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Interested in what else we do?  Read on.

ABOUT FOLKLIFE:  publishing print & online information.  3 publications, on 3 websites.

Folklife: a non-profit group,  all of us unpaid volunteers.     Editors: Sam & Eleanor Simmons  sam@folklife.uk​​

Note - this material is from before, during, and after the great lockdown.

It needs editing, too much overlapping info.  Editorial assistants welcome . . .
"FOLKLIFE WEST" print magazine, 52-60 A4 pages, 3/year, UK £18, EU £27, copied free online.  Online Updates.  
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①  This site:  Folk News area pages; Festivals/Workshops Diary.
                      Updates page  (Directory Updates; Members' News)
                      + free emailed Updates
Mostly Wales, West Country, West Midlands, but other welcome.

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② Journal on www.folklife-traditions.uk, Researched Articles, Folklife Studies, related news.
     UK & International contributors and circulation.
     Printed and published separately (UK £9, EU £16, rest of world £20),
​     and also included as part of Folklife West (prices above).
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 ③ Folklife's Directory on www.folklife-directory.uk   
         Free entries. Live & zoom.  Details + up to 40 words description (no dates).
         Simple text entries - no maps, pictures, etc.  Send any time - no deadlines to send in..
      Your new & amended entries appear on our Updates page on this Folklife West site,
      & in our emailed Updates. 

     Online-only, not part of Folklife West.  
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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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 🄵🅃🄹 Folklife Traditions Journal pages in FW: on website www.folklife-traditions.uk

​    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.

And 🄵🄳 Folklife Directory free listings for all (online only), www.folklife-directory.uk

Anyone - Members, and any others (non-members) - can be listed free in our Directories;  forms for your listing on the website.
This includes our 🄵🄳 Zoom/Virtual List

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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
​free  emaileD  UPDATES  (6 to 12 a year)           for DETAILS: cliCk to open

​join our mailing list,  and get  free  directory listingS !  online, and  IN FW PRINT MAGazine !
 **** From Feb 2022,    FREE LISTINGS in our DIRECTORY  if you are on our emailed Updates 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 Updates (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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Keep in touch with our free emailed occasional Updates

​​Updates: News, Directory, Folklife Traditions 
(& Deadline Reminders).
 
A form to sign up to Folklife Updates
​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

* indicates required
   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 

​–– Copied online - always free to view !     There's no obligation to buy magazines -- or to donate !
​PAYMENTS:  

​BACS / phone BANK
Folklife,  sort code 09-01-55,
account 18675181
 Overseas, email
sam@folklife.uk for bank details.
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Or CHEQUE to "Folklife",
16 Barrett Rise,Malvern, WR14 2UJ.

Or CARD - our payments site   
ko-fi.com/folklife/shop
---- Emailing PDF of current FW  
​--  £3  Worldwide, via WeTransfer (sent as size A4 or US-letter)
​Link to card payment for PDF
ko-fi.com/s/8e92e77df9
---- Posting the current FW 
     (UK, EU only)  
​     UK £6.  EU £9.
​Link to card payment 1 copy
ko-fi.com/s/42287c6234
Annual Membership (3 issues) with
your news,
UK £18, EU £27.   Discounts for 2+.
​Link to card payment to subscribe
ko-fi.com/s/8624d72d04
----  Adverts from 1/8 A4 mono to A4 colour
​Link to card payments for adverts
ko-fi.com/s/34cd1547ab
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​

● 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