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Folklife & Folklife West

​Bywyd Gwerin . Bewnans Gwerin . Beatha Dùthchail

www.folklife.uk
​FOLKLIFE WEST magazine, print pages, copied online;  + online extras
  • www.folklife.uk,   sam@folklife.uk   (not .co.uk, .org.uk !)
  • Published JAN (deadline 20 Nov), MAY (20 Mar), and SEP (20 July),
  • FOLKLIFE is a non-profit group of volunteers.
  • A4-size print pages, so website is not intended for phones
  • In webpage index top of page: 
    • ​🄵🅆 = news print pages, copied online, ⎈ = online-only pages
Minehead Hobby Horse ​© J K Simmons The Prince, ​Ledbury  ©  Eden Tanner
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This site Folklife West print magazine, copied online; folk news ​from Folklife members
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🄵🅆 ​Webpages, and our Correspondents         
🄵🅆 Cymru  .... Tudalen Cymru / Wales page, Mick Tems.   .......................................  N-E Wales & Cheshire, Brian Bull.  
                         Gwynedd, Travelling Sessions list local sessions.
England  🄵🅆  West Country (S-W)  Kernow (acting) David Harley.  .....................  Glos-based & Roving, Cresby aka Mr Red
               🄵🅆  Midlands    S. Birmingham & nearby, Bob Bignell.  .......................  Warwickshire with Coventry, Malc Gurnham.
                           Cotswold Folk: S.Warks/N.Cotswolds + listings, Paul Bryan.   S.W. Herefs and nearby, John & Jane Baxter.
               🄵🅆  South-East   Folk Arts Oxford website list: local folk
               🄵🅆  North:    North-West  Cumbria & North Lancashire, Steve Harrison   North-East    Yorks & Humber
🄵🅆 Alba          ⎈ International [online only]          🄵🅆 Festivals & Workshops Diary

Editors: Sam & Eleanor Simmons (Worcs).  Editing Team: David Harley (Cornwall).  Zoom, web advice: Paul Clarke (Southampton).
Illustrations & Logos:  Chris Stewart (Worcs), John Crane (Wolverhampton), Chris Beaumont (Glos).  
Photographs:  Eden Tanner (Herefs), Colin Davies (Worcs).                 We thank our Team, we are all Volunteers --- more welcome!​
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​    Membership welcome but not required for appropriate contributors.    
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INDEX --  top of page navigation menu   🄵🅆 = print & copied online   ⎈ = online only
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​🄵🅆  NEWS & Directory  ​AREA WEBPAGES   copying print pages 17 to 50,  links to these area webpages: 
Cymru • Wales
print pages
England West Country
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​West Country
Kernow, Devon, ​Som.,
Dorset, Wiltshire,
Bristol, South Glos
​Glos
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counties
England South-East ​print pages
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England SE,
London
England North
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Alba • Scotland
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​Tradit'ns Journal
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🄱🄶  Wales Trad'ns
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​Site currently on hold
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Wales
Traditions'
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(not part of magazine)
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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 14th.    The current issue of the entire magazine is free online !
It's big (52-64 A4 pages) so 2 websites - the majority on this main site has our members' news and summary listings.

​Copied online, to 2 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.  

🄵🅆  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 on www.folklife.uk *** Researched articles on www.folklife-traditions.uk
If you can afford it, you may wish to support us, by a very occasional £3 donation, or buying a printed FW magazine, or a Pdf of FW, or by subscribing 

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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

LT will be closing later this year - see UPDATES page
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
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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​​​​
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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 !
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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