Folklife.   www.folklife.uk  members' folk news
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news mainly Wales, England West Country & part West Midlands

contact email  sam@folklife.uk 
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Folklife West is BIG ! - 64 A4 print pages - ALL copied online
therefore:  news pages on this site,  and some material is on our other sites :
DIRECTORY (inc. Festivals)  •   FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS: articles (+ archive), folklife listings  •  ​WALES  

DIRECTORY  •  www.folklife-directory.uk  very detailed, incl. FESTIVALS & WORKSHOPS,  from  Folklife members
RESEARCHED ARTICLES  •  www.folklife-traditions.uk  + FT directory + ARCHIVE • download current issue's FT
CYMRU / WALES  •  www.folklife.cymru / www.bywyd-gwerin.cymru  • as above, dedicated site for Wales info

for the current issue,
​see
"This issue online" page

If you've never seen a print copy ...  due to lock-in, I still have a few Jan (to Apr) copies  (normally sold at local sessions) ... email me for a free copy! (UK only)
  Ø  FW's print pages - A4-size - copied online.      Ø  Also as PDFs for you to download.
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  Ø Clubs & Venues   Ø Performers   Ø Media     Ø Services (incl. Shops) 
​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.
FW's Folk News pages are copied to this site.

News and listings - only from Folklife members.   We also print 'Folklife Traditions' articles.
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An active Membership  - about 80% are listed, as club/venue/festival organisers, performers, etc 
● ● ●  Keep in touch - join our free  Newsletter email list

FOLKLIFE'S
free emailed NEWSLETTER
Anyone can receive our free emailed Folklife Newsletter   with Directory Updates & Deadline Reminders.
  Folklife Membership is not required.   Occasional, say 9 times a year - varies.  
​         All we need for this free   email service is your name + email

See "Updates webpage" ,  includes latest  FN & any further updates
Publicity bargain: get listed, news printed, FW by post: only £16 a year !

Only  £16  a year UK, for Folklife Membership = posted magazine  and  printing your news & listings  and   copying the news & listings online !
​                     SITE SECURITY:    X NO payments via this site X ​   √ √ ​√  See "Info" webpage for details for paying by BACS - never via this site.
​                     Directory listings: to avoid spam, we don't link your email addresses, we substitute <at> for @ for listing your email addresses.
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, www.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, www.folklife-directory.uk,  includes detailed diaries for festivals & workshops
And our Folklife Traditions site, www.folklife-traditions.uk,  has researched articles, publications, news, plus an archive
                   Also: a parallel site, as above relevant to Wales,   www.folklife.cymru / www.bywyd-gwerin.cymru​
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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 !
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Therefore, only information from our supportive Members is publicised.
Exceptionally . . .  from 10 June, 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   www.folklife-directory.uk

​IF . . .    Sept is also online (a possibility), subs will be extended, free, again

---------------  More Details  -------------

Latest changes:   see Updates webpage

Folklife. 
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"page
 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, www.livingtradition.co.uk .

​LT reviews online on ​www.livingtradition.co.uk/magazine/reviews as well as printed in LT.

For sending CDs for review to LT, please view www.livingtradition.co.uk/node/1979
Where to buy Folklife West.

Most 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 https://www.bywyd-gwerin.cymru/cyfeiriadur.html
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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

Cornwall & Devon - club/session details on www.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)
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Somerset, Dorset, & Wiltshire,  incl BANES, N. Som., Swindon Districts - club/session details on  www.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  www.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
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SOUTH/WEST MIDLANDS

Herefs, Shrops, & Worcestershire - club/session details on   https://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 / sessions 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

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