to 200 words (more if advert) + CD cover jpg.  To join, see above.

Folk CD 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 printing 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  ⎈ Cymru Directory 1  Venues 
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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

South-West region except Glos- club/session details on ⎈ SW Directory 1 Venues
https://www.folklife-directory.uk/south-west.html
​   Cornwall             <> Bodmin Folk Club​  
                             <> Dreamers Folk Club​ (Cornwall Correspondent, Nigel Morson)
​   Devon                 <> Bideford Folk Club    
                              <> Topsham Folk Club
                              <> Pennymoor Singaround (Pennymoor runs various other sessions)
                              <> Teignmouth Folk Club (S Devon correspondent, Martyn Hillstead)
​​   North Somerset  <> Nailsea Folk Club
   Dorset                <>  The Trooper Folk Song Night (North Dorset & South Somerset Correspondent, John Waltham)
   Wiltshire:            <>  Village Pump Friday Folk

Gloucestershire & Oxfordshire  - club/session details on ⎈ Gl-Ox Directory 1 Venues​
​   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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WEST MIDLANDS

Brum and nearby;  Warwickshire & Coventry
- shop/club/session details on ⎈ WM Directory 1 Venues
   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)  

Herefordshire & Worcestershire - club/session details on  ⎈ H-W Directory 1 Venues
    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

​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​
DETAILS OF PREVIOUS ISSUE, JAN 2021, FW 66, A FEW COPIES AVAILABLE, £4 BY POST OR PDF VIA WETRANSFER
 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​​​​
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​ ONLINE-ONLY in January, on this site
​  <> FOLK NEWS pages
       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 --->
  <>  FESTIVALS & WORKSHOPS DIARY pages

​  <> THE ONLINE DIRECTORY, listing FOLKLIFE MEMBERS only
       LISTINGS for VENUES, PERFORMERS, MEDIA, SERVICES, WORKSHOP PROVIDERS 

​​Normally, only News from our supportive Members is publicised.
Exceptionally, during lockdown  . . .  we will include others who have signed up for our Newsletter mailing list, free, below
 news from non-members outside our area; plus Zoom sessions, anywhere

We are supporting our Folklife Members who support Folklife by paid subscription
Recurring fixed costs (upgrades for computers & software; fees for websites, domains, email) & less income from printed magazine, 
​we are losing even more money than usual !

● 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

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