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"Folklife is doing a great job of bringing us all together all over the world in these hard times" xx Heather & Huw, Pontardawe Valley FC
"That densely packed information sandwich that is Folklife West" - Tony Watts, Acoustic Calendar

                     **** FREE LISTINGS in our DIRECTORY  if you are on our emailed Newsletter list  ****
THIS SITE, www.folklife.uk, ​has folk news & listings.  
See webpages index top of page;  🄵🅆 = news print pages, copied online,   ⎈ = online-only webpages eg Updates, Zoom list.

From MAY 2022 FW, our policy for  FOLK NEWS & LISTINGS.
  • Pre Covid, FW was members-only news & listings.  
  • During Covid closedown, we accepted non-member news & listings since we were online-only or fewer pages than usual.
  • Now that we are back to 56 A4 pages: news only from members or those non-members who had previously sent in news.
  • Exceptionally we may invite news from non-members outside our area (Wales, England Midlands, West, Oxon) if we have room. 
  • We will list non-members in our Directories, on request, if signed up to newsletter.


ON OUR OTHER SITE, www.folklife-traditions.uk, we have our  🄵🅃🄹 Folklife Traditions Journal,  
    Researched articles + archive, news. Folk studies and cultural traditions.  
​    Membership welcome but not required for appropriate contributors.    

         Current FTJ issue copied online: www.folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html, read, or download PDF.
It includes articles as below, plus Folklife Societies news & diary, Books & recordings announced & adverts.
  • Article: Brighton Camp or The Girl I Left behind Me, Song and Tune, by Charles Menteith, p4-6
  • Tune & notes: Klezmer Korner, ‘Mekhutonim Tsum Tisch”, Klezmer, arranged Helen Adam, p6-7 
  • Article: The Twa Corbies, by Roy & Lesley Adkins, p8-9
  • Article: Using Zoom for a Folk Club - A Singer’s Perspective, by Dave Mason, p10
  • Review of a virtual Ballad Walk, by Rosie Upton, p2
​free  emaileD  newsletter  (MONTHLY-ISH)           for DETAILS: cliCk to open

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 **** From Feb 2022,    FREE LISTINGS in our DIRECTORY  if you are on our emailed Newsletter list  ****
  • VENUES:  How often [e.g. Wkly, 1st],  Day,  County,  TOWN, NAME, website,  + optional contact name + optional phone
  • PERFORMERS, SHOPS, ETC (categories see online Directories):  County, NAME, website, + optional contact name + optional phone
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A form for our free emailed newsletter (monthly-ish)  
                     -- or --  just email sam@folklife.uk with the same details. 

This is useful for you, 
​with Updates 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!  
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(& Deadline Reminders).
 
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INDEX --  top of page navigation menu   🄵🅆 = print & copied online   ⎈ = online only
⎈ Updates
Folk  News 
& Directory
Updates 

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🄵🅆  NEWS
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​AREA WEBPAGES
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🄵🅆 UK Festivals,
Workshops
UK Diary
🄵🅆  
Print pages 
​1, 47-52
⎈ ​Zoom list
   Directory + Articles
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  Articles
  § #FutureOfFolk Lynn
     Noel (Boston, USA)
  § Using Zoom for a Folk
     Club Mark Dowding (Room
     At The Top FC, Lancs)
  § Using Zoom for a Folk Club
     - A Singer's Perspective  
     Dave Mason (Scotland) ​
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membership, ad rates, word limits​
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Data ​Protection
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🄵🅃🄹  Folklife Tradit'ns Journal
WEBSITE
Researched Articles with index &
archive PDFs.
Organisations' news.
🄵🅆  
Print pages 2, 4-12
🄱🄶  Wales Trad'ns
WEBSITE​
​Site currently on hold
​Wales Folklife Traditions
articles, plus
Wales
Traditions'
Directory

(not part of magazine)
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​🄵🅆  NEWS & Directory  ​AREA WEBPAGES   copying print pages 13-50,  links to these area webpages: 
---- Cymru ----🄵🅆 print pages
---------- England - SW  (West Country) ---------
​🄵🅆 ​print pages         
🄵🅆 
​West Country
Devon, ​Som.,
Dorset,
Wiltshire,
Bristol,
South Glos
England - East & West Midlands
🄵🅆 ​​print pages 
🄵🅆
Midlands
East & West,
​except
​Her.-Worcs.
------------- Other areas (in UK) ------------
​🄵🅆 ​print pages
🄵🅆
​South-East
England SE,
London
🄵🅆
North of
England
NE, NW,
Yorks and
​Humber
-- International --
⎈ Online +
🄵🅆 ​print page Directory
⎈ ​International
Folk News
EU, USA,
​& rest of World
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INDEX for our webpages (top of page) -- a print magazine ​-- it's big !
          What we do is first print & distribute the magazine for 1 Jan/May/Sept.  
Then we update online., usually by 7th.    The current issue of the entire magazine is free online !
It's big (52-64 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 52-64 pages).
Webpages index below: pictures & texts below give a summary, with the same titles as top-of-page navigation menu.
*  Folklife Traditions Journal link redirects to our Journal pages site.  
​*  Cymru/Wales Traditions link goes directly to the Cymru/Wales traditions website.

🄵🅆  Folklife West print news pages copied to website; + pdf downloads.   ⎈ Online only
   If you find this free website useful . . .  as FW print magazine always makes a healthy loss . . .  plus, these free websites cost c.£300 a year . . . 
​​   you may wish to donate £3 very occasionally,     by clicking the yellow box (for our "Ko-fi" site) for a 1-off £3 card payment. Thank you!
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Folklife West 52-page print magazine, copied online *** Folk news, directory on www.folklife.uk *** Researched articles on www.folklife-traditions.uk
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Your CDs
​Folklife Members: publicise your album 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, see the reviews page of Folklife Member THE LIVING TRADITION magazine, livingtradition.co.uk
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
WHERE to buy folklife - wales
WALES​ - club details see Directory - Venues on  🄵🅆 WALES  webpage
South-East:
<> Newport Folk Club
<> Llantrisant Folk Club:  National Correspondent, Mick Tems

North-East:  
<> Correspondent, N Wales & Cheshire, Brian Bull
WHERE TO BUY FOLKLIFE - West country
WEST COUNTRY

South-West region except Glos- club/session details on   SW Directory - Venues on 🄵🅆 West Country webpage 
​   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)
​​   North Somerset  <> Nailsea Folk Club
   Wiltshire:            <>  Village Pump Friday Folk

Gloucestershire & Oxfordshire  - club/session details on  Gl-Ox Directory - Venues​ on 🄵🅆 Glos-Oxon webpage ​
​   Gloucestershire:   <> Queen Victoria Song Session, Stroud     
                               <> Forest Folk Club
                               <> various Ceilidhs, Sessions, Roving Correspondent (mid-west), Cresby Brown
WHERE TO BUY FOLKLIFE - WEST MIDLANDS
​
WEST MIDLANDS

Brum and nearby;  Warwickshire & Coventry
- shop/club/session details on  WM Directory - Venues on 🄵🅆 W.Mids webpage 
   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 - Venues on 🄵🅆 Herefs-Worcs webpage 
    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​
FOLKLIFE WEST NO. 66    JAN, FEB, MAR, APR 2021.   COMBINED FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS JOURNAL PAGES (Articles):   FT 64 MAY & FT 65 SEP 2020 ONLINE; + FT 66 JAN 2021.  no news pages.  24 A4 PAGES.  £4 BY POST
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​​​​
​
​ 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 !
FOLKLIFE WEST NO. 67    MAY, JUN, JUL, AUG 2021.   
FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS JOURNAL,    FESTIVALS & WORKSHOPS DIARY (AREA FOLK NEWS ONLINE ONLY).   24 A4 PAGES.  £4 BY POST
FOLKLIFE WEST NO. 68    Oct, NOv, Dec 2021.  
Folklife TRaditions Journal,    Festivals & WORkshops Diary,    area folk news.   60 a4 pages.  £6 by post

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