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NOVEMBER
🄵 NEW - BAL - THIS EVENT HAS NOW PASSED BUT FOR YOUR INFORMATION FOR FUTURE EVENTS:
was Sun 19 Nov, Powys, Hay-On-Wye BLACK MOUNTAIN BALFOLK. 3-6pm
Some exciting news for those who like to play or dance to French music.
Sundays 3-4pm scratch band practice 4-6pm dance workshop and dancing.
Occasional Saturday evening French Bal with guest musicians.
Check out dates on Facebook or Whatsapp: Black Mountain Balfolk
email jess.abrahams@gmail.com or text 07952 998320
Parish Hall Hay on Wye 12A Lion St, Hay-on-Wye, Hereford HR3 5AB
https://www.facebook.com/groups/670540084748885 (Black Mountain Balfolk)
Best wishes, Andrea Degen
🄵 Mon 27 Nov — note no Cheltenham Folk Club (room not available)
DECEMBER
🄵 Sun 3 Dec Cornwall, near Redruth, ROB BARRATT Dreamers Folk Club, Victoria Inn, Four Lanes, TR16 6PZ . 7.30pm.
🄵 Sat 9 Dec, Powys, Hay-On-Wye BLACK MOUNTAIN BALFOLK. Yule Tide Bal 7-12pm, see Sun 19 Nov entry above,
🄵 Mon 11 Dec — Cheltenham Folk Club still waiting to hear back from the Alehouse if room will be available, so join the mailing list machteltje<at>gmail.com
JANUARY ONWARDS - see next issue of Folklife West, except we note 2024 Festivals Updates
🄵 2024 Aug 17 - 23 WHITBY FOLK WEEK www.whitbyfolk.co.uk
→ WHITBY, North Yorkshire. Numerous venues throughout the town.
⌂ Whitby Folk Week; General Enquiries email: folk@whitbyfolk.co.uk; Ticket Sales email: tickets@whitbyfolk.co.uk or postal: PO Box 6150, Sheffield, S11 0HB; Camping Enquiries email: camping@whitbyfolk.co.uk; Craft Fair Enquiries email: craft@whitbyfolk.uk.co
⊕ Whitby Folk Week is a celebration of British traditional song, dance, music and storytelling, which takes place in the picturesque fishing town of Whitby on the North Yorkshire Coast. During Folk Week there are daily dance displays around the town, as well as parades on the first Saturday and final Friday.
Whitby is renowned for it’s wide variety of workshops, many of which are a progressive series through the week, for example Singing in Harmony, Playford for All, Festival Orchestra. There are many opportunities to learn new styles of dance, or take take up an instrument, as well as sessions aimed at both beginner and experienced dancers and musicians.
With so many wonderful artists to choose from there is a full programme of daily concerts, talks, interviews and presentations, as well as social dances and ceilidhs every evening in the spacious Spa Pavillion.
Our annual Music and Craft Fair is open daily throughout the week with a wide variety of musical instruments, crafts, and, of course, festival merchansdise.
With hundreds of events to choose from, including a full Children’s Festival programme, Whitby Folk Week has something for everyone, and all the family!
We're also happy to include news from international non-members (won't be in the printed magazine, unless members).
USA: New York state
ØØ CORNING. VALLEY FOLK MUSIC CONCERTS: 2024
Buy tickets online at www.valleyfolk.org or at the door.
Sunday, January 28, 2:00 pm ...... John Showman & Chris Coole
Saturday, February 10, 7:30 pm Darol Anger & Mike Marshall Duo
Sunday, March 10, 2:00 pm .......... Beppe Gambetta
Sunday, April 7, 2:00 pm ............... Stars for the Eclipse
Concerts are held at 144 Cedar St. Corning, NY (corner 1st St.) in the red brick Methodist Church
For more information visit our website, or contact us: (1) 607-962-4461, or info<at>valleyfolk.org
www.valleyfolk.org
We are always happy to welcome holiday makers to our concerts. The Corning Museum of Glass (CMOG) also located in Corning, NY where our concerts are held, is well worth a side trip from bigger destinations and is just a little west of the halfway point between NY City and Niagara Falls. And once in Corning, the smaller Rockwell Museum of Western Art (that’s western US) is affiliated with the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC. One could happily spend a few days here for a nice contrast to crowded big city places. - Debra
🄵 NEW - BAL - THIS EVENT HAS NOW PASSED BUT FOR YOUR INFORMATION FOR FUTURE EVENTS:
was Sun 19 Nov, Powys, Hay-On-Wye BLACK MOUNTAIN BALFOLK. 3-6pm
Some exciting news for those who like to play or dance to French music.
Sundays 3-4pm scratch band practice 4-6pm dance workshop and dancing.
Occasional Saturday evening French Bal with guest musicians.
Check out dates on Facebook or Whatsapp: Black Mountain Balfolk
email jess.abrahams@gmail.com or text 07952 998320
Parish Hall Hay on Wye 12A Lion St, Hay-on-Wye, Hereford HR3 5AB
https://www.facebook.com/groups/670540084748885 (Black Mountain Balfolk)
Best wishes, Andrea Degen
🄵 Mon 27 Nov — note no Cheltenham Folk Club (room not available)
DECEMBER
🄵 Sun 3 Dec Cornwall, near Redruth, ROB BARRATT Dreamers Folk Club, Victoria Inn, Four Lanes, TR16 6PZ . 7.30pm.
🄵 Sat 9 Dec, Powys, Hay-On-Wye BLACK MOUNTAIN BALFOLK. Yule Tide Bal 7-12pm, see Sun 19 Nov entry above,
🄵 Mon 11 Dec — Cheltenham Folk Club still waiting to hear back from the Alehouse if room will be available, so join the mailing list machteltje<at>gmail.com
JANUARY ONWARDS - see next issue of Folklife West, except we note 2024 Festivals Updates
🄵 2024 Aug 17 - 23 WHITBY FOLK WEEK www.whitbyfolk.co.uk
→ WHITBY, North Yorkshire. Numerous venues throughout the town.
⌂ Whitby Folk Week; General Enquiries email: folk@whitbyfolk.co.uk; Ticket Sales email: tickets@whitbyfolk.co.uk or postal: PO Box 6150, Sheffield, S11 0HB; Camping Enquiries email: camping@whitbyfolk.co.uk; Craft Fair Enquiries email: craft@whitbyfolk.uk.co
⊕ Whitby Folk Week is a celebration of British traditional song, dance, music and storytelling, which takes place in the picturesque fishing town of Whitby on the North Yorkshire Coast. During Folk Week there are daily dance displays around the town, as well as parades on the first Saturday and final Friday.
Whitby is renowned for it’s wide variety of workshops, many of which are a progressive series through the week, for example Singing in Harmony, Playford for All, Festival Orchestra. There are many opportunities to learn new styles of dance, or take take up an instrument, as well as sessions aimed at both beginner and experienced dancers and musicians.
With so many wonderful artists to choose from there is a full programme of daily concerts, talks, interviews and presentations, as well as social dances and ceilidhs every evening in the spacious Spa Pavillion.
Our annual Music and Craft Fair is open daily throughout the week with a wide variety of musical instruments, crafts, and, of course, festival merchansdise.
With hundreds of events to choose from, including a full Children’s Festival programme, Whitby Folk Week has something for everyone, and all the family!
We're also happy to include news from international non-members (won't be in the printed magazine, unless members).
USA: New York state
ØØ CORNING. VALLEY FOLK MUSIC CONCERTS: 2024
Buy tickets online at www.valleyfolk.org or at the door.
Sunday, January 28, 2:00 pm ...... John Showman & Chris Coole
Saturday, February 10, 7:30 pm Darol Anger & Mike Marshall Duo
Sunday, March 10, 2:00 pm .......... Beppe Gambetta
Sunday, April 7, 2:00 pm ............... Stars for the Eclipse
Concerts are held at 144 Cedar St. Corning, NY (corner 1st St.) in the red brick Methodist Church
For more information visit our website, or contact us: (1) 607-962-4461, or info<at>valleyfolk.org
www.valleyfolk.org
We are always happy to welcome holiday makers to our concerts. The Corning Museum of Glass (CMOG) also located in Corning, NY where our concerts are held, is well worth a side trip from bigger destinations and is just a little west of the halfway point between NY City and Niagara Falls. And once in Corning, the smaller Rockwell Museum of Western Art (that’s western US) is affiliated with the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC. One could happily spend a few days here for a nice contrast to crowded big city places. - Debra
As usual ... Folklife West print magazine -- deadline 20 Nov for 1 Jan
Members' news, and Festivals & Workshops Diary with dates and details listed.
Members' news, and Festivals & Workshops Diary with dates and details listed.
NOVEMBER
🄵 DEVON. Nov.-Dec. Wren Music. Various groups and projects up and running - see more details in our What's On calendar. wrenmusic.co.uk
🄵 WILTSHIRE. Saturday 11th November MOONRAKERS at St Giles Church, Lea, Nr. MALMESBURY, Wiltshire, SN16 9PB. 7:30pm. Lovely old church with fine acoustics. £12 on the door or in advance from 07483 803235. www.moonrakers.net
🄵 BIRMINGHAM. Wednesday 15 November Birmingham Storytelling Cafe. John Sullivan-Blakeney: A Leaf on the Tree
Myths and legends of the Goddess of Sovereignty, of the Land personified, have been told since the sun first rose. How she has made her way through time and across the world. How the spirit of man impacts on the Spirit of the land. And what in their heart of hearts do women want?
In A Leaf on the Tree, John Sullivan-Blakeney tells the story of Gawain and the Loathly Lady. He traces how, under the patriarchy, the legend has travelled through Medieval courts and the hands of Christian scribes, and shows how it can now thrive in today’s climate.
Birmingham Storytelling Café is a place of magic and mischief, where you can enjoy delicious food or drink while sitting back and being whisked away to a world of wonderful stories that will amuse and enrich you. Food served from 6.30, stories start at 7.30. Tickets are £10 - you can get them in advance from wegottickets.com or from the venue 0121 443 4725
The Trad Arts Team runs activities in the Midlands relating to traditional song, music, storytelling and dance. More info at tradartsteam.co.uk, on Facebook, or @tradartsteam on Twitter
🄵 SOMERSET. 17-19 November MOONRAKERS. Folk Orchestra residential course, Yarn Market Hotel, Dunster, MINEHEAD, Somerset, TA24 6SF. Arriving Friday evening, then two full days of multi-instrumental group arrangements, playing and tuition for intermediate players. Limited to 20 participants. Two nights full board + the course : £320-£350 depending on accommodation. Day visitors £160 (incl. lunch/dinner/lunch). Bookings: 01643 821425. Course enquiries: 01865 769206. www.moonrakers.net
🄵 HEREFORDSHIRE. Tue 28 Nov. THE HOMEND POETS & MUSICIANS. Theme: 'Occupations' and 'Stations'. 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm. Contact Nick Halligan 01684 563281 Email nickh2009<at>btinternet.com, but phone preferred.. At Pot & Page Cafe, 8 New Street, Ledbury HR8 2DX. https://www.facebook.com/PotAndPage 01531 248743 www.folklife.uk/homend-poets.html
DECEMBER
🄵 DEVON. Sunday 10 December. Wren Music. Okehampton Carols. Come and learn folk carols from West Devon, ready for Carols by Candlelight on Thursday 14. wrenmusic.co.uk
🄵 DEVON. Friday 8 December. Wren Music. Winter Concert - East. Broadclyst, near Exeter. An evening of seasonal entertainment, with hamper raffle. wrenmusic.co.uk
🄵 DEVON. Saturday 9 December. Wren Music. Winter Concert - West. Okehampton. Another evening of seasonal entertainment, with hamper raffle.
wrenmusic.co.uk
🄵 ONLINE Tue 26 Dec. PAUL WALKER & KAREN PFEIFFER "Afternoon Tea CHRITMAS SPECIAL with Paul & Karen"
"Afternoon Tea SPECIAL with Paul & Karen" regular streams have stopped but there is a one-off (for now) Special on Boxing Day, and can be found via the website www.paulwalkermusic.co.uk
⇒ karen<at>paulwalkermusic.co.uk , www.youtube.com/PaulWalkerKarenPfeiffer , www.facebook.com/paulwalkerandkarenpfeiffer
🄵 DEVON. Nov.-Dec. Wren Music. Various groups and projects up and running - see more details in our What's On calendar. wrenmusic.co.uk
🄵 WILTSHIRE. Saturday 11th November MOONRAKERS at St Giles Church, Lea, Nr. MALMESBURY, Wiltshire, SN16 9PB. 7:30pm. Lovely old church with fine acoustics. £12 on the door or in advance from 07483 803235. www.moonrakers.net
🄵 BIRMINGHAM. Wednesday 15 November Birmingham Storytelling Cafe. John Sullivan-Blakeney: A Leaf on the Tree
Myths and legends of the Goddess of Sovereignty, of the Land personified, have been told since the sun first rose. How she has made her way through time and across the world. How the spirit of man impacts on the Spirit of the land. And what in their heart of hearts do women want?
In A Leaf on the Tree, John Sullivan-Blakeney tells the story of Gawain and the Loathly Lady. He traces how, under the patriarchy, the legend has travelled through Medieval courts and the hands of Christian scribes, and shows how it can now thrive in today’s climate.
Birmingham Storytelling Café is a place of magic and mischief, where you can enjoy delicious food or drink while sitting back and being whisked away to a world of wonderful stories that will amuse and enrich you. Food served from 6.30, stories start at 7.30. Tickets are £10 - you can get them in advance from wegottickets.com or from the venue 0121 443 4725
The Trad Arts Team runs activities in the Midlands relating to traditional song, music, storytelling and dance. More info at tradartsteam.co.uk, on Facebook, or @tradartsteam on Twitter
🄵 SOMERSET. 17-19 November MOONRAKERS. Folk Orchestra residential course, Yarn Market Hotel, Dunster, MINEHEAD, Somerset, TA24 6SF. Arriving Friday evening, then two full days of multi-instrumental group arrangements, playing and tuition for intermediate players. Limited to 20 participants. Two nights full board + the course : £320-£350 depending on accommodation. Day visitors £160 (incl. lunch/dinner/lunch). Bookings: 01643 821425. Course enquiries: 01865 769206. www.moonrakers.net
🄵 HEREFORDSHIRE. Tue 28 Nov. THE HOMEND POETS & MUSICIANS. Theme: 'Occupations' and 'Stations'. 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm. Contact Nick Halligan 01684 563281 Email nickh2009<at>btinternet.com, but phone preferred.. At Pot & Page Cafe, 8 New Street, Ledbury HR8 2DX. https://www.facebook.com/PotAndPage 01531 248743 www.folklife.uk/homend-poets.html
DECEMBER
🄵 DEVON. Sunday 10 December. Wren Music. Okehampton Carols. Come and learn folk carols from West Devon, ready for Carols by Candlelight on Thursday 14. wrenmusic.co.uk
🄵 DEVON. Friday 8 December. Wren Music. Winter Concert - East. Broadclyst, near Exeter. An evening of seasonal entertainment, with hamper raffle. wrenmusic.co.uk
🄵 DEVON. Saturday 9 December. Wren Music. Winter Concert - West. Okehampton. Another evening of seasonal entertainment, with hamper raffle.
wrenmusic.co.uk
🄵 ONLINE Tue 26 Dec. PAUL WALKER & KAREN PFEIFFER "Afternoon Tea CHRITMAS SPECIAL with Paul & Karen"
"Afternoon Tea SPECIAL with Paul & Karen" regular streams have stopped but there is a one-off (for now) Special on Boxing Day, and can be found via the website www.paulwalkermusic.co.uk
⇒ karen<at>paulwalkermusic.co.uk , www.youtube.com/PaulWalkerKarenPfeiffer , www.facebook.com/paulwalkerandkarenpfeiffer
Changes:
Folklife West & Folklife Traditions Journal published separately
Folklife West & Folklife Traditions Journal published separately
- Folklife West - news as before Jan, May, Sep --- but no longer including Journal.
- Folklife Traditions Journal - new: now twice yearly, November and March.
- Subscriptions to include both magazines - no change - still £18 year UK, etc.
- Cover prices in clubs etc: Folklife West £3, as before, for 40-48 pages (equivalent to 80-96 pages in an A5 magazine), Journal £1.50
🄵🅃🄹 Folklife Traditions Journal, www.folklife-traditions.uk UPDATES
Journal available separately ! Online, free, read or download PDF. Print 1 copy or Subscriptions welcome, card https://ko-fi.com/s/d479e8d448
• 1-off: 1 copy of May 2023 issue. --- UK: £3, or EU: £5, or rest of world £6.50
• Annual subscriber, 1 copy of 3 issues.. --- UK: £9, or EU £15, or rest of world £19
• This is a new scheme so these prices apply at time of your order, they may change for later subscribers
NEW SCHEDULE - twice yearly - March & November, no longer printed as part of Folklife West.
1. FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS JOURNAL - Nov. 2023 now published
2023 Nov - FTJ 74 now online at www.folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html
20 A4 print pages, mono. Printed cover pages (p1,2,19,20) cream paper, rest white paper.
Articles
Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, by Tiffany Hore, Library and Archives Director, p10
Books & recordings announced & adverts
- Our aims include stimulating a wider interest in folk studies & folk culture.
- Researched articles + archive, new, on a separate website. Folk studies and cultural traditions.
- Also FT DIRECTORY, Folklife Societies: Associations, Trusts, Organisations; Folklife Studies & Institutions; Seasonal Local Celebrations
Journal available separately ! Online, free, read or download PDF. Print 1 copy or Subscriptions welcome, card https://ko-fi.com/s/d479e8d448
• 1-off: 1 copy of May 2023 issue. --- UK: £3, or EU: £5, or rest of world £6.50
• Annual subscriber, 1 copy of 3 issues.. --- UK: £9, or EU £15, or rest of world £19
• This is a new scheme so these prices apply at time of your order, they may change for later subscribers
NEW SCHEDULE - twice yearly - March & November, no longer printed as part of Folklife West.
1. FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS JOURNAL - Nov. 2023 now published
2023 Nov - FTJ 74 now online at www.folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html
20 A4 print pages, mono. Printed cover pages (p1,2,19,20) cream paper, rest white paper.
Articles
- The guitar: a brief history from the renaissance to the modern day, by Ian Pittaway, p2-5
- The Bitter Withy, by Charles Menteith, p6-8
- “Unite and unite and let us all unite for summer is a-come unto day . . .” A personal reminiscence of May Days past and present, by Rosie Upton, p9
- Bard of the Boats, by Keith Gregson, p12-13
- The Fair Flower of Northumberland, by Linn Phipps & Doug Huggins, p14-15
- The Cemetery Song, from Arthur Ellaway, collected by Gwilym Davies; by Verorica Lowe, p16-17
- Manx tunes: Music Learnt From The Fairies; and “The Girls of Balladoole” by Stephen Miller, p18
Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, by Tiffany Hore, Library and Archives Director, p10
Books & recordings announced & adverts
- Books: My World of Shanties, Fred Winkel. Heave Away,Haul Away; Sail Away, Jim Mageean, p11; Ballad Partners: Vaughan William and Folk; Cecil Sharp, Collector of songs and Dances, p19.
- Recordings: Blues, p5.
- Film: All My Life’s Buried Here, The Story of George Butterworth, p16
- Vic Gammon - internet, p15.
- TSF & Broadside Day; FLS, p17.
- Pedlars Pack, p18.
- Trac Cymru; Obit: Tom Brown, p19.
- Seasonal Local Celebrations, Nov-Feb, list & photos, mostly by Doc Rowe, p20
- Shorter researched articles eg a collected song, tune or dance, no minimum - anything from just a song & a few lines or up to 500 words; other articles are often 1000 to 1500, our maximum is 2500 words.
- To introduce society, institution, max. 1000 words. Short news items/dates from society/institution welcome; longer items, please consult editor. Photo(s) welcome, can be sent in colour; may be used in colour on cover if we've room (depends on adverts)
Members News updates
FOLK NEWS from our FOLKLIFE MEMBERS, up to 200 words welcome (live events unless stated as Zoom)
NOVEMBER
🄵 POWYS Saturday 4 November
Welsh Clog Dancing Day in Llandrindod Wells - this time especially suited to dancers with some experience
TASC members £30, non-members £35 per person, includes refreshments (bring your own lunch)
Places are limited. Please book via the TASC website shop: https://tradartsupport.org.uk/shop.html
🄵 BIRMINGHAM AND NEARBY TRADITIONAL ARTS TEAM
🄵 GLOUCESTERSHIRE Sunday 5 November - FOREST FOLK CLUB Mick Ryan and Paul Downes,
MICK RYAN is well known on the folk scene as a fine singer of traditional and original songs, Mick is joined by the consummately skilled and expressive guitarist (and sometimes banjoist) PAUL DOWNES who has a sensitive, yet fun approach to live performances which puts him among the most respected artists on the British acoustic music scene today. Together, Mick Ryan and PaulDownes epitomise singing, music and entertainment of the very highest quality. Doors open at 7.30, admission £8 on the door.
And Sunday 19th November - A Special Singers Night Tribute to Dick Brice
Sadly, Forest Folk Club’s friend and great supporter, Dick Brice, passed away earlier this year. As a special tribute to this great songwriter, poet and Forest raconteur, we are dedicating this Singers Night to him and all money raised will go to a charity chosen by his wife, Di, who will be with us on this special evening and Dick’s books and CDs will also be on sale. Please come along and support us and Di for this special event.
See our website forestfolkclub.com for details of club events.
🄵 ZOOM Tuesday 7 Nov: Themed Shanty Big Sing - New York Girls (aka Can't You Dance the Polka) Shanty
Hi everyone!
Our next Themed Shanty Big Sing (no 13) will be on Tuesday 7 Nov 8pm UK/ Ireland time (3pm ET, noon PT, 9pm France time etc), when we look forward to everyone joining us to share / hear versions of Shanties themed on New York Girls (aka Can't You Dance the Polka) Shanty, where New York Girls are the/a key feature of the shanty.
To join as singers/ audience and to get the event ZOOM link (issued about 24 hours prior), pls email Linn direct or via https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/contact/. with subject line Themed Shanty Big Sing No 13 New York Girls
To help version learning, the next upcoming theme will be: California
See you soon!
Linn Phipps & Jim Lucas
Contact https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/contact/ with subject line Themed Shanty Big Sing No 13
Shanty Big Sing website http://shantyman.dk/ShantyBigSings/
Additionally https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/collaborations-links-and-other-news/
New Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ThemedShantyBigSings-rc9te
🄵 HEREFORDSHIRE Friday 10 November, JEZ LOWE, Folk In The Foyer, Bromyard
A double nomination in the 2015 BBC Folk Awards – for best singer and best new song – was a timely reminder of Jez Lowe’s standing in the UK folk and acoustic music scene. Booking details below.
Whimsical, funny, poetic, wry. Not only is Jez one of the busiest live performers in the country, but his songs are among the most widely sung by other performers, whether by long-established acts like Fairport Convention, The Dubliners and Bob Fox, or by the new breed of stars like The Unthanks, The Young Uns and The Duhks.
Support: John Mosedale is a songwriter and guitarist who burst onto the folk scene at an age when many people are considering early retirement.
TICKETS £10. Doors: 7.30pm. Music starts: 8pm. To help us decide if this one's in the main theatre or the foyer, PLEASE PLEASE book early so we get an idea of numbers. Conquest Theatre, Tenbury Rd., Bromyard HR7 4LL https://conquest-theatre.co.uk/whats-on/ / 01885 488575 .
COMING SOON: December 8th: Hunter Muskett an acoustic/electric 3-piece playing distinctive original songs in a folky, bluesy, sometimes Americana vein.
DECEMBER
🄵 WILTSHIRE STONEGALLOWS
FINAL EVER SHOW, Saturday 9th December, The Pump, Trowbridge, Wilts,
see https://thepumptrowbridge.co.uk/stonegallows-final-ever-show/
2024 FESTIVALS DATES - only if not already listed in Sept 2023 Folklife List
🄵 Bromyard Folk Festival 2024 festival dates are 5-8th September 2024 https://bromyardfolkfestival.co.uk
NOVEMBER
🄵 POWYS Saturday 4 November
Welsh Clog Dancing Day in Llandrindod Wells - this time especially suited to dancers with some experience
TASC members £30, non-members £35 per person, includes refreshments (bring your own lunch)
Places are limited. Please book via the TASC website shop: https://tradartsupport.org.uk/shop.html
🄵 BIRMINGHAM AND NEARBY TRADITIONAL ARTS TEAM
- Saturday 4 Nov, 2:30pm to 5pm Alvechurch French Dance and Music Alvechurch Village Hall B48 7JX. More details at tradartsteam.co.uk/our-events/events-by-partners-and-friends/#french or see the Facebook group
- Sunday 5 Nov, 6-9pm Global Trad Session from Birmingham Folk Old Moseley Arms, 53 Tindal St, Balsall Heath, B12 9QU. Free and open to anyone with an instrument at any level Checkout the Facebook page for more info
- Tuesday 7 Nov, 7:30pm Royal Tales – Sutton Coldfield Storytelling. Station Pub, 44 Station St, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, B73 6AT Free entry, but please support the venue by buying drinks and food. Checkout the Royal Tales Facebook group for more info
- Thursday 9 Nov, 7:30 pm Moseley Village Band St Columba’s Church Hall, Moseley, B13 8DD tradartsteam.co.uk/our-events/events-by-partners-and-friends/#moseley-village-band
- Wednesday 15 Nov, 7:30 pm Birmingham Storytelling Café: John Sullivan-Blakeney “A Leaf on the Tree” Kitchen Garden Café, York Road, Kings Heath, B14 7SA Come and enjoy delicious food or drink while sitting back and being whisked away to the world of Gawain and the Loathly Lady, a legend which still thrives in today’s climate. Tickets £10 from wegottickets.com More info from https://www.birminghamstorytellingcafe.co.uk/
- Friday 17 Nov, 7-9pm Live music at All Saints Centre Cafe, Kings Heath Village Square, B14 7RA The Cafe Band will be joined by the Trad Arts Team's resident band Mad Moll Free entry https://www.allsaintscentrekh.co.uk/event/live-music-in-all-saints-cafe/
- Thursday 23 Nov, 7:30 pm Moseley Village Band St Columba’s Church Hall, Moseley, B13 8DD tradartsteam.co.uk/our-events/events-by-partners-and-friends/#moseley-village-band
🄵 GLOUCESTERSHIRE Sunday 5 November - FOREST FOLK CLUB Mick Ryan and Paul Downes,
MICK RYAN is well known on the folk scene as a fine singer of traditional and original songs, Mick is joined by the consummately skilled and expressive guitarist (and sometimes banjoist) PAUL DOWNES who has a sensitive, yet fun approach to live performances which puts him among the most respected artists on the British acoustic music scene today. Together, Mick Ryan and PaulDownes epitomise singing, music and entertainment of the very highest quality. Doors open at 7.30, admission £8 on the door.
And Sunday 19th November - A Special Singers Night Tribute to Dick Brice
Sadly, Forest Folk Club’s friend and great supporter, Dick Brice, passed away earlier this year. As a special tribute to this great songwriter, poet and Forest raconteur, we are dedicating this Singers Night to him and all money raised will go to a charity chosen by his wife, Di, who will be with us on this special evening and Dick’s books and CDs will also be on sale. Please come along and support us and Di for this special event.
See our website forestfolkclub.com for details of club events.
🄵 ZOOM Tuesday 7 Nov: Themed Shanty Big Sing - New York Girls (aka Can't You Dance the Polka) Shanty
Hi everyone!
Our next Themed Shanty Big Sing (no 13) will be on Tuesday 7 Nov 8pm UK/ Ireland time (3pm ET, noon PT, 9pm France time etc), when we look forward to everyone joining us to share / hear versions of Shanties themed on New York Girls (aka Can't You Dance the Polka) Shanty, where New York Girls are the/a key feature of the shanty.
To join as singers/ audience and to get the event ZOOM link (issued about 24 hours prior), pls email Linn direct or via https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/contact/. with subject line Themed Shanty Big Sing No 13 New York Girls
To help version learning, the next upcoming theme will be: California
See you soon!
Linn Phipps & Jim Lucas
Contact https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/contact/ with subject line Themed Shanty Big Sing No 13
Shanty Big Sing website http://shantyman.dk/ShantyBigSings/
Additionally https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/collaborations-links-and-other-news/
New Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ThemedShantyBigSings-rc9te
🄵 HEREFORDSHIRE Friday 10 November, JEZ LOWE, Folk In The Foyer, Bromyard
A double nomination in the 2015 BBC Folk Awards – for best singer and best new song – was a timely reminder of Jez Lowe’s standing in the UK folk and acoustic music scene. Booking details below.
Whimsical, funny, poetic, wry. Not only is Jez one of the busiest live performers in the country, but his songs are among the most widely sung by other performers, whether by long-established acts like Fairport Convention, The Dubliners and Bob Fox, or by the new breed of stars like The Unthanks, The Young Uns and The Duhks.
Support: John Mosedale is a songwriter and guitarist who burst onto the folk scene at an age when many people are considering early retirement.
TICKETS £10. Doors: 7.30pm. Music starts: 8pm. To help us decide if this one's in the main theatre or the foyer, PLEASE PLEASE book early so we get an idea of numbers. Conquest Theatre, Tenbury Rd., Bromyard HR7 4LL https://conquest-theatre.co.uk/whats-on/ / 01885 488575 .
COMING SOON: December 8th: Hunter Muskett an acoustic/electric 3-piece playing distinctive original songs in a folky, bluesy, sometimes Americana vein.
DECEMBER
🄵 WILTSHIRE STONEGALLOWS
FINAL EVER SHOW, Saturday 9th December, The Pump, Trowbridge, Wilts,
see https://thepumptrowbridge.co.uk/stonegallows-final-ever-show/
2024 FESTIVALS DATES - only if not already listed in Sept 2023 Folklife List
🄵 Bromyard Folk Festival 2024 festival dates are 5-8th September 2024 https://bromyardfolkfestival.co.uk
Directory update
ONLINE DIRECTORY open to all, free www.folklife-directory.uk
VENUES - WALES www.folklife-directory.uk/v-cymru.html
🄵 Last Tues Newport RHIWDERIN LAST TUESDAY SING www.newportfolkclub.co.uk Cris 01633 896347
→ The Rhiwderin Inn (01633 897722), Caerphilly Road, Newport, NP10 8RX, 8pm.
⇒ Cris, 07962 319298. www.facebook.com/groups/newportfollkclub
⊕ Monthly acoustic session run by Newport Folk Club. [new contact phone, October 2023]
Pf.1c FOLK MUSIC & SONG -- SOLO www.folklife-directory.uk/perf-solo.html
NORTH EAST ENGLAND
‡ Tyne and Wear JIM MAGEEAN www.jimmageean.co.uk
⇒ shanty_jim<at>hotmail.com
⊕ A folk singer from the North East of England specialising in Sea Songs and Shanties from the Great Days of Sail. He is internationally renowned for his powerful singing and has performed all over the world. Biography and discography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Mageean [New listing, Nov 2023]
PERFORMERS: Pf.1f FOLK MUSIC & SONG --- SHANTY GROUPS, DUOS, & SOLO www.folklife-directory.uk/perf-shanty.html
NORTH EAST ENGLAND
‡ Tyne and Wear JIM MAGEEAN www.jimmageean.co.uk
⇒ shanty_jim<at>hotmail.com
⊕ A folk singer from the North East of England specialising in Sea Songs and Shanties from the Great Days of Sail. He is internationally renowned for his powerful singing and has performed all over the world. Biography and discography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Mageean [New listing, Nov 2023]
MEDIA www.folklife-directory.uk/media.html
M.7 FOLK RADIO
‡ Gloucestershire FOLK & ACOUSTIC MUSIC with Chris Arscott deanradio.co.uk Chris Arscott
⇒ Contact chris on chrisarscott46<at>gmail.com
⊕ Dean Radio 95.7 &105.6FM also on deanradio.co.uk, 6pm on Tuesdays, repeated on Thursday at 9pm. Listen again (after the repeat) on the Dean Radio web site. [New listing, Oct 2023]
VENUES - WALES www.folklife-directory.uk/v-cymru.html
🄵 Last Tues Newport RHIWDERIN LAST TUESDAY SING www.newportfolkclub.co.uk Cris 01633 896347
→ The Rhiwderin Inn (01633 897722), Caerphilly Road, Newport, NP10 8RX, 8pm.
⇒ Cris, 07962 319298. www.facebook.com/groups/newportfollkclub
⊕ Monthly acoustic session run by Newport Folk Club. [new contact phone, October 2023]
Pf.1c FOLK MUSIC & SONG -- SOLO www.folklife-directory.uk/perf-solo.html
NORTH EAST ENGLAND
‡ Tyne and Wear JIM MAGEEAN www.jimmageean.co.uk
⇒ shanty_jim<at>hotmail.com
⊕ A folk singer from the North East of England specialising in Sea Songs and Shanties from the Great Days of Sail. He is internationally renowned for his powerful singing and has performed all over the world. Biography and discography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Mageean [New listing, Nov 2023]
PERFORMERS: Pf.1f FOLK MUSIC & SONG --- SHANTY GROUPS, DUOS, & SOLO www.folklife-directory.uk/perf-shanty.html
NORTH EAST ENGLAND
‡ Tyne and Wear JIM MAGEEAN www.jimmageean.co.uk
⇒ shanty_jim<at>hotmail.com
⊕ A folk singer from the North East of England specialising in Sea Songs and Shanties from the Great Days of Sail. He is internationally renowned for his powerful singing and has performed all over the world. Biography and discography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Mageean [New listing, Nov 2023]
MEDIA www.folklife-directory.uk/media.html
M.7 FOLK RADIO
‡ Gloucestershire FOLK & ACOUSTIC MUSIC with Chris Arscott deanradio.co.uk Chris Arscott
⇒ Contact chris on chrisarscott46<at>gmail.com
⊕ Dean Radio 95.7 &105.6FM also on deanradio.co.uk, 6pm on Tuesdays, repeated on Thursday at 9pm. Listen again (after the repeat) on the Dean Radio web site. [New listing, Oct 2023]
Changes:
Folklife West & Folklife Traditions Journal published separately
Folklife West & Folklife Traditions Journal published separately
- Folklife West - news as before Jan, May, Sep --- but no longer including Journal.
- Folklife Traditions Journal - new: now twice yearly, November and March.
- Subscriptions to include both magazines - no change - still £18 year UK, etc.
- Cover prices in clubs etc: Folklife West £3, as before, for 40-48 pages (equivalent to 80-96 pages in an A5 magazine), Journal tba.
RIP: Tom Brown
18 May 1948 - 30 August 2023 Tom Brown was a folklore researcher and event organiser, as well as a well-known folk performer. Tom was wonderfully knowledgeable on traditional music particularly of the West Country, and folklore, and shared this freely. He was involved in the management, administration and performance of the vernacular arts for many years, including with EFDSS, Halsway Manor, and The Folklore Society. His M.A. dissertation was on Mumming: the Evolution and Continuity of English Vernacular Drama and his Doctoral thesis was on English Vernacular Performing Arts in the Late Twentieth Century, researching repertoire, origins, development, motivation and management in over 330 extant performing groups: morris sides, mumming groups, calendar customs and display dance teams. Tom and Barbara were instrumental in re-establish the "The Hunting of the Earl of Rone" annual custom in Combe Martin, north Devon, now taking place each year over the four days of the Spring Bank Holiday weekend (https://earl-of-rone.org.uk). Tom was a fine folk singer and musician, and together with Barbara, involved in many musical projects, including some fine albums published by Wildgoose Studios, plus festivals and singarounds, including the wonderful Whittlebury Song & Ale weekends. They also sang together with Charley Yarwood as Regalia. Tom and Barbara moved for work reasons from the West Country to London, they came back to Combe Martin in Devon, and set up the Shammick Folk Club. Barbara has emailed us that Tom's funeral was held on 26th September, to watch it, go to https://watch.obitus.com/ Username: jata1106 Password: 966540 Likewise, if you wish to contribute in his memory, go to www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/tom-brown-halsway ; as huge supporters of all the Folk Arts, Tom and Barbara had been involved with Halsway Manor, for many years, so the family would welcome donations from those who wish to remember Tom by supporting this invaluable resource and venue. The celebration of his life should be available until at least the 24th October, which is also when the Just Giving page will be closed. |
RIP: John Denny
John sadly died recently. Photo from our 'Folk News', Oct. 2000. "If I had the wings of a dove, I would walk" (from "Me And My Overcoat, 1993) JOHN DENNY was a man of many parts, he was our "Birmingham Bash" Correspondent, a role he performed with his customary enthusiasm; our Directory had entries from John as "Singer/songwriter"; as "Graphic artist, silhouettes to order; publicity & graphic design; photocopying"; and as a contact for "Birmingham Traditional Music Club" ("a home from home for singers, instrumentalists, poets, storytellers, listeners"). John was also involved in the "Midlands Folk Traditions Society". Laine writes about her old friend: JOHN DENNY Back in the good old '70s, John developed an interest in folk music, becoming a familiar face at clubs and festivals in the Midlands. He became part of the committee for Birmingham Trad, and his flat became a regular meeting place - when we could navigate his collections of books and magazines! John was known for his sketches of people he met. His particular talent was creating silhouettes, without his subjects realizing. Happiest in informal situations, John would sing folk songs and his own compositions, which were well-liked. He wrote poems, and in recent years wrote novels, which he repeatedly re-drafted. John was a man of many interests. He had a large collection of books and DVDs, and a vast collection of graphic novels (comics!). He also gathered a wealth of newspaper cuttings about anything that caught his attention. In recent years, John spent several Christmases with us, becoming part of our family for a boozy few days, then sharing a visit to Gloucester to see the mummers, and then on to the Birmingham Toy Fair at the N.E.C. This year will be very different. All the best, John. Laine |
Also we have just heard of the passing of another fine singer, Dan Milner (1945-2023), see https://inishowensinging.ie/blogposts/dan-milner-1945-2023/?mibextid=Zxz2cZ&fbclid=IwAR1f1jysntLmZ_0JS_qbyBLOZeBb2rqEVGkbeJsIvDMEAd6WYfJ1vBrIplc
🄵🅃🄹 Folklife Traditions Journal, www.folklife-traditions.uk
Journal available separately! Online, free, read or download PDF. Print 1 copy or Subscriptions welcome, card https://ko-fi.com/s/d479e8d448
• 1-off: 1 copy of May 2023 issue. --- UK: £3, or EU: £5, or rest of world £6.50
• Annual subscriber, 1 copy of 3 issues.. --- UK: £9, or EU £15, or rest of world £19
• This is a new scheme so these prices apply at time of your order, they may change for later subscribers
NEW SCHEDULE - twice yearly - March & November, no longer printed as part of Folklife West.
🄵 Annual Broadside Day 2024 - Saturday 17th February 2024 at Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regents Park, London NW1 7AY.
This is our regular one-day conference devoted to all things to do with street literature and cheap print of the past, in Britain and Ireland and beyond. Organised jointly by the Traditional Song Forum and the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library. Tickets will be on sale soon.
We invite proposals for 20-minute papers or other presentations, by 5th November 2023. Please send a title, abstract, and short biography to: steveroud@gmail.com. Other enquiries to the same address.
Steve Roud
🄹 Vic Gammon - Internet Stuff
Dear Friends, Colleagues and anyone else interested,
I have made available recordings of some of my folk revival musical activities, projects and related material on the Internet Archive.
Below is information on how the recordings can be accessed..
Good wishes, Vic Gammon
••• Music, performances, talks, interviews, writings
Vic Gammon's Audio Archive on: https://archive.org/search?query=Vic+Gammon
Link for material I have placed on the Internet Archive (Most have a pdf information file with photographs)
Guide to Vic Gammon Internet Stuff
https://archive.org/details/vic-gammon-audio-archive-guide or
https://www.academia.edu/105017979/Vic_Gammon_Audio_Archive_Guide
This downloadable PDF guide gives links and descriptions for the material I have placed on the Internet Archive and, additionally, other material on the Internet. It will be updated occasionally as I add new material.
A number of people have been very helpful in making the audio archive possible and I would like especially to thank Doc Rowe, Stephen Fry, Steve Gray, Will Duke, Tony Dunn, Mike Stevens and the staff of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library for their cooperation and support.
••• Articles, Essays etc:
https://newcastle.academia.edu/VicGammon
Downloadable copies of many of my essays, articles etc.
I make this work freely available to all interested people as a "thank you" to everyone with whom I have shared music, conversation and good company. Please feel free to pass this information on to anyone who may be interested.
Vic Gammon
Phones: 07905 032012 (mobile) 01434 600526 (home) Email: vic.gammon@icloud.com
Publications on line: https://newcastle.academia.edu/VicGammon
🄵 The 2023 Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Conference is on Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 November
🄹 From Stewart Morgan Hajdukiewicz, Filmmaker
Dear friends,
I'm writing to let you know about the release of an online streaming/downloadable option for the documentary ALL MY LIFE'S BURIED HERE - The Story of George Butterworth. [Previously featured in the Journal. - Ed.]
From today the complete film (97 mins) is available via Vimeo on Demand, either as a three day hire option, or as permanent download/watch anytime, at: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/butterworth
I hope this will give anyone without access to DVD/BluRay playback facilities the chance to watch the film on their device of choice. It can be streamed from any location worldwide. For streaming of the film I can recommend plugging your device into some external speakers, or using headphones, for full enjoyment.
The film's website remains online and contains the link to the streaming version, as well as to the last remaining copies of the DVD/BluRay with booklet, all available by clicking 'Watch the Film': https://www.georgebutterworth.co.uk/
Remembering and celebrating George Butterworth on the anniversary of his death at Pozières, the Somme on 5th August 1916.
Best wishes,
Stewart
Stewart Morgan Hajdukiewicz, Filmmaker
DVD, BLURAY & ONLINE STREAMING All My Life's Buried Here: The story of George Butterworth
"Very moving … the finest film account of a composer's life I have ever seen." - Ralph Vaughan Williams Society Journal, June 2019
"Highly recommended." - Ian A. Anderson (fRoots magazine)
"An outstanding film portrait .. fascinating and ultimately moving." - MusicWeb International.com
Twitter: @ButterworthDoc Facebook: @ButterworthDoc
🄵 LATEST PUBLICATIONS FROM THE BALLAD PARTNERS
🄵 Vaughan Williams and Folk: 150th anniversary essays
Edited by Steve Roud and David Atkinson, this selection of papers celebrates Ralph Vaughan Williams’ lifelong involvement with British folk song and music as collector, editor, arranger, and composer. Many of the papers were first presented at the EFDSS’ conference 2022, to mark the 150th anniversary of Vaughan Williams’ birth. The book also includes reprints of other key material by him and others.
The book, price £15.00 +£2.95 UK p+p., is available only through the Ballad Partners website: https://www.theballadpartners.co.uk/publications
🄵 Cecil Sharp, Collector of Folk Songs and Dances – a new biography by David Sutcliffe
Cecil Sharp was, of course, the leading figure of the Edwardian folk revival, collecting thousands of songs and dances that were fast disappearing, as well as collecting and publishing many morris, sword and country dances. He was also instrumental in having folk songs taught in schools, and in 1911 founded the English Folk Dance Society, tirelessly promoting these vernacular art forms as an essential part of our cultural heritage.
This substantial new illustrated volume presents a balanced reappraisal of Sharp’s life and work, from his earliest days through to his death. His early life as a music teacher and arranger in Australia and London is perhaps less well-known to ‘folkies’, who will be more familiar with the story of his hearing his first English folk song. He went on to collect, publish and champion folk songs both in England and the USA, and also teach and publish folk dances.
Sharp was certainly was no saint, and he got some things wrong, but there is also much to admire in his single-minded determination and his respect for the people whose songs he meticulously noted. The Ballad Partners hope and believe that, as a result of David Sutcliffe’s book – the result of many years’ research – a fuller and fairer understanding of Cecil Sharp’s methods and motivations will emerge to enrich the discourse.
The new illustrated biography, price £20.00 +£2.95 UK p+p., is available through the Ballad Partners website:
www.theballadpartners.co.uk/publications
🄵 The Ballad Partners is a not-for-profit publishing company set up in 2018. It aims to publish conference papers and books on traditional song, music, dance and customs in order to raise awareness and encourage the study of the folk arts.
- Our aims include stimulating a wider interest in folk studies & folk culture.
- Researched articles + archive, new, on a separate website. Folk studies and cultural traditions.
- Also FT DIRECTORY, Folklife Societies: Associations, Trusts, Organisations; Folklife Studies & Institutions; Seasonal Local Celebrations
Journal available separately! Online, free, read or download PDF. Print 1 copy or Subscriptions welcome, card https://ko-fi.com/s/d479e8d448
• 1-off: 1 copy of May 2023 issue. --- UK: £3, or EU: £5, or rest of world £6.50
• Annual subscriber, 1 copy of 3 issues.. --- UK: £9, or EU £15, or rest of world £19
• This is a new scheme so these prices apply at time of your order, they may change for later subscribers
NEW SCHEDULE - twice yearly - March & November, no longer printed as part of Folklife West.
🄵 Annual Broadside Day 2024 - Saturday 17th February 2024 at Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regents Park, London NW1 7AY.
This is our regular one-day conference devoted to all things to do with street literature and cheap print of the past, in Britain and Ireland and beyond. Organised jointly by the Traditional Song Forum and the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library. Tickets will be on sale soon.
We invite proposals for 20-minute papers or other presentations, by 5th November 2023. Please send a title, abstract, and short biography to: steveroud@gmail.com. Other enquiries to the same address.
Steve Roud
🄹 Vic Gammon - Internet Stuff
Dear Friends, Colleagues and anyone else interested,
I have made available recordings of some of my folk revival musical activities, projects and related material on the Internet Archive.
Below is information on how the recordings can be accessed..
Good wishes, Vic Gammon
••• Music, performances, talks, interviews, writings
Vic Gammon's Audio Archive on: https://archive.org/search?query=Vic+Gammon
Link for material I have placed on the Internet Archive (Most have a pdf information file with photographs)
Guide to Vic Gammon Internet Stuff
https://archive.org/details/vic-gammon-audio-archive-guide or
https://www.academia.edu/105017979/Vic_Gammon_Audio_Archive_Guide
This downloadable PDF guide gives links and descriptions for the material I have placed on the Internet Archive and, additionally, other material on the Internet. It will be updated occasionally as I add new material.
A number of people have been very helpful in making the audio archive possible and I would like especially to thank Doc Rowe, Stephen Fry, Steve Gray, Will Duke, Tony Dunn, Mike Stevens and the staff of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library for their cooperation and support.
••• Articles, Essays etc:
https://newcastle.academia.edu/VicGammon
Downloadable copies of many of my essays, articles etc.
I make this work freely available to all interested people as a "thank you" to everyone with whom I have shared music, conversation and good company. Please feel free to pass this information on to anyone who may be interested.
Vic Gammon
Phones: 07905 032012 (mobile) 01434 600526 (home) Email: vic.gammon@icloud.com
Publications on line: https://newcastle.academia.edu/VicGammon
🄵 The 2023 Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Conference is on Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 November
🄹 From Stewart Morgan Hajdukiewicz, Filmmaker
Dear friends,
I'm writing to let you know about the release of an online streaming/downloadable option for the documentary ALL MY LIFE'S BURIED HERE - The Story of George Butterworth. [Previously featured in the Journal. - Ed.]
From today the complete film (97 mins) is available via Vimeo on Demand, either as a three day hire option, or as permanent download/watch anytime, at: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/butterworth
I hope this will give anyone without access to DVD/BluRay playback facilities the chance to watch the film on their device of choice. It can be streamed from any location worldwide. For streaming of the film I can recommend plugging your device into some external speakers, or using headphones, for full enjoyment.
The film's website remains online and contains the link to the streaming version, as well as to the last remaining copies of the DVD/BluRay with booklet, all available by clicking 'Watch the Film': https://www.georgebutterworth.co.uk/
Remembering and celebrating George Butterworth on the anniversary of his death at Pozières, the Somme on 5th August 1916.
Best wishes,
Stewart
Stewart Morgan Hajdukiewicz, Filmmaker
DVD, BLURAY & ONLINE STREAMING All My Life's Buried Here: The story of George Butterworth
"Very moving … the finest film account of a composer's life I have ever seen." - Ralph Vaughan Williams Society Journal, June 2019
"Highly recommended." - Ian A. Anderson (fRoots magazine)
"An outstanding film portrait .. fascinating and ultimately moving." - MusicWeb International.com
Twitter: @ButterworthDoc Facebook: @ButterworthDoc
🄵 LATEST PUBLICATIONS FROM THE BALLAD PARTNERS
🄵 Vaughan Williams and Folk: 150th anniversary essays
Edited by Steve Roud and David Atkinson, this selection of papers celebrates Ralph Vaughan Williams’ lifelong involvement with British folk song and music as collector, editor, arranger, and composer. Many of the papers were first presented at the EFDSS’ conference 2022, to mark the 150th anniversary of Vaughan Williams’ birth. The book also includes reprints of other key material by him and others.
The book, price £15.00 +£2.95 UK p+p., is available only through the Ballad Partners website: https://www.theballadpartners.co.uk/publications
🄵 Cecil Sharp, Collector of Folk Songs and Dances – a new biography by David Sutcliffe
Cecil Sharp was, of course, the leading figure of the Edwardian folk revival, collecting thousands of songs and dances that were fast disappearing, as well as collecting and publishing many morris, sword and country dances. He was also instrumental in having folk songs taught in schools, and in 1911 founded the English Folk Dance Society, tirelessly promoting these vernacular art forms as an essential part of our cultural heritage.
This substantial new illustrated volume presents a balanced reappraisal of Sharp’s life and work, from his earliest days through to his death. His early life as a music teacher and arranger in Australia and London is perhaps less well-known to ‘folkies’, who will be more familiar with the story of his hearing his first English folk song. He went on to collect, publish and champion folk songs both in England and the USA, and also teach and publish folk dances.
Sharp was certainly was no saint, and he got some things wrong, but there is also much to admire in his single-minded determination and his respect for the people whose songs he meticulously noted. The Ballad Partners hope and believe that, as a result of David Sutcliffe’s book – the result of many years’ research – a fuller and fairer understanding of Cecil Sharp’s methods and motivations will emerge to enrich the discourse.
The new illustrated biography, price £20.00 +£2.95 UK p+p., is available through the Ballad Partners website:
www.theballadpartners.co.uk/publications
🄵 The Ballad Partners is a not-for-profit publishing company set up in 2018. It aims to publish conference papers and books on traditional song, music, dance and customs in order to raise awareness and encourage the study of the folk arts.
- Shorter researched articles eg a collected song, tune or dance, no minimum - anything from just a song & a few lines or up to 500 words; other articles are often 1000 to 1500, our maximum is 2500 words.
- To introduce society, institution, max. 1000 words. Short news items/dates from society/institution welcome; longer items, please consult editor. Photo(s) welcome, can be sent in colour; may be used in colour on cover if we've room (depends on adverts)
🄹 MY WORLD OF SHANTIES, by Fred Winkel.
I proudly present you in English my self-published book including a CD and it‘s looking great. Its size is A4, printed in full colour on glossy 115 grams paper according to a fsc-standard. It has 244 pages with on every page at least one picture, several of them never published in a book. With QR-codes you get extra information, YouTube-recordings and other sound recordings. Of several of the shanties the uncamouflaged version is also present. |
The shanties and sea songs are from America, the Caribbean, Georgia Sea Islands, England, Germany, France, Sicily, Belgium and the Netherlands.
An impression is in the attachments.
The price is € 35,00. Costs for postage and packaging for the UK is € 15,00. If you would like to buy a book, please send me an email, fred.winkel@ziggo.nl . I’ll send you my bank account data. After the money is on my account I will send you the book. If you want to pay by PayPal, please add € 3,60, so a total of €53,60
Fair winds and a good rolling sea, Fred Winkel, Concertstraat 15, 7323 KM Apeldoorn, the Netherlands.
An impression is in the attachments.
The price is € 35,00. Costs for postage and packaging for the UK is € 15,00. If you would like to buy a book, please send me an email, fred.winkel@ziggo.nl . I’ll send you my bank account data. After the money is on my account I will send you the book. If you want to pay by PayPal, please add € 3,60, so a total of €53,60
Fair winds and a good rolling sea, Fred Winkel, Concertstraat 15, 7323 KM Apeldoorn, the Netherlands.
Members News updates
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Zoom meeting links are MAILING LIST ONLY. Join this mailing list at http://mailinglist.mermaidstavern.com
------------- CYMRU / WALES
🄵 TASC: we are excited to tell you that we are putting on another
Welsh Clog Dancing Day
in Llandrindod Wells on Saturday the 4th of November 2023 - this time especially suited to dancers with some experience. Tutor Daniel Calan Jones.
TASC members £30, non-members £35 per person, includes refreshments (bring your own lunch)
Places are limited Please book via the TASC website shop: https://tradartsupport.org.uk/shop.html
For further information contact Louise via: admin@tradartsupport.org.uk
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🄵 TRAD ARTS TEAM
• Saturday 7 Oct, 10am-1pm Birmingham Folk’s Autumn Workshop Day Cotteridge Quaker Meeting House, 23A Watford Rd, B30 1JB
Suitable for intermediate or advanced players, tunes will be taught by ear £10 (£7 for non-earners), email birminghamfolk1@gmail.com to book.
Checkout the Birmingham Folk facebook page for more info
• Saturday 7 Oct, 2:30pm to 5pm Alvechurch French Dance and Music Alvechurch Village Hall B48 7JX
More details at tradartsteam.co.uk/our-events/events-by-partners-and-friends/#french or see the Facebook group
• Thursday 12 Oct, 7:30 pm Moseley Village Band St Columba’s Church Hall, Moseley, B13 8DD
tradartsteam.co.uk/our-events/events-by-partners-and-friends/#moseley-village-band
• Saturday 14 Oct, 4-6pm Storytelling Minigym online, led by Graham Langley
Email graham@tradartsteam.co.uk if you would like to attend tradartsteam.co.uk/#storytelling-gym
• Wednesday 18 Oct, 7:30 pm Birmingham Storytelling Café: Ghosts and Ghouls.
Kitchen Garden Cafe, York Road, Kings Heath, B14 7SA Halloween comes early to the Kitchen Garden Cafe. Gather together to feast and enjoy frivolity, as the Crew bring you tales of the Eerie and Uncanny Tickets £10 from wegottickets.com
More info from https://www.birminghamstorytellingcafe.co.uk/
• Thursday 26 Oct, 7:30 pm Moseley Village Band St Columba’s Church Hall, Moseley, B13 8DD
tradartsteam.co.uk/our-events/events-by-partners-and-friends/#moseley-village-band
• Saturday 28 Oct, 10:30am to 4:30pm Storytelling Gymnasium, led by Graham Langley at a venue in South Birmingham Email graham@tradartsteam.co.uk if you would like to attend tradartsteam.co.uk/#storytelling-gym
Hope to see you at one of these events – Pam and Graham, for the Trad Arts Team
------------- [based in] SCOTLAND
🄵 Following the Themed Shanty Big Sing (no 12) on 19 Sept, sharing / hearing versions of Shanties themed on Lowlands, where Lowlands are the/a key feature of the shanty (Youtube video pending), to help version learning, the next upcoming themes will be:
Linn Phipps & Jim Lucas
Contact https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/contact/ with subject line Themed Shanty Big Sing
Shanty Big Sing website http://shantyman.dk/ShantyBigSings/
Additionally https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/collaborations-links-and-other-news/
New Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ThemedShantyBigSings-rc9te
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- October 10-17: Pacific Northwest Tour
- October 11: Seattle houseconcert with Cate Clifford
- October 13-15: Raise the Rafters song weekend, Portland, OR.
Zoom meeting links are MAILING LIST ONLY. Join this mailing list at http://mailinglist.mermaidstavern.com
- November 5: SPECIAL Halloween, Guy Fawkes, and Tam Lin
- December 3: SPECIAL Wassail!
- January 21: SPECIAL Burns Night
- February 4: Chantey & Tavern Sing
------------- CYMRU / WALES
🄵 TASC: we are excited to tell you that we are putting on another
Welsh Clog Dancing Day
in Llandrindod Wells on Saturday the 4th of November 2023 - this time especially suited to dancers with some experience. Tutor Daniel Calan Jones.
TASC members £30, non-members £35 per person, includes refreshments (bring your own lunch)
Places are limited Please book via the TASC website shop: https://tradartsupport.org.uk/shop.html
For further information contact Louise via: admin@tradartsupport.org.uk
------------- MIDLANDS
🄵 TRAD ARTS TEAM
• Saturday 7 Oct, 10am-1pm Birmingham Folk’s Autumn Workshop Day Cotteridge Quaker Meeting House, 23A Watford Rd, B30 1JB
Suitable for intermediate or advanced players, tunes will be taught by ear £10 (£7 for non-earners), email birminghamfolk1@gmail.com to book.
Checkout the Birmingham Folk facebook page for more info
• Saturday 7 Oct, 2:30pm to 5pm Alvechurch French Dance and Music Alvechurch Village Hall B48 7JX
More details at tradartsteam.co.uk/our-events/events-by-partners-and-friends/#french or see the Facebook group
• Thursday 12 Oct, 7:30 pm Moseley Village Band St Columba’s Church Hall, Moseley, B13 8DD
tradartsteam.co.uk/our-events/events-by-partners-and-friends/#moseley-village-band
• Saturday 14 Oct, 4-6pm Storytelling Minigym online, led by Graham Langley
Email graham@tradartsteam.co.uk if you would like to attend tradartsteam.co.uk/#storytelling-gym
• Wednesday 18 Oct, 7:30 pm Birmingham Storytelling Café: Ghosts and Ghouls.
Kitchen Garden Cafe, York Road, Kings Heath, B14 7SA Halloween comes early to the Kitchen Garden Cafe. Gather together to feast and enjoy frivolity, as the Crew bring you tales of the Eerie and Uncanny Tickets £10 from wegottickets.com
More info from https://www.birminghamstorytellingcafe.co.uk/
• Thursday 26 Oct, 7:30 pm Moseley Village Band St Columba’s Church Hall, Moseley, B13 8DD
tradartsteam.co.uk/our-events/events-by-partners-and-friends/#moseley-village-band
• Saturday 28 Oct, 10:30am to 4:30pm Storytelling Gymnasium, led by Graham Langley at a venue in South Birmingham Email graham@tradartsteam.co.uk if you would like to attend tradartsteam.co.uk/#storytelling-gym
Hope to see you at one of these events – Pam and Graham, for the Trad Arts Team
------------- [based in] SCOTLAND
🄵 Following the Themed Shanty Big Sing (no 12) on 19 Sept, sharing / hearing versions of Shanties themed on Lowlands, where Lowlands are the/a key feature of the shanty (Youtube video pending), to help version learning, the next upcoming themes will be:
- New York Girls (aka Can't You Dance the Polka)
- California
Linn Phipps & Jim Lucas
Contact https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/contact/ with subject line Themed Shanty Big Sing
Shanty Big Sing website http://shantyman.dk/ShantyBigSings/
Additionally https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/collaborations-links-and-other-news/
New Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ThemedShantyBigSings-rc9te
Directory update
DIRECTORY www.folklife-directory.uk
MIDLANDS VENUES www.folklife-directory.uk/v-midlands.html
🄵 Every Tue Herefs BROMYARD THE FALCON ACOUSTIC MUSIC SESSION (no website) Roger Pugh 01885 483425
→ The Falcon Hotel, 4 Broad Street, Bromyard, Herefordshire HR7 4BT
⇒ Contact: Roger Pugh 01885 483425 or John Bloor 07774 834689.
⊕ Every Tuesday: acoustic music session in the bar at The Falcon Hotel, Bromyard, 8-11pm - singing and playing welcome, anything goes. [new listing, Oct. 2023]
🄵 THE SHIFTING SUNDAY SESSION (SSS) ... every Sunday, different pub.
🄵 1st Sun Warks ILMINGTON SHIFTING SUNDAY SESSION: HOWARD ARMS www.sessionfolk.blogspot.com Pub 01608 682226
→ The Howard Arms (01608 682226), Ilmington, Walks CV36 4LT. 7.30pm until 10.30pm.
⇒ Paul Bryan, theflyingmorrisman<at>hotmail.com, 07711 121210
⊕ The Shifting Sunday Session (SSS): weekly folk music sessions in South Warwickshire / North Cotswolds, in four regular venues (different village pubs). Typically around 20 musicians. [new times, Aug 2023]
🄵 4th Sun Warks LOWER QUINTON SHIFTING SUNDAY SESSION: THE COLLEGE ARMS www.sessionfolk.blogspot.com Pub 01789 720066
→ The College Arms (01789 720066), Lower Quinton, Warks CV37 8SG. 7pm until 10pm
⇒ Paul Bryan, theflyingmorrisman<at>hotmail.com, 07711 121210
⊕ The Shifting Sunday Session (SSS): weekly folk music sessions in South Warwickshire / North Cotswolds, in four regular venues (different village pubs). Typically around 20 musicians. [new venue, Aug 2023]
SOUTH-EAST/LONDON/EAST VENUES https://www.folklife-directory.uk/v-south-east.html
🄵 Wkly Wed Oxon BANBURY BANBURY FOLK CLUB www.banburyfolkclub.co.uk Box Office 07485 821041
→ The Three Pigeons PH, Southam Rd, Banbury OX16 2ED. 8.00pm. Some bigger events may be a change of venue, please check website event pages.
⇒ Contact Ian Huckin, irhuckin<at>aol.com Box Office: 07485 821041 or send a message to www.facebook.com/banburyroots/
⊕ Local and nationally known guest nights, theme nights, open stage nights and our popular Sing, Say, Listen and Say (SSLaP) nights; and also regular floor spots to encourage local performers. Regular admission is £8, Special Guest Nights are priced as advertised. [new venue, Aug 2023]
PERFORMERS - DUOS https://www.folklife-directory.uk/perf-duo.html
🄵 Glos REBIL www.facebook.com/rebilduo Bill Taylor 07787 713758
⌂ b111t<at>aol.com
⊕ Rebecca Kay is joined by Bill Taylor, performing traditional and contemporary songs and ballads, rich vocals, warm harmonies with guitar, mandolin and concertina accompaniment." [revised description, 2023 Oct]
MIDLANDS VENUES www.folklife-directory.uk/v-midlands.html
🄵 Every Tue Herefs BROMYARD THE FALCON ACOUSTIC MUSIC SESSION (no website) Roger Pugh 01885 483425
→ The Falcon Hotel, 4 Broad Street, Bromyard, Herefordshire HR7 4BT
⇒ Contact: Roger Pugh 01885 483425 or John Bloor 07774 834689.
⊕ Every Tuesday: acoustic music session in the bar at The Falcon Hotel, Bromyard, 8-11pm - singing and playing welcome, anything goes. [new listing, Oct. 2023]
🄵 THE SHIFTING SUNDAY SESSION (SSS) ... every Sunday, different pub.
🄵 1st Sun Warks ILMINGTON SHIFTING SUNDAY SESSION: HOWARD ARMS www.sessionfolk.blogspot.com Pub 01608 682226
→ The Howard Arms (01608 682226), Ilmington, Walks CV36 4LT. 7.30pm until 10.30pm.
⇒ Paul Bryan, theflyingmorrisman<at>hotmail.com, 07711 121210
⊕ The Shifting Sunday Session (SSS): weekly folk music sessions in South Warwickshire / North Cotswolds, in four regular venues (different village pubs). Typically around 20 musicians. [new times, Aug 2023]
🄵 4th Sun Warks LOWER QUINTON SHIFTING SUNDAY SESSION: THE COLLEGE ARMS www.sessionfolk.blogspot.com Pub 01789 720066
→ The College Arms (01789 720066), Lower Quinton, Warks CV37 8SG. 7pm until 10pm
⇒ Paul Bryan, theflyingmorrisman<at>hotmail.com, 07711 121210
⊕ The Shifting Sunday Session (SSS): weekly folk music sessions in South Warwickshire / North Cotswolds, in four regular venues (different village pubs). Typically around 20 musicians. [new venue, Aug 2023]
SOUTH-EAST/LONDON/EAST VENUES https://www.folklife-directory.uk/v-south-east.html
🄵 Wkly Wed Oxon BANBURY BANBURY FOLK CLUB www.banburyfolkclub.co.uk Box Office 07485 821041
→ The Three Pigeons PH, Southam Rd, Banbury OX16 2ED. 8.00pm. Some bigger events may be a change of venue, please check website event pages.
⇒ Contact Ian Huckin, irhuckin<at>aol.com Box Office: 07485 821041 or send a message to www.facebook.com/banburyroots/
⊕ Local and nationally known guest nights, theme nights, open stage nights and our popular Sing, Say, Listen and Say (SSLaP) nights; and also regular floor spots to encourage local performers. Regular admission is £8, Special Guest Nights are priced as advertised. [new venue, Aug 2023]
PERFORMERS - DUOS https://www.folklife-directory.uk/perf-duo.html
🄵 Glos REBIL www.facebook.com/rebilduo Bill Taylor 07787 713758
⌂ b111t<at>aol.com
⊕ Rebecca Kay is joined by Bill Taylor, performing traditional and contemporary songs and ballads, rich vocals, warm harmonies with guitar, mandolin and concertina accompaniment." [revised description, 2023 Oct]
Updates emailed 16 May 2023
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From 3 April, post went up yet again.... Despite this, our prices unchanged for this issue
... Short-term, no problem, but we will need more paying members to continue. Folk North West is the latest to stop printing, it will continue online)..
... Short-term, no problem, but we will need more paying members to continue. Folk North West is the latest to stop printing, it will continue online)..
🄵🅃🄹 Folklife Traditions Journal, www.folklife-traditions.uk
Journal available separately! Online, free, read or download PDF. Print 1 copy or Subscriptions welcome, card https://ko-fi.com/s/d479e8d448
1-off: 1 copy of 1 issue. --- UK: £3.50, or EU: £5.50, or rest of world £7. Annual subscriber, 1 copy of 3 issues. --- UK: £9, EU £16, rest of world £20.
UPDATES - conferences, publications - Send your Updates,"News: Journal" form is on www.folklife.uk/send-news.html
- Our aims include stimulating a wider interest in folk studies & folk culture.
- Researched articles + archive, new, on a separate website. Folk studies and cultural traditions.
- Also FT DIRECTORY, Folklife Societies: Associations, Trusts, Organisations; Folklife Studies & Institutions; Seasonal Local Celebrations
Journal available separately! Online, free, read or download PDF. Print 1 copy or Subscriptions welcome, card https://ko-fi.com/s/d479e8d448
1-off: 1 copy of 1 issue. --- UK: £3.50, or EU: £5.50, or rest of world £7. Annual subscriber, 1 copy of 3 issues. --- UK: £9, EU £16, rest of world £20.
UPDATES - conferences, publications - Send your Updates,"News: Journal" form is on www.folklife.uk/send-news.html
1 May issue includes articles as below; plus Folklife Societies news; books & recordings announced & adverts; and Seasonal Local Celebrations, May-Aug, list & photos, mostly by Doc Rowe.
- Sunderland Songs by Eileen Richardson and Keith Gregson, p4-5
- John Callister (1833–1912) And His Songs, by Stephen Miller, p6-7
- Married to a Mermaid, by Charles Menteith, p8-9
- Remnants and Yarns – Poverty and protest in the woollen industry in Bradford on Avon by Rosie MacGregor (Rosie Upton), p9
- The Banks of the Nile, by Roy & Lesley Adkins, p10-11
- Here we go a-wassailing in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire by Rosie Upton, p12
Roots Music for cassettes:
from cover of one of Peter Kenendy's ring-binders of tape insert sheets |
Note to Article: Married to a Mermaid, Tune & Song by Charles Menteith
References: (2) See Folktracks 30-210, John Foreman, Music Hall Songs or Reality records RY 1004, JOHN FOREMAN the ‘ouses in between. Charles adds:---- Peter Kennedy spelled it Folktrax. So the reference to the CD is: Folktrax FTX-331 - The Londoners. You can see more about it at https://folktrax-archive.org/menus/cassprogs/331.htm The quoted 30-210, John Foreman, Music Hall Songs is probably the number of the tapes †, which I have a copy of, though I can't find it. It only includes Foreman, while the CD includes also Fred Luckhurst. Besides, the 30 refers to the duration of the tape. So the reference to the CD is: Folktrax FTX-331 - The Londoners † confirmed, from PK's tape insert sheet (we used to sell his tapes) - Eds. |
Call for articles for next issue: readers tell us they enjoy these short articles!
- Shorter researched articles eg a collected song, tune or dance, no minimum - anything from just a song & a few lines or up to 500 words; other articles are often 1000 to 1500, our maximum is 2500 words.
- To introduce society, institution, max. 1000 words. Short news items/dates from society/institution welcome; longer items, please consult editor. Photo(s) welcome, can be sent in colour; may be used in colour on cover if we've room (depends on adverts)
⎈ INTERNATIONAL FOLK NEWS www.folklife.uk/world.html
-- online only, open to all non-UK readers on our mailing list
"Send in your folk news" form on above webpage.
Folklife Membership is not required, but welcomed . . . (and members' news printed in FW, if received in time).
-- online only, open to all non-UK readers on our mailing list
"Send in your folk news" form on above webpage.
Folklife Membership is not required, but welcomed . . . (and members' news printed in FW, if received in time).
Canada Cod Liver Oil
From Rick Polly's latest emailed newsletter, 30/04/2023:
Cod Liver Oil provided much needed essential nutrients for the diets or early and impoverished Newfoundland, where fruits and vegetables were hard to grow or buy. This 1900 picture of my Great-grandfather, Henry Jones, shows a barrel where the cod livers would be placed, with the Cod Liver Oil slowly rising to the top. Given how noxious and rank it was, one wonders how it was ever discovered to be beneficial when consumed. But potent it was, as told in this 19th Century Newfoundland dance tune about the benefits and perils of too much of Dr. John’s “Cod Liver Oil.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rknUxmGx_1M
Rick Pollay
DATES
MA Boston ØØ LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ONLINE.
2023 schedule: Sessions on 1st and 3rd Sundays, 2-4pm ET. Special events as the occasion requires.
Sunday, May 21: Chantey and Tavern Sing
Sunday, June 4: Ballad Sing
Sunday, June 18: Chantey and Tavern Sing
Join the mailing list at http://mailinglist.mermaidstavern.com
FOLK FESTIVALS international (not based/organised from UK), live & virtual & both [more welcome; we need a minimum 3 weeks notice]
ØØ USA: Sep 23 -24 Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival http://pmffest.org/
OUR HEADLINERS: John Roberts, the Johnson Girls, and Steve Turner! We are so excited to have these fantastic performers back in Portsmouth.
John Roberts has been enthralling audiences for quite a while, on his own, in a duo with the dearly missed Tony Barrand, with Nowell Sing We Clear, and more recently working with Debra Cowan. His wonderful voice, concertina, and banjo have been a highlight of PMFF several times before, and for those of you who are new to our community, you are in for a real treat.
The Johnson Girls bring spectacular vocal harmonies and powerful energy to some of our favorite sea songs, as well as bringing some more obscure songs into the spotlight. Like John, they’ve graced our stage before, and we are always happy to have them back.
Steve Turner is, perhaps, a bit less well-known than these other two acts, but we are hoping to change that. HIs virtuosic concertina playing and evocative voice are a true delight, and while he has been part of our festival previously, we are extremely pleased to bring him to our main stage for the first time.
Fair winds and following seas, The PMFF Board
To join the mailing list, just write to info<at>pmffest.org to be added to the list. (April 2023)
From Rick Polly's latest emailed newsletter, 30/04/2023:
Cod Liver Oil provided much needed essential nutrients for the diets or early and impoverished Newfoundland, where fruits and vegetables were hard to grow or buy. This 1900 picture of my Great-grandfather, Henry Jones, shows a barrel where the cod livers would be placed, with the Cod Liver Oil slowly rising to the top. Given how noxious and rank it was, one wonders how it was ever discovered to be beneficial when consumed. But potent it was, as told in this 19th Century Newfoundland dance tune about the benefits and perils of too much of Dr. John’s “Cod Liver Oil.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rknUxmGx_1M
Rick Pollay
DATES
MA Boston ØØ LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ONLINE.
2023 schedule: Sessions on 1st and 3rd Sundays, 2-4pm ET. Special events as the occasion requires.
Sunday, May 21: Chantey and Tavern Sing
Sunday, June 4: Ballad Sing
Sunday, June 18: Chantey and Tavern Sing
Join the mailing list at http://mailinglist.mermaidstavern.com
FOLK FESTIVALS international (not based/organised from UK), live & virtual & both [more welcome; we need a minimum 3 weeks notice]
ØØ USA: Sep 23 -24 Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival http://pmffest.org/
OUR HEADLINERS: John Roberts, the Johnson Girls, and Steve Turner! We are so excited to have these fantastic performers back in Portsmouth.
John Roberts has been enthralling audiences for quite a while, on his own, in a duo with the dearly missed Tony Barrand, with Nowell Sing We Clear, and more recently working with Debra Cowan. His wonderful voice, concertina, and banjo have been a highlight of PMFF several times before, and for those of you who are new to our community, you are in for a real treat.
The Johnson Girls bring spectacular vocal harmonies and powerful energy to some of our favorite sea songs, as well as bringing some more obscure songs into the spotlight. Like John, they’ve graced our stage before, and we are always happy to have them back.
Steve Turner is, perhaps, a bit less well-known than these other two acts, but we are hoping to change that. HIs virtuosic concertina playing and evocative voice are a true delight, and while he has been part of our festival previously, we are extremely pleased to bring him to our main stage for the first time.
Fair winds and following seas, The PMFF Board
To join the mailing list, just write to info<at>pmffest.org to be added to the list. (April 2023)
🄵🅆 Folklife Members' UK FOLK NEWS, online updates to print pages copied to this site.
MEMBERS NEWS --- live & Zoom clubs, performers, your new albums, etc; including Members' dates (including festivals & workshops).
(1) BY AREA - areas' list, foot of page (2) FESTIVALS & WORKSHOPS DIARY page
. . . We're "Folklife West", so most entries from West, but Members' News welcome from everywhere!
It is quickest to use "News form" on ⎈ SEND NEWS form webpage. You can also email sam@folklife.uk but this may take longer to place here.
Up to 200 words per item. If more than this, we'll use the first 100 or so words. We need 3+ weeks notice.
🄵 Folklife members, Ø Associate UK members. Membership, posted FW + print & online publicity, £18/year UK, £24 EU, other £ please enquire.
MEMBERS NEWS --- live & Zoom clubs, performers, your new albums, etc; including Members' dates (including festivals & workshops).
(1) BY AREA - areas' list, foot of page (2) FESTIVALS & WORKSHOPS DIARY page
. . . We're "Folklife West", so most entries from West, but Members' News welcome from everywhere!
It is quickest to use "News form" on ⎈ SEND NEWS form webpage. You can also email sam@folklife.uk but this may take longer to place here.
Up to 200 words per item. If more than this, we'll use the first 100 or so words. We need 3+ weeks notice.
🄵 Folklife members, Ø Associate UK members. Membership, posted FW + print & online publicity, £18/year UK, £24 EU, other £ please enquire.
🄵🅆 West Country
🄵 CHELTENHAM FOLK CLUB (see ad & news page 28), most 2nd & 4th Mondays
The following dates were awaiting room-availability confirmation by the venue, Sandford Park Alehouse, when we went to press; they have now been confirmed
June 12 Steve Turner 8pm
June 26 tba 8pm
July 10 tba 8pm
🄵 Cornwall Folk Festival's Summer Fun(draiser) Ceilidh with Cataclews, Saturday Jun 3 @ 7:30 pm Town Hall, Wadebridge.
Ceilidh really means really having a great time, and Cataclews — with their mix of Cornish, English and Irish music — are the band to deliver this.
They did use proud at the end of February, playing to a packed and dancing town hall when we repurposed that money-raising event to help the victims of the Turkey/Syria Earthquake.
This time it is all about us, as well as about having a great night out.
So polish off those dancing shoes, practice your dos-si-do-ing in the mirror, get a ticket and see you at Wadebridge Town Hall, Sat 3rd June from 7.30pm. Bar available. Details/book www.cornwallfolkfestival.com then go to "June 3rd ceilidh" page.
🄵🅆 Midlands
🄵 Crows - Mick Ryan, Paul Downes, Pete Harris and Dave Bordewey at 🄵 The Fleece at Bretforton on Thursday 25th May in the Barn 7:30
Tickets available from the Fleece /fleecyfolk website https://thefleeceinn.co.uk/events/fleecey-folk-crows/
‘Crows’ were a popular feature of the folk scene from 1978 to 1988. The combination of four strong voices and expert musicianship gave them a simultaneously unique yet broad appeal. With the sad death of Ralph Jordan, in 2013, previously unreleased radio recordings were discovered. A ‘new’ album (‘Time To Rise’ Wildgoose Records), was released in 2016, and enthusiastically reviewed (‘All the songs are really inspiring….spellbinding’ Mick Tems ‘Folk Wales’).
Two of the original line-up remain in the revived band, Mick Ryan and Dave Bordewey .
Crows are now joined by Pete Harris (vocals, guitar and bouzouki) who worked in an acclaimed duo with Mick for many years, adding a unique blend of power, warmth and harmony to the band's vocal mix. Dave Bordewey adds his astonishing high harmony lines accompanying many songs on the fiddle and Mando-cello . Finally, the inimitable Paul Downes on guitar, banjo, Mando-cello and harmonies, takes over from Ralph. All four are well known and highly respected performers in their own right.
For the new ‘Crows’, it is very clearly ‘Time To Rise’!
🄵🅆 South-East
🄵 MOONRAKERS - see advert p42, news p43
Dear Friends,
Frenzied excitement here at Moonrakers HQ as we proudly launch the new album. Fourteen tracks - seven songs, seven instrumentals, and many hours of work and pleasure. The "virtual" edition of this delicious product is now available to download either in individual morsels or in one big binge at https://moonrakers.bandcamp.com/album/green-to-gold
The physical CD (remember those?) will be hawked remorselessly at the extravaganza weekend we have at the end of this month (see below). Or you can order a hard copy (CD) by sending an email to MoonrakersCelticMusic@gmail.com and we'll send you the bank transfer details.
But don't just sit there letting the sumptuous sounds wash over you - come to the launch.................
Saturday 27th May ALBUM LAUNCH! St Peter's Church, Upper WOLVERCOTE, Oxford OX2 8AQ. A large spacious church near Oxford. Refreshments in the side room. Free parking; easy access. Tickets available from www.ticketsoxford.com 01865 305305. £15 (also concessions) and on the door. Enquiries: 01865 769206.
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🄵🅆 Festivals, Workshops Diary For international (not based/organised from UK) see under ⎈ INTERNATIONAL FOLK NEWS
Folklife 🄵 Members & ‡‡advertisers
🄵 Bernie Dennis writes:
A great big thank you to everyone who came and supported Upton Folk Festival 2023. We hope you had a great time!
So, why not get your Super Early Bird tickets for 2024 to see many great acts including the Wilsons and Melrose Quartet. We have a limited number of tickets at this year's prices available until May 31st.
[below from current issue of FW page 54]
2024 May 3 - 6 UPTON UPON SEVERN FOLK FESTIVAL www.uptonfolk.org
→ UPTON-UPON-SEVERN, Worcs.
⌂ UPTON FOLK FESTIVAL, please see our website for further details or contact chairperson<at>uptonfolk.org for specific enquiries.
⊕ Free: Morris dancing and Sunday procession, pub music and song sessions, street theatre, ceilidhs under the bridge, workshops, musical meander, duck race, craft fair. Ticketed: Fri-Mon concerts, ceilidhs, Folk Clubs. Guests and main ceilidhs tba. ® Bernie Dennis
🄵 See Glosfolk Facebook for update on CHURCHDOWN BEER & FOLK FESTIVAL, see message from Will Craswell, 5 May at 08:33,
for times and details of performers, plus singarounds
[below from current issue of FW page 51]
2023 May 19 - 21 CHURCHDOWN BEER & FOLK FESTIVAL Facebook GlosFolk
→ CHURCHDOWN, Gloucestershire. The Churchdown Club (http://churchdownclub.co.uk), Church Road, Churchdown, Gloucester, GL3 2ER
⊕ Guests tba. Please contact Bill Craswell, 07740 248785, liam<at>liamtho.com ® Bill Craswell
🄵 CHELTENHAM FOLK CLUB (see ad & news page 28), most 2nd & 4th Mondays
The following dates were awaiting room-availability confirmation by the venue, Sandford Park Alehouse, when we went to press; they have now been confirmed
June 12 Steve Turner 8pm
June 26 tba 8pm
July 10 tba 8pm
🄵 Cornwall Folk Festival's Summer Fun(draiser) Ceilidh with Cataclews, Saturday Jun 3 @ 7:30 pm Town Hall, Wadebridge.
Ceilidh really means really having a great time, and Cataclews — with their mix of Cornish, English and Irish music — are the band to deliver this.
They did use proud at the end of February, playing to a packed and dancing town hall when we repurposed that money-raising event to help the victims of the Turkey/Syria Earthquake.
This time it is all about us, as well as about having a great night out.
So polish off those dancing shoes, practice your dos-si-do-ing in the mirror, get a ticket and see you at Wadebridge Town Hall, Sat 3rd June from 7.30pm. Bar available. Details/book www.cornwallfolkfestival.com then go to "June 3rd ceilidh" page.
🄵🅆 Midlands
🄵 Crows - Mick Ryan, Paul Downes, Pete Harris and Dave Bordewey at 🄵 The Fleece at Bretforton on Thursday 25th May in the Barn 7:30
Tickets available from the Fleece /fleecyfolk website https://thefleeceinn.co.uk/events/fleecey-folk-crows/
‘Crows’ were a popular feature of the folk scene from 1978 to 1988. The combination of four strong voices and expert musicianship gave them a simultaneously unique yet broad appeal. With the sad death of Ralph Jordan, in 2013, previously unreleased radio recordings were discovered. A ‘new’ album (‘Time To Rise’ Wildgoose Records), was released in 2016, and enthusiastically reviewed (‘All the songs are really inspiring….spellbinding’ Mick Tems ‘Folk Wales’).
Two of the original line-up remain in the revived band, Mick Ryan and Dave Bordewey .
Crows are now joined by Pete Harris (vocals, guitar and bouzouki) who worked in an acclaimed duo with Mick for many years, adding a unique blend of power, warmth and harmony to the band's vocal mix. Dave Bordewey adds his astonishing high harmony lines accompanying many songs on the fiddle and Mando-cello . Finally, the inimitable Paul Downes on guitar, banjo, Mando-cello and harmonies, takes over from Ralph. All four are well known and highly respected performers in their own right.
For the new ‘Crows’, it is very clearly ‘Time To Rise’!
🄵🅆 South-East
🄵 MOONRAKERS - see advert p42, news p43
Dear Friends,
Frenzied excitement here at Moonrakers HQ as we proudly launch the new album. Fourteen tracks - seven songs, seven instrumentals, and many hours of work and pleasure. The "virtual" edition of this delicious product is now available to download either in individual morsels or in one big binge at https://moonrakers.bandcamp.com/album/green-to-gold
The physical CD (remember those?) will be hawked remorselessly at the extravaganza weekend we have at the end of this month (see below). Or you can order a hard copy (CD) by sending an email to MoonrakersCelticMusic@gmail.com and we'll send you the bank transfer details.
But don't just sit there letting the sumptuous sounds wash over you - come to the launch.................
Saturday 27th May ALBUM LAUNCH! St Peter's Church, Upper WOLVERCOTE, Oxford OX2 8AQ. A large spacious church near Oxford. Refreshments in the side room. Free parking; easy access. Tickets available from www.ticketsoxford.com 01865 305305. £15 (also concessions) and on the door. Enquiries: 01865 769206.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
🄵🅆 Festivals, Workshops Diary For international (not based/organised from UK) see under ⎈ INTERNATIONAL FOLK NEWS
Folklife 🄵 Members & ‡‡advertisers
🄵 Bernie Dennis writes:
A great big thank you to everyone who came and supported Upton Folk Festival 2023. We hope you had a great time!
So, why not get your Super Early Bird tickets for 2024 to see many great acts including the Wilsons and Melrose Quartet. We have a limited number of tickets at this year's prices available until May 31st.
[below from current issue of FW page 54]
2024 May 3 - 6 UPTON UPON SEVERN FOLK FESTIVAL www.uptonfolk.org
→ UPTON-UPON-SEVERN, Worcs.
⌂ UPTON FOLK FESTIVAL, please see our website for further details or contact chairperson<at>uptonfolk.org for specific enquiries.
⊕ Free: Morris dancing and Sunday procession, pub music and song sessions, street theatre, ceilidhs under the bridge, workshops, musical meander, duck race, craft fair. Ticketed: Fri-Mon concerts, ceilidhs, Folk Clubs. Guests and main ceilidhs tba. ® Bernie Dennis
🄵 See Glosfolk Facebook for update on CHURCHDOWN BEER & FOLK FESTIVAL, see message from Will Craswell, 5 May at 08:33,
for times and details of performers, plus singarounds
[below from current issue of FW page 51]
2023 May 19 - 21 CHURCHDOWN BEER & FOLK FESTIVAL Facebook GlosFolk
→ CHURCHDOWN, Gloucestershire. The Churchdown Club (http://churchdownclub.co.uk), Church Road, Churchdown, Gloucester, GL3 2ER
⊕ Guests tba. Please contact Bill Craswell, 07740 248785, liam<at>liamtho.com ® Bill Craswell
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Venues - West Country
🄵 Wkly Thu Glos PRESTBURY PLOUGH (PRESTBURY) SESSION pub: www.ploughprestbury.co.uk Chris Beaumont 01242 571185
→ The Plough (01242 222180), Mill Street, Prestbury, Glos, GL52 3BG. 8pm most weeks.
⇒ Judith, machteltje<at>gmail.com
⊕ Thursdays 8pm most weeks, contact machteltje<at>gmail.com to be on the email list — we’ll let you know around 7pm if the session is happening and send directions. It’s a tune session, mainly English, but with a dash of French now and again. [2023 April, new times & contact]
Performers - West Country
Pf.2b Folk Dance Bands
🄵 CARACTACUS (no website) Judith
⇒ contact Judith, email machteltje<at>gmail.com
⊕ Dynamic dulcimer, bouncing banjo, furious fiddle, and percussive piano - English rhythym with attitude! [2023 April, new contact]
Performers Midlands
Pf.1a Folk Music & Song - Bands / Groups
🄵 Herefs CROWS www.facebook.com/crowsfolk/ Lynne Barker
⇒ To book: barkerlynne93<at>gmail.com or mickryan.songs<at>gmail.com
⊕ Crows are Mick Ryan, Dave Bordewey, Pete Harris, and Paul Downes; a folk band performing a mix of original and traditional music, with imaginative instrumental arrangements and powerful 4-part harmonies. [May 2023, new entry]
Media
Folk North West magazine [not in our listings, but for your info:] will no longer be printed, but will continue online.
This was announced in March, Spring issue, but as of today 15/5/2023 is not mentioned on website http://www.folknorthwest.co.uk/
I have requested details, as we welcome details for all online & printed magazines / listings.
Workshop Providers
CYMRU • WALES
🄵 National TRAC CYMRU: Music Traditions Wales https://trac.cymru Megan Lloyd, Company Manager 01446 748 556
⇒ trac<at>trac-cymru.org
⊕ Wales’ Folk Development organisation; its rôle to promote and develop the music and dance traditions of Wales - both within Wales and beyond. trac provides an information service, and the website lists performers, events and contacts. [2022 May, new contact details]
ENGLAND SOUTH-WEST (WEST COUNTRY)
‡ Bristol INTERACTIVE JUNK MUSIC WORKSHOP www.drumrunners.org Paul Midgley 07932 448627
⇒ paul<at>drumrunners.org
⊕ Navigate your musical world with playing old and new "Riffems" on DIY instruments like the bicycle wheel drums and other percussion. Workshops/Performances led by Paul Midgley of Drum Runners www.drumrunners.org
🄵 Wkly Thu Glos PRESTBURY PLOUGH (PRESTBURY) SESSION pub: www.ploughprestbury.co.uk Chris Beaumont 01242 571185
→ The Plough (01242 222180), Mill Street, Prestbury, Glos, GL52 3BG. 8pm most weeks.
⇒ Judith, machteltje<at>gmail.com
⊕ Thursdays 8pm most weeks, contact machteltje<at>gmail.com to be on the email list — we’ll let you know around 7pm if the session is happening and send directions. It’s a tune session, mainly English, but with a dash of French now and again. [2023 April, new times & contact]
Performers - West Country
Pf.2b Folk Dance Bands
🄵 CARACTACUS (no website) Judith
⇒ contact Judith, email machteltje<at>gmail.com
⊕ Dynamic dulcimer, bouncing banjo, furious fiddle, and percussive piano - English rhythym with attitude! [2023 April, new contact]
Performers Midlands
Pf.1a Folk Music & Song - Bands / Groups
🄵 Herefs CROWS www.facebook.com/crowsfolk/ Lynne Barker
⇒ To book: barkerlynne93<at>gmail.com or mickryan.songs<at>gmail.com
⊕ Crows are Mick Ryan, Dave Bordewey, Pete Harris, and Paul Downes; a folk band performing a mix of original and traditional music, with imaginative instrumental arrangements and powerful 4-part harmonies. [May 2023, new entry]
Media
Folk North West magazine [not in our listings, but for your info:] will no longer be printed, but will continue online.
This was announced in March, Spring issue, but as of today 15/5/2023 is not mentioned on website http://www.folknorthwest.co.uk/
I have requested details, as we welcome details for all online & printed magazines / listings.
Workshop Providers
CYMRU • WALES
🄵 National TRAC CYMRU: Music Traditions Wales https://trac.cymru Megan Lloyd, Company Manager 01446 748 556
⇒ trac<at>trac-cymru.org
⊕ Wales’ Folk Development organisation; its rôle to promote and develop the music and dance traditions of Wales - both within Wales and beyond. trac provides an information service, and the website lists performers, events and contacts. [2022 May, new contact details]
ENGLAND SOUTH-WEST (WEST COUNTRY)
‡ Bristol INTERACTIVE JUNK MUSIC WORKSHOP www.drumrunners.org Paul Midgley 07932 448627
⇒ paul<at>drumrunners.org
⊕ Navigate your musical world with playing old and new "Riffems" on DIY instruments like the bicycle wheel drums and other percussion. Workshops/Performances led by Paul Midgley of Drum Runners www.drumrunners.org
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FOLK FESTIVALS international (not based/organised from UK), live & virtual & both [more welcome, we need a minimum 3 weeks notice]
USA: Sep 23 -24 Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival http://pmffest.org/
PMFF: headliners announced! Plus chantey sings and more!
Start thinking about our SONGWRITING COMPETITION. Have you written a maritime song, or would you like to? Enter our songwriting competition; reply to this e-mail for details.
We are also looking for entries in our LOGO CONTEST. We liked the 2022 logo so much that we are using it this year, as well — but we will announce the 2024 logo at the 2023 festival. Stay tuned for more details.
And finally… OUR HEADLINERS: John Roberts, the Johnson Girls, and Steve Turner! We are so excited to have these fantastic performers back in Portsmouth.
John Roberts has been enthralling audiences for quite a while, on his own, in a duo with the dearly missed Tony Barrand, with Nowell Sing We Clear, and more recently working with Debra Cowan. His wonderful voice, concertina, and banjo have been a highlight of PMFF several times before, and for those of you who are new to our community, you are in for a real treat.
The Johnson Girls bring spectacular vocal harmonies and powerful energy to some of our favorite sea songs, as well as bringing some more obscure songs into the spotlight. Like John, they’ve graced our stage before, and we are always happy to have them back.
Steve Turner is, perhaps, a bit less well-known than these other two acts, but we are hoping to change that. HIs virtuosic concertina playing and evocative voice are a true delight, and while he has been part of our festival previously, we are extremely pleased to bring him to our main stage for the first time.
Fair winds and following seas, The PMFF Board
To join the mailing list, just write to info<at>pmffest.org to be added to the list.
On www.folklife.uk/world.html Open to all International (non-UK, and non-UK organised) readers on this mailing list
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Folklife membership is not required, but welcomed . . . (and members' news printed in FW, if received in time).
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FOLK FESTIVALS international (not based/organised from UK), live & virtual & both [more welcome, we need a minimum 3 weeks notice]
USA: Sep 23 -24 Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival http://pmffest.org/
PMFF: headliners announced! Plus chantey sings and more!
Start thinking about our SONGWRITING COMPETITION. Have you written a maritime song, or would you like to? Enter our songwriting competition; reply to this e-mail for details.
We are also looking for entries in our LOGO CONTEST. We liked the 2022 logo so much that we are using it this year, as well — but we will announce the 2024 logo at the 2023 festival. Stay tuned for more details.
And finally… OUR HEADLINERS: John Roberts, the Johnson Girls, and Steve Turner! We are so excited to have these fantastic performers back in Portsmouth.
John Roberts has been enthralling audiences for quite a while, on his own, in a duo with the dearly missed Tony Barrand, with Nowell Sing We Clear, and more recently working with Debra Cowan. His wonderful voice, concertina, and banjo have been a highlight of PMFF several times before, and for those of you who are new to our community, you are in for a real treat.
The Johnson Girls bring spectacular vocal harmonies and powerful energy to some of our favorite sea songs, as well as bringing some more obscure songs into the spotlight. Like John, they’ve graced our stage before, and we are always happy to have them back.
Steve Turner is, perhaps, a bit less well-known than these other two acts, but we are hoping to change that. HIs virtuosic concertina playing and evocative voice are a true delight, and while he has been part of our festival previously, we are extremely pleased to bring him to our main stage for the first time.
Fair winds and following seas, The PMFF Board
To join the mailing list, just write to info<at>pmffest.org to be added to the list.
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🄵 Cornwall Folk Festival's Summer Fun(draiser) Ceilidh with Cataclews, Saturday Jun 3 @ 7:30 pm Town Hall, Wadebridge.
Ceilidh really means really having a great time, and Cataclews — with their mix of Cornish, English and Irish music — are the band to deliver this.
They did use proud at the end of February, playing to a packed and dancing town hall when we repurposed that money-raising event to help the victims of the Turkey/Syria Earthquake.
This time it is all about us, as well as about having a great night out.
So polish off those dancing shoes, practice your dos-si-do-ing in the mirror, get a ticket and see you at Wadebridge Town Hall, Sat 3rd June from 7.30pm. Bar available. Details/book www.cornwallfolkfestival.com then go to "June 3rd ceilidh" page.
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STARTS BEFORE 1 MAY ISSUE:
🄵 2023 April 28 - May 1 UPTON UPON SEVERN FOLK FESTIVAL www.uptonfolk.org
Artists include: Martin Carthy, Martyn Wyndham-Read and Iris Bishop, The Wilderness Yet, Jennifer Wrigley and Laurence Wilson, George Sansome & Matt Quinn, SykesMartin
PLUS
Andrew McKay & Carole Etherton, Brian Bull, Caffrey, McGurk & Madge, Close Quarters, Cobblers Child, Dave & Ann Reader, Discovery, Eskrigg, Gloucester Diamonds, Holly Clarke, Jess & Richard Arrowsmith, Jim Mageean & Graeme Knights, Keith Kendrick & Sylvia Needham, Malvern Hillbillies & Sara Marshall-Rose, Martin Hughes, Martyn Harvey, NYFTE, Pat Smith & Ned Clamp, Pete Grassby, Phoebe Rees, Rod Penlington, Sue Brown & Lorraine Irwing, Sound Tradition, The Medlars, The Time Bandits, The Twiddlers, Vital Spark
Alongside the concerts, we have…. Ceilidhs, Many Morris Sides, Huge Sunday Procession, Folk Clubs, Music and Song Sessions, Workshops, Acoustic Talent Contest, Musical Meander, and much more………. www.uptonfolk.org
MAY 1 ISSUE will include these recent updates:
🄵 May 26 - 29 CHIPPENHAM FOLK FESTIVAL www.chippfolk.co.uk
→ CHIPPENHAM, Wiltshire.
⌂ Chippenham Folk Festival, The Cause Music and Arts Centre, The Causeway, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 3DD. www.chippfolk.co.uk
info<at>chippfolk.co.uk 01249 657 190 (answered by an answerphone and checked weekly)
⊕ Don’t miss our 50th Anniversary – over 100 artists at 200 weekend events May 26th – 29th.
Artists include: Friday 26 - The Wilderness Yet & Edwina Hayes, Saturday 27- Cara Dillon & Jon Loomes, Sunday 28 - Le Vent du Nord & Benji Kirkpatrick, Monday 29 – The Paul Sartin tribute concert.
Tickets now on sale – BOOK YOURS TODAY. Visit www.chippfolk.co.uk
🄵 2023 Jun 30 - Jul 2 CLECKHEATON FOLK FESTIVAL -- IMPORTANT FESTIVAL ANNOUNCEMENT!! www.cleckheatonfolkfestival.org
It is with deep regret that the Board has taken the decision to cancel the Cleckheaton Folk Festival for 2023.
Unfortunately, our main venue, The Town Hall, which is in need of remedial work to the ceiling above the stage area, has been deemed unsafe by Kirklees Council for us to hold our usual Festival events in that space.
With the absence of any other suitable venue, the Festival Board has taken the decision to cancel the event altogether. All ticket holders will be refunded and we apologise for any inconvenience caused to our visitors, suppliers, artists, sound engineers, dancers, performers and stewards.
We’re sorry it has come to this, believe me, we have done our utmost to find a remedy to the situation, but as there are no suitable alternative premises, we have no other option.
If you have any feedback please send it to dave<at>cleckheatonfolkfestival.org
Kind Regards and regrets, The Festival Board.
Dave Minich, Festival Director. Cleckheaton Folk Festival Tel: 01274 879761 Mob: 07929 134556
‡‡ 2023 Jul 7 - 9 BEYOND THE BORDER – Wales’ International Storytelling Festival https://beyondtheborder.com/festival/
→ DINEFWR, LLANDEILO, Carmarthenshire, Wales.
⌂ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BTBStorytelling, Twitter: BTBStorytelling, Instagram: btbstorytellingfestival
⊕ Beyond the Border – Wales’ International Storytelling Festival has announced over 50 artists performing from 7-9 July 2023, at Dinefwr, Carmarthenshire.
Beyond the Border turns 30 this year, and to celebrate there is a packed three day programme within the magical landscape, castle and stunning woodlands of the National Trust, CADW and Wildlife Trust Cymru’s Dinefwr Estate, Carmarthenshire.
Whether joining for a unique immersive camping experience for the whole weekend, or visiting for the day, families of all ages (and grown-ups too) will delight in a diverse and entertaining programme of stories, music, performances, inspiring talks, arts and crafts activities. The festival will feature a celebration of stories in English, some Welsh, and some international, and has accessibility at its core, with a commitment to ensuring all audiences are able to experience the festival.
This year’s festival theme, The Time is Now, encapsulates the past, present and future of storytelling in Wales, through the lens of languages, stories and music from across Europe and the world.
Some of the headliners include Abbi Patrix, Angharad Jenkins Quintet, Citrus Arts, Csenge Zalka, Daniel Morden, Julie Murphy and Ceri Rhys Matthews, Mererid Hopwood, Michael Harvey, N’famady Kouyaté, People Speak Up and The Successors of the Mandingue.
Some of the highlights not to be missed include the last ever performance from The Devil’s Violin. Music performances from Angharad Jenkins Quintet, Julie Murphy & Ceri Rhys Matthews, Gwilym Bowen Rhys, N’famady Kouyaté and The Successors of the Mandingue,
Plus stories from Welsh storytellers, Michael Harvey, Cath Little, Guto Dafis, Dafydd Davis Hughes, Mair Tomos Ifans, Jo Munton, Deb Winter and Tamar Eluned Williams to name just a few!
Citrus Arts have created a programme of activities alongside People Speak Up for families and grown-ups – a mixture of circus, creative workshops, spoken word and talks across the weekend.
There are shows for families, early rise and shine play sessions for the little folk, performances inspired by Cad Goddeu: The Battle of the Trees and Carl Gough’s time travelling new piece Nexus.
Beyond the Border Festival offers visitors a chance to unwind and reconnect with nature; to explore the breath-taking grounds of Dinefwr, with woodland walks and its historic Castle, steeped in myths and legends. The natural environment offers plenty of ways to unwind and relax with friends and family and enjoy delicious food and drink stalls offering the best of local and Welsh cuisine.
Day, weekend and campsite tickets are available now for adults, young people and families and under 5s get in for free. There’s also limited availability to camp under the stars at Dinefwr. There’s also discounts for National Trust members and those living in the SA postcode area. Find out more
Beyondtheborder.com/festival
🄵 2023 Jul 7 -9 PRIDDY FOLK FESTIVAL www.priddyfolk.org - diary confirmed as January issue.
🄵 2023 Jul 27 - 30 WARWICK FOLK FESTIVAL www.warwickfolkfestival.co.uk
→ WARWICK. Festival main venue and campsite: Castle Park adjacent to Warwick Castle, Stratford Rd Warwick. Numerous venues in and around the historic town of Warwick.
⌂ WARWICK FOLK FESTIVAL: email info<at>warwickfolkfestival.co.uk Booking: online www.warwickfolkfestival.co.uk
⊕ This will be at our second year at our exciting new site adjacent to Warwick Castle and the River Avon The spacious new site allows us to have an improved layout with everyone camping in easy reach of the venues, also plenty of free parking for day visitors. Lots of showers and toilets, crafts, food and drink as you have come to expect. Again the real ale festival bar will be run by the famous Fleece Inn of Bretforton.
The town centre is only 10 minutes away, and on the walk up the road there are shops and ancient hostelries to distract you or take the route up the drive past the spectacular castle.
The festival brings together leading names from around the world for a 4-day music and dance extravaganza. Its unique programme has something for everyone from dedicated folk fans to music lovers who are discovering that ‘folk’ covers a wide range of tastes and styles. See our website for full details.
For more information please visit www.warwickfolkfestival.co.uk ® Peter Cranage
🄵 2023 Aug 18 - 20 MOIRA FURNACE FOLK FESTIVAL www.moirafurnacefolkfestival.co.uk
→ MOIRA FURNACE, near Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire
⌂ Moira Furnace Folk Festival Enquiries: 07401 951694, or contact on webform via website Festival email newsletters and updates about Festival-related events: info<at>moirafurnacefolkfestival.co.uk
⊕ The 2023 Moira Furnace Folk Festival takes place on the 18th,19th and 20th August 2023. Tickets are now on sale and a booking form is available on the festival website www.moirafurnacefolkfestival.co.uk
The line up includes: Jez Lowe and the Bad Pennies, Tom McConville, Kim Lowings and the Greenwood, Pete Morton, Winter Wilson, Anthony John Clarke, The John Richards Band, Paul Downes, Meneely and Van Sante, Stonesthrow, Joe Baylis, KC Jones, Alan Jones.
There is a ceilidh on the Saturday evening and dance displays on the Saturday and Sunday afternoon. Ample on site camping is also available.
There are plenty of opportunities for singarounds both on site and in the local pubs. ® Colin Grantham
🄵 2023 Aug 24-28 CORNWALL FOLK FESTIVAL www.CornwallFolkFestival.com
→Wadebridge, North Cornwall
⌂ Email: info@cornwallfolkfestival.com
⊕ In Wadebridge Town Hall: Thurs 24th: Ceilidh with KRELYS; Fri 25th: Gigspanner Big Band + Lakeman & Murch;
Sat 26th: Kinnaris Quintet + Our Atlantic Roots; Sun 27th: Seth Lakeman+ Windjammer.
In John Betjeman Centre: Fri 25th: Teyr + Cat Florence; Sun 27th: Sarah McQuaid + Chris Ostler.
Sat-Mon: FAR stage featuring regional musicians
Sat-Mon: ‘Shanty St’ live music & dance in town centre streets.
Plus: sessions and workshops.
🄵 A few Saturday tickets left! Full weekend tickets Sold Out!
2023 Sep 1- 3 LLANWDDYN FOLK AND ACOUSTIC WEEKEND www.llanwddynevents.co.uk
→ Abertridwr, Llanwddyn, Lake Vyrnwy, SY10 0LR
⌂ e: llanwddynevents@gmail.com T: 01691 870501 w: www.llanwddynevents.co.uk
⊕ The last EVER Llanwddyn F&A Weekend.
After 10 years of running the festival (not including COVID years) - as always, this friendly, little festival is not to be missed. This year we have Chris While & Julie Matthews, Elbow Jayne, Katherine Roberts and Sean Lakeman, Ruth & Ken Powell, The Jaywalkers, Steve Turner, Chris Brain and the Llansilin Choir. it’s well worth coming to.
Camping is close by but limited so it’s important you book early. Lots of other accommodation options a short drive away.
Plus, pop-up cafe and BBQ, sing-arounds, sessions, Bar and fabulous craft stalls.
Tickets limited as we only seat a cosy 220 people: a few Saturday tickets left. Full weekend tickets Sold Out! Prices very reasonable as we like it to be affordable for all as the budget we have allows. Any questions, please get in touch.
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🄵🅆 West Country
🄵 Cornwall Folk Festival's Summer Fun(draiser) Ceilidh with Cataclews, Saturday Jun 3 @ 7:30 pm Town Hall, Wadebridge.
Ceilidh really means really having a great time, and Cataclews — with their mix of Cornish, English and Irish music — are the band to deliver this.
They did use proud at the end of February, playing to a packed and dancing town hall when we repurposed that money-raising event to help the victims of the Turkey/Syria Earthquake.
This time it is all about us, as well as about having a great night out.
So polish off those dancing shoes, practice your dos-si-do-ing in the mirror, get a ticket and see you at Wadebridge Town Hall, Sat 3rd June from 7.30pm. Bar available. Details/book www.cornwallfolkfestival.com then go to "June 3rd ceilidh" page.
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🄵🅆 Festivals, Workshops Diary For international (not based/organised from UK) see under ⎈ INTERNATIONAL FOLK NEWS
Folklife 🄵 Members & ‡‡advertisers
- We will include revised listings for next (May) print magazine below, if received in good time.
- Adverts for next (May) issue, if received in good time, will placed on Festivals-Workshops Diary webpage when we get them.
STARTS BEFORE 1 MAY ISSUE:
🄵 2023 April 28 - May 1 UPTON UPON SEVERN FOLK FESTIVAL www.uptonfolk.org
Artists include: Martin Carthy, Martyn Wyndham-Read and Iris Bishop, The Wilderness Yet, Jennifer Wrigley and Laurence Wilson, George Sansome & Matt Quinn, SykesMartin
PLUS
Andrew McKay & Carole Etherton, Brian Bull, Caffrey, McGurk & Madge, Close Quarters, Cobblers Child, Dave & Ann Reader, Discovery, Eskrigg, Gloucester Diamonds, Holly Clarke, Jess & Richard Arrowsmith, Jim Mageean & Graeme Knights, Keith Kendrick & Sylvia Needham, Malvern Hillbillies & Sara Marshall-Rose, Martin Hughes, Martyn Harvey, NYFTE, Pat Smith & Ned Clamp, Pete Grassby, Phoebe Rees, Rod Penlington, Sue Brown & Lorraine Irwing, Sound Tradition, The Medlars, The Time Bandits, The Twiddlers, Vital Spark
Alongside the concerts, we have…. Ceilidhs, Many Morris Sides, Huge Sunday Procession, Folk Clubs, Music and Song Sessions, Workshops, Acoustic Talent Contest, Musical Meander, and much more………. www.uptonfolk.org
MAY 1 ISSUE will include these recent updates:
🄵 May 26 - 29 CHIPPENHAM FOLK FESTIVAL www.chippfolk.co.uk
→ CHIPPENHAM, Wiltshire.
⌂ Chippenham Folk Festival, The Cause Music and Arts Centre, The Causeway, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 3DD. www.chippfolk.co.uk
info<at>chippfolk.co.uk 01249 657 190 (answered by an answerphone and checked weekly)
⊕ Don’t miss our 50th Anniversary – over 100 artists at 200 weekend events May 26th – 29th.
Artists include: Friday 26 - The Wilderness Yet & Edwina Hayes, Saturday 27- Cara Dillon & Jon Loomes, Sunday 28 - Le Vent du Nord & Benji Kirkpatrick, Monday 29 – The Paul Sartin tribute concert.
Tickets now on sale – BOOK YOURS TODAY. Visit www.chippfolk.co.uk
🄵 2023 Jun 30 - Jul 2 CLECKHEATON FOLK FESTIVAL -- IMPORTANT FESTIVAL ANNOUNCEMENT!! www.cleckheatonfolkfestival.org
It is with deep regret that the Board has taken the decision to cancel the Cleckheaton Folk Festival for 2023.
Unfortunately, our main venue, The Town Hall, which is in need of remedial work to the ceiling above the stage area, has been deemed unsafe by Kirklees Council for us to hold our usual Festival events in that space.
With the absence of any other suitable venue, the Festival Board has taken the decision to cancel the event altogether. All ticket holders will be refunded and we apologise for any inconvenience caused to our visitors, suppliers, artists, sound engineers, dancers, performers and stewards.
We’re sorry it has come to this, believe me, we have done our utmost to find a remedy to the situation, but as there are no suitable alternative premises, we have no other option.
If you have any feedback please send it to dave<at>cleckheatonfolkfestival.org
Kind Regards and regrets, The Festival Board.
Dave Minich, Festival Director. Cleckheaton Folk Festival Tel: 01274 879761 Mob: 07929 134556
‡‡ 2023 Jul 7 - 9 BEYOND THE BORDER – Wales’ International Storytelling Festival https://beyondtheborder.com/festival/
→ DINEFWR, LLANDEILO, Carmarthenshire, Wales.
⌂ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BTBStorytelling, Twitter: BTBStorytelling, Instagram: btbstorytellingfestival
⊕ Beyond the Border – Wales’ International Storytelling Festival has announced over 50 artists performing from 7-9 July 2023, at Dinefwr, Carmarthenshire.
Beyond the Border turns 30 this year, and to celebrate there is a packed three day programme within the magical landscape, castle and stunning woodlands of the National Trust, CADW and Wildlife Trust Cymru’s Dinefwr Estate, Carmarthenshire.
Whether joining for a unique immersive camping experience for the whole weekend, or visiting for the day, families of all ages (and grown-ups too) will delight in a diverse and entertaining programme of stories, music, performances, inspiring talks, arts and crafts activities. The festival will feature a celebration of stories in English, some Welsh, and some international, and has accessibility at its core, with a commitment to ensuring all audiences are able to experience the festival.
This year’s festival theme, The Time is Now, encapsulates the past, present and future of storytelling in Wales, through the lens of languages, stories and music from across Europe and the world.
Some of the headliners include Abbi Patrix, Angharad Jenkins Quintet, Citrus Arts, Csenge Zalka, Daniel Morden, Julie Murphy and Ceri Rhys Matthews, Mererid Hopwood, Michael Harvey, N’famady Kouyaté, People Speak Up and The Successors of the Mandingue.
Some of the highlights not to be missed include the last ever performance from The Devil’s Violin. Music performances from Angharad Jenkins Quintet, Julie Murphy & Ceri Rhys Matthews, Gwilym Bowen Rhys, N’famady Kouyaté and The Successors of the Mandingue,
Plus stories from Welsh storytellers, Michael Harvey, Cath Little, Guto Dafis, Dafydd Davis Hughes, Mair Tomos Ifans, Jo Munton, Deb Winter and Tamar Eluned Williams to name just a few!
Citrus Arts have created a programme of activities alongside People Speak Up for families and grown-ups – a mixture of circus, creative workshops, spoken word and talks across the weekend.
There are shows for families, early rise and shine play sessions for the little folk, performances inspired by Cad Goddeu: The Battle of the Trees and Carl Gough’s time travelling new piece Nexus.
Beyond the Border Festival offers visitors a chance to unwind and reconnect with nature; to explore the breath-taking grounds of Dinefwr, with woodland walks and its historic Castle, steeped in myths and legends. The natural environment offers plenty of ways to unwind and relax with friends and family and enjoy delicious food and drink stalls offering the best of local and Welsh cuisine.
Day, weekend and campsite tickets are available now for adults, young people and families and under 5s get in for free. There’s also limited availability to camp under the stars at Dinefwr. There’s also discounts for National Trust members and those living in the SA postcode area. Find out more
Beyondtheborder.com/festival
🄵 2023 Jul 7 -9 PRIDDY FOLK FESTIVAL www.priddyfolk.org - diary confirmed as January issue.
🄵 2023 Jul 27 - 30 WARWICK FOLK FESTIVAL www.warwickfolkfestival.co.uk
→ WARWICK. Festival main venue and campsite: Castle Park adjacent to Warwick Castle, Stratford Rd Warwick. Numerous venues in and around the historic town of Warwick.
⌂ WARWICK FOLK FESTIVAL: email info<at>warwickfolkfestival.co.uk Booking: online www.warwickfolkfestival.co.uk
⊕ This will be at our second year at our exciting new site adjacent to Warwick Castle and the River Avon The spacious new site allows us to have an improved layout with everyone camping in easy reach of the venues, also plenty of free parking for day visitors. Lots of showers and toilets, crafts, food and drink as you have come to expect. Again the real ale festival bar will be run by the famous Fleece Inn of Bretforton.
The town centre is only 10 minutes away, and on the walk up the road there are shops and ancient hostelries to distract you or take the route up the drive past the spectacular castle.
The festival brings together leading names from around the world for a 4-day music and dance extravaganza. Its unique programme has something for everyone from dedicated folk fans to music lovers who are discovering that ‘folk’ covers a wide range of tastes and styles. See our website for full details.
For more information please visit www.warwickfolkfestival.co.uk ® Peter Cranage
🄵 2023 Aug 18 - 20 MOIRA FURNACE FOLK FESTIVAL www.moirafurnacefolkfestival.co.uk
→ MOIRA FURNACE, near Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire
⌂ Moira Furnace Folk Festival Enquiries: 07401 951694, or contact on webform via website Festival email newsletters and updates about Festival-related events: info<at>moirafurnacefolkfestival.co.uk
⊕ The 2023 Moira Furnace Folk Festival takes place on the 18th,19th and 20th August 2023. Tickets are now on sale and a booking form is available on the festival website www.moirafurnacefolkfestival.co.uk
The line up includes: Jez Lowe and the Bad Pennies, Tom McConville, Kim Lowings and the Greenwood, Pete Morton, Winter Wilson, Anthony John Clarke, The John Richards Band, Paul Downes, Meneely and Van Sante, Stonesthrow, Joe Baylis, KC Jones, Alan Jones.
There is a ceilidh on the Saturday evening and dance displays on the Saturday and Sunday afternoon. Ample on site camping is also available.
There are plenty of opportunities for singarounds both on site and in the local pubs. ® Colin Grantham
🄵 2023 Aug 24-28 CORNWALL FOLK FESTIVAL www.CornwallFolkFestival.com
→Wadebridge, North Cornwall
⌂ Email: info@cornwallfolkfestival.com
⊕ In Wadebridge Town Hall: Thurs 24th: Ceilidh with KRELYS; Fri 25th: Gigspanner Big Band + Lakeman & Murch;
Sat 26th: Kinnaris Quintet + Our Atlantic Roots; Sun 27th: Seth Lakeman+ Windjammer.
In John Betjeman Centre: Fri 25th: Teyr + Cat Florence; Sun 27th: Sarah McQuaid + Chris Ostler.
Sat-Mon: FAR stage featuring regional musicians
Sat-Mon: ‘Shanty St’ live music & dance in town centre streets.
Plus: sessions and workshops.
🄵 A few Saturday tickets left! Full weekend tickets Sold Out!
2023 Sep 1- 3 LLANWDDYN FOLK AND ACOUSTIC WEEKEND www.llanwddynevents.co.uk
→ Abertridwr, Llanwddyn, Lake Vyrnwy, SY10 0LR
⌂ e: llanwddynevents@gmail.com T: 01691 870501 w: www.llanwddynevents.co.uk
⊕ The last EVER Llanwddyn F&A Weekend.
After 10 years of running the festival (not including COVID years) - as always, this friendly, little festival is not to be missed. This year we have Chris While & Julie Matthews, Elbow Jayne, Katherine Roberts and Sean Lakeman, Ruth & Ken Powell, The Jaywalkers, Steve Turner, Chris Brain and the Llansilin Choir. it’s well worth coming to.
Camping is close by but limited so it’s important you book early. Lots of other accommodation options a short drive away.
Plus, pop-up cafe and BBQ, sing-arounds, sessions, Bar and fabulous craft stalls.
Tickets limited as we only seat a cosy 220 people: a few Saturday tickets left. Full weekend tickets Sold Out! Prices very reasonable as we like it to be affordable for all as the budget we have allows. Any questions, please get in touch.
🄵🄳 Folklife's online DIRECTORY - free entries for all, membership not required
🄵🄳 online FOLK DIRECTORY on www.folklife-directory.uk detailed listings, entries free to all, online-only so no deadlines
VENUES Venues Cymru Venues West Country Venues Midlands Venues South-East & East
Venues North Venues Alba Venues International Venues Zoom/Virtual
PERFORMERS Performers Cymru Performers South-West Performers Midlands
Performers South-East & East Performers North Performers Alba Performers International
AND ALSO: Media Services Workshop-Providers (forms on website pagesl)
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Folk North West magazine [wasn't in our listings, but for your info:] will no longer be printed, but will continue online.
This was announced but as of today 4/4/2023 is not mentioned on website http://www.folknorthwest.co.uk/
We'd really like to include you in www.folklife-directory.uk
🄵🄳 online FOLK DIRECTORY on www.folklife-directory.uk detailed listings, entries free to all, online-only so no deadlines
VENUES Venues Cymru Venues West Country Venues Midlands Venues South-East & East
Venues North Venues Alba Venues International Venues Zoom/Virtual
PERFORMERS Performers Cymru Performers South-West Performers Midlands
Performers South-East & East Performers North Performers Alba Performers International
AND ALSO: Media Services Workshop-Providers (forms on website pagesl)
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Media
Folk North West magazine [wasn't in our listings, but for your info:] will no longer be printed, but will continue online.
This was announced but as of today 4/4/2023 is not mentioned on website http://www.folknorthwest.co.uk/
We'd really like to include you in www.folklife-directory.uk
- Live venues (concerts, clubs, sings, sessions), Zoom/Virtual sessions
- Performers (pro, semi-pro, amateur), • media • services • workshop organisers
- If involved in more than one folk activity, you can send in several entries.
- No deadline, send anytime, just fill in a form on the appropriate area page (that's quickest), or contact sam@folklife.uk, we can help draft listings for you.
- Detailed listings: we keep it simple - no logos, photos, no dates. See FW for Members' dates, incl. Festivals & Workshops Diary.
- And we would be very grateful if you could pass on this little note -- at your club, on Facebook, etc --
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🄵🅃🄹 Folklife Traditions Journal, www.folklife-traditions.uk
- Our aims include stimulating a wider interest in folk studies & folk culture.
- Researched articles + archive, new, on a separate website. Folk studies and cultural traditions.
- Also FT DIRECTORY, Folklife Societies: Associations, Trusts, Organisations; Folklife Studies & Institutions; Seasonal Local Celebrations
UPDATES - conferences, publications - Send your Updates on "News: Folklife Traditions Journal" form on ⎈ SEND NEWS form webpage
🄵 Trac Cymru is Wales’ Folk Development organisation; it works to promote and develop the music and dance traditions of Wales, both at home and beyond, and advocates on behalf of the Tradition with public bodies and other organisations.
Folklife would like to thank Blanche Rowen, Manager, for all her work to promote Welsh folk music and to welcome new Manager Megan Lloyd. Go to https://trac.cymru/en/ and see Wales Directory, Resources including articles, songs, tunes, Artist Development, etc etc, an amazing site, -- and additionally amazing as created by a small staff and limited resoiurces. On a personal note, Eleanor & I would not be singing Welsh folk songs without the BEAM workshop weekends. ~ Diolch o galon, Eleanor a Sam.
🄵 TSF Spring Conference 2023 Saturday 13th May, at Gloucestershire Heritage Hub, Alvin Street, Gloucester, GL1 3DW
As usual for our conferences, we invite speakers on a very wide range of topics of interest to traditional song research – including the songs, tunes, singers, styles, collectors, and contexts, plus associated genres such as broadsides, music hall, and other related aspects of popular culture. If your topic is something which traditional song researchers need to take into account, we would like to hear from you. Our focus is on Britain and Ireland, and other countries with strong connections to these islands.
This will be an in-person gathering, with some form of remote access – either by live streaming or recording for online viewing. Online speakers might be asked to pre-record their presentations (assistance will be provided).
The TSF has a bursary scheme, by which financial help is offered to enable younger researchers (under 30) to attend our events. Please contact martinrgraebe<at>gmail.com for details. Steve Roud https://tradsong.org
🄵 Pedlars Pack. A discussion list for people interested in street literature and cheap print of the past (broadsides, chapbooks, songsters, prints, etc.) in Britain and beyond.
The whole point of the group is to facilitate communication, so don’t be shy about telling us of books, articles, projects, events, that you are involved in – we won’t think you’re showing off. And if people would like to introduce themselves with a brief (yes, brief) statement of their interests, it would be a good way to start the ball rolling.
One thing to mention at the start is that it is clear that we will be coming at our core interest (cheap print) from different angles. The impetus for the group comes from those of interested in song (broadside ballads) and related content, but many who have joined through the SHARP list, in particular, will be from book history, printing history, bibliography, literacy, and various other fields.. This is exactly what we want because we need each other to get to grips with a fascinating, but often slippery subject. Please be patient and tolerant of other peoples’ obsessions.
To join, email pedlars-pack+subscribe<at>groups.io Steve Roud
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Journal available separately! Free online; Print Subscriptions welcome, card https://ko-fi.com/s/d479e8d448
1-off: 1 copy of 1 issue. --- UK: £3.50, or EU: £5.50, or rest of world £7.
Annual subscriber: 1 copies of 3 issues. --- UK: £9, EU £16, rest of world £20.
Call for articles for next issue: readers tell us they enjoy these short articles!
🄵 Trac Cymru is Wales’ Folk Development organisation; it works to promote and develop the music and dance traditions of Wales, both at home and beyond, and advocates on behalf of the Tradition with public bodies and other organisations.
Folklife would like to thank Blanche Rowen, Manager, for all her work to promote Welsh folk music and to welcome new Manager Megan Lloyd. Go to https://trac.cymru/en/ and see Wales Directory, Resources including articles, songs, tunes, Artist Development, etc etc, an amazing site, -- and additionally amazing as created by a small staff and limited resoiurces. On a personal note, Eleanor & I would not be singing Welsh folk songs without the BEAM workshop weekends. ~ Diolch o galon, Eleanor a Sam.
🄵 TSF Spring Conference 2023 Saturday 13th May, at Gloucestershire Heritage Hub, Alvin Street, Gloucester, GL1 3DW
As usual for our conferences, we invite speakers on a very wide range of topics of interest to traditional song research – including the songs, tunes, singers, styles, collectors, and contexts, plus associated genres such as broadsides, music hall, and other related aspects of popular culture. If your topic is something which traditional song researchers need to take into account, we would like to hear from you. Our focus is on Britain and Ireland, and other countries with strong connections to these islands.
This will be an in-person gathering, with some form of remote access – either by live streaming or recording for online viewing. Online speakers might be asked to pre-record their presentations (assistance will be provided).
The TSF has a bursary scheme, by which financial help is offered to enable younger researchers (under 30) to attend our events. Please contact martinrgraebe<at>gmail.com for details. Steve Roud https://tradsong.org
🄵 Pedlars Pack. A discussion list for people interested in street literature and cheap print of the past (broadsides, chapbooks, songsters, prints, etc.) in Britain and beyond.
The whole point of the group is to facilitate communication, so don’t be shy about telling us of books, articles, projects, events, that you are involved in – we won’t think you’re showing off. And if people would like to introduce themselves with a brief (yes, brief) statement of their interests, it would be a good way to start the ball rolling.
One thing to mention at the start is that it is clear that we will be coming at our core interest (cheap print) from different angles. The impetus for the group comes from those of interested in song (broadside ballads) and related content, but many who have joined through the SHARP list, in particular, will be from book history, printing history, bibliography, literacy, and various other fields.. This is exactly what we want because we need each other to get to grips with a fascinating, but often slippery subject. Please be patient and tolerant of other peoples’ obsessions.
To join, email pedlars-pack+subscribe<at>groups.io Steve Roud
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Journal available separately! Free online; Print Subscriptions welcome, card https://ko-fi.com/s/d479e8d448
1-off: 1 copy of 1 issue. --- UK: £3.50, or EU: £5.50, or rest of world £7.
Annual subscriber: 1 copies of 3 issues. --- UK: £9, EU £16, rest of world £20.
Call for articles for next issue: readers tell us they enjoy these short articles!
- Shorter researched articles eg a collected song, tune or dance, no minimum - anything from just a song & a few lines or up to 500 words; other articles are often 1000 to 1500, our maximum is 2500 words.
- To introduce society, institution, max. 1000 words. Short news items/dates from society/institution welcome; longer items, please consult editor. Photo(s) welcome, can be sent in colour; may be used in colour on cover if we've room (depends on adverts)
⎈ INTERNATIONAL FOLK NEWS -- online only, open to all non-UK on our mailing list
On www.folklife.uk/world.html Open to all International (non-UK) readers on this mailing list
"Send in your international folk news" form is on the webpage.
Folklife membership is not required, but welcomed . . . (and members' news printed in FW, if received in time).
ØØ GOLDEN LINK
Hi Sam and Eleanor,
Sadly, Golden Link board has voted to stop its Zoom singarounds as of March 26, the last one, and put its energies into the live sessions on Tuesday evenings and the annual Turtle Hill Festival. If you need info on either of those, please go to the website Home - Golden Link Folk Singing Society Thanks so much for listing our events.
ØØ From RICK POLLAY --- Remembering Mystic Chanteyman Don Sineti
Don Sineti spent over 25 years as a chanteyman at Mystic Seaport Village, America’s leading Maritime Museum. He had a massive booming voice, and a big smile and heart. His repertoire of traditional chanteys and his ability to involve an audience through storytelling and song were unequalled.
Like Don, I also grew up in a factory town near Hartford, CT in the 1940s and 1950s, so this is a tribute from one old Connecticut Yankee to another – a chanteyman much beloved by audiences, crew and other singers alike. His death on January 5, 2023 at the age of 79, is much grieved.
"Chanteyman Gone Aloft" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfoo_Vkf7uc
Rick Pollay (March 2023)
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FOLK FESTIVALS international (not based/organised from UK), live & virtual & both [more welcome, we need a minimum 3 weeks notice]
- none to add this time
On www.folklife.uk/world.html Open to all International (non-UK) readers on this mailing list
"Send in your international folk news" form is on the webpage.
Folklife membership is not required, but welcomed . . . (and members' news printed in FW, if received in time).
ØØ GOLDEN LINK
Hi Sam and Eleanor,
Sadly, Golden Link board has voted to stop its Zoom singarounds as of March 26, the last one, and put its energies into the live sessions on Tuesday evenings and the annual Turtle Hill Festival. If you need info on either of those, please go to the website Home - Golden Link Folk Singing Society Thanks so much for listing our events.
ØØ From RICK POLLAY --- Remembering Mystic Chanteyman Don Sineti
Don Sineti spent over 25 years as a chanteyman at Mystic Seaport Village, America’s leading Maritime Museum. He had a massive booming voice, and a big smile and heart. His repertoire of traditional chanteys and his ability to involve an audience through storytelling and song were unequalled.
Like Don, I also grew up in a factory town near Hartford, CT in the 1940s and 1950s, so this is a tribute from one old Connecticut Yankee to another – a chanteyman much beloved by audiences, crew and other singers alike. His death on January 5, 2023 at the age of 79, is much grieved.
"Chanteyman Gone Aloft" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfoo_Vkf7uc
Rick Pollay (March 2023)
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FOLK FESTIVALS international (not based/organised from UK), live & virtual & both [more welcome, we need a minimum 3 weeks notice]
- none to add this time
🄵🅆 Folklife Members' UK FOLK NEWS, online updates to print pages copied to this site.
News form on ⎈ SEND NEWS form webpage
Members' News:- Up to 200 words: live & Zoom clubs, performers, new albums, etc. Members' dates (incl festivals): 3+ weeks notice.
🄵🅆 Cymru 🄵🅆 West Country 🄵🅆 Midlands 🄵🅆 South-East 🄵🅆 North 🄵🅆 Alba 🄵🅆 Festivals, Workshops Diary
We're "Folklife West", so most entries from West, but Members' News welcome from everywhere!
🄵 Folklife members, Ø Associate UK members. Up to 200 words per item. Membership £18/year UK, £24 EU, post FW + print & online publicity
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🄵🅆 Cymru
🄵 Lyceum Folk Club
Thursday 4th May 2023. The Laners
Thursday 15th June 2023. Ruth & Ken Powell
Thursday 13th July 2023. Shep Woolley
Thursday 24th August 2023. Anthony Cresci & Adam Franklin.
🄵🅆 West Country
🄵 1st, 3rd Wed Wilts HIGHWORTH WHITE HORSE FOLK CLUB has a new website www.facebook.com/whitehorsefolkclub/
Other details unchanged (new website 3/2023)
🄵🅆 Midlands
🄵 Herefs: OneAchord We now have a new line up for OneAchord. Marc and Andy have left us and Nick has joined us on drums, together with Tony on accordion and Jenny on whistle and tenor sax. They join Sue on fiddle, Glynn on bass and me on guitar and vocals.
Our next gig will be on Monday 8th May at the Coronation celebrations in Cradley from 2 to 5pm.
Best wishes, Peter
🄵 Herefs: Ledbury, Homend Poets Was 28th March, rescheduled for Tuesday 4th April "Different Landscapes" ... Changes" Homend Poets webpage
Ø Shropshire: After a four year hiatus, the popular session at The Sun Inn in Clun has restarted, on the fourth Thursday of the month. All are welcome to come and play a tune, sing a song, join in with a chorus or just listen with a great pint in a great pub. Starts 8-ish. Trevor Hedges (3/2023)
🄵🅆 South-East
Ø Kent: Deal Folk Club has at last gone back live on the 1st & 3rd thursdays of each month 7.15pm at St Andrews Church Hall, West St CT14 6DZ. Info on www.dealfolkclub.org.uk. This won't affect the Friday Folk Zoom which is continuing every friday 7.30-10pm. Sue
Ø Shanty and Folk singaround session (free admission), 12noon to 3pm, The Horseshoe Inn, Melior Street, London SE1: Sunday 16th April, Sunday 21st May, Sunday 18th June
The HogEye Men will be singing to the public from the deck of The Golden Hinde (near Tower Bridge, London) during the afternoon of Wednesday 5th April.
Sea songs and shanties performed by the HogEye Men aboard the Cutty Sark between 11:45am and 2:30pm on Saturday 1st April and Saturday 3rd June as part of the Cutty Sark's Family Fun Days (entrance fee applicable).
As part of the Rochester Sweeps Festival the HogEye Men will be singing sea songs and shanties:-
in The Rising Sun, Rochester on Friday 28th April from 7:30pm on the Boley Hill Stage, the Eastgate Quarter Stage and then inside the Three Sheets to the Wind micropub on Monday 1st May.
On the evening of Friday 12th May, the HogEye Men will be performing in the Orpington Liberal Club, Folk Club.
On Saturday 20th May the HogEye Men will be performing at the Leigh-on-Sea Shanty Festival.
🄵 MOONRAKERS - Oxfordshire
Saturday 27th May !!ALBUM LAUNCH!! St Peter's Church, Upper WOLVERCOTE, OXFORD OX2 8AQ. Tickets available from www.ticketsoxford.com 01865 305305. £15 (also concessions) and on the door. Enquiries: 01865 769206.
Sunday 30th July WATERPERRY GARDENS, Oxfordshire, OX33 1JZ. 6.00pm Our annual Amphitheatre concert with tunes, strawberries and bad jokes! Early evening (6pm), bring a picnic for the extended interval (drinks available at the bar). Book ahead www.ticketsoxford.com 01865 305305, £20 (concessions available). Some tickets also available on the door.
🄵🅆 Alba
Ø Teviotdale Music Session on Zoom has stopped the Wednesday session but the weekly Monday session will carry on.
The 2nd Friday one with go back to old code (below) and go under the old name too, Teviotdale. This is just to clear it up and allow us to manage the attendance a bit better: Link to Teviotdale Music Session (2nd Friday)
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/72019462970?pwd=ck0xNGVYdVJpcG16RW5oZkNobXZXUT09
- Meeting ID: 860 4678 1202 - Passcode: music
Hopefully see you on a session soon. Thanks, Ray --- see below Directory Venues Zoom/Virtual
🄵 Single Shanty Big Sing
Dear Friends
Hoping you are in good voice!
8pm UK/ Ireland time. To join as singers/ audience and to get the event link (about 24 hours prior), pls email Linn direct or via https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/contact/. The next single-shanties/ dates will be:
And here is the link for our Shanty Big Sings website constructed by Jim. Take a look! more will be added! http://shantyman.dk/ShantyBigSings/. Youtube videos links are listed below for past BigSings.
Many thanks and see/ hear you soon!
Linn Phipps & Jim Lucas
Shanty Big Sing website http://shantyman.dk/ShantyBigSings/
Contact https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/contact/ (23/3/2023)
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For international (not based/organised from UK) see above under ⎈ INTERNATIONAL FOLK NEWS
Folklife 🄵 Members & ‡‡advertisers
Festival Adverts copied to webpage so far (others may need additional processing eg resizing but will be added when completed)
St Neots FF, June 9 - 11. New Forest FF, July 5 - 9. Beyond The Border, July 7 - 9. Priddy FF, July 7 - 9.
Cornwall FF, Aug 24 - 28. Bromyard FF, Sep 7 - 10.
News form on ⎈ SEND NEWS form webpage
Members' News:- Up to 200 words: live & Zoom clubs, performers, new albums, etc. Members' dates (incl festivals): 3+ weeks notice.
🄵🅆 Cymru 🄵🅆 West Country 🄵🅆 Midlands 🄵🅆 South-East 🄵🅆 North 🄵🅆 Alba 🄵🅆 Festivals, Workshops Diary
We're "Folklife West", so most entries from West, but Members' News welcome from everywhere!
🄵 Folklife members, Ø Associate UK members. Up to 200 words per item. Membership £18/year UK, £24 EU, post FW + print & online publicity
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🄵🅆 Cymru
🄵 Lyceum Folk Club
Thursday 4th May 2023. The Laners
Thursday 15th June 2023. Ruth & Ken Powell
Thursday 13th July 2023. Shep Woolley
Thursday 24th August 2023. Anthony Cresci & Adam Franklin.
🄵🅆 West Country
🄵 1st, 3rd Wed Wilts HIGHWORTH WHITE HORSE FOLK CLUB has a new website www.facebook.com/whitehorsefolkclub/
Other details unchanged (new website 3/2023)
🄵🅆 Midlands
🄵 Herefs: OneAchord We now have a new line up for OneAchord. Marc and Andy have left us and Nick has joined us on drums, together with Tony on accordion and Jenny on whistle and tenor sax. They join Sue on fiddle, Glynn on bass and me on guitar and vocals.
Our next gig will be on Monday 8th May at the Coronation celebrations in Cradley from 2 to 5pm.
Best wishes, Peter
🄵 Herefs: Ledbury, Homend Poets Was 28th March, rescheduled for Tuesday 4th April "Different Landscapes" ... Changes" Homend Poets webpage
Ø Shropshire: After a four year hiatus, the popular session at The Sun Inn in Clun has restarted, on the fourth Thursday of the month. All are welcome to come and play a tune, sing a song, join in with a chorus or just listen with a great pint in a great pub. Starts 8-ish. Trevor Hedges (3/2023)
🄵🅆 South-East
Ø Kent: Deal Folk Club has at last gone back live on the 1st & 3rd thursdays of each month 7.15pm at St Andrews Church Hall, West St CT14 6DZ. Info on www.dealfolkclub.org.uk. This won't affect the Friday Folk Zoom which is continuing every friday 7.30-10pm. Sue
Ø Shanty and Folk singaround session (free admission), 12noon to 3pm, The Horseshoe Inn, Melior Street, London SE1: Sunday 16th April, Sunday 21st May, Sunday 18th June
The HogEye Men will be singing to the public from the deck of The Golden Hinde (near Tower Bridge, London) during the afternoon of Wednesday 5th April.
Sea songs and shanties performed by the HogEye Men aboard the Cutty Sark between 11:45am and 2:30pm on Saturday 1st April and Saturday 3rd June as part of the Cutty Sark's Family Fun Days (entrance fee applicable).
As part of the Rochester Sweeps Festival the HogEye Men will be singing sea songs and shanties:-
in The Rising Sun, Rochester on Friday 28th April from 7:30pm on the Boley Hill Stage, the Eastgate Quarter Stage and then inside the Three Sheets to the Wind micropub on Monday 1st May.
On the evening of Friday 12th May, the HogEye Men will be performing in the Orpington Liberal Club, Folk Club.
On Saturday 20th May the HogEye Men will be performing at the Leigh-on-Sea Shanty Festival.
🄵 MOONRAKERS - Oxfordshire
Saturday 27th May !!ALBUM LAUNCH!! St Peter's Church, Upper WOLVERCOTE, OXFORD OX2 8AQ. Tickets available from www.ticketsoxford.com 01865 305305. £15 (also concessions) and on the door. Enquiries: 01865 769206.
Sunday 30th July WATERPERRY GARDENS, Oxfordshire, OX33 1JZ. 6.00pm Our annual Amphitheatre concert with tunes, strawberries and bad jokes! Early evening (6pm), bring a picnic for the extended interval (drinks available at the bar). Book ahead www.ticketsoxford.com 01865 305305, £20 (concessions available). Some tickets also available on the door.
🄵🅆 Alba
Ø Teviotdale Music Session on Zoom has stopped the Wednesday session but the weekly Monday session will carry on.
The 2nd Friday one with go back to old code (below) and go under the old name too, Teviotdale. This is just to clear it up and allow us to manage the attendance a bit better: Link to Teviotdale Music Session (2nd Friday)
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/72019462970?pwd=ck0xNGVYdVJpcG16RW5oZkNobXZXUT09
- Meeting ID: 860 4678 1202 - Passcode: music
Hopefully see you on a session soon. Thanks, Ray --- see below Directory Venues Zoom/Virtual
🄵 Single Shanty Big Sing
Dear Friends
Hoping you are in good voice!
8pm UK/ Ireland time. To join as singers/ audience and to get the event link (about 24 hours prior), pls email Linn direct or via https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/contact/. The next single-shanties/ dates will be:
- Big Sing 10 Rolling Home: 13 April, 8pm
- Big Sing 11 Fire down Below/ The Fireship, 8pm
And here is the link for our Shanty Big Sings website constructed by Jim. Take a look! more will be added! http://shantyman.dk/ShantyBigSings/. Youtube videos links are listed below for past BigSings.
Many thanks and see/ hear you soon!
Linn Phipps & Jim Lucas
Shanty Big Sing website http://shantyman.dk/ShantyBigSings/
Contact https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/contact/ (23/3/2023)
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🄵🅆 Festivals, Workshops Diary
For international (not based/organised from UK) see above under ⎈ INTERNATIONAL FOLK NEWS
Folklife 🄵 Members & ‡‡advertisers
- We will include revised listings for next (May) print magazine below, if received in good time.
- Adverts for next (May) issue, if received in good time, will placed on Festivals-Workshops Diary webpage when we get them.
Festival Adverts copied to webpage so far (others may need additional processing eg resizing but will be added when completed)
St Neots FF, June 9 - 11. New Forest FF, July 5 - 9. Beyond The Border, July 7 - 9. Priddy FF, July 7 - 9.
Cornwall FF, Aug 24 - 28. Bromyard FF, Sep 7 - 10.
🄵🄳 Folklife's online DIRECTORY - free entries for all, membership not required
🄵🄳 online FOLK DIRECTORY on www.folklife-directory.uk detailed listings, entries free to all, online-only so no deadlines
VENUES Venues Cymru Venues West Country Venues Midlands Venues South-East & East
Venues North Venues Alba Venues International Venues Zoom/Virtual
PERFORMERS Performers Cymru Performers South-West Performers Midlands
Performers South-East & East Performers North Performers Alba Performers International
AND ALSO: Media Services Workshop-Providers (forms on website pagesl)
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Venues West Country
🄵 1st, 3rd Wed Wilts HIGHWORTH WHITE HORSE FOLK CLUB www.facebook.com/whitehorsefolkclub/ Derrick Beer 01793 762070
→ St. Michael’s Church Room, Vicarage Lane, Highworth. 8.00pm
⊕ A small welcoming and diverse group of people who meet to sing and play. We have singarounds and guest nights and a wide
range of music is sung and played. Visitors most welcome. Contacts: Derrick (above); Geoff Davies 01793 706753. (new website 3/2023)
‡‡ Weekly Thu Glos GLOUCESTER FOLK CHOIR https://thefolkofgloucester.co.uk/events/ +447843241371
→ 99-103 Westgate Street, Gloucester, GL1 2PG. 7 p.m. till 8:30
⊕ Gloucester folk choir, a new community choir for the city of Gloucester. Run by experienced and playful leader Sorrel Wilde. Songs from a variety of traditions, open to all levels of singer. [added 18/3/2023]
🄵 3rd Thu Glos GLOUCESTER FOLK MUSIC & SONG SESSION https://thefolkofgloucester.co.uk/events/ Bill Taylor 07787 713758
→ The Folk of Gloucester, 99-101 Westgate Street, Gloucester, GL1 2PG. 12 noon till 3 p.m.
⇒ Robin Burton +447843241371; info<at>thefolkofgloucester.co.uk; Bill Taylor b111t<at>aol
⊕ Open to all singers and players. Informal sing around and music session. [updated 22/3/2023]
Venues South-East & East
🄵 2nd, 4th & 5th Tue Hants SOUTHAMPTON FOCSLE MUSIC http://www.focsle.org Paul Clarke
→ The Guide Dog, 38 Earls Rd, Bevois Valley, Southampton SO14 6SF [no mail to venues, pls.] 8pm.
⇒ Contact Paul Clarke, paul<at>focsle.org, and see website.
⊕ Also live 1st & 3rd Wed, see below.
Also on Zoom: Virtual FOCSLE Music, every Wed, 8pm UK, see Venues Zoom webpage.. (Updated Mar 2023)
🄵 1st & 3rd Wed Hants SOUTHAMPTON FOCSLE MUSIC http://www.focsle.org Paul Clarke
→ The Wellington Arms, 56 Park Road, Freemantle, Southampton SO15 3DE [no mail to venues, pls.] 8pm.
⇒ Contact Paul Clarke, paul<at>focsle.org,, and see website.
⊕ Also live 2nd, 4th & 5th Tue, see above.
Also on Zoom: Virtual FOCSLE Music, every Wed, 8pm UK, see Venues Zoom webpage.. (Updated Mar 2023)
Ø 1st & 3rd Thu Kent DEAL DEAL FOLK CLUB www.dealfolkclub.org.uk Sue 01-304-360877
→ St Andrews Church Hall, West St, Deal, CT14 6DZ. 7.15pm to 9.55pm.
⇒ Contact Sue on 01-304-360877, and see the website,
⊕ All are welcome, audience and performers alike, but it helps if you come prepared to join in the choruses! Normally one Singers Night and one guest night per month. Floor Singers always welcome. Traditional and contemporary folk songs predominate. (Updated Mar 2022)
Venues Zoom/Virtual
Ø 2nd Fridays. TEVIOTDALE ONLINE MUSIC SESSIONS (was Borders Online Music Session)
→ Opens from 7.30pm (GMT), music starts at 8pm, till 10pm.
⇒ DIRECT LINK https://us02web.zoom.us/j/72019462970?pwd=ck0xNGVYdVJpcG16RW5oZkNobXZXUT09
Meeting ID: 860 4678 1202 Passcode: music
⊕ The 2nd Friday of each month, and every Monday too. Singers and musicians of all abilities welcome. Ray.
(name, and code, revised 1/03/2023)
Performers Cymru
🄵 Cardiff DRAGON’S BREATH www.dragons-breath.co.uk Contact 07855 021272
⇒ enquiries<at>dragons-breath.co.uk. See also https://m.facebook.com/DragonsBreathGB
⊕ Offering a captivating treasury of songs and tunes, Dragons Breath celebrates the rich diversity of humanity from merriment to misery.
They have played for festivals, folk clubs, ceilidhs, weddings, fundraisers, street parties and back gardens throughout Wales and the borders.
[Mar 2023, new description]
Performers Midlands
🄵 Worcs ONEACHORD www.oneachord.co.uk Peter Warner 07811 953480
⇒ Please contact Peter by: email: peter<at>peterwarner.co.uk, phone or text: 07811 953480
⊕ New line up: Nick on drums, Tony on accordion, & Jenny on whistle and tenor sax join Sue on fiddle, Glynn on bass and Peter on guitar and vocals. (updated 3/2023)
Performers North
‡ Lancashire THE MIZZEN CREW https://www.TheMizzenCrew.org John Metcalfe 07971817651
⇒ TheMizzenCrew<at>gmail.com;
⊕ Keeping traditions alive through entertainment and education. Hailing from Lancashire & South Cumbria our crew bring a variety of vocal styles and material to sing traditional shanties and songs of working life on the water. The Mizzen Crew are proud to support the Morecambe RNLI Lifeboat Station. (revised Mar 2023)
Media
🄵 London & home counties FOLK LONDON https://folklondon.co.uk/
⇒ www.instagram.com/folklondonmag/; https://twitter.com/FolkLondonMag
⊕ Bi-monthly listings magazine covering folk music, dance and song events in London & home counties [updated 14/3/2023]
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We'd really like to include you in www.folklife-directory.uk
🄵🄳 online FOLK DIRECTORY on www.folklife-directory.uk detailed listings, entries free to all, online-only so no deadlines
VENUES Venues Cymru Venues West Country Venues Midlands Venues South-East & East
Venues North Venues Alba Venues International Venues Zoom/Virtual
PERFORMERS Performers Cymru Performers South-West Performers Midlands
Performers South-East & East Performers North Performers Alba Performers International
AND ALSO: Media Services Workshop-Providers (forms on website pagesl)
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Venues West Country
🄵 1st, 3rd Wed Wilts HIGHWORTH WHITE HORSE FOLK CLUB www.facebook.com/whitehorsefolkclub/ Derrick Beer 01793 762070
→ St. Michael’s Church Room, Vicarage Lane, Highworth. 8.00pm
⊕ A small welcoming and diverse group of people who meet to sing and play. We have singarounds and guest nights and a wide
range of music is sung and played. Visitors most welcome. Contacts: Derrick (above); Geoff Davies 01793 706753. (new website 3/2023)
‡‡ Weekly Thu Glos GLOUCESTER FOLK CHOIR https://thefolkofgloucester.co.uk/events/ +447843241371
→ 99-103 Westgate Street, Gloucester, GL1 2PG. 7 p.m. till 8:30
⊕ Gloucester folk choir, a new community choir for the city of Gloucester. Run by experienced and playful leader Sorrel Wilde. Songs from a variety of traditions, open to all levels of singer. [added 18/3/2023]
🄵 3rd Thu Glos GLOUCESTER FOLK MUSIC & SONG SESSION https://thefolkofgloucester.co.uk/events/ Bill Taylor 07787 713758
→ The Folk of Gloucester, 99-101 Westgate Street, Gloucester, GL1 2PG. 12 noon till 3 p.m.
⇒ Robin Burton +447843241371; info<at>thefolkofgloucester.co.uk; Bill Taylor b111t<at>aol
⊕ Open to all singers and players. Informal sing around and music session. [updated 22/3/2023]
Venues South-East & East
🄵 2nd, 4th & 5th Tue Hants SOUTHAMPTON FOCSLE MUSIC http://www.focsle.org Paul Clarke
→ The Guide Dog, 38 Earls Rd, Bevois Valley, Southampton SO14 6SF [no mail to venues, pls.] 8pm.
⇒ Contact Paul Clarke, paul<at>focsle.org, and see website.
⊕ Also live 1st & 3rd Wed, see below.
Also on Zoom: Virtual FOCSLE Music, every Wed, 8pm UK, see Venues Zoom webpage.. (Updated Mar 2023)
🄵 1st & 3rd Wed Hants SOUTHAMPTON FOCSLE MUSIC http://www.focsle.org Paul Clarke
→ The Wellington Arms, 56 Park Road, Freemantle, Southampton SO15 3DE [no mail to venues, pls.] 8pm.
⇒ Contact Paul Clarke, paul<at>focsle.org,, and see website.
⊕ Also live 2nd, 4th & 5th Tue, see above.
Also on Zoom: Virtual FOCSLE Music, every Wed, 8pm UK, see Venues Zoom webpage.. (Updated Mar 2023)
Ø 1st & 3rd Thu Kent DEAL DEAL FOLK CLUB www.dealfolkclub.org.uk Sue 01-304-360877
→ St Andrews Church Hall, West St, Deal, CT14 6DZ. 7.15pm to 9.55pm.
⇒ Contact Sue on 01-304-360877, and see the website,
⊕ All are welcome, audience and performers alike, but it helps if you come prepared to join in the choruses! Normally one Singers Night and one guest night per month. Floor Singers always welcome. Traditional and contemporary folk songs predominate. (Updated Mar 2022)
Venues Zoom/Virtual
Ø 2nd Fridays. TEVIOTDALE ONLINE MUSIC SESSIONS (was Borders Online Music Session)
→ Opens from 7.30pm (GMT), music starts at 8pm, till 10pm.
⇒ DIRECT LINK https://us02web.zoom.us/j/72019462970?pwd=ck0xNGVYdVJpcG16RW5oZkNobXZXUT09
Meeting ID: 860 4678 1202 Passcode: music
⊕ The 2nd Friday of each month, and every Monday too. Singers and musicians of all abilities welcome. Ray.
(name, and code, revised 1/03/2023)
Performers Cymru
🄵 Cardiff DRAGON’S BREATH www.dragons-breath.co.uk Contact 07855 021272
⇒ enquiries<at>dragons-breath.co.uk. See also https://m.facebook.com/DragonsBreathGB
⊕ Offering a captivating treasury of songs and tunes, Dragons Breath celebrates the rich diversity of humanity from merriment to misery.
They have played for festivals, folk clubs, ceilidhs, weddings, fundraisers, street parties and back gardens throughout Wales and the borders.
[Mar 2023, new description]
Performers Midlands
🄵 Worcs ONEACHORD www.oneachord.co.uk Peter Warner 07811 953480
⇒ Please contact Peter by: email: peter<at>peterwarner.co.uk, phone or text: 07811 953480
⊕ New line up: Nick on drums, Tony on accordion, & Jenny on whistle and tenor sax join Sue on fiddle, Glynn on bass and Peter on guitar and vocals. (updated 3/2023)
Performers North
‡ Lancashire THE MIZZEN CREW https://www.TheMizzenCrew.org John Metcalfe 07971817651
⇒ TheMizzenCrew<at>gmail.com;
⊕ Keeping traditions alive through entertainment and education. Hailing from Lancashire & South Cumbria our crew bring a variety of vocal styles and material to sing traditional shanties and songs of working life on the water. The Mizzen Crew are proud to support the Morecambe RNLI Lifeboat Station. (revised Mar 2023)
Media
🄵 London & home counties FOLK LONDON https://folklondon.co.uk/
⇒ www.instagram.com/folklondonmag/; https://twitter.com/FolkLondonMag
⊕ Bi-monthly listings magazine covering folk music, dance and song events in London & home counties [updated 14/3/2023]
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We'd really like to include you in www.folklife-directory.uk
- Live venues (concerts, clubs, sings, sessions), Zoom/Virtual sessions
- Performers (pro, semi-pro, amateur), • media • services • workshop organisers
- If involved in more than one folk activity, you can send in several entries.
- No deadline, send anytime, just fill in a form on the appropriate area page (that's quickest), or contact sam@folklife.uk, we can help draft listings for you.
- Detailed listings: we keep it simple - no logos, photos, no dates. See FW for Members' dates, incl. Festivals & Workshops Diary.
- And we would be very grateful if you could pass on this little note -- at your club, on Facebook, etc --
To avoid your email being spammed, we generally use <at> for @ -- except our own email, sam@folklife.uk which is a link.
🄵🅃🄹 Folklife Traditions Journal, www.folklife-traditions.uk
UPDATES - conferences, publications
‡‡ 3-5 March Traditional English Singers’ weekend [Live]
Will and Pippa Noble have found a fantastic venue to host a gathering of traditional singers from all over England: we are delighted to be able to welcome people to the Fire Service College at Moreton in Marsh for a weekend of singing. Accommodation is all ensuite and the venue has facilities to support people’s dietary and accessibility requirements. (However, there aren’t any facilities for camping, motorhomes or caravans.)
This is a chance to meet some of the country’s finest singers of songs learnt in their local community, in social groups where entertainment was home grown and unfiltered through technology. What a fine opportunity to share music and find inspiration!
Guests: Mossy Christian, The Coppers (3 generations, if we’re lucky), Jim & Lynette Eldon, John Greaves, Roger & James Hinchliffe , Viv & Vic Legg, Bob Lewis, Bill Murray, Will Noble, Jean and Tom Orchard, Jill Pidd, Doc Rowe, Ian Russell, Derek Schofield, Mike Tickell, John Waltham, Jeff Wesley.
Tickets: All inclusive weekend tickets, £320 (single occupancy), £240 (shared room)
Saturday only, non-residential ticket - events, lunch and dinner. £101
Contact tradsing23<at>gmail.com for more details and to book.
🄵 Saturday 18 March TASC - Annual General Meeting, [Live & online]
TASC isTraditional Arts Support in the Community, based in Mid Wales.
The AGM is being held 3pm int The Dragon Hotel, Market Square, Montgomery, Powys, Wales SY15 6PA
There is also an option to join the meeting online - if you wish to do this, contact info<at>tradartsupport.org.uk
Following the meeting, we will be having a music session in the bar - it would be lovely to see some of you there. The session will finish at 6pm.
www.tradartsupport.org.uk
🄵 Saturday 13 May TSF Spring Conference 2023
Venue: Gloucestershire Heritage Hub, Alvin Street, Gloucester, GL1 3DW
As usual for our conferences, we invite speakers on a very wide range of topics of interest to traditional song research – including the songs, tunes, singers, styles, collectors, and contexts, plus associated genres such as broadsides, music hall, and other related aspects of popular culture. If your topic is something which traditional song researchers need to take into account, we would like to hear from you. Our focus is on Britain and Ireland, and other countries with strong connections to these islands.
This will be an in-person gathering, with some form of remote access – either by live streaming or recording for online viewing. Online speakers might be asked to pre-record their presentations (assistance will be provided).
The TSF has a bursary scheme, by which financial help is offered to enable younger researchers (under 30) to attend our events. Please contact martinrgraebe<at>gmail.com for details.
Papers should be 20 minutes, with 10 minutes question / discussion time.
Please send a short abstract and biography to: steveroud<at>gmail.com. Other enquires to the same address.
Closing date for submissions: 20th March 2023
🄵 ROUD INDEXES ONLINE - important iånformation
The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library is upgrading their system, so new versions of my indexes (including the Broadside Index and Register of Printers) will not be implemented online in the near future.
Version 123 (issued Aug 2022) will continue to be available, but the current issue 124, and further updates, will not appear until the new system is in place.
Anyone who needs to stay completely up-to-date is advised to use my ‘download for home-use’ facility. Contact me for information on this.
Steve Roud (steveroud<at>gmail.com)
‡‡ 3-5 March Traditional English Singers’ weekend [Live]
Will and Pippa Noble have found a fantastic venue to host a gathering of traditional singers from all over England: we are delighted to be able to welcome people to the Fire Service College at Moreton in Marsh for a weekend of singing. Accommodation is all ensuite and the venue has facilities to support people’s dietary and accessibility requirements. (However, there aren’t any facilities for camping, motorhomes or caravans.)
This is a chance to meet some of the country’s finest singers of songs learnt in their local community, in social groups where entertainment was home grown and unfiltered through technology. What a fine opportunity to share music and find inspiration!
Guests: Mossy Christian, The Coppers (3 generations, if we’re lucky), Jim & Lynette Eldon, John Greaves, Roger & James Hinchliffe , Viv & Vic Legg, Bob Lewis, Bill Murray, Will Noble, Jean and Tom Orchard, Jill Pidd, Doc Rowe, Ian Russell, Derek Schofield, Mike Tickell, John Waltham, Jeff Wesley.
Tickets: All inclusive weekend tickets, £320 (single occupancy), £240 (shared room)
Saturday only, non-residential ticket - events, lunch and dinner. £101
Contact tradsing23<at>gmail.com for more details and to book.
🄵 Saturday 18 March TASC - Annual General Meeting, [Live & online]
TASC isTraditional Arts Support in the Community, based in Mid Wales.
The AGM is being held 3pm int The Dragon Hotel, Market Square, Montgomery, Powys, Wales SY15 6PA
There is also an option to join the meeting online - if you wish to do this, contact info<at>tradartsupport.org.uk
Following the meeting, we will be having a music session in the bar - it would be lovely to see some of you there. The session will finish at 6pm.
www.tradartsupport.org.uk
🄵 Saturday 13 May TSF Spring Conference 2023
Venue: Gloucestershire Heritage Hub, Alvin Street, Gloucester, GL1 3DW
As usual for our conferences, we invite speakers on a very wide range of topics of interest to traditional song research – including the songs, tunes, singers, styles, collectors, and contexts, plus associated genres such as broadsides, music hall, and other related aspects of popular culture. If your topic is something which traditional song researchers need to take into account, we would like to hear from you. Our focus is on Britain and Ireland, and other countries with strong connections to these islands.
This will be an in-person gathering, with some form of remote access – either by live streaming or recording for online viewing. Online speakers might be asked to pre-record their presentations (assistance will be provided).
The TSF has a bursary scheme, by which financial help is offered to enable younger researchers (under 30) to attend our events. Please contact martinrgraebe<at>gmail.com for details.
Papers should be 20 minutes, with 10 minutes question / discussion time.
Please send a short abstract and biography to: steveroud<at>gmail.com. Other enquires to the same address.
Closing date for submissions: 20th March 2023
🄵 ROUD INDEXES ONLINE - important iånformation
The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library is upgrading their system, so new versions of my indexes (including the Broadside Index and Register of Printers) will not be implemented online in the near future.
Version 123 (issued Aug 2022) will continue to be available, but the current issue 124, and further updates, will not appear until the new system is in place.
Anyone who needs to stay completely up-to-date is advised to use my ‘download for home-use’ facility. Contact me for information on this.
Steve Roud (steveroud<at>gmail.com)
⎈ INTERNATIONAL FOLK NEWS -- online only, open to all non-UK on our mailing list
On www.folklife.uk/world.html Open to all International (non-UK) readers on this mailing list
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USA - NY (live & Zoom)
ØØ Golden Link Folk Singing Society of Greater Rochester, NY has resumed in-person weekly singarounds on Tuesday evenings, 7:30 pm EST, at Greece Baptist Church, 1230 Long Pond Rd., Rochester, NY 14626. Free, everyone welcome.
Zoom online weekly singarounds on Sundays at 2:00-4:00 pm EST.
For info & links, Home - Golden Link Folk Singing Society [https://www.goldenlink.org] click on "singarounds" on the left column. [new, Jan 2023]
USA - MA (Zoom)
Ø Live From The Mermaid’s Tavern - on Zoom.
2023 schedule: Sessions on 1st and 3rd Sundays, 2-4pm ET. Special events as the occasion requires.
FOLK FESTIVALS international (not based/organised from UK), live & virtual & both
USA
ØØ 2023 March 10 - 12, SPRING HARMONY ONLINE 2023
⌂ Registration now open via https://www.sffmc.org/spring-harmony-online-2023/⊕ Friday afternoon through Sunday. The San Francisco Folk Music Club is happy to announce the third year of our annual online spring gathering to share music and friendship. Starting on the afternoon (Pacific time) of Friday, March 10th, the weekend will unfold with scheduled workshops, open mics—including a morning-in-California international-friendly one—and unscheduled online spaces for spontaneous interactions. Registration for Spring Harmony is free.
ØØ 2023 tba (typically Sept: weekend after Labor Day) TURTLE HILL FOLK FESTIVAL www.facebook.com/groups/421972757869566/
→ NY, RUSH. Rotary Sunshine Campus, 809 Five Points Road, RUSH , NY 14543, USA
⌂ Visit www.goldenlink.org for complete festival information, and to purchase tickets
⊕ The Turtle Hill Folk Festival, is an annual event presented by the Golden Link Folk Singing Society. The festival features evening concerts, late night singarounds, afternoon workshops, informal jam sessions. The audience not only gets to see the performers on stage, but also interact with them during workshops and small presentations during the day on Saturday. Rough camping is available, or you can reserve a bed in the rustic, heated bunkhouses. [new, Jan 2023]
ØØ 2023 Sep 29 - Oct 2 FSGW GETAWAY https://fsgw.org/getaway
→MD, near Annapolis. West River United Methodist Center.
⌂ Registration is not yet open, but we would appreciate knowing if you are interested in coming and what workshops you would like to see available by sending an e-mail to getawaychair<at>fsgw.org.
⊕ After a 3-year hiatus, the Folklore Society of Greater Washington's 58th Getaway is returning, in person.
The Getaway is a weekend-long party of folks who love to sing, play and listen to folk music in a lovely riverside retreat. At the Getaway, we make, learn, and share music with friends, old and new. Participation is encouraged at any level comfortable to you in a supportive and welcoming environment. For more than half a century, workshops, sign-up concerts, and casual sing-arounds have filled the Getaway, along with conversation and laughter. Come and be a part of the fun!
Pricing will be confirmed once we have a better idea of attendance. The price for 2 nights will be in the range of $220-$345 depending on the number of attendees. The third night would be about $55.
Please help us out by spreading the word! We are a community with a shared belief in the power and importance of preserving the living traditions of music and we know that each generation must rely on the next to continue and enhance this heritage. We hope that we can with your help reach out to a broader crowd of multi-generational peers in the folk tradition who may not know of the Getaway. Folks of all ages and orientations are most welcome to join us! [Feb 2023]
On www.folklife.uk/world.html Open to all International (non-UK) readers on this mailing list
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USA - NY (live & Zoom)
ØØ Golden Link Folk Singing Society of Greater Rochester, NY has resumed in-person weekly singarounds on Tuesday evenings, 7:30 pm EST, at Greece Baptist Church, 1230 Long Pond Rd., Rochester, NY 14626. Free, everyone welcome.
Zoom online weekly singarounds on Sundays at 2:00-4:00 pm EST.
For info & links, Home - Golden Link Folk Singing Society [https://www.goldenlink.org] click on "singarounds" on the left column. [new, Jan 2023]
USA - MA (Zoom)
Ø Live From The Mermaid’s Tavern - on Zoom.
2023 schedule: Sessions on 1st and 3rd Sundays, 2-4pm ET. Special events as the occasion requires.
- Sunday, March 5: Ballad Sing
- Sunday, March 19: Saint Patrick's Day Sing
- Sunday, April 2: Ballad Sing
- Sunday, April 16: Chantey and Tavern Sing
FOLK FESTIVALS international (not based/organised from UK), live & virtual & both
USA
ØØ 2023 March 10 - 12, SPRING HARMONY ONLINE 2023
⌂ Registration now open via https://www.sffmc.org/spring-harmony-online-2023/⊕ Friday afternoon through Sunday. The San Francisco Folk Music Club is happy to announce the third year of our annual online spring gathering to share music and friendship. Starting on the afternoon (Pacific time) of Friday, March 10th, the weekend will unfold with scheduled workshops, open mics—including a morning-in-California international-friendly one—and unscheduled online spaces for spontaneous interactions. Registration for Spring Harmony is free.
ØØ 2023 tba (typically Sept: weekend after Labor Day) TURTLE HILL FOLK FESTIVAL www.facebook.com/groups/421972757869566/
→ NY, RUSH. Rotary Sunshine Campus, 809 Five Points Road, RUSH , NY 14543, USA
⌂ Visit www.goldenlink.org for complete festival information, and to purchase tickets
⊕ The Turtle Hill Folk Festival, is an annual event presented by the Golden Link Folk Singing Society. The festival features evening concerts, late night singarounds, afternoon workshops, informal jam sessions. The audience not only gets to see the performers on stage, but also interact with them during workshops and small presentations during the day on Saturday. Rough camping is available, or you can reserve a bed in the rustic, heated bunkhouses. [new, Jan 2023]
ØØ 2023 Sep 29 - Oct 2 FSGW GETAWAY https://fsgw.org/getaway
→MD, near Annapolis. West River United Methodist Center.
⌂ Registration is not yet open, but we would appreciate knowing if you are interested in coming and what workshops you would like to see available by sending an e-mail to getawaychair<at>fsgw.org.
⊕ After a 3-year hiatus, the Folklore Society of Greater Washington's 58th Getaway is returning, in person.
The Getaway is a weekend-long party of folks who love to sing, play and listen to folk music in a lovely riverside retreat. At the Getaway, we make, learn, and share music with friends, old and new. Participation is encouraged at any level comfortable to you in a supportive and welcoming environment. For more than half a century, workshops, sign-up concerts, and casual sing-arounds have filled the Getaway, along with conversation and laughter. Come and be a part of the fun!
Pricing will be confirmed once we have a better idea of attendance. The price for 2 nights will be in the range of $220-$345 depending on the number of attendees. The third night would be about $55.
Please help us out by spreading the word! We are a community with a shared belief in the power and importance of preserving the living traditions of music and we know that each generation must rely on the next to continue and enhance this heritage. We hope that we can with your help reach out to a broader crowd of multi-generational peers in the folk tradition who may not know of the Getaway. Folks of all ages and orientations are most welcome to join us! [Feb 2023]
We are sorry to have to report the death of LES BARKER.
Please see Jacey's tribute on https://www.jacey-bedford.com/LesBarker.html "POETRY & BANANAS to the NOBILITY" Left: Les's calling card, 1969 (no home phone in those days!) when we were selling his early poetry booklets at our former 'Book End Folk Books' in Dawley, Shropshire. The only person who has asked for Folklife magazine to be delivered to his coat pocket as his hands were full! - at the National Eisteddfod Ffylantin-Tw! book launch - he learnt Welsh and produced Dogn - a book of Welsh-language poems, some even following classic Welsh poetic conventions. A truly talented and lovely man. Please read Jacey's tribute. - Sam |
🄵🅆 Folklife Members' UK FOLK NEWS, online updates to print pages copied to this site.
We are "Folklife West", so most entries from West, but Members' News welcome from everywhere!
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🄵🅆 West Country
Kesskrifer: Kernow. Thanks to David Harley for being Acting Cornwall Correspondent for the January issue, following Nigel Morson who has retired from this role. We're delighted to announce that Lamorna Spry will become our new Correspondent.
Lamorna is a Trustee of Cornwall Heritage Trust. In 2013, she was awarded an MA in Cornish Studies.
🄵 ROB BARRATT comic poet . New dates
April 29th, Lambeage Village Hall, Coverack, The Lizard, Cornwall 7.30pm
June 2nd, Hadleigh Folk and Acoustic Nights, The Ansell Centre, Hadleigh, Suffolk. 8pm
June 3rd, The Two Sisters Arts Centre, High Road, Trimley St Mary, Suffolk. IP11 0SP
June 15th, St Mawes Memorial Hall, Cornwall. 7.30pm
September 8th to 10th, Swanage Folk Festival, Swanage, Dorset.
October 27th to 29th, Fleurieu Folk Festival, Willunga, near Adelaide, South Australia
November 3rd to 6th, Maldon Folk Festival, Maldon, Victoria, Australia
Rob Barratt ®, 01566 880336, rbarratt<at>cooptel.net
For more information, see: www.robbarratt.co.uk
🄵 TEIGNMOUTH FOLK CLUB
Martyn Hillstead writes:
Hi Sam
Teignmouth Folk Club is now based at The Brass, Hollands Road, Teignmouth. First Monday of the month. 8pm. Free admission. Details from Martyn Hillstead 07904037812, martyngh<at>aol.com, or follow on Facebook. [change of day from last Thursdays; Feb 2023]
🄵 CHELTENHAM FOLK CLUB, Glos, is now most 2nd, 4th Mondays. See DIRECTORY UPDATES below.
Next 2 dates, both at Sandford Park Alehouse, High Street. Please note the new starting time **8pm**
-- Monday March 27 at 8pm, Open Night with lots more time for your floor spots
-- Monday April 24 at 8pm, Ian Harvey and Jan Vaisey return with their gorgeous strings and vocals.
Venue, and times, may vary for some future dates, please check. Some open nights for more floor spots, some guest nights. All welcome. Prices vary according to guest/open night. Cash only. Do join our mailing list — just email machteltje<at>gmail.com to keep up to date with current situation ( ¶ venue & ** times may vary), and/or check on GlosFolk facebook (and on this page).
Chris Beaumont 01242 571185; or Judith 01242 577506, machteltje<at>gmail.com www.cheltenhamfc.org.uk (updated 23/2/2023)
🄵 From Bill Taylor:
Third Thursday Folk Song & Music Session at the Folk of Gloucester 12-3pm. The Folk Of Gloucester https://thefolkofgloucester.co.uk/ Details see Directory below. [new listing, Jan 2023]
🄵 FOREST OF DEAN FOLK CLUB
Our website is now updated til June with dates and events:
Sunday March 5th Lauford Cripps
Sunday March 19th Singers Night
Sunday April 2nd Daria Kulesh
Sunday April 16th Singers Night
Sunday May 7th The Lost Trades
Sunday May 21st Singers Night
Sunday June 4th Johnny Coppin
Sunday June 18th Singers Night
For details see https://forestfolkclub.com
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🄵🅆 Midlands
🄵 HOBGOBLIN BIRMINGHAM
Mark writes: We have moved premises, only 10 doors down from our old unit. Our new address is;
Hobgoblin Music, 40 Priory Queensway, Birmingham B4 7LA.
Revised listing see Directory Updates below [Jan 2023]
🄵 TRADITIONAL ARTS TEAM
from Pam Bishop:
1. Sunday -- West Midlands: the Scandi music sessions are now at the Prince of Wales pub, Alcester Road, Birmingham B13 8EE
2. Birmingham MOSELEY POLITICAL SONG SESSION which was online on 2nd Wednesdays is now back as a live event.
Now on the 2nd Thursday of each month at the Warehouse Café, 54-57 Allison St, Birmingham B5 5TH at 7:30
3. Thursday -- Moseley Village Band, new link** https://tradartsteam.co.uk/our-events/events-by-partners-and-friends/
4. Saturday --- Worcs --- Alcester French Dance and Music, new link** https://tradartsteam.co.uk/our-events/events-by-partners-and-friends/
New links** The Team has a revised website - still https://tradartsteam.co.uk/ but some links have changed - 3. and 4. above.
🄵 The HOMEND POETS & MUSICIANS: Tuesday 28th February, Theme: “Love and Hate"
At Pot & Page Cafe. (01531 248743), https://www.facebook.com/PotAndPage, 8 New Street, Ledbury Herefordshire HR8 2DX.
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm., Contact Nick Halligan 01684 563281 Email nickh2009<at>btinternet.com, but phone preferred.
Homend Poets webpage (it's on this site!)
🄵 FOLK AT THE FALCON ... is now FOLK IN THE FOYER, Bromyard, Herefs. 2nd Fridays.
Organiser Roger Pugh writes:
Hi folks, we are moving from the Falcon Hotel, back to the Conquest Theatre, from where we started out.
Friday March 10th sees our first concert back at our old home! Main guest Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne, plus the Wychbury Band as special guests (support) at 8.00p.m, probably be in the main auditorium. Tickets on sale, details https://conquest-theatre.co.uk
Next, April 14th, The Roving Crows, tickets £12.00. No support, apart from Roger Pugh’s 20 minute slot to get things going. Tickets see website above for details. This one will definitely be in the theatre's main auditorium and will also start at 8.00pm.
As a one-off after that, on Friday May 12th we'll be back at the Falcon Hotel (the Conquest have a production that weekend), guests Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, with John Bloor and Phil Marshall as special guests.
We'll then be back for a regular monthly slot at the Conquest Theatre, 2nd Friday of every month (except September, but we'll let you know about that nearer the time)
We hope you are not too confused about these changes. If you have any queries, please contact Roger at pugh@live.co.uk.
https://folkatthefalcon.com/
🄵 Session at the Pheasant, Worcester
From Frank Jolley <martin001745<at>gmail.com>
Hi all.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I’ve just learnt that the Pheasant closed for business yesterday, so our sessions are cancelled until further notice.
I’ll be looking for a new venue again.
Best wishes
Frank [3 Feb 2023]
🄵 Two new CD’s from Eric and Eileen Payne: ‘Reflections’ and ‘Ancestors.’
A collection of original Folk songs woven in tale, rhyme and harmony of many colours and different shades.
Including instrumental support from Andy Casserley, Julia Davies and Malcolm Myatt.
CD’s are £10 each or £18 for both. All proceeds in aid of ‘Crisis’ the national charity in support of the homeless.
Further details can be found at www.ericpaynefolksongs.co.uk.
To order contact Eric + Eileen at eric_payne<at>btinternet.com [Feb 2023]
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🄵🅆 South-East
🄵 MOONRAKERS concerts 2023
Dear Friends,
Saturday 25th March St Mary’s Church, CHILDREY, Oxon, OX12 9PQ. A return to this beautiful old church in Sarah’s home village. 7.30pm. Bar provided. £14 in advance or on the door. 0795 1065 141 or email stmaryschildreypcc@gmail.com
Saturday 29 April St Michael’s & All Angels Church, POULTON, Nr. Cirencester, GL7 5HX. 7.30pm £12 on the door. Enquiries: 01285 851309.
Saturday 27th May !!ALBUM LAUNCH!! St Peter’s Church, Upper WOLVERCOTE, Oxford OX2 8AQ. Moonrakers new album, “Green to Gold” is out, and this is our big launch event! A large spacious church near Oxford. Refreshments and café. Tickets available from www.ticketsoxford.com 01865 305305. £15 (also concessions) and on the door. Enquiries: 01865 769206.
Monday 29th May THE ENGLISH MUSIC FESTIVAL. All Saints Church, Sutton Courtenay, OX14 4NJ. This prestigious annual festival is mainly classical music, but they occasionally branch out - we’re the branch! Note that it’s an afternoon performance. 2:15pm. Tickets £22.50 from The English Music Festival | 2023 May Festival | BOX OFFICE
Follow our Facebook page for instant updates, news, pictures and videos. Go to Moonrakers | Facebook and click “follow”.
There will be more....
Keep well,
Jon, Jacqui, Becki & Sarah
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🄵🅆 Alba•Scotland
Dear Friends
Hoping you are in good voice!
Our next online Shanty Big Sings, when we look forward to you joining us to share / hear versions of the songs. To join as singers/ audience and to get the event link (about 24 hours prior), pls email Linn direct or via https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/contact/. The next single-shanties/ dates will be:
And here is the link for our Shanty Big Sings website constructed by Jim. Take a look! more will be added! http://shantyman.dk/ShantyBigSings/.
Many thanks and see/ hear you soon!
Linn Phipps & Jim Lucas
Shanty Big Sing website http://shantyman.dk/ShantyBigSings/
Contact https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/contact/
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🄵🅆 Festivals, Workshops Diary
For international (not based/organised from UK) see above under ⎈ INTERNATIONAL FOLK NEWS
🄵 2023 May 5 - 8 TREDEGAR HOUSE FOLK FESTIVAL www.tredegarhousefestival.org.uk
→ NEWPORT. Tredegar House & Country Park, Newport, Gwent NP10 8YW. South Wales
⌂ TREDEGAR HOUSE FOLK FESTIVAL; for further details, contact: Sue Oates, susieoates135hotmail.com, 01633 246241
⊕ A weekend of international dance, music, and song. Four great days! 4 top acts per concert. Headliners include: Barbara Dickson with Nick Holland, Kathryn Tickell and the Darkening, Merry Hell, The John Kelly Band, Alaw, Bob Fox, Jez Lowe and Julie Matthews.
Plus Llantrisant, Lyceum & Newport Folk Clubs, Real Ales, Farmers’ Market, Ceilidhs, Irish Session… Workshops + Open Mics + brilliant crafts people + and lots, lots more! Plus! The finest, most colourful Welsh, UK & international folk dance teams you’ll ever see gathered in one place in the British Isles. ® Sue Oates [Feb 2023]
🄵 2023 Jun 24 - 25 TEIGNMOUTH FOLK FESTIVAL WEEKEND www.teignmouthfolk.co.uk (date now confirmed)
⌂ Contact: Anne Gill, anne.m.gill<at>icloud.com 01803 290427
⊕ We are only holding a weekend of dance and no concerts or Ceilidh and changing the date as it clashes with Falmouth Shanty Festival.
‡‡ 2023 July 5 - 9 July 2023 NEW FOREST FOLK FESTIVAL https://www.newforestfolkfestival.co.uk
→ Plaitford near Romsey, on the edge of the New Forest. Address - Powells Farm, Salisbury Road, Plaitford, Romsey, Hants, SO51 6EE
⌂ A4 advert received, placed on Festivals-Workshops Diary webpage.
We are "Folklife West", so most entries from West, but Members' News welcome from everywhere!
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🄵🅆 West Country
Kesskrifer: Kernow. Thanks to David Harley for being Acting Cornwall Correspondent for the January issue, following Nigel Morson who has retired from this role. We're delighted to announce that Lamorna Spry will become our new Correspondent.
Lamorna is a Trustee of Cornwall Heritage Trust. In 2013, she was awarded an MA in Cornish Studies.
🄵 ROB BARRATT comic poet . New dates
April 29th, Lambeage Village Hall, Coverack, The Lizard, Cornwall 7.30pm
June 2nd, Hadleigh Folk and Acoustic Nights, The Ansell Centre, Hadleigh, Suffolk. 8pm
June 3rd, The Two Sisters Arts Centre, High Road, Trimley St Mary, Suffolk. IP11 0SP
June 15th, St Mawes Memorial Hall, Cornwall. 7.30pm
September 8th to 10th, Swanage Folk Festival, Swanage, Dorset.
October 27th to 29th, Fleurieu Folk Festival, Willunga, near Adelaide, South Australia
November 3rd to 6th, Maldon Folk Festival, Maldon, Victoria, Australia
Rob Barratt ®, 01566 880336, rbarratt<at>cooptel.net
For more information, see: www.robbarratt.co.uk
🄵 TEIGNMOUTH FOLK CLUB
Martyn Hillstead writes:
Hi Sam
Teignmouth Folk Club is now based at The Brass, Hollands Road, Teignmouth. First Monday of the month. 8pm. Free admission. Details from Martyn Hillstead 07904037812, martyngh<at>aol.com, or follow on Facebook. [change of day from last Thursdays; Feb 2023]
🄵 CHELTENHAM FOLK CLUB, Glos, is now most 2nd, 4th Mondays. See DIRECTORY UPDATES below.
Next 2 dates, both at Sandford Park Alehouse, High Street. Please note the new starting time **8pm**
-- Monday March 27 at 8pm, Open Night with lots more time for your floor spots
-- Monday April 24 at 8pm, Ian Harvey and Jan Vaisey return with their gorgeous strings and vocals.
Venue, and times, may vary for some future dates, please check. Some open nights for more floor spots, some guest nights. All welcome. Prices vary according to guest/open night. Cash only. Do join our mailing list — just email machteltje<at>gmail.com to keep up to date with current situation ( ¶ venue & ** times may vary), and/or check on GlosFolk facebook (and on this page).
Chris Beaumont 01242 571185; or Judith 01242 577506, machteltje<at>gmail.com www.cheltenhamfc.org.uk (updated 23/2/2023)
🄵 From Bill Taylor:
Third Thursday Folk Song & Music Session at the Folk of Gloucester 12-3pm. The Folk Of Gloucester https://thefolkofgloucester.co.uk/ Details see Directory below. [new listing, Jan 2023]
🄵 FOREST OF DEAN FOLK CLUB
Our website is now updated til June with dates and events:
Sunday March 5th Lauford Cripps
Sunday March 19th Singers Night
Sunday April 2nd Daria Kulesh
Sunday April 16th Singers Night
Sunday May 7th The Lost Trades
Sunday May 21st Singers Night
Sunday June 4th Johnny Coppin
Sunday June 18th Singers Night
For details see https://forestfolkclub.com
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🄵🅆 Midlands
🄵 HOBGOBLIN BIRMINGHAM
Mark writes: We have moved premises, only 10 doors down from our old unit. Our new address is;
Hobgoblin Music, 40 Priory Queensway, Birmingham B4 7LA.
Revised listing see Directory Updates below [Jan 2023]
🄵 TRADITIONAL ARTS TEAM
from Pam Bishop:
1. Sunday -- West Midlands: the Scandi music sessions are now at the Prince of Wales pub, Alcester Road, Birmingham B13 8EE
2. Birmingham MOSELEY POLITICAL SONG SESSION which was online on 2nd Wednesdays is now back as a live event.
Now on the 2nd Thursday of each month at the Warehouse Café, 54-57 Allison St, Birmingham B5 5TH at 7:30
3. Thursday -- Moseley Village Band, new link** https://tradartsteam.co.uk/our-events/events-by-partners-and-friends/
4. Saturday --- Worcs --- Alcester French Dance and Music, new link** https://tradartsteam.co.uk/our-events/events-by-partners-and-friends/
New links** The Team has a revised website - still https://tradartsteam.co.uk/ but some links have changed - 3. and 4. above.
🄵 The HOMEND POETS & MUSICIANS: Tuesday 28th February, Theme: “Love and Hate"
At Pot & Page Cafe. (01531 248743), https://www.facebook.com/PotAndPage, 8 New Street, Ledbury Herefordshire HR8 2DX.
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm., Contact Nick Halligan 01684 563281 Email nickh2009<at>btinternet.com, but phone preferred.
Homend Poets webpage (it's on this site!)
🄵 FOLK AT THE FALCON ... is now FOLK IN THE FOYER, Bromyard, Herefs. 2nd Fridays.
Organiser Roger Pugh writes:
Hi folks, we are moving from the Falcon Hotel, back to the Conquest Theatre, from where we started out.
Friday March 10th sees our first concert back at our old home! Main guest Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne, plus the Wychbury Band as special guests (support) at 8.00p.m, probably be in the main auditorium. Tickets on sale, details https://conquest-theatre.co.uk
Next, April 14th, The Roving Crows, tickets £12.00. No support, apart from Roger Pugh’s 20 minute slot to get things going. Tickets see website above for details. This one will definitely be in the theatre's main auditorium and will also start at 8.00pm.
As a one-off after that, on Friday May 12th we'll be back at the Falcon Hotel (the Conquest have a production that weekend), guests Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, with John Bloor and Phil Marshall as special guests.
We'll then be back for a regular monthly slot at the Conquest Theatre, 2nd Friday of every month (except September, but we'll let you know about that nearer the time)
We hope you are not too confused about these changes. If you have any queries, please contact Roger at pugh@live.co.uk.
https://folkatthefalcon.com/
🄵 Session at the Pheasant, Worcester
From Frank Jolley <martin001745<at>gmail.com>
Hi all.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I’ve just learnt that the Pheasant closed for business yesterday, so our sessions are cancelled until further notice.
I’ll be looking for a new venue again.
Best wishes
Frank [3 Feb 2023]
🄵 Two new CD’s from Eric and Eileen Payne: ‘Reflections’ and ‘Ancestors.’
A collection of original Folk songs woven in tale, rhyme and harmony of many colours and different shades.
Including instrumental support from Andy Casserley, Julia Davies and Malcolm Myatt.
CD’s are £10 each or £18 for both. All proceeds in aid of ‘Crisis’ the national charity in support of the homeless.
Further details can be found at www.ericpaynefolksongs.co.uk.
To order contact Eric + Eileen at eric_payne<at>btinternet.com [Feb 2023]
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🄵🅆 South-East
🄵 MOONRAKERS concerts 2023
Dear Friends,
Saturday 25th March St Mary’s Church, CHILDREY, Oxon, OX12 9PQ. A return to this beautiful old church in Sarah’s home village. 7.30pm. Bar provided. £14 in advance or on the door. 0795 1065 141 or email stmaryschildreypcc@gmail.com
Saturday 29 April St Michael’s & All Angels Church, POULTON, Nr. Cirencester, GL7 5HX. 7.30pm £12 on the door. Enquiries: 01285 851309.
Saturday 27th May !!ALBUM LAUNCH!! St Peter’s Church, Upper WOLVERCOTE, Oxford OX2 8AQ. Moonrakers new album, “Green to Gold” is out, and this is our big launch event! A large spacious church near Oxford. Refreshments and café. Tickets available from www.ticketsoxford.com 01865 305305. £15 (also concessions) and on the door. Enquiries: 01865 769206.
Monday 29th May THE ENGLISH MUSIC FESTIVAL. All Saints Church, Sutton Courtenay, OX14 4NJ. This prestigious annual festival is mainly classical music, but they occasionally branch out - we’re the branch! Note that it’s an afternoon performance. 2:15pm. Tickets £22.50 from The English Music Festival | 2023 May Festival | BOX OFFICE
Follow our Facebook page for instant updates, news, pictures and videos. Go to Moonrakers | Facebook and click “follow”.
There will be more....
Keep well,
Jon, Jacqui, Becki & Sarah
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🄵🅆 Alba•Scotland
Dear Friends
Hoping you are in good voice!
Our next online Shanty Big Sings, when we look forward to you joining us to share / hear versions of the songs. To join as singers/ audience and to get the event link (about 24 hours prior), pls email Linn direct or via https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/contact/. The next single-shanties/ dates will be:
- Big Sing 9: Blow the Man Down Thurs 23 March 2023
- Big Sing 10: Rolling Home: date tbc.
And here is the link for our Shanty Big Sings website constructed by Jim. Take a look! more will be added! http://shantyman.dk/ShantyBigSings/.
Many thanks and see/ hear you soon!
Linn Phipps & Jim Lucas
Shanty Big Sing website http://shantyman.dk/ShantyBigSings/
Contact https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/contact/
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🄵🅆 Festivals, Workshops Diary
For international (not based/organised from UK) see above under ⎈ INTERNATIONAL FOLK NEWS
🄵 2023 May 5 - 8 TREDEGAR HOUSE FOLK FESTIVAL www.tredegarhousefestival.org.uk
→ NEWPORT. Tredegar House & Country Park, Newport, Gwent NP10 8YW. South Wales
⌂ TREDEGAR HOUSE FOLK FESTIVAL; for further details, contact: Sue Oates, susieoates135hotmail.com, 01633 246241
⊕ A weekend of international dance, music, and song. Four great days! 4 top acts per concert. Headliners include: Barbara Dickson with Nick Holland, Kathryn Tickell and the Darkening, Merry Hell, The John Kelly Band, Alaw, Bob Fox, Jez Lowe and Julie Matthews.
Plus Llantrisant, Lyceum & Newport Folk Clubs, Real Ales, Farmers’ Market, Ceilidhs, Irish Session… Workshops + Open Mics + brilliant crafts people + and lots, lots more! Plus! The finest, most colourful Welsh, UK & international folk dance teams you’ll ever see gathered in one place in the British Isles. ® Sue Oates [Feb 2023]
🄵 2023 Jun 24 - 25 TEIGNMOUTH FOLK FESTIVAL WEEKEND www.teignmouthfolk.co.uk (date now confirmed)
⌂ Contact: Anne Gill, anne.m.gill<at>icloud.com 01803 290427
⊕ We are only holding a weekend of dance and no concerts or Ceilidh and changing the date as it clashes with Falmouth Shanty Festival.
‡‡ 2023 July 5 - 9 July 2023 NEW FOREST FOLK FESTIVAL https://www.newforestfolkfestival.co.uk
→ Plaitford near Romsey, on the edge of the New Forest. Address - Powells Farm, Salisbury Road, Plaitford, Romsey, Hants, SO51 6EE
⌂ A4 advert received, placed on Festivals-Workshops Diary webpage.
🄵🄳 Folklife's online DIRECTORY - free entries for all, membership not required
🄵🄳 online FOLK DIRECTORY on www.folklife-directory.uk detailed listings, entries free to all, online-only so no deadlines
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Venues Cymru De-Ddwyrain / South-East Glamorgan, Gwent
---------- TUESDAY / DYDD MAWRTH ---------------------
‡‡ 2nd Tue Monmouthshire ABERGAVENNY ABERGAVENNY FOLK CLUB (no website) Graham Harris 01873 852 108
→ The Hen & Chickens, Flannel Street, Abergavenny NP7 5EG. 7.30pm
⇒ grahamusk@btinternet.com
⊕ Purely acoustic, traditional and contemporary plus poetry, and or written verse. [new listing Dec 2022]
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Venues West Country
------------ Devon: MONDAY
🄵 1st Mon Devon TEIGNMOUTH TEIGNMOUTH FOLK CLUB www.facebook.com/groups/233792233306152?locale=en_GB Martyn Hillstead 01626 778071
→ The Brass, Hollands Road, Teignmouth. 8pm.
⇒ Details from Martyn Hillstead 07904037812, martyngh<at>aol.com, or follow on Facebook (link above).
⊕ Free admission, occasional guests. Singers and musicans are warmly welcomed. [change of day from last Thursdays; Feb 2023]
------------ Glos: MONDAY
🄵 Most 2nd, 4th Mondays Glos CHELTENHAM CHELTENHAM FOLK CLUB www.cheltenhamfc.org.uk
→ ¶ Sandford Park Alehouse, High Street. Venue might vary, check. Please note the new starting time **8pm**
⇒ Chris Beaumont 01242 571185; or Judith 01242 577506. machteltje<at>gmail.com
⊕ Some open nights for more floor spots, some guest nights. All welcome. Prices vary according to guest/open night. Cash only. Do join our mailing list — just email machteltje<at>gmail.com
So: please join mailing list machteltje<at>gmail.com to keep up to date with current situation ( ¶ venue & ** times may vary), and/or check on GlosFolk facebook (and on this page). (updated 23/2/2023)
------------- Glos: THURSDAY
🄵 3rd Thu Glos GLOUCESTER FOLK MUSIC & SONG SESSION https://thefolkofgloucester.co.uk/ Bill Taylor 07787 713758
→ The Folk of Gloucester, 99-101 Westgate Street, Gloucester, GL1 2PG. 12-3pm,
⇒ info<at>thefolkofgloucester.co.uk; Bill Taylor b111t<at>aol [2023 Jan, new entry]
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Venues Midlands
------------ SUNDAY: West Midlands county
🄵 2nd Sun, monthly Birmingham MOSELEY SCANDI MUSIC SESSIONS www.tradartsteam.co.uk Trad. Arts Team 0121 247 3856
→ Prince of Wales pub, Alcester Road, Birmingham B13 8EE. 2pm - 5pm
⇒ Traditional Arts Team, 19 Springfield Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham B14 7DU; info<at>tradartsteam.co.uk
⊕ Meet up and play a few Swedish and other Scandinavian tunes. All musicians welcome - more info and links to tunes via the ScandiBrum facebook page [2023 Feb, new venue]
------------ Worcs: MONDAY
🄵 VENUE CLOSED - NEW VENUE BEING SOUGHT 1st Mon Worcs MONDAY SESSION was AT THE PHEASANT , Worcester. Frank Jolley 07482 625877 martin001745<at>gmail.com [Feb 2023]
------------ WEDNESDAY: West Midlands county
Was 2nd Wed Birmingham POLITICAL SONG SESSION online is now live - See under Thursdays
------------ THURSDAY: West Midlands county
🄵 2nd,4th Thu Birmingham MOSELEY MOSELEY VILLAGE BAND https://tradartsteam.co.uk/our-events/events-by-partners-and-friends/ Trad. Arts Team 0121 443 5687
→ Post Office Rooms, 149-153 Alcester Road, B13 8JP. 7.30 - 9.15pm
⇒ Traditional Arts Team, 19 Springfield Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham B14 7DU. info<at>moseleyvillageband.org.uk
⊕ Lively traditional tunes in several parts, with occasional workshops. All musicians welcome. [2023 Feb, website changed]
🄵 2nd Thu Birmingham DIGBETH POLITICAL SONG SESSION www.tradartsteam.co.uk Trad. Arts Team 07946 718286
→ Warehouse Café, 54-57 Allison St, Birmingham B5 5TH, 7:30pm
⇒ Traditional Arts Team, 19 Springfield Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham B14 7DU; info<at>tradartsteam.co.uk
⊕ Come along, raise your voices, let the songs be heard, whether they were written yesterday or hundreds of years ago, let us learn from them and take heart from them. [change of day and now back live, 2023 Feb]
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🄵 Monthly Fri Herefs BROMYARD FOLK AT THE FALCON is now:
🄵 Monthly Fri Herefs BROMYARD FOLK IN THE FOYER https://folkatthefalcon.com Roger Pugh 01885 483425
→ The Conquest Theatre, Tenbury Road, Bromyard, Herefordshire HR7 4LL
⇒ e-mail: pugh<at>live.co.uk Landline: 01885 483425 Mob: 07779 694615 www.facebook.com/folkatthefalcon
⊕ Folk at the Falcon is a recently established folk and acoustic music evening which takes place in the atmospheric setting of the Falcon Mews. The Team bring you a selection of excellent local and national artists, monthly on a Friday. [new venue, Feb 2023]
------------- SATURDAY: Worcs
🄵 1st Sat Worcs ALVECHURCH ALVECHURCH FRENCH DANCE & MUSIC https://tradartsteam.co.uk/our-events/events-by-partners-and-friends/ Trad. Arts Team
→ Alvechurch Village Hall, Worcs B48 7JX, 2.30pm - 5pm
⇒ Traditional Arts Team, 19 Springfield Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham B14 7DU,
email alvechurchfrenchdance<at>gmail.com, website https://tradartsteam.co.uk/our-events/events-by-partners-and-friends/
⊕ Monthly traditional dance events. Come and enjoy a variety of traditional French dances, bourrées, polkas, mazurkas, valses, Breton, etc. All abilities of dancer and musician welcome, please bring £2 towards the cost of the hall. Please bring your own refreshments. [2023 Feb, new webpage]
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Venues International OUR FIRST OVERSEAS LIVE VENUES ! MORE WELCOME.
-------------- DAY VARIES USA ----------------------------------------------------------------
Ø Day Varies USA NY ROCHESTER GOLDEN LINK CONCERTS www.goldenlink.org 585-857-9265
→ Various addresses, usually Greece Baptist Church,1230 Long Pond Rd., Rochester, NY 14626. Check website.
. Times vary, see below ⊕ more details.
⇒ www.facebook.com/GoldenLinkFolk/, Email via www.goldenlink.org
⊕ Oct-May monthly concerts; several Members Showcase concerts per year; unique Potpourri Jam concerts (groups of musician in impromptu bands). [Jan 2023]
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Ø Weekly Tuesday USA NY ROCHESTER GOLDEN LINK SING AROUNDS www.goldenlink.org 585-857-9265
→ Parlor Room, Greece Baptist Church, 1230 Long Pond Rd., Rochester, NY 14626. 7:30 to 10pm EST
⇒ www.facebook.com/GoldenLinkFolk/, Email via www.goldenlink.org
⊕ Free, everyone welcome. Bring your voice, and instrument if desired, and non-alcoholic refreshments.
For info & links, Home - Golden Link Folk Singing Society click on "singarounds" on the left column. [Jan 2023]
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Venues Zoom/Virtual
SUNDAY
Ø Weekly Sunday. NY. ROCHESTER GOLDEN LINK ZOOM SING AROUNDS
→ 2:00-4:00 pm EST (so UK usually 7-9pm - Ed)
⇒ ZOOM LINK: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87586137865 Meeting ID: 875 8613 7865
⊕ For info & links, Home - Golden Link Folk Singing Society www.goldenlink.org click on "singarounds" on the left column. [Jan 2023]
FRIDAY
‡‡ Fortnightly Fridays. ‘PETE’S ALTERNATE FRIDAY SINGAROUND.’
→ 7-30pm UK time.
⇒ DIRECT LINK link is 87338821694 password 115009
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87338821694?pwd=UGJDMW1VcnhuOEtjdTV0RUE5ZGZTUT09
⊕ Small but perfectly formed! Join us if you feel like it, poets and musicians welcome as well as singers. Every fortnight, Pete Grassby.
[updated 17/1/2023]
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Services
S.7 SHOPS & OTHER SALES
Birmingham
🄵 HOBGOBLIN BIRMINGHAM https://hobgoblin.com/branches/birmingham Shop 0121 212 9010
⇒ Hobgoblin Music, 40 Priory Queensway, Birmingham B4 7LA. sales<at>hobgoblinbirmingham.co.uk
⊕ Hobgoblin Birmingham - Britain’s leading Folk and Traditional musical instrument shop based in the heart of Birmingham. Open 10am - 6pm, Monday - Saturday, 11am - 4pm Sunday. [moved, new address Jan 2023]
🄵🄳 online FOLK DIRECTORY on www.folklife-directory.uk detailed listings, entries free to all, online-only so no deadlines
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Venues Cymru De-Ddwyrain / South-East Glamorgan, Gwent
---------- TUESDAY / DYDD MAWRTH ---------------------
‡‡ 2nd Tue Monmouthshire ABERGAVENNY ABERGAVENNY FOLK CLUB (no website) Graham Harris 01873 852 108
→ The Hen & Chickens, Flannel Street, Abergavenny NP7 5EG. 7.30pm
⇒ grahamusk@btinternet.com
⊕ Purely acoustic, traditional and contemporary plus poetry, and or written verse. [new listing Dec 2022]
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Venues West Country
------------ Devon: MONDAY
🄵 1st Mon Devon TEIGNMOUTH TEIGNMOUTH FOLK CLUB www.facebook.com/groups/233792233306152?locale=en_GB Martyn Hillstead 01626 778071
→ The Brass, Hollands Road, Teignmouth. 8pm.
⇒ Details from Martyn Hillstead 07904037812, martyngh<at>aol.com, or follow on Facebook (link above).
⊕ Free admission, occasional guests. Singers and musicans are warmly welcomed. [change of day from last Thursdays; Feb 2023]
------------ Glos: MONDAY
🄵 Most 2nd, 4th Mondays Glos CHELTENHAM CHELTENHAM FOLK CLUB www.cheltenhamfc.org.uk
→ ¶ Sandford Park Alehouse, High Street. Venue might vary, check. Please note the new starting time **8pm**
⇒ Chris Beaumont 01242 571185; or Judith 01242 577506. machteltje<at>gmail.com
⊕ Some open nights for more floor spots, some guest nights. All welcome. Prices vary according to guest/open night. Cash only. Do join our mailing list — just email machteltje<at>gmail.com
So: please join mailing list machteltje<at>gmail.com to keep up to date with current situation ( ¶ venue & ** times may vary), and/or check on GlosFolk facebook (and on this page). (updated 23/2/2023)
------------- Glos: THURSDAY
🄵 3rd Thu Glos GLOUCESTER FOLK MUSIC & SONG SESSION https://thefolkofgloucester.co.uk/ Bill Taylor 07787 713758
→ The Folk of Gloucester, 99-101 Westgate Street, Gloucester, GL1 2PG. 12-3pm,
⇒ info<at>thefolkofgloucester.co.uk; Bill Taylor b111t<at>aol [2023 Jan, new entry]
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Venues Midlands
------------ SUNDAY: West Midlands county
🄵 2nd Sun, monthly Birmingham MOSELEY SCANDI MUSIC SESSIONS www.tradartsteam.co.uk Trad. Arts Team 0121 247 3856
→ Prince of Wales pub, Alcester Road, Birmingham B13 8EE. 2pm - 5pm
⇒ Traditional Arts Team, 19 Springfield Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham B14 7DU; info<at>tradartsteam.co.uk
⊕ Meet up and play a few Swedish and other Scandinavian tunes. All musicians welcome - more info and links to tunes via the ScandiBrum facebook page [2023 Feb, new venue]
------------ Worcs: MONDAY
🄵 VENUE CLOSED - NEW VENUE BEING SOUGHT 1st Mon Worcs MONDAY SESSION was AT THE PHEASANT , Worcester. Frank Jolley 07482 625877 martin001745<at>gmail.com [Feb 2023]
------------ WEDNESDAY: West Midlands county
Was 2nd Wed Birmingham POLITICAL SONG SESSION online is now live - See under Thursdays
------------ THURSDAY: West Midlands county
🄵 2nd,4th Thu Birmingham MOSELEY MOSELEY VILLAGE BAND https://tradartsteam.co.uk/our-events/events-by-partners-and-friends/ Trad. Arts Team 0121 443 5687
→ Post Office Rooms, 149-153 Alcester Road, B13 8JP. 7.30 - 9.15pm
⇒ Traditional Arts Team, 19 Springfield Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham B14 7DU. info<at>moseleyvillageband.org.uk
⊕ Lively traditional tunes in several parts, with occasional workshops. All musicians welcome. [2023 Feb, website changed]
🄵 2nd Thu Birmingham DIGBETH POLITICAL SONG SESSION www.tradartsteam.co.uk Trad. Arts Team 07946 718286
→ Warehouse Café, 54-57 Allison St, Birmingham B5 5TH, 7:30pm
⇒ Traditional Arts Team, 19 Springfield Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham B14 7DU; info<at>tradartsteam.co.uk
⊕ Come along, raise your voices, let the songs be heard, whether they were written yesterday or hundreds of years ago, let us learn from them and take heart from them. [change of day and now back live, 2023 Feb]
-------------- FRIDAY: Herefs --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
🄵 Monthly Fri Herefs BROMYARD FOLK AT THE FALCON is now:
🄵 Monthly Fri Herefs BROMYARD FOLK IN THE FOYER https://folkatthefalcon.com Roger Pugh 01885 483425
→ The Conquest Theatre, Tenbury Road, Bromyard, Herefordshire HR7 4LL
⇒ e-mail: pugh<at>live.co.uk Landline: 01885 483425 Mob: 07779 694615 www.facebook.com/folkatthefalcon
⊕ Folk at the Falcon is a recently established folk and acoustic music evening which takes place in the atmospheric setting of the Falcon Mews. The Team bring you a selection of excellent local and national artists, monthly on a Friday. [new venue, Feb 2023]
------------- SATURDAY: Worcs
🄵 1st Sat Worcs ALVECHURCH ALVECHURCH FRENCH DANCE & MUSIC https://tradartsteam.co.uk/our-events/events-by-partners-and-friends/ Trad. Arts Team
→ Alvechurch Village Hall, Worcs B48 7JX, 2.30pm - 5pm
⇒ Traditional Arts Team, 19 Springfield Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham B14 7DU,
email alvechurchfrenchdance<at>gmail.com, website https://tradartsteam.co.uk/our-events/events-by-partners-and-friends/
⊕ Monthly traditional dance events. Come and enjoy a variety of traditional French dances, bourrées, polkas, mazurkas, valses, Breton, etc. All abilities of dancer and musician welcome, please bring £2 towards the cost of the hall. Please bring your own refreshments. [2023 Feb, new webpage]
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Venues International OUR FIRST OVERSEAS LIVE VENUES ! MORE WELCOME.
-------------- DAY VARIES USA ----------------------------------------------------------------
Ø Day Varies USA NY ROCHESTER GOLDEN LINK CONCERTS www.goldenlink.org 585-857-9265
→ Various addresses, usually Greece Baptist Church,1230 Long Pond Rd., Rochester, NY 14626. Check website.
. Times vary, see below ⊕ more details.
⇒ www.facebook.com/GoldenLinkFolk/, Email via www.goldenlink.org
⊕ Oct-May monthly concerts; several Members Showcase concerts per year; unique Potpourri Jam concerts (groups of musician in impromptu bands). [Jan 2023]
-------------- TUESDAY USA -------------------------------------------------------------------
Ø Weekly Tuesday USA NY ROCHESTER GOLDEN LINK SING AROUNDS www.goldenlink.org 585-857-9265
→ Parlor Room, Greece Baptist Church, 1230 Long Pond Rd., Rochester, NY 14626. 7:30 to 10pm EST
⇒ www.facebook.com/GoldenLinkFolk/, Email via www.goldenlink.org
⊕ Free, everyone welcome. Bring your voice, and instrument if desired, and non-alcoholic refreshments.
For info & links, Home - Golden Link Folk Singing Society click on "singarounds" on the left column. [Jan 2023]
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Venues Zoom/Virtual
SUNDAY
Ø Weekly Sunday. NY. ROCHESTER GOLDEN LINK ZOOM SING AROUNDS
→ 2:00-4:00 pm EST (so UK usually 7-9pm - Ed)
⇒ ZOOM LINK: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87586137865 Meeting ID: 875 8613 7865
⊕ For info & links, Home - Golden Link Folk Singing Society www.goldenlink.org click on "singarounds" on the left column. [Jan 2023]
FRIDAY
‡‡ Fortnightly Fridays. ‘PETE’S ALTERNATE FRIDAY SINGAROUND.’
→ 7-30pm UK time.
⇒ DIRECT LINK link is 87338821694 password 115009
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87338821694?pwd=UGJDMW1VcnhuOEtjdTV0RUE5ZGZTUT09
⊕ Small but perfectly formed! Join us if you feel like it, poets and musicians welcome as well as singers. Every fortnight, Pete Grassby.
[updated 17/1/2023]
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Services
S.7 SHOPS & OTHER SALES
Birmingham
🄵 HOBGOBLIN BIRMINGHAM https://hobgoblin.com/branches/birmingham Shop 0121 212 9010
⇒ Hobgoblin Music, 40 Priory Queensway, Birmingham B4 7LA. sales<at>hobgoblinbirmingham.co.uk
⊕ Hobgoblin Birmingham - Britain’s leading Folk and Traditional musical instrument shop based in the heart of Birmingham. Open 10am - 6pm, Monday - Saturday, 11am - 4pm Sunday. [moved, new address Jan 2023]
Updates from Folklife, 13 January 2023
Dear ...............
FW & FTJ published 1 Jan 2023 . . . despite usual seasonal printers/postal closedown, + postal strikes, + builders at Folklife Towers! So, FW & FTJ to you on time, and now copied online; but our apologies because we are seriously behind with answering emails and with invoicing. We should be back to normal in a week or two. Sam
Folk News & Directory Listings 🄵 Folklife members. Ø Associate members, andl all international Updates-signups. 🄹 Journal subscriber.
Directory Listings (not Folk News) from above, plus ‡ other UK on our Updates email list
Dear ...............
FW & FTJ published 1 Jan 2023 . . . despite usual seasonal printers/postal closedown, + postal strikes, + builders at Folklife Towers! So, FW & FTJ to you on time, and now copied online; but our apologies because we are seriously behind with answering emails and with invoicing. We should be back to normal in a week or two. Sam
Folk News & Directory Listings 🄵 Folklife members. Ø Associate members, andl all international Updates-signups. 🄹 Journal subscriber.
Directory Listings (not Folk News) from above, plus ‡ other UK on our Updates email list
🄵🅃🄹 FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS JOURNAL, www.folklife-traditions.uk/
Our aims include stimulating a wider interest in folk studies & folk culture: researched articles + archive; free to read or download PDF. From Jan. 2023, FTJ now also available separately! Print Sub (£9/yr UK, 3 issues) most welcome.
See "This issue online" webpage (on the FTJ website) for articles: Two Black Crows by Colin Andrews • Manx Dance Tunes from the Mona Douglas Folk Dance Collection by Stephen Miller • The Stockton Sailor by Keith Gregson • Jockey to the Fair, Tune & Song by Charles Menteith • Johnny Cope by Roy & Lesley Adkins • Pitchcombe Carol Barking by Stephen Rowley. Books & recordings announced, Folklife Societies news. Seasonal Local Celebrations, list & photos, mostly by Doc Rowe.
UPDATES - conferences, publications - Send your Updates on "News: Folklife Traditions Journal" form on www.folklife.uk/send-news.html
🄵 Broadside Day conference 11th February 2023 - reminder from Steve Roud. The annual one-day conference on all aspects of street literature and cheap print, in-person and online. 11th February 2023, Cecil Sharp House, London. 9.45am – 5.00pm Full programme and tickets on sale at: https://www.efdss.org/whats-on/61-conferences/11946-broadside-day-2023 Organised jointly by the Traditional Song Forum and the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library.
🄵 Traditional Song Forum Song Conference 2023 provisional announcement from Steve Roud. Hot off the press – the Traditional Song Forum is planning a one-day in person conference in Gloucester, UK on 13th May 2023. There will also be some form of remote access, although this might be in the form of recordings rather than live streaming. We invite expressions of interest from potential contributors for 20-minute papers or presentations on topics relating to Folk Song research in Britain and Ireland and related societies. Contact: steveroud<at>gmail.com
Our aims include stimulating a wider interest in folk studies & folk culture: researched articles + archive; free to read or download PDF. From Jan. 2023, FTJ now also available separately! Print Sub (£9/yr UK, 3 issues) most welcome.
See "This issue online" webpage (on the FTJ website) for articles: Two Black Crows by Colin Andrews • Manx Dance Tunes from the Mona Douglas Folk Dance Collection by Stephen Miller • The Stockton Sailor by Keith Gregson • Jockey to the Fair, Tune & Song by Charles Menteith • Johnny Cope by Roy & Lesley Adkins • Pitchcombe Carol Barking by Stephen Rowley. Books & recordings announced, Folklife Societies news. Seasonal Local Celebrations, list & photos, mostly by Doc Rowe.
UPDATES - conferences, publications - Send your Updates on "News: Folklife Traditions Journal" form on www.folklife.uk/send-news.html
🄵 Broadside Day conference 11th February 2023 - reminder from Steve Roud. The annual one-day conference on all aspects of street literature and cheap print, in-person and online. 11th February 2023, Cecil Sharp House, London. 9.45am – 5.00pm Full programme and tickets on sale at: https://www.efdss.org/whats-on/61-conferences/11946-broadside-day-2023 Organised jointly by the Traditional Song Forum and the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library.
🄵 Traditional Song Forum Song Conference 2023 provisional announcement from Steve Roud. Hot off the press – the Traditional Song Forum is planning a one-day in person conference in Gloucester, UK on 13th May 2023. There will also be some form of remote access, although this might be in the form of recordings rather than live streaming. We invite expressions of interest from potential contributors for 20-minute papers or presentations on topics relating to Folk Song research in Britain and Ireland and related societies. Contact: steveroud<at>gmail.com
⎈ INTERNATIONAL FOLK NEWS online
"Send in your international folk news" form is on International news page, open to all non-UK on our Updates mailing list.
USA
Ø Live From The Mermaid’s Tavern - on Zoom. Sessions on first and third Sundays, special events as the occasion requires. Sunday sessions are:
January 22: Celebration of Robert Burns
February 5: Ballad Sing, 19: Chantey and Tavern Sing
March 5: Ballad Sing, 19: Saint Patrick's Day Sing
April 2: Ballad Sing, 16: Chantey and Tavern Sing
Join the mailing list at http://mailinglist.mermaidstavern.com
Australia
Ø From Bruce Watson
Dear friends
I am thrilled with my new album, Year of Wonders. It is available to download on Bandcamp.
You can listen/buy here: https://brucewatsonmusic.bandcamp.com
It was launched 13/12/2022 with a gala concert that was live at Ringwood, Melbourne, and on Zoom.
Cheers, Bruce
Brand new album: Year of Wonders, Bruce's website:
www.brucewatsonmusic.com, Facebook: www.facebook.com/brucewatsonmusic
"Send in your international folk news" form is on International news page, open to all non-UK on our Updates mailing list.
USA
Ø Live From The Mermaid’s Tavern - on Zoom. Sessions on first and third Sundays, special events as the occasion requires. Sunday sessions are:
January 22: Celebration of Robert Burns
February 5: Ballad Sing, 19: Chantey and Tavern Sing
March 5: Ballad Sing, 19: Saint Patrick's Day Sing
April 2: Ballad Sing, 16: Chantey and Tavern Sing
Join the mailing list at http://mailinglist.mermaidstavern.com
Australia
Ø From Bruce Watson
Dear friends
I am thrilled with my new album, Year of Wonders. It is available to download on Bandcamp.
You can listen/buy here: https://brucewatsonmusic.bandcamp.com
It was launched 13/12/2022 with a gala concert that was live at Ringwood, Melbourne, and on Zoom.
Cheers, Bruce
Brand new album: Year of Wonders, Bruce's website:
www.brucewatsonmusic.com, Facebook: www.facebook.com/brucewatsonmusic
🄵🅆 Folklife Members' UK FOLK NEWS:
online updates to print pages copied to this site "Send in your Folk News" form on www.folklife.uk/send-news.html
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🄵🅆 West Country (now includes former Cornwall, & Glos, webpages)
🄵 Monthly - 1st & 3rd Sun Glos COLEFORD FOREST FOLK CLUB www.forestfolkclub.com From Jan 2023 we have returned to our usual 1st & 3rd Sundays. Cash only on the door please, £8 for guest nights, £2 for Singers Nights. Details see our website, and Directory update below, and current Folklife West Glos pages.
🄵 2nd, 4th Mon Glos CHELTENHAM CHELTENHAM FOLK CLUB www.cheltenhamfc.org.uk Chris Beaumont 01242 571185. Here is a revised programme for this spring. All Mondays.
Jan 23 Cobblers Child — venue for this and subsequent nights tba
Feb 13 Blackthorn Buskers. March 27 Open Night. April 24 Ian Harvey and Jan Vaisey. May 15 Steve Andisaw.
More info to follow, Judith - and/or check on GlosFolk facebook Do join our mailing list — just email machteltje<at>gmail.com
🄵 X 1st Sat Glos STROUD's SUB ROOM CEILIDHS definitely not running, says Cresby.
🄵 An update from WHITE HORSE FOLK CLUB, St Michael’s Hall, Lechlade Road, Highworth SN6 7HQ.
1st & 3rd Wed, 7.30pm; occasional concerts, day varies.
White Horse Folk Club has been running for over 49 years and continues to flourish with several changes of venue. We are now in St. Michael’s Hall in Highworth and continue to attract a wide range of players and singers, guitars, ukuleles, dulcimer etc. We are also fortunate to have an excellent piano which is a big asset.
We have always tried to nurture and encourage members and make them feel welcome. At the present we do not have paid guests or concerts but hope to resume this at some time in the future.
Entry is £2.00 and we do not provide drinks, but feel free to bring your own. Doors open at 7.15 pm for a 7.30 pm start
We continue with a Zoom meeting on the 4th Wednesday of each month, this has proved popular with some of our supporters throughout the land. For info for Zoom please email whfczoom<at>gmail.com
Folk Club Information: Derrick Beer 01793 762070; Geoff Davies 01793 706753; www.whitehorsefolkclub.co.uk
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🄵🅆 Midlands (now includes former Herefs & Worcs webpage)
🄵 Worcs.-- My apologies to Mike Walton who updated me in good time, I copied info to online Directory but not to print. To clarify ~
1. Closed: two Tuesday sessions in Worcester, 1st Tues Cardinal's Hat & 2nd Tues Farriers Arms, did not resume after Covid.
2. Mondays: The Worcester Dragon Inn Irish session is now alternating Zoom and live sessions so each is fortnightly.
Details see DIRECTORY UPDATES below.
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🄵🅆 Alba
🄵 A Zoom Big Sing ---
Hi again everyone and here’s wishing you a very happy 2023.
The next and 7th Single-Shanty Big Sing is themed on Johnny come down to Hilo / Hilo family of shanties, and is on Thursday 19 January 8pm UK (5pm ET, noon PT, 9pm France). As usual all welcome to join to sing any version or to listen. Repeat versions, shanties in another language, parodies, solo, partner and small group singing, instrumental accompaniment and listeners all welcome. We understand that Shanties are of their time, however we ask that you avoid versions or verses that are significantly racist or misogynistic. If in doubt, check in with the singing group. If you haven’t already emailed to express your wish to sing / join as audience, please do! And if you have two versions to sing, so much the better! We’ll send out the zoom link to join on about 24 hours prior. To get the “Hilo” event link, pls email Linn direct or via https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/contact/
And here is the link for our brand new Shanty Sings website constructed by Jim. Take a look! More will be added!
http://shantyman.dk/ShantyBigSings/
So that everyone can think about reprising old and even learning new versions, we thought it would be helpful to list our plans for upcoming single-shanty sings: Hieland Laddie; Blow the Man Down; Rolling Home
Thanks and seasons greetings,
Linn Phipps & Jim Lucas
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🄵🅆 Festivals, Workshops
"Send in your Festival & Workshop Diary Listings" Members' form
is on Festivals, Workshops page
WORKSHOPS DIARY
🄵 2023 Feb 4 - 5 ANGLO CONCERTINA PLAYGROUP
→ Gloucester, Gloucestershire. The Folk, Westgate Street.
⌂ Stephen Rowley 07803052723 steve<at>artension.com
⊕ A gathering for absolute beginners and beginner/improvers on the Anglo Concertina. Some loan concertinas will be available for those who want to give it a try. £45. Sat lunchtime to Sunday lunchtime, 4th & 5th February. (new entry, Dec 2022)
FESTIVALS DIARY
🄵 2023 Feb 4 - 6 WHEATSTONE WEEKEND
→ Gloucester, Gloucestershire.
⌂ Stephen Rowley 07803052723 steve<at>artension.com
⊕ Gloucester celebrates the anniversary of Charles Wheatstone, born in Barnwood 6th February 1802. Inventor of the electric telegraph and the concertina.
Sat 4th and Sun 5th Feb Anglo Concertina Playgroup – The Folk, Westgate Street, Gloucester
Sat 4th Concertina Concert – Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne – The Folk, Westgate Street, Gloucester
Mon 6th Wheatstone Day – Talks, demonstrations and workshops, Wheatstone Hall, The Museum of Gloucester, Brunswick Road, Gloucester (new entry, Dec 2022)
online updates to print pages copied to this site "Send in your Folk News" form on www.folklife.uk/send-news.html
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🄵🅆 West Country (now includes former Cornwall, & Glos, webpages)
🄵 Monthly - 1st & 3rd Sun Glos COLEFORD FOREST FOLK CLUB www.forestfolkclub.com From Jan 2023 we have returned to our usual 1st & 3rd Sundays. Cash only on the door please, £8 for guest nights, £2 for Singers Nights. Details see our website, and Directory update below, and current Folklife West Glos pages.
🄵 2nd, 4th Mon Glos CHELTENHAM CHELTENHAM FOLK CLUB www.cheltenhamfc.org.uk Chris Beaumont 01242 571185. Here is a revised programme for this spring. All Mondays.
Jan 23 Cobblers Child — venue for this and subsequent nights tba
Feb 13 Blackthorn Buskers. March 27 Open Night. April 24 Ian Harvey and Jan Vaisey. May 15 Steve Andisaw.
More info to follow, Judith - and/or check on GlosFolk facebook Do join our mailing list — just email machteltje<at>gmail.com
🄵 X 1st Sat Glos STROUD's SUB ROOM CEILIDHS definitely not running, says Cresby.
🄵 An update from WHITE HORSE FOLK CLUB, St Michael’s Hall, Lechlade Road, Highworth SN6 7HQ.
1st & 3rd Wed, 7.30pm; occasional concerts, day varies.
White Horse Folk Club has been running for over 49 years and continues to flourish with several changes of venue. We are now in St. Michael’s Hall in Highworth and continue to attract a wide range of players and singers, guitars, ukuleles, dulcimer etc. We are also fortunate to have an excellent piano which is a big asset.
We have always tried to nurture and encourage members and make them feel welcome. At the present we do not have paid guests or concerts but hope to resume this at some time in the future.
Entry is £2.00 and we do not provide drinks, but feel free to bring your own. Doors open at 7.15 pm for a 7.30 pm start
We continue with a Zoom meeting on the 4th Wednesday of each month, this has proved popular with some of our supporters throughout the land. For info for Zoom please email whfczoom<at>gmail.com
Folk Club Information: Derrick Beer 01793 762070; Geoff Davies 01793 706753; www.whitehorsefolkclub.co.uk
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🄵🅆 Midlands (now includes former Herefs & Worcs webpage)
🄵 Worcs.-- My apologies to Mike Walton who updated me in good time, I copied info to online Directory but not to print. To clarify ~
1. Closed: two Tuesday sessions in Worcester, 1st Tues Cardinal's Hat & 2nd Tues Farriers Arms, did not resume after Covid.
2. Mondays: The Worcester Dragon Inn Irish session is now alternating Zoom and live sessions so each is fortnightly.
Details see DIRECTORY UPDATES below.
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🄵🅆 Alba
🄵 A Zoom Big Sing ---
Hi again everyone and here’s wishing you a very happy 2023.
The next and 7th Single-Shanty Big Sing is themed on Johnny come down to Hilo / Hilo family of shanties, and is on Thursday 19 January 8pm UK (5pm ET, noon PT, 9pm France). As usual all welcome to join to sing any version or to listen. Repeat versions, shanties in another language, parodies, solo, partner and small group singing, instrumental accompaniment and listeners all welcome. We understand that Shanties are of their time, however we ask that you avoid versions or verses that are significantly racist or misogynistic. If in doubt, check in with the singing group. If you haven’t already emailed to express your wish to sing / join as audience, please do! And if you have two versions to sing, so much the better! We’ll send out the zoom link to join on about 24 hours prior. To get the “Hilo” event link, pls email Linn direct or via https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/contact/
And here is the link for our brand new Shanty Sings website constructed by Jim. Take a look! More will be added!
http://shantyman.dk/ShantyBigSings/
So that everyone can think about reprising old and even learning new versions, we thought it would be helpful to list our plans for upcoming single-shanty sings: Hieland Laddie; Blow the Man Down; Rolling Home
Thanks and seasons greetings,
Linn Phipps & Jim Lucas
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🄵🅆 Festivals, Workshops
"Send in your Festival & Workshop Diary Listings" Members' form
is on Festivals, Workshops page
WORKSHOPS DIARY
🄵 2023 Feb 4 - 5 ANGLO CONCERTINA PLAYGROUP
→ Gloucester, Gloucestershire. The Folk, Westgate Street.
⌂ Stephen Rowley 07803052723 steve<at>artension.com
⊕ A gathering for absolute beginners and beginner/improvers on the Anglo Concertina. Some loan concertinas will be available for those who want to give it a try. £45. Sat lunchtime to Sunday lunchtime, 4th & 5th February. (new entry, Dec 2022)
FESTIVALS DIARY
🄵 2023 Feb 4 - 6 WHEATSTONE WEEKEND
→ Gloucester, Gloucestershire.
⌂ Stephen Rowley 07803052723 steve<at>artension.com
⊕ Gloucester celebrates the anniversary of Charles Wheatstone, born in Barnwood 6th February 1802. Inventor of the electric telegraph and the concertina.
Sat 4th and Sun 5th Feb Anglo Concertina Playgroup – The Folk, Westgate Street, Gloucester
Sat 4th Concertina Concert – Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne – The Folk, Westgate Street, Gloucester
Mon 6th Wheatstone Day – Talks, demonstrations and workshops, Wheatstone Hall, The Museum of Gloucester, Brunswick Road, Gloucester (new entry, Dec 2022)
🄵🄳 Folklife's online DIRECTORY, www.folklife-directory.uk
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Venues South-West
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‡ 3rd Thu Cornwall NEW POLZEATH WADEBRIDGE FOLK CLUB (no website) Neal Jolly 07761570707
→ Pentireglaze NT Cafe, near New Polzeath PL27 6Q . 7pm start
⇒ neal.jolly<at>gmail.com
⊕ Unamplified venue. Come ready to sing and/or listen. Plenty of parking. Hot drinks available, bring own cold drinks. 5 pounds entry. This will allow us to build up funds to secure occasional guest artists.
[new contacts and other new details, Dec 2022]
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🄵 1st & 3rd Sun Glos COLEFORD FOREST FOLK CLUB www.forestfolkclub.com
→ Orepool Inn, Chepstow Road, Sling, Coleford GL16 8LH. Doors 7.30pm for 8pm start.
⇒ Email contact is forestofdeanfolkclub<at>gmail.com
⊕ Singers Nights and Guest Nights attracting talent from Wales, the South West and beyond. From Jan 2023 we have returned to our usual 1st & 3rd Sundays. Cash only on the door please, £8 for guest nights, £2 for Singers Nights.
[Jan 2023, now back to usual schedule]
🄵 4th Sun Glos BROAD CAMPDEN SHIFTING SUNDAY SESSION: THE BAKER’S ARMS www.sessionfolk.blogspot.com Pub 01386 840515
→ The Baker’s Arms (01386 840515), Broad Campden, Glos GL55 0UR. 6pm until 9pm.
⇒ Paul Bryan, theflyingmorrisman<at>hotmail.com, 07711 121210
⊕ The Shifting Sunday Session (SSS): weekly folk music sessions in South Warwickshire / North Cotswolds, in four regular venues (different village pubs). Typically around 20 musicians. [New times, Dec 2022]
🄵 1st Sat Glos STROUD STROUD SUB ROOM CEILIDHS now stopped., says Cresby (Mr Red)
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Venues Midlands
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🄵 1st Sun Warks ILMINGTON SHIFTING SUNDAY SESSION: HOWARD ARMS www.sessionfolk.blogspot.com Pub 01608 682226
→ The Howard Arms (01608 682226), Ilmington, Walks CV36 4LT. 7.45pm until 10.30pm.
⇒ Paul Bryan, theflyingmorrisman<at>hotmail.com, 07711 121210
⊕ The Shifting Sunday Session (SSS): weekly folk music sessions in South Warwickshire / North Cotswolds, in four regular venues (different village pubs). Typically around 20 musicians. [new times, Dec 2022]
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🄵 Fortnightly Mondays. Worcs WORCESTER DRAGON INN SESSION. www.worcesterfolk.org.uk Mike Walton 01905 357482
→ Dragon Inn (01905 25845) , 51 The Tything, Worcester WR1 1JT (A38 north from city). Starts 8pm
⇒ mike<at>worcesterfolk.org.uk
⊕ Traditional Irish music throughout, jigs, reels, polkas, hornpipes and airs plus other variants.
The Zoom session (see Venues-Zoom webpage) will still continue on other Mondays in view of a number of people liking this format, together with some being too distant to easily get to the pub. (revised Nov 2022).
🄵 Tuesday Now closed (did not reopen after Covid) 1st Tues Worcester Cardinal's Hat session, 2nd Tues Worcester Farriers Arms session.
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Venues North
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‡ 1st Wednesdays Lancashire LANCASTER LANCASTER FOLK CLUB www.facebook.com/lancasterfolkclub John Metcalfe 07971817651
→ Collegian Social Club, 1 Gage St., Lancaster, LA1 1UH. Doors open 19:30, First Wednesday of month.
⊕ An informal first-Wednesday gathering where everyone's voice can be heard (or listened to). Anyone with a song to sing, a story to tell, a tune to play or ears to hear is very welcome! (Nov 2022, new listing)
Venues Zoom/Virtual * Tony Becker (CA) has pointed out that other Virtual platforms are available, so we've renamed Zoom webpage "Zoom/Virtual".
🄵 Fortnightly Mondays. Worcs WORCESTER DRAGON INN: VIRTUAL IRISH SESSION. worcesterfolk.org.uk
→ Starts 8.30pm. As to which Mondays, check Mike's calendar on www.worcesterfolk.org.uk
⇒ EMAIL You will need to contact Mike Walton, mike<at>worcesterfolk.org.uk to obtain a Zoom code.
⊕ An "Irish trad" (not enforced) session on the Mondays when the live Dragon Inn session (see venues - Midlands) doesn't run. (updated Jan 2023)
Ø 1st Mondays. Lancs. NEWBURGH. ZOOM AT THE TOP on 1st Mondays stopped, as now live instead, (see ROOM AT THE TOP. every Monday, listings under Venues North) Note: Ø Weekly Thursdays. ZOOM AT THE TOP continues as before, see Venues Zoom/Virtual webpage. (updated Jan 2023)
Ø Weekly Wednesdays. USA --- CA. THE TRANS-ATLANTIC SESSION
→ Start 12pm Pacific time, 3pm Eastern time, 8pm Ireland+UK
⇒ ZOOM LINK is https://link.americeltic.net/session
To request the link during the session, you can send us an email [or US only, text] message
⊕ Every Wednesday, Tony Becker and Mark Wallis (occasionally) co-host an Trans-Atlantic Irish Traditional Virtual Zoom Session. Like most in-person Irish sessions, this session’s music emphasis is on traditional Irish, Contra-dance, Old-Time and similar instrumental dance tunes, with an occasional song. (Nov 2022, new listing)
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Performers Midlands
Pf.1b Folk Music & Song - Solo
🄵 Herefs TOM HUGHES www.tomhughesmusic.co.uk Tom Hughes
⇒ Contact: tomhughesmusic<at>outlook.com
See also: www.facebook.com/tomhughesfolk, https://twitter.com/tomhughesmusic
Musician, Educator & Tunesmith, Tom Hughes is available to offer a variety of different performances, whether a public or private event/meeting, including performance of folk/traditional music and original compositions on piano, accordion and whistles. Also available as part of a duo with fiddle/vocals. Please enquire to discuss further. (updated 12/2022)
Pf.1d Choirs & Quires: Folk & Community Choirs & Bands
🄵 Herefs HEREFORD COMMUNITY CHOIR www.herefordcommunitychoir.uk Tom Hughes
⇒ Contact: tomhughesmusic<at>outlook.com, or message us via FB
See also: https://www.facebook.com/herefordcommunitychoir
→ Hampton Bishop Village Hall, Hereford HR1 4JY. 7:30pm-8:30pm, Thursdays, during term time.
⊕ We provide an opportunity for people to gather and sing in an informal and friendly environment. “Very uplifting sessions”. New members welcome!
(updated 12/2022)
🄵 Herefs HEREFORD FOLK ENSEMBLE www.herefordfolkensemble.uk Tom Hughes
⇒ Contact: tomhughesmusic<at>outlook.com, or message us via FB
See also: https://www.facebook.com/herefordfolkensemble
→ Hampton Bishop Village Hall, Hereford HR1 4JY. 7:30pm-9pm 2nd and 4th Friday of each month.
⊕ Hereford Folk Ensemble is a community music group creating a positive environment and an opportunity for people to gather and perform instrumental folk & traditional music. A great way to end the week and start the weekend! New members welcome! (updated 12/2022)
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Performers North
Pf.1e Shanty Groups, Duos, & Solo
‡ Lancashire THE MIZZEN CREW https://www.facebook.com/TheMizzenCrew John Metcalfe 07971817651
⇒ TheMizzenCrew<at>gmail.com; fundraising for Morecambe RNLI lifeboat Station https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/mizzencrew
⊕ Ten crew members have met all performance requests, but welcome others eager to tell stories of working life at sea with shanties and sea-songs. We perform for free for charities, without intolerance, hate or disrespect, and donate to Morecambe RNLI. (Nov 2022, new listing)
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Media
M.1 Online Folk Magazines & Listings: UK-wide
‡ FATEA www.fatea-records.co.uk
⇒ https://twitter.com/Fatea_Magazine, https://en-gb.facebook.com/FateaMagazine, info[at]fatea.co.uk
FATEA, PO Box 2218, Parkstone, Poole, BH17 7ZZ.
Review material: to above address & electronic copy of sleeve to reviews[at]fatea.co.uk
⊕ News & Features, keeping you up to date; Reviews, detailed thoughts on albums, singles, EPs, the odd book and DVD; Live Gig & Festival reviews;
Shop, support Fatea and help Fatea support live events by visiting the shop. [Dec 2022, new listing]
M.4 Publishers (Music & Print)
🄵 Herefs TOM HUGHES MUSIC www.tomhughesmusic.co.uk Tom Hughes
⇒ Contact: tomhughesmusic<at>outlook.com
⊕ Music transcription and engraving service, including music book production and publishing of folk/traditional music. Special rates offered to folk musicians looking to release a music book. Now available: ALAWON:MELODIES Tune Book from the fantastic Welsh folk trio ALAW. (updated 12/2022)
all the best,
Sam and Eleanor
Sam & Eleanor Simmons, for the Folklife volunteers. 01684 561378, UK daytime.
You can also contact us on FaceTime (sam@folklife.uk), UK daytime.
Copyright © 2023 Folklife all rights reserved.
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Sam and Eleanor
Sam & Eleanor Simmons, for the Folklife volunteers. 01684 561378, UK daytime.
You can also contact us on FaceTime (sam@folklife.uk), UK daytime.
Copyright © 2023 Folklife all rights reserved.
You are welcome to forward * this newsletter
Or tell folks: for Newsletter, simply email sam@folklife.uk : Opt In, + country or Eng. region
Major Updates since May 2023 issue:
26/6/2022 Updates..
7/7/2022 Updates:
Major Updates since Sept 2023 issue:
20/9/2022 Updates:
However advertisers with display adverts should email us as before, also any pictures/logos for print will need to be emailed.
And for minor changes to existing text as printed, just email instead - for those news items that are mostly repeated.
Just started these forms - comments welcome.
26/6/2022 Updates..
- Sadly The Living Tradition's final issue was Aug/Sep 2022. We recorded our deep appreciation of the LT team's work, and grateful thanks for the helpful support extended to Folklife by Fi - Editor Fiona Heywood, both by email correspondence, and by advert-exchanges.
7/7/2022 Updates:
- Our new FTJ logo, thanks to John Crane who kindly modified it from his original drawing for our Book End Folk Books logo more than 40 years ago!
- 🄵🄳 ONLINE DIRECTORY - free entries for all, membership not required. We were very pleased to announce a dedicated Directory site, www.folklife-directory.uk We did have our listings on the Directory site but they were print-style rather than internet-style, so we transferred them to this site whilst we tidied up. Now we have completed a complete overhaul and are pleased to reopen the Directory site. We're keeping it simple - for clarity, your detailed Directory listings are in plain list format - you click on the relevant page and scroll. To keep it simple: no logos, photos, etc, and no dates - dates (club guests, gigs, festivals, workshops) copied to this folklife.uk site from print pages. Zoom venues list has been moved to Directory from this folklife.uk site.
Major Updates since Sept 2023 issue:
20/9/2022 Updates:
- Sadly, we lost singer Lisa Null - please see International News webpage for a very detailed article.
- FW, Folklife West: we expected about 6 pages less (as announced, we removed 1-line print listings to save space). We're pleased to say that September FW has 56 pages, same as before! - as we had more articles & news to fill those pages!
- FTJ, Folklife Traditions Journal pages: researched articles, publications, etc. Will now also be available separately, details below - for those who are more interested in FTJ rather than our UK folk-news pages which form most of FW. With new readers, perhaps more articles?
- New correspondents ! Sandra & Steve Harrison (Close Quarters) have kindly volunteered to become our Cumbria and N. Lancashire correspondents from next issue! • A volunteer to replace Nigel as Cornwall Correspondent would be most welcome.
- Editing & Admin team David Harley (Cornwall) has kindly volunteered to edit. Mainly, David will be shortening over-long news items to the usual 200-word limit (such over-long items may be subject to delayed publication times).
- As I'm dealing with admin, no time for development, so volunteers welcome, for publicity (publicise Folklife on your local Facebook sites), and for checking Journal directory entries on https://www.folklife-traditions.uk .
- Folklife Traditions Journal Confirming this will be available separately (see below), we have now been given an ISSN: "Folklife Traditions Journal (Print) ISSN 2753-569X"
- New! DIRECTORY.-- NEW: to get your Directory details online ASAP ! Forms on website www.folklife-directory.uk
- All webforms have name, contact/web details, more details
- plus more details if appropriate (eg venues add day, time, venue address).
- Using the form means it's easier & quicker to add to Directory and to this Updates page.
- new! ⎈ SEND NEWS WEBPAGE with a form for your news, online & print - easier for you, and will speed things up.
- Heading, text up to 200 words, contact/web details.
- For Journal news (conferences, books announced), open to all.
- For International News, open to all non-UK..
- And for Folklife Members and Associate Members, members' folk news welcome; + another form for member festival & workshops listings
However advertisers with display adverts should email us as before, also any pictures/logos for print will need to be emailed.
And for minor changes to existing text as printed, just email instead - for those news items that are mostly repeated.
Just started these forms - comments welcome.
A short newsletter re Deadline reminder & re News & Directory forms was sent 18/19 Nov, no updates, not included here
Editorial, and then Updates since 21 Sep 2022 newsletter: online Directory Updates; print/online Journal Updates; Folk News Updates.
Deadline 20 Nov for Folklife West Jan 2023 (Journal & UK folk news).
New correspondents !
• Sandra & Steve Harrison (Close Quarters) have kindly volunteered to become our Cumbria and N. Lancashire correspondents from next issue!
• A volunteer to replace Nigel as Cornwall Correspondent would be most welcome.
Interested in becoming an area Correspondent ? - see foot of 🄵🅆 Info+Team webpage.
Editing & Admin team
David Harley (Cornwall) has kindly volunteered to edit. Mainly, David will be shortening over-long news items to the usual 200-word limit (such over-long items may be subject to delayed publication times).
As I'm dealing with admin, no time for development, so volunteers welcome,
for publicity (publicise Folklife on your local Facebook sites), and for checking Journal directory entries on https://www.folklife-traditions.uk .
Folklife Traditions Journal
Confirming this will be available separately (see below), we have now been given an ISSN: "Folklife Traditions Journal (Print) ISSN 2753-569X"
Deadline 20 Nov for Folklife West Jan 2023 (Journal & UK folk news).
New correspondents !
• Sandra & Steve Harrison (Close Quarters) have kindly volunteered to become our Cumbria and N. Lancashire correspondents from next issue!
• A volunteer to replace Nigel as Cornwall Correspondent would be most welcome.
Interested in becoming an area Correspondent ? - see foot of 🄵🅆 Info+Team webpage.
Editing & Admin team
David Harley (Cornwall) has kindly volunteered to edit. Mainly, David will be shortening over-long news items to the usual 200-word limit (such over-long items may be subject to delayed publication times).
As I'm dealing with admin, no time for development, so volunteers welcome,
for publicity (publicise Folklife on your local Facebook sites), and for checking Journal directory entries on https://www.folklife-traditions.uk .
Folklife Traditions Journal
Confirming this will be available separately (see below), we have now been given an ISSN: "Folklife Traditions Journal (Print) ISSN 2753-569X"
🄵🄳 Folklife's online DIRECTORY - free entries for all, membership not required
New! DIRECTORY.-- NEW: to get your Directory details online ASAP ! Forms on website www.folklife-directory.uk
Made possible by one of our long-time members making a substantial donation.
Folklife is a non-profit organisation, subsidised by the editors. For those who use the site but are not paid-up members of Folklife, we welcome small donations (say £3), see foot of page. We are not crowd-funding, and not seeking large donations, etc. However we've accepted, after discussion with the donor, who said FW promotes mental health, in that readers avail themselves, by what they read, to folk song, music, dance and the other folk arts. So we're using the donation to pay for upgrade of DIRECTORY site (upgrade required for detailed forms for Directory).
- All webforms have name, contact/web details, more details
- plus more details if appropriate (eg venues add day, time, venue address).
- Using the form means it's easier & quicker to add to Directory and to this Updates page. Details also on ⎈ SEND NEWS WEBPAGE
- Just started these forms - comments welcome.
Made possible by one of our long-time members making a substantial donation.
Folklife is a non-profit organisation, subsidised by the editors. For those who use the site but are not paid-up members of Folklife, we welcome small donations (say £3), see foot of page. We are not crowd-funding, and not seeking large donations, etc. However we've accepted, after discussion with the donor, who said FW promotes mental health, in that readers avail themselves, by what they read, to folk song, music, dance and the other folk arts. So we're using the donation to pay for upgrade of DIRECTORY site (upgrade required for detailed forms for Directory).
Venues Midlands
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🄵 Fortnightly Mon Worcs WORCESTER DRAGON INN SESSION www.worcesterfolk.org.uk Mike Walton 01905 357482
→ Dragon Inn (01905 25845) , 51 The Tything, Worcester WR1 1JT (A38 north from city).
⇒ mike<at>worcesterfolk.org.uk
⊕ Traditional Irish music throughout, jigs, reels, polkas, hornpipes and airs plus other variants.
The Zoom session (see Venues-Zoom webpage) will still continue on other Mondays in view of a number of people liking this format, together with some being too distant to easily get to the pub. (revised Nov 2022)
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‡ Every 4 weeks on a Wednesday Worcs BREDON THE ROYAL OAK SESSION pub website www.facebook.com/theroyaloakbredon Tony Gibbons 01242 232126
→ The Royal Oak (01684 772502), Main Road, Bredon, GL20 7LW. Start at 8.00 p.m. or before if people are there.
⇒ Tony Gibbons 01242 232126 tonyjgibbons<at>btinternet.com
⊕ Every 4 weeks on a Wednesday (2022 Dec 21st onwards). Any instrument would be welcome. All traditions will be welcomed including Scandinavian & European. Parking is good. Onlookers would be welcomed. Contact Tony by email or phone as above. (Nov 2022, new listing)
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🄵 1st & 3rd Thu Worcs ECKINGTON ANCHOR INN SESSION www.worcesterfolk.org.uk Mike Walton 01905 357482
→ Anchor Inn & Restaurant, Cotheridge Ln, Eckington, Pershore WR10 3BA, in the Snug bar of the pub. 8pm-11pm
⇒ mike<at>worcesterfolk.org.uk
⊕ All forms of music and song, mainly traditional, informal. (added Nov 2022)
Venues North
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‡ Alternate Thursdays Lancs NEAR PRESTON GREGSON LANE FOLK CLUB www.gregsonlane.co.uk Graham Dixon 01254 853929
→ Nets Bar (upstairs room), Gregson Lane in the Village of Gregson Lane, Hoghton, Preston PR5 0FD. Alternate Thursdays, 8.00 for 8.15pm
⇒ Organiser Graham Dixon, Tel 01254 853929. See www.gregsonlane.co.uk and www.facebook.com/groups/Gregsonlane
⊕ Gregson Lane Folk Club - Est 1988. We meet on alternate Thursdays and details of forthcoming programme of events can be found on our website, www.gregsonlane.co.uk, or on our Facebook Page, www.facebook.com/groups/Gregsonlane Organiser Graham Dixon, Tel 01254 853929. (Oct 2022, new listing)
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🄵 2nd Fridays Cumbria STAVELEY THE LAKE DISTRICT FOLK & ACOUSTIC CLUB www.facebook.com/lakedistrictfolkclub Sandra & Steve 07813403808
→ The Pavilion, 77 Main St., Staveley, Kendal, Cumbria LA8 9L. 2nd Friday, 7.30pm – 11pm.
⇒ Contact Sandra & Steve 07813403808 or 07502454001, email lakedistrictfolk<at>gmail.com www.facebook.com/lakedistrictfolkclub
⊕ Singers & musicians nights £3, your songs, tunes, poems, readings, storytelling, or listen / join in the chorus. Very welcoming atmosphere. No PA, excellent acoustics. Guest nights £5 to £10. BYO beer, wine; coffee and tea available for small donation. (Oct 2022, new Member)
Venues ZOOM
🄵 Some Mondays. Worcs WORCESTER DRAGON INN: VIRTUAL IRISH SESSION. worcesterfolk.org.uk
→ Starts 8pm. As to which Mondays, check Mike's calendar on worcesterfolk.org.uk
⇒ EMAIL You will need to contact Mike Walton, mike<at>worcesterfolk.org.uk to obtain a Zoom code.
⊕ An "Irish trad" (not enforced) session on the Mondays when the live Dragon Inn session (see venues - Midlands) doesn't run. Starts with slow tunes and "faster" tunes played slowly. As the evening wears on, the idea is that faster jigs and reels will be played. (updated Nov 2022)
Performers North
Pf.1a Folk Music & Song - Bands / Groups
Cumbria 🄵 CLOSE QUARTERS www.facebook.com/songsinharmony Sandra & Steve 07813403808
⇒ Contact Sandra & Steve 07813403808 or 07502454001, email lakedistrictfolk<at>gmail.com
⊕ The line up is flexible, but the repertoire stays the same, a varied mix with lots of chorus opportunities delivered acapella. Songs from the tradition & gospel alongside others from highly regarded contemporary writers. Steve has added more songs too. (Oct 2022, new Member)
Pf.1b Folk Music & Song - Duo
Lancs ‡ TROUBLE AT’ MILL www.troubleatmill.com Graham Dixon 01254 853929
⇒ Contact Graham Dixon, Tel 01254 853929. Further details on www.troubleatmill.com,
and see Facebook, www.facebook.com/groups/1967280676882393,
& Youtube https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLatKGrPBEogEVp_qkGTQ6v9KdCnO0KxJp
⊕ Lancashire’s favourite Folk experience. Husband & wife team - Bernadette & Graham Dixon have been entertaining audiences since 1988.
They play all your favourite sing-along Folk Songs as well as some self penned favourites with the emphasis on fun. (Oct 2022, new listing)
Pf.1e Shanty Groups, Duos, & Solo
Cumbria 🄵 ALL@SEA www.facebook.com/iseenoships Sandra & Steve 07813403808
⇒ Contact Sandra & Steve 07813403808 or 07502454001, email lakedistrictfolk<at>gmail.com
⊕ Sandra & Steve Harrison, Maggie & John Stockdale, and Jen Wilson. They love to sing shanties and songs of the sea in harmony but most of all they love to hear their audience singing back at them. (Oct 2022, new Member)
Performers Scotland
Pf.1a Folk Music & Song - Bands / Groups
‡ Midlothian SHIANFOLK WITH JOSS CAMERON www.shianfolk.com Joss: 07896999768
⇒ www.shianfolk.com Facebook: Shianfolk
⊕ Shianfolk are a traditional Scottish music band with a contemporary twist! Harp, harmonies, guitar and fiddle, Shianfolk captivate their audiences with twists and tales. [Nov 2022]
Pf.1c Folk Music/Song - Solo
‡ Edinburgh JOSS CAMERON www.josscameronmusic.com Joss Cameron
⇒ Facebook: Joss Cameron folk
⊕ A Scottish folk singer, who sings the ballads of the North-East of Scotland, and in particular, the works of Jeannie Robertson (her relative). Joss holds a First-Class Honours degree in Music. [Nov 2022]
Media
Shropshire & elsewhere
The SABRINAFLU Online Folk Magazine (listed as https://sabrinaflu.wordpress.com) is now retired, the SABRINAFLU Facebook Group continues:
🄵 SABRINAFLU Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/27261137852/ David Harley 07891 999619
⇒ Contact: david.a.harley<at>gmail.com.
⊕ Promoting folk(-ish) music, song, dance and poetry, especially but not exclusively along the course of the river Severn (hence Sabrinaflu).
* David has also volunteered to help with editing news for Updates & for Folklife West.
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🄵 Fortnightly Mon Worcs WORCESTER DRAGON INN SESSION www.worcesterfolk.org.uk Mike Walton 01905 357482
→ Dragon Inn (01905 25845) , 51 The Tything, Worcester WR1 1JT (A38 north from city).
⇒ mike<at>worcesterfolk.org.uk
⊕ Traditional Irish music throughout, jigs, reels, polkas, hornpipes and airs plus other variants.
The Zoom session (see Venues-Zoom webpage) will still continue on other Mondays in view of a number of people liking this format, together with some being too distant to easily get to the pub. (revised Nov 2022)
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‡ Every 4 weeks on a Wednesday Worcs BREDON THE ROYAL OAK SESSION pub website www.facebook.com/theroyaloakbredon Tony Gibbons 01242 232126
→ The Royal Oak (01684 772502), Main Road, Bredon, GL20 7LW. Start at 8.00 p.m. or before if people are there.
⇒ Tony Gibbons 01242 232126 tonyjgibbons<at>btinternet.com
⊕ Every 4 weeks on a Wednesday (2022 Dec 21st onwards). Any instrument would be welcome. All traditions will be welcomed including Scandinavian & European. Parking is good. Onlookers would be welcomed. Contact Tony by email or phone as above. (Nov 2022, new listing)
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🄵 1st & 3rd Thu Worcs ECKINGTON ANCHOR INN SESSION www.worcesterfolk.org.uk Mike Walton 01905 357482
→ Anchor Inn & Restaurant, Cotheridge Ln, Eckington, Pershore WR10 3BA, in the Snug bar of the pub. 8pm-11pm
⇒ mike<at>worcesterfolk.org.uk
⊕ All forms of music and song, mainly traditional, informal. (added Nov 2022)
Venues North
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‡ Alternate Thursdays Lancs NEAR PRESTON GREGSON LANE FOLK CLUB www.gregsonlane.co.uk Graham Dixon 01254 853929
→ Nets Bar (upstairs room), Gregson Lane in the Village of Gregson Lane, Hoghton, Preston PR5 0FD. Alternate Thursdays, 8.00 for 8.15pm
⇒ Organiser Graham Dixon, Tel 01254 853929. See www.gregsonlane.co.uk and www.facebook.com/groups/Gregsonlane
⊕ Gregson Lane Folk Club - Est 1988. We meet on alternate Thursdays and details of forthcoming programme of events can be found on our website, www.gregsonlane.co.uk, or on our Facebook Page, www.facebook.com/groups/Gregsonlane Organiser Graham Dixon, Tel 01254 853929. (Oct 2022, new listing)
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🄵 2nd Fridays Cumbria STAVELEY THE LAKE DISTRICT FOLK & ACOUSTIC CLUB www.facebook.com/lakedistrictfolkclub Sandra & Steve 07813403808
→ The Pavilion, 77 Main St., Staveley, Kendal, Cumbria LA8 9L. 2nd Friday, 7.30pm – 11pm.
⇒ Contact Sandra & Steve 07813403808 or 07502454001, email lakedistrictfolk<at>gmail.com www.facebook.com/lakedistrictfolkclub
⊕ Singers & musicians nights £3, your songs, tunes, poems, readings, storytelling, or listen / join in the chorus. Very welcoming atmosphere. No PA, excellent acoustics. Guest nights £5 to £10. BYO beer, wine; coffee and tea available for small donation. (Oct 2022, new Member)
Venues ZOOM
🄵 Some Mondays. Worcs WORCESTER DRAGON INN: VIRTUAL IRISH SESSION. worcesterfolk.org.uk
→ Starts 8pm. As to which Mondays, check Mike's calendar on worcesterfolk.org.uk
⇒ EMAIL You will need to contact Mike Walton, mike<at>worcesterfolk.org.uk to obtain a Zoom code.
⊕ An "Irish trad" (not enforced) session on the Mondays when the live Dragon Inn session (see venues - Midlands) doesn't run. Starts with slow tunes and "faster" tunes played slowly. As the evening wears on, the idea is that faster jigs and reels will be played. (updated Nov 2022)
Performers North
Pf.1a Folk Music & Song - Bands / Groups
Cumbria 🄵 CLOSE QUARTERS www.facebook.com/songsinharmony Sandra & Steve 07813403808
⇒ Contact Sandra & Steve 07813403808 or 07502454001, email lakedistrictfolk<at>gmail.com
⊕ The line up is flexible, but the repertoire stays the same, a varied mix with lots of chorus opportunities delivered acapella. Songs from the tradition & gospel alongside others from highly regarded contemporary writers. Steve has added more songs too. (Oct 2022, new Member)
Pf.1b Folk Music & Song - Duo
Lancs ‡ TROUBLE AT’ MILL www.troubleatmill.com Graham Dixon 01254 853929
⇒ Contact Graham Dixon, Tel 01254 853929. Further details on www.troubleatmill.com,
and see Facebook, www.facebook.com/groups/1967280676882393,
& Youtube https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLatKGrPBEogEVp_qkGTQ6v9KdCnO0KxJp
⊕ Lancashire’s favourite Folk experience. Husband & wife team - Bernadette & Graham Dixon have been entertaining audiences since 1988.
They play all your favourite sing-along Folk Songs as well as some self penned favourites with the emphasis on fun. (Oct 2022, new listing)
Pf.1e Shanty Groups, Duos, & Solo
Cumbria 🄵 ALL@SEA www.facebook.com/iseenoships Sandra & Steve 07813403808
⇒ Contact Sandra & Steve 07813403808 or 07502454001, email lakedistrictfolk<at>gmail.com
⊕ Sandra & Steve Harrison, Maggie & John Stockdale, and Jen Wilson. They love to sing shanties and songs of the sea in harmony but most of all they love to hear their audience singing back at them. (Oct 2022, new Member)
Performers Scotland
Pf.1a Folk Music & Song - Bands / Groups
‡ Midlothian SHIANFOLK WITH JOSS CAMERON www.shianfolk.com Joss: 07896999768
⇒ www.shianfolk.com Facebook: Shianfolk
⊕ Shianfolk are a traditional Scottish music band with a contemporary twist! Harp, harmonies, guitar and fiddle, Shianfolk captivate their audiences with twists and tales. [Nov 2022]
Pf.1c Folk Music/Song - Solo
‡ Edinburgh JOSS CAMERON www.josscameronmusic.com Joss Cameron
⇒ Facebook: Joss Cameron folk
⊕ A Scottish folk singer, who sings the ballads of the North-East of Scotland, and in particular, the works of Jeannie Robertson (her relative). Joss holds a First-Class Honours degree in Music. [Nov 2022]
Media
Shropshire & elsewhere
The SABRINAFLU Online Folk Magazine (listed as https://sabrinaflu.wordpress.com) is now retired, the SABRINAFLU Facebook Group continues:
🄵 SABRINAFLU Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/27261137852/ David Harley 07891 999619
⇒ Contact: david.a.harley<at>gmail.com.
⊕ Promoting folk(-ish) music, song, dance and poetry, especially but not exclusively along the course of the river Severn (hence Sabrinaflu).
* David has also volunteered to help with editing news for Updates & for Folklife West.
🄵🅃🄹 Folklife Traditions Journal, www.folklife-traditions.uk UPDATES
Our aims include stimulating a wider interest in folk studies & folk culture: FTJ pages
Researched articles + archive, new, on a separate website. Folk studies and cultural traditions.
Membership welcome but not required.
Call for articles for next issue. - Journal now also available separately!
Readers tell us how much they enjoy these articles - so we would like to expand our Journal pages !
1. Researched articles about a collected song or tune, word limits: no minimum - we get articles which are anything from just a song and a few lines or up to 500 words; other articles are often 1000 to 1500, our maximum is 2500 words.
2. To introduce society, institution, max. 1000 words. Short news items/dates from society/institution welcome; longer items, please consult editor.
Our aims include stimulating a wider interest in folk studies & folk culture: FTJ pages
Researched articles + archive, new, on a separate website. Folk studies and cultural traditions.
Membership welcome but not required.
Call for articles for next issue. - Journal now also available separately!
Readers tell us how much they enjoy these articles - so we would like to expand our Journal pages !
1. Researched articles about a collected song or tune, word limits: no minimum - we get articles which are anything from just a song and a few lines or up to 500 words; other articles are often 1000 to 1500, our maximum is 2500 words.
2. To introduce society, institution, max. 1000 words. Short news items/dates from society/institution welcome; longer items, please consult editor.
- Photo(s) welcome, can be sent in colour; may be used in colour on cover if we've room (depends on adverts)
- See "This issue online" webpage (this is on FTJ website) to view what the latest issue looks like.
ANNOUCEMENTS - conferences, publications - usually up to 200 words
FOLK SINGING SYMPOSIUM We are delighted to announce this will be held as part of the Access Folk project at the University of Sheffield, 24-25 February 2023. The symposium will address folk singing, performance contexts, participation and inclusion. We will look at what is currently happening, what the issues are and opportunities for the future. The event draws on emerging research in England by the Access Folk team and encourages sharing across a range of cultures and formats.
The call for papers has now been released and we welcome proposals for long and short papers, roundtables, workshop or performance-based presentations, posters and films or other media. We are actively encouraging a range of contributors including academics, students. artists and industry or community members. The deadline for proposals is 12 November 2022. For more information or if you have any questions, please get in touch with the conference team: accessfolk<at>sheffield.ac.uk
We hope to see many of you there!
All the very best, Fay Hield
Dr Fay Hield, Room 2.09, Jessop Building, 34 Leavygreave Road, Sheffield S3 7RD,0114 222 0497
THIRSTY WORK And Other Legacies of Folk Song, edited Steve Roud and David Atkinson, based on Traditional Song Forum Zoom meetings presentations. UK price: £13 + £2.95 p&p from The Ballad Partners, www.theballadpartners.co.uk/publications. Pbk. 244pp., ISBN: 978-1-9161424-5-9
For anyone with an interest in song and performance culture, social history, book history and popular reading and literacy, with topics from England, Ireland, Scotland, Canada and the USA. - including songs of the sea, political songs, songs from Scotland or the Ozarks, female rebel heroes ...
TRADITIONAL SONG FORUM - for details see https://tradsong.org/
TSF holds Online (Zoom) meetings - these can be viewed on YouTube as well as being watched live.
Next is TSF Online Music Education Special
On the 27 November we will be presenting an additional, special meeting at which Sam Richards will outline his ideas on teaching music, and particularly oral/aural song and music. More detail of this event can be found on the website's meetings page.
VWML Conference, 12-13 November
A reminder that booking is open for the conference, ‘Once more to the mouths of the people, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Folk Song’, which will be held at Cecil Sharp House, London on 12 and 13 November. Details of the programme and booking can be found on the VWML website
‘Vaughan Williams in East Anglia’ conference 26 November
The East Anglian Music Trust is organising a conference ‘Vaughan Williams in East Anglia’ focusing on his collection of folk song in the region with which he was most strongly associated. There will also be a discussion on making the transcripts and stories of RVW’s informants more accessible to the general public. This event is part of the wider project “Vaughan Williams’ Folk” running at the East Anglian Traditional Music Trust, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
FOLK SINGING SYMPOSIUM We are delighted to announce this will be held as part of the Access Folk project at the University of Sheffield, 24-25 February 2023. The symposium will address folk singing, performance contexts, participation and inclusion. We will look at what is currently happening, what the issues are and opportunities for the future. The event draws on emerging research in England by the Access Folk team and encourages sharing across a range of cultures and formats.
The call for papers has now been released and we welcome proposals for long and short papers, roundtables, workshop or performance-based presentations, posters and films or other media. We are actively encouraging a range of contributors including academics, students. artists and industry or community members. The deadline for proposals is 12 November 2022. For more information or if you have any questions, please get in touch with the conference team: accessfolk<at>sheffield.ac.uk
We hope to see many of you there!
All the very best, Fay Hield
Dr Fay Hield, Room 2.09, Jessop Building, 34 Leavygreave Road, Sheffield S3 7RD,0114 222 0497
THIRSTY WORK And Other Legacies of Folk Song, edited Steve Roud and David Atkinson, based on Traditional Song Forum Zoom meetings presentations. UK price: £13 + £2.95 p&p from The Ballad Partners, www.theballadpartners.co.uk/publications. Pbk. 244pp., ISBN: 978-1-9161424-5-9
For anyone with an interest in song and performance culture, social history, book history and popular reading and literacy, with topics from England, Ireland, Scotland, Canada and the USA. - including songs of the sea, political songs, songs from Scotland or the Ozarks, female rebel heroes ...
- Thirsty Work: Traditional Singing on BBC Radio, 1940–41, Katie Howson.
- From Tyneside to Wearside: In Search of Sunderland Songs, Eileen Richardson.
- Sam Bennett’s Songs, Elaine Bradtke.
- Newman and Company of Dartmouth and the Song Tradition of Newfoundland’s South Coast, Anna Kearney Guigné
- Railwaymen’s Charity Concerts, 1888–89, Colin Bargery.
- Picturing Protest: Prints to Accompany Political Songs, Patience Young
- ‘That is all the explanation I am at liberty to give in print’: Richard Runciman Terry and Songs from the Sea, Keith Gregson.
- Drawing from the Well: Emma Dusenbury and her Old Songs of the Ozarks, Eleanor Rodes.
- Alexander Campbell’s Song Collecting Tour: ‘The Classic Ground of our Celtic Homer’, Karen E. McAulay.
- ‘Don’t let us be strangers’: William Montgomerie’s Fieldwork Recordings of Scottish Farmworkers, 1952, Margaret Bennett.
- ‘No Maid in History’s Pages’: The Female Rebel Hero in the Irish Ballad Tradition, Thérèse McIntyre.
- Who Is Speaking in Songs?, David Atkinson.
TRADITIONAL SONG FORUM - for details see https://tradsong.org/
TSF holds Online (Zoom) meetings - these can be viewed on YouTube as well as being watched live.
Next is TSF Online Music Education Special
On the 27 November we will be presenting an additional, special meeting at which Sam Richards will outline his ideas on teaching music, and particularly oral/aural song and music. More detail of this event can be found on the website's meetings page.
VWML Conference, 12-13 November
A reminder that booking is open for the conference, ‘Once more to the mouths of the people, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Folk Song’, which will be held at Cecil Sharp House, London on 12 and 13 November. Details of the programme and booking can be found on the VWML website
‘Vaughan Williams in East Anglia’ conference 26 November
The East Anglian Music Trust is organising a conference ‘Vaughan Williams in East Anglia’ focusing on his collection of folk song in the region with which he was most strongly associated. There will also be a discussion on making the transcripts and stories of RVW’s informants more accessible to the general public. This event is part of the wider project “Vaughan Williams’ Folk” running at the East Anglian Traditional Music Trust, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
New! ⎈ SEND NEWS WEBPAGE with a form for your news, online & print - easier for you, and will speed things up.
However advertisers with display adverts should email us as before, also any pictures/logos for print will need to be emailed.
And for minor changes to existing text as printed, just email instead - for those news items that are mostly repeated.
Just started these forms - comments welcome.
⎈ INTERNATIONAL FOLK NEWS (online only)
News is most welcome from all international (non-UK) readers on our mailing list. Folklife membership is not required, but welcomed . . .
. . . should any Overseas Folklife members send in news, that would be printed in FW
Live From The Mermaid’s Tavern - on Zoom
Twice-monthly sessions on first and third Sundays, monthly concerts third Thursdays, special events as the occasion requires.
November
Sunday, November 6: Ballad Sing
Thursday, November 17: Maura Volante in Concert
Sunday, November 20: Chantey & Tavern Sing
December
Sunday, December 4: Ballad Sing
Thursday, December 15: Saro Lynch in Concert
Sunday, December 18: Chantey & Tavern Sing
Join the mailing list at http://mailinglist.mermaidstavern.com
- Heading, text up to 200 words, contact/web details.
- For Journal news (conferences, books announced), open to all.
- For International News, open to all non-UK..
- And for Folklife Members and Associate Members, members' folk news welcome; + another form for member festival & workshops listings
However advertisers with display adverts should email us as before, also any pictures/logos for print will need to be emailed.
And for minor changes to existing text as printed, just email instead - for those news items that are mostly repeated.
Just started these forms - comments welcome.
⎈ INTERNATIONAL FOLK NEWS (online only)
News is most welcome from all international (non-UK) readers on our mailing list. Folklife membership is not required, but welcomed . . .
. . . should any Overseas Folklife members send in news, that would be printed in FW
Live From The Mermaid’s Tavern - on Zoom
Twice-monthly sessions on first and third Sundays, monthly concerts third Thursdays, special events as the occasion requires.
November
Sunday, November 6: Ballad Sing
Thursday, November 17: Maura Volante in Concert
Sunday, November 20: Chantey & Tavern Sing
December
Sunday, December 4: Ballad Sing
Thursday, December 15: Saro Lynch in Concert
Sunday, December 18: Chantey & Tavern Sing
Join the mailing list at http://mailinglist.mermaidstavern.com
🄵🅆 Folklife Members' FOLK NEWS: online updates to print pages copied to this site
News from 🄵 Folklife members, 🄰 or Ø Associate members. Up to 200 words. per item.
Membership £18 a year UK, £24 EU for posted FW + publicity in print & online.
News from 🄵 Folklife members, 🄰 or Ø Associate members. Up to 200 words. per item.
Membership £18 a year UK, £24 EU for posted FW + publicity in print & online.
🄵🅆 Cymru • Wales
🄵 Lyceum Folk Club of Newport. From Ruth:
more guests - 2023
Thursday 19th January 2023. Paul Downes
Thursday 16th February 2023. Steve & Julie Wigley and Stonesthrow
Thursday 16th March 2023. A J Clarke
Thursday 20th April 2023. Winter Wilson
see http://www.lyceumfolknewport.org.uk/
🄵🅆 Kernow • Cornwall
🄵 Sarah McQuaid "Live events are what bring communities together.” – Sarah hits the road
With travel costs skyrocketing and the twin demons of Covid and the cost of living crisis driving audience numbers down, it’s not an ideal time to be hitting the road – but that’s exactly what Sarah McQuaid is doing. “Yes, these are seriously tough times for all musicians, myself included,” the Cornwall-based singer/songwriter says ruefully, “but live events are what bring communities together. If we don’t keep going out and doing it, all those music venues and village halls and arts centres are just going to disappear — and that would be a real tragedy.”
A month-long 20-show tour kicks off on the 4th of November and spans the length and breadth of England, from Cornwall to Cumbria and from the south coast to the North York Moors, finishing in early December. She’s toured internationally and made a series of critically acclaimed albums – most recently The St Buryan Sessions, recorded live in lockdown in the beautiful medieval church of St Buryan, just over a mile from Sarah’s home in rural West Cornwall.
See https://sarahmcquaid.com/tour for tour dates. Facebook • Twitter • Instagram • YouTube • Bandcamp • Patreon • Spotify
🄵🅆 West Country
🄵 Rosie Upton: ‘A Lamb to the Slaughter’ presentation
St John’s Parish Centre, Church Lane Trowbridge BA14 0EH Friday 11 November, 6.30pm for a 7pm start
Bring your own drinks, glasses and nibbles
‘A Lamb to the Slaughter’ will be a fascinating evening of talk, slides and traditional folk song chronicling the history of the woollen industry in and around Trowbridge from the 15th to 18th centuries.
Presented by Rosie Upton (also known as Rosie MacGregor) who was born in Derbyshire but has lived in Bradford-on-Avon for many years. She has a wealth of knowledge on this subject and the radical history of the area.
Rosie travels the country giving talks and singing on many different subjects, she is a published author and newspaper columnist and has a songbook of many different traditional songs.
Everyone is welcome – please bring your family and friends. £6 per person
🄵🅆 Glos
🄵 2nd Wed Glos CIRENCESTER THE TWELVE BELLS SONG SESSION pub: www.twelvebellscirencester.com Martin Graebe 01285 651104 --- details see Directory, Venues - England South-West
Martin and Shan Graebe report
The 12 Bells singing session restarted on Wednesday 18 October - it was really nice to be back together and raising the roof.
As before, the singing starts promptly at 8 o’clock and finishes at 10.30. Next 9 November; December date may vary, tbc.
2nd, 4th Mon Glos CHELTENHAM CHELTENHAM FOLK CLUB www.cheltenhamfc.org.uk Chris Beaumont 01242 571185
→ Sandford Park Alehouse, High Street. Please note the new starting time 7.30pm. --- details see Directory, Venues - England South-West
Re Mon 14 November:
Hi everyone Change of plan! We are looking forward to Mick Holditch being a guest in 2023.
In the meantime, we are delighted that REBIL have agreed to be our guests on 14 November.
www.facebook.com/rebilduo/ Hope to see you there! Judith
🄵 Sunday 13th November FOREST FOLK CLUB is thrilled to welcome back Compost Heap!
“Despite rumours to the contrary, Compost Heap is still thriving, just! Age does not weary us – or words to that effect. If you have not yet heard us, well, what a treat you have in store, and for those who have already had the pleasure, it’s on its way again.We sing! Traditional, chorus, shanties, join-inners, the odd ‘weepie’, even a touch of humour on occasion. Let’s all just get together and enjoy a good sing. Possibly not virtuosic but with vim, vigour, gusto and enjoyment. So, pin back the lug-holes, polish the vocal-chords and see you there!”
Doors open at The Orepool, Sling near Coleford at 7.30, admission £8 on the door.
For more info visit forestfolkclub.com
🄵🅆 Herefs-Worcs
🄵 A double bill on Friday 11th November for Folk at the Falcon, Bromyard in the Falcon Mews. Starts at 7.30pm (doors open 7pm).
Colin Pitts is a powerful yet sensitive singer/songwriter with a relaxed, warm performing style. From performing in folk clubs while a student in the late 60s, Colin became a popular performer in Midlands folk circles in the first half of the 1970s. In the 1990s, he re-emerged, forging a reputation for writing songs that sometimes make you think, sometimes make you laugh, and sometimes just make you feel good.
Mair Thomas was brought up in Montgomeryshire in a musical family. She sings both in English and Welsh, and has a special interest in traditional Welsh songs. Mair started writing songs in 2003, and has featured on Radio 3’s Late Junction, BBC Radio Hereford & Worcester and BBC Radio Shropshire, where her song Love Imperfect was a record of the week. Mair has also featured as a special guest on Radio Shropshire’s Sunday Folk.
Tickets: £10 from the Falcon Hotel, or on 07726 462220 or john@bloor.org.uk Info: pugh@live.co.uk. Also on the door on but we encourage advance booking. That way, we know how many chairs to put out. Chris Barltrop
🄵🅆 Alba/Scotland
🄵 Linn Phipps
Regular events
Irregular events
Thursday 1 Dec monthly Single-Shanty BigSing on zoom 8pm UK (noon PT) “Johnny come down to Hilo/ Hilo family" https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/collaborations-links-and-other-news/
Then next up date is Thurs 19 January 2023
Big thanks and appreciation in song! Linn (UK) +44 7917 564440
🄵 Lyceum Folk Club of Newport. From Ruth:
more guests - 2023
Thursday 19th January 2023. Paul Downes
Thursday 16th February 2023. Steve & Julie Wigley and Stonesthrow
Thursday 16th March 2023. A J Clarke
Thursday 20th April 2023. Winter Wilson
see http://www.lyceumfolknewport.org.uk/
🄵🅆 Kernow • Cornwall
🄵 Sarah McQuaid "Live events are what bring communities together.” – Sarah hits the road
With travel costs skyrocketing and the twin demons of Covid and the cost of living crisis driving audience numbers down, it’s not an ideal time to be hitting the road – but that’s exactly what Sarah McQuaid is doing. “Yes, these are seriously tough times for all musicians, myself included,” the Cornwall-based singer/songwriter says ruefully, “but live events are what bring communities together. If we don’t keep going out and doing it, all those music venues and village halls and arts centres are just going to disappear — and that would be a real tragedy.”
A month-long 20-show tour kicks off on the 4th of November and spans the length and breadth of England, from Cornwall to Cumbria and from the south coast to the North York Moors, finishing in early December. She’s toured internationally and made a series of critically acclaimed albums – most recently The St Buryan Sessions, recorded live in lockdown in the beautiful medieval church of St Buryan, just over a mile from Sarah’s home in rural West Cornwall.
See https://sarahmcquaid.com/tour for tour dates. Facebook • Twitter • Instagram • YouTube • Bandcamp • Patreon • Spotify
🄵🅆 West Country
🄵 Rosie Upton: ‘A Lamb to the Slaughter’ presentation
St John’s Parish Centre, Church Lane Trowbridge BA14 0EH Friday 11 November, 6.30pm for a 7pm start
Bring your own drinks, glasses and nibbles
‘A Lamb to the Slaughter’ will be a fascinating evening of talk, slides and traditional folk song chronicling the history of the woollen industry in and around Trowbridge from the 15th to 18th centuries.
Presented by Rosie Upton (also known as Rosie MacGregor) who was born in Derbyshire but has lived in Bradford-on-Avon for many years. She has a wealth of knowledge on this subject and the radical history of the area.
Rosie travels the country giving talks and singing on many different subjects, she is a published author and newspaper columnist and has a songbook of many different traditional songs.
Everyone is welcome – please bring your family and friends. £6 per person
🄵🅆 Glos
🄵 2nd Wed Glos CIRENCESTER THE TWELVE BELLS SONG SESSION pub: www.twelvebellscirencester.com Martin Graebe 01285 651104 --- details see Directory, Venues - England South-West
Martin and Shan Graebe report
The 12 Bells singing session restarted on Wednesday 18 October - it was really nice to be back together and raising the roof.
As before, the singing starts promptly at 8 o’clock and finishes at 10.30. Next 9 November; December date may vary, tbc.
2nd, 4th Mon Glos CHELTENHAM CHELTENHAM FOLK CLUB www.cheltenhamfc.org.uk Chris Beaumont 01242 571185
→ Sandford Park Alehouse, High Street. Please note the new starting time 7.30pm. --- details see Directory, Venues - England South-West
Re Mon 14 November:
Hi everyone Change of plan! We are looking forward to Mick Holditch being a guest in 2023.
In the meantime, we are delighted that REBIL have agreed to be our guests on 14 November.
www.facebook.com/rebilduo/ Hope to see you there! Judith
🄵 Sunday 13th November FOREST FOLK CLUB is thrilled to welcome back Compost Heap!
“Despite rumours to the contrary, Compost Heap is still thriving, just! Age does not weary us – or words to that effect. If you have not yet heard us, well, what a treat you have in store, and for those who have already had the pleasure, it’s on its way again.We sing! Traditional, chorus, shanties, join-inners, the odd ‘weepie’, even a touch of humour on occasion. Let’s all just get together and enjoy a good sing. Possibly not virtuosic but with vim, vigour, gusto and enjoyment. So, pin back the lug-holes, polish the vocal-chords and see you there!”
Doors open at The Orepool, Sling near Coleford at 7.30, admission £8 on the door.
For more info visit forestfolkclub.com
🄵🅆 Herefs-Worcs
🄵 A double bill on Friday 11th November for Folk at the Falcon, Bromyard in the Falcon Mews. Starts at 7.30pm (doors open 7pm).
Colin Pitts is a powerful yet sensitive singer/songwriter with a relaxed, warm performing style. From performing in folk clubs while a student in the late 60s, Colin became a popular performer in Midlands folk circles in the first half of the 1970s. In the 1990s, he re-emerged, forging a reputation for writing songs that sometimes make you think, sometimes make you laugh, and sometimes just make you feel good.
Mair Thomas was brought up in Montgomeryshire in a musical family. She sings both in English and Welsh, and has a special interest in traditional Welsh songs. Mair started writing songs in 2003, and has featured on Radio 3’s Late Junction, BBC Radio Hereford & Worcester and BBC Radio Shropshire, where her song Love Imperfect was a record of the week. Mair has also featured as a special guest on Radio Shropshire’s Sunday Folk.
Tickets: £10 from the Falcon Hotel, or on 07726 462220 or john@bloor.org.uk Info: pugh@live.co.uk. Also on the door on but we encourage advance booking. That way, we know how many chairs to put out. Chris Barltrop
🄵🅆 Alba/Scotland
🄵 Linn Phipps
Regular events
- 2nd Friday (usually) 1930 UK (1130am PT) Srubag Celtic-language free zoom ceilidh https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/srubag/
- 3rd Sat 6pm UK (10am PT) Linn’s learn a Gaelic Song free zoom workshop, contact https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/contact/ for flyer, link and to receive monthly invite and materials
Irregular events
Thursday 1 Dec monthly Single-Shanty BigSing on zoom 8pm UK (noon PT) “Johnny come down to Hilo/ Hilo family" https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/collaborations-links-and-other-news/
Then next up date is Thurs 19 January 2023
Big thanks and appreciation in song! Linn (UK) +44 7917 564440
NEXT ISSUE: 1st January, covering Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr. DEADLINE 20th Nov.
Below: we have Journal Updates; News Updates; and Directory Updates.
Below: we have Journal Updates; News Updates; and Directory Updates.
**** Please publicise us ~ on your folk club/performer emails, website, Facebook:
folklife.uk read or download News; Festivals Diary.
folklife.uk/updates Updates, sign up for free emailed Newsletter.
folklife-traditions.uk researched articles, archive, downloads.
folklife-directory.uk Online Directories, Zoom list.
folklife.uk read or download News; Festivals Diary.
folklife.uk/updates Updates, sign up for free emailed Newsletter.
folklife-traditions.uk researched articles, archive, downloads.
folklife-directory.uk Online Directories, Zoom list.
Editorial
With the sad closure of Living Tradition, we're one of the last UK-wide print magazine specialising in folk. To survive, we need to develop, so we ask you to please publicise us - box above - on your folk club/performer emails, your website, your Facebook - thanks!
Note - I'm not personally on any social media - i wouldn't have to read it
I currently deal with all admin so I don't have any spare time for development. So if anybody can spare time for admin help, that would be great - publicity, editing, checking Journal directory entries, etc etc - please get in touch!
FW, Folklife West: as usual, posted out a week before 1 Sept; now copied online. Enjoy!
We expected about 6 pages less (as announced, we removed 1-line print listings to save space). July We're pleased to say that September FW has 56 pages, same as before! - as we had more articles & news to fill those pages!
FTJ, Folklife Traditions Journal pages: researched articles, publications, etc. Will now also be available separately, details below - for those who are more interested in FTJ rather than our UK folk-news pages which form most of FW. With new readers, perhaps more articles?
Folklife's online Directory, www.folklife-directory.uk .... UK - and world?
'Venues: Other Areas' now replaced by 'Venues: South-East & East, North' and 'Venues: Scotland, and International'.
Likewise 'Performers: Other Areas' has been made into 2 webpages.
This is to allow for entries from anywhere - we have not yet got any entries from 'East', nor any 'Venues: Scotland, and International' - but we welcome them.
With the sad closure of Living Tradition, we're one of the last UK-wide print magazine specialising in folk. To survive, we need to develop, so we ask you to please publicise us - box above - on your folk club/performer emails, your website, your Facebook - thanks!
Note - I'm not personally on any social media - i wouldn't have to read it
I currently deal with all admin so I don't have any spare time for development. So if anybody can spare time for admin help, that would be great - publicity, editing, checking Journal directory entries, etc etc - please get in touch!
FW, Folklife West: as usual, posted out a week before 1 Sept; now copied online. Enjoy!
We expected about 6 pages less (as announced, we removed 1-line print listings to save space). July We're pleased to say that September FW has 56 pages, same as before! - as we had more articles & news to fill those pages!
FTJ, Folklife Traditions Journal pages: researched articles, publications, etc. Will now also be available separately, details below - for those who are more interested in FTJ rather than our UK folk-news pages which form most of FW. With new readers, perhaps more articles?
Folklife's online Directory, www.folklife-directory.uk .... UK - and world?
'Venues: Other Areas' now replaced by 'Venues: South-East & East, North' and 'Venues: Scotland, and International'.
Likewise 'Performers: Other Areas' has been made into 2 webpages.
This is to allow for entries from anywhere - we have not yet got any entries from 'East', nor any 'Venues: Scotland, and International' - but we welcome them.
🄵🅃🄹 Folklife Traditions Journal, print pages copied to www.folklife-traditions.uk
Our aims include stimulating a wider interest in folk studies & folk culture: FTJ pages of Folklife West magazine
Researched articles + archive, news on FTJ website. Folklife Membership, or Journal subscription, welcome - but not required.
FTJ updates from 🄵 Folklife members, 🄰 or Ø Associate members. 🄹 Folklife Traditions Journal subscribers. NL others signed up to Newsletter.
Our aims include stimulating a wider interest in folk studies & folk culture: FTJ pages of Folklife West magazine
Researched articles + archive, news on FTJ website. Folklife Membership, or Journal subscription, welcome - but not required.
FTJ updates from 🄵 Folklife members, 🄰 or Ø Associate members. 🄹 Folklife Traditions Journal subscribers. NL others signed up to Newsletter.
🄹 We are delighted to announce we will also sell FTJ separately!
For those interested in articles (as in FTJ online), but not in folk club news, so not Folklife Members.
We will continue to include FTJ as part of Folklife West, as before.
1 copy of 1 FTJ [only - not Folklife West]: £3.50 UK, £5.60 EU, £7 rest of world.
Annual (3 issues of FTJ): £10 UK, £16 EU, £20 rest of world.
ACCOUNT NAME: "Folklife West T/A Folklife" for FTJ Subscription payments
-- and for small donations (Folklife is a non-profit group; our free-to-you websites with free downloads cost us over £300 a year!)
BACS: sort code 09-01-55, account 18675181 For overseas bank codes, email sam@folklife.uk
CHEQUES to 16 Barrett Rise, Malvern, WR14 2UJ.
CARD PAYMENTS on "Ko-fi" world-wide card-payments website: -- webpage for FTJ card payments https://ko-fi.com/s/d479e8d448
• The same adverts will appear in Folklife West and in FTJ.
We thank our supporters: 🄹 Journal subscribers, and 🄵 Folklife members.
For those interested in articles (as in FTJ online), but not in folk club news, so not Folklife Members.
We will continue to include FTJ as part of Folklife West, as before.
1 copy of 1 FTJ [only - not Folklife West]: £3.50 UK, £5.60 EU, £7 rest of world.
Annual (3 issues of FTJ): £10 UK, £16 EU, £20 rest of world.
ACCOUNT NAME: "Folklife West T/A Folklife" for FTJ Subscription payments
-- and for small donations (Folklife is a non-profit group; our free-to-you websites with free downloads cost us over £300 a year!)
BACS: sort code 09-01-55, account 18675181 For overseas bank codes, email sam@folklife.uk
CHEQUES to 16 Barrett Rise, Malvern, WR14 2UJ.
CARD PAYMENTS on "Ko-fi" world-wide card-payments website: -- webpage for FTJ card payments https://ko-fi.com/s/d479e8d448
• The same adverts will appear in Folklife West and in FTJ.
We thank our supporters: 🄹 Journal subscribers, and 🄵 Folklife members.
WANTED: VOLUNTEERS to assist with indexing our articles welcome - to create Excel table, copy existing lists to it (free FTJ for volunteers)
🄵 Carol and the late Gwilym Davies - EFDSS Gold Badges awarded
Gwilym and Carol will chiefly be familiar as prominent folk song collectors and performers for over 50 years. They have performed with various bands and for many morris side; also recording and releasing albums, writing articles and publishing books. Their collecting has mainly focussed on Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Devon and the USA. They have been the driving force behind creation of the much-admired glostrad.com. On his death in June 2022 Gwilym had nearly completed an MPhil on morris music with Newcastle University, which it is hoped will be awarded posthumously.
The decision to award Gold Badges to both Gwilym and Carol was made shortly before Gwilym's death. We wish to honour that award, although very sadly Gwilym died before the good news could be shared with him.
On Saturday 1st October from 8 to 11pm
You are invited to a Musical Memorial Celebration of the life of Gwilym Davies.
To include the presentation of the English Folk Dance and Song Society’s Gold Badge to Carol and posthumously to Gwilym by Steve Roud.
At the Cotswold Area Civil Service Sports Association, Tewkesbury Road, Cheltenham, GL51 9SL (just past Aldi on the left leaving Cheltenham)
Come and sing and play in Gwilym’s memory.
It would be useful for Carol to have some idea of numbers of folks attending: carol<at>sweetsofmay.co.uk
Books announced
🄹 Caroline Macafee: Scots Folk Singers and their Sources. A Study of Two Major Scottish Song Collections (Brill, 2021) https://brill.com/view/title/58452
105 euros for hardback or e-book, but members of university libraries and similar institutions that take the e-book can order a print-on-demand paperback for 25 euros plus VAT (Brill 'MyBook' scheme).
This book ofers a detailed analysis of two major Scottish folk song collections, the Greig-Duncan Collection, and the Scots folk song material of the School of Scottish Studies Archives. This exhaustive study of song transmission includes all contributors, not only notable singers. The scattered information, marshalled into quantiable data, throws light on such topics as transmission within and outside the family, the role of literacy, the public reticence of women singers, the association between the Travellers and the big ballads, and the impact of social changes in the late nineteenth century, and of broadcast music in the 1920s. The new opportunities opened up by digitisation are explored here for the rst time.
Readership
Libraries, academics, students, and general readers interested in Scottish traditional song and ethnology, or in the Travellers. Researchers interested in song transmission or the potential of digital song archives.
🄹 I'll be talking about my research (on the Greig-Duncan and School of Scottish Archives contributors and how they learned their songs) on the Traditional Song Forum podcast on 6 November. Caroline Macafee
🄵 Carol and the late Gwilym Davies - EFDSS Gold Badges awarded
Gwilym and Carol will chiefly be familiar as prominent folk song collectors and performers for over 50 years. They have performed with various bands and for many morris side; also recording and releasing albums, writing articles and publishing books. Their collecting has mainly focussed on Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Devon and the USA. They have been the driving force behind creation of the much-admired glostrad.com. On his death in June 2022 Gwilym had nearly completed an MPhil on morris music with Newcastle University, which it is hoped will be awarded posthumously.
The decision to award Gold Badges to both Gwilym and Carol was made shortly before Gwilym's death. We wish to honour that award, although very sadly Gwilym died before the good news could be shared with him.
On Saturday 1st October from 8 to 11pm
You are invited to a Musical Memorial Celebration of the life of Gwilym Davies.
To include the presentation of the English Folk Dance and Song Society’s Gold Badge to Carol and posthumously to Gwilym by Steve Roud.
At the Cotswold Area Civil Service Sports Association, Tewkesbury Road, Cheltenham, GL51 9SL (just past Aldi on the left leaving Cheltenham)
Come and sing and play in Gwilym’s memory.
It would be useful for Carol to have some idea of numbers of folks attending: carol<at>sweetsofmay.co.uk
Books announced
🄹 Caroline Macafee: Scots Folk Singers and their Sources. A Study of Two Major Scottish Song Collections (Brill, 2021) https://brill.com/view/title/58452
105 euros for hardback or e-book, but members of university libraries and similar institutions that take the e-book can order a print-on-demand paperback for 25 euros plus VAT (Brill 'MyBook' scheme).
This book ofers a detailed analysis of two major Scottish folk song collections, the Greig-Duncan Collection, and the Scots folk song material of the School of Scottish Studies Archives. This exhaustive study of song transmission includes all contributors, not only notable singers. The scattered information, marshalled into quantiable data, throws light on such topics as transmission within and outside the family, the role of literacy, the public reticence of women singers, the association between the Travellers and the big ballads, and the impact of social changes in the late nineteenth century, and of broadcast music in the 1920s. The new opportunities opened up by digitisation are explored here for the rst time.
Readership
Libraries, academics, students, and general readers interested in Scottish traditional song and ethnology, or in the Travellers. Researchers interested in song transmission or the potential of digital song archives.
🄹 I'll be talking about my research (on the Greig-Duncan and School of Scottish Archives contributors and how they learned their songs) on the Traditional Song Forum podcast on 6 November. Caroline Macafee
⎈ INTERNATIONAL NEWS (online only)
News is most welcome from all on our overseas mailing list Folklife membership is not required, but welcomed . . . . . . should any Overseas Folklife members send in news, that would be printed in FW LISA NULL Sad news about Lisa, well known to many of us from Zoom. Please see International News webpage for a very detailed article. |
News updates 🄵 Folklife members, 🄰 or Ø Associate members. - thank you for your support !
We also include (International news only) NL others signed up to Newsletter.
Australia
NL Australian singer-songwriter BRUCE WATSON will be returning to the UK in 2023, following his inaugural successful tour in 2019.
He is a longtime favourite of the Australian folk scene, having appeared at over 180 folk festivals as well as innumerable folk clubs and other venues across Australia and New Zealand. His performances are joyful and thoroughly engaging, with witty lyrics and energetic presentation. He is a masterful craftsman of songs, be they evocative and heart wrenching, or side-splittingly funny, and he loves nothing more than having people sing along with him. Eric Bogle has described him as “the best songwriter I have seen in a long time.” Melbourne folk institution The Boite says he is “an Australian folk hero!”
If your folk club is interested in inviting Bruce to be a guest performer in September or October 2023, please check out the links below and contact him.
Website: http://www.brucewatsonmusic.com
Email: jandbwatson<at>gmail.com
Listen: https://brucewatsonmusic.bandcamp.com
Watch live showcase video: https://youtu.be/yRa-xpPQQ_Q
Already booked for Llantrisant Folk Club for October 2023 !
USA
USA, Virtual Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival, 25 Sept 2022 - help please!
🄵 From Linn Phipps
It’s just under two weeks until the start of our live and participative Virtual Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival, which will be running in parallel with the in-person PMFF (itself partially live-streamed). The schedule is here http://pmffest.org/2022-virtual-pmff
We still have some volunteer gaps in our volunteer roster for people to help with Front Desk, Session Assistant and Tech Support roles (see attached). Virtual volunteers please contact Virtual PMFF Co-ordinator Linn Phipps via her website https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/contact/ or info@<at>pmffest.org
For the virtual festival, where you can come and sing via Zoom, on 25 September event, I will circulate the link to participants about 24 hours in advance.
Thank you so much and see you soon,
Linn
Co-ordinator, Virtual PMFF + 44 7917 564440 (UK) – please use email or what’s app rather than text due to cost of transatlantic texts.
Please see International webpage for details of PMFF, also in print magazine page 52.
🄵🅆 Folklife Members' FOLK NEWS: online updates to print pages copied to this site
🄵🅆 Cymru • Wales
🄵 LITTLE MILL FOLK SESSION, The Halfway House [07952 472939], Berthon Road, Little Mill, near Pontypool. Monmouthshire NP4 0HL.
Tuesdays weekly, 2pm to 5pm, all year
You would be most welcome, at Halfway House, the only pub in the village on the only main road A472 through the village. We meet at three minutes past two and finish at three minutes past five……….Wonderful room to sing in, music acoustic and often wide-ranging, numbers almost certainly less than ten. ® Barry Scouse, organiser, 07855 021272,
🄵 TASC, Traditional Arts Support in the Community (Powys and beyond) [page 20 in Folklife West]
We are excited to tell you that we are putting on a Welsh Folk Day of workshops in Welsh clog (tutor Huw Williams), tunes (tutor Jem Hammond), or song (tutor Menna Thomas). it's in Llandrindod Wells on Saturday the 15th of October 2022. Finishing with a friendly showcase. TASC members £25, non-members £28 per person, includes refreshments. 9.30am - 4.30pm. Places are limited. Please book via the TASC website shop: www.tradartsupport.org.uk/shop.html
For further information contact Louise via: admin<at>tradartsupport.org.uk
🄵🅆 Glos
🄵 Cheltenham Folk Club has moved to Mondays for now - see revised Directory entry below.
🄵🅆 Midlands
🄵 WOLVERHAMPTON FOLK SESSIONS new Member
2nd Thu., 8pm: The Combermere Arms, 90 Chapel Ash, W’ton WV3 0TY
4th Thu., 8pm: The Chindit Inn. 113 Merridale Road, W’ton WV3 9SE.
An acoustic Folk Session - Mostly traditional English/Celtic Music and Song, 8pm start. All welcome. Come along for a tune or a song or just come for the craic!
John & Jo Crane, 01902 331430.
🄵🅆 Herefs-Worcs --- Herefordshire news
🄵 OneAchord [see News p41]
Just to let you know that we now have a new line up for OneAchord. Marc and Andy have left us and Nick has joined us on drums, Tony on accordion and Jenny on whistle and tenor sax. Our next gig will be on Saturday 29th October at 7:730pm in Cradley Village Hall.
Best wishes, Peter
🄵 Tuesday 27th Sep The Homend Poets & Musicians [see News p41]
Pot & Page cafe (01531 248743), https://www.facebook.com/PotAndPage, 8 New Street, Ledbury Herefordshire HR8 2DX 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm: Theme: “Music" Nick Halligan 01684 563281 Email nickh2009<at>btinternet.com, but phone preferred
🄵 Folk At The Falcon's Successful Fundraiser for Ukraine
As part of this year's Bromyard Folk Festival, Folk at the Falcon presented a local showcase performance on 8th September at the Falcon Mews. Admission was free, with the audience asked to donate to the Ukraine Fund of the Disasters Emergency Committee. Performers donating their services included Roger Pugh, John Bloor, The Three Disagrees, Chris Barltrop, the Cherrystones, and Hugh Knight & Viv Bell.
The audience included Folk Festival visitors as well as local 'regulars'. Thanks to the generosity of those attending, the concert raised a total of £470, which became £587.50 when government Gift Aid was added as the money was paid in.
Thanks everyone for your support. Slava Ukraini! Chris Barltrop
🄵 Folk At The Falcon [page 40 in Folklife West]
Concert in the Falcon Mews starts at 7.30pm on Friday 14th October (doors open 7pm).
There’s a rare treat in store for Bromyard audiences when Tyneside fiddler and singer Tom McConville comes to Folk at the Falcon. Tom’s playing partner is the equally wonderful Michael Biggins. Supporting artists for a great evening’s entertainment are Bromyard’s own Viv Bell and Huw Knight.
McConville and Biggins are top musicians who have been awarded BBC Folk Musician of The Year and BBC Scottish Trad Musician of the Year independently.
The sum of the two talents combined with Tom’s rich singing is astounding and has left their audiences spellbound.
One of the most memorable evenings of music to be found.
Tickets: £10 from the Falcon Hotel, or by phone on 07726 462220. Tickets: john<at>bloor.org.uk Info: pugh<at>live.co.uk. Tickets are also available on the door on the night, but we do encourage members of the audience to book tickets in advance. This way, we know how many chairs to put out.
🄵🅆 South-East
🄵 Moonrakers [page 47 in Folklife West] -- Postponed concert. -
Dear Friends,
our concert of 17th September in Lea, Nr.Malmesbury has been postponed. It will now be:
Friday 23 September St Giles Church, Lea, Nr. MALMESBURY, Wiltshire , SN16 9PB. 7:30pm. Lovely old church with fine acoustics. £12 on the door or in advance from 07483 803235.
Also, look out for the following one: 8 October St Mary's Festival 200, St Mary's Church/Arts Centre, Horse Fair, BANBURY, OX16 0AA. 7.30pm. £12 (£5 children) from www.banburystmary.org.uk/event/9542980 Fabulous large church in the centre of Banbury that doubles as an arts centre. Stage and lighting - should be a good one! The event is part of the 200th anniversary of the church.
We really encourage you to follow our Facebook page for instant updates, news, pictures and videos. Go to Moonrakers | Facebook and click "follow".
Keep well, Jon, Jacqui, Becki & Sarah
🄵🅆 Festivals, Workshops
NL 2022 Sep 24 - 25 THE PORTSMOUTH MARITIME FOLK FESTIVAL, USA ~ LIVE & ZOOM www.pmffest.org
LIVE:
→ PORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire, USA, Various venues in downtown Portsmouth ZOOM: see below
⌂ The Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival. info@pmffest.org. See www.pmffest.org, www.facebook.com/PMFF.NH
⊕ Organized by local folk artists, the Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival is a registered nonprofit with the mission of preserving and presenting the music of Portsmouth’s maritime heritage and keeping the Port City’s seafaring traditions alive. It is a totally free festival, run by volunteers, and financed entirely by donations.
Headliners: Vienna Carroll, David Coffin, and Cliff Haslam. Plus Don Sineti and Heather Wood. Stay tuned for more additions as the festival gets closer!
ZOOM:
⊕ ZOOM: We believe this to be the first time that a Folk Festival has run both live and live-streamed AND with an integral Virtual component, all at the same time! This is a free folk festival, donations to help meet costs welcome to: https://portsmouth-maritime-folk-festival.square.site/
The Virtual PMFF will run on Zoom. Please see details below on how to register and join. Here’s the plan…
Sep 25 Sunday 2022 ET [ET = US Eastern Time] / UK time (1) Break-out room “Morning Light”, (2) Break-out room “Noonday”.
Noon-1pm ET / UK 5-6pm: (1) Sara Banleigh:”Sea Shanties at the Movies: Maritime Songs in Film and Television”.
1-2pm ET / 6-7pm: (1) Janet Bee Brown storytelling and shanties;
(2) Trevor Clarke - Song Circle.
2-3pm ET / UK 7-8pm: (1) Bob Zentz and Co: live from Yorktown Folk Festival.
3-4pm ET / UK 8-9pm: (1) David Kidman Song Circle;
(2) Workshop – Brigitte Kloareg.
4-5pm ET / UK 9-10pm: (1) Shanty Big Sing “Round the Horn”, til late – co-hosted Linn Phipps & Jim Lucas.
Register to join us at the Festival and receive the joining link 24 hours prior to the event:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/14rOiTs-74WOBZevD7iEE4YJDG_B3qTcKTO28-a8ZZ4Q/prefill
Any questions, please contact Virtual PMFF Co-ordinator Linn Phipps via her website https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/contact or info<at>pmffest.org
🄵 Currently listing 2022 Oct TBA WREN MUSIC FOLK FESTIVAL (formally the Baring-Gould Folk Weekend)
This will now be
2022 Oct 29 WREN MUSIC FAMILY FOLK DAY www.wrenmusic.co.uk
We are having a Family Folk Day in Okehampton on 29 October in lieu of the festival this year.
It is Wren’s 40th anniversary next year so expect lots of celebrations and a folk festival bigger and better for 2023
🄵🅆 Cymru • Wales
🄵 LITTLE MILL FOLK SESSION, The Halfway House [07952 472939], Berthon Road, Little Mill, near Pontypool. Monmouthshire NP4 0HL.
Tuesdays weekly, 2pm to 5pm, all year
You would be most welcome, at Halfway House, the only pub in the village on the only main road A472 through the village. We meet at three minutes past two and finish at three minutes past five……….Wonderful room to sing in, music acoustic and often wide-ranging, numbers almost certainly less than ten. ® Barry Scouse, organiser, 07855 021272,
🄵 TASC, Traditional Arts Support in the Community (Powys and beyond) [page 20 in Folklife West]
We are excited to tell you that we are putting on a Welsh Folk Day of workshops in Welsh clog (tutor Huw Williams), tunes (tutor Jem Hammond), or song (tutor Menna Thomas). it's in Llandrindod Wells on Saturday the 15th of October 2022. Finishing with a friendly showcase. TASC members £25, non-members £28 per person, includes refreshments. 9.30am - 4.30pm. Places are limited. Please book via the TASC website shop: www.tradartsupport.org.uk/shop.html
For further information contact Louise via: admin<at>tradartsupport.org.uk
🄵🅆 Glos
🄵 Cheltenham Folk Club has moved to Mondays for now - see revised Directory entry below.
🄵🅆 Midlands
🄵 WOLVERHAMPTON FOLK SESSIONS new Member
2nd Thu., 8pm: The Combermere Arms, 90 Chapel Ash, W’ton WV3 0TY
4th Thu., 8pm: The Chindit Inn. 113 Merridale Road, W’ton WV3 9SE.
An acoustic Folk Session - Mostly traditional English/Celtic Music and Song, 8pm start. All welcome. Come along for a tune or a song or just come for the craic!
John & Jo Crane, 01902 331430.
🄵🅆 Herefs-Worcs --- Herefordshire news
🄵 OneAchord [see News p41]
Just to let you know that we now have a new line up for OneAchord. Marc and Andy have left us and Nick has joined us on drums, Tony on accordion and Jenny on whistle and tenor sax. Our next gig will be on Saturday 29th October at 7:730pm in Cradley Village Hall.
Best wishes, Peter
🄵 Tuesday 27th Sep The Homend Poets & Musicians [see News p41]
Pot & Page cafe (01531 248743), https://www.facebook.com/PotAndPage, 8 New Street, Ledbury Herefordshire HR8 2DX 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm: Theme: “Music" Nick Halligan 01684 563281 Email nickh2009<at>btinternet.com, but phone preferred
🄵 Folk At The Falcon's Successful Fundraiser for Ukraine
As part of this year's Bromyard Folk Festival, Folk at the Falcon presented a local showcase performance on 8th September at the Falcon Mews. Admission was free, with the audience asked to donate to the Ukraine Fund of the Disasters Emergency Committee. Performers donating their services included Roger Pugh, John Bloor, The Three Disagrees, Chris Barltrop, the Cherrystones, and Hugh Knight & Viv Bell.
The audience included Folk Festival visitors as well as local 'regulars'. Thanks to the generosity of those attending, the concert raised a total of £470, which became £587.50 when government Gift Aid was added as the money was paid in.
Thanks everyone for your support. Slava Ukraini! Chris Barltrop
🄵 Folk At The Falcon [page 40 in Folklife West]
Concert in the Falcon Mews starts at 7.30pm on Friday 14th October (doors open 7pm).
There’s a rare treat in store for Bromyard audiences when Tyneside fiddler and singer Tom McConville comes to Folk at the Falcon. Tom’s playing partner is the equally wonderful Michael Biggins. Supporting artists for a great evening’s entertainment are Bromyard’s own Viv Bell and Huw Knight.
McConville and Biggins are top musicians who have been awarded BBC Folk Musician of The Year and BBC Scottish Trad Musician of the Year independently.
The sum of the two talents combined with Tom’s rich singing is astounding and has left their audiences spellbound.
One of the most memorable evenings of music to be found.
Tickets: £10 from the Falcon Hotel, or by phone on 07726 462220. Tickets: john<at>bloor.org.uk Info: pugh<at>live.co.uk. Tickets are also available on the door on the night, but we do encourage members of the audience to book tickets in advance. This way, we know how many chairs to put out.
🄵🅆 South-East
🄵 Moonrakers [page 47 in Folklife West] -- Postponed concert. -
Dear Friends,
our concert of 17th September in Lea, Nr.Malmesbury has been postponed. It will now be:
Friday 23 September St Giles Church, Lea, Nr. MALMESBURY, Wiltshire , SN16 9PB. 7:30pm. Lovely old church with fine acoustics. £12 on the door or in advance from 07483 803235.
Also, look out for the following one: 8 October St Mary's Festival 200, St Mary's Church/Arts Centre, Horse Fair, BANBURY, OX16 0AA. 7.30pm. £12 (£5 children) from www.banburystmary.org.uk/event/9542980 Fabulous large church in the centre of Banbury that doubles as an arts centre. Stage and lighting - should be a good one! The event is part of the 200th anniversary of the church.
We really encourage you to follow our Facebook page for instant updates, news, pictures and videos. Go to Moonrakers | Facebook and click "follow".
Keep well, Jon, Jacqui, Becki & Sarah
🄵🅆 Festivals, Workshops
NL 2022 Sep 24 - 25 THE PORTSMOUTH MARITIME FOLK FESTIVAL, USA ~ LIVE & ZOOM www.pmffest.org
LIVE:
→ PORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire, USA, Various venues in downtown Portsmouth ZOOM: see below
⌂ The Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival. info@pmffest.org. See www.pmffest.org, www.facebook.com/PMFF.NH
⊕ Organized by local folk artists, the Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival is a registered nonprofit with the mission of preserving and presenting the music of Portsmouth’s maritime heritage and keeping the Port City’s seafaring traditions alive. It is a totally free festival, run by volunteers, and financed entirely by donations.
Headliners: Vienna Carroll, David Coffin, and Cliff Haslam. Plus Don Sineti and Heather Wood. Stay tuned for more additions as the festival gets closer!
ZOOM:
⊕ ZOOM: We believe this to be the first time that a Folk Festival has run both live and live-streamed AND with an integral Virtual component, all at the same time! This is a free folk festival, donations to help meet costs welcome to: https://portsmouth-maritime-folk-festival.square.site/
The Virtual PMFF will run on Zoom. Please see details below on how to register and join. Here’s the plan…
Sep 25 Sunday 2022 ET [ET = US Eastern Time] / UK time (1) Break-out room “Morning Light”, (2) Break-out room “Noonday”.
Noon-1pm ET / UK 5-6pm: (1) Sara Banleigh:”Sea Shanties at the Movies: Maritime Songs in Film and Television”.
1-2pm ET / 6-7pm: (1) Janet Bee Brown storytelling and shanties;
(2) Trevor Clarke - Song Circle.
2-3pm ET / UK 7-8pm: (1) Bob Zentz and Co: live from Yorktown Folk Festival.
3-4pm ET / UK 8-9pm: (1) David Kidman Song Circle;
(2) Workshop – Brigitte Kloareg.
4-5pm ET / UK 9-10pm: (1) Shanty Big Sing “Round the Horn”, til late – co-hosted Linn Phipps & Jim Lucas.
Register to join us at the Festival and receive the joining link 24 hours prior to the event:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/14rOiTs-74WOBZevD7iEE4YJDG_B3qTcKTO28-a8ZZ4Q/prefill
Any questions, please contact Virtual PMFF Co-ordinator Linn Phipps via her website https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/contact or info<at>pmffest.org
🄵 Currently listing 2022 Oct TBA WREN MUSIC FOLK FESTIVAL (formally the Baring-Gould Folk Weekend)
This will now be
2022 Oct 29 WREN MUSIC FAMILY FOLK DAY www.wrenmusic.co.uk
We are having a Family Folk Day in Okehampton on 29 October in lieu of the festival this year.
It is Wren’s 40th anniversary next year so expect lots of celebrations and a folk festival bigger and better for 2023
🄵🄳 Folklife's online DIRECTORY - free entries for all, non-members welcome
Information from 🄵 Folklife member, 🄰 or Ø Associate members; their news in area news webpages. 🄹 Folklife Traditions Journal subscriber.
Thanks to the above for their support. We also include: NL listings from other Newsletter readers. All welcome!
Thanks to the above for their support. We also include: NL listings from other Newsletter readers. All welcome!
VENUES
VENUES - CYMRU•WALES on www.folklife-directory.uk/v-cymru.html
🄵 Weekly Tue afternoon Mons LITTLE MILL, nr PONTYPOOL LITTLE MILL FOLK SESSION (no website) Barry Scouse 07855 021272
→ The Halfway House [07952 472939], Berthon Road, Little Mill, near Pontypool. Monmouthshire NP4 0HL. 2pm to 5pm, all year
⇒ Barry Scouse, 07855 021272
⊕ Wonderful room to sing in, music acoustic and often wide-ranging, numbers almost certainly less than ten. (added August 2022)
🄵 Last Tues Newport RHIWDERIN LAST TUESDAY SING www.newportfolkclub.co.uk Cris 01633 896347
→ The Rhiwderin Inn (01633 897722), Caerphilly Road, Newport, NP10 8RX, 8pm.
⇒ Cris, 01633 896347. www.facebook.com/groups/newportfollkclub
⊕ Monthly acoustic session run by Newport Folk Club. [was 1st Tues., updated Aug 2022]
VENUES - SOUTH-WEST on www.folklife-directory.uk/v-south-west.html
🄵 Monthly - week varies Sun Glos COLEFORD FOREST FOLK CLUB www.forestfolkclub.com
→ Orepool Inn, Chepstow Road, Sling, Coleford GL16 8LH. Doors 7.30pm for 8pm start.
⇒ Email contact is forestofdeanfolkclub<at>gmail.com
⊕ Singers Nights and Guest Nights attracting talent from Wales, the South West and beyond. For the time being, one event each month, always on a Sunday. Cash only on the door please, £8 for guest nights, £2 for Singers Nights. [Aug 2022, change to monthly, week varies, for time being]
🄵 2nd, 4th Mon Glos CHELTENHAM CHELTENHAM FOLK CLUB www.cheltenhamfc.org.uk Chris Beaumont 01242 571185
→ Sandford Park Alehouse, High Street. Please note the new starting time 7.30pm. Not Aug.
⇒ Chris Beaumont, 32 Cudnall Street, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham, Glos GL53 8HQ or 01242 571185; or Judith 01242 577506.
⊕ Mainly local performers with local feature spots; all welcome. £3.00 / £2.50 performers. Cash only. Do join our mailing list — just email machteltje<at>gmail.com (change of day, Sep 2022)
Formerly 2nd, 4th Sun, now on Mondays for a trial period. Also: pub under new management.
So: please join mailing list to keep up to date with current situation, and/or check on GlosFolk facebook (and on this page).
VENUES - MIDLANDS on www.folklife-directory.uk/v-midlands.html
🄵 2nd Thu WOLVERHAMPTON The COMBERMERE ARMS FOLK SESSION [no session website] John & Jo Crane 01902 331430
→ The Combermere Arms, 90 Chapel Ash, Wolverhampton WV3 0TY. 8pm start.
⊕ An acoustic Folk Session - Mostly traditional English/Celtic Music and Song. All welcome. Come along for a tune or a song or just come for the craic! [new Member, 2022 July]
🄵 4th Thu WOLVERHAMPTON The CHINDIT INN FOLK SESSION [no session website] John & Jo Crane 01902 331430
→ The Chindit Inn, 113 Merridale Road, Wolverhampton WV3 9SE. 8pm start.
⊕ An acoustic Folk Session - Mostly traditional English/Celtic Music and Song. All welcome. Come along for a tune or a song or just come for the craic! [new Member, 2022 July]
🄵 1st Mon Worcs MONDAY SESSION AT THE PHEASANT (no website) Frank Jolley 07482 625877
Replacing the Old Chestnut Tree (pub not available)
→ 25 New Street, Worcester WR1 2DP. 1st Mon, 7.15pm.
⇒ martin001745<at>gmail.com
⊕ An ideal venue, very friendly and helpful staff, so we are going to make this our regular meeting place. Jon, the landlord, has offered a room upstairs which accommodates 30 people. Parking: Cornmarket car park £1 after 7 pm. [updated Aug 2022]
🄵 1st & 3rd Fri Worcs WORCESTER SOMERS TRADITIONAL FOLK CLUB www.somers-folk-club.org.uk Sam/Eleanor 01684 561378
→ Bishop Allenby Hall (Streetmap), St. Stephen's Church - parking in churchyard, hall is to side of church. St. Stephen's Street, via A449, Worcester WR3 7HS. (aerial_view) 8.15-10.45pm (doors 8pm) - please check website for exceptional changes. All year.
⇒ Chris info<at>somers-folk-club.org.uk Eleanor & Sam 01684 561378 (E&S are the Folklife editors but STFC is a separate organisation)
⊕ “A place where traditional song is at home”. Mostly songs; choruses start 1st Fridays; singers’ nights every Friday, all welcome. Visitors £2, but your 1st visit is free! We also have occasional Saturday specials (Member-only) free to regulars.
2nd & 4th Fri Zoom Currently Somers members only; annual membership is £10 to 31/12/2022. Contact etc as above. [updated Aug 2022]
VENUES SOUTH-EAST & EAST, NORTH on www.folklife-directory.uk/v-other.html
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🄵 2nd & 4th Tue Hants SOUTHAMPTON FOCSLE MUSIC http://www.focsle.org Paul Clarke
→ The Guide Dog, 38 Earls Rd, Bevois Valley, Southampton SO14 6SF. 8pm.
⇒ Contact Paul Clarke, virtual<at>focsle.org, and see website.
⊕ Also live 3rd & 5th Wed, see below.
Also on Zoom: Virtual FOCSLE Music, 2nd & 4th Wed, 8pm UK [reverts to weekly from Dec. 2022], see Venues Zoom webpage
(Updated Sept 2022)
🄵 3rd & 5th Wed Hants SOUTHAMPTON FOCSLE MUSIC http://www.focsle.org Paul Clarke
→ The Wellington Arms, 56 Park Road, Freemantle, Southampton SO15 3DE. 8pm.
⇒ Contact Paul Clarke, virtual<at>focsle.org, and see website.
⊕ Also live 2nd & 4th Tue, see above.
Also on Zoom: Virtual FOCSLE Music, 2nd & 4th Wed, 8pm UK [reverts to weekly from Dec. 2022], see Venues Zoom webpage
(Updated Sept 2022)
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Ø Mondays weekly except 1st Lancs NEWBURGH THE ROOM AT THE TOP FOLK CLUB www.markdowding.co.uk/room_at_the_top.htm Mark or Maggi 01257 464215.
→ The Red Lion, Ash Brow, Newburgh, Lancs, WN8 7NF. 8-15pm - 11.00pm (except 1st Mon: Zoom)
⇒ Contact Maggie before turning up - limit 20 per session, due to the room size. E-mailing maggihuyton@yahoo.com
⊕ 2 songs per performer. usually time for another round with one song each. All nights are Singers Nights and we welcome singers, poets and readers to have a go at any time. All styles of acoustic music are encouraged.
ZOOM AT THE TOP is on 1st Monday & every Thursday, 8.15 for 8.30 start. Details see Venues ZOOM webpage.
Venues ZOOM on www.folklife-directory.uk/zoom.html
🄰 1st Mondays (& every Thursday). Lancs. NEWBURGH. ZOOM AT THE TOP.
→ 8.15 for 8.30 start.
⇒ Email or FaceBook We’re on Facebook or e.mail me for the link, maggihuyton<at>yahoo.com. Meeting ID 174 901 873
⊕ Other Mondays Room at the Top Folk Club now live in The Red Lion, Ash Brow, Newburgh, Lancs, see Venues S-E & E, North webpage.
(Updated Sept 2022)
🄵 2nd & 4th Wednesdays thru Nov 2022, then Weekly Wednesdays from Dec.
Hampshire. SOUTHAMPTON Virtual FOCSLE MUSIC http://www.focsle.org Paul Clarke
→ 8pm.
⇒ EMAIL Contact Paul Clarke for Zoom link, pls. e-mail virtual<at>focsle.org, and see Website http://www.focsle.org
⊕ FOCSLE Music now meets virtually, via Zoom. Join us and our international music friends (incl. some professionals) each 2nd & 4th Wednesday, and from December weekly, 8pm (UK). For live meetings, see Venues S-E & E, North webpage (Updated Sept 2022)
Ø Weekly Thursdays (& 1st Mondays). Lancs. NEWBURGH. ZOOM AT THE TOP.
→ 8.15 for 8.30 start.
⇒ Email or FaceBook We’re on Facebook or e.mail me for the link, maggihuyton<at>yahoo.com. Meeting ID 174 901 873
⊕ Mondays except 1st. Room at the Top Folk Club now live in The Red Lion, Ash Brow, Newburgh, Lancs, see Venues S-E & E, North webpage.
(Updated Sept 2022)
PERFORMERS
SCOTLAND & INTERNATIONAL on www.folklife-directory.uk/perf-world.html
Pf.1c Folk Music & Song - Solo - International
Australia
Australia BRUCE WATSON http://www.brucewatsonmusic.com
⇒ Email: jandbwatson<at>gmail.com Music available at https://brucewatsonmusic.bandcamp.com
Showcase video: https://youtu.be/yRa-xpPQQ_Q
⊕ An icon and longtime favourite of the Australian folk scene and an engaging and joyful performer and songwriter in the folk style. “The best songwriter I have seen in a long time.” (Eric Bogle). Toured UK in 2019.
SERVICES
SERVICES on www.folklife-directory.uk/services.html
S.2 AGENTS, MANAGERS, PROMOTERS, MCs, STAGE MANAGEMENT
-- do ask your artists to contact us to be listed, giving your agency as contact !
Northamptonshire JAMES H SOARS MEDIA SERVICES https://www.jameshsoars.com/ Jim Soars 01536 720245
⇒ Contact Jim Soars, t: 01536 720245, m: 07758 781032, e: james[at]jameshsoars[dot]com
⊕ James H Soars undertake artist promotion and media services in the UK. Offering a full promotional package to musicians, performers and song-writers within the folk and acoustic genre covering new album release and tour promotion.
VENUES - CYMRU•WALES on www.folklife-directory.uk/v-cymru.html
🄵 Weekly Tue afternoon Mons LITTLE MILL, nr PONTYPOOL LITTLE MILL FOLK SESSION (no website) Barry Scouse 07855 021272
→ The Halfway House [07952 472939], Berthon Road, Little Mill, near Pontypool. Monmouthshire NP4 0HL. 2pm to 5pm, all year
⇒ Barry Scouse, 07855 021272
⊕ Wonderful room to sing in, music acoustic and often wide-ranging, numbers almost certainly less than ten. (added August 2022)
🄵 Last Tues Newport RHIWDERIN LAST TUESDAY SING www.newportfolkclub.co.uk Cris 01633 896347
→ The Rhiwderin Inn (01633 897722), Caerphilly Road, Newport, NP10 8RX, 8pm.
⇒ Cris, 01633 896347. www.facebook.com/groups/newportfollkclub
⊕ Monthly acoustic session run by Newport Folk Club. [was 1st Tues., updated Aug 2022]
VENUES - SOUTH-WEST on www.folklife-directory.uk/v-south-west.html
🄵 Monthly - week varies Sun Glos COLEFORD FOREST FOLK CLUB www.forestfolkclub.com
→ Orepool Inn, Chepstow Road, Sling, Coleford GL16 8LH. Doors 7.30pm for 8pm start.
⇒ Email contact is forestofdeanfolkclub<at>gmail.com
⊕ Singers Nights and Guest Nights attracting talent from Wales, the South West and beyond. For the time being, one event each month, always on a Sunday. Cash only on the door please, £8 for guest nights, £2 for Singers Nights. [Aug 2022, change to monthly, week varies, for time being]
🄵 2nd, 4th Mon Glos CHELTENHAM CHELTENHAM FOLK CLUB www.cheltenhamfc.org.uk Chris Beaumont 01242 571185
→ Sandford Park Alehouse, High Street. Please note the new starting time 7.30pm. Not Aug.
⇒ Chris Beaumont, 32 Cudnall Street, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham, Glos GL53 8HQ or 01242 571185; or Judith 01242 577506.
⊕ Mainly local performers with local feature spots; all welcome. £3.00 / £2.50 performers. Cash only. Do join our mailing list — just email machteltje<at>gmail.com (change of day, Sep 2022)
Formerly 2nd, 4th Sun, now on Mondays for a trial period. Also: pub under new management.
So: please join mailing list to keep up to date with current situation, and/or check on GlosFolk facebook (and on this page).
VENUES - MIDLANDS on www.folklife-directory.uk/v-midlands.html
🄵 2nd Thu WOLVERHAMPTON The COMBERMERE ARMS FOLK SESSION [no session website] John & Jo Crane 01902 331430
→ The Combermere Arms, 90 Chapel Ash, Wolverhampton WV3 0TY. 8pm start.
⊕ An acoustic Folk Session - Mostly traditional English/Celtic Music and Song. All welcome. Come along for a tune or a song or just come for the craic! [new Member, 2022 July]
🄵 4th Thu WOLVERHAMPTON The CHINDIT INN FOLK SESSION [no session website] John & Jo Crane 01902 331430
→ The Chindit Inn, 113 Merridale Road, Wolverhampton WV3 9SE. 8pm start.
⊕ An acoustic Folk Session - Mostly traditional English/Celtic Music and Song. All welcome. Come along for a tune or a song or just come for the craic! [new Member, 2022 July]
🄵 1st Mon Worcs MONDAY SESSION AT THE PHEASANT (no website) Frank Jolley 07482 625877
Replacing the Old Chestnut Tree (pub not available)
→ 25 New Street, Worcester WR1 2DP. 1st Mon, 7.15pm.
⇒ martin001745<at>gmail.com
⊕ An ideal venue, very friendly and helpful staff, so we are going to make this our regular meeting place. Jon, the landlord, has offered a room upstairs which accommodates 30 people. Parking: Cornmarket car park £1 after 7 pm. [updated Aug 2022]
🄵 1st & 3rd Fri Worcs WORCESTER SOMERS TRADITIONAL FOLK CLUB www.somers-folk-club.org.uk Sam/Eleanor 01684 561378
→ Bishop Allenby Hall (Streetmap), St. Stephen's Church - parking in churchyard, hall is to side of church. St. Stephen's Street, via A449, Worcester WR3 7HS. (aerial_view) 8.15-10.45pm (doors 8pm) - please check website for exceptional changes. All year.
⇒ Chris info<at>somers-folk-club.org.uk Eleanor & Sam 01684 561378 (E&S are the Folklife editors but STFC is a separate organisation)
⊕ “A place where traditional song is at home”. Mostly songs; choruses start 1st Fridays; singers’ nights every Friday, all welcome. Visitors £2, but your 1st visit is free! We also have occasional Saturday specials (Member-only) free to regulars.
2nd & 4th Fri Zoom Currently Somers members only; annual membership is £10 to 31/12/2022. Contact etc as above. [updated Aug 2022]
VENUES SOUTH-EAST & EAST, NORTH on www.folklife-directory.uk/v-other.html
-------------- South-East ----------------------
🄵 2nd & 4th Tue Hants SOUTHAMPTON FOCSLE MUSIC http://www.focsle.org Paul Clarke
→ The Guide Dog, 38 Earls Rd, Bevois Valley, Southampton SO14 6SF. 8pm.
⇒ Contact Paul Clarke, virtual<at>focsle.org, and see website.
⊕ Also live 3rd & 5th Wed, see below.
Also on Zoom: Virtual FOCSLE Music, 2nd & 4th Wed, 8pm UK [reverts to weekly from Dec. 2022], see Venues Zoom webpage
(Updated Sept 2022)
🄵 3rd & 5th Wed Hants SOUTHAMPTON FOCSLE MUSIC http://www.focsle.org Paul Clarke
→ The Wellington Arms, 56 Park Road, Freemantle, Southampton SO15 3DE. 8pm.
⇒ Contact Paul Clarke, virtual<at>focsle.org, and see website.
⊕ Also live 2nd & 4th Tue, see above.
Also on Zoom: Virtual FOCSLE Music, 2nd & 4th Wed, 8pm UK [reverts to weekly from Dec. 2022], see Venues Zoom webpage
(Updated Sept 2022)
-------------- North of England ---------------
Ø Mondays weekly except 1st Lancs NEWBURGH THE ROOM AT THE TOP FOLK CLUB www.markdowding.co.uk/room_at_the_top.htm Mark or Maggi 01257 464215.
→ The Red Lion, Ash Brow, Newburgh, Lancs, WN8 7NF. 8-15pm - 11.00pm (except 1st Mon: Zoom)
⇒ Contact Maggie before turning up - limit 20 per session, due to the room size. E-mailing maggihuyton@yahoo.com
⊕ 2 songs per performer. usually time for another round with one song each. All nights are Singers Nights and we welcome singers, poets and readers to have a go at any time. All styles of acoustic music are encouraged.
ZOOM AT THE TOP is on 1st Monday & every Thursday, 8.15 for 8.30 start. Details see Venues ZOOM webpage.
Venues ZOOM on www.folklife-directory.uk/zoom.html
🄰 1st Mondays (& every Thursday). Lancs. NEWBURGH. ZOOM AT THE TOP.
→ 8.15 for 8.30 start.
⇒ Email or FaceBook We’re on Facebook or e.mail me for the link, maggihuyton<at>yahoo.com. Meeting ID 174 901 873
⊕ Other Mondays Room at the Top Folk Club now live in The Red Lion, Ash Brow, Newburgh, Lancs, see Venues S-E & E, North webpage.
(Updated Sept 2022)
🄵 2nd & 4th Wednesdays thru Nov 2022, then Weekly Wednesdays from Dec.
Hampshire. SOUTHAMPTON Virtual FOCSLE MUSIC http://www.focsle.org Paul Clarke
→ 8pm.
⇒ EMAIL Contact Paul Clarke for Zoom link, pls. e-mail virtual<at>focsle.org, and see Website http://www.focsle.org
⊕ FOCSLE Music now meets virtually, via Zoom. Join us and our international music friends (incl. some professionals) each 2nd & 4th Wednesday, and from December weekly, 8pm (UK). For live meetings, see Venues S-E & E, North webpage (Updated Sept 2022)
Ø Weekly Thursdays (& 1st Mondays). Lancs. NEWBURGH. ZOOM AT THE TOP.
→ 8.15 for 8.30 start.
⇒ Email or FaceBook We’re on Facebook or e.mail me for the link, maggihuyton<at>yahoo.com. Meeting ID 174 901 873
⊕ Mondays except 1st. Room at the Top Folk Club now live in The Red Lion, Ash Brow, Newburgh, Lancs, see Venues S-E & E, North webpage.
(Updated Sept 2022)
PERFORMERS
SCOTLAND & INTERNATIONAL on www.folklife-directory.uk/perf-world.html
Pf.1c Folk Music & Song - Solo - International
Australia
Australia BRUCE WATSON http://www.brucewatsonmusic.com
⇒ Email: jandbwatson<at>gmail.com Music available at https://brucewatsonmusic.bandcamp.com
Showcase video: https://youtu.be/yRa-xpPQQ_Q
⊕ An icon and longtime favourite of the Australian folk scene and an engaging and joyful performer and songwriter in the folk style. “The best songwriter I have seen in a long time.” (Eric Bogle). Toured UK in 2019.
SERVICES
SERVICES on www.folklife-directory.uk/services.html
S.2 AGENTS, MANAGERS, PROMOTERS, MCs, STAGE MANAGEMENT
-- do ask your artists to contact us to be listed, giving your agency as contact !
Northamptonshire JAMES H SOARS MEDIA SERVICES https://www.jameshsoars.com/ Jim Soars 01536 720245
⇒ Contact Jim Soars, t: 01536 720245, m: 07758 781032, e: james[at]jameshsoars[dot]com
⊕ James H Soars undertake artist promotion and media services in the UK. Offering a full promotional package to musicians, performers and song-writers within the folk and acoustic genre covering new album release and tour promotion.
all the best,
Sam and Eleanor
Sam & Eleanor Simmons, for the Folklife volunteers. sam@folklife.uk , 01684 561378, UK daytime.
You can also contact us on FaceTime (sam@folklife.uk), UK daytime.
Sam and Eleanor
Sam & Eleanor Simmons, for the Folklife volunteers. sam@folklife.uk , 01684 561378, UK daytime.
You can also contact us on FaceTime (sam@folklife.uk), UK daytime.
🄵🄳 ONLINE DIRECTORY - free entries for all, membership not required.
We are very pleased to announce a dedicated Directory site, www.folklife-directory.uk
We did have our listings on the Directory site but they were print-style rather than internet-style, so we transferred them to this site whilst we tidied up. Now we have completed a complete overhaul and are pleased to reopen the Directory site.
We're keeping it simple - for clarity, your detailed Directory listings are in plain list format - you click on the relevant page and scroll.
For examples, see Updates below.
To keep it simple: no logos, photos, etc, and no dates - dates (club guests, gigs, festivals, workshops) copied to this folklife.uk site from print pages.
Zoom venues list has been moved to Directory from this folklife.uk site.
We are very pleased to announce a dedicated Directory site, www.folklife-directory.uk
We did have our listings on the Directory site but they were print-style rather than internet-style, so we transferred them to this site whilst we tidied up. Now we have completed a complete overhaul and are pleased to reopen the Directory site.
We're keeping it simple - for clarity, your detailed Directory listings are in plain list format - you click on the relevant page and scroll.
For examples, see Updates below.
To keep it simple: no logos, photos, etc, and no dates - dates (club guests, gigs, festivals, workshops) copied to this folklife.uk site from print pages.
Zoom venues list has been moved to Directory from this folklife.uk site.
Our new FTJ logo, thanks to John Crane who has kindly modified this from his original drawing for our Book End Folk Books logo more than 40 years ago!
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Our aims include stimulating a wider interest in folk studies & folk culture: FTJ pages Researched articles + archive, new, on a separate website. Folk studies and cultural traditions. Membership welcome but not required. Call for articles for next issue. Readers tell us how much they enjoy these articles - so we would like to expand our Journal pages ! If we had more articles, then we could make the Journal available separately, as well as part of FW. 1. Researched articles about a collected song or tune, word limits: no minimum - we get articles which are anything from just a song and a few lines or up to 500 words; other articles are often 1000 to 1500, our maximum is 2500 words. 2. To introduce society, institution, etc, up to 1000 words. Thereafter, short news items/dates from society, institutions welcome; longer items, please consult editor.
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🄵🅆 Alba * Scotland CHANGES AT THE LIVING TRADITION
Sadly The Living Tradition will be closing later this year, please support them, details below.
We at Folklife wish to record our deep appreciation of the LT team's work.
We also wish to record our grateful thanks for the helpful support extended to Folklife by Fi - Editor Fiona Heywood, both by email correspondence, and by advert-exchanges.
Issue 145 is the Aug/Sep 2022 issue of The Living Tradition – the final issue to be published.
It features articles on Bryony Griffith & Alice Jones, Kate Rusby, Carole & Alan Prior, Rattle On The Stovepipe, ‘A Sisterhood In Ballads’, Eryn Rae, ‘A Hole In The Archives’, The Cruel Mother, ‘The Final Word’, Tales from the Road – The Wilsons, Transatlantic Connections, news, reviews, and more… Individual copies available to buy from www.livingtradition.co.uk
Sadly The Living Tradition will be closing later this year, please support them, details below.
We at Folklife wish to record our deep appreciation of the LT team's work.
We also wish to record our grateful thanks for the helpful support extended to Folklife by Fi - Editor Fiona Heywood, both by email correspondence, and by advert-exchanges.
Issue 145 is the Aug/Sep 2022 issue of The Living Tradition – the final issue to be published.
It features articles on Bryony Griffith & Alice Jones, Kate Rusby, Carole & Alan Prior, Rattle On The Stovepipe, ‘A Sisterhood In Ballads’, Eryn Rae, ‘A Hole In The Archives’, The Cruel Mother, ‘The Final Word’, Tales from the Road – The Wilsons, Transatlantic Connections, news, reviews, and more… Individual copies available to buy from www.livingtradition.co.uk
After the August 2022 issue of The Living Tradition, we will no longer be publishing the magazine. As a result, we are not accepting any new subscriptions at this time. Individual issues can be bought from the link on our homepage https://www.livingtradition.co.uk or from our online shop.
We are also making people aware of the opportunity to help us finance the magazine during these last few months by making a donation via our website. We hope that those of you who have enjoyed the magazine over the years will think about helping us out in this way one last time - this extra support as we come to the end will be vital for us during this time when we will have no income from subscriptions. If you wish to, you can donate easily using the link on the homepage of this website. Or you can, of course, do so by phone at 01563 571220 or 00353 7495 37967, or by sending your card details or a cheque made payable to The Living Tradition to our office at: Living Tradition PO Box 1026 Kilmarnock Ayrshire KA2 0LG Of course, with a donation, we will also make sure that you receive any final copies of the magazine. Thank you all for your support over the years – it really has been appreciated. Telephone: (UK) 01563 571220 or (Ireland) 00353 74 9537967 email: admin<at>livingtradition.co.uk The Living Tradition ®, www.livingtradition.co.uk 01563 571220 PO Box 1026, Kilmarnock KA2 0LG. admin<at>livingtradition.co.uk, www.facebook.com/thelivingtraditionmagazine |
🄵🄳 ONLINE DIRECTORY - free entries for all, non-members welcome
After Folklife's at the printers, we'll set up International pages for Directory (currently under "All Other" = other UK + international).
VENUES CYMRU•WALES on www.folklife-directory.uk/v-cymru.html
Weekly Tue afternoon Mons LITTLE MILL, nr PONTYPOOL LITTLE MILL FOLK SESSION (no website) Barry Scouse 07855 021272
→ The Halfway House [07952 472939], Berthon Road, Little Mill, near Pontypool. Monmouthshire NP4 0HL. 2pm to 5pm, all year
⇒ Barry Scouse, 07855 021272
⊕ Wonderful room to sing in, music acoustic and often wide-ranging, numbers almost certainly less than ten. (added August 2022)
VENUES - MIDLANDS on www.folklife-directory.uk/v-midlands.html ----- THURSDAY: West Midlands county
2nd Thu WOLVERHAMPTON The COMBERMERE ARMS FOLK SESSION [no session website] John & Jo Crane 01902 331430
→ The Combermere Arms, 90 Chapel Ash, Wolverhampton WV3 0TY. 8pm start.
⊕ An acoustic Folk Session - Mostly traditional English/Celtic Music and Song. All welcome. Come along for a tune or a song or just come for the craic! [new Member, 2022 July]
4th Thu WOLVERHAMPTON The CHINDIT INN FOLK SESSION [no session website] John & Jo Crane 01902 331430
→ The Chindit Inn, 113 Merridale Road, Wolverhampton WV3 9SE. 8pm start.
⊕ An acoustic Folk Session - Mostly traditional English/Celtic Music and Song. All welcome. Come along for a tune or a song or just come for the craic! [new Member, 2022 July]
SERVICES on www.folklife-directory.uk/services.html
S.2 AGENTS, MANAGERS, PROMOTERS, MCs, STAGE MANAGEMENT
-- do ask your artists to contact us to be listed, giving your agency as contact !
Northamptonshire JAMES H SOARS MEDIA SERVICES https://www.jameshsoars.com/ Jim Soars 01536 720245
⇒ Contact Jim Soars, t: 01536 720245, m: 07758 781032, e: james[at]jameshsoars[dot]com
⊕ James H Soars undertake artist promotion and media services in the UK. Offering a full promotional package to musicians, performers and song-writers within the folk and acoustic genre covering new album release and tour promotion.
After Folklife's at the printers, we'll set up International pages for Directory (currently under "All Other" = other UK + international).
VENUES CYMRU•WALES on www.folklife-directory.uk/v-cymru.html
Weekly Tue afternoon Mons LITTLE MILL, nr PONTYPOOL LITTLE MILL FOLK SESSION (no website) Barry Scouse 07855 021272
→ The Halfway House [07952 472939], Berthon Road, Little Mill, near Pontypool. Monmouthshire NP4 0HL. 2pm to 5pm, all year
⇒ Barry Scouse, 07855 021272
⊕ Wonderful room to sing in, music acoustic and often wide-ranging, numbers almost certainly less than ten. (added August 2022)
VENUES - MIDLANDS on www.folklife-directory.uk/v-midlands.html ----- THURSDAY: West Midlands county
2nd Thu WOLVERHAMPTON The COMBERMERE ARMS FOLK SESSION [no session website] John & Jo Crane 01902 331430
→ The Combermere Arms, 90 Chapel Ash, Wolverhampton WV3 0TY. 8pm start.
⊕ An acoustic Folk Session - Mostly traditional English/Celtic Music and Song. All welcome. Come along for a tune or a song or just come for the craic! [new Member, 2022 July]
4th Thu WOLVERHAMPTON The CHINDIT INN FOLK SESSION [no session website] John & Jo Crane 01902 331430
→ The Chindit Inn, 113 Merridale Road, Wolverhampton WV3 9SE. 8pm start.
⊕ An acoustic Folk Session - Mostly traditional English/Celtic Music and Song. All welcome. Come along for a tune or a song or just come for the craic! [new Member, 2022 July]
SERVICES on www.folklife-directory.uk/services.html
S.2 AGENTS, MANAGERS, PROMOTERS, MCs, STAGE MANAGEMENT
-- do ask your artists to contact us to be listed, giving your agency as contact !
Northamptonshire JAMES H SOARS MEDIA SERVICES https://www.jameshsoars.com/ Jim Soars 01536 720245
⇒ Contact Jim Soars, t: 01536 720245, m: 07758 781032, e: james[at]jameshsoars[dot]com
⊕ James H Soars undertake artist promotion and media services in the UK. Offering a full promotional package to musicians, performers and song-writers within the folk and acoustic genre covering new album release and tour promotion.
⎈ INTERNATIONAL NEWS (online only)
LISA NULL Sad news about Lisa, well known to many of us from Zoom. Thanks to John Baxter for forwarding this. |
Elisabeth Higgins Null, also known as Lisa Null, partner of Tifereth Israel member Charlie Baum for the last thirty years, died July 19, 2022, 20 Tamuz 5782, at the age of 79. She is also survived by her son, Jacob Null, brothers Daniel and Alexander, and nieces, nephews and grandnieces. She was predeceased by her son John Null, and her brothers Dick and Mark Higgins.
Lisa was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and she grew up there and in North Brookfield, Massachusetts, St. Augustine, Florida, and especially New York City. She graduated from the Brearley School in New York and then Sarah Lawrence College. She went on to do graduate study in folklore at University of Pennsylvania (M.A.), history at Yale University (M. Phil.), and library science at Catholic University (MLIS). Her marriage to Henry Null produced two children, John and Jacob, but it ended in divorce.
A lifelong interest in folklore and history led her to co-found Green Linnet Records with her friend Patrick Sky. Lisa also developed a career as a professional folk-singer, specializing in traditional songs, starting in the late 1970s and early 1980s. With her friend, the guitarist Bill Shute, she recorded two albums on Green Linnet, later re-released by Folk Legacy and now available through Smithsonian Folkways, The Feathered Maiden and Other Ballads and American Primitive. As a performer, she toured the United States, Canada, and England, and appeared several times on Garrison Keillor’s “A Prairie Home Companion” show. Her reputation was of being one of the finest song researchers and presenters—"when she sings a song, it stays sung!” was one of the more memorable praises she received. She was known for her strong alto voice and often sang a cappella, especially as growing infirmities and arthritis made it difficult to shlep and play instruments.
Lisa came to the DC area in 1990 to do research for her dissertation at Yale, although she never did finish it. It was to be an examination of folklore sources for historians, centering on an incident in the War of 1812. She met Charlie at a party in 1991 at a house around the corner from where she and Charlie lived since 1995. She was having trouble “booting her Mac,” and Charlie volunteered to help her, teaching her to play around with the computer instead of fearing it. He brought along a floppy disc containing digitized music from Lena Bourne Fish, an obscure New Hampshire source singer for many folklorists and song collectors. Lisa didn’t even know her computer was capable of playing music, but the disc established that they were kindred souls, and Charlie (with a grin) sometimes credits Fish as being their matchmaker.
Lisa taught courses in American Musical Life at Georgetown University. She worked at the Library of Congress when they were first figuring out how to digitize and make their collections available on the Internet. She then worked as a substantive editor, helping writers research and edit their books, perhaps most notably helping John Dickerson write his biography of his mother, the pioneering woman journalist Nancy Dickerson, titled “On Her Trail.” She helped others such as Peggy Seeger research materials for their album and CD liner notes. Lisa also devoted much of her later time to organizing folk events (often with Charlie), and to teaching and coaching singers who wanted to sing better or expand their repertoires, especially a cappella singers of traditional material.
Health issues plagued Lisa throughout, Severe asthma caused her to give up her career as a touring folk-singer in the 1980s. She spent her last months at the Hebrew Home of Greater Washington, but realizing her time was limited, determined to live them to the fullest. Her room at the Hebrew Home became a salon for good conversationalists and musician friends. With Zoom song-circles, Lisa developed friends from all around the world, and continued to participate in them and make music with friends both virtual and in her room, right through her last weekend.
In 2013, Lisa became seriously ill with heart and respiratory problems and, faced with the real prospect of not recovering, set about recording the songs she loves “while she still can”. She recorded and released `the double-CD set Legacies on the Folk Legacy label, which was later acquired by Smithsonian Folkways. Charlie Baum designed the packaging and the 72-page accompanying booklet. Among the tracks are a song by Jean Ritchie partially based on Tumbalalaika, “Andy Goodman (To His Mother),” about the murdered civil rights activist, and the song Charlie Baum wrote and sings as a duet with Lisa, “Will You Love Me in the Morning.” The Jean Ritchie song was so obscure that when the Ritchie family was asked for permission to record it, Jon Pickow (Jean’s son) said, “I don’t think Mom wrote that one”—but she did! The harp player on "Andy Goodman" is David Scheim, who first introduced Charlie to TI back in the 1990s.
May the family be comforted and her memory be a blessing.
To make a memorial contribution to Tifereth Israel, click HERE.
To see Lisa Null & Peter Brice – Irish Songs of North America, a seven minute film produced by the Maryland State Arts Council, in association with the National Council for the Traditional Arts, and Remsberg Inc., click HERE.
Copyright © 2022 Tifereth Israel Congregation, All rights reserved.
HI everyone and to share … for all you shanty/chantey singers…
Our next single-shanty Big Sing will be Reuben Ranzo Thursday 25 August 8pm UK/Ireland time (noon PT, 1pm MT, 2pm Mexico City/ Central Time, 3pm ET, 4pm Atlantic, 9pm France).
We all enjoyed our first zoom Shanty Big Sing so much - Santy Anna; on Youtube here: https://youtu.be/3PReBT66OhQ that we did it again for Rio Grande, on Youtube here: https://youtu.be/JTJWw22NmII, for Shenandoah (Youtube here: https://youtu.be/QK5tBsAJkDE) and Sally / Shallow Brown (Youtube pending). All hosted by Linn Phipps and JIm Lucas and sponsored by PMFF. All Big Sings are 7.45 for 8pm UK Ireland time. If you do or could sing any version of these and would like to join in, please email linn at linnphipps@gmail.com. Please say if you would like to sing first!! Zoom link will be emailed to you 24 hours prior as well as posted on the PMFF website, and I’ll also email the link for the google-doc – where you can post info on your version - to those who’ve asked to join to sing or listen.
Repeat versions, shanties/ related songs in another language, parodies, solo, partner and small group singing, instrumental accompaniment and listeners all welcome. We understand that Shanties are of their time, however we ask that you avoid versions or verses that are significantly racist or misogynistic. If in doubt, check in with the singing group.
Also … Linn is organising the Virtual element of the Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival Sunday 25 September (noon-5pm ET) – the programme is now up on http://pmffest.org/2022-virtual-pmff/ along with the Registration form. And we’ll be including another Big Sing - themed on “Round the Horn”.
Slainte
Linn Phipps + Jim Lucas
+44 7917 564440
2022 Sep 24 - 25 THE PORTSMOUTH MARITIME FOLK FESTIVAL, USA ~ LIVE & ZOOM www.pmffest.org
see below under 🄵🅆 Festivals, Workshops
Lisa was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and she grew up there and in North Brookfield, Massachusetts, St. Augustine, Florida, and especially New York City. She graduated from the Brearley School in New York and then Sarah Lawrence College. She went on to do graduate study in folklore at University of Pennsylvania (M.A.), history at Yale University (M. Phil.), and library science at Catholic University (MLIS). Her marriage to Henry Null produced two children, John and Jacob, but it ended in divorce.
A lifelong interest in folklore and history led her to co-found Green Linnet Records with her friend Patrick Sky. Lisa also developed a career as a professional folk-singer, specializing in traditional songs, starting in the late 1970s and early 1980s. With her friend, the guitarist Bill Shute, she recorded two albums on Green Linnet, later re-released by Folk Legacy and now available through Smithsonian Folkways, The Feathered Maiden and Other Ballads and American Primitive. As a performer, she toured the United States, Canada, and England, and appeared several times on Garrison Keillor’s “A Prairie Home Companion” show. Her reputation was of being one of the finest song researchers and presenters—"when she sings a song, it stays sung!” was one of the more memorable praises she received. She was known for her strong alto voice and often sang a cappella, especially as growing infirmities and arthritis made it difficult to shlep and play instruments.
Lisa came to the DC area in 1990 to do research for her dissertation at Yale, although she never did finish it. It was to be an examination of folklore sources for historians, centering on an incident in the War of 1812. She met Charlie at a party in 1991 at a house around the corner from where she and Charlie lived since 1995. She was having trouble “booting her Mac,” and Charlie volunteered to help her, teaching her to play around with the computer instead of fearing it. He brought along a floppy disc containing digitized music from Lena Bourne Fish, an obscure New Hampshire source singer for many folklorists and song collectors. Lisa didn’t even know her computer was capable of playing music, but the disc established that they were kindred souls, and Charlie (with a grin) sometimes credits Fish as being their matchmaker.
Lisa taught courses in American Musical Life at Georgetown University. She worked at the Library of Congress when they were first figuring out how to digitize and make their collections available on the Internet. She then worked as a substantive editor, helping writers research and edit their books, perhaps most notably helping John Dickerson write his biography of his mother, the pioneering woman journalist Nancy Dickerson, titled “On Her Trail.” She helped others such as Peggy Seeger research materials for their album and CD liner notes. Lisa also devoted much of her later time to organizing folk events (often with Charlie), and to teaching and coaching singers who wanted to sing better or expand their repertoires, especially a cappella singers of traditional material.
Health issues plagued Lisa throughout, Severe asthma caused her to give up her career as a touring folk-singer in the 1980s. She spent her last months at the Hebrew Home of Greater Washington, but realizing her time was limited, determined to live them to the fullest. Her room at the Hebrew Home became a salon for good conversationalists and musician friends. With Zoom song-circles, Lisa developed friends from all around the world, and continued to participate in them and make music with friends both virtual and in her room, right through her last weekend.
In 2013, Lisa became seriously ill with heart and respiratory problems and, faced with the real prospect of not recovering, set about recording the songs she loves “while she still can”. She recorded and released `the double-CD set Legacies on the Folk Legacy label, which was later acquired by Smithsonian Folkways. Charlie Baum designed the packaging and the 72-page accompanying booklet. Among the tracks are a song by Jean Ritchie partially based on Tumbalalaika, “Andy Goodman (To His Mother),” about the murdered civil rights activist, and the song Charlie Baum wrote and sings as a duet with Lisa, “Will You Love Me in the Morning.” The Jean Ritchie song was so obscure that when the Ritchie family was asked for permission to record it, Jon Pickow (Jean’s son) said, “I don’t think Mom wrote that one”—but she did! The harp player on "Andy Goodman" is David Scheim, who first introduced Charlie to TI back in the 1990s.
May the family be comforted and her memory be a blessing.
To make a memorial contribution to Tifereth Israel, click HERE.
To see Lisa Null & Peter Brice – Irish Songs of North America, a seven minute film produced by the Maryland State Arts Council, in association with the National Council for the Traditional Arts, and Remsberg Inc., click HERE.
Copyright © 2022 Tifereth Israel Congregation, All rights reserved.
HI everyone and to share … for all you shanty/chantey singers…
Our next single-shanty Big Sing will be Reuben Ranzo Thursday 25 August 8pm UK/Ireland time (noon PT, 1pm MT, 2pm Mexico City/ Central Time, 3pm ET, 4pm Atlantic, 9pm France).
We all enjoyed our first zoom Shanty Big Sing so much - Santy Anna; on Youtube here: https://youtu.be/3PReBT66OhQ that we did it again for Rio Grande, on Youtube here: https://youtu.be/JTJWw22NmII, for Shenandoah (Youtube here: https://youtu.be/QK5tBsAJkDE) and Sally / Shallow Brown (Youtube pending). All hosted by Linn Phipps and JIm Lucas and sponsored by PMFF. All Big Sings are 7.45 for 8pm UK Ireland time. If you do or could sing any version of these and would like to join in, please email linn at linnphipps@gmail.com. Please say if you would like to sing first!! Zoom link will be emailed to you 24 hours prior as well as posted on the PMFF website, and I’ll also email the link for the google-doc – where you can post info on your version - to those who’ve asked to join to sing or listen.
Repeat versions, shanties/ related songs in another language, parodies, solo, partner and small group singing, instrumental accompaniment and listeners all welcome. We understand that Shanties are of their time, however we ask that you avoid versions or verses that are significantly racist or misogynistic. If in doubt, check in with the singing group.
Also … Linn is organising the Virtual element of the Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival Sunday 25 September (noon-5pm ET) – the programme is now up on http://pmffest.org/2022-virtual-pmff/ along with the Registration form. And we’ll be including another Big Sing - themed on “Round the Horn”.
Slainte
Linn Phipps + Jim Lucas
+44 7917 564440
2022 Sep 24 - 25 THE PORTSMOUTH MARITIME FOLK FESTIVAL, USA ~ LIVE & ZOOM www.pmffest.org
see below under 🄵🅆 Festivals, Workshops
🄵🅃🄹 Folklife Traditions Journal, print pages copied to www.folklife-traditions.uk
Our aims include stimulating a wider interest in folk studies & folk culture: FTJ pages of Folklife West magazine
Researched articles + archive. Folk studies and cultural traditions. Membership welcome but not required.
Access Folk recruiting for Consulting Groups
An ambitious 5 year long research project has launched to investigate ways to increase and diversify participation in English folk singing. Access Folk asks:
What is the place of folk singing in contemporary England?
How do people want to engage with English cultural traditions through song? How can we facilitate participation in folk singing in England?
Folk singer and researcher Dr Fay Hield at The University of Sheffield is leading a team of academics and community partners to work together to identify the current problems and test out potential solutions.
Access Folk is built on co-production principles where the people affected have real power to direct the research.
Access Folk will trial and evaluate new approaches in collaboration with the wider folk singing scene.
We are looking for people who would be interested in actively taking part in designing research to address issues faced by folk singers and organisers to join our Consulting Groups. The Consulting Groups will draw knowledge together to advise the Access Folk Board. The groups will be focused on specialist areas (drawing on the ‘protected characteristics’ outlined in the Equality Act 2010 and priority areas from Arts Council England): Age; Race; Gender; Disability; Belief and Class.
Anyone over 18 with ideas or experience that feed into the specialist areas can join the Consulting Groups. We are looking for professional experience and marginalised lived experience in particular, though all with an interest are welcome.
In the coming months there will be opportunities to get involved through a folk singers’ survey to understand what existing singers get out of it and an events survey to see where folk singing is happening. We will also be recruiting for ‘ask a friend’ activities to explore the experience of people who don’t currently sing. People are invited to sign up to the Newsletter via the website for more information.
More information about Access Folk can be found here: https://accessfolk.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/about
More information about the Consulting Groups can be found here: https://accessfolk.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/activities/consulting-groups/call-to-action
To speak to the team, please contact: accessfolk@sheffield.ac.uk or 0114 222 0466.
Our aims include stimulating a wider interest in folk studies & folk culture: FTJ pages of Folklife West magazine
Researched articles + archive. Folk studies and cultural traditions. Membership welcome but not required.
Access Folk recruiting for Consulting Groups
An ambitious 5 year long research project has launched to investigate ways to increase and diversify participation in English folk singing. Access Folk asks:
What is the place of folk singing in contemporary England?
How do people want to engage with English cultural traditions through song? How can we facilitate participation in folk singing in England?
Folk singer and researcher Dr Fay Hield at The University of Sheffield is leading a team of academics and community partners to work together to identify the current problems and test out potential solutions.
Access Folk is built on co-production principles where the people affected have real power to direct the research.
Access Folk will trial and evaluate new approaches in collaboration with the wider folk singing scene.
We are looking for people who would be interested in actively taking part in designing research to address issues faced by folk singers and organisers to join our Consulting Groups. The Consulting Groups will draw knowledge together to advise the Access Folk Board. The groups will be focused on specialist areas (drawing on the ‘protected characteristics’ outlined in the Equality Act 2010 and priority areas from Arts Council England): Age; Race; Gender; Disability; Belief and Class.
Anyone over 18 with ideas or experience that feed into the specialist areas can join the Consulting Groups. We are looking for professional experience and marginalised lived experience in particular, though all with an interest are welcome.
In the coming months there will be opportunities to get involved through a folk singers’ survey to understand what existing singers get out of it and an events survey to see where folk singing is happening. We will also be recruiting for ‘ask a friend’ activities to explore the experience of people who don’t currently sing. People are invited to sign up to the Newsletter via the website for more information.
More information about Access Folk can be found here: https://accessfolk.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/about
More information about the Consulting Groups can be found here: https://accessfolk.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/activities/consulting-groups/call-to-action
To speak to the team, please contact: accessfolk@sheffield.ac.uk or 0114 222 0466.
🄵🅆 Folklife Members' FOLK NEWS print pages copied to these webpages
🄵🅆 Cymru • Wales
Ruth & Ken Powell gigs http://www.ruthandkenpowell.co.uk
19th - 21st August, MOIRA FURNACE FOLK FESTIVAL - performance days are Friday and Sunday. https://moirafurnacefolkfestival.co.uk/
3rd October, Folk at the Last (Function room) Hengoed, Nr Oswestry, SY10 7EU - please check venue before travelling as it varies. Tel 07445952163
11th October, Maghull Folk Club, Maghull Community Association (MCA), Green Lane, Maghull, L31 2JH - http://www.maghullfolkclub.co.uk/
25th November, The Woodman Folk Club, Ashwood Marina, Ashwood Lower Lane, Kingswinford, DY6 0AQ - http://www.woodmanfolk.co.uk/
LITTLE MILL FOLK SESSION ®, The Halfway House [07952 472939], Berthon Road, Little Mill, near Pontypool. Monmouthshire NP4 0HL.
Tuesdays weekly, 2pm to 5pm, all year
You would be most welcome, at Halfway House, the only pub in the village on the only main road A472 through the village. We meet at three minutes past two and finish at three minutes past five……….Wonderful room to sing in, music acoustic and often wide-ranging, numbers almost certainly less than ten. ® Barry Scouse, organiser, 07855 021272,
🄵🅆 Midlands
WOLVERHAMPTON FOLK SESSIONS new Member
2nd Thu., 8pm: The Combermere Arms, 90 Chapel Ash, W’ton WV3 0TY
4th Thu., 8pm: The Chindit Inn. 113 Merridale Road, W’ton WV3 9SE.
An acoustic Folk Session - Mostly traditional English/Celtic Music and Song, 8pm start. All welcome. Come along for a tune or a song or just come for the craic!
John & Jo Crane, 01902 331430.
🄵🅆 Herefs-Worcs
The Homend Poets & Musicians
It's been decided to have another session!
Tuesday 26th July, Pot & Page cafe (01531 248743), https://www.facebook.com/PotAndPage, 8 New Street, Ledbury Herefordshire HR8 2DX 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm:
Theme: “The Street I Grew Up In" or more generally Growing Up / Place.
Nick Halligan 01684 563281 Email nickh2009<at>btinternet.com, but phone preferred
🄵🅆 Festivals, Workshops
2022 Sep 3 THE INDOOR FESTIVAL OF FOLK www.efdss.org/whats-on/26-gigs/11312-indoor-festival-of-folk
→ LONDON: Cecil Sharp House, Camden.
⌂ Tickets: www.efdss.org/whats-on/26-gigs/11312-indoor-festival-of-folk
⊕ A collaboration between folk/rock band The Magpie Arc and the English Folk Dance and Song Society, a stellar line up of award-winning UK folk artists.
Knight and Spiers: Steeleye Span’s legendary fiddler Peter Knight and Bellowhead melodeon player extraordinaire John Spiers.
BBC Folk Singer of the Year Bella Hardy, whose 10th solo album “Love Songs” has just been released.
Award winning singer and guitarist Blair Dunlop, solo artist and leader of the rebooted Albion Band.
Lizzy Hardingham, rising star of the UK folk scene. An indomitable folk musician and ornate songstress.
The Magpie Arc is a cross border folk/rock band featuring Nancy Kerr, Martin Simpson, Findlay Napier, Tom Wright and Alex Hunter.
Steeleye Span legends Maddy Prior and Peter Knight in conversation with BBC presenter and Folk On Foot founder Matthew Bannister. Talking all things folk/rock and maybe even chart stardom, also performing several songs together for the first time in many years.
So come rain or come shine, a fantastic day of music and fun in the beautiful spiritual home of British folk music, Cecil Sharp House, and will come complete with all the home comforts of an indoor gig, including food, drink, facilities and a nice sit down!
2022 Sep 24 - 25 THE PORTSMOUTH MARITIME FOLK FESTIVAL, USA ~ LIVE & ZOOM www.pmffest.org
→ LIVE: PORTSMOUTH, NH, USA, Various venues in downtown Portsmouth ZOOM: see below
⌂ The Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival. info@pmffest.org. See www.pmffest.org, www.facebook.com/PMFF.NH
⊕ LIVE: Organized by local folk artists, the Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival is a registered nonprofit with the mission of preserving and presenting the music of Portsmouth’s maritime heritage and keeping the Port City’s seafaring traditions alive. It is a totally free festival, run by volunteers, and financed entirely by donations.
Headliners: Vienna Carroll, David Coffin, and Cliff Haslam. Plus Don Sineti and Heather Wood. Stay tuned for more additions as the festival gets closer!
⊕ ZOOM: We believe this to be the first time that a Folk Festival has run both live and live-streamed AND with an integral Virtual component, all at the same time! This is a free folk festival, donations to help meet costs welcome to: https://portsmouth-maritime-folk-festival.square.site/
The Virtual PMFF will run on Zoom. Please see details below on how to register and join. Here’s the plan…
Sep 25 Sunday 2022 ET / UK time (1) Break-out room “Morning Light”, (2) Break-out room “Noonday”.
Noon-1pm ET / 5-6pm: (1) Sara Banleigh:”Sea Shanties at the Movies: Maritime Songs in Film and Television”.
1-2pm ET / 6-7pm: (1) Janet Bee Brown storytelling and shanties; (2) Trevor Clarke - Song Circle.
2-3pm ET / 7-8pm: (1) Bob Zentz and Co: live from Yorktown Folk Festival.
3-4pm ET / 8-9pm: (1) David Kidman Song Circle; (2) Workshop – Brigitte Kloareg.
4-5pm ET / 9-10pm: (1) Shanty Big Sing “Round the Horn”, til late – co-hosted Linn Phipps & Jim Lucas.
Register to join us at the Festival and receive the joining link 24 hours prior to the event:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/14rOiTs-74WOBZevD7iEE4YJDG_B3qTcKTO28-a8ZZ4Q/prefill
Any questions, please contact Virtual PMFF Co-ordinator Linn Phipps via her website https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/contact or info<at>pmffest.org
Currently listing 2022 Oct TBA WREN MUSIC FOLK FESTIVAL (formally the Baring-Gould Folk Weekend)
This will now be
2022 Oct 29 WREN MUSIC FAMILY FOLK DAY www.wrenmusic.co.uk
We are having a Family Folk Day in Okehampton on 29 October in lieu of the festival this year.
It is Wren’s 40th anniversary next year so expect lots of celebrations and a folk festival bigger and better for 2023
.
🄵🅆 Cymru • Wales
Ruth & Ken Powell gigs http://www.ruthandkenpowell.co.uk
19th - 21st August, MOIRA FURNACE FOLK FESTIVAL - performance days are Friday and Sunday. https://moirafurnacefolkfestival.co.uk/
3rd October, Folk at the Last (Function room) Hengoed, Nr Oswestry, SY10 7EU - please check venue before travelling as it varies. Tel 07445952163
11th October, Maghull Folk Club, Maghull Community Association (MCA), Green Lane, Maghull, L31 2JH - http://www.maghullfolkclub.co.uk/
25th November, The Woodman Folk Club, Ashwood Marina, Ashwood Lower Lane, Kingswinford, DY6 0AQ - http://www.woodmanfolk.co.uk/
LITTLE MILL FOLK SESSION ®, The Halfway House [07952 472939], Berthon Road, Little Mill, near Pontypool. Monmouthshire NP4 0HL.
Tuesdays weekly, 2pm to 5pm, all year
You would be most welcome, at Halfway House, the only pub in the village on the only main road A472 through the village. We meet at three minutes past two and finish at three minutes past five……….Wonderful room to sing in, music acoustic and often wide-ranging, numbers almost certainly less than ten. ® Barry Scouse, organiser, 07855 021272,
🄵🅆 Midlands
WOLVERHAMPTON FOLK SESSIONS new Member
2nd Thu., 8pm: The Combermere Arms, 90 Chapel Ash, W’ton WV3 0TY
4th Thu., 8pm: The Chindit Inn. 113 Merridale Road, W’ton WV3 9SE.
An acoustic Folk Session - Mostly traditional English/Celtic Music and Song, 8pm start. All welcome. Come along for a tune or a song or just come for the craic!
John & Jo Crane, 01902 331430.
🄵🅆 Herefs-Worcs
The Homend Poets & Musicians
It's been decided to have another session!
Tuesday 26th July, Pot & Page cafe (01531 248743), https://www.facebook.com/PotAndPage, 8 New Street, Ledbury Herefordshire HR8 2DX 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm:
Theme: “The Street I Grew Up In" or more generally Growing Up / Place.
Nick Halligan 01684 563281 Email nickh2009<at>btinternet.com, but phone preferred
🄵🅆 Festivals, Workshops
2022 Sep 3 THE INDOOR FESTIVAL OF FOLK www.efdss.org/whats-on/26-gigs/11312-indoor-festival-of-folk
→ LONDON: Cecil Sharp House, Camden.
⌂ Tickets: www.efdss.org/whats-on/26-gigs/11312-indoor-festival-of-folk
⊕ A collaboration between folk/rock band The Magpie Arc and the English Folk Dance and Song Society, a stellar line up of award-winning UK folk artists.
Knight and Spiers: Steeleye Span’s legendary fiddler Peter Knight and Bellowhead melodeon player extraordinaire John Spiers.
BBC Folk Singer of the Year Bella Hardy, whose 10th solo album “Love Songs” has just been released.
Award winning singer and guitarist Blair Dunlop, solo artist and leader of the rebooted Albion Band.
Lizzy Hardingham, rising star of the UK folk scene. An indomitable folk musician and ornate songstress.
The Magpie Arc is a cross border folk/rock band featuring Nancy Kerr, Martin Simpson, Findlay Napier, Tom Wright and Alex Hunter.
Steeleye Span legends Maddy Prior and Peter Knight in conversation with BBC presenter and Folk On Foot founder Matthew Bannister. Talking all things folk/rock and maybe even chart stardom, also performing several songs together for the first time in many years.
So come rain or come shine, a fantastic day of music and fun in the beautiful spiritual home of British folk music, Cecil Sharp House, and will come complete with all the home comforts of an indoor gig, including food, drink, facilities and a nice sit down!
2022 Sep 24 - 25 THE PORTSMOUTH MARITIME FOLK FESTIVAL, USA ~ LIVE & ZOOM www.pmffest.org
→ LIVE: PORTSMOUTH, NH, USA, Various venues in downtown Portsmouth ZOOM: see below
⌂ The Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival. info@pmffest.org. See www.pmffest.org, www.facebook.com/PMFF.NH
⊕ LIVE: Organized by local folk artists, the Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival is a registered nonprofit with the mission of preserving and presenting the music of Portsmouth’s maritime heritage and keeping the Port City’s seafaring traditions alive. It is a totally free festival, run by volunteers, and financed entirely by donations.
Headliners: Vienna Carroll, David Coffin, and Cliff Haslam. Plus Don Sineti and Heather Wood. Stay tuned for more additions as the festival gets closer!
⊕ ZOOM: We believe this to be the first time that a Folk Festival has run both live and live-streamed AND with an integral Virtual component, all at the same time! This is a free folk festival, donations to help meet costs welcome to: https://portsmouth-maritime-folk-festival.square.site/
The Virtual PMFF will run on Zoom. Please see details below on how to register and join. Here’s the plan…
Sep 25 Sunday 2022 ET / UK time (1) Break-out room “Morning Light”, (2) Break-out room “Noonday”.
Noon-1pm ET / 5-6pm: (1) Sara Banleigh:”Sea Shanties at the Movies: Maritime Songs in Film and Television”.
1-2pm ET / 6-7pm: (1) Janet Bee Brown storytelling and shanties; (2) Trevor Clarke - Song Circle.
2-3pm ET / 7-8pm: (1) Bob Zentz and Co: live from Yorktown Folk Festival.
3-4pm ET / 8-9pm: (1) David Kidman Song Circle; (2) Workshop – Brigitte Kloareg.
4-5pm ET / 9-10pm: (1) Shanty Big Sing “Round the Horn”, til late – co-hosted Linn Phipps & Jim Lucas.
Register to join us at the Festival and receive the joining link 24 hours prior to the event:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/14rOiTs-74WOBZevD7iEE4YJDG_B3qTcKTO28-a8ZZ4Q/prefill
Any questions, please contact Virtual PMFF Co-ordinator Linn Phipps via her website https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/contact or info<at>pmffest.org
Currently listing 2022 Oct TBA WREN MUSIC FOLK FESTIVAL (formally the Baring-Gould Folk Weekend)
This will now be
2022 Oct 29 WREN MUSIC FAMILY FOLK DAY www.wrenmusic.co.uk
We are having a Family Folk Day in Okehampton on 29 October in lieu of the festival this year.
It is Wren’s 40th anniversary next year so expect lots of celebrations and a folk festival bigger and better for 2023
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🄵🅆 Alba * Scotland
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Gwilym Davies (see last Newsletter) 11/7/2022
From Jeff Blake - a message from Bob Askew
Gwilym had a great send off at Winchcombe Parish Church on Thursday. He achieved so much with his song collecting, solo and group performances, including his early music group and a choir. And then he was a member of two morris sides, probably mummers, wassailing dance bands etc. The church was packed, and the vicar had a good sense of humour. If you want to see the service, it is still available on the link below. Do forward this to anyone who knew him, or who you think might be interested.
https://www.youtube.com/c/ParishofWinchcombe
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From Jeff Blake - a message from Bob Askew
Gwilym had a great send off at Winchcombe Parish Church on Thursday. He achieved so much with his song collecting, solo and group performances, including his early music group and a choir. And then he was a member of two morris sides, probably mummers, wassailing dance bands etc. The church was packed, and the vicar had a good sense of humour. If you want to see the service, it is still available on the link below. Do forward this to anyone who knew him, or who you think might be interested.
https://www.youtube.com/c/ParishofWinchcombe
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NEXT ISSUE: 1st SEPTEMBER, covering Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec. DEADLINE 20th JULY.
🄵🅃🄹 Folklife Traditions Journal, www.folklife-traditions.uk
We are so sorry to have to report that Gwilym Davies passed away on Sunday 19 June.
As well as being a singer, a musician, and a Morris man, he was a respected collector and publisher of folk song, music, and dance, his latest being “Catch it, Bottle it and Paint it Green - Tales of a Folk Song Collector”.
Gwilym’s boundless enthusiasm resulted in so many successful projects. These included being a founder member of Glosfolk, and setting up the GlosTrad website for songs and tunes collected in Gloucestershire, a very fine example of such a project.
We first met Gwilym in the 1980s when he was running the folk club at the London Inn in Charlton Kings, Cheltenham. He contributed articles to many issues of our Folklife Traditions Journal pages (see list on https://www.folklife-traditions.uk/index-articles.html), including the Jan-Apr 2022 issue.
Carol wrote:
Gwilym was poorly over the last four months fighting off various infections which he contracted due to his reduced immune system after his kidney transplant four years ago, He finally passed away in Cheltenham General Hospital. He had no pain and was very well looked after in both Cheltenham and Gloucester hospitals.
Robin and Mary-Ann and their families have been very supportive and we are planning a musical celebration of Gwilym's life later in the year.
The funeral will be on July 7th at 2pm at St Peter's Church Winchcombe. No black please. Family flowers only but, if you wish, donations can be sent for Glostrad and Kidney Research UK via Alexander Burn, 23-24 High Street, Tewkesbury, GL20 5AL phone 01242 604888.
We're planning on streaming Gwilym's funeral tomorrow via the St Peter's Church Winchcombe Youtube page which can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/c/ParishofWinchcombe
Carol
We will all miss Gwilym. We send our condolences and love to Carol and the family.
Sam and Eleanor
🄵🅃🄹 Folklife Traditions Journal, www.folklife-traditions.uk
We are so sorry to have to report that Gwilym Davies passed away on Sunday 19 June.
As well as being a singer, a musician, and a Morris man, he was a respected collector and publisher of folk song, music, and dance, his latest being “Catch it, Bottle it and Paint it Green - Tales of a Folk Song Collector”.
Gwilym’s boundless enthusiasm resulted in so many successful projects. These included being a founder member of Glosfolk, and setting up the GlosTrad website for songs and tunes collected in Gloucestershire, a very fine example of such a project.
We first met Gwilym in the 1980s when he was running the folk club at the London Inn in Charlton Kings, Cheltenham. He contributed articles to many issues of our Folklife Traditions Journal pages (see list on https://www.folklife-traditions.uk/index-articles.html), including the Jan-Apr 2022 issue.
Carol wrote:
Gwilym was poorly over the last four months fighting off various infections which he contracted due to his reduced immune system after his kidney transplant four years ago, He finally passed away in Cheltenham General Hospital. He had no pain and was very well looked after in both Cheltenham and Gloucester hospitals.
Robin and Mary-Ann and their families have been very supportive and we are planning a musical celebration of Gwilym's life later in the year.
The funeral will be on July 7th at 2pm at St Peter's Church Winchcombe. No black please. Family flowers only but, if you wish, donations can be sent for Glostrad and Kidney Research UK via Alexander Burn, 23-24 High Street, Tewkesbury, GL20 5AL phone 01242 604888.
We're planning on streaming Gwilym's funeral tomorrow via the St Peter's Church Winchcombe Youtube page which can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/c/ParishofWinchcombe
Carol
We will all miss Gwilym. We send our condolences and love to Carol and the family.
Sam and Eleanor
🄵🄳 ONLINE DIRECTORY - free entries for all, membership not required.
We are very pleased to announce a dedicated Directory site, www.folklife-directory.uk
We did have our listings on the Directory site but they were print-style rather than internet-style, so we transferred them to this site whilst we tidied up.
Now we have completed a complete overhaul and are pleased to reopen the Directory site.
We're keeping it simple - for clarity, your detailed Directory listings are in plain list format - you click on the relevant page and scroll.
For examples, see Updates below.
To keep it simple: no logos, photos, etc, and no dates (club guests, gigs, festivals, workshops), as copied to this folklife.uk site from print pages..
Zoom venues list has been moved to Directory from this folklife.uk site.
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Venues South-West
Ø Weekly Tue Glos FRAMPTON-ON-SEVERN FOLK AT FRAMPTON (no website) Info 07760 115539
→ Frampton Village Hall, The Green Frampton-on-Severn GL2 7DY (Next to Three Horseshoes). Open from 7.45, start at 8.00, end 10.30 if not earlier, all year.
⇒ Info 07760 115539
⊕ Glosfolk Diary has details. £1 admission includes tea/coffee (with good biscuits!) in break (you can also bring your own refreshments).
(added May 2022)
Venues All Other
TBC The Nest Collective have signed up, so these are suggested drafts that I made up based on their website. ALL TO BE CONFIRMED.
South-East
Ø Occ Day Varies Various locations CAMPFIRE CLUB https://thenestcollective.co.uk/includes/campfire-club/
→ Various venues.
⇒ Contact via website or info@thenestcollective.co.uk. https://thenestcollective.co.uk/, https://www.facebook.com/thenestcollective/, https://twitter.com/nestfolk, https://www.instagram.com/nestfolk/
⊕ Discover extraordinary music around the campfire in beautiful green spaces.
Ø Occ Day Varies Various locations SINGING WITH NIGHTINGALES https://thenestcollective.co.uk/includes/singing-with-nightingales/
→ Various venues.
⇒ Contact via website or info@thenestcollective.co.uk. https://thenestcollective.co.uk/, https://www.facebook.com/thenestcollective/, https://twitter.com/nestfolk, https://www.instagram.com/nestfolk/
⊕ Join us in the forest to hear the finest musicians duet with the sweet sounds of the nightingale.
Ø Occ Day Varies Various locations NATURE PILGRIMAGES https://thenestcollective.co.uk/includes/nature-pilgrimages/
→ Various venues.
⇒ Contact via website or info@thenestcollective.co.uk. https://thenestcollective.co.uk/, https://www.facebook.com/thenestcollective/, https://twitter.com/nestfolk, https://www.instagram.com/nestfolk/
⊕ Step out of the every-day and journey into nature.
Venues ZOOM
Ø Kent FRIDAY FOLK ZOOM - Weekly, 7.30-10pm.
PHONE If you are on our email circulation list you will receive an invite every week with a link to click. Otherwise ring Sue on 01-304-360877 if you wish to take part. [name change from Deal FC Zoom, 7/2022]
Performers South-West
Pf.1 Folk Music & Song: Pf.1b Duos
🄵 NEW FOLKLIFE MEMBER
Dorset ALONGSHORE www.alongshore.weeblysite.com Ledger de la Bald 07971 859098
⇒ Contact alongshore.folk<at>gmail.com https://sites.google.com/site/boathookbald/home,
https://alongshore.bandcamp.com/album/diamonds-rubies-emeralds
⊕ Traditional folk singer Vic Baines (Aka Pendlecheek) and poet Ledger De La Bald (Aka Boathouse Bald). Their shared love of storytelling through folk song and poetry is reflected in their debut album, "Diamonds, Rubies And Emeralds".
Performers Midlands
Geoff Veasey has emailed that Nunc and Drunk Monkey have ceased, so now deleted.
Performers All Other
North
PERFORMERS Pf.1 Folk Music & Song
Pf.1b Folk Music & Song - Duos
🄵 Yorks+Humber NELincs JAN & PAUL RAMSEY https://janandpaulramsey.com/ Jan 07984 643921
⇒ Jan on 07984 643921 or email: jprfolk<at>gmail.com
⊕ Our sets include a combination of traditional, contemporary and self-penned folk music with an occasional Americana song. (new member 5/2022)
South-East
TBC The Nest Collective have signed up, so these are suggested drafts that I made up based on their website. ALL TO BE CONFIRMED.
PERFORMERS ~ Pf.1 Folk Music & Song: Pf.1d Choirs & Quires
Ø London FIRE CHOIR https://thenestcollective.co.uk/includes/fire-choir/
⇒ Contact via website or info@thenestcollective.co.uk. https://thenestcollective.co.uk/, https://www.facebook.com/thenestcollective/,https://twitter.com/nestfolk, https://www.instagram.com/nestfolk/
⊕ Open to all, this community choir is dedicated to revitalising communal singing with activism and empowerment at its heart.
PERFORMERS ~ Pf.2 Folk Dance: Pf.2b Folk Dance Bands
Ø London CEILIDH LIBERATION FRONT https://thenestcollective.co.uk/includes/ceilidhs/
⇒ Contact via website or info@thenestcollective.co.uk. https://thenestcollective.co.uk/, https://www.facebook.com/thenestcollective/,https://twitter.com/nestfolk, https://www.instagram.com/nestfolk/
⊕ A radical dance sensation, reinventing the lore of the Ceilidh.
Services
TBC The Nest Collective have signed up, so these are suggested drafts that I made up based on their website. ALL TO BE CONFIRMED.
FOLK SERVICES ~ devised a new category! S.9 Artist Development
Ø London AMPLIFY https://thenestcollective.co.uk/includes/amplify/ §
⇒ Contact via website or info@thenestcollective.co.uk. https://thenestcollective.co.uk/, https://www.facebook.com/thenestcollective/,https://twitter.com/nestfolk, https://www.instagram.com/nestfolk/
⊕ The Nest Collective’s artist development programme. It aims to do as its name suggests: reinvigorate and develop contemporary and cross-cultural folk music in the UK by supporting the development of emerging music creators.
We are very pleased to announce a dedicated Directory site, www.folklife-directory.uk
We did have our listings on the Directory site but they were print-style rather than internet-style, so we transferred them to this site whilst we tidied up.
Now we have completed a complete overhaul and are pleased to reopen the Directory site.
We're keeping it simple - for clarity, your detailed Directory listings are in plain list format - you click on the relevant page and scroll.
For examples, see Updates below.
To keep it simple: no logos, photos, etc, and no dates (club guests, gigs, festivals, workshops), as copied to this folklife.uk site from print pages..
Zoom venues list has been moved to Directory from this folklife.uk site.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Venues South-West
Ø Weekly Tue Glos FRAMPTON-ON-SEVERN FOLK AT FRAMPTON (no website) Info 07760 115539
→ Frampton Village Hall, The Green Frampton-on-Severn GL2 7DY (Next to Three Horseshoes). Open from 7.45, start at 8.00, end 10.30 if not earlier, all year.
⇒ Info 07760 115539
⊕ Glosfolk Diary has details. £1 admission includes tea/coffee (with good biscuits!) in break (you can also bring your own refreshments).
(added May 2022)
Venues All Other
TBC The Nest Collective have signed up, so these are suggested drafts that I made up based on their website. ALL TO BE CONFIRMED.
South-East
Ø Occ Day Varies Various locations CAMPFIRE CLUB https://thenestcollective.co.uk/includes/campfire-club/
→ Various venues.
⇒ Contact via website or info@thenestcollective.co.uk. https://thenestcollective.co.uk/, https://www.facebook.com/thenestcollective/, https://twitter.com/nestfolk, https://www.instagram.com/nestfolk/
⊕ Discover extraordinary music around the campfire in beautiful green spaces.
Ø Occ Day Varies Various locations SINGING WITH NIGHTINGALES https://thenestcollective.co.uk/includes/singing-with-nightingales/
→ Various venues.
⇒ Contact via website or info@thenestcollective.co.uk. https://thenestcollective.co.uk/, https://www.facebook.com/thenestcollective/, https://twitter.com/nestfolk, https://www.instagram.com/nestfolk/
⊕ Join us in the forest to hear the finest musicians duet with the sweet sounds of the nightingale.
Ø Occ Day Varies Various locations NATURE PILGRIMAGES https://thenestcollective.co.uk/includes/nature-pilgrimages/
→ Various venues.
⇒ Contact via website or info@thenestcollective.co.uk. https://thenestcollective.co.uk/, https://www.facebook.com/thenestcollective/, https://twitter.com/nestfolk, https://www.instagram.com/nestfolk/
⊕ Step out of the every-day and journey into nature.
Venues ZOOM
Ø Kent FRIDAY FOLK ZOOM - Weekly, 7.30-10pm.
PHONE If you are on our email circulation list you will receive an invite every week with a link to click. Otherwise ring Sue on 01-304-360877 if you wish to take part. [name change from Deal FC Zoom, 7/2022]
Performers South-West
Pf.1 Folk Music & Song: Pf.1b Duos
🄵 NEW FOLKLIFE MEMBER
Dorset ALONGSHORE www.alongshore.weeblysite.com Ledger de la Bald 07971 859098
⇒ Contact alongshore.folk<at>gmail.com https://sites.google.com/site/boathookbald/home,
https://alongshore.bandcamp.com/album/diamonds-rubies-emeralds
⊕ Traditional folk singer Vic Baines (Aka Pendlecheek) and poet Ledger De La Bald (Aka Boathouse Bald). Their shared love of storytelling through folk song and poetry is reflected in their debut album, "Diamonds, Rubies And Emeralds".
Performers Midlands
Geoff Veasey has emailed that Nunc and Drunk Monkey have ceased, so now deleted.
Performers All Other
North
PERFORMERS Pf.1 Folk Music & Song
Pf.1b Folk Music & Song - Duos
🄵 Yorks+Humber NELincs JAN & PAUL RAMSEY https://janandpaulramsey.com/ Jan 07984 643921
⇒ Jan on 07984 643921 or email: jprfolk<at>gmail.com
⊕ Our sets include a combination of traditional, contemporary and self-penned folk music with an occasional Americana song. (new member 5/2022)
South-East
TBC The Nest Collective have signed up, so these are suggested drafts that I made up based on their website. ALL TO BE CONFIRMED.
PERFORMERS ~ Pf.1 Folk Music & Song: Pf.1d Choirs & Quires
Ø London FIRE CHOIR https://thenestcollective.co.uk/includes/fire-choir/
⇒ Contact via website or info@thenestcollective.co.uk. https://thenestcollective.co.uk/, https://www.facebook.com/thenestcollective/,https://twitter.com/nestfolk, https://www.instagram.com/nestfolk/
⊕ Open to all, this community choir is dedicated to revitalising communal singing with activism and empowerment at its heart.
PERFORMERS ~ Pf.2 Folk Dance: Pf.2b Folk Dance Bands
Ø London CEILIDH LIBERATION FRONT https://thenestcollective.co.uk/includes/ceilidhs/
⇒ Contact via website or info@thenestcollective.co.uk. https://thenestcollective.co.uk/, https://www.facebook.com/thenestcollective/,https://twitter.com/nestfolk, https://www.instagram.com/nestfolk/
⊕ A radical dance sensation, reinventing the lore of the Ceilidh.
Services
TBC The Nest Collective have signed up, so these are suggested drafts that I made up based on their website. ALL TO BE CONFIRMED.
FOLK SERVICES ~ devised a new category! S.9 Artist Development
Ø London AMPLIFY https://thenestcollective.co.uk/includes/amplify/ §
⇒ Contact via website or info@thenestcollective.co.uk. https://thenestcollective.co.uk/, https://www.facebook.com/thenestcollective/,https://twitter.com/nestfolk, https://www.instagram.com/nestfolk/
⊕ The Nest Collective’s artist development programme. It aims to do as its name suggests: reinvigorate and develop contemporary and cross-cultural folk music in the UK by supporting the development of emerging music creators.
Our new FTJ logo, thanks to John Crane who has kindly modified this from his original drawing for our Book End Folk Books logo more than 40 years ago!
See right, A Notorious Chaunter in B Flat and Other Characters in Street Literature
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🄵🅃🄹 Folklife Traditions Journal, www.folklife-traditions.uk UPDATES
Our aims include stimulating a wider interest in folk studies & folk culture: FTJ pages Researched articles + archive, new, on a separate website. Folk studies and cultural traditions. Membership welcome but not required. Call for articles for next issue. Readers tell us how much they enjoy these articles - so we would like to expand our Journal pages ! If we had more articles, then we could make the Journal available separately, as well as part of FW. 1. Researched articles about a collected song or tune, word limits: no minimum - we get articles which are anything from just a song and a few lines or up to 500 words; other articles are often 1000 to 1500, our maximum is 2500 words. 2. To introduce society, institution, etc, up to 1000 words. Thereafter, short news items/dates from society, institutions welcome; longer items, please consult editor.
PUBLICATIONS A Notorious Chaunter in B Flat and Other Characters in Street Literature, edited by David Atkinson and Steve Roud. Paperback 193pp., ISBN 978-1-9161424-4-2. The Ballad Partners; only from www.theballadpartners.co.uk/publications UK £13 + £2.95 p&p. Non-UK please email info<at>theballadpartners.co.uk Covering a huge range of topics including the ballad trade and ballad singers from Dublin to Tewkesbury, the role of cheap print in political song and dissemination of news, a highwayman and even The Titanic. Contents: A Notorious Chaunter in B Flat (1837) Introduction by Steve Roud; A ‘Dark Man’ of Dublin Songs: Finding Joseph Sadler - Catherine Ann Cullen; ‘Three Acres and a Cow’: Political Song in the General Election of 1885 - John Baxter ; Valentine or Alan Tyne? Untangling the History of a Highwayman Ballad - Martin Nail; The Aberdeen Ballad Broadsides of 1775/6 - David Atkinson; Samuel Harward: Ballad and Chapbook Printer in Tewkesbury, Gloucester, and Cheltenham - David Atkinson; Becoming Vellamo’s Brother: Finnish Broadside Ballads about the Titanic Disaster - Silja Vuorikuru; Street Cred: Teaching the History of News Ballads and Broadsides to Journalism Students - Harry Browne; George Nicholson’s Literary Miscellany: Assembling a Mechanics’ Modernity - Gary Kelly Thomas Sabine and Son: Street Literature and Cheap Print at the End of the Eighteenth Century - David Atkinson The Ballad Partners is a not-for-profit publishing company set up in 2018. It aims to publish conference papers and books on traditional song, music, dance and customs in order to raise awareness and encourage the study of the folk arts. Publications will interest anyone with an interest in song and performance culture, social history, book history and popular reading and literacy. |
🄵🅆 Folklife Members' FOLK NEWS print pages copied to these we
Note - from September issue - all listings will be online only, on www.folklife-directory.uk
so we are no longer including 1-line Directory listings - which started in the days before email & web had been invented!
Nowadays, nearly all those listed also have news items with contact details, so we'll save about 7 pages by not having listings.
For those few listings that don't have news items (just a few music sessions) we will simply turn them into news items - so we will still have the same information, but avoiding duplication. The festivals and workshops diary will continue as before in FW.
⎈ International news webpage
DATES USA --- Boston
Ø LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ONLINE.
SUNDAYS 1st, Online Ballad Sing; 3rd, Online Chantey & Tavern Sing, both 2-4 EDT [= UK 7pm-9pm].
THURSDAYS 3rd, concerts; SATURDAYS special events (usually on Saturdays)
For details see sites.google.com/view/lynnoel/music/mermaidstavern Join the mailing list at http://mailinglist.mermaidstavern.com
July
FESTIVALS USA --- Boston
Dear Friends
We hope this finds you in good voice!
Ø Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival is scheduled to run live 23-25 September 2022. http://pmffest.org/
PMFF will be live-streaming a number of the in-person events throughout the weekend.
In parallel and integral with this, we are planning to run a Virtual programme live on zoom Sunday only, 25 September. The schedule will run noon-5pm ET with 5 1-hour sessions including the Guest Performers. There will certainly be a single virtual stream and, if there is enough interest, we'll plan to run a second parallel virtual stream too.
If you are interested in running a workshop or hosting a Song Circle, please email Linn asap, with a proposal comprising a title and 1-2 lines of detail. Expressions of interest will close 15 July or as soon as the schedule is full, whichever is the sooner.
For those of you who have been enjoying our virtual Shanty Big Sings, we will be scheduling another one to close the Virtual PMFF, this time themed on "Round the Horn" shanties.
Please note that we will be seeking expressions of interest in general volunteering, such as Session Assistant roles, separately..
Slainte,
🄵 Linn, Co-ordinator, Virtual PMFF.
For PMFF with the support of Persis Thorndike, Jamie Bishop and Gail Finn
linnphipps<at>gmail.com +44 7917 564440 (UK)
NEWS USA --- Boston
ALBUM: FROM BOSTON HARBOR LYNN NOEL
From Boston Harbor we set sail! Sing along to a songbag of original and traditional music from the port towns of Massachusetts from Cape Ann to Cape Cod. Lynn Noel's "head back and let fly" sea chanteys skillfully blend with songs of local heritage from the Boston Tea Party and the USS Constitution to the New Bedford whalers and the fishing schooners of Gloucester and Wellfleet. The Million Dollar Line pokes some gentle fun at the cruise ship industry, while the Loss of the Portland pays tribute to a Stellwagen Bank shipwreck and the rollicking Six Foot Tom relates the seagoing adventures of a ship's cat. Sniff the salt air and feel the wind in your sails with this newest release from Crosscurrents Music.
Buy Now on Bandcamp: crosscurrentsmusic.bandcamp.com/music
🄵🅆 West Country
UPDATE -- page 26
Wiltshire
🄵 From Rosie Upton
I hope you are all well and looking forward to an exciting summer of festivals. I have been asked to forward information to you about an event running at The Pump:
Friday 22nd - Sunday 24th July 2022. The Weekend Fundraiser for Trowbridge Festival. www.trowbridgefestival.co.uk
With the festival not going ahead this year, we have set up a weekend of music and fun curated by the team, to celebrate and support the festival while we prepare for our 2023 main event. This will be held in The Lamb Inn, The Pump venue where it all started.
There are weekend tickets available, giving access to all concerts with a discount. The event opens at 7.00pm from Friday 22nd July followed by day and evening concerts, continuing across the whole weekend. There will be five main concerts in The Pump venue plus other concerts, and open mic sessions in the pub skittle alley. Tickets on sale now via our website www.trowbridgefestival.co.uk
I will certainly be there and look forward to seeing old friends and past supporters of The Village Pump.
Other events that may be of interest to you being promoted by Kieran of Sheer Music are early July gigs at The Pump include 8 July Fly Yeti Fly with Tamsin Quin and I’m looking forward to Dom Prag on Friday 9 September. See website: thepumptrowbridge.co.uk
Friday Folk will not be resuming, at least for the time being.
Very best wishes, Rosie
🄵🅆 Glos
RE-OPENING -- page 28
🄵 Forest Folk Club is back!
A new list of dates, with a slight change of format; for the time being, one event each month, always on a Sunday, but with a more flexible schedule to fit in with guest availability.
Cash only on the door please, £8 for guest nights, £2 for Singers Nights. Doors open at 7.30 for 8pm start. forestfolkclub.com
We look forward to seeing you all very soon!
July 17th. Eos reunion! By special request, Jan Vaisey, Jan O’Neill, Ian Harvey and Doug McLean are forming a supergroup to revisit some favourite songs from our past musical history!
Aug 7th. Winter Wilson. Singing out for the underdog in glorious harmony. Original songs packed with punch and emotion that will get beneath your skin, and all delivered with great humour.
Sept 25th. Pete Morton
For thirty years, Pete has been performing to audiences all over the world. Throughout that time he has been regarded as one the best on the contemporary roots music scene.
More - see website forestfolkclub.com
🄵🅆 Herefs-Worcs
🄵 from Lisa, English Dulcimer Duo
Ceilidh for Ukraine - Upton Memorial Hall, Upton upon Severn, WR8 0HA
Saturday 23 July 2022, 7.30 - 11.00pm
A Barn Dancing fundraiser in aid of Ukrainian refugees. Dance to musicians from Bordewey & Young, Malthouse Passage,
Set ‘Em Up Joe... Featuring Voxrox, MC Richard Hannah
Info/tickets: 01905 371268 email: Ghostie.Hannah<at>Outlook.com
Or from: Upton Stitchery, 18 High St, Upton upon Severn, WR8 0HB shirley<at>upton-stitchery.co.uk - 07989 407748 (cash sales only).
🄵 Bromyard's Folk at the Falcon, July 8th, Winter Wilson, a duo playing their own original contemporary and 'roots' acoustic music. 'It's in live performance that these two really excel'. So said R & R Magazine, 'Kip Winter simply has a voice to die for. Dave Wilson is now recognised as being amongst the best of British song writers . You will laugh, you may cry'. 'A sense of intimacy to every venue, blending superb, original songs, stunning harmonies and musicianship with hilarious off-the-cuff humour'. As well as their vocals, Winter Wilson play guitar, accordion, flute and banjo.
Support is by the excellent Malvern-based Alan Courtney. Alan moved to Malvern in 1977, but he draws on the extensive collection of songs he has written about his home county of Devon with which he retains a strong connection. Most of these he has written in the traditional idiom about characters, places and other events of importance to him. He will also be singing a number of well known and loved songs from Devon and elsewhere.
https://www.winterwilson.com/ ; alancourtney.bandcamp.com
7.30pm (doors 7pm), £10 from the Falcon Hotel, or by phone on 07726 462220. Tickets: john<at>bloor.org.uk Info: pugh<at>live.co.uk.
🄵🅆 Alba/Scotland
🄵 Recent and future Shanty Big Sings [featuring variations on one shanty title]
The Santy Anna video is now up on Youtube at https://youtu.be/3PReBT66OhQ, and Rio Grande Shanty video is on Youtube at https://youtu.be/JTJWw22NmII, and Shenandoah was 30 June.
Next up (again hosted by Linn Phipps and JIm Lucas and sponsored by PMFF), are Sally/ Shallow Brown end July, and Reuben Ranzo end August .
All Big Sings are 7.45 for 8pm UK Ireland time (245pm for 3pm ET). If you do or could sing any version of these and would like to join in, pls email Linn and/or make sure we have your email, thx,
linnphipps<at>gmail.com or leave message on https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/contact/
Slainte
Linn Phipps + Jim Lucas
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Webpage 🄵🅆 Festivals, workshops www.folklife.uk/festivals.html
USA: changes as above under International
UK:
🄵 MOONRAKERS' FORTHCOMING WORKSHOPS www.moonrakers.net
Webpage 🄵🅆 Festivals, workshops www.folklife.uk/festivals.html
USA: changes as above under International
UK:
🄵 MOONRAKERS - year round Workshops & Courses
Oxfordshire MOONRAKERS www.moonrakers.net Jon Bennett 01865 769206
⇒ moonrakerscelticmusic<at>gmail.com, https://www.facebook.com/MoonrakersBand/ , https://twitter.com/moonrakersband ,
https://www.instagram.com/moonrakersofficial/ , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgNff2A8tp5dvcU0via1C4g
revised details
⊕ Moonrakers run Folk Orchestra residential weekends, plus annual day events, at Halsway Manor (Somerset), Benslow Music (Hertfordshire), Norden Farm Arts Centre, Dunster (Yarn Market Hotel) and several festivals. For players and singers of all standards: tuition, multi-instrumental arrangements, performing and recording the results. Details, call 01865 769206
ADD TO PREVIOUS
Mon 27th Feb - Fri 3rd Mar Halsway Manor, TAUNTON, Somerset, TA4 4BD. A three day (4 nights) residential Folk Orchestra Workshop run by Jon & Jacqui. All instruments welcome; intermediate standard (no absolute beginners). Limited to 20. Book early! www.halswaymanor.org.uk
Note - from September issue - all listings will be online only, on www.folklife-directory.uk
so we are no longer including 1-line Directory listings - which started in the days before email & web had been invented!
Nowadays, nearly all those listed also have news items with contact details, so we'll save about 7 pages by not having listings.
For those few listings that don't have news items (just a few music sessions) we will simply turn them into news items - so we will still have the same information, but avoiding duplication. The festivals and workshops diary will continue as before in FW.
⎈ International news webpage
DATES USA --- Boston
Ø LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ONLINE.
SUNDAYS 1st, Online Ballad Sing; 3rd, Online Chantey & Tavern Sing, both 2-4 EDT [= UK 7pm-9pm].
THURSDAYS 3rd, concerts; SATURDAYS special events (usually on Saturdays)
For details see sites.google.com/view/lynnoel/music/mermaidstavern Join the mailing list at http://mailinglist.mermaidstavern.com
July
- Sunday, July 17: Chantey & Tavern Sing
- Thursday July 21: Canadian Songs with Maura Volante
- Sunday, August 7: Ballad Sing
- Thursday, August 18: Peter and Audi Souza with Gary Foreman
- Sunday, August 21: Chantey & Tavern Sing
FESTIVALS USA --- Boston
Dear Friends
We hope this finds you in good voice!
Ø Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival is scheduled to run live 23-25 September 2022. http://pmffest.org/
PMFF will be live-streaming a number of the in-person events throughout the weekend.
In parallel and integral with this, we are planning to run a Virtual programme live on zoom Sunday only, 25 September. The schedule will run noon-5pm ET with 5 1-hour sessions including the Guest Performers. There will certainly be a single virtual stream and, if there is enough interest, we'll plan to run a second parallel virtual stream too.
If you are interested in running a workshop or hosting a Song Circle, please email Linn asap, with a proposal comprising a title and 1-2 lines of detail. Expressions of interest will close 15 July or as soon as the schedule is full, whichever is the sooner.
For those of you who have been enjoying our virtual Shanty Big Sings, we will be scheduling another one to close the Virtual PMFF, this time themed on "Round the Horn" shanties.
Please note that we will be seeking expressions of interest in general volunteering, such as Session Assistant roles, separately..
Slainte,
🄵 Linn, Co-ordinator, Virtual PMFF.
For PMFF with the support of Persis Thorndike, Jamie Bishop and Gail Finn
linnphipps<at>gmail.com +44 7917 564440 (UK)
NEWS USA --- Boston
ALBUM: FROM BOSTON HARBOR LYNN NOEL
From Boston Harbor we set sail! Sing along to a songbag of original and traditional music from the port towns of Massachusetts from Cape Ann to Cape Cod. Lynn Noel's "head back and let fly" sea chanteys skillfully blend with songs of local heritage from the Boston Tea Party and the USS Constitution to the New Bedford whalers and the fishing schooners of Gloucester and Wellfleet. The Million Dollar Line pokes some gentle fun at the cruise ship industry, while the Loss of the Portland pays tribute to a Stellwagen Bank shipwreck and the rollicking Six Foot Tom relates the seagoing adventures of a ship's cat. Sniff the salt air and feel the wind in your sails with this newest release from Crosscurrents Music.
Buy Now on Bandcamp: crosscurrentsmusic.bandcamp.com/music
🄵🅆 West Country
UPDATE -- page 26
Wiltshire
🄵 From Rosie Upton
I hope you are all well and looking forward to an exciting summer of festivals. I have been asked to forward information to you about an event running at The Pump:
Friday 22nd - Sunday 24th July 2022. The Weekend Fundraiser for Trowbridge Festival. www.trowbridgefestival.co.uk
With the festival not going ahead this year, we have set up a weekend of music and fun curated by the team, to celebrate and support the festival while we prepare for our 2023 main event. This will be held in The Lamb Inn, The Pump venue where it all started.
There are weekend tickets available, giving access to all concerts with a discount. The event opens at 7.00pm from Friday 22nd July followed by day and evening concerts, continuing across the whole weekend. There will be five main concerts in The Pump venue plus other concerts, and open mic sessions in the pub skittle alley. Tickets on sale now via our website www.trowbridgefestival.co.uk
I will certainly be there and look forward to seeing old friends and past supporters of The Village Pump.
Other events that may be of interest to you being promoted by Kieran of Sheer Music are early July gigs at The Pump include 8 July Fly Yeti Fly with Tamsin Quin and I’m looking forward to Dom Prag on Friday 9 September. See website: thepumptrowbridge.co.uk
Friday Folk will not be resuming, at least for the time being.
Very best wishes, Rosie
🄵🅆 Glos
RE-OPENING -- page 28
🄵 Forest Folk Club is back!
A new list of dates, with a slight change of format; for the time being, one event each month, always on a Sunday, but with a more flexible schedule to fit in with guest availability.
Cash only on the door please, £8 for guest nights, £2 for Singers Nights. Doors open at 7.30 for 8pm start. forestfolkclub.com
We look forward to seeing you all very soon!
July 17th. Eos reunion! By special request, Jan Vaisey, Jan O’Neill, Ian Harvey and Doug McLean are forming a supergroup to revisit some favourite songs from our past musical history!
Aug 7th. Winter Wilson. Singing out for the underdog in glorious harmony. Original songs packed with punch and emotion that will get beneath your skin, and all delivered with great humour.
Sept 25th. Pete Morton
For thirty years, Pete has been performing to audiences all over the world. Throughout that time he has been regarded as one the best on the contemporary roots music scene.
More - see website forestfolkclub.com
🄵🅆 Herefs-Worcs
🄵 from Lisa, English Dulcimer Duo
Ceilidh for Ukraine - Upton Memorial Hall, Upton upon Severn, WR8 0HA
Saturday 23 July 2022, 7.30 - 11.00pm
A Barn Dancing fundraiser in aid of Ukrainian refugees. Dance to musicians from Bordewey & Young, Malthouse Passage,
Set ‘Em Up Joe... Featuring Voxrox, MC Richard Hannah
Info/tickets: 01905 371268 email: Ghostie.Hannah<at>Outlook.com
Or from: Upton Stitchery, 18 High St, Upton upon Severn, WR8 0HB shirley<at>upton-stitchery.co.uk - 07989 407748 (cash sales only).
🄵 Bromyard's Folk at the Falcon, July 8th, Winter Wilson, a duo playing their own original contemporary and 'roots' acoustic music. 'It's in live performance that these two really excel'. So said R & R Magazine, 'Kip Winter simply has a voice to die for. Dave Wilson is now recognised as being amongst the best of British song writers . You will laugh, you may cry'. 'A sense of intimacy to every venue, blending superb, original songs, stunning harmonies and musicianship with hilarious off-the-cuff humour'. As well as their vocals, Winter Wilson play guitar, accordion, flute and banjo.
Support is by the excellent Malvern-based Alan Courtney. Alan moved to Malvern in 1977, but he draws on the extensive collection of songs he has written about his home county of Devon with which he retains a strong connection. Most of these he has written in the traditional idiom about characters, places and other events of importance to him. He will also be singing a number of well known and loved songs from Devon and elsewhere.
https://www.winterwilson.com/ ; alancourtney.bandcamp.com
7.30pm (doors 7pm), £10 from the Falcon Hotel, or by phone on 07726 462220. Tickets: john<at>bloor.org.uk Info: pugh<at>live.co.uk.
🄵🅆 Alba/Scotland
🄵 Recent and future Shanty Big Sings [featuring variations on one shanty title]
The Santy Anna video is now up on Youtube at https://youtu.be/3PReBT66OhQ, and Rio Grande Shanty video is on Youtube at https://youtu.be/JTJWw22NmII, and Shenandoah was 30 June.
Next up (again hosted by Linn Phipps and JIm Lucas and sponsored by PMFF), are Sally/ Shallow Brown end July, and Reuben Ranzo end August .
All Big Sings are 7.45 for 8pm UK Ireland time (245pm for 3pm ET). If you do or could sing any version of these and would like to join in, pls email Linn and/or make sure we have your email, thx,
linnphipps<at>gmail.com or leave message on https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/contact/
Slainte
Linn Phipps + Jim Lucas
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Webpage 🄵🅆 Festivals, workshops www.folklife.uk/festivals.html
USA: changes as above under International
UK:
🄵 MOONRAKERS' FORTHCOMING WORKSHOPS www.moonrakers.net
Webpage 🄵🅆 Festivals, workshops www.folklife.uk/festivals.html
USA: changes as above under International
UK:
🄵 MOONRAKERS - year round Workshops & Courses
Oxfordshire MOONRAKERS www.moonrakers.net Jon Bennett 01865 769206
⇒ moonrakerscelticmusic<at>gmail.com, https://www.facebook.com/MoonrakersBand/ , https://twitter.com/moonrakersband ,
https://www.instagram.com/moonrakersofficial/ , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgNff2A8tp5dvcU0via1C4g
revised details
⊕ Moonrakers run Folk Orchestra residential weekends, plus annual day events, at Halsway Manor (Somerset), Benslow Music (Hertfordshire), Norden Farm Arts Centre, Dunster (Yarn Market Hotel) and several festivals. For players and singers of all standards: tuition, multi-instrumental arrangements, performing and recording the results. Details, call 01865 769206
ADD TO PREVIOUS
Mon 27th Feb - Fri 3rd Mar Halsway Manor, TAUNTON, Somerset, TA4 4BD. A three day (4 nights) residential Folk Orchestra Workshop run by Jon & Jacqui. All instruments welcome; intermediate standard (no absolute beginners). Limited to 20. Book early! www.halswaymanor.org.uk
🄵🅆 Alba/Scotland
🄵 Issue 144 is the June / July 2022 issue of The Living Tradition, featuring articles on Brid Harper, Stan Hugill, Golowan, Seamus O’Kane, Doreen Henderson, The Oakham Poachers, ‘Doxies, Buy-A-Brooms and the Rigs of London Town’, ‘From Melodeon to Button Accordion’, Tales from the Road – Vic Smith, Transatlantic Connections, news, reviews, and more… Available to buy from www.livingtradition.co.uk
CHANGES AT THE LIVING TRADITION
Sadly The Living Tradition will be closing later this year, please support them, details below.
We at Folklife wish to record our deep appreciation of the LT team's work.
We also wish to record our grateful thanks for the helpful support extended to Folklife by Fi - Editor Fiona Heywood, both by email correspondence, and by advert-exchanges.
After the August 2022 issue of The Living Tradition, we will no longer be publishing the magazine. As a result, we are not accepting any new subscriptions at this time. Individual issues can be bought from the link on our homepage https://www.livingtradition.co.uk or from our online shop.
We are also making people aware of the opportunity to help us finance the magazine during these last few months by making a donation via our website. We hope that those of you who have enjoyed the magazine over the years will think about helping us out in this way one last time - this extra support as we come to the end will be vital for us during this time when we will have no income from subscriptions. If you wish to, you can donate easily using the link on the homepage of this website. Or you can, of course, do so by phone at 01563 571220 or 00353 7495 37967, or by sending your card details or a cheque made payable to The Living Tradition to our office at:
Living Tradition PO Box 1026 Kilmarnock Ayrshire KA2 0LG
Of course, with a donation, we will also make sure that you receive any final copies of the magazine.
Thank you all for your support over the years – it really has been appreciated. Telephone: (UK) 01563 571220 or (Ireland) 00353 74 9537967 email: admin<at>livingtradition.co.uk
Subscriptions are non-refundable, and are valid until the expiry of either the subscription, the subscriber or the magazine.
* Issue 145, August/September 2002, advertising & advertising copy date is Monday 27th June. https://www.livingtradition.co.uk
🄵 Issue 144 is the June / July 2022 issue of The Living Tradition, featuring articles on Brid Harper, Stan Hugill, Golowan, Seamus O’Kane, Doreen Henderson, The Oakham Poachers, ‘Doxies, Buy-A-Brooms and the Rigs of London Town’, ‘From Melodeon to Button Accordion’, Tales from the Road – Vic Smith, Transatlantic Connections, news, reviews, and more… Available to buy from www.livingtradition.co.uk
CHANGES AT THE LIVING TRADITION
Sadly The Living Tradition will be closing later this year, please support them, details below.
We at Folklife wish to record our deep appreciation of the LT team's work.
We also wish to record our grateful thanks for the helpful support extended to Folklife by Fi - Editor Fiona Heywood, both by email correspondence, and by advert-exchanges.
After the August 2022 issue of The Living Tradition, we will no longer be publishing the magazine. As a result, we are not accepting any new subscriptions at this time. Individual issues can be bought from the link on our homepage https://www.livingtradition.co.uk or from our online shop.
We are also making people aware of the opportunity to help us finance the magazine during these last few months by making a donation via our website. We hope that those of you who have enjoyed the magazine over the years will think about helping us out in this way one last time - this extra support as we come to the end will be vital for us during this time when we will have no income from subscriptions. If you wish to, you can donate easily using the link on the homepage of this website. Or you can, of course, do so by phone at 01563 571220 or 00353 7495 37967, or by sending your card details or a cheque made payable to The Living Tradition to our office at:
Living Tradition PO Box 1026 Kilmarnock Ayrshire KA2 0LG
Of course, with a donation, we will also make sure that you receive any final copies of the magazine.
Thank you all for your support over the years – it really has been appreciated. Telephone: (UK) 01563 571220 or (Ireland) 00353 74 9537967 email: admin<at>livingtradition.co.uk
Subscriptions are non-refundable, and are valid until the expiry of either the subscription, the subscriber or the magazine.
* Issue 145, August/September 2002, advertising & advertising copy date is Monday 27th June. https://www.livingtradition.co.uk
🄵 = Folklife Member Ø = Folklife Associate = signed up for Newsletter
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⎈ Zoom list webpage.
Shenandoah Big SIng 30 June and Virtual PMFF
HI everyone and just to share for all you shanty/chantey singers…
we all enjoyed our first zoom Shanty Big Sing so much (Santy Anna; on Youtube here: https://youtu.be/3PReBT66OhQ) that we did it again (Rio Grande). Next up (again hosted by Linn Phipps and JIm Lucas and sponsored by PMFF), are Shenandoah 30 June; Sally/ Shallow Brown end July, Reuben Ranzo end August … All Big Sings are 7.45 for 8pm UK Ireland time (2.45pm for 3pm ET). If you do or could sing any version of these and would like to join in, pls email Linn and/or make sure we have your email, thx, linnphipps<at>gmail.com or leave message on https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/contact/
Also … Linn is organising the Virtual element of the Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival Sunday 25 September (noon-5pm ET) - if interested in hosting a Song circle or a workshop, or in joining the singing, pls email linnphipps<at>gmail.com or leave message on https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/contact/
Slainte
🄵 Linn Phipps + Jim Lucas
Ledbury Poetry Festival , Herefordshire
from 30 June - mostly live but some paid-for Zoom events.
https://www.poetry-festival.co.uk
🄵🅆 Herefs-Worcs
🄵 The Homend Poets & Musicians
Our end of the poetic year bash at the Ledbury Poetry Festival.
In this particular session, we read our own poems.
Tuesday 5th July, Pot & Page cafe (01531 248743), https://www.facebook.com/PotAndPage, 8 New Street, Ledbury Herefordshire HR8 2DX
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm: Homend Poets Open Mic An open evening for poets to perform and share poems in a friendly, intimate space. Food and drink available. https://www.folklife.uk/homend-poets.html
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⎈ Zoom list webpage.
Shenandoah Big SIng 30 June and Virtual PMFF
HI everyone and just to share for all you shanty/chantey singers…
we all enjoyed our first zoom Shanty Big Sing so much (Santy Anna; on Youtube here: https://youtu.be/3PReBT66OhQ) that we did it again (Rio Grande). Next up (again hosted by Linn Phipps and JIm Lucas and sponsored by PMFF), are Shenandoah 30 June; Sally/ Shallow Brown end July, Reuben Ranzo end August … All Big Sings are 7.45 for 8pm UK Ireland time (2.45pm for 3pm ET). If you do or could sing any version of these and would like to join in, pls email Linn and/or make sure we have your email, thx, linnphipps<at>gmail.com or leave message on https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/contact/
Also … Linn is organising the Virtual element of the Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival Sunday 25 September (noon-5pm ET) - if interested in hosting a Song circle or a workshop, or in joining the singing, pls email linnphipps<at>gmail.com or leave message on https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/contact/
Slainte
🄵 Linn Phipps + Jim Lucas
Ledbury Poetry Festival , Herefordshire
from 30 June - mostly live but some paid-for Zoom events.
https://www.poetry-festival.co.uk
🄵🅆 Herefs-Worcs
🄵 The Homend Poets & Musicians
Our end of the poetic year bash at the Ledbury Poetry Festival.
In this particular session, we read our own poems.
Tuesday 5th July, Pot & Page cafe (01531 248743), https://www.facebook.com/PotAndPage, 8 New Street, Ledbury Herefordshire HR8 2DX
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm: Homend Poets Open Mic An open evening for poets to perform and share poems in a friendly, intimate space. Food and drink available. https://www.folklife.uk/homend-poets.html
22/4/2022 May magazine posted out. 3/5/2022 Website now updated.
DEADLINES will change from 19th to 20th so next: 20th July for September print issue.
From MAY 2022 FW, our policy for FOLK NEWS & LISTINGS.
Revised rates for subs and adverts
Annual subscriptions rise (increased postage) but cost for 1 remains the same at £18.
Adverts will be cheaper by about 15%, roughly the discount rate (for 3 prepaid adverts).
Details below under 🄵🅆 Info webpage
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🄵🅃🄹 Folklife Traditions Journal, www.folklife-traditions.uk
Our aims include stimulating a wider interest in folk studies & folk culture: FTJ pages
Researched articles + archive, new, on a separate website. Folk studies and cultural traditions.
Membership welcome but not required.
Current FTJ issue copied online: www.folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html, read, or download PDF.
It includes articles, plus Folklife Societies news & diary, Books & recordings announced & adverts.
§ Note: The 1st tune on FTJ 70, page 4, was revised by the author after FTJ published: the key signature to Brighton Camp, Eynsham-Bampton should have been D, not G as originally published. The PDFs of FTJ 70 have been corrected, as has the page-image - see https://www.folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html
Roy and Lesley Adkins - authors and contributors to to FWJ.
Adkins History Another occasional newsletter is on https://www.adkinshistory.com/newsletters/newsletter-64/ with the usual fascinating collection of articles on subjects varying from The Hour Glass to Books in War.
SEASONAL LOCAL CELEBRATIONS ON SPRING HOLIDAY WEEKEND.
Tom & Barbara Brown have pointed out that due to the Jubilee, the Spring Bank Holiday weekend has moved to the following weekend; this may affect some celebrations held on that day/weekend.
The Hunting of the Earl of Rone continues in the village, and always includes the last Monday in May, and starts on the previous Friday, so this year it won’t be taking place on the Spring Bank Holiday weekend. See:
Hunting The Earl Of Rone Combe Martin N Devon usually Spring Bank Holiday - but this year see below,
Custom reintroduced in 1974, which includes Hobby Horse and Fool, 'Grenadiers', music, drums and dancers and the Earl of Rone character. Processions take place throughout the weekend, culminating in full pageant on the Monday evening.
2022 dates are Friday 27th May 7:00 pm Procession with Drums only. ---- Saturday 28th May. 11:00 am Children’s Day Procession.
Sunday 29th May. 21:30 pm Full Procession ---- Monday 30th May 6:00 pm Procession with EOR Tom & Barbara Brown www.earl-of-rone.org.uk
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FOLK NEWS PRINT PAGES & WEBPAGES are 🄵🅆 Cymru • Wales 🄵🅆 Kernow • Cornwall 🄵🅆 West Country 🄵🅆 Glos 🄵🅆 Midlands 🄵🅆 Herefs-Worcs 🄵🅆 South-East 🄵🅆 North 🄵🅆 Alba/Scotland
Additionally we have online-only webpages for ⎈ International and ⎈ Zoom. If no heading below - no changes this Newsletter
New added webpage ⎈ AREA DIRECTORIES
⎈ International
NEW ENTRY
🄰 2022 Jun 10 - 12 CONNECTICUT SEA MUSIC FESTIVAL, USA http://ctseamusicfest.org/
→ ESSEX, CT, USA. Various venues including the historic Griswold Inn and the Connecticut River Museum.
⌂ Contact: Faye Ringel fayeringel@hotmail.com 860-608-3494.
Ticketed evening concerts https://www.eventbrite.com/e/connecticut-sea-music-festival-evening-concerts-tickets-301879318167
For more information, and to purchase advance sale tickets, visit 2022 Festival – Connecticut Sea Music Festival (ctseamusicfest.org)
⊕ The first Connecticut Sea Music Festival is free to the public (daytime events), the family-friendly maritime music festival presents performers from a variety of musical traditions, steeped in the lore of the sea. Activities include a Family Stage, workshops, concerts, demonstrations of sailor skills, and a Symposium on the Music of the Sea, plus Evening concerts (ticketed, see above).
The streets and rafters of historic downtown Essex will ring with sea chanteys, as the Festival presents concerts, workshops, and demonstrations of traditional maritime skills. It begins with a Symposium on the Music of the Sea from 9-5 on Friday, followed by an Evening Concert of traditional maritime music at 7 under the mainstage tent at the Museum. On Saturday, music and workshops run from 10-5 at multiple venues, with an Evening Concert at 7. Sunday morning begins at 9:30 with a traditional maritime hymn sing- revival style!- under the big tent, and continues with music and workshops from 11- 3. The Festival concludes with an all-in concert on Sunday afternoon.
Online: only the Symposium will be livestreamed; we hope that Friday and Saturday night concerts will be available as audio only through an Internet radio station: iCRV ICRVRadio.com
UPDATES for existing entry on Festivals and on International webpages
🄰 2022 Sep 24 - 25 THE PORTSMOUTH MARITIME FOLK FESTIVAL, USA www.pmffest.org
* No June PMFF Second Saturday Zoom Sing - instead, at the Connecticut Sea Music Festival (see above).
* We had such a good time with the “Santy Anna” Big Sing last month, that we’re doing it again with “Rio Grande.” Wednesday 25 May, 3 pm EDT; see http://pmffest.org/2022/05/08/rio-grand-big-sing/ for details. Thanks to Advisory Committee member Linn Phipps and chantey sing regular Jim Lucas for arranging these!
* More performers for this year’s festival! West coast singer and songwriter Mary Garvey; Connecticut-based Skylark Trad Band (former Mystic Seaport chantey foreman Anayis Wright and former chantey staff Yves Corbiere and Kate McCann); and award-winning veteran performers Rick and Donna Nestler from New York are coming aboard, along with local favorites Great Bay Sailor, London Julie & Friends, Mudhook, The Portermen, and Two Old Friends. They join previously-announced headliners Vienna Carroll, David Coffin, and Cliff Haslam, plus Heather Wood and Don Sineti! See http://pmffest.org/2022-performers/ for pictures and bios.
* We’re really excited with how this year is shaping up, and eager to get back to the streets of Portsmouth! We hope to see you there!
Fair winds and following seas, Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival Mailing list: info@pmffest.org
DATES USA --- Boston
🄰 LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ONLINE.
SUNDAYS 1st, Online Ballad Sing; 3rd, Online Chantey & Tavern Sing, both 2-4 EDT [= UK 7pm-9pm].
THURSDAYS 3rd, concerts; SATURDAYS special events (usually on Saturdays)
For details see sites.google.com/view/lynnoel/music/mermaidstavern Join the mailing list at http://mailinglist.mermaidstavern.com
May
⎈ Zoom
HI everyone and just to share for all you shanty/chantey singers…
we all enjoyed our first zoom Shanty Big Sing so much (Santy Anna; on Youtube here: https://youtu.be/3PReBT66OhQ) that we did it again (Rio Grande). Next up (again hosted by Linn Phipps and JIm Lucas and sponsored by PMFF), are Shenandoah 30 June; Sally/ Shallow Brown end July, Reuben Ranzo end August … All Big Sings are 745 for 8pm UK Ireland time (245pm for 3pm ET). If you do or could sing any version of these and would like to join in, pls email Linn and/or make sure we have your email, thx, linnphipps<at>gmail.com
Also … Linn is organising the Virtual element of the Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival Sunday 25 September (noon-5pm ET) - if interested in hosting a Song circle or a workshop, or in joining the singing, pls email .linnphipps<at>gmail.com
Thanks and apologies if received twice!!
Slainte
Linn Phipps + Jim Lucas
Articles: in addition to list of Zoom sessions, we have some articles, from Folklife Traditions Journal pages.
In this issue, we have an article from Dave Mason, article 3) below.
Our Zoom articles on the Zoom webpage are
1) #FutureOfFolk Lynn Noel (Boston, USA)
2) Using Zoom for a Folk Club Mark Dowding (Room At The Top FC, Lancs)
3) Using Zoom for a Folk Club - A Singer's Perspective Dave Mason (Scotland)
🄵🅆 Kernow • Cornwall
UPDATES to page 20
🄵 ROB BARRATT comic poet Revised dates
May 12th - Oldham Library and Lifelong Learning Centre, Greaves Street, Oldham, OL1 1AL 7pm.
May 19th - Lyceum Folk Club, Newport, South Wales.
May 24th- Warehouse Theatre, Ilminster, Somerset. Part of Ilminster Literature Festival.
June 16th to 20th - Beardy Folk Festival, Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire.
July 3rd Poetry in the Woods, Cardinham with intoBodmin, Cornwall.
July 5th and 6th - Ludlow Fringe Festival, Shropshire. Rose and Crown.
July 8th to 10th - Priddy Fringe Festival, Priddy, Somerset
July 21st to 24th - Big Lit (a Scottish literary festival), Dumfries and Galloway.
July 28th - Crookes Folk Club, The Princess Royal, 43, Slinn Street, Crookes, Sheffield. S10 1NW
July 26th and 27th - Durham Fringe Festival. Cafédral 9pm to 10pm.
September 17th - St Ives September Festival. The Arts Club. Comedy night with Holcomb, Barratt and Richey.
November 24th to 27th - Arts Out West, Cumbria.
Dec 6th to Dec 9th - Costa del Folk, Aviemore, Scotland.
Rob Barratt ®, 01566 880336, rbarratt@cooptel.net For more information, see: www.robbarratt.co.uk
🄵🅆 West Country
🄵🅆 Herefs-Worcs
UPDATES to page 41 - Worcs
🄵 1st Mon Worcs LOWER MOOR OLD CHESTNUT TREE SINGAROUND (no website) Frank Jolley 07482 625877
Frank writes:
Hi all
I hope you are all keeping well.
Just a note with some not-so-good news, I’m afraid.
The Old Chestnut Inn have told me that they do not want to hold our session there. They seem to have changed their mind. They say that like to close at 8 pm on Mondays. So I am back to looking for a venue again.
As a result there will be no more meetings, I’m afraid, until I can find a new venue.
Thank you all for your support for the Wyre Piddle session.
Best wishes
Frank
UPDATES to page 42 - Worcs
🄵 Weekly Fri Worcs WORCESTER SOMERS TRADITIONAL FOLK CLUB www.somers-folk-club.org.uk Eleanor & Sam 01684 561378
LIVE: open to all, 1st & 3rd Fridays (8.15-10.45pm (doors 8pm) - please check website for exceptional changes), 8.15-10.45pm (doors 8pm).
ZOOM: other Fridays on Zoom, Somers members only. Annual membership £10 to 31/12/2022.
Chris info<at>somers-folk-club.org.uk Eleanor & Sam 01684 561378 (E&S are the Folklife editors but STFC is a separate organisation)
🄵🅆 South-East
For news - see Workshops below.
2. PERFORMERS MUSIC & SONG, DANCE, SPOKEN WORD
Pf.1a Folk Music & Song - Bands / Groups - sorted by first name within county
Oxfordshire MOONRAKERS www.moonrakers.net Jon Bennett 01865 769206
⇒ moonrakerscelticmusic<at>gmail.com, https://www.facebook.com/MoonrakersBand/ , https://twitter.com/moonrakersband ,
https://www.instagram.com/moonrakersofficial/ , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgNff2A8tp5dvcU0via1C4g
⊕ Four Oxford-based musicians who have brought traditional and contemporary folk music to new audiences in village halls, churches, arts centres and festivals. With careful arrangements and selections of tunes and songs, “just OOZES quality” (Living Tradition); “exquisite music” (BBC). [New member: added May 2022]
5. WORKSHOP PROVIDERS & WORKSHOP SERIES
W.1 WORKSHOP PROVIDERS, incl. Study Centres, Folk Teachers, Tutors, Development Workers, Workshop Organisers.
Many tutors travel across the country; so we give their home area just for information.
Oxfordshire MOONRAKERS www.moonrakers.net Jon Bennett 01865 769206
⇒ moonrakerscelticmusic<at>gmail.com, https://www.facebook.com/MoonrakersBand/ , https://twitter.com/moonrakersband ,
https://www.instagram.com/moonrakersofficial/ , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgNff2A8tp5dvcU0via1C4g
⊕ Moonrakers run Folk Orchestra and Ukulele & Singing residential weekends, plus annual day events, at Halsway Manor (Somerset), Benslow Music (Hertfordshire), Oxford, and several festivals. For players and singers of all standards: tuition, multi-instrumental arrangements, performing and recording the results. [New member: added May 2022]
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Webpage 🄵🅆 Festivals, workshops www.folklife.uk/festivals.html
USA: changes as above under International
UK:
🄵 MOONRAKERS' FORTHCOMING WORKSHOPS www.moonrakers.net
Moonrakers is a professional group of musicians who run residential and day courses in Folk Ensemble playing. We’ve been doing this for many years at Halsway Manor, Benslow Music and various other locations around the country. The courses are geared towards intermediate players of all instruments and have on every occasion been sold out. We always send the music and a video of the tunes in advance to participants. Forthcoming workshops:
3-4 September BUNKFEST Festival, WALLINGFORD. Our annual foray into the delights of BunkFest, including a concert, workshops, etc. And it's all free! We'll be on the Main Stage at 12:30 on Sunday and also at other venues across the weekend.
9-11 September Folk Orchestra, Benslow Music, HITCHIN. The second of our annual residential weekend workshops at Benslow Music. Book early! www.benslowmusic.org 01462 459446.
21-23 October Intermediate/Advanced ukulele fingerstyle course at BENSLOW MUSIC , run by Jon Bennett. Solo & ensemble arrangements, chord theory and chord-melody playing. Residential weekend. Book early! www.benslowmusic.org 01462 459446
18-20 November Folk Orchestra residential course, Yarn Market Hotel, Dunster, MINEHEAD, Somerset, TA24 6SF. Arriving Friday evening, then two full days of multi-instrumental group arrangements, playing and tuition for intermediate players. Limited to 20 participants. Two nights full board + the course : £300-£330 depending on accommodation. Day visitors £150 (incl. lunch/dinner/lunch). Bookings/enquiries : 01643 821425.
Saturday 11th February, 2023 Folk Orchestra day course/workshop. Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Altwood Road, MAIDENHEAD SL6 4PF. 10:00 -16:30. £60, including free entry to the evening concert. Box Office: 01628 788997. norden.farm/
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- 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 associates (signed-up non-members) who had previously sent in news.
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Revised rates for subs and adverts
Annual subscriptions rise (increased postage) but cost for 1 remains the same at £18.
Adverts will be cheaper by about 15%, roughly the discount rate (for 3 prepaid adverts).
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🄵🅃🄹 Folklife Traditions Journal, www.folklife-traditions.uk
Our aims include stimulating a wider interest in folk studies & folk culture: FTJ pages
Researched articles + archive, new, on a separate website. Folk studies and cultural traditions.
Membership welcome but not required.
Current FTJ issue copied online: www.folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html, read, or download PDF.
It includes articles, 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
§ Note: The 1st tune on FTJ 70, page 4, was revised by the author after FTJ published: the key signature to Brighton Camp, Eynsham-Bampton should have been D, not G as originally published. The PDFs of FTJ 70 have been corrected, as has the page-image - see https://www.folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html
Roy and Lesley Adkins - authors and contributors to to FWJ.
Adkins History Another occasional newsletter is on https://www.adkinshistory.com/newsletters/newsletter-64/ with the usual fascinating collection of articles on subjects varying from The Hour Glass to Books in War.
SEASONAL LOCAL CELEBRATIONS ON SPRING HOLIDAY WEEKEND.
Tom & Barbara Brown have pointed out that due to the Jubilee, the Spring Bank Holiday weekend has moved to the following weekend; this may affect some celebrations held on that day/weekend.
The Hunting of the Earl of Rone continues in the village, and always includes the last Monday in May, and starts on the previous Friday, so this year it won’t be taking place on the Spring Bank Holiday weekend. See:
Hunting The Earl Of Rone Combe Martin N Devon usually Spring Bank Holiday - but this year see below,
Custom reintroduced in 1974, which includes Hobby Horse and Fool, 'Grenadiers', music, drums and dancers and the Earl of Rone character. Processions take place throughout the weekend, culminating in full pageant on the Monday evening.
2022 dates are Friday 27th May 7:00 pm Procession with Drums only. ---- Saturday 28th May. 11:00 am Children’s Day Procession.
Sunday 29th May. 21:30 pm Full Procession ---- Monday 30th May 6:00 pm Procession with EOR Tom & Barbara Brown www.earl-of-rone.org.uk
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FOLK NEWS PRINT PAGES & WEBPAGES are 🄵🅆 Cymru • Wales 🄵🅆 Kernow • Cornwall 🄵🅆 West Country 🄵🅆 Glos 🄵🅆 Midlands 🄵🅆 Herefs-Worcs 🄵🅆 South-East 🄵🅆 North 🄵🅆 Alba/Scotland
Additionally we have online-only webpages for ⎈ International and ⎈ Zoom. If no heading below - no changes this Newsletter
New added webpage ⎈ AREA DIRECTORIES
⎈ International
NEW ENTRY
🄰 2022 Jun 10 - 12 CONNECTICUT SEA MUSIC FESTIVAL, USA http://ctseamusicfest.org/
→ ESSEX, CT, USA. Various venues including the historic Griswold Inn and the Connecticut River Museum.
⌂ Contact: Faye Ringel fayeringel@hotmail.com 860-608-3494.
Ticketed evening concerts https://www.eventbrite.com/e/connecticut-sea-music-festival-evening-concerts-tickets-301879318167
For more information, and to purchase advance sale tickets, visit 2022 Festival – Connecticut Sea Music Festival (ctseamusicfest.org)
⊕ The first Connecticut Sea Music Festival is free to the public (daytime events), the family-friendly maritime music festival presents performers from a variety of musical traditions, steeped in the lore of the sea. Activities include a Family Stage, workshops, concerts, demonstrations of sailor skills, and a Symposium on the Music of the Sea, plus Evening concerts (ticketed, see above).
The streets and rafters of historic downtown Essex will ring with sea chanteys, as the Festival presents concerts, workshops, and demonstrations of traditional maritime skills. It begins with a Symposium on the Music of the Sea from 9-5 on Friday, followed by an Evening Concert of traditional maritime music at 7 under the mainstage tent at the Museum. On Saturday, music and workshops run from 10-5 at multiple venues, with an Evening Concert at 7. Sunday morning begins at 9:30 with a traditional maritime hymn sing- revival style!- under the big tent, and continues with music and workshops from 11- 3. The Festival concludes with an all-in concert on Sunday afternoon.
Online: only the Symposium will be livestreamed; we hope that Friday and Saturday night concerts will be available as audio only through an Internet radio station: iCRV ICRVRadio.com
UPDATES for existing entry on Festivals and on International webpages
🄰 2022 Sep 24 - 25 THE PORTSMOUTH MARITIME FOLK FESTIVAL, USA www.pmffest.org
* No June PMFF Second Saturday Zoom Sing - instead, at the Connecticut Sea Music Festival (see above).
* We had such a good time with the “Santy Anna” Big Sing last month, that we’re doing it again with “Rio Grande.” Wednesday 25 May, 3 pm EDT; see http://pmffest.org/2022/05/08/rio-grand-big-sing/ for details. Thanks to Advisory Committee member Linn Phipps and chantey sing regular Jim Lucas for arranging these!
* More performers for this year’s festival! West coast singer and songwriter Mary Garvey; Connecticut-based Skylark Trad Band (former Mystic Seaport chantey foreman Anayis Wright and former chantey staff Yves Corbiere and Kate McCann); and award-winning veteran performers Rick and Donna Nestler from New York are coming aboard, along with local favorites Great Bay Sailor, London Julie & Friends, Mudhook, The Portermen, and Two Old Friends. They join previously-announced headliners Vienna Carroll, David Coffin, and Cliff Haslam, plus Heather Wood and Don Sineti! See http://pmffest.org/2022-performers/ for pictures and bios.
* We’re really excited with how this year is shaping up, and eager to get back to the streets of Portsmouth! We hope to see you there!
Fair winds and following seas, Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival Mailing list: info@pmffest.org
DATES USA --- Boston
🄰 LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ONLINE.
SUNDAYS 1st, Online Ballad Sing; 3rd, Online Chantey & Tavern Sing, both 2-4 EDT [= UK 7pm-9pm].
THURSDAYS 3rd, concerts; SATURDAYS special events (usually on Saturdays)
For details see sites.google.com/view/lynnoel/music/mermaidstavern Join the mailing list at http://mailinglist.mermaidstavern.com
May
- Sunday, May 15: Chantey & Tavern Sing
- Thursday May 19: Merry May with Alex Cumming
- Sunday, June 5: Ballad Sing
- June 10-12: Lynn Noel IN PERSON at CT Sea Music Festival
- Thursday, June 16: IN PERSON/HYBRID Janie Meneely & Rob van Sante
- Sunday, June 19: Chantey & Tavern Sing
- Sunday, July 3: Ballad Sing
- Sunday, July 17: Chantey & Tavern Sing
- Thursday July 21: Canadian Songs with Maura Volante
⎈ Zoom
HI everyone and just to share for all you shanty/chantey singers…
we all enjoyed our first zoom Shanty Big Sing so much (Santy Anna; on Youtube here: https://youtu.be/3PReBT66OhQ) that we did it again (Rio Grande). Next up (again hosted by Linn Phipps and JIm Lucas and sponsored by PMFF), are Shenandoah 30 June; Sally/ Shallow Brown end July, Reuben Ranzo end August … All Big Sings are 745 for 8pm UK Ireland time (245pm for 3pm ET). If you do or could sing any version of these and would like to join in, pls email Linn and/or make sure we have your email, thx, linnphipps<at>gmail.com
Also … Linn is organising the Virtual element of the Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival Sunday 25 September (noon-5pm ET) - if interested in hosting a Song circle or a workshop, or in joining the singing, pls email .linnphipps<at>gmail.com
Thanks and apologies if received twice!!
Slainte
Linn Phipps + Jim Lucas
Articles: in addition to list of Zoom sessions, we have some articles, from Folklife Traditions Journal pages.
In this issue, we have an article from Dave Mason, article 3) below.
Our Zoom articles on the Zoom webpage are
1) #FutureOfFolk Lynn Noel (Boston, USA)
2) Using Zoom for a Folk Club Mark Dowding (Room At The Top FC, Lancs)
3) Using Zoom for a Folk Club - A Singer's Perspective Dave Mason (Scotland)
🄵🅆 Kernow • Cornwall
UPDATES to page 20
🄵 ROB BARRATT comic poet Revised dates
May 12th - Oldham Library and Lifelong Learning Centre, Greaves Street, Oldham, OL1 1AL 7pm.
May 19th - Lyceum Folk Club, Newport, South Wales.
May 24th- Warehouse Theatre, Ilminster, Somerset. Part of Ilminster Literature Festival.
June 16th to 20th - Beardy Folk Festival, Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire.
July 3rd Poetry in the Woods, Cardinham with intoBodmin, Cornwall.
July 5th and 6th - Ludlow Fringe Festival, Shropshire. Rose and Crown.
July 8th to 10th - Priddy Fringe Festival, Priddy, Somerset
July 21st to 24th - Big Lit (a Scottish literary festival), Dumfries and Galloway.
July 28th - Crookes Folk Club, The Princess Royal, 43, Slinn Street, Crookes, Sheffield. S10 1NW
July 26th and 27th - Durham Fringe Festival. Cafédral 9pm to 10pm.
September 17th - St Ives September Festival. The Arts Club. Comedy night with Holcomb, Barratt and Richey.
November 24th to 27th - Arts Out West, Cumbria.
Dec 6th to Dec 9th - Costa del Folk, Aviemore, Scotland.
Rob Barratt ®, 01566 880336, rbarratt@cooptel.net For more information, see: www.robbarratt.co.uk
🄵🅆 West Country
- Devon: please delete Tom & Barbara Brown entries: Pf.1b, Folk Music & Song - Duo; Pf.3a, Folk Shows & Theatre, Mummers; W.1 Workshops
- Bristol & S Glos: Cresby aka Mr Red reports: Thornbury Folk Session [p26: CSFN News] has closed. I was asked to remove it recently. http://mister.red
🄵🅆 Herefs-Worcs
UPDATES to page 41 - Worcs
🄵 1st Mon Worcs LOWER MOOR OLD CHESTNUT TREE SINGAROUND (no website) Frank Jolley 07482 625877
Frank writes:
Hi all
I hope you are all keeping well.
Just a note with some not-so-good news, I’m afraid.
The Old Chestnut Inn have told me that they do not want to hold our session there. They seem to have changed their mind. They say that like to close at 8 pm on Mondays. So I am back to looking for a venue again.
As a result there will be no more meetings, I’m afraid, until I can find a new venue.
Thank you all for your support for the Wyre Piddle session.
Best wishes
Frank
UPDATES to page 42 - Worcs
🄵 Weekly Fri Worcs WORCESTER SOMERS TRADITIONAL FOLK CLUB www.somers-folk-club.org.uk Eleanor & Sam 01684 561378
LIVE: open to all, 1st & 3rd Fridays (8.15-10.45pm (doors 8pm) - please check website for exceptional changes), 8.15-10.45pm (doors 8pm).
ZOOM: other Fridays on Zoom, Somers members only. Annual membership £10 to 31/12/2022.
Chris info<at>somers-folk-club.org.uk Eleanor & Sam 01684 561378 (E&S are the Folklife editors but STFC is a separate organisation)
🄵🅆 South-East
For news - see Workshops below.
2. PERFORMERS MUSIC & SONG, DANCE, SPOKEN WORD
Pf.1a Folk Music & Song - Bands / Groups - sorted by first name within county
Oxfordshire MOONRAKERS www.moonrakers.net Jon Bennett 01865 769206
⇒ moonrakerscelticmusic<at>gmail.com, https://www.facebook.com/MoonrakersBand/ , https://twitter.com/moonrakersband ,
https://www.instagram.com/moonrakersofficial/ , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgNff2A8tp5dvcU0via1C4g
⊕ Four Oxford-based musicians who have brought traditional and contemporary folk music to new audiences in village halls, churches, arts centres and festivals. With careful arrangements and selections of tunes and songs, “just OOZES quality” (Living Tradition); “exquisite music” (BBC). [New member: added May 2022]
5. WORKSHOP PROVIDERS & WORKSHOP SERIES
W.1 WORKSHOP PROVIDERS, incl. Study Centres, Folk Teachers, Tutors, Development Workers, Workshop Organisers.
Many tutors travel across the country; so we give their home area just for information.
Oxfordshire MOONRAKERS www.moonrakers.net Jon Bennett 01865 769206
⇒ moonrakerscelticmusic<at>gmail.com, https://www.facebook.com/MoonrakersBand/ , https://twitter.com/moonrakersband ,
https://www.instagram.com/moonrakersofficial/ , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgNff2A8tp5dvcU0via1C4g
⊕ Moonrakers run Folk Orchestra and Ukulele & Singing residential weekends, plus annual day events, at Halsway Manor (Somerset), Benslow Music (Hertfordshire), Oxford, and several festivals. For players and singers of all standards: tuition, multi-instrumental arrangements, performing and recording the results. [New member: added May 2022]
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Webpage 🄵🅆 Festivals, workshops www.folklife.uk/festivals.html
USA: changes as above under International
UK:
🄵 MOONRAKERS' FORTHCOMING WORKSHOPS www.moonrakers.net
Moonrakers is a professional group of musicians who run residential and day courses in Folk Ensemble playing. We’ve been doing this for many years at Halsway Manor, Benslow Music and various other locations around the country. The courses are geared towards intermediate players of all instruments and have on every occasion been sold out. We always send the music and a video of the tunes in advance to participants. Forthcoming workshops:
3-4 September BUNKFEST Festival, WALLINGFORD. Our annual foray into the delights of BunkFest, including a concert, workshops, etc. And it's all free! We'll be on the Main Stage at 12:30 on Sunday and also at other venues across the weekend.
9-11 September Folk Orchestra, Benslow Music, HITCHIN. The second of our annual residential weekend workshops at Benslow Music. Book early! www.benslowmusic.org 01462 459446.
21-23 October Intermediate/Advanced ukulele fingerstyle course at BENSLOW MUSIC , run by Jon Bennett. Solo & ensemble arrangements, chord theory and chord-melody playing. Residential weekend. Book early! www.benslowmusic.org 01462 459446
18-20 November Folk Orchestra residential course, Yarn Market Hotel, Dunster, MINEHEAD, Somerset, TA24 6SF. Arriving Friday evening, then two full days of multi-instrumental group arrangements, playing and tuition for intermediate players. Limited to 20 participants. Two nights full board + the course : £300-£330 depending on accommodation. Day visitors £150 (incl. lunch/dinner/lunch). Bookings/enquiries : 01643 821425.
Saturday 11th February, 2023 Folk Orchestra day course/workshop. Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Altwood Road, MAIDENHEAD SL6 4PF. 10:00 -16:30. £60, including free entry to the evening concert. Box Office: 01628 788997. norden.farm/
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🄵🅆 Info webpage (Info: FW page 3).
DEADLINES will change from 19th to 20th so next 20th July for September print issue.
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 associates (signed-up 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.
Revised rates from May, see Info page 3 or 🄵🅆 Info webpage
✪ Annual subscriptions rise (increased postage) but cost for 1 remains the same at £18.
x2=£24, x3=£30, x4=£35, x5=£39.
6 or more post-free + 20% discount. (cost £2.40, sell @ £3)
x6= £43.20, x7= £50.40, x8= £57.60, x9 = £64.80, x10= £72.00, x11= £79.20, x12= £86.40.
✪ Adverts will be cheaper by about 15%, roughly the discount rate (for 3 prepaid adverts).
No discounts for prepaid repeat adverts. So a prepaid ad now cheaper, but a repeat ad will be about the same.
Example: 1/8th. Was: £16 invoiced, £12 prepaid, discount £10 x3.
Now: simply £12 invoiced or £10 prepaid.
✪ Standard ad prices, paid by BACS, Card, or Cheque, are £2 more than discount prices below
✪ Discount prices below, if: prepaid by BACS or cheque (no card). We’ll email receipt.
✪ Colour. A4, £150 (full bleed £165). 1/2 £80. 1/4 [A6] £50. 1/8 £25.
✪ Mono. A4, £60. 1/2 £32. 1/4 [A6] £18.00. 1/8 £10.
30 October 2021: Covid shutdown --- THE FUTURE OF FOLKLIFE WEST
Before Covid ... amazingly high annual-renewal rates. Sadly, some venues have closed. And some adverts are missing.
This means our losses are more than usual.
In order to be able to continue, we'll make some changes, & avoid price rises!
2022 Folklife West Membership costs.
Before Covid ... Jan 2020 was a record 64 pages.
This issue, 60 pages; of which 15 Journal (normally 8-10), 45 news including listings & ads (in Jan 2020, 53). So maybe 54 to 60 pages in future.
We will save by reducing complimentary copies (we'll contact you if this applies).
Print & post costs up; balanced by saving on comps, & possibly a few less pages: No change to 2022 Membership costs !
2022 Advert costs.
Folk What's On, free leaflet = adverts from FW. Sent only in areas with adverts.
1) some branch libraries. Continuing when councils have agreed to distribute copies sent to library headquarters.
2) TICs, concert venues, etc - changing times, some TICs are reducing displays, and pro rata more expensive to post. So we will stop sending for some TICs.
So, print & post costs up; balanced by reducing circulation (fewer comp. FWs, and quite a few less Folk What's On): No change to 2022 advert costs !
• We're not crowd-funding, we're not asking for large donations, etc.
• If . . . most members renew their membership --- perhaps 2 copies (£22.50 a year) instead of 1?
. . . and if some non-members consider joining (£18),
. . . and maybe some advertise (from 1/8th mono £12) . . . that way we'll continue! 30 October 2021
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To join: £18 a year. Please send by BACS to: Folklife, sort code 09-01-55, account 18675181.
or send us a cheque details Info webpage. EU £27. USA £36. Sterling only. No debit or credit cards.
Also, please use form above, or email 'Opt In' + same info (name; country. or for England, region)
You will receive 1 copy of 3 issues per year,
and for each issue you can send in
------ your folk listings, as in online area Directories
------ your folk news. Word limits apply: 200 words, more if advertising, see below.
Anywhere in the world - £18 for PDF via WeTransfer instead of print version.
Before Covid ... amazingly high annual-renewal rates. Sadly, some venues have closed. And some adverts are missing.
This means our losses are more than usual.
In order to be able to continue, we'll make some changes, & avoid price rises!
2022 Folklife West Membership costs.
Before Covid ... Jan 2020 was a record 64 pages.
This issue, 60 pages; of which 15 Journal (normally 8-10), 45 news including listings & ads (in Jan 2020, 53). So maybe 54 to 60 pages in future.
We will save by reducing complimentary copies (we'll contact you if this applies).
Print & post costs up; balanced by saving on comps, & possibly a few less pages: No change to 2022 Membership costs !
2022 Advert costs.
Folk What's On, free leaflet = adverts from FW. Sent only in areas with adverts.
1) some branch libraries. Continuing when councils have agreed to distribute copies sent to library headquarters.
2) TICs, concert venues, etc - changing times, some TICs are reducing displays, and pro rata more expensive to post. So we will stop sending for some TICs.
So, print & post costs up; balanced by reducing circulation (fewer comp. FWs, and quite a few less Folk What's On): No change to 2022 advert costs !
• We're not crowd-funding, we're not asking for large donations, etc.
• If . . . most members renew their membership --- perhaps 2 copies (£22.50 a year) instead of 1?
. . . and if some non-members consider joining (£18),
. . . and maybe some advertise (from 1/8th mono £12) . . . that way we'll continue! 30 October 2021
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
To join: £18 a year. Please send by BACS to: Folklife, sort code 09-01-55, account 18675181.
or send us a cheque details Info webpage. EU £27. USA £36. Sterling only. No debit or credit cards.
Also, please use form above, or email 'Opt In' + same info (name; country. or for England, region)
You will receive 1 copy of 3 issues per year,
and for each issue you can send in
------ your folk listings, as in online area Directories
------ your folk news. Word limits apply: 200 words, more if advertising, see below.
Anywhere in the world - £18 for PDF via WeTransfer instead of print version.
UPDATES after print magazine published, so not included in Festivals & Workshops pdf & print pages.
See also "UPDATES webpage" , includes our latest FOLKLIFE NEWSLETTER and any further updates
UPDATES: NEW FOLKLIFE MEMBER
ALL YEAR ROUND ~ workshop venues
🄵 MOONRAKERS' FORTHCOMING WORKSHOPS www.moonrakers.net
Moonrakers run Folk Orchestra residential weekends, plus annual day events, at Halsway Manor (Somerset), Benslow Music (Hertfordshire), Norden Farm Arts Centre, Dunster (Yarn Market Hotel) and several festivals. For players and singers of all standards: tuition, multi-instrumental arrangements, performing and recording the results. Details, call 01865 769206
Forthcoming workshops:
3-4 September BUNKFEST Festival, WALLINGFORD. Our annual foray into the delights of BunkFest, including a concert, workshops, etc. And it's all free! We'll be on the Main Stage at 12:30 on Sunday and also at other venues across the weekend.
9-11 September Folk Orchestra, Benslow Music, HITCHIN. The second of our annual residential weekend workshops at Benslow Music. Book early! www.benslowmusic.org 01462 459446.
21-23 October Intermediate/Advanced ukulele fingerstyle course at BENSLOW MUSIC , run by Jon Bennett. Solo & ensemble arrangements, chord theory and chord-melody playing. Residential weekend. Book early! www.benslowmusic.org 01462 459446
18-20 November Folk Orchestra residential course, Yarn Market Hotel, Dunster, MINEHEAD, Somerset, TA24 6SF. Arriving Friday evening, then two full days of multi-instrumental group arrangements, playing and tuition for intermediate players. Limited to 20 participants. Two nights full board + the course : £300-£330 depending on accommodation. Day visitors £150 (incl. lunch/dinner/lunch). Bookings/enquiries : 01643 821425.
Saturday 11th February, 2023 Folk Orchestra day course/workshop. Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Altwood Road, MAIDENHEAD SL6 4PF. 10:00 -16:30. £60, including free entry to the evening concert. Box Office: 01628 788997. norden.farm/
Mon 27th Feb - Fri 3rd Mar Halsway Manor, TAUNTON, Somerset, TA4 4BD. A three day (4 nights) residential Folk Orchestra Workshop run by Jon & Jacqui. All instruments welcome; intermediate standard (no absolute beginners). Limited to 20. Book early! www.halswaymanor.org.uk
UPDATES: NEW ENTRY
🄰 2022 Jun 10 - 12 CONNECTICUT SEA MUSIC FESTIVAL, USA http://ctseamusicfest.org/
→ ESSEX, CT, USA. Various venues including the historic Griswold Inn and the Connecticut River Museum.
⌂ Contact: Faye Ringel fayeringel@hotmail.com 860-608-3494.
Ticketed evening concerts https://www.eventbrite.com/e/connecticut-sea-music-festival-evening-concerts-tickets-301879318167
For more information, and to purchase advance sale tickets, visit 2022 Festival – Connecticut Sea Music Festival (ctseamusicfest.org)
⊕ The first Connecticut Sea Music Festival is free to the public (daytime events), the family-friendly maritime music festival presents performers from a variety of musical traditions, steeped in the lore of the sea. Activities include a Family Stage, workshops, concerts, demonstrations of sailor skills, and a Symposium on the Music of the Sea, plus Evening concerts (ticketed, see above).
The streets and rafters of historic downtown Essex will ring with sea chanteys, as the Festival presents concerts, workshops, and demonstrations of traditional maritime skills. It begins with a Symposium on the Music of the Sea from 9-5 on Friday, followed by an Evening Concert of traditional maritime music at 7 under the mainstage tent at the Museum. On Saturday, music and workshops run from 10-5 at multiple venues, with an Evening Concert at 7. Sunday morning begins at 9:30 with a traditional maritime hymn sing- revival style!- under the big tent, and continues with music and workshops from 11- 3. The Festival concludes with an all-in concert on Sunday afternoon.
Online: only the Symposium will be livestreamed; we hope that Friday and Saturday night concerts will be available as audio only through an Internet radio station: iCRV ICRVRadio.com
See also "UPDATES webpage" , includes our latest FOLKLIFE NEWSLETTER and any further updates
UPDATES: NEW FOLKLIFE MEMBER
ALL YEAR ROUND ~ workshop venues
🄵 MOONRAKERS' FORTHCOMING WORKSHOPS www.moonrakers.net
Moonrakers run Folk Orchestra residential weekends, plus annual day events, at Halsway Manor (Somerset), Benslow Music (Hertfordshire), Norden Farm Arts Centre, Dunster (Yarn Market Hotel) and several festivals. For players and singers of all standards: tuition, multi-instrumental arrangements, performing and recording the results. Details, call 01865 769206
Forthcoming workshops:
3-4 September BUNKFEST Festival, WALLINGFORD. Our annual foray into the delights of BunkFest, including a concert, workshops, etc. And it's all free! We'll be on the Main Stage at 12:30 on Sunday and also at other venues across the weekend.
9-11 September Folk Orchestra, Benslow Music, HITCHIN. The second of our annual residential weekend workshops at Benslow Music. Book early! www.benslowmusic.org 01462 459446.
21-23 October Intermediate/Advanced ukulele fingerstyle course at BENSLOW MUSIC , run by Jon Bennett. Solo & ensemble arrangements, chord theory and chord-melody playing. Residential weekend. Book early! www.benslowmusic.org 01462 459446
18-20 November Folk Orchestra residential course, Yarn Market Hotel, Dunster, MINEHEAD, Somerset, TA24 6SF. Arriving Friday evening, then two full days of multi-instrumental group arrangements, playing and tuition for intermediate players. Limited to 20 participants. Two nights full board + the course : £300-£330 depending on accommodation. Day visitors £150 (incl. lunch/dinner/lunch). Bookings/enquiries : 01643 821425.
Saturday 11th February, 2023 Folk Orchestra day course/workshop. Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Altwood Road, MAIDENHEAD SL6 4PF. 10:00 -16:30. £60, including free entry to the evening concert. Box Office: 01628 788997. norden.farm/
Mon 27th Feb - Fri 3rd Mar Halsway Manor, TAUNTON, Somerset, TA4 4BD. A three day (4 nights) residential Folk Orchestra Workshop run by Jon & Jacqui. All instruments welcome; intermediate standard (no absolute beginners). Limited to 20. Book early! www.halswaymanor.org.uk
UPDATES: NEW ENTRY
🄰 2022 Jun 10 - 12 CONNECTICUT SEA MUSIC FESTIVAL, USA http://ctseamusicfest.org/
→ ESSEX, CT, USA. Various venues including the historic Griswold Inn and the Connecticut River Museum.
⌂ Contact: Faye Ringel fayeringel@hotmail.com 860-608-3494.
Ticketed evening concerts https://www.eventbrite.com/e/connecticut-sea-music-festival-evening-concerts-tickets-301879318167
For more information, and to purchase advance sale tickets, visit 2022 Festival – Connecticut Sea Music Festival (ctseamusicfest.org)
⊕ The first Connecticut Sea Music Festival is free to the public (daytime events), the family-friendly maritime music festival presents performers from a variety of musical traditions, steeped in the lore of the sea. Activities include a Family Stage, workshops, concerts, demonstrations of sailor skills, and a Symposium on the Music of the Sea, plus Evening concerts (ticketed, see above).
The streets and rafters of historic downtown Essex will ring with sea chanteys, as the Festival presents concerts, workshops, and demonstrations of traditional maritime skills. It begins with a Symposium on the Music of the Sea from 9-5 on Friday, followed by an Evening Concert of traditional maritime music at 7 under the mainstage tent at the Museum. On Saturday, music and workshops run from 10-5 at multiple venues, with an Evening Concert at 7. Sunday morning begins at 9:30 with a traditional maritime hymn sing- revival style!- under the big tent, and continues with music and workshops from 11- 3. The Festival concludes with an all-in concert on Sunday afternoon.
Online: only the Symposium will be livestreamed; we hope that Friday and Saturday night concerts will be available as audio only through an Internet radio station: iCRV ICRVRadio.com
UPDATES after print magazine published, so not included in news pdf & print pages.
See also "UPDATES webpage" , includes our latest FOLKLIFE NEWSLETTER and any further updates
SOUTH-EAST
UPDATES to ONLINE DIRECTORY above - OXFORDSHIRE - New members
PERFORMERS
Pf.1a Folk Music & Song - Bands / Groups
NEW LISTING - 1-LINE SUMMARY (will be added to Sept issue)
🄵 MOONRAKERS www.moonrakers.net Jon Bennett 01865 769206
Further details as added to Online DIRECTORY above
⇒ moonrakerscelticmusic<at>gmail.com, https://www.facebook.com/MoonrakersBand/ , https://twitter.com/moonrakersband , https://www.instagram.com/moonrakersofficial/ , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgNff2A8tp5dvcU0via1C4g
⊕ Four Oxford-based musicians who have brought traditional and contemporary folk music to new audiences in village halls, churches, arts centres and festivals. With careful arrangements and selections of tunes and songs, “just OOZES quality” (Living Tradition); “exquisite music” (BBC). [New member: added May 2022]
W.1 WORKSHOP PROVIDERS
NEW LISTING - 1-LINE SUMMARY (will be added to Sept issue)
🄵 Oxfordshire MOONRAKERS www.moonrakers.net Jon Bennett 01865 769206
Further details as added to Online DIRECTORY above
⌂ moonrakerscelticmusic<at>gmail.com, https://www.facebook.com/MoonrakersBand/ , https://twitter.com/moonrakersband , https://www.instagram.com/moonrakersofficial/ , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgNff2A8tp5dvcU0via1C4g
⊕ Moonrakers run Folk Orchestra and Ukulele & Singing residential weekends, plus annual day events, at Halsway Manor (Somerset), Benslow Music (Hertfordshire), Oxford, and several festivals. For players and singers of all standards: tuition, multi-instrumental arrangements, performing and recording the results. [New member: added May 2022]
NEWS
UPDATES to page 46 - OXFORDSHIRE - New members: [Picture under South-East header above]
🄵 MOONRAKERS Moonrakers is an Oxford-based group of four musicians who pride themselves in having brought traditional and contemporary folk music to new audiences in village halls, churches, arts centres and festivals across the UK. The fact that the band “just OOZES quality” (Living Tradition) is down to the careful arrangements and selection of tunes and songs, presenting “exquisite music” (BBC). The material is a combination of traditional Irish, Scottish, Welsh and English music and their own contemporary songs and tunes, still very much ‘in the idiom’. Jon Bennett, 01865 769206, moonrakerscelticmusic<at>gmail.com, www.moonrakers.net, https://www.facebook.com/MoonrakersBand/ , https://twitter.com/moonrakersband , https://www.instagram.com/moonrakersofficial/ , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgNff2A8tp5dvcU0via1C4g
NORTH
UPDATES to page 47 Listings
🄵 Pf.1b Folk Music & Song - Duo
Yorks+Humber NELincs JAN & PAUL RAMSEY https://janandpaulramsey.com/ Jan 07984 643921
⇒ Jan on 07984 643921 or email: jprfolk<at>gmail.com
⊕ Our sets include a combination of traditional, contemporary and self-penned folk music with an occasional Americana song. (new member 5/2022)
ɸ If you've signed up to our emailed Newsletter, your "North" news welcome (up to 200 words), to sam@folklife.uk - see top of page
ɸ Dates: 3 weeks notice for dates to circulate in Newsletter. By email please, not Zoom chats (as we can't easily copy chats on our iPad)
SCOTLAND
UPDATES to page 49
🄵 UPDATE
🄵 Issue 144 is the June / July 2022 issue of The Living Tradition, featuring articles on Brid Harper, Stan Hugill, Golowan, Seamus O’Kane, Doreen Henderson, The Oakham Poachers, ‘Doxies, Buy-A-Brooms and the Rigs of London Town’, ‘From Melodeon to Button Accordion’, Tales from the Road – Vic Smith, Transatlantic Connections, news, reviews, and more… Available to buy from www.livingtradition.co.uk.
See also "UPDATES webpage" , includes our latest FOLKLIFE NEWSLETTER and any further updates
SOUTH-EAST
UPDATES to ONLINE DIRECTORY above - OXFORDSHIRE - New members
PERFORMERS
Pf.1a Folk Music & Song - Bands / Groups
NEW LISTING - 1-LINE SUMMARY (will be added to Sept issue)
🄵 MOONRAKERS www.moonrakers.net Jon Bennett 01865 769206
Further details as added to Online DIRECTORY above
⇒ moonrakerscelticmusic<at>gmail.com, https://www.facebook.com/MoonrakersBand/ , https://twitter.com/moonrakersband , https://www.instagram.com/moonrakersofficial/ , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgNff2A8tp5dvcU0via1C4g
⊕ Four Oxford-based musicians who have brought traditional and contemporary folk music to new audiences in village halls, churches, arts centres and festivals. With careful arrangements and selections of tunes and songs, “just OOZES quality” (Living Tradition); “exquisite music” (BBC). [New member: added May 2022]
W.1 WORKSHOP PROVIDERS
NEW LISTING - 1-LINE SUMMARY (will be added to Sept issue)
🄵 Oxfordshire MOONRAKERS www.moonrakers.net Jon Bennett 01865 769206
Further details as added to Online DIRECTORY above
⌂ moonrakerscelticmusic<at>gmail.com, https://www.facebook.com/MoonrakersBand/ , https://twitter.com/moonrakersband , https://www.instagram.com/moonrakersofficial/ , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgNff2A8tp5dvcU0via1C4g
⊕ Moonrakers run Folk Orchestra and Ukulele & Singing residential weekends, plus annual day events, at Halsway Manor (Somerset), Benslow Music (Hertfordshire), Oxford, and several festivals. For players and singers of all standards: tuition, multi-instrumental arrangements, performing and recording the results. [New member: added May 2022]
NEWS
UPDATES to page 46 - OXFORDSHIRE - New members: [Picture under South-East header above]
🄵 MOONRAKERS Moonrakers is an Oxford-based group of four musicians who pride themselves in having brought traditional and contemporary folk music to new audiences in village halls, churches, arts centres and festivals across the UK. The fact that the band “just OOZES quality” (Living Tradition) is down to the careful arrangements and selection of tunes and songs, presenting “exquisite music” (BBC). The material is a combination of traditional Irish, Scottish, Welsh and English music and their own contemporary songs and tunes, still very much ‘in the idiom’. Jon Bennett, 01865 769206, moonrakerscelticmusic<at>gmail.com, www.moonrakers.net, https://www.facebook.com/MoonrakersBand/ , https://twitter.com/moonrakersband , https://www.instagram.com/moonrakersofficial/ , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgNff2A8tp5dvcU0via1C4g
NORTH
UPDATES to page 47 Listings
🄵 Pf.1b Folk Music & Song - Duo
Yorks+Humber NELincs JAN & PAUL RAMSEY https://janandpaulramsey.com/ Jan 07984 643921
⇒ Jan on 07984 643921 or email: jprfolk<at>gmail.com
⊕ Our sets include a combination of traditional, contemporary and self-penned folk music with an occasional Americana song. (new member 5/2022)
ɸ If you've signed up to our emailed Newsletter, your "North" news welcome (up to 200 words), to sam@folklife.uk - see top of page
ɸ Dates: 3 weeks notice for dates to circulate in Newsletter. By email please, not Zoom chats (as we can't easily copy chats on our iPad)
SCOTLAND
UPDATES to page 49
🄵 UPDATE
🄵 Issue 144 is the June / July 2022 issue of The Living Tradition, featuring articles on Brid Harper, Stan Hugill, Golowan, Seamus O’Kane, Doreen Henderson, The Oakham Poachers, ‘Doxies, Buy-A-Brooms and the Rigs of London Town’, ‘From Melodeon to Button Accordion’, Tales from the Road – Vic Smith, Transatlantic Connections, news, reviews, and more… Available to buy from www.livingtradition.co.uk.
UPDATES after print magazine published, so not included in news pdf & print pages.
See also "UPDATES webpage" , includes our latest FOLKLIFE NEWSLETTER and any further updates
HEREFORDS & WORCS
UPDATES to page 41
🄵 1st Mon Worcs LOWER MOOR OLD CHESTNUT TREE SINGAROUND (no website) Frank Jolley 07482 625877
Frank writes:
Hi all
I hope you are all keeping well.
Just a note with some not-so-good news, I’m afraid.
The Old Chestnut Inn have told me that they do not want to hold our session there. They seem to have changed their mind. They say that like to close at 8 pm on Mondays. So I am back to looking for a venue again.
As a result there will be no more meetings, I’m afraid, until I can find a new venue.
Thank you all for your support for the Wyre Piddle session.
Best wishes
Frank
UPDATES to page 42 - Worcs
🄵 Weekly Fri Worcs WORCESTER SOMERS TRADITIONAL FOLK CLUB www.somers-folk-club.org.uk Eleanor & Sam 01684 561378
LIVE: open to all, 1st & 3rd Fridays (8.15-10.45pm (doors 8pm) - please check website for exceptional changes), 8.15-10.45pm (doors 8pm).
ZOOM: other Fridays on Zoom, Somers members only. Annual membership £10 to 31/12/2022.
Chris info<at>somers-folk-club.org.uk Eleanor & Sam 01684 561378 (E&S are the Folklife editors but STFC is a separate organisation)
See also "UPDATES webpage" , includes our latest FOLKLIFE NEWSLETTER and any further updates
HEREFORDS & WORCS
UPDATES to page 41
🄵 1st Mon Worcs LOWER MOOR OLD CHESTNUT TREE SINGAROUND (no website) Frank Jolley 07482 625877
Frank writes:
Hi all
I hope you are all keeping well.
Just a note with some not-so-good news, I’m afraid.
The Old Chestnut Inn have told me that they do not want to hold our session there. They seem to have changed their mind. They say that like to close at 8 pm on Mondays. So I am back to looking for a venue again.
As a result there will be no more meetings, I’m afraid, until I can find a new venue.
Thank you all for your support for the Wyre Piddle session.
Best wishes
Frank
UPDATES to page 42 - Worcs
🄵 Weekly Fri Worcs WORCESTER SOMERS TRADITIONAL FOLK CLUB www.somers-folk-club.org.uk Eleanor & Sam 01684 561378
LIVE: open to all, 1st & 3rd Fridays (8.15-10.45pm (doors 8pm) - please check website for exceptional changes), 8.15-10.45pm (doors 8pm).
ZOOM: other Fridays on Zoom, Somers members only. Annual membership £10 to 31/12/2022.
Chris info<at>somers-folk-club.org.uk Eleanor & Sam 01684 561378 (E&S are the Folklife editors but STFC is a separate organisation)
UPDATES after print magazine published, so not included in news pdf & print pages.
See also "UPDATES webpage" , includes our latest FOLKLIFE NEWSLETTER and any further updates
UPDATES to page 28
GLOS
NEW LISTING -
Weekly Tue Glos FRAMPTON-ON-SEVERN Ø FOLK AT FRAMPTON ......... (no website) .......................... Info ....................... 07760 115539
→ Frampton Village Hall, The Green Frampton-on-Severn GL2 7DY (Next to Three Horseshoes). Open from 7.45, start at 8.00, end 10.30 if not earlier, all year.
⇒ Info 07760 115539
⊕ Glosfolk Diary has details. £1 admission includes tea/coffee (with good biscuits!) in break (you can also bring your own refreshments).
(added May 2022)
RE-OPENING -- page 28
🄵 Forest Folk Club is back!
A new list of dates, with a slight change of format; for the time being, one event each month, always on a Sunday, but with a more flexible schedule to fit in with guest availability.
Cash only on the door please, £8 for guest nights, £2 for Singers Nights. Doors open at 7.30 for 8pm start. forestfolkclub.com
We look forward to seeing you all very soon!
22nd May. Singers Night All performers welcome to do a floor spot!
12th June. Skinner and T’witch. Drawing on music-hall and vaudeville traditions, Skinner & T’witch’s show combines comedy and satire with folk, flamenco and theatre-style songs.
July 17th. Eos reunion! By special request, Jan Vaisey, Jan O’Neill, Ian Harvey and Doug McLean are forming a supergroup to revisit some favourite songs from our past musical history!
Aug 7th. Winter Wilson. Singing out for the underdog in glorious harmony. Original songs packed with punch and emotion that will get beneath your skin, and all delivered with great humour.
Sept 25th. Pete Morton
For thirty years, Pete has been performing to audiences all over the world. Throughout that time he has been regarded as one the best on the contemporary roots music scene.
More - see website forestfolkclub.com
See also "UPDATES webpage" , includes our latest FOLKLIFE NEWSLETTER and any further updates
UPDATES to page 28
GLOS
NEW LISTING -
Weekly Tue Glos FRAMPTON-ON-SEVERN Ø FOLK AT FRAMPTON ......... (no website) .......................... Info ....................... 07760 115539
→ Frampton Village Hall, The Green Frampton-on-Severn GL2 7DY (Next to Three Horseshoes). Open from 7.45, start at 8.00, end 10.30 if not earlier, all year.
⇒ Info 07760 115539
⊕ Glosfolk Diary has details. £1 admission includes tea/coffee (with good biscuits!) in break (you can also bring your own refreshments).
(added May 2022)
RE-OPENING -- page 28
🄵 Forest Folk Club is back!
A new list of dates, with a slight change of format; for the time being, one event each month, always on a Sunday, but with a more flexible schedule to fit in with guest availability.
Cash only on the door please, £8 for guest nights, £2 for Singers Nights. Doors open at 7.30 for 8pm start. forestfolkclub.com
We look forward to seeing you all very soon!
22nd May. Singers Night All performers welcome to do a floor spot!
12th June. Skinner and T’witch. Drawing on music-hall and vaudeville traditions, Skinner & T’witch’s show combines comedy and satire with folk, flamenco and theatre-style songs.
July 17th. Eos reunion! By special request, Jan Vaisey, Jan O’Neill, Ian Harvey and Doug McLean are forming a supergroup to revisit some favourite songs from our past musical history!
Aug 7th. Winter Wilson. Singing out for the underdog in glorious harmony. Original songs packed with punch and emotion that will get beneath your skin, and all delivered with great humour.
Sept 25th. Pete Morton
For thirty years, Pete has been performing to audiences all over the world. Throughout that time he has been regarded as one the best on the contemporary roots music scene.
More - see website forestfolkclub.com
UPDATES after print magazine published, so not included in news pdf & print pages.
See also "UPDATES webpage" , includes our latest FOLKLIFE NEWSLETTER and any further updates
WEST COUNTRY
p23 - revised below - delete Tom & Barbara Brown entries: Pf.1b, Folk Music & Song - Duo; Pf.3a, Folk Shows & Theatre, Mummers; W.1 Workshops
Totnes Folk Club - no club night in August (we have always carried right through and had very quiet nights in August so decided to give this one a miss. Most other clubs around us close for July or August).
p26 Wiltshire
From Rosie Upton
I hope you are all well and looking forward to an exciting summer of festivals. I have been asked to forward information to you about an event running at The Pump:
Trowbridge Festival has announced a weekend of music and entertainment at The Lamb Inn and The Pump in Trowbridge as a weekend fundraiser at the place where it all started. The event is running the same weekend we had originally had planned for a festival on 22nd to 24th July 2022.
It promises to be a weekend full of exciting and varied artists for which Trowbridge is famed. Other entertainment including open mic sessions are planned, so don’t forget to bring your instruments. Announcements of the full line up will be released in the coming week. So, keep an eye on our website and social media. The main Saturday and Sunday tickets have just been put on sale. Friday will also go on sale soon. All proceeds will go towards the running of Trowbridge Festival in 2023. https://www.trowbridgefestival.co.uk/online-ticket-sh
I will certainly be there and look forward to seeing old friends and past supporters of The Village Pump.
Other events that may be of interest to you being promoted by Kieran of Sheer Music are Martin Carthy at Trowbridge Town Hall on Thursday 30 June. June and early July gigs at The Pump include Thursday 9 June Keith James plays the Songs of Leonard Cohen, Saturday 18 June Sharon Lazibird, 24 June Band of Pilgrims with Sour Apple, 1 July Open Mic, 8 July Fly Yeti Fly with Tamsin Quin and I’m looking forward to Dom Prag on Friday 9 September. See website: thepumptrowbridge.co.uk
Friday Folk will not be resuming, at least for the time being. Please let me know if you no longer wish to be included on my mailing lists.
Very best wishes, Rosie
p26 Bristol & S Glos: Cresby aka Mr Red reports: Thornbury Folk Session [p26: CSFN News] has closed. I was asked to remove it recently. http://mister.red
See also "UPDATES webpage" , includes our latest FOLKLIFE NEWSLETTER and any further updates
WEST COUNTRY
p23 - revised below - delete Tom & Barbara Brown entries: Pf.1b, Folk Music & Song - Duo; Pf.3a, Folk Shows & Theatre, Mummers; W.1 Workshops
Totnes Folk Club - no club night in August (we have always carried right through and had very quiet nights in August so decided to give this one a miss. Most other clubs around us close for July or August).
p26 Wiltshire
From Rosie Upton
I hope you are all well and looking forward to an exciting summer of festivals. I have been asked to forward information to you about an event running at The Pump:
Trowbridge Festival has announced a weekend of music and entertainment at The Lamb Inn and The Pump in Trowbridge as a weekend fundraiser at the place where it all started. The event is running the same weekend we had originally had planned for a festival on 22nd to 24th July 2022.
It promises to be a weekend full of exciting and varied artists for which Trowbridge is famed. Other entertainment including open mic sessions are planned, so don’t forget to bring your instruments. Announcements of the full line up will be released in the coming week. So, keep an eye on our website and social media. The main Saturday and Sunday tickets have just been put on sale. Friday will also go on sale soon. All proceeds will go towards the running of Trowbridge Festival in 2023. https://www.trowbridgefestival.co.uk/online-ticket-sh
I will certainly be there and look forward to seeing old friends and past supporters of The Village Pump.
Other events that may be of interest to you being promoted by Kieran of Sheer Music are Martin Carthy at Trowbridge Town Hall on Thursday 30 June. June and early July gigs at The Pump include Thursday 9 June Keith James plays the Songs of Leonard Cohen, Saturday 18 June Sharon Lazibird, 24 June Band of Pilgrims with Sour Apple, 1 July Open Mic, 8 July Fly Yeti Fly with Tamsin Quin and I’m looking forward to Dom Prag on Friday 9 September. See website: thepumptrowbridge.co.uk
Friday Folk will not be resuming, at least for the time being. Please let me know if you no longer wish to be included on my mailing lists.
Very best wishes, Rosie
p26 Bristol & S Glos: Cresby aka Mr Red reports: Thornbury Folk Session [p26: CSFN News] has closed. I was asked to remove it recently. http://mister.red
UPDATES after print magazine published, so not included in news pdf & print pages.
See also "UPDATES webpage" , includes our latest FOLKLIFE NEWSLETTER and any further updates
UPDATES to page 20
🄵 ROB BARRATT, comic poet -- revised dates
May 12th - Oldham Library and Lifelong Learning Centre, Greaves Street, Oldham, OL1 1AL 7pm.
May 19th - Lyceum Folk Club, Newport, South Wales.
May 24th- Warehouse Theatre, Ilminster, Somerset. Part of Ilminster Literature Festival.
June 16th to 20th - Beardy Folk Festival, Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire.
July 3rd Poetry in the Woods, Cardinham with intoBodmin, Cornwall.
July 5th and 6th - Ludlow Fringe Festival, Shropshire. Rose and Crown.
July 8th to 10th - Priddy Fringe Festival, Priddy, Somerset
July 21st to 24th - Big Lit (a Scottish literary festival), Dumfries and Galloway.
July 28th - Crookes Folk Club, The Princess Royal, 43, Slinn Street, Crookes, Sheffield. S10 1NW
July 26th and 27th - Durham Fringe Festival. Cafédral 9pm to 10pm.
September 17th - St Ives September Festival. The Arts Club. Comedy night with Holcomb, Barratt and Richey.
November 24th to 27th - Arts Out West, Cumbria.
Dec 6th to Dec 9th - Costa del Folk, Aviemore, Scotland.
Rob Barratt , 01566 880336, rbarratt<at>cooptel.net For more information, see: www.robbarratt.co.uk
See also "UPDATES webpage" , includes our latest FOLKLIFE NEWSLETTER and any further updates
UPDATES to page 20
🄵 ROB BARRATT, comic poet -- revised dates
May 12th - Oldham Library and Lifelong Learning Centre, Greaves Street, Oldham, OL1 1AL 7pm.
May 19th - Lyceum Folk Club, Newport, South Wales.
May 24th- Warehouse Theatre, Ilminster, Somerset. Part of Ilminster Literature Festival.
June 16th to 20th - Beardy Folk Festival, Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire.
July 3rd Poetry in the Woods, Cardinham with intoBodmin, Cornwall.
July 5th and 6th - Ludlow Fringe Festival, Shropshire. Rose and Crown.
July 8th to 10th - Priddy Fringe Festival, Priddy, Somerset
July 21st to 24th - Big Lit (a Scottish literary festival), Dumfries and Galloway.
July 28th - Crookes Folk Club, The Princess Royal, 43, Slinn Street, Crookes, Sheffield. S10 1NW
July 26th and 27th - Durham Fringe Festival. Cafédral 9pm to 10pm.
September 17th - St Ives September Festival. The Arts Club. Comedy night with Holcomb, Barratt and Richey.
November 24th to 27th - Arts Out West, Cumbria.
Dec 6th to Dec 9th - Costa del Folk, Aviemore, Scotland.
Rob Barratt , 01566 880336, rbarratt<at>cooptel.net For more information, see: www.robbarratt.co.uk
UPDATES after print magazine published, so not included in news pdf & print pages.
See also "UPDATES webpage" , includes our latest FOLKLIFE NEWSLETTER and any further updates
No UPDATES for this webpage, thus far.
See also "UPDATES webpage" , includes our latest FOLKLIFE NEWSLETTER and any further updates
No UPDATES for this webpage, thus far.
LATEST 20/4/2022: May magazine at the printers. Revised rates, see Info page 3 or 🄵🅆 Info webpage
In brief - subscriptions rise (increased postage) but cost for 1 remains the same at £18, others rise; 6 or more post-free + 20% discount.
Adverts will be cheaper, 1/8 prepaid £10 (previously £12 or £10 each for 3 prepaid).
🄵🅃🄹 Folklife Traditions Journal, www.folklife-traditions.uk
Researched articles + archive, news, on a separate website. Folk studies and cultural traditions.
Our aims include stimulating a wider interest in folk studies & folk culture: FTJ pages
Current FTJ issue copied online: www.folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html, read, or download PDF.
It includes articles, plus Folklife Societies news & diary, Books & recordings announced & adverts.
Articles received so far for May issue
FOLK NEWS PRINT PAGES & WEBPAGES are 🄵🅆 Cymru • Wales 🄵🅆 Kernow • Cornwall 🄵🅆 West Country 🄵🅆 Glos 🄵🅆 Midlands 🄵🅆 Herefs-Worcs 🄵🅆 South-East 🄵🅆 North 🄵🅆 Alba/Scotland Additionally we have an online-only webpage ⎈ International
🄵🅆 Kernow • Cornwall
🄵 Zoom - Cornish Story Live Zoom (1st Sat) has stopped, Cornish Story revised details:
🄵 1st Sat Cornwall CORNISH STORY LIVE (email)
Cornish Story Live is held monthly online via Zoom and includes a 30 minute ‘story’ followed by a Q&A session. The project aims to bring together people from all over the world who have in interest in Cornwall. The stories cover a wide variety of Cornish culture in the past and present and have included Cornish Witchcraft, Band Music, John Wesley’s Travel Diaries, Cornish Carols and Mary Broad who was the famous convict sent to Australia. Some of the presenters are happy for us to record the talk and so you can catch up on these by visiting https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHPt2YI7bakC08zoWIFomeg
Alternating between 10am and 7pm to allow Australian and US audiences to participate.
To find out more on upcoming events, please email editor<At>cornishstory.com.
🄵🅆 West Country Updates
🄵 2nd Thu Devon TOTNES TOTNES FOLK SONG CLUB Facebook: Totnes Folk Club new webpage, other details same (Mar 2022)
🄵 new venue
1st Thu, 12 noon Devon MORCHARD BISHOP LONDON INN lunchtime Song/Music SESSION Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Jon 01363 83740
→ The London Inn, Morchard Bishop EX17 6NW. Lunchtime session on the 1st Thursday, 12 to 3pm. [venue update, Mar 2022]
🄵🅆 Glos
Winchcombe Folk Club (1st Tuesdays)
Hello to you all
Bad news: we no longer have the White Hart Inn as a venue - it has been a great nine and a half years there.
Good news: we only have to saunter 2 minutes up the same side of the street towards Cheltenham to get to the C. Working Men's Club. This is a welcoming hub of local chit-chat, occasional big screen gatherings, and cheery cheap drinking. Also, they have a warm spacious function room upstairs (with stairlift) free for our use,
Postcode: GL54 5LW
From the White Hart,
Go past the car park in Abbey Terrace,
Just past the War Memorial is the passage entrance to the W.M.Club.
Go right past the bar and up the stairs.
Hope to see you soon
Yours Chris
🄵🅆 Midlands
THE SHIFTING SUNDAY SESSION (SSS) ®
• 2nd Sunday: The Bull SSS ®, Old Town, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warks CV37 6 DT. 7-10pm Tel. 01789 417931 [change of time since last FW]
🄵🅆 Herefs-Worcs
Rushwick Folk Club -- CANCELLATION of Saturday 9th April's meeting (due to Covid)
UPDATES to page 37 - Herefs
Folk At The Falcon, Bromyard.
The John Ward Trio on April 8th. John’s songwriting is born from his life in a tough and gritty East Anglian fishing port that has seen more than its fair share of social change and decline. Les Woodley (double bass and mandolin) and Lynne Ward (accordion and whistles) joined forces with John to bring a fuller sound to his moving and thought-provoking songs, which often capture the spirit of the times we live in. With powerful three-part harmonies, John’s show-stopping bodhran playing and accomplished guitar work, the trio’s performances are authentic and from the heart, delighting audiences across the UK.
Nick Dow on April 29th has been singing and collecting Traditional Folk Songs for over forty years. His guitar playing is sensitive and well thought out and his repertoire contains many songs you will hear nowhere else. Nick has gleaned songs from the West Country, and been given songs by the Travelling people with whom he has lived and worked. Informative and entertaining. He has a great sense of humour, and nobody goes home disappointed. Support: Dora Darling.
Tickets at the door or bookable in advance. Early booking appreciated to help prepare seating, £10 from the Falcon Hotel, or Folk at the Falcon 07726 462220, or by email from John Bloor: john<at>bloor.org.uk
For Folk at the Falcon’s ongoing concert programme see www.folkatthefalcon.com / www.facebook.com/folkatthefalcon
UPDATES to page 40 - Worcs
1st Mon Worcs WYRE PIDDLE WYRE PIDDLE SINGAROUND has moved and is now ----
1st Mon Worcs LOWER MOOR OLD CHESTNUT TREE SINGAROUND (no website) Frank Jolley 07482 625877
→ The Old Chestnut Tree Inn (01386 860380), Manor Rd, Lower Moor, Pershore WR10 2NZ. 1st Mon, 7pm.
⇒ martin001745<at>gmail.com
⊕ The session has restarted at a new venue from April, meeting on the first Monday of every month, from 7 pm to 10 pm. Everyone welcome. For up-to-date info, please always check with Frank Jolley on 07482 625877. [new venue, Mar 2022]
Frank writes:
Hi all
Firstly, a big thank you to everyone who came along to the one-off session last night. It was a very enjoyable evening, with great music as usual. A big thank you also to Adrian and the staff who were very helpful and made us feel welcome.
As a result, we are moving the session permanently to the Old Chestnut Tree. We will meet on the first Monday of every month, 7 pm to 10 pm. The address is The Old Chestnut Tree Inn, Manor Rd, Lower Moor, Pershore WR10 2NZ, tel 01386 860380.
I’ll look forward to seeing as many as possible then.
Thank you all for your support.
Best wishes
Frank
Webpage 🄵🅆 Festivals, workshops www.folklife.uk/festivals.html
Adverts received so far and placed on webpage:
Cornwall FF, Warwick FF, New Forest FF, Teignmouth FF, Bromyard FF, White Horse FF, Broadstairs Folk Week
More Member-listings announced:
2022 Aug 12 - 14 WHITE HORSE FOLK FESTIVAL www.WhiteHorseFolkFestival.co.uk SEE ADVERT
→ GROVE, near Wantage, Oxfordshire. Various venues in Grove.
⌂ WHITE HORSE FOLK FESTIVAL Jeff and Elaine Gillett, 01453 751256, whitehorsefolkfestival<at>gmail.com,
www.WhiteHorseFolkFestival.co.uk
⊕ WHFF is a small, friendly, traditional festival where there is an emphasis on taking part. There is ample opportunity to sing, play or tell a story, with singarounds and music sessions throughout the weekend. This year’s concert guests are Johnny Coppin & Paul Burgess, Keith Kendrick & Sylvia Needham, Sound Tradition and George Sansome. Melobo will play for the ceilidh with Jane Bird Calling. Drywood Folk Duo will present a show about the canals. The festival also incorporates a day of dance featuring many dance-sides and culminating in a barn dance hosted by White Horse Ceilidhs.
2022 Aug 19 - 21 MOIRA FURNACE FOLK FESTIVAL www.moirafurnacefolkfestival.co.uk
→ MOIRA FURNACE, near Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire
⌂ Moira Furnace Folk Festival Enquiries: 07401 951694, or contact on webform via website Festival email newsletters and updates about Festival-related events: info<at>moirafurnacefolkfestival.co.uk
⊕ At the heart of the National Forest at Moira Furnace on the Leicestershire / Derbyshire border, one of the most picturesque settings in the industrial Midlands. Line up incudes: Steve Tilston and Hugh Bradley, Grannies Attic, Robin Laing, Ian Bruce, Reg Meuross, John Conolly, Kenny Speirs, Looma, Katy Spencer, Ruth and Ken Powell, Dave and Liz Walmisly, John Ward Trio.
Tickets are now on sale and a booking form is available on the festival website www.moirafurnacefolkfestival.co.uk ® Colin Grantham
2022 Aug 26 -29 (BH weekend) CORNWALL FOLK FESTIVAL www.cornwallfolkfestival.com SEE ADVERT
→ WADEBRIDGE, Cornwall.
⌂ CORNWALL FOLK FESTIVAL, info@cornwallfolkfestival.com
Online Ticket Shop www.CornwallFolkFestival.com/tickets
For tickets and more details, visit www.CornwallFolkFestival.com; follow at facebook.com/CornwallFolkFestival
⊕ Cornwall Folk Festival is back in full over the August Bank Holiday in Wadebridge, North Cornwall. From Friday evening to Monday, this compact town centre event brings a top line-up to Wadebridge Town Hall and The John Betjeman Centre, and showcases local music at the outdoor FAR stage and in pubs and street locations.
Headliners Dougie Maclean, Merry Hell, O’Hooley and Tidow and Granny’s Attic, join three great Cornish bands Du Glas, Brother Sea and Handpicked, and Winter Wilson, with loads of new material and old favourites.
Two more Cornish acts just added for the Betjeman Centre: Mike Silver, who will talk and sing about his life on the road, and Angeline Morrison, with musical stories of ordinary and extraordinary lives of the historic UK black population.
In brief - subscriptions rise (increased postage) but cost for 1 remains the same at £18, others rise; 6 or more post-free + 20% discount.
Adverts will be cheaper, 1/8 prepaid £10 (previously £12 or £10 each for 3 prepaid).
🄵🅃🄹 Folklife Traditions Journal, www.folklife-traditions.uk
Researched articles + archive, news, on a separate website. Folk studies and cultural traditions.
Our aims include stimulating a wider interest in folk studies & folk culture: FTJ pages
Current FTJ issue copied online: www.folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html, read, or download PDF.
It includes articles, plus Folklife Societies news & diary, Books & recordings announced & adverts.
Articles received so far for May issue
- Article: The Twa Corbies, by Roy & Lesley Adkins [note; in previous newsletter, I mistakenly put previous article The Poor Ballad Sellers and Singers]
- A review of the London Ballad Walk, by Rosie Upton
- Article: The Brighton Camp or The Girl I Left behind Me, Song and Tune, by Charlie Menteith
FOLK NEWS PRINT PAGES & WEBPAGES are 🄵🅆 Cymru • Wales 🄵🅆 Kernow • Cornwall 🄵🅆 West Country 🄵🅆 Glos 🄵🅆 Midlands 🄵🅆 Herefs-Worcs 🄵🅆 South-East 🄵🅆 North 🄵🅆 Alba/Scotland Additionally we have an online-only webpage ⎈ International
- If no heading below - no changes this Newsletter but may be updated in next magazine
🄵🅆 Kernow • Cornwall
🄵 Zoom - Cornish Story Live Zoom (1st Sat) has stopped, Cornish Story revised details:
🄵 1st Sat Cornwall CORNISH STORY LIVE (email)
Cornish Story Live is held monthly online via Zoom and includes a 30 minute ‘story’ followed by a Q&A session. The project aims to bring together people from all over the world who have in interest in Cornwall. The stories cover a wide variety of Cornish culture in the past and present and have included Cornish Witchcraft, Band Music, John Wesley’s Travel Diaries, Cornish Carols and Mary Broad who was the famous convict sent to Australia. Some of the presenters are happy for us to record the talk and so you can catch up on these by visiting https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHPt2YI7bakC08zoWIFomeg
Alternating between 10am and 7pm to allow Australian and US audiences to participate.
To find out more on upcoming events, please email editor<At>cornishstory.com.
🄵🅆 West Country Updates
🄵 2nd Thu Devon TOTNES TOTNES FOLK SONG CLUB Facebook: Totnes Folk Club new webpage, other details same (Mar 2022)
🄵 new venue
1st Thu, 12 noon Devon MORCHARD BISHOP LONDON INN lunchtime Song/Music SESSION Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Jon 01363 83740
→ The London Inn, Morchard Bishop EX17 6NW. Lunchtime session on the 1st Thursday, 12 to 3pm. [venue update, Mar 2022]
🄵🅆 Glos
Winchcombe Folk Club (1st Tuesdays)
Hello to you all
Bad news: we no longer have the White Hart Inn as a venue - it has been a great nine and a half years there.
Good news: we only have to saunter 2 minutes up the same side of the street towards Cheltenham to get to the C. Working Men's Club. This is a welcoming hub of local chit-chat, occasional big screen gatherings, and cheery cheap drinking. Also, they have a warm spacious function room upstairs (with stairlift) free for our use,
Postcode: GL54 5LW
From the White Hart,
Go past the car park in Abbey Terrace,
Just past the War Memorial is the passage entrance to the W.M.Club.
Go right past the bar and up the stairs.
Hope to see you soon
Yours Chris
🄵🅆 Midlands
THE SHIFTING SUNDAY SESSION (SSS) ®
• 2nd Sunday: The Bull SSS ®, Old Town, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warks CV37 6 DT. 7-10pm Tel. 01789 417931 [change of time since last FW]
🄵🅆 Herefs-Worcs
Rushwick Folk Club -- CANCELLATION of Saturday 9th April's meeting (due to Covid)
UPDATES to page 37 - Herefs
Folk At The Falcon, Bromyard.
The John Ward Trio on April 8th. John’s songwriting is born from his life in a tough and gritty East Anglian fishing port that has seen more than its fair share of social change and decline. Les Woodley (double bass and mandolin) and Lynne Ward (accordion and whistles) joined forces with John to bring a fuller sound to his moving and thought-provoking songs, which often capture the spirit of the times we live in. With powerful three-part harmonies, John’s show-stopping bodhran playing and accomplished guitar work, the trio’s performances are authentic and from the heart, delighting audiences across the UK.
Nick Dow on April 29th has been singing and collecting Traditional Folk Songs for over forty years. His guitar playing is sensitive and well thought out and his repertoire contains many songs you will hear nowhere else. Nick has gleaned songs from the West Country, and been given songs by the Travelling people with whom he has lived and worked. Informative and entertaining. He has a great sense of humour, and nobody goes home disappointed. Support: Dora Darling.
Tickets at the door or bookable in advance. Early booking appreciated to help prepare seating, £10 from the Falcon Hotel, or Folk at the Falcon 07726 462220, or by email from John Bloor: john<at>bloor.org.uk
For Folk at the Falcon’s ongoing concert programme see www.folkatthefalcon.com / www.facebook.com/folkatthefalcon
UPDATES to page 40 - Worcs
1st Mon Worcs WYRE PIDDLE WYRE PIDDLE SINGAROUND has moved and is now ----
1st Mon Worcs LOWER MOOR OLD CHESTNUT TREE SINGAROUND (no website) Frank Jolley 07482 625877
→ The Old Chestnut Tree Inn (01386 860380), Manor Rd, Lower Moor, Pershore WR10 2NZ. 1st Mon, 7pm.
⇒ martin001745<at>gmail.com
⊕ The session has restarted at a new venue from April, meeting on the first Monday of every month, from 7 pm to 10 pm. Everyone welcome. For up-to-date info, please always check with Frank Jolley on 07482 625877. [new venue, Mar 2022]
Frank writes:
Hi all
Firstly, a big thank you to everyone who came along to the one-off session last night. It was a very enjoyable evening, with great music as usual. A big thank you also to Adrian and the staff who were very helpful and made us feel welcome.
As a result, we are moving the session permanently to the Old Chestnut Tree. We will meet on the first Monday of every month, 7 pm to 10 pm. The address is The Old Chestnut Tree Inn, Manor Rd, Lower Moor, Pershore WR10 2NZ, tel 01386 860380.
I’ll look forward to seeing as many as possible then.
Thank you all for your support.
Best wishes
Frank
Webpage 🄵🅆 Festivals, workshops www.folklife.uk/festivals.html
Adverts received so far and placed on webpage:
Cornwall FF, Warwick FF, New Forest FF, Teignmouth FF, Bromyard FF, White Horse FF, Broadstairs Folk Week
More Member-listings announced:
2022 Aug 12 - 14 WHITE HORSE FOLK FESTIVAL www.WhiteHorseFolkFestival.co.uk SEE ADVERT
→ GROVE, near Wantage, Oxfordshire. Various venues in Grove.
⌂ WHITE HORSE FOLK FESTIVAL Jeff and Elaine Gillett, 01453 751256, whitehorsefolkfestival<at>gmail.com,
www.WhiteHorseFolkFestival.co.uk
⊕ WHFF is a small, friendly, traditional festival where there is an emphasis on taking part. There is ample opportunity to sing, play or tell a story, with singarounds and music sessions throughout the weekend. This year’s concert guests are Johnny Coppin & Paul Burgess, Keith Kendrick & Sylvia Needham, Sound Tradition and George Sansome. Melobo will play for the ceilidh with Jane Bird Calling. Drywood Folk Duo will present a show about the canals. The festival also incorporates a day of dance featuring many dance-sides and culminating in a barn dance hosted by White Horse Ceilidhs.
2022 Aug 19 - 21 MOIRA FURNACE FOLK FESTIVAL www.moirafurnacefolkfestival.co.uk
→ MOIRA FURNACE, near Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire
⌂ Moira Furnace Folk Festival Enquiries: 07401 951694, or contact on webform via website Festival email newsletters and updates about Festival-related events: info<at>moirafurnacefolkfestival.co.uk
⊕ At the heart of the National Forest at Moira Furnace on the Leicestershire / Derbyshire border, one of the most picturesque settings in the industrial Midlands. Line up incudes: Steve Tilston and Hugh Bradley, Grannies Attic, Robin Laing, Ian Bruce, Reg Meuross, John Conolly, Kenny Speirs, Looma, Katy Spencer, Ruth and Ken Powell, Dave and Liz Walmisly, John Ward Trio.
Tickets are now on sale and a booking form is available on the festival website www.moirafurnacefolkfestival.co.uk ® Colin Grantham
2022 Aug 26 -29 (BH weekend) CORNWALL FOLK FESTIVAL www.cornwallfolkfestival.com SEE ADVERT
→ WADEBRIDGE, Cornwall.
⌂ CORNWALL FOLK FESTIVAL, info@cornwallfolkfestival.com
Online Ticket Shop www.CornwallFolkFestival.com/tickets
For tickets and more details, visit www.CornwallFolkFestival.com; follow at facebook.com/CornwallFolkFestival
⊕ Cornwall Folk Festival is back in full over the August Bank Holiday in Wadebridge, North Cornwall. From Friday evening to Monday, this compact town centre event brings a top line-up to Wadebridge Town Hall and The John Betjeman Centre, and showcases local music at the outdoor FAR stage and in pubs and street locations.
Headliners Dougie Maclean, Merry Hell, O’Hooley and Tidow and Granny’s Attic, join three great Cornish bands Du Glas, Brother Sea and Handpicked, and Winter Wilson, with loads of new material and old favourites.
Two more Cornish acts just added for the Betjeman Centre: Mike Silver, who will talk and sing about his life on the road, and Angeline Morrison, with musical stories of ordinary and extraordinary lives of the historic UK black population.
To view this Newsletter, as sent in email format (to all: members, non-members, international readers)
https://mailchi.mp/db62c0c846a2/folklife-newsletter-17-mar-2022
FOLKLIFE TRADITONS -- LIVE EVENTS
Saturday 23rd April 2.00 - 10.30
The Cause, 42 The Causeway, Chippenham, SN15 3DD White Horse Trades Union Council
Helliker History Day 2022
In Memory of Thomas Helliker The Trowbridge Martyr 1784 -1803
Textiles, Steam, Coal, Water
Afternoon Talks 2.00 - 6.00
1000 years of Warp and Weft - David Birks
Henry 'Orator' Hunt and Peterloo - Stuart Butler History of the Somerset Miners Union - Dave Chapple The Miners of the Somerset Coalfield - Bryony McGinty Poverty & Protest in Bradford on Avon - Rosie MacGregor
Musical Presentations & Poems 7.30 - 10.30
'Cotton Town Chronicles'
Lancashire Mills & Mines by Peter & Barbara Snape Songs of Alfred Williams - Bob and Gill Berry Poems & Stories - Merv Grist
Radical Songs - Rosie Upton
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Bar & Light Refreshments available
To reserve a place contact rosiemacgregor<at>icloud.com free entry - non profit making - donations welcome
Saturday 15th October 2022 One-day conference
Broadside Extra!
News, songs and provocations in the history of cheap print and street literature
One-day conference Saturday 15th October 2022
Hosted by the School of Media and the Centre for Critical Media Literacy (CCML) at Technological University Dublin
Organised by the Traditional Song Forum and CCML, with the support of the Irish Traditional Music Archive and An Góilín Traditional Singers Club.
This will be an in-person conference, with proceedings live-streamed for those who cannot be there. Admission is free.
We invite proposals for 15-to-20-minute presentations on any aspect of cheap print and street literature in Britain and Ireland (and their diasporas) – including intersections of the histories of journalism and other facets of the popular press.
The Traditional Song Forum’s annual Broadside Day conference has been held every February for almost 20 years, but whenever possible the TSF likes to add a second event, Broadside Extra, in the autumn, in partnership with other institutions and organisations. This is the first time the event will be held in Dublin.
Broadside Extra is our opportunity to gather and talk about the fascinating field of cheap print and street literature of the past; broadsides, chapbooks, last dying speeches, catchpennies, garlands and news sheets, penny histories and children’s books, popular prints, pedlars, jobbing printers. ballad-singers, and so on. Proposals for papers and panels are invited in any of these areas. Proposals that examine how marginalised people and groups used these media forms are particularly welcome.
For queries and to send an abstract of approximately 250 words, together with a biography of not more than 150 words, please contact: steveroud<at>gmail.com
Deadline for proposals: 31 July 2022
FOLK NEWS PRINT PAGES & WEBPAGES are 🄵🅆 Cymru • Wales 🄵🅆 Kernow • Cornwall 🄵🅆 West Country 🄵🅆 Glos 🄵🅆 Midlands 🄵🅆 Herefs-Worcs 🄵🅆 South-East 🄵🅆 North 🄵🅆 Alba/Scotland Additionally we have an online-only webpage ⎈ International
If no heading below - no changes this Newsletter
🄵🅆 Kernow • Cornwall
Golant Session will not be reopening.
🄵🅆 West Country
🄵 2nd Thu Devon TOTNES TOTNES FOLK SONG CLUB Facebook: Totnes Folk Club new webpage, other details unchanged (Mar 2022)
🄵🅆 Glos
🄵 While MITCHELDEAN FOLK CLUB is now live on the 2nd Thursday of every month, occasionally there will be 4th Thursday Zoom sessions - if so they will be posted on Mitcheldean Folk Club Facebook ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/1535369999950305/about/ )
🄵🅆 North of England (NE, NW, Yorks/Humber)
🄵 DAVE MASON Jan 2022 issue under England NE, has now moved to Scotland (draft news for May 2022 on Scotland page based on Jan issue).
🄰 Correction DAVID KIDMAN - website is www.davidkidman.co.uk (not . . . david.kidman . . .)
🄵🅆 Alba/Scotland
🄵 SRÙBAG! CÈILIDH SEINN NA GÀIDHLIG – GAELIC SONG CÈILIDH
- On Zoom,1st or 2nd Fridays, 7.30pm.
Based in Edinburgh, and with my friend Marcas Mac an Tuairneir – Gaelic poet-cum-singer (https://www.facebook.com/marcasmac) – I co-host a monthly Gaelic / Celtic languages-only Zoom sing, Srùbag. We both sing with the Lothian Gaelic Choir, and Marcas is one of the two Gaelic tutors. There are a lot of pre-recorded ceilidhs out there – we wanted to create a space for sharing Gaelic and Celtic language songs live online. Scottish and Irish Gaelic songs are welcome, as are songs from the wider Celtic family such as Breton and Welsh songs. We have a monthly Guest singer and additionally the song turn goes round the virtual “Room”. Usually 2nd Fridays 1930, sometimes first Friday. Please drop in and bring your own Srùbag (cuppa) and a song, or drop in to listen. Please see www.facebook.com/seiseansrubag or contact https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/contact/ for the Zoom link and/or more information.
Linn also hosts a monthly Learn (Scottish) Gaelic Song session, free on zoom 3rd Saturdays 6pm UK/Ireland time, with all materials provided, no prior knowledge of Gaelic required, pls contact her if interested!
🄵 LINN PHIPPS
Dear friends, I zoom-sing as half of a transatlantic duo. As the Sillertides, we (Linn Phipps and Doug Huggins) have been working on a project with artist Lionel Coates. Lionel has a major exhibition at Clare Museum starting 14 March 2022, featuring paintings of Ireland on three distinct themes - Famine, Fields and Fishing. We are matching Lionel’s paintings with songs. The link for the first YouTube video ‘A chuisle grá mo chroí’ is at https://youtu.be/i0zH1LrayLI and the second video ‘Fields of Athenry’ is at https://youtu.be/OErR959RBQc. And the third, ‘The Shores of Lough Bran’ is premiering on Friday 4 March at https://youtu.be/rx7AnabLtIY More coming! Please do give them a view! and maybe subscribe to our channel too, it’s free. Thanks! Linn.
Links:
The Sillertides (Doug Huggins and Linn Phipps) are a transatlantic duo singing traditional songs in a conversation style:https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/sillertides/
Youtube: https://bit.ly/3hzmYNC
Bandcamp: sillertides.bandcamp.com
Linn: https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk & https://www.youtube.com/c/LinnPhipps
🄵 DAVE MASON
previously listed under England North-East, has now moved to Scotland. Draft news for May on Scotland page is based on Jan issue under England North-East.
🄵 THE LIVING TRADITION -- issue 143 COVER ILLUSTRATION - SEE UPDATES ON SCOTLND WEBPAGE
A full colour, A4, glossy, folk and traditional music magazine highlighting the rich heritage of traditional music in the UK, Ireland and further afield. The Living Tradition has a worldwide circulation, and for over 25 years has been an independent and authoritative voice in the folk world. With 68 pages of articles, interviews, news and reviews in each issue, The Living Tradition really is essential reading for anyone with an interest in folk and traditional music. Publishing 5 times a year, subscriptions are available from www.livingtradition.co.uk/subscribe. Individual issues and a wide selection of CDs are available from their online shop (www.livingtradition.co.uk/shop).
Issue 143 is the April / May 2022 issue of The Living Tradition, featuring articles on The Gilchrist Collective, Barry Coope, Bogha-Frois, Norma Waterson, North Sea Gas, Brian Hughes & Dave Sheridan, Jimmy Campbell, A Treasure Trove of English Song, Tales from the Road – Tom Lewis, Transatlantic Connections, news, reviews, 2022 Festival Listings and more. 10 issue subscriptions available from £36. www.livingtradition.co.uk
The Living Tradition ®, 01563 571220, PO Box 1026, Kilmarnock KA2 0LG.
admin<at>livingtradition.co.uk, www.facebook.com/thelivingtraditionmagazine
Webpage 🄵🅆 Festivals, workshops www.folklife.uk/festivals.html
Date & more details announced:
2022 May 13 - 15 CHURCHDOWN BEER & FOLK FESTIVAL website tba
→ CHURCHDOWN, Gloucestershire. The Churchdown Club (http://churchdownclub.co.uk), Church Road, Churchdown, Gloucester, GL3 2ER
⌂ For more info: website/facebook tba , http://liamtho.com/FolkAtTheClub
⊕ Steve & Julie Wigley, Colin Pitts, Rebil, Discovery, Blackthorn Buskers, Mice In A Matchbox, Sid Harvey & Mansfield-Smith, Singarounds and more.
Please contact Bill Craswell, 07740 248785, liam<at>liamtho.com ® Bill Craswell
ONLINE ONLY - ZOOM and INTERNATIONAL
Webpage ⎈ Zoom list www.folklife.uk/zoom.html
Alba/Scotland
🄵 1st or 2nd Fri Edinburgh ® SRÙBAG! Cèilidh Seinn na Gàidhlig – Gaelic Song Cèilidh Zoom www.facebook.com/seiseansrubag Linn Phipps .....
→ On Zoom, usually 2nd Fridays, sometimes 1st Fridays, 7.30pm.
⇒ See www.facebook.com/seiseansrubag or contact https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/contac for the Zoom link and/or more information
⊕ Gaelic songs live online. Scottish and Irish Gaelic songs are welcome, as are songs from the wider Celtic family such as Breton and Welsh songs. Monthly Guest singer and additionally the song turn goes round the virtual “Room”.
🄵 3rd Sat ...................... ® LEARN (SCOTTISH) GAELIC SONG SESSION Zoom Contact https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/contact/ Linn Phipps .....
→ 6pm UK/Ireland time
⊕ Free, with all materials provided, no prior knowledge of Gaelic required, pls contact Linn if interested!
Webpage ⎈ International News www.folklife.uk/world.html
1. DATES
🄰 LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ONLINE EVENTS. SUNDAYS 1st, Online Ballad Sing; 3rd, Online Chantey & Tavern Sing, both 2-4 EDT [= UK 7pm-9pm]. THURSDAYS 3rd, concerts; SATURDAYS special events (usually on Saturdays)
For details see sites.google.com/view/lynnoel/music/mermaidstavern Join the mailing list at http://mailinglist.mermaidstavern.com
March
More entries welcome ~ print summary in FW
https://mailchi.mp/db62c0c846a2/folklife-newsletter-17-mar-2022
FOLKLIFE TRADITONS -- LIVE EVENTS
Saturday 23rd April 2.00 - 10.30
The Cause, 42 The Causeway, Chippenham, SN15 3DD White Horse Trades Union Council
Helliker History Day 2022
In Memory of Thomas Helliker The Trowbridge Martyr 1784 -1803
Textiles, Steam, Coal, Water
Afternoon Talks 2.00 - 6.00
1000 years of Warp and Weft - David Birks
Henry 'Orator' Hunt and Peterloo - Stuart Butler History of the Somerset Miners Union - Dave Chapple The Miners of the Somerset Coalfield - Bryony McGinty Poverty & Protest in Bradford on Avon - Rosie MacGregor
Musical Presentations & Poems 7.30 - 10.30
'Cotton Town Chronicles'
Lancashire Mills & Mines by Peter & Barbara Snape Songs of Alfred Williams - Bob and Gill Berry Poems & Stories - Merv Grist
Radical Songs - Rosie Upton
************************************
Bar & Light Refreshments available
To reserve a place contact rosiemacgregor<at>icloud.com free entry - non profit making - donations welcome
Saturday 15th October 2022 One-day conference
Broadside Extra!
News, songs and provocations in the history of cheap print and street literature
One-day conference Saturday 15th October 2022
Hosted by the School of Media and the Centre for Critical Media Literacy (CCML) at Technological University Dublin
Organised by the Traditional Song Forum and CCML, with the support of the Irish Traditional Music Archive and An Góilín Traditional Singers Club.
This will be an in-person conference, with proceedings live-streamed for those who cannot be there. Admission is free.
We invite proposals for 15-to-20-minute presentations on any aspect of cheap print and street literature in Britain and Ireland (and their diasporas) – including intersections of the histories of journalism and other facets of the popular press.
The Traditional Song Forum’s annual Broadside Day conference has been held every February for almost 20 years, but whenever possible the TSF likes to add a second event, Broadside Extra, in the autumn, in partnership with other institutions and organisations. This is the first time the event will be held in Dublin.
Broadside Extra is our opportunity to gather and talk about the fascinating field of cheap print and street literature of the past; broadsides, chapbooks, last dying speeches, catchpennies, garlands and news sheets, penny histories and children’s books, popular prints, pedlars, jobbing printers. ballad-singers, and so on. Proposals for papers and panels are invited in any of these areas. Proposals that examine how marginalised people and groups used these media forms are particularly welcome.
For queries and to send an abstract of approximately 250 words, together with a biography of not more than 150 words, please contact: steveroud<at>gmail.com
Deadline for proposals: 31 July 2022
FOLK NEWS PRINT PAGES & WEBPAGES are 🄵🅆 Cymru • Wales 🄵🅆 Kernow • Cornwall 🄵🅆 West Country 🄵🅆 Glos 🄵🅆 Midlands 🄵🅆 Herefs-Worcs 🄵🅆 South-East 🄵🅆 North 🄵🅆 Alba/Scotland Additionally we have an online-only webpage ⎈ International
If no heading below - no changes this Newsletter
🄵🅆 Kernow • Cornwall
Golant Session will not be reopening.
🄵🅆 West Country
🄵 2nd Thu Devon TOTNES TOTNES FOLK SONG CLUB Facebook: Totnes Folk Club new webpage, other details unchanged (Mar 2022)
🄵🅆 Glos
🄵 While MITCHELDEAN FOLK CLUB is now live on the 2nd Thursday of every month, occasionally there will be 4th Thursday Zoom sessions - if so they will be posted on Mitcheldean Folk Club Facebook ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/1535369999950305/about/ )
🄵🅆 North of England (NE, NW, Yorks/Humber)
🄵 DAVE MASON Jan 2022 issue under England NE, has now moved to Scotland (draft news for May 2022 on Scotland page based on Jan issue).
🄰 Correction DAVID KIDMAN - website is www.davidkidman.co.uk (not . . . david.kidman . . .)
🄵🅆 Alba/Scotland
🄵 SRÙBAG! CÈILIDH SEINN NA GÀIDHLIG – GAELIC SONG CÈILIDH
- On Zoom,1st or 2nd Fridays, 7.30pm.
Based in Edinburgh, and with my friend Marcas Mac an Tuairneir – Gaelic poet-cum-singer (https://www.facebook.com/marcasmac) – I co-host a monthly Gaelic / Celtic languages-only Zoom sing, Srùbag. We both sing with the Lothian Gaelic Choir, and Marcas is one of the two Gaelic tutors. There are a lot of pre-recorded ceilidhs out there – we wanted to create a space for sharing Gaelic and Celtic language songs live online. Scottish and Irish Gaelic songs are welcome, as are songs from the wider Celtic family such as Breton and Welsh songs. We have a monthly Guest singer and additionally the song turn goes round the virtual “Room”. Usually 2nd Fridays 1930, sometimes first Friday. Please drop in and bring your own Srùbag (cuppa) and a song, or drop in to listen. Please see www.facebook.com/seiseansrubag or contact https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/contact/ for the Zoom link and/or more information.
Linn also hosts a monthly Learn (Scottish) Gaelic Song session, free on zoom 3rd Saturdays 6pm UK/Ireland time, with all materials provided, no prior knowledge of Gaelic required, pls contact her if interested!
🄵 LINN PHIPPS
Dear friends, I zoom-sing as half of a transatlantic duo. As the Sillertides, we (Linn Phipps and Doug Huggins) have been working on a project with artist Lionel Coates. Lionel has a major exhibition at Clare Museum starting 14 March 2022, featuring paintings of Ireland on three distinct themes - Famine, Fields and Fishing. We are matching Lionel’s paintings with songs. The link for the first YouTube video ‘A chuisle grá mo chroí’ is at https://youtu.be/i0zH1LrayLI and the second video ‘Fields of Athenry’ is at https://youtu.be/OErR959RBQc. And the third, ‘The Shores of Lough Bran’ is premiering on Friday 4 March at https://youtu.be/rx7AnabLtIY More coming! Please do give them a view! and maybe subscribe to our channel too, it’s free. Thanks! Linn.
Links:
The Sillertides (Doug Huggins and Linn Phipps) are a transatlantic duo singing traditional songs in a conversation style:https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/sillertides/
Youtube: https://bit.ly/3hzmYNC
Bandcamp: sillertides.bandcamp.com
Linn: https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk & https://www.youtube.com/c/LinnPhipps
🄵 DAVE MASON
previously listed under England North-East, has now moved to Scotland. Draft news for May on Scotland page is based on Jan issue under England North-East.
🄵 THE LIVING TRADITION -- issue 143 COVER ILLUSTRATION - SEE UPDATES ON SCOTLND WEBPAGE
A full colour, A4, glossy, folk and traditional music magazine highlighting the rich heritage of traditional music in the UK, Ireland and further afield. The Living Tradition has a worldwide circulation, and for over 25 years has been an independent and authoritative voice in the folk world. With 68 pages of articles, interviews, news and reviews in each issue, The Living Tradition really is essential reading for anyone with an interest in folk and traditional music. Publishing 5 times a year, subscriptions are available from www.livingtradition.co.uk/subscribe. Individual issues and a wide selection of CDs are available from their online shop (www.livingtradition.co.uk/shop).
Issue 143 is the April / May 2022 issue of The Living Tradition, featuring articles on The Gilchrist Collective, Barry Coope, Bogha-Frois, Norma Waterson, North Sea Gas, Brian Hughes & Dave Sheridan, Jimmy Campbell, A Treasure Trove of English Song, Tales from the Road – Tom Lewis, Transatlantic Connections, news, reviews, 2022 Festival Listings and more. 10 issue subscriptions available from £36. www.livingtradition.co.uk
The Living Tradition ®, 01563 571220, PO Box 1026, Kilmarnock KA2 0LG.
admin<at>livingtradition.co.uk, www.facebook.com/thelivingtraditionmagazine
Webpage 🄵🅆 Festivals, workshops www.folklife.uk/festivals.html
Date & more details announced:
2022 May 13 - 15 CHURCHDOWN BEER & FOLK FESTIVAL website tba
→ CHURCHDOWN, Gloucestershire. The Churchdown Club (http://churchdownclub.co.uk), Church Road, Churchdown, Gloucester, GL3 2ER
⌂ For more info: website/facebook tba , http://liamtho.com/FolkAtTheClub
⊕ Steve & Julie Wigley, Colin Pitts, Rebil, Discovery, Blackthorn Buskers, Mice In A Matchbox, Sid Harvey & Mansfield-Smith, Singarounds and more.
Please contact Bill Craswell, 07740 248785, liam<at>liamtho.com ® Bill Craswell
ONLINE ONLY - ZOOM and INTERNATIONAL
Webpage ⎈ Zoom list www.folklife.uk/zoom.html
Alba/Scotland
🄵 1st or 2nd Fri Edinburgh ® SRÙBAG! Cèilidh Seinn na Gàidhlig – Gaelic Song Cèilidh Zoom www.facebook.com/seiseansrubag Linn Phipps .....
→ On Zoom, usually 2nd Fridays, sometimes 1st Fridays, 7.30pm.
⇒ See www.facebook.com/seiseansrubag or contact https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/contac for the Zoom link and/or more information
⊕ Gaelic songs live online. Scottish and Irish Gaelic songs are welcome, as are songs from the wider Celtic family such as Breton and Welsh songs. Monthly Guest singer and additionally the song turn goes round the virtual “Room”.
🄵 3rd Sat ...................... ® LEARN (SCOTTISH) GAELIC SONG SESSION Zoom Contact https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/contact/ Linn Phipps .....
→ 6pm UK/Ireland time
⊕ Free, with all materials provided, no prior knowledge of Gaelic required, pls contact Linn if interested!
Webpage ⎈ International News www.folklife.uk/world.html
1. DATES
🄰 LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ONLINE EVENTS. SUNDAYS 1st, Online Ballad Sing; 3rd, Online Chantey & Tavern Sing, both 2-4 EDT [= UK 7pm-9pm]. THURSDAYS 3rd, concerts; SATURDAYS special events (usually on Saturdays)
For details see sites.google.com/view/lynnoel/music/mermaidstavern Join the mailing list at http://mailinglist.mermaidstavern.com
March
- Sunday, March 20: Chantey & Tavern Sing
- Sunday, March 20: NEFFA Live Online
- Saturday, March 26: Strong Songs, Strong Women with Janie Meneely
- Sunday, March 27: Daylight Savings Time Begins in UK
- Sunday, April 3: Ballad Sing
- Saturday, April 9: RESCHEDULED IN PERSON Benefit for CT Sea Music Festival, Enfield, CT
- Sunday, April 17: Chantey & Tavern Sing
- NO THURS CONCERT THIS MONTH
- Fri-Sun, April 22-24: NEFFA! Online Festival
More entries welcome ~ print summary in FW
To view this Newsletter, as sent in an email:
-- slightly different editions, but all cover all updates,
--- the different editions reflect minor differences, eg Members' edition having info specific to Members, International assuming online-only, etc etc.
Members ..................................................................................................... http://mailchi.mp/46405113aaf3/folklife-newsletter-26-feb-2022-members
Other readers in . . .
-- slightly different editions, but all cover all updates,
--- the different editions reflect minor differences, eg Members' edition having info specific to Members, International assuming online-only, etc etc.
Members ..................................................................................................... http://mailchi.mp/46405113aaf3/folklife-newsletter-26-feb-2022-members
Other readers in . . .
- Wales; England South-West, West Mids .................... https://mailchi.mp/f140df252aeb/folklife-newsletter-26-feb-2022-wales-west-wmids
- England East Mids, South-East, North; Scotland https://mailchi.mp/4420ad375e78/folklife-newsletter-38-feb-2022-emids-se-north-scotland
- International ............................................................................... https://mailchi.mp/9483a257465d/folklife-newsletter-1mar2022-international
🄵🅃🄹 Folklife Traditions Journal, www.folklife-traditions.uk
Researched articles + archive, news, on a separate website. Folk studies and cultural traditions.
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: The Poor Ballad Sellers and Singers, by Roy & Lesley Adkins, pp4-5
- Welsh traditional tune & notes: ‘Morys Morgannwg’ / ‘The Glamorgan Morris’, from Helen Adam, p6
- Song & notes: ‘I'll Take My Dog’, sung by Wiggy Smith. By Gwilym Davies, p7
- Article: Using Zoom for a Folk Club, by Mark Dowding, p8
Articles received so far for May issue:
- Article: The Poor Ballad Sellers and Singers, by Roy & Lesley Adkins
- A review of the London Ballad Walk, by Rosie Upton
UPDATES
Roy & Lesley Adkins' Spring 2022 Newsletter can now be read on https://www.adkinshistory.com/newsletters/newsletter-63/ and includes historical articles on St Valentine's Day and How Books Were Sold.
EVENTS BEFORE MAY ISSUE
A Radical History event about local links to industry in Chippenham on 23 April
White Horse TUC, Helliker History Day 2022, on Saturday 23 April 2022, 2pm – 6pm, and 7.30pm – 10.30 pm .
The Cause 42 The Causeway, Chippenham SN15 3DD
Textiles, Steam, Coal and Water: Talks, Poetry and Music
This is being planned - not finalised, but will include talks and song including Peter and Barbara Snape’s Cotton Town Chronicles - the rough draft is:
Afternoon talks:
• Henry ‘Orator’ Hunt, his local connections and Peterloo - Stuart Butler. History of the Somerset Coal Field - Bryony McGinty
• History of the Somerset Miners Unions - Dave Chapple. The Woollen Mills of Trowbridge - David Birks, Trowbridge Museum
• Poverty and protest in Bradford on Avon’s wool industry - Rosie MacGregor
Evening Performances
• Cotton Town Chronicles – the story of grease, grit and grime in the Lancashire mills and mines - Lancashire based duo Peter and Barbara Snape
• Merv Grist - the story of Thomas the Tank Engine – Sodor Strike + his own poems including his ‘school essay’ about Brunel
Bar and light refreshments available To reserve a place please contact rosiemacgregor<at>icloud.com
This is a non-profit making event and free but donations welcome.
Webpage 🄵🅆 Festivals, workshops www.folklife.uk/festivals.html
2022 Jul 6 - 10 NEW FOREST FOLK FESTIVAL www.newforestfolkfestival.co.uk Advert added Feb 2022, see Festivals webpage
2022 Jul 6 - 10 NEW FOREST FOLK FESTIVAL www.newforestfolkfestival.co.uk Advert added Feb 2022, see Festivals webpage
Webpage 🄵🅆 UK News, Directories www.folklife.uk/news.html
FOLK NEWS area webpages, include area directories for Folklife members. ø "North" is England NE, NW, Yorks & Humber; and Scotland. From May issue, there will be a separate "Alba/Scotland" webpage, and "North" will be North of England: NE, NW, Yorks & Humber; and Scotland. We have set up a draft "Alba/Scotland" webpage based on January FW, duplicating Scotland news from existing "North" page. The HogEye Men: see South-East news, below |
**** From Feb 2022, FREE LISTINGS in our DIRECTORY if you are on our emailed Newsletter list
🄵🅆 Cymru • Wales
🄵 RUTH & KEN POWELL. Concert dates so far:
15 April : Bradford Arms Folk Club, Ivetsy Bank, Staffordshire. www.bradfordarmsfolkclub.co.uk (rescheduled from February due to COVID)
6th May: Hermon Arts Centre, Hermon Chapel, Chapel Street, Oswestry, SY11 1LF from 7pm. Info & Tickets www.hermon-arts.org.uk
19 - 21 August : Moira Furnace Folk Festival, Moira Furnace, Furnace Lane, Moira, Swadlincote, Leicestershire DE12 6AT
https://moirafurnacefolkfestival.co.uk/lineup.html, 07401 951694
Ruth and Ken, info<at>ruthandkenpowell.co.uk www.ruthandkenpowell.co.uk
🄵 LLANTRISANT FOLK CLUB announce
🄵🅆 Kernow • Cornwall
🄵 Dreamers Folk Club, nr Redruth – Sundays at 7.30
“We are the music makers, we are the dreamers of dreams” as our logo says. We’d love to be back making music in the traditional ways but we’ve been held back, not only by the ever-changing covid regulations (which have affected everyone) but also by the loss of our previous venue which the pub has converted to new use. After a prolonged search and trying out numerous Halls and other possibilities, we have settled on the Victoria Inn in Four Lanes, very close to our old venue.
We can say that “Dreamers never closed”. When lockdown first started, we had weekly “watch parties”, compilations of home recordings for a few months. In August 2020, the club moved to live sessions on zoom. Initially, we had to give quite a bit of support to each other to overcome the technical unfamiliarities but we’re largely past that now and the sessions have consistently been very successful and enjoyable, attracting visitors from far and wide. Dreamers is renowned as a friendly, welcoming club and we like to think we’ve carried that over to our zoom sessions - anyone who would like to come along is welcome to contact us through our web-site, facebook page or at ntmorson@aol.com
The web-site also carries our weekly Newsletter which like our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/MistOverFourLanes) carries club news and links to other folk events of interest.
UPDATE - Now live at the Victoria Inn in Four Lanes!
Plus the new “Cornwall Zoom Folk Club” will be monthly starting on Saturday 26th February and continuing every fourth Saturday. Join our regular singers & musicians & guests from around the world!
Weekly Sun Cornwall FOUR LANES DREAMERS FOLK CLUB www.dreamersfolk.co.uk Nigel Morson
→ Victoria Inn, Four Lanes, near Redruth.. 7.30pm
⇒ Nigel Morson, ntmorson <at> aol.com. https://en-gb.facebook.com/MistOverFourLanes/
⊕ The “family” feel on our folk nights is widely admired. We extend a very warm welcome to one & all to experience that special atmosphere of friends in harmony raising the roof in song. (New venue 2/2022)
4th Sat Cornwall -- ZOOM session -- CORNWALL ZOOM FOLK CLUB www.dreamersfolk.co.uk Nigel Morson
⇒ Nigel Morson, ntmorson <at> aol.com. https://en-gb.facebook.com/MistOverFourLanes/
⊕ Join our regular singers & musicians & guests from around the world!
🄵🅆 West Country no changes
🄵🅆 Glos
🄵 Twelve Bells, Cirencester
Hi Sam
I keep meaning to tell you that the Twelve Bells sing around is still not happening. We hope to get it going again later in the year - but every time we start planning to do so the Covid kicks off again.
Happy New Year, Martin and Shan
🄵 1st Thu Glos KEMPLEY ROVING FOLK has moved to Much Marcle Herefs, see below.
🄵🅆 Midlands
🄵 ATHERSTONE FOLK CLUB, Atherstone Red Lion, 99 Long Street, Atherstone, CV9 1BB. 3rd Wed, 7:30pm
Hosts Finger in the Jar. We aim to have something for everyone; traditional, modern, shanties, comedy, dance and sessions just for musicians.
Entry free for club nights, with a collection for the guests that night and a free raffle.
Following our recent move to the Red Lion, we say thank you to everyone who is coming to support us. The new venue is proving popular. Artists due to appear will enjoy the ambience as much as the audience. So, 16 March 2022 we have singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Bernard Hoskin as our guest artist, and on 20 April, the marvellous Becky Mills will be coming to visit us with magical stories from the North York moors. Linde Nijland from Denmark will be bringing her Sandy Denny show to entertain us, accompanied by Bert, of course, on 18 May. Loctup Together are booked for 15 June; a guarantee of a super show. Odette Michell, award-winning British folk singer-songwriter, guitarist and bouzouki player, joins us on 20 July; really should not be missed.
Floor singers wishing to perform at the club, please contact Phil Benson at phil<at>atherstonefolkclub.org.uk in plenty of time, please. We fill up fast! ® Phillip Benson, phil<at>atherstonefolkclub.org.uk 01827 711514 https://www.facebook.com/groups/atherstonefolkclub
🄵 FOLK AT THE LION The Atherstone Red Lion, 99 Long Street, Atherstone CV9 1BB 1st Wed, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm, all year
Folk in a local hostelry (The Atherstone Red Lion), run by anyone who turns up. (Well, not quite, but it gives the flavour.) Singaround format, for the most part.
Those who find themselves at a loose end on the 1st Wednesday afternoon of the month are welcome to come and join a few friends just singing for the joy of it. Free Entry.
See www.facebook.com/AtherstoneRedLionHotel/ ® Phillip Benson
phil<at>atherstonefolkclub.org.uk 01827 711514 https://www.facebook.com/groups/1194655407220890/
MIDLANDS ONLINE DIRECTORY - VENUES. Venue change.
3rd Wed Warks ATHERSTONE ATHERSTONE FOLK CLUB www.atherstonefolkclub.org.uk Phillip Benson 01827 711514
→ The Atherstone Red Lion, 99 Long Street, Atherstone CV9 1BB. 8.00 pm, all year
⌂ Phillip Benson, Sixth Lock Cottage, Holly Lane, Atherstone, Warwickshire CV9 2SL. phil<at>atherstonefolkclub.org.uk
⊕ 3rd Wednesday of each month. Please see website for latest info. [2022 Feb, venue changed]
🄵🅆 Herefs-Worcs
Herefs
🄵 Last Tue Herefs LEDBURY HOMEND POETS & MUSICIANS https://www.folklife.uk/homend-poets.html Nick Halligan 01684 563281
→ Pot & Page cafe (01531 248743), 8 New St, Ledbury HR8 2DX. 6.30pm to 8pm.
⇒ Email nickh2009<at>btinternet.com, but phone preferred. [New venue, Jan 2022]
🄵 Formerly in Kempley, Glos (see Glos news webpage)
1st Thu Herefs MUCH MARCLE ROVING FOLK (no website) John Hodgson 01531 890852
→ Much Marcle Memorial Hall, Much Marcle, Ledbury HR8 2LY. 7.30pm.
⇒ Email rovingfolkkempley<at>btinternet.com to join the mailing list.
⊕ A warm reception for singers, players and the spoken word. Bring your own drinks. Free entry. [venue change 2022 Jan, was in Glos]
🄵 FOLK AT THE FALCON, BROMYARD. Friday 11th March, 7.30pm, Ann Duggan & Rob Hines. Original and entertaining musicianship, mixing influences from country Americana, blues, rock, folk and jazz to create wonderful arrangements. Annie has carved out a successful career and is known for her captivating style on stage and wonderful voice that can span most genres of music, whilst Rob has a unique style of his own and has been compared to Richard Thompson and Johnny Marr amongst others.
Ann’s voice has been a major inspiration in the writing of the material that is delivered with strong rhythmic support from Rob, who has been with her from the beginning. Ann and Rob have travelled the length and breadth of the UK and America. They’re presently promoting their highly acclaimed new album Dust Upon The Wind.
Support: local favourite Brian Jones, sixties classics and sixties-style new material.
Tickets at the door or bookable in advance. Early booking appreciated to help prepare seating, £10 from the Falcon Hotel, or Folk at the Falcon 07726 462220, or by email from John Bloor: john<at>bloor.org.uk
For Folk at the Falcon’s ongoing concert programme see www.folkatthefalcon.com / www.facebook.com/folkatthefalcon
🄵🅆 South-East
🄰 SEA SHANTY SINGAROUND SESSION The Horseshoe Inn, 26 Melior Street, London, SE1 3QP. 3rd Sundays (except Aug), 12 noon until 3pm
The monthly sea shanty singaround sessions in central London, which are hosted by the HogEye Men, resume on 20th February following the easing of Covid restrictions. Although the emphasis is on songs of the sea, all kinds of folk music are welcome.
These singarounds are held between 12noon and 3pm in the Horseshoe Inn, London SE1 on the third Sunday of every month, except August.
The HogEye Men are Cutty Sark's shanty crew on the first Saturday of each month, as part of the Family Fun Weekend (entrance fee applies).
Planned HogEye Men performances in 2022 include:-
• The Golden Hinde, London - 14th April
• Rochester Sweeps Festival - 2nd May
• Falmouth Shanty Festival - 17th -19th June
• Harwich International Shanty Festival - 7th - 9th October
The HogEye Men are currently recording a new album which is planned to be released for download this summer.
Their CD “50 Years a Sailor” can be purchased via folklondon.co.uk/cds/
Kind Regards, Mike Green
Added to South-East online Directory
Pf.1e Shanty Groups, Duos, & Solo
London THE HOGEYE MEN ......................... https://www.facebook.com/HogEyeMen
hogeyemen<at>mail.com
🄵🅆 North This was UK North: English regions NE, NW, Yorks/Humber; plus Scotland
We have now set up a separate webpage 🄵🅆 Alba/Scotland for next issue, with a draft based on existing Jan issue.
So
🄵🅆 North is now for the North of England (NE, NW, Yorks/Humber)
No changes.
- VENUES
- How often [e.g. Wkly, 1st], Day, County, TOWN, CLUB/VENUE NAME, website, optional: Contact name & phone
- PERFORMERS, MEDIA, SHOPS, etc (categories see online Directories)
- County, NAME, website , optional: Contact name & phone
🄵🅆 Cymru • Wales
🄵 RUTH & KEN POWELL. Concert dates so far:
15 April : Bradford Arms Folk Club, Ivetsy Bank, Staffordshire. www.bradfordarmsfolkclub.co.uk (rescheduled from February due to COVID)
6th May: Hermon Arts Centre, Hermon Chapel, Chapel Street, Oswestry, SY11 1LF from 7pm. Info & Tickets www.hermon-arts.org.uk
19 - 21 August : Moira Furnace Folk Festival, Moira Furnace, Furnace Lane, Moira, Swadlincote, Leicestershire DE12 6AT
https://moirafurnacefolkfestival.co.uk/lineup.html, 07401 951694
Ruth and Ken, info<at>ruthandkenpowell.co.uk www.ruthandkenpowell.co.uk
🄵 LLANTRISANT FOLK CLUB announce
- Good news – we’re going live! Covid restrictions are being relaxed in Wales, provided that you take good care and practice some consideration for others in the audience.
- Our Zoomaround sessions start on the first Tuesday of the month (8.15pm for 8.30pm) – https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89787380016 Meeting ID: 897 8738 0016 – no password. We hope to see you there!
- March 9, 2022: Boo Hewerdine & Brooks Williams – State of the Union (England/USA)
- March 16, 2022: John Watterson / Fake Thackray
- March 30, 2022: Over the Moon (Canada)
- April 13, 2022: Winter Wilson
- April 27, 2022: Keith Donnelly
- May 18, 2022: Cup O’ Joe (Ireland)
- May 25, 2022: Rory McLeod
🄵🅆 Kernow • Cornwall
🄵 Dreamers Folk Club, nr Redruth – Sundays at 7.30
“We are the music makers, we are the dreamers of dreams” as our logo says. We’d love to be back making music in the traditional ways but we’ve been held back, not only by the ever-changing covid regulations (which have affected everyone) but also by the loss of our previous venue which the pub has converted to new use. After a prolonged search and trying out numerous Halls and other possibilities, we have settled on the Victoria Inn in Four Lanes, very close to our old venue.
We can say that “Dreamers never closed”. When lockdown first started, we had weekly “watch parties”, compilations of home recordings for a few months. In August 2020, the club moved to live sessions on zoom. Initially, we had to give quite a bit of support to each other to overcome the technical unfamiliarities but we’re largely past that now and the sessions have consistently been very successful and enjoyable, attracting visitors from far and wide. Dreamers is renowned as a friendly, welcoming club and we like to think we’ve carried that over to our zoom sessions - anyone who would like to come along is welcome to contact us through our web-site, facebook page or at ntmorson@aol.com
The web-site also carries our weekly Newsletter which like our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/MistOverFourLanes) carries club news and links to other folk events of interest.
UPDATE - Now live at the Victoria Inn in Four Lanes!
Plus the new “Cornwall Zoom Folk Club” will be monthly starting on Saturday 26th February and continuing every fourth Saturday. Join our regular singers & musicians & guests from around the world!
Weekly Sun Cornwall FOUR LANES DREAMERS FOLK CLUB www.dreamersfolk.co.uk Nigel Morson
→ Victoria Inn, Four Lanes, near Redruth.. 7.30pm
⇒ Nigel Morson, ntmorson <at> aol.com. https://en-gb.facebook.com/MistOverFourLanes/
⊕ The “family” feel on our folk nights is widely admired. We extend a very warm welcome to one & all to experience that special atmosphere of friends in harmony raising the roof in song. (New venue 2/2022)
4th Sat Cornwall -- ZOOM session -- CORNWALL ZOOM FOLK CLUB www.dreamersfolk.co.uk Nigel Morson
⇒ Nigel Morson, ntmorson <at> aol.com. https://en-gb.facebook.com/MistOverFourLanes/
⊕ Join our regular singers & musicians & guests from around the world!
🄵🅆 West Country no changes
🄵🅆 Glos
🄵 Twelve Bells, Cirencester
Hi Sam
I keep meaning to tell you that the Twelve Bells sing around is still not happening. We hope to get it going again later in the year - but every time we start planning to do so the Covid kicks off again.
Happy New Year, Martin and Shan
🄵 1st Thu Glos KEMPLEY ROVING FOLK has moved to Much Marcle Herefs, see below.
🄵🅆 Midlands
🄵 ATHERSTONE FOLK CLUB, Atherstone Red Lion, 99 Long Street, Atherstone, CV9 1BB. 3rd Wed, 7:30pm
Hosts Finger in the Jar. We aim to have something for everyone; traditional, modern, shanties, comedy, dance and sessions just for musicians.
Entry free for club nights, with a collection for the guests that night and a free raffle.
Following our recent move to the Red Lion, we say thank you to everyone who is coming to support us. The new venue is proving popular. Artists due to appear will enjoy the ambience as much as the audience. So, 16 March 2022 we have singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Bernard Hoskin as our guest artist, and on 20 April, the marvellous Becky Mills will be coming to visit us with magical stories from the North York moors. Linde Nijland from Denmark will be bringing her Sandy Denny show to entertain us, accompanied by Bert, of course, on 18 May. Loctup Together are booked for 15 June; a guarantee of a super show. Odette Michell, award-winning British folk singer-songwriter, guitarist and bouzouki player, joins us on 20 July; really should not be missed.
Floor singers wishing to perform at the club, please contact Phil Benson at phil<at>atherstonefolkclub.org.uk in plenty of time, please. We fill up fast! ® Phillip Benson, phil<at>atherstonefolkclub.org.uk 01827 711514 https://www.facebook.com/groups/atherstonefolkclub
🄵 FOLK AT THE LION The Atherstone Red Lion, 99 Long Street, Atherstone CV9 1BB 1st Wed, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm, all year
Folk in a local hostelry (The Atherstone Red Lion), run by anyone who turns up. (Well, not quite, but it gives the flavour.) Singaround format, for the most part.
Those who find themselves at a loose end on the 1st Wednesday afternoon of the month are welcome to come and join a few friends just singing for the joy of it. Free Entry.
See www.facebook.com/AtherstoneRedLionHotel/ ® Phillip Benson
phil<at>atherstonefolkclub.org.uk 01827 711514 https://www.facebook.com/groups/1194655407220890/
MIDLANDS ONLINE DIRECTORY - VENUES. Venue change.
3rd Wed Warks ATHERSTONE ATHERSTONE FOLK CLUB www.atherstonefolkclub.org.uk Phillip Benson 01827 711514
→ The Atherstone Red Lion, 99 Long Street, Atherstone CV9 1BB. 8.00 pm, all year
⌂ Phillip Benson, Sixth Lock Cottage, Holly Lane, Atherstone, Warwickshire CV9 2SL. phil<at>atherstonefolkclub.org.uk
⊕ 3rd Wednesday of each month. Please see website for latest info. [2022 Feb, venue changed]
🄵🅆 Herefs-Worcs
Herefs
🄵 Last Tue Herefs LEDBURY HOMEND POETS & MUSICIANS https://www.folklife.uk/homend-poets.html Nick Halligan 01684 563281
→ Pot & Page cafe (01531 248743), 8 New St, Ledbury HR8 2DX. 6.30pm to 8pm.
⇒ Email nickh2009<at>btinternet.com, but phone preferred. [New venue, Jan 2022]
🄵 Formerly in Kempley, Glos (see Glos news webpage)
1st Thu Herefs MUCH MARCLE ROVING FOLK (no website) John Hodgson 01531 890852
→ Much Marcle Memorial Hall, Much Marcle, Ledbury HR8 2LY. 7.30pm.
⇒ Email rovingfolkkempley<at>btinternet.com to join the mailing list.
⊕ A warm reception for singers, players and the spoken word. Bring your own drinks. Free entry. [venue change 2022 Jan, was in Glos]
🄵 FOLK AT THE FALCON, BROMYARD. Friday 11th March, 7.30pm, Ann Duggan & Rob Hines. Original and entertaining musicianship, mixing influences from country Americana, blues, rock, folk and jazz to create wonderful arrangements. Annie has carved out a successful career and is known for her captivating style on stage and wonderful voice that can span most genres of music, whilst Rob has a unique style of his own and has been compared to Richard Thompson and Johnny Marr amongst others.
Ann’s voice has been a major inspiration in the writing of the material that is delivered with strong rhythmic support from Rob, who has been with her from the beginning. Ann and Rob have travelled the length and breadth of the UK and America. They’re presently promoting their highly acclaimed new album Dust Upon The Wind.
Support: local favourite Brian Jones, sixties classics and sixties-style new material.
Tickets at the door or bookable in advance. Early booking appreciated to help prepare seating, £10 from the Falcon Hotel, or Folk at the Falcon 07726 462220, or by email from John Bloor: john<at>bloor.org.uk
For Folk at the Falcon’s ongoing concert programme see www.folkatthefalcon.com / www.facebook.com/folkatthefalcon
🄵🅆 South-East
🄰 SEA SHANTY SINGAROUND SESSION The Horseshoe Inn, 26 Melior Street, London, SE1 3QP. 3rd Sundays (except Aug), 12 noon until 3pm
The monthly sea shanty singaround sessions in central London, which are hosted by the HogEye Men, resume on 20th February following the easing of Covid restrictions. Although the emphasis is on songs of the sea, all kinds of folk music are welcome.
These singarounds are held between 12noon and 3pm in the Horseshoe Inn, London SE1 on the third Sunday of every month, except August.
The HogEye Men are Cutty Sark's shanty crew on the first Saturday of each month, as part of the Family Fun Weekend (entrance fee applies).
Planned HogEye Men performances in 2022 include:-
• The Golden Hinde, London - 14th April
• Rochester Sweeps Festival - 2nd May
• Falmouth Shanty Festival - 17th -19th June
• Harwich International Shanty Festival - 7th - 9th October
The HogEye Men are currently recording a new album which is planned to be released for download this summer.
Their CD “50 Years a Sailor” can be purchased via folklondon.co.uk/cds/
Kind Regards, Mike Green
Added to South-East online Directory
Pf.1e Shanty Groups, Duos, & Solo
London THE HOGEYE MEN ......................... https://www.facebook.com/HogEyeMen
hogeyemen<at>mail.com
🄵🅆 North This was UK North: English regions NE, NW, Yorks/Humber; plus Scotland
We have now set up a separate webpage 🄵🅆 Alba/Scotland for next issue, with a draft based on existing Jan issue.
So
🄵🅆 North is now for the North of England (NE, NW, Yorks/Humber)
No changes.
🄵🅆 Alba/Scotland
🄰 BORDERS ONLINE MUSIC SESSIONS changes - see Zoom details below 🄵 THE LIVING TRADITION -- issue 142 A full colour, A4, glossy, folk and traditional music magazine highlighting the rich heritage of traditional music in the UK, Ireland and further afield. The Living Tradition has a worldwide circulation, and for over 25 years has been an independent and authoritative voice in the folk world. With 68 pages of articles, interviews, news and reviews in each issue, The Living Tradition really is essential reading for anyone with an interest in folk and traditional music. Publishing 5 times a year, subscriptions are available from www.livingtradition.co.uk/subscribe. Individual issues and a wide selection of CDs are available from their online shop (www.livingtradition.co.uk/shop). Issue 142 is the Feb/Mar 2022 issue of The Living Tradition, featuring articles on Kevin Henderson, She Shanties, Aidan Coffey, Ian Kearey, Recollections Of Hamish Henderson, Sorcha Costello, The Ballad of Tam Lin, Folk Music In Birmingham 1972-76, The Coopers, Tales from the Road - Steve Heap, Transatlantic Connections, news, reviews and more. 10 issue subscriptions available from £36. www.livingtradition.co.uk The Living Tradition ®, 01563 571220, PO Box 1026, Kilmarnock KA2 0LG. admin<at>livingtradition.co.uk, www.facebook.com/thelivingtraditionmagazine 🄵🅆 Herefs-Worcs Working Folk’ - a new CD from Eric and Eileen Payne. This CD is a super recording of 15 new folk songs from the pen of Eric Payne. The songs cover fifteen traditional trades and capture the lives, practices and legacies of those whose skills were the bedrock of our industrial, agricultural and domestic heritage. As with their former CDs, they are supported by local talented musician friends. The songs are woven in tale, rhyme and harmony with direct lyrics and uncomplicated tunes - a trusted formula that invites the singing of Eric’s songs by others…….what could be better? Eric & Eileen’s chosen charity beneficiary for this CD is the ‘Midlands Air Ambulance’ and profits from all sales will go directly to their support. Contact Eric & Eileen directly to buy the CD which is priced at £10.00 plus postage & packing. More details and CD availability on their Website: www.ericpaynefolksongs.co.uk |
Updates for webpages not included in the printed magazine
🄲 Iaith Gymraeg/Welsh Language 🄰 Associates (those signed up to Newsletter), 'UK Other Areas' & 'International'
Our priority - a full print magazine & Folklife members' news, so new entries only from members or Associates (=signed up for Newsletter)
🄲 Iaith Gymraeg/Welsh Language 🄰 Associates (those signed up to Newsletter), 'UK Other Areas' & 'International'
Our priority - a full print magazine & Folklife members' news, so new entries only from members or Associates (=signed up for Newsletter)
Some stop, others still zooming but only till they can reopen (which may be at short notice!), others will continue, others hybrid (live+zoom) . . .
. . . one or two have reverted to Zoom temporarily, sometimes as a 1-off, when notified we will list on this page under News above, but mostly such cases are at very short notice.
(!) = Not signed up [to Newsletter] -- since we may not be in touch regularly, this may get out of date.
CORNWALL.
🄵 THU. Folk@Lamorna’s (2nd & 4th Thursdays) has stopped.
(!) FRI. New fortnightly Friday session starting Friday 18 Feb at 7-30pm uk time. Pete Grassby.
link is 87338821694 password 115009
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87338821694?pwd=UGJDMW1VcnhuOEtjdTV0RUE5ZGZTUT09
🄵 4th Sat Cornwall CORNWALL ZOOM FOLK CLUB www.dreamersfolk.co.uk Nigel Morson
⇒ Nigel Morson, ntmorson <at> aol.com. https://en-gb.facebook.com/MistOverFourLanes/
⊕ Join our regular singers & musicians & guests from around the world! New - starts Feb 2022
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SCOTLAND
MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY:
Hi Sam,
A wee note to say the Teviotdale session has changed its name and link. It's now - Borders Online Music Sessions
Still doing the 2nd Friday but will also be on every Monday and Wednesday too.
Combined with the other local session.
Thanks
Ray
DETAILS
Monday Scotland
🄰 BORDERS ONLINE MUSIC SESSIONS, weekly. Opens from 7.30pm (GMT), music starts at 8pm, till 10pm.
Weekly, also every Wednesday, plus monthly 2nd Fridays.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/72019462970?pwd=music
Meeting ID: 720 1946 2970
Passcode: music
Singers and musicians of all abilities welcome.
Ray. Code revised 16/02/2022
Wednesday Scotland
🄰 BORDERS ONLINE MUSIC SESSIONS, weekly. Opens from 7.30pm (GMT), music starts at 8pm, till 10pm.
Weekly,also every Monday, plus monthly on 2nd Fridays.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/72019462970?pwd=music
Meeting ID: 720 1946 2970
Passcode: music
Singers and musicians of all abilities welcome.
Ray. Code revised 16/02/2022
Friday Scotland
🄰 BORDERS ONLINE MUSIC SESSIONS, 2nd Friday of each month. Opens from 7.30pm (GMT), music starts at 8pm, till 10pm.
The 2nd Friday of each month, it will now be on every Monday and Wednesday too.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/72019462970?pwd=music
Meeting ID: 720 1946 2970
Passcode: music
Singers and musicians of all abilities welcome.
Ray. Code revised 16/02/2022
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USA 🄰 AMERICELTIC CALENDAR AmeriCeltic Calendar Details see under International, below
. . . one or two have reverted to Zoom temporarily, sometimes as a 1-off, when notified we will list on this page under News above, but mostly such cases are at very short notice.
(!) = Not signed up [to Newsletter] -- since we may not be in touch regularly, this may get out of date.
CORNWALL.
🄵 THU. Folk@Lamorna’s (2nd & 4th Thursdays) has stopped.
(!) FRI. New fortnightly Friday session starting Friday 18 Feb at 7-30pm uk time. Pete Grassby.
link is 87338821694 password 115009
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87338821694?pwd=UGJDMW1VcnhuOEtjdTV0RUE5ZGZTUT09
🄵 4th Sat Cornwall CORNWALL ZOOM FOLK CLUB www.dreamersfolk.co.uk Nigel Morson
⇒ Nigel Morson, ntmorson <at> aol.com. https://en-gb.facebook.com/MistOverFourLanes/
⊕ Join our regular singers & musicians & guests from around the world! New - starts Feb 2022
=============================================================================
SCOTLAND
MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY:
Hi Sam,
A wee note to say the Teviotdale session has changed its name and link. It's now - Borders Online Music Sessions
Still doing the 2nd Friday but will also be on every Monday and Wednesday too.
Combined with the other local session.
Thanks
Ray
DETAILS
Monday Scotland
🄰 BORDERS ONLINE MUSIC SESSIONS, weekly. Opens from 7.30pm (GMT), music starts at 8pm, till 10pm.
Weekly, also every Wednesday, plus monthly 2nd Fridays.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/72019462970?pwd=music
Meeting ID: 720 1946 2970
Passcode: music
Singers and musicians of all abilities welcome.
Ray. Code revised 16/02/2022
Wednesday Scotland
🄰 BORDERS ONLINE MUSIC SESSIONS, weekly. Opens from 7.30pm (GMT), music starts at 8pm, till 10pm.
Weekly,also every Monday, plus monthly on 2nd Fridays.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/72019462970?pwd=music
Meeting ID: 720 1946 2970
Passcode: music
Singers and musicians of all abilities welcome.
Ray. Code revised 16/02/2022
Friday Scotland
🄰 BORDERS ONLINE MUSIC SESSIONS, 2nd Friday of each month. Opens from 7.30pm (GMT), music starts at 8pm, till 10pm.
The 2nd Friday of each month, it will now be on every Monday and Wednesday too.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/72019462970?pwd=music
Meeting ID: 720 1946 2970
Passcode: music
Singers and musicians of all abilities welcome.
Ray. Code revised 16/02/2022
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USA 🄰 AMERICELTIC CALENDAR AmeriCeltic Calendar Details see under International, below
🄰 Associates, for 'Other Areas' 'International' (associates are those signed up to our Folklife Newsletter).
- Folklife Newsletter sign up email sam@folklife.uk 'Opt In’ + country (or for England, region) .... or use form top of page..
1. DATES
🄰 LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ONLINE EVENTS. SUNDAYS 1st, Online Ballad Sing; 3rd, Online Chantey & Tavern Sing, both 2-4 EDT [= UK 7pm-9pm]. THURSDAYS 3rd, concerts; SATURDAYS special events (usually on Saturdays)
For details see sites.google.com/view/lynnoel/music/mermaidstavern Join the mailing list at http://mailinglist.mermaidstavern.com
March
2. DIRECTORY.
We list AMERICELTIC www.AmeriCeltic.net and www.facebook.com/AmeriCeltic under Media.
Additionally
USA 🄰 AMERICELTIC CALENDAR AmeriCeltic Calendar
West Coast of U.S. and more. Live and Zoom listings
AmeriCeltic is a user supported, non-profit service organization. Our Mission is to restore awareness, celebrate and preserve the culture and history of Celtic Americans by promoting live Celtic music, festivals, history & ancestry as well as report and comment on related current events. As well as this public Calendar, we have a weekly newsletter: AmeriCeltic Newsletter Read more about all our work on our About page here: www.AmeriCeltic.net/about
- Folklife Newsletter sign up email sam@folklife.uk 'Opt In’ + country (or for England, region) .... or use form top of page..
1. DATES
🄰 LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ONLINE EVENTS. SUNDAYS 1st, Online Ballad Sing; 3rd, Online Chantey & Tavern Sing, both 2-4 EDT [= UK 7pm-9pm]. THURSDAYS 3rd, concerts; SATURDAYS special events (usually on Saturdays)
For details see sites.google.com/view/lynnoel/music/mermaidstavern Join the mailing list at http://mailinglist.mermaidstavern.com
March
- Sunday, March 6: Ballad Sing
- Thursday, March 17: SPECIAL St. Pat's Singaround with Lynn Noel & Friends
- Sunday, March 20: Chantey & Tavern Sing
- Sunday, March 20: NEFFA Live Online
- Sunday, April 3: Ballad Sing
- Sunday, April 17: Chantey & Tavern Sing
- NO THURS CONCERT THIS MONTH
- Fri-Sun, April 22-24: NEFFA!
2. DIRECTORY.
We list AMERICELTIC www.AmeriCeltic.net and www.facebook.com/AmeriCeltic under Media.
Additionally
USA 🄰 AMERICELTIC CALENDAR AmeriCeltic Calendar
West Coast of U.S. and more. Live and Zoom listings
AmeriCeltic is a user supported, non-profit service organization. Our Mission is to restore awareness, celebrate and preserve the culture and history of Celtic Americans by promoting live Celtic music, festivals, history & ancestry as well as report and comment on related current events. As well as this public Calendar, we have a weekly newsletter: AmeriCeltic Newsletter Read more about all our work on our About page here: www.AmeriCeltic.net/about
To view this Newsletter, as sent in an email:
Members https://mailchi.mp/c95385651ca2/folklife-newsletter-3jan2022-members-plus-local-readers
Other readers
Members https://mailchi.mp/c95385651ca2/folklife-newsletter-3jan2022-members-plus-local-readers
Other readers
- Wales, England South-West, West Midlands https://mailchi.mp/c95385651ca2/folklife-newsletter-3jan2022-members-plus-local-readers
- Other areas of England, plus Scotland https://mailchi.mp/729b2d3eb8a3/folklife-newsletter-3jan2022-uk-non-local
- International https://mailchi.mp/851892788d10/folklife-newsletter-4jan2022-international-readers
🄵🅃🄹 Folklife Traditions Journal, www.folklife-traditions.uk
Researched articles + archive, news, on a separate website. Folk studies and cultural traditions.
Current FTJ issue copied online: www.folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html, read, or download PDF.
7 A4 pages
- Article: The Poor Ballad Sellers and Singers, by Roy & Lesley Adkins, pp4-5
- Welsh traditional tune & notes: ‘Morys Morgannwg’ / ‘The Glamorgan Morris’, from Helen Adam, p6
- Song & notes: ‘I'll Take My Dog’, sung by Wiggy Smith. By Gwilym Davies, p7
- Article: Using Zoom for a Folk Club, by Mark Dowding, p8
Folklife Societies news & diary
- Trac, p2; TSF, p2; Folklore Society, p2; Folk21, p7; Bodmin Wassailing, p7
- The Roots of Welsh Border Morris, p2
- Tunelines, p2
- When There Were Birds: the forgotten history of our connections. Roy & Lesley Adkins, p5
- Again With One Voice: British Songs of Political Reform, 1768-1868. Dick Holdstock, p5.
- Saydisc, 'Matchbox Bluesmaster Series', set 4, p8
- List 7, Folklife Societies: Assoc'ns, Trusts, Organisations, online only
- List 8, Folklife Studies & Institutions, online only
- List 9:, Seasonal Local Celebrations, Jan-Apr, a list & photos, mostly by Doc Rowe, p9
Webpage 🄵🅆 Festivals, workshops www.folklife.uk/festivals.html
UPDATE: 2022 April 29 - May 2 MAY HEYDAYS at Evesham http://mayheydays.org.uk
Line up includes: Callers Fiona Grant, Joanna Reiner, John & Karen Sweeney, Lynne Render;
Musicians, Albireo, Confluence, Keeping Thyme, Klerizma, Purcell's Polyphonic Party, Wild Ride
UPDATE: date for Mitcheldean .......
2022 Jul 15 - 17 MITCHELDEAN FESTIVAL www.mitcheldeanfestival.fod.uk
UPDATE: 2022 April 29 - May 2 MAY HEYDAYS at Evesham http://mayheydays.org.uk
Line up includes: Callers Fiona Grant, Joanna Reiner, John & Karen Sweeney, Lynne Render;
Musicians, Albireo, Confluence, Keeping Thyme, Klerizma, Purcell's Polyphonic Party, Wild Ride
UPDATE: date for Mitcheldean .......
2022 Jul 15 - 17 MITCHELDEAN FESTIVAL www.mitcheldeanfestival.fod.uk
Webpage 🄵🅆 UK News, Directories www.folklife.uk/news.html
The FOLK NEWS area webpages, which include area directories for Folklife members.
This website from Jan 2022: more News webpages.
Print & web pages now
🄵🅆 Cymru • Wales
🄵🅆 Kernow • Cornwall (was part of West Country)
🄵🅆 West Country
🄵🅆 Glos (was Glos/Oxon)
🄵🅆 Midlands (was West Midlands, added East Midlands)
🄵🅆 Herefs-Worcs
🄵🅆 South-East (South-East and London; S-E now includes Oxon; previously UK Other Areas)
🄵🅆 North (English regions NE, NW, Yorks; plus Scotland; previously UK Other Areas)
⎈ International (⎈ = online only)
The FOLK NEWS area webpages, which include area directories for Folklife members.
This website from Jan 2022: more News webpages.
Print & web pages now
🄵🅆 Cymru • Wales
🄵🅆 Kernow • Cornwall (was part of West Country)
🄵🅆 West Country
🄵🅆 Glos (was Glos/Oxon)
🄵🅆 Midlands (was West Midlands, added East Midlands)
🄵🅆 Herefs-Worcs
🄵🅆 South-East (South-East and London; S-E now includes Oxon; previously UK Other Areas)
🄵🅆 North (English regions NE, NW, Yorks; plus Scotland; previously UK Other Areas)
⎈ International (⎈ = online only)
🄵🅆 Cymru • Wales
Change to Wales rules -- Folk clubs -- limit of 30 at any indoor meeting (to include organisers and guests), so may affect some guest bookings.
For example, page 10, 🄵 LLANTRISANT FOLK CLUB say live song and music nights – we will only be able to allow 30 people in, you must email to reserve a place (see website for details), and please take a lateral flow test in advance.
🄵 page 15, RUTH & KEN POWELL (Llanwddyn, Powys) will be appearing on 24th February at Bromsgrove Folk Club, Worcs.
🄵🅆 Kernow • Cornwall and 🄵🅆 West Country
no changes
🄵🅆 Glos
🄵 BILL TAYLOR reports:
Hi Sam Eleanor
[p24, listings] 5th TUESDAY SESSION now Red Lion Huntley
[p 25] REBIL gigs : Gloucester Folk Trail 18th-20th February. There is a website and Facebook page.
Old Passage Folk Day, Arlingham 14th May
Keep up the good work
Wassail
Bill
🄵 [p25] CHELTENHAM FOLK CLUB - Jan 9th live session will now be on Zoom
Hi everyone,
Our first night 9th January will unfortunately be on Zoom, due to the march of the omicron variant.
We hope we don't have to do more on Zoom! We'll watch the situation closely.
I will send a link just before the evening and hope to see you there. I would love it if some of our more distant singers could come back!
I wish you all a happy new year.
Judith
🄵🅆 Midlands
UPDATES to page 33 - Warwickshire - as noted in current issue:
🄵 THE SHIFTING SUNDAY SESSION (SSS) ... every Sunday, same time, different pub. Change of venue:
2nd Sunday Warks STRATFORD-UPON-AVON SHIFTING SUNDAY SESSION: THE BULL INN www.sessionfolk.blogspot.com Pub 01789 417931
🄵🅆 Herefs-Worcs
UPDATES to page 36 - Herefs
🄵 HOMEND POETS & MUSICIANS, Ledbury, last Tuesdays, restarted at the end of September, but venue has closed permanently.
Looking for a new home, at the usual times of 6.30pm to 8pm.
Currently using Pot & Page cafe (01531 248743), 8 New St, Ledbury HR8 2DX
Nick Halligan 01684 563281 Email nickh2009<at>btinternet.com, but phone preferred
https://www.folklife.uk/homend-poets.html
🄵🅆 South-East
Updates - p41 listings, p42 news
Kent
🄰 FOLK AT THE DRUM, Ashford, Kent -- Weekly Mon (was Thu) has a new contact, Jeff Hartley: Folk-At-The-Drum has moved on from Zoom and has been "live " in the pub for a couple of months now. If you need further information, please email hartleylorna<at>aol.com. folkatthedrum.co.uk
Change to Wales rules -- Folk clubs -- limit of 30 at any indoor meeting (to include organisers and guests), so may affect some guest bookings.
For example, page 10, 🄵 LLANTRISANT FOLK CLUB say live song and music nights – we will only be able to allow 30 people in, you must email to reserve a place (see website for details), and please take a lateral flow test in advance.
🄵 page 15, RUTH & KEN POWELL (Llanwddyn, Powys) will be appearing on 24th February at Bromsgrove Folk Club, Worcs.
🄵🅆 Kernow • Cornwall and 🄵🅆 West Country
no changes
🄵🅆 Glos
🄵 BILL TAYLOR reports:
Hi Sam Eleanor
[p24, listings] 5th TUESDAY SESSION now Red Lion Huntley
[p 25] REBIL gigs : Gloucester Folk Trail 18th-20th February. There is a website and Facebook page.
Old Passage Folk Day, Arlingham 14th May
Keep up the good work
Wassail
Bill
🄵 [p25] CHELTENHAM FOLK CLUB - Jan 9th live session will now be on Zoom
Hi everyone,
Our first night 9th January will unfortunately be on Zoom, due to the march of the omicron variant.
We hope we don't have to do more on Zoom! We'll watch the situation closely.
I will send a link just before the evening and hope to see you there. I would love it if some of our more distant singers could come back!
I wish you all a happy new year.
Judith
🄵🅆 Midlands
UPDATES to page 33 - Warwickshire - as noted in current issue:
🄵 THE SHIFTING SUNDAY SESSION (SSS) ... every Sunday, same time, different pub. Change of venue:
2nd Sunday Warks STRATFORD-UPON-AVON SHIFTING SUNDAY SESSION: THE BULL INN www.sessionfolk.blogspot.com Pub 01789 417931
🄵🅆 Herefs-Worcs
UPDATES to page 36 - Herefs
🄵 HOMEND POETS & MUSICIANS, Ledbury, last Tuesdays, restarted at the end of September, but venue has closed permanently.
Looking for a new home, at the usual times of 6.30pm to 8pm.
Currently using Pot & Page cafe (01531 248743), 8 New St, Ledbury HR8 2DX
Nick Halligan 01684 563281 Email nickh2009<at>btinternet.com, but phone preferred
https://www.folklife.uk/homend-poets.html
🄵🅆 South-East
Updates - p41 listings, p42 news
Kent
🄰 FOLK AT THE DRUM, Ashford, Kent -- Weekly Mon (was Thu) has a new contact, Jeff Hartley: Folk-At-The-Drum has moved on from Zoom and has been "live " in the pub for a couple of months now. If you need further information, please email hartleylorna<at>aol.com. folkatthedrum.co.uk
Updates for webpages not included in the printed magazine
🄲 Iaith Gymraeg/Welsh Language 🄰 Associates (those signed up to Newsletter), 'UK Other Areas' & 'International'
Our priority - a full print magazine & Folklife members' news, so new entries only from members or Associates (=signed up for Newsletter)
🄲 Iaith Gymraeg/Welsh Language 🄰 Associates (those signed up to Newsletter), 'UK Other Areas' & 'International'
Our priority - a full print magazine & Folklife members' news, so new entries only from members or Associates (=signed up for Newsletter)
Some stop, others still zooming but only till they can reopen (which may be at short notice!), others will continue, others hybrid (live+zoom) . . .
. . . one or two have reverted to Zoom temporarily, sometimes as a 1-off, when notified we will list on this page under News above, but mostly such cases are at very short notice.
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ZOOMS NOW CLOSED !
Friday South-West 🄰 BODMIN FOLK CLUB, Cornwall - reopened live
. . . one or two have reverted to Zoom temporarily, sometimes as a 1-off, when notified we will list on this page under News above, but mostly such cases are at very short notice.
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ZOOMS NOW CLOSED !
Friday South-West 🄰 BODMIN FOLK CLUB, Cornwall - reopened live
🄰 Associates, for 'Other Areas' 'International' (associates are those signed up to our Folklife Newsletter).
- Folklife Newsletter sign up email sam@folklife.uk 'Opt In’ + country or Eng. region .... or use form above.
This page has been revised and is now set up as 1. DATES, 2. DIRECTORY
1. DATES
USA
🄰 Mass - Boston - LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN
for details see sites.google.com/view/lynnoel/music/mermaidstavern
Twice-monthly sessions on first and third Sundays, monthly concerts third Thursdays, special events (usually) on Saturdays
CHANGE FOR 2022: Sessions will run 2-4pm instead of 2-5pm to accommodate a return to real-world events, while we continue to enjoy visiting and singing together from across time zones.
January
• Saturday January 15: CT Sea Music Festival Chantey Blast
• Sunday, January 16: Chantey and Tavern Sing
• Sunday, January 16: NEFFA Live Online TBA
• Thursday, January 20: Harpist Rachel Clemente
• Sunday, January 23: SPECIAL Robert Burns Night
February
• Sunday, February 6: SPECIAL Francis James Child Birthday Ballad Sing
• Sunday, February 20: DARK (no Chantey & Tavern Sing)
• Sunday, February 20: NEFFA Live Online TBA
• Thursday, February 24: Concert TBA
Join the mailing list at http://mailinglist.mermaidstavern.com
2. DIRECTORY.
Most international readers are active as performers, club organisers, etc.
Our UK pages have directory listings - so we thought we would add this to our International pages.
We'd love to list you. You could just send brief details - minimum of name & website.
Pf.1e. Shanty: John Paul Jones www.shanty.com
or up to 200 words. A picture / logo is welcome.
Click on the new DIRECTORY INDEX box on the webpage
for around 50 categories, coming under these main headings:
• Venues • Folk Performers (Music & Song; Dance; Spoken Word Poetry, Story) • Folk Media • Folk Services (shops) • Workshop Providers & Workshop Series •
• Festivals & Workshops Diary • Folklife Societies (Associations, Organisations) • Folklife Studies (researchers) & Institutions • Seasonal Local Celebrations •
We have taken existing information and made it Directory style.
Each section has a summary followed by details. Currently this is:
1. Venues (just zoom thus far, live welcome).
2. Performers: Pf.1a. Music/Song Solo; Pf.1e. Shanty.
3. Media. M.1 Online magazines & listings.
What we have so far is but a few of our international readers, so please do tell us about your folk club (real and/or zoom), your shanty group, your researchers, ... or other folk interests. Looking forward to hearing from you!
- Folklife Newsletter sign up email sam@folklife.uk 'Opt In’ + country or Eng. region .... or use form above.
This page has been revised and is now set up as 1. DATES, 2. DIRECTORY
1. DATES
USA
🄰 Mass - Boston - LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN
for details see sites.google.com/view/lynnoel/music/mermaidstavern
Twice-monthly sessions on first and third Sundays, monthly concerts third Thursdays, special events (usually) on Saturdays
CHANGE FOR 2022: Sessions will run 2-4pm instead of 2-5pm to accommodate a return to real-world events, while we continue to enjoy visiting and singing together from across time zones.
January
• Saturday January 15: CT Sea Music Festival Chantey Blast
• Sunday, January 16: Chantey and Tavern Sing
• Sunday, January 16: NEFFA Live Online TBA
• Thursday, January 20: Harpist Rachel Clemente
• Sunday, January 23: SPECIAL Robert Burns Night
February
• Sunday, February 6: SPECIAL Francis James Child Birthday Ballad Sing
• Sunday, February 20: DARK (no Chantey & Tavern Sing)
• Sunday, February 20: NEFFA Live Online TBA
• Thursday, February 24: Concert TBA
Join the mailing list at http://mailinglist.mermaidstavern.com
2. DIRECTORY.
Most international readers are active as performers, club organisers, etc.
Our UK pages have directory listings - so we thought we would add this to our International pages.
We'd love to list you. You could just send brief details - minimum of name & website.
Pf.1e. Shanty: John Paul Jones www.shanty.com
or up to 200 words. A picture / logo is welcome.
Click on the new DIRECTORY INDEX box on the webpage
for around 50 categories, coming under these main headings:
• Venues • Folk Performers (Music & Song; Dance; Spoken Word Poetry, Story) • Folk Media • Folk Services (shops) • Workshop Providers & Workshop Series •
• Festivals & Workshops Diary • Folklife Societies (Associations, Organisations) • Folklife Studies (researchers) & Institutions • Seasonal Local Celebrations •
We have taken existing information and made it Directory style.
Each section has a summary followed by details. Currently this is:
1. Venues (just zoom thus far, live welcome).
2. Performers: Pf.1a. Music/Song Solo; Pf.1e. Shanty.
3. Media. M.1 Online magazines & listings.
What we have so far is but a few of our international readers, so please do tell us about your folk club (real and/or zoom), your shanty group, your researchers, ... or other folk interests. Looking forward to hearing from you!
Updates which will go in the next Folklife Newsletter
Below you will see our usual area webpages' headings, awaiting your news & listings! Folklife Traditions pages open to all. www.folklife-traditions.uk
Directory of Members including festivals & workshops. Detailed listings from Members only. www.folklife-directory.uk Folk News pages on this site Members-only, except that we'll try to fit in news from other enthusiasts outside our usual area who have signed up for our mailing list and have sent news/information. |
Folklife Traditions pages on the FT pages website folklife-traditions.uk
researched articles; folklife organisations; researchers, etc; publications news
PUBLICATION ANNOUNCED -------------
FOLKLIFE NEWS & ORGANISATIONS
From Barbara Brown: Books and recordings for sale
Hello all,
We have a large number of books (many of them folk song, music, dance, drama, custom and lore, but also other arts and music books, as well as history, social history, biographies, religion, fiction and a lot more) and quite a few recordings of various kinds, including vinyl, which we need to get rid of. If you think you might be interested, I would be happy to send the list of books and/or the list of recordings for you to look over.
Please e-mail me if you would like either or both lists, and do pass this on to anyone else you think might be interested.
Thank you.
Best wishes,
Barbara
Tom & Barbara Brown, 4 Trafalgar Arcade, Castle Street, Combe Martin, N. Devon EX34 0JD 01271 882366/07977 914736
tomandbarbara.brown <at> btinternet.com [06/11/2020 ]
Just a reminder that during lockdown . . .
Ø The Traditional Song Forum has organised successful talks on Zoom, more are planned. These talks are very popular, now attracting international visitors, currently limited to 100 places; so if interested, see tradsong.org sooner rather than later. This website is a gateway to a number of useful resources for those interested in researching or performing traditional folk songs. There is a newsletter to sign up to.
Ø trac, music traditions Wales, Wales folk development organisation, has a website full of resources, https://trac.wales; a mailing list to sign up to; and is on Facebook, at facebook.com/traccymruwales, where you will find videos, details of online gigs, etc.
researched articles; folklife organisations; researchers, etc; publications news
PUBLICATION ANNOUNCED -------------
FOLKLIFE NEWS & ORGANISATIONS
From Barbara Brown: Books and recordings for sale
Hello all,
We have a large number of books (many of them folk song, music, dance, drama, custom and lore, but also other arts and music books, as well as history, social history, biographies, religion, fiction and a lot more) and quite a few recordings of various kinds, including vinyl, which we need to get rid of. If you think you might be interested, I would be happy to send the list of books and/or the list of recordings for you to look over.
Please e-mail me if you would like either or both lists, and do pass this on to anyone else you think might be interested.
Thank you.
Best wishes,
Barbara
Tom & Barbara Brown, 4 Trafalgar Arcade, Castle Street, Combe Martin, N. Devon EX34 0JD 01271 882366/07977 914736
tomandbarbara.brown <at> btinternet.com [06/11/2020 ]
Just a reminder that during lockdown . . .
Ø The Traditional Song Forum has organised successful talks on Zoom, more are planned. These talks are very popular, now attracting international visitors, currently limited to 100 places; so if interested, see tradsong.org sooner rather than later. This website is a gateway to a number of useful resources for those interested in researching or performing traditional folk songs. There is a newsletter to sign up to.
Ø trac, music traditions Wales, Wales folk development organisation, has a website full of resources, https://trac.wales; a mailing list to sign up to; and is on Facebook, at facebook.com/traccymruwales, where you will find videos, details of online gigs, etc.
Folklife Traditions pages on the FT pages website folklife-traditions.uk
researched articles; folklife organisations; researchers, etc; publications news
PUBLICATION ANNOUNCED
Ø Gwilym Davies writes:
Dear all,
I am pleased to announce that my book "Catch it, Bottle it and Paint it Green" aka Tales of a Folk Song Collector, will be published on 24th September, To order a copy now, go to https://pegasuspublishers.com/books/coming-soon/catch-it_-bottle-it-and-paint-it-green
The advertising blurb reads "Gwilym Davies has spent a lifetime enthusiastically recording folk songs and tunes, mainly from southern England and the USA. He follows in the footsteps of well known folk song collectors such as Cecil Sharp and Ralph Vaughan Williams. This book describes hidden musical gems, drinking songs, children's ditties, ballads, wassails and bawdy tales, along with colourful characters he met along the way. Through this book Gwilym shares his passion for our folk heritage and traditional songs. "
The book mainly deals with Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Devon and the USA but touches on other areas. There's a chapter on Gypsy songs and one on children's songs. It's not an academic book but more of a ramble through my brain.
Musical Traditions will be putting out a companion CD of the same name containing the field recordings of some of the songs mentioned in the book "Catch it ..etc" To reserve your copy, contact Mustrad https://www.mustrad.org.uk/.
Be good and stay safe,
Gwilym
researched articles; folklife organisations; researchers, etc; publications news
PUBLICATION ANNOUNCED
Ø Gwilym Davies writes:
Dear all,
I am pleased to announce that my book "Catch it, Bottle it and Paint it Green" aka Tales of a Folk Song Collector, will be published on 24th September, To order a copy now, go to https://pegasuspublishers.com/books/coming-soon/catch-it_-bottle-it-and-paint-it-green
The advertising blurb reads "Gwilym Davies has spent a lifetime enthusiastically recording folk songs and tunes, mainly from southern England and the USA. He follows in the footsteps of well known folk song collectors such as Cecil Sharp and Ralph Vaughan Williams. This book describes hidden musical gems, drinking songs, children's ditties, ballads, wassails and bawdy tales, along with colourful characters he met along the way. Through this book Gwilym shares his passion for our folk heritage and traditional songs. "
The book mainly deals with Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Devon and the USA but touches on other areas. There's a chapter on Gypsy songs and one on children's songs. It's not an academic book but more of a ramble through my brain.
Musical Traditions will be putting out a companion CD of the same name containing the field recordings of some of the songs mentioned in the book "Catch it ..etc" To reserve your copy, contact Mustrad https://www.mustrad.org.uk/.
Be good and stay safe,
Gwilym
RESEARCHED ARTICLES on our Folklife Traditions pages, folklife-traditions.uk,
researched articles, folklife organisations, researchers, publications news
These 4 researched articles, copied to our Folklife Traditions site, on the FT "this issue" page: www.folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html
* Edi beo þu heuene quene: a love song by any name by Ian Pittaway
* #FutureOfFolk: Lynn Noel of Digital Heritage Consulting Looks Ahead --- also on this site, Future of Folk webpage
* ‘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
Just a reminder that during lockdown . . .
Ø The Traditional Song Forum has organised successful talks on Zoom, more are planned.These talks are very popular, now attracting international visitors, currently limited to 100 places; so if interested, see tradsong.org sooner rather than later. This website is a gateway to a number of useful resources for those interested in researching or performing traditional folk songs. There is a newsletter to sign up to.
Ø trac, music traditions Wales, Wales folk development organisation, has a website full of resources, https://trac.wales, and is on Facebook, at facebook.com/traccymruwales, where you will find videos, details of online gigs, etc.
researched articles, folklife organisations, researchers, publications news
These 4 researched articles, copied to our Folklife Traditions site, on the FT "this issue" page: www.folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html
* Edi beo þu heuene quene: a love song by any name by Ian Pittaway
* #FutureOfFolk: Lynn Noel of Digital Heritage Consulting Looks Ahead --- also on this site, Future of Folk webpage
* ‘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
Just a reminder that during lockdown . . .
Ø The Traditional Song Forum has organised successful talks on Zoom, more are planned.These talks are very popular, now attracting international visitors, currently limited to 100 places; so if interested, see tradsong.org sooner rather than later. This website is a gateway to a number of useful resources for those interested in researching or performing traditional folk songs. There is a newsletter to sign up to.
Ø trac, music traditions Wales, Wales folk development organisation, has a website full of resources, https://trac.wales, and is on Facebook, at facebook.com/traccymruwales, where you will find videos, details of online gigs, etc.
Not copied to a newsletter. Dec 2021.
NEXT ISSUE
This website from Jan 2022: more webpages.
New webpage Kernow/Cornwall, currently included under West Country.
Glos/Oxon to become Glos. Oxon to become part of new South-East page.
West Midlands page to become Midlands, with East Midlands entries form Other UK page.
Other UK page to be split up thus:
East-Midlands: to join West Midlands as Midlands.
South-East & London: to become a new South-East page, to include Oxon.
NE, NW, Yorks, Scotland to become UK North
LATEST UPDATES since last Newsletter.
As usual, no more Updates after print deadline (19 Nov) as busy preparing next FW, out 1 Jan
WALES --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 Cymru/Wales
🄵 RUTH & KEN POWELL, Llanwddyn, Montgomeryshire, Powys.
Superb mix of folk and acoustic music, with Ruth on vocals and Ken on guitar and banjo, combining songs from the 30’s, to the traditional folk song and English/American contemporary music, giving concerts that appeal to almost every audience.
Gig Dates! Thank goodness! There’s only a few but it’s a start and we have a new CD coming out in early 2022 too!
The title is‘Simple Living’and we suspect that resonates for many people at the moment. We’re very pleased with how its turned out and can't wait to share it with everyone. We’d be very happy to hear from anyone who would like to pre-book a copy. Just email us and we’ll send you the payment details.
Concert dates so far:
9th December 2021: Lymm Folk Club, Lymm, Cheshire. http://www.lymmfolkclub.org.uk/
4th February 2022: The Bradford Arms Folk Club, The Bradford Arms, Ivetsey Bank, Staffs. https://www.bradfordarmsfolkclub.co.uk/
19th-21stAugust: Moira Furnace Folk Festival, Moira Furnace, Furnace Lane, Moira, Swadlincote, Leicestershire DE12 6AT https://moirafurnacefolkfestival.co.uk/lineup.html Tel: 07401 951694
Thanks very much every one, take care and hope to see you soon. Ruth and Ken
Ruth and Ken Powell , info<at>ruthandkenpowell.co.uk www.ruthandkenpowell.co.uk
WEST MIDLANDS --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 W. Mids
Staffs
🄵 PAUL WALKER & KAREN PFEIFFER. NEW MEMBERS -- details to follow -- advert for next issue below (not archived)
Karen Pfeiffer karen<at.paulwalkermusic.co.uk or mobile: 07772 006427
www.paulwalkermusic.co.uk
www.youtube.com/PaulWalkerKarenPfeiffer
www.facebook.com/paulwalkerandkarenpfeiffer
www.instagram.com/walkerpfeiffermusic
Staffs - correction
🄰 VICTORIA BERRINGER (as last Newsletter) is based in Staffs not Cheshire
Webpage ⎈ Zoom list www.folklife.uk/zoom.html
TUESDAY - new entry
Victorian Folk Music Club, Melbourne, Australia
Zoom session, hybrid with live event (tunes and songs, with an emphasis on Australian repertoire, but not exclusive)
Every Tuesday, 7.30-9.15pm Australian Eastern Summer Time (11 hours ahead of UK until 3 April 2022)
Concert (hybrid) every 2nd Tuesday
Website: www.vfmc.org.au
Contact: www.vfmc.org.au
FRIDAY - new times
Other UK - South East & London
🄰 Kent - DEAL FOLK CLUB, weekly, Friday. Opens 7.15pm for Singing 7.30pm to 10pm. Deal Folk Club is now meeting online on Friday evenings for a singaround. For details of Zoom and latest news, please see our website, www.dealfolkclub.org.uk
NEXT ISSUE
This website from Jan 2022: more webpages.
New webpage Kernow/Cornwall, currently included under West Country.
Glos/Oxon to become Glos. Oxon to become part of new South-East page.
West Midlands page to become Midlands, with East Midlands entries form Other UK page.
Other UK page to be split up thus:
East-Midlands: to join West Midlands as Midlands.
South-East & London: to become a new South-East page, to include Oxon.
NE, NW, Yorks, Scotland to become UK North
LATEST UPDATES since last Newsletter.
As usual, no more Updates after print deadline (19 Nov) as busy preparing next FW, out 1 Jan
WALES --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 Cymru/Wales
🄵 RUTH & KEN POWELL, Llanwddyn, Montgomeryshire, Powys.
Superb mix of folk and acoustic music, with Ruth on vocals and Ken on guitar and banjo, combining songs from the 30’s, to the traditional folk song and English/American contemporary music, giving concerts that appeal to almost every audience.
Gig Dates! Thank goodness! There’s only a few but it’s a start and we have a new CD coming out in early 2022 too!
The title is‘Simple Living’and we suspect that resonates for many people at the moment. We’re very pleased with how its turned out and can't wait to share it with everyone. We’d be very happy to hear from anyone who would like to pre-book a copy. Just email us and we’ll send you the payment details.
Concert dates so far:
9th December 2021: Lymm Folk Club, Lymm, Cheshire. http://www.lymmfolkclub.org.uk/
4th February 2022: The Bradford Arms Folk Club, The Bradford Arms, Ivetsey Bank, Staffs. https://www.bradfordarmsfolkclub.co.uk/
19th-21stAugust: Moira Furnace Folk Festival, Moira Furnace, Furnace Lane, Moira, Swadlincote, Leicestershire DE12 6AT https://moirafurnacefolkfestival.co.uk/lineup.html Tel: 07401 951694
Thanks very much every one, take care and hope to see you soon. Ruth and Ken
Ruth and Ken Powell , info<at>ruthandkenpowell.co.uk www.ruthandkenpowell.co.uk
WEST MIDLANDS --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 W. Mids
Staffs
🄵 PAUL WALKER & KAREN PFEIFFER. NEW MEMBERS -- details to follow -- advert for next issue below (not archived)
Karen Pfeiffer karen<at.paulwalkermusic.co.uk or mobile: 07772 006427
www.paulwalkermusic.co.uk
www.youtube.com/PaulWalkerKarenPfeiffer
www.facebook.com/paulwalkerandkarenpfeiffer
www.instagram.com/walkerpfeiffermusic
Staffs - correction
🄰 VICTORIA BERRINGER (as last Newsletter) is based in Staffs not Cheshire
Webpage ⎈ Zoom list www.folklife.uk/zoom.html
TUESDAY - new entry
Victorian Folk Music Club, Melbourne, Australia
Zoom session, hybrid with live event (tunes and songs, with an emphasis on Australian repertoire, but not exclusive)
Every Tuesday, 7.30-9.15pm Australian Eastern Summer Time (11 hours ahead of UK until 3 April 2022)
Concert (hybrid) every 2nd Tuesday
Website: www.vfmc.org.au
Contact: www.vfmc.org.au
FRIDAY - new times
Other UK - South East & London
🄰 Kent - DEAL FOLK CLUB, weekly, Friday. Opens 7.15pm for Singing 7.30pm to 10pm. Deal Folk Club is now meeting online on Friday evenings for a singaround. For details of Zoom and latest news, please see our website, www.dealfolkclub.org.uk
🄵🅃🄹 Folklife Traditions Journal, www.folklife-traditions.uk
Researched articles + archive, news, on a separate website. Folk studies and cultural traditions.
Current FTJ issue copied online: www.folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html, read, or download PDF.
January issue will include: The Poor Ballad Sellers and Singers, by Roy and Lesley Adkins; Morys Morgannwg /The Glamorgan Morris, tune & notes, by Helen Adam; Using Zoom for a Folk Club, by Mark Dowding.
Folklife Traditions Journal - updates since Sept Journal
Traditional Song Forum https://tradsong.org/ Zoom meetings Diary
28 November – TSF Online meeting 34
12 December – TSF Online meeting 35 (Christmas Special)
2 January 2022 – TSF Online meeting 36 (and a new year begins!)
PUBLICATIONS ANNOUNCED (note for print in Journal, up to 200 words welcome).
Roy and Lesley Adkins
When There Were Birds: The forgotten history of our connections
published on 11th November 2021. Hardback, Little, Brown (ISBN 9781408713570), initially in Britain, alsoavailable as an e-book.
It is 488 pages long, with black-and-white plates, and a gorgeous jacket design that illustrates some of the topics in the book, from pen quills to cage-birds, hunting and shooting, cockfighting, weathercocks and feathers used in millinery.“a marvellously original slice of social history” (Daily Mail) “a real revelation … I really recommend this book” (Guy de la Bédoyère)
Birds are a joy and solace in troubled times, as well as a reminder of past experiences and a symbol of hope for the future. For centuries, they were also seen as a source of food, feathers and even fuel, and being so numerous, many were persecuted as pests. When There Were Birds is a social history of Britain that charts the complex connections between people and birds, set against a background of changes in the landscape and evolving tastes, beliefs and behaviour. Birds were once key elements of the nation’s history, traditions and sports, and this gave rise to a rich legacy of literature, language and myths.
No other group of animals has had such a complex and lengthy relationship with humankind. Birds have been kept in cages as pets, taught to speak and displayed as trophies. More practically, they have been used to tell the time, predict the weather, foretell marriages, provide unlikely cures for ailments, convey messages and warn of poisonous gases.
Although very familiar, birds have often seemed strange, sinister and alarming. With their ability to fly, they bridged the gap between the earth and the heavens, and superstitions were rife because they were presumed to be linked to the supernatural. When There Were Birds draws together many disparate, forgotten strands to present a story that is an intriguing and unexpectedly significant part of our heritage.
∞ Roy and Lesley have also produced another fascinating occasional newsletter: www.adkinshistory.com/newsletters/newsletter-62
Dick Holdstock
Again With One Voice: British Songs of Political Reform, 1768-1868.
Paperback, 414 pages, Loomis House Press. ISBN 978-1-935243-80-9. £22.58
1768 saw the birth of a century of struggle for democracy by the working people of Great Britain; it was also the golden age of the broadside ballad — inexpensive songsheets sold on the street, often spotlighting popular figures and spreading the word of reform efforts. This collection traces the history of this tumultuous period with 120 songs from historical sources, all with appropriate tunes, extensive commentary, and rich illustrations from contemporary publications. Here are songs about Wilkes and Liberty, the United Irish, the anti-slavery movement, Luddites, Captain Swing, the Naval Mutiny, antiwar movements, the Tolpuddle Martyrs, and the Chartist movement; songs that bring to life important figures like John Wilkes, Major Cartwright, Thomas Paine, Thomas Muir, Wolfe Tone, Henry Hunt, William Cobbett, Feargus O’Connor, and William Gladstone.
Featuring a mix of original, sympathetic, and surprising musical settings, this is a supremely singable collection, and should enlighten and enliven our discussions and our singing in equal measure. —Oskar Cox Jensen, Historian and Author, University of East Anglia
The songs have an energy and commitment fueled by anger, despair, humour and wit — what better way of meeting the ancestors who fought and improved our lives. —Frankie Armstrong, Godmother of the Natural Voice Singing Movement
This work is essential for any institutional or personal library dealing with the history of Britain and the struggle of the working class in general. —Joe Hickerson, Head Emeritus, Library of Congress Folklife Center
For more details and to order, see https://loomishousepress.com/again-with-one-voice.html
Webpage 🄵🅆 Festivals, workshops www.folklife.uk/festivals.html
2022 Jul tba MITCHELDEAN FESTIVAL www.mitcheldeanfestival.fod.uk
DATE NOW ANNOUNCED Mitcheldean Festival will be 15-17 July 2022, more details anon - Andy
2022 Jul tba MITCHELDEAN FESTIVAL www.mitcheldeanfestival.fod.uk
DATE NOW ANNOUNCED Mitcheldean Festival will be 15-17 July 2022, more details anon - Andy
Webpage 🄵🅆 UK News, Directories www.folklife.uk/news.html
The FOLK NEWS area webpages, which include area directories for Folklife members.
The FOLK NEWS area webpages, which include area directories for Folklife members.
CYMRU/ WALES --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 Wales
🄵 LLANTRISANT FOLK CLUB see http://folk.wales/updates/folk-club-wots-occurring/
The Welsh Government is warning that as from November 15, 2021, music venues of all sizes will need to see Covid Passports for all audience members, staff and musicians. - Mick Tems.
THE MUSIC DIARY…
• monthly Zoomarounds 1st Tuesdays at 8.15pm, with music starting at 8.30pm: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89787380016 Meeting ID: 897 8738 0016 – no password
Live events, at Pontyclun Institute Athletic Club, Castan Road, Pontyclun, CF72 9EH and start at 8.30pm.
• November 17, 2021: Daoirí Farrell (Ireland)
• December 1, 2021: Quicksilver
• December 15, 2021: Christmas Party No. 1 with Chiefly Yourselves
◦ Christmas carols, seasonal songs, poems, stories and tunes, bring-your-own-buffet, jollity and Pattie’s Gigantic Bumper Raffle – Nadolig Llawen!
• December 22, 2021: Christmas Party No. 2 – Jackie Oates & John Spiers
Other nights Song and Music Nights take place . Mick Tems
WEST COUNTRY --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 West Country
Cornwall
🄵 ROB BARRATT comic poet Gigs
November 3rd Philleigh Folk Club, Philleigh-in- Roseland, near Truro, Cornwall.
2022
January 13th – Lyceum Folk Club, Newport, South Wales, NP20 5PJ
February 3rd – The Acorn Theatre, Penzance, also featuring Robert Garnham in The Two Robbies Show.
Rob Barratt , 01566 880336, rbarratt@cooptel.net For more information, see: www.robbarratt.co.uk
🄵 FOLK @ LAMORNA’S - NEW MEMBER
With regard to the Newsletter and zoom directory, the Miner Quay Zoom sessions (Tuesday) have finished. However, I now run "Folk @ Lamorna’s” on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays of the month. Everyone is most welcome - performers and listeners. We have a spotlight session on 25th November with Pat & Ned Clamp. We have a facebook page which gives the zoom links for the evening, but I also have a mailing list if people want to join.
People may also be interested in ‘CORNISH STORY LIVE’ which is a monthly zoom story telling session about Cornish Culture and History - first Saturday of the month. Recordings of past events can be found at http://cornishstory.com/eventbrite_category/cslive/
If anyone is interested in joining the mailing list for the Cornish Story events they can email me at lamorna<at>me.com
All the best
Lamorna Spry
🄵 BODMIN FOLK CLUB will reopen on Friday 26th November at 8pm in St Petroc’s Parish Rooms [opposite St Petroc’s Church] with an Open House evening. This will be a chance to come together and sing as only we at Bodmin know how!!!!
We’ll be operating under Covid Safety Measures to help keep us safe.
3rd December is Jim Causley’s Christmas Show. Come along and get the Christmas season off to a fabulous start. Tickets are here.
Looking forward to seeing everyone there .. put the word out..
Somerset & Dorset
Our grateful thanks to Correspondent John Waltham who has relinquished his role as Dorset/S Som correspondent.
A volunteer would be most welcome to cover folk in all or part of Somerset & Dorset, to send in 350 to 700 words every 4 months.
GLOS & OXON --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 Glos-Oxon
Glos
🄵 2nd Thu Glos MITCHELDEAN MITCHELDEAN FOLK CLUB www.scarfproductions.co.uk Andy Scarf 07772 053778
We're back in the White Horse on the second Thursdays, but probably pausing the 4th on Zoom for the time being.
Mitcheldean Festival will be 15-17 July 2022, more details anon - Cheers! Andy
WEST MIDLANDS --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 W. Mids
West Midlands
🄰 Staffs PAUL WALKER & KAREN PFEIFFER. Join us once a month on a Friday at 4pm UK time for our "Afternoon Tea SPECIAL with Paul & Karen"! streaming live from our living room in Staffordshire to our Facebook page & our YouTube Channel Get yourself a cup of tea & a scone & join in the music & fun! Next live streams will be Nov 19, Dec 24, Jan 21. (change from weekly to monthly, Nov 2021)
Staffs - new
🄰 VICTORIA BERRINGER
... is a Caller as well as an organiser and Folk Singer.
I have a Facebook page for Calling Dancing and Calling as www.facebook.com/Ceilidh-Dancing-Calling-148536822189704 - nothing organised at the moment, but watch this space!
I am running a Folk Zoom with Maggie Huyton and Mark Dowding on Friday 19th November 21 - see Zoom list webpage, for Moorlands Folk, under Fridays, for details.
Victoria Berringer
www.facebook.com/Ceilidh-Dancing-Calling-148536822189704
HEREFS & WORCS --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 Herefs-Worcs
Herefs
🄵 HOMEND POETS & MUSICIANS, Ledbury, last Tuesdays, restarted at the end of September, but venue has just closed permanently.
Looking for a new home.
Meanwhile the following has been arranged, at the usual times of 6.30pm to 8pm
https://www.folklife.uk/homend-poets.html [1/11/2021]
Herefs
🄵 ADDED TO DIRECTORY: 2. PERFORMERS --------- Pf.1d Choirs & Quires: Folk & Community Choirs & Bands
Herefs HEREFORD COMMUNITY CHOIR www.herefordcommunitychoir.uk Tom Hughes
⇒ Contact tomhughesmusic<at>outlook.com or message us via FB See also: https://www.facebook.com/herefordcommunitychoir
→ Hampton Bishop Village Hall, Hereford HR1 4JY. 7:30pm-9pm 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month.
⊕ We provide an opportunity for people to gather and sing in an informal and friendly environment. “Very uplifting sessions”. New members welcome! (11/2021)
Herefs
🄵 HEREFORD FOLK ENSEMBLE www.herefordfolkensemble.uk Tom Hughes
⇒ Contact: tomhughesmusic<at>outlook.com, or message us via FB See also: https://www.facebook.com/herefordfolkensemble
→ Hampton Bishop Village Hall, Hereford HR1 4JY. 7:30pm-9pm 2nd and 4th Friday of each month.
⊕ Hereford Folk Ensemble is a community music group creating a positive environment and an opportunity for people to gather and perform instrumental folk & traditional music. A great way to end the week and start the weekend! New members welcome! (11/2021
Herefs
🄵 HEREFORD FOLK ENSEMBLE
Hereford Folk Ensemble is a new community music group and creates an opportunity for people to gather and learn/perform instrumental folk & traditional music. If you play an instrument and would like to join us for an enjoyable music making experience, please complete the online registration form. Further information can be found at www.herefordfolkensemble.uk.
Hereford Folk Ensemble is open to folk and orchestral instruments. Once you have signed up, we will keep you updated regarding our rehearsals/meetings. A formal welcome email will be sent nearer the start date along with login to access the tune bank (sheet music and recordings of rehearsal tracks).
Meetings will take place on the 2nd & 4th Friday of each month, 7:30pm-9pm at Hampton Bishop Village Hall, Hereford HR1 4JY. A great way to end the week and start the weekend! First meeting is scheduled for Friday 14th January 2022. New members welcome!
Herefs
🄵 THE BLACK SWAN, Weekly Thu Herefs, MUCH DEWCHURCH [no pub or session website] Bob Chance 01981 540725
The Black Swan session has reopened. As before, it takes place on every Thursday evening from between 8.30 and 9.00pm and continues until around 11.00pm. We always welcome new faces (and old ones of course!)
Best wishes, Rob Gould
Herefs
🄵 FOLK AT THE FALCON Falcon Hotel, High St, Bromyard HR7 4BT.
Friday 10th December Magpie Lane’s Christmas Concert (unplugged event without PA or mics)
Traditional English music and song. They combine powerful vocals with vigorous dance tunes. – inventive arrangements on acoustic instruments. They are regular guests at some of the top folk festivals in this country and have recorded eight critically acclaimed CDs.
They attracted one of the largest audiences we had at Folk In The Foyer, a couple of years back.
Tonight, they will be performing songs for the festive season. Their Christmas show has been described as "a magnificent collection of markedly less familiar material to the norm" and “a fine seasonal offering and fitting tribute to the skill and craftsmanship of one of the country’s most enduring folk ensembles.”
"Magpie lane release consistently good albums of English songs and music". Mike Harding
Support: OneAchord – fantastic local 5 piece [see below]
Tickets £10 from the Falcon Hotel, or from Roger Pugh at pugh@live.co.uk, 01885 483425, 07779 694615 .
For our ongoing concert programme see www.folkatthefalcon.com / www.facebook.com/folkatthefalcon
Herefs
🄵 OneAchord played to a sell-out audience at Cradley Village Hall last Saturday, supported by another Cradley band, Shepherd’s Purse with their lovely close harmonies. One comment afterwards 'The talent, cheerfulness and sheer exuberance of the group was a joy’ Videos can be seen on our website: www.oneachord.co.uk
Our next gig will be to support Magpie Lane at the Folk In the Falcon on Friday 10th December where we will be singing some lively Christmas folk songs. It should be a good night.
OTHER UK AREAS --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 Other UK
England North-West
Lancs - new listing
🄰 THE ROOM AT THE TOP FOLK CLUB, The Red Lion, Ash Brow, Newburgh, Lancs, WN8 7NF.
Mondays, weekly (except 1st Mon: Zoom), 8-15pm - 11.00pm
The club runs from 8:15 with 2 songs per performer with a break around 9:20. Depending on the number of performers there is usually time for another round with one song each. At 10:20 we hold the raffle and say goodnight to people who wish to go early. At 10:20 we hold the raffle and say goodnight to people who wish to go early.
From 10:30pm we sup up, put the room straight and go home!’
All nights are Singers Nights and we welcome singers, poets and readers to have a go at any time.
All styles of acoustic music are encouraged.
Admission is £1 for everybody which includes a raffle ticket for a bottle of wine.
For more information please contact Mark or Maggi on 01257 464215, and see http://www.markdowding.co.uk/room_at_the_top.htm
*** And ZOOM AT THE TOP is on 1st Monday of the month, 8.15 for 8.30 start. We’re on Facebook or e.mail me for the link, maggihuyton<at>yahoo.com. Meeting ID 174 901 873
England North-West
Lancs - new listing
🄰 MARK DOWDING,
Mark’s roots are in Lancashire and he sings many songs from the area, including those reintroduced by Harry Boardman who encouraged him to ‘keep singing the songs’, when he was a resident at Harry’s club in the 1980s. Mark’s wider repertoire is varied and enhanced by songs from many genres, including those written in traditional style by people such as Peter Bond, Bernie Parry, Keith Marsden and others, and songs from the Music Hall and Variety eras of the early 20th Century.
Mark’s accomplished singing and musicianship, alongside his knowledge of the history of the songs he sings, has earned him an excellent reputation at folk clubs and other events. His mellow voice has been likened to a ‘chocolate box’!
Mark’s CDs include “Dreams of the Past”, "Brown Photographs”, "Travelling Tales”, “The Well Worn Path”, and, with Chris Harvey, (Cock Robin Music), “A Mon Like Harry”, a Harry Boardman tribute, and “Manchester Ballads” based on the book edited by Harry Boardman and Roy Palmer'.
Mark has done session work and has appeared on BBC and Local Radio Folk Programmes as guest and stand-in presenter. TV work includes “The Real Mill with Tony Robinson”, “Britain’s Most Extreme Weather” and “Gardeners’ World”.
Contact: Mark Dowding, mark<at>markdowding.co.uk, 01257 464215, www.markdowding.co.uk
England North-West
Cumbria
From Victoria Berringer: Sat 27 Nov, 7.30pm-11.15pm (doors open 7.15pm). Christmas Celebration Ceilidh, Kendal Town Hall.
Tumbling Tom Big Band and callers Fiona Rigg & Les Ord, entertainment from Crook Morris & Kendal Revellers.
£10 (under 18 £7; 5 and under free). Tickets from Martyn Harvey on 01539720551 or email blackhat.martyn<at>gmail.com Bar with beer, wine, cider and soft drinks. Please complete a lateral flow test before arrival and if you have a positive result or any symptoms of Covid-19 please do not attend.
🄵 LLANTRISANT FOLK CLUB see http://folk.wales/updates/folk-club-wots-occurring/
The Welsh Government is warning that as from November 15, 2021, music venues of all sizes will need to see Covid Passports for all audience members, staff and musicians. - Mick Tems.
THE MUSIC DIARY…
• monthly Zoomarounds 1st Tuesdays at 8.15pm, with music starting at 8.30pm: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89787380016 Meeting ID: 897 8738 0016 – no password
Live events, at Pontyclun Institute Athletic Club, Castan Road, Pontyclun, CF72 9EH and start at 8.30pm.
• November 17, 2021: Daoirí Farrell (Ireland)
• December 1, 2021: Quicksilver
• December 15, 2021: Christmas Party No. 1 with Chiefly Yourselves
◦ Christmas carols, seasonal songs, poems, stories and tunes, bring-your-own-buffet, jollity and Pattie’s Gigantic Bumper Raffle – Nadolig Llawen!
• December 22, 2021: Christmas Party No. 2 – Jackie Oates & John Spiers
Other nights Song and Music Nights take place . Mick Tems
WEST COUNTRY --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 West Country
Cornwall
🄵 ROB BARRATT comic poet Gigs
November 3rd Philleigh Folk Club, Philleigh-in- Roseland, near Truro, Cornwall.
2022
January 13th – Lyceum Folk Club, Newport, South Wales, NP20 5PJ
February 3rd – The Acorn Theatre, Penzance, also featuring Robert Garnham in The Two Robbies Show.
Rob Barratt , 01566 880336, rbarratt@cooptel.net For more information, see: www.robbarratt.co.uk
🄵 FOLK @ LAMORNA’S - NEW MEMBER
With regard to the Newsletter and zoom directory, the Miner Quay Zoom sessions (Tuesday) have finished. However, I now run "Folk @ Lamorna’s” on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays of the month. Everyone is most welcome - performers and listeners. We have a spotlight session on 25th November with Pat & Ned Clamp. We have a facebook page which gives the zoom links for the evening, but I also have a mailing list if people want to join.
People may also be interested in ‘CORNISH STORY LIVE’ which is a monthly zoom story telling session about Cornish Culture and History - first Saturday of the month. Recordings of past events can be found at http://cornishstory.com/eventbrite_category/cslive/
If anyone is interested in joining the mailing list for the Cornish Story events they can email me at lamorna<at>me.com
All the best
Lamorna Spry
🄵 BODMIN FOLK CLUB will reopen on Friday 26th November at 8pm in St Petroc’s Parish Rooms [opposite St Petroc’s Church] with an Open House evening. This will be a chance to come together and sing as only we at Bodmin know how!!!!
We’ll be operating under Covid Safety Measures to help keep us safe.
3rd December is Jim Causley’s Christmas Show. Come along and get the Christmas season off to a fabulous start. Tickets are here.
Looking forward to seeing everyone there .. put the word out..
Somerset & Dorset
Our grateful thanks to Correspondent John Waltham who has relinquished his role as Dorset/S Som correspondent.
A volunteer would be most welcome to cover folk in all or part of Somerset & Dorset, to send in 350 to 700 words every 4 months.
GLOS & OXON --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 Glos-Oxon
Glos
🄵 2nd Thu Glos MITCHELDEAN MITCHELDEAN FOLK CLUB www.scarfproductions.co.uk Andy Scarf 07772 053778
We're back in the White Horse on the second Thursdays, but probably pausing the 4th on Zoom for the time being.
Mitcheldean Festival will be 15-17 July 2022, more details anon - Cheers! Andy
WEST MIDLANDS --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 W. Mids
West Midlands
🄰 Staffs PAUL WALKER & KAREN PFEIFFER. Join us once a month on a Friday at 4pm UK time for our "Afternoon Tea SPECIAL with Paul & Karen"! streaming live from our living room in Staffordshire to our Facebook page & our YouTube Channel Get yourself a cup of tea & a scone & join in the music & fun! Next live streams will be Nov 19, Dec 24, Jan 21. (change from weekly to monthly, Nov 2021)
Staffs - new
🄰 VICTORIA BERRINGER
... is a Caller as well as an organiser and Folk Singer.
I have a Facebook page for Calling Dancing and Calling as www.facebook.com/Ceilidh-Dancing-Calling-148536822189704 - nothing organised at the moment, but watch this space!
I am running a Folk Zoom with Maggie Huyton and Mark Dowding on Friday 19th November 21 - see Zoom list webpage, for Moorlands Folk, under Fridays, for details.
Victoria Berringer
www.facebook.com/Ceilidh-Dancing-Calling-148536822189704
HEREFS & WORCS --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 Herefs-Worcs
Herefs
🄵 HOMEND POETS & MUSICIANS, Ledbury, last Tuesdays, restarted at the end of September, but venue has just closed permanently.
Looking for a new home.
Meanwhile the following has been arranged, at the usual times of 6.30pm to 8pm
- Tuesday 30 Nov (the usual last Tuesday of the month), Pot & Page cafe (01531 248743), 8 New St, Ledbury HR8 2DX
https://www.folklife.uk/homend-poets.html [1/11/2021]
Herefs
🄵 ADDED TO DIRECTORY: 2. PERFORMERS --------- Pf.1d Choirs & Quires: Folk & Community Choirs & Bands
Herefs HEREFORD COMMUNITY CHOIR www.herefordcommunitychoir.uk Tom Hughes
⇒ Contact tomhughesmusic<at>outlook.com or message us via FB See also: https://www.facebook.com/herefordcommunitychoir
→ Hampton Bishop Village Hall, Hereford HR1 4JY. 7:30pm-9pm 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month.
⊕ We provide an opportunity for people to gather and sing in an informal and friendly environment. “Very uplifting sessions”. New members welcome! (11/2021)
Herefs
🄵 HEREFORD FOLK ENSEMBLE www.herefordfolkensemble.uk Tom Hughes
⇒ Contact: tomhughesmusic<at>outlook.com, or message us via FB See also: https://www.facebook.com/herefordfolkensemble
→ Hampton Bishop Village Hall, Hereford HR1 4JY. 7:30pm-9pm 2nd and 4th Friday of each month.
⊕ Hereford Folk Ensemble is a community music group creating a positive environment and an opportunity for people to gather and perform instrumental folk & traditional music. A great way to end the week and start the weekend! New members welcome! (11/2021
Herefs
🄵 HEREFORD FOLK ENSEMBLE
Hereford Folk Ensemble is a new community music group and creates an opportunity for people to gather and learn/perform instrumental folk & traditional music. If you play an instrument and would like to join us for an enjoyable music making experience, please complete the online registration form. Further information can be found at www.herefordfolkensemble.uk.
Hereford Folk Ensemble is open to folk and orchestral instruments. Once you have signed up, we will keep you updated regarding our rehearsals/meetings. A formal welcome email will be sent nearer the start date along with login to access the tune bank (sheet music and recordings of rehearsal tracks).
Meetings will take place on the 2nd & 4th Friday of each month, 7:30pm-9pm at Hampton Bishop Village Hall, Hereford HR1 4JY. A great way to end the week and start the weekend! First meeting is scheduled for Friday 14th January 2022. New members welcome!
Herefs
🄵 THE BLACK SWAN, Weekly Thu Herefs, MUCH DEWCHURCH [no pub or session website] Bob Chance 01981 540725
The Black Swan session has reopened. As before, it takes place on every Thursday evening from between 8.30 and 9.00pm and continues until around 11.00pm. We always welcome new faces (and old ones of course!)
Best wishes, Rob Gould
Herefs
🄵 FOLK AT THE FALCON Falcon Hotel, High St, Bromyard HR7 4BT.
Friday 10th December Magpie Lane’s Christmas Concert (unplugged event without PA or mics)
Traditional English music and song. They combine powerful vocals with vigorous dance tunes. – inventive arrangements on acoustic instruments. They are regular guests at some of the top folk festivals in this country and have recorded eight critically acclaimed CDs.
They attracted one of the largest audiences we had at Folk In The Foyer, a couple of years back.
Tonight, they will be performing songs for the festive season. Their Christmas show has been described as "a magnificent collection of markedly less familiar material to the norm" and “a fine seasonal offering and fitting tribute to the skill and craftsmanship of one of the country’s most enduring folk ensembles.”
"Magpie lane release consistently good albums of English songs and music". Mike Harding
Support: OneAchord – fantastic local 5 piece [see below]
Tickets £10 from the Falcon Hotel, or from Roger Pugh at pugh@live.co.uk, 01885 483425, 07779 694615 .
For our ongoing concert programme see www.folkatthefalcon.com / www.facebook.com/folkatthefalcon
Herefs
🄵 OneAchord played to a sell-out audience at Cradley Village Hall last Saturday, supported by another Cradley band, Shepherd’s Purse with their lovely close harmonies. One comment afterwards 'The talent, cheerfulness and sheer exuberance of the group was a joy’ Videos can be seen on our website: www.oneachord.co.uk
Our next gig will be to support Magpie Lane at the Folk In the Falcon on Friday 10th December where we will be singing some lively Christmas folk songs. It should be a good night.
OTHER UK AREAS --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 Other UK
England North-West
Lancs - new listing
🄰 THE ROOM AT THE TOP FOLK CLUB, The Red Lion, Ash Brow, Newburgh, Lancs, WN8 7NF.
Mondays, weekly (except 1st Mon: Zoom), 8-15pm - 11.00pm
The club runs from 8:15 with 2 songs per performer with a break around 9:20. Depending on the number of performers there is usually time for another round with one song each. At 10:20 we hold the raffle and say goodnight to people who wish to go early. At 10:20 we hold the raffle and say goodnight to people who wish to go early.
From 10:30pm we sup up, put the room straight and go home!’
All nights are Singers Nights and we welcome singers, poets and readers to have a go at any time.
All styles of acoustic music are encouraged.
Admission is £1 for everybody which includes a raffle ticket for a bottle of wine.
For more information please contact Mark or Maggi on 01257 464215, and see http://www.markdowding.co.uk/room_at_the_top.htm
*** And ZOOM AT THE TOP is on 1st Monday of the month, 8.15 for 8.30 start. We’re on Facebook or e.mail me for the link, maggihuyton<at>yahoo.com. Meeting ID 174 901 873
England North-West
Lancs - new listing
🄰 MARK DOWDING,
Mark’s roots are in Lancashire and he sings many songs from the area, including those reintroduced by Harry Boardman who encouraged him to ‘keep singing the songs’, when he was a resident at Harry’s club in the 1980s. Mark’s wider repertoire is varied and enhanced by songs from many genres, including those written in traditional style by people such as Peter Bond, Bernie Parry, Keith Marsden and others, and songs from the Music Hall and Variety eras of the early 20th Century.
Mark’s accomplished singing and musicianship, alongside his knowledge of the history of the songs he sings, has earned him an excellent reputation at folk clubs and other events. His mellow voice has been likened to a ‘chocolate box’!
Mark’s CDs include “Dreams of the Past”, "Brown Photographs”, "Travelling Tales”, “The Well Worn Path”, and, with Chris Harvey, (Cock Robin Music), “A Mon Like Harry”, a Harry Boardman tribute, and “Manchester Ballads” based on the book edited by Harry Boardman and Roy Palmer'.
Mark has done session work and has appeared on BBC and Local Radio Folk Programmes as guest and stand-in presenter. TV work includes “The Real Mill with Tony Robinson”, “Britain’s Most Extreme Weather” and “Gardeners’ World”.
Contact: Mark Dowding, mark<at>markdowding.co.uk, 01257 464215, www.markdowding.co.uk
England North-West
Cumbria
From Victoria Berringer: Sat 27 Nov, 7.30pm-11.15pm (doors open 7.15pm). Christmas Celebration Ceilidh, Kendal Town Hall.
Tumbling Tom Big Band and callers Fiona Rigg & Les Ord, entertainment from Crook Morris & Kendal Revellers.
£10 (under 18 £7; 5 and under free). Tickets from Martyn Harvey on 01539720551 or email blackhat.martyn<at>gmail.com Bar with beer, wine, cider and soft drinks. Please complete a lateral flow test before arrival and if you have a positive result or any symptoms of Covid-19 please do not attend.
Updates for webpages not included in the printed magazine
🄲 Iaith Gymraeg/Welsh Language 🄰 Associates (those signed up to Newsletter), 'UK Other Areas' & 'International'
Our priority - a full print magazine & Folklife members' news, so new entries only from members or Associates (=signed up for Newsletter)
🄲 Iaith Gymraeg/Welsh Language 🄰 Associates (those signed up to Newsletter), 'UK Other Areas' & 'International'
Our priority - a full print magazine & Folklife members' news, so new entries only from members or Associates (=signed up for Newsletter)
Some stop, others still zooming but only till they can reopen (which may be at short notice!), others will continue, others hybrid (live+zoom) . . .
Monday
Other UK - North West - new listing
🄰 Lancs - Newburgh - ROOM AT THE TOP. ZOOM AT THE TOP is on 1st Monday of the month, 8.15 for 8.30 start. We’re on Facebook or e.mail me for the link, maggihuyton<at>yahoo.com. Meeting ID 174 901 873 Other Mondays now live in The Red Lion, Ash Brow, Newburgh, Lancs.
Wednesday
Other UK - South East & London - revised listing
🄰 Hampshire - SOUTHAMPTON: Virtual FOCSLE MUSIC, weekly, Wednesdays, 8pm.
For Zoom link, pls. e-mail virtual<at>focsle.org. Website http://www.focsle.org FOCSLE Music now meets virtually, via Zoom. Join us and our international music friends (incl. some professionals) each Wednesday 8pm (UK). (revised 6/11/2021)
Thursday
South-West - new listing
🄵 Cornwall - FOLK @ LAMORNA’S 2nd & 4th Thursdays of the month, 7:15 for a 7:30 start. Everyone is most welcome - performers and listeners. Our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/FolkMusicOnline gives the zoom links for the evening, but I also have a mailing list if people want to join. lamorna<at>me.com
Friday
West Midlands - new listing
🄰 Staffs - MOORLANDS FOLK (Twinned with Room at The Top) - Held on 3rd Fridays of the month, 8pm-10pm.
The next one is on Friday 19th November.
Audience and Artists all welcome. Time: Friday Nov 19th 2021 8:00 PM London until 10 pm
Meeting ID: 850 4962 3676
Passcode: 350160
Join Zoom Meeting Joinour Cloud HD Video Meeting [added 6/11/2021]
Saturday
South-West - new listing
🄵 Cornwall - CORNISH STORY LIVE , 1st Saturday of the month, zoom story telling session about Cornish Culture and History. Recordings of past events can be found at http://cornishstory.com/eventbrite_category/cslive/
To join the mailing list for the Cornish Story events, email me at lamorna<at>me.com
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STILL OPEN, BUT ZOOM WILL BE CLOSING . .
Friday South-West 🄰 BODMIN FOLK CLUB, Cornwall - reopens live on 26 November - see news above.
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ZOOMS NOW CLOSED !
Monday Wales 🄵 NEWPORT FOLK CLUB - now live instead
Tuesday South-West 🄰 MINER QUAY FOLK CLUB, Cornwall - now stopped.
Monday
Other UK - North West - new listing
🄰 Lancs - Newburgh - ROOM AT THE TOP. ZOOM AT THE TOP is on 1st Monday of the month, 8.15 for 8.30 start. We’re on Facebook or e.mail me for the link, maggihuyton<at>yahoo.com. Meeting ID 174 901 873 Other Mondays now live in The Red Lion, Ash Brow, Newburgh, Lancs.
Wednesday
Other UK - South East & London - revised listing
🄰 Hampshire - SOUTHAMPTON: Virtual FOCSLE MUSIC, weekly, Wednesdays, 8pm.
For Zoom link, pls. e-mail virtual<at>focsle.org. Website http://www.focsle.org FOCSLE Music now meets virtually, via Zoom. Join us and our international music friends (incl. some professionals) each Wednesday 8pm (UK). (revised 6/11/2021)
Thursday
South-West - new listing
🄵 Cornwall - FOLK @ LAMORNA’S 2nd & 4th Thursdays of the month, 7:15 for a 7:30 start. Everyone is most welcome - performers and listeners. Our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/FolkMusicOnline gives the zoom links for the evening, but I also have a mailing list if people want to join. lamorna<at>me.com
Friday
West Midlands - new listing
🄰 Staffs - MOORLANDS FOLK (Twinned with Room at The Top) - Held on 3rd Fridays of the month, 8pm-10pm.
The next one is on Friday 19th November.
Audience and Artists all welcome. Time: Friday Nov 19th 2021 8:00 PM London until 10 pm
Meeting ID: 850 4962 3676
Passcode: 350160
Join Zoom Meeting Joinour Cloud HD Video Meeting [added 6/11/2021]
Saturday
South-West - new listing
🄵 Cornwall - CORNISH STORY LIVE , 1st Saturday of the month, zoom story telling session about Cornish Culture and History. Recordings of past events can be found at http://cornishstory.com/eventbrite_category/cslive/
To join the mailing list for the Cornish Story events, email me at lamorna<at>me.com
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STILL OPEN, BUT ZOOM WILL BE CLOSING . .
Friday South-West 🄰 BODMIN FOLK CLUB, Cornwall - reopens live on 26 November - see news above.
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ZOOMS NOW CLOSED !
Monday Wales 🄵 NEWPORT FOLK CLUB - now live instead
Tuesday South-West 🄰 MINER QUAY FOLK CLUB, Cornwall - now stopped.
🄰 Associates, for 'Other Areas' 'International' (associates are those signed up to our Folklife Newsletter).
- Folklife Newsletter sign up email sam@folklife.uk 'Opt In’ + country or Eng. region .... or use form above.
USA
🄰 Mass - Boston - LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN
for details see sites.google.com/view/lynnoel/music/mermaidstavern
November
- Folklife Newsletter sign up email sam@folklife.uk 'Opt In’ + country or Eng. region .... or use form above.
USA
🄰 Mass - Boston - LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN
for details see sites.google.com/view/lynnoel/music/mermaidstavern
November
- Thursday, November 18: Lynz Morahn in Concert
- Sunday, November 21: Chantey & Tavern Sing
- Sunday, November 21: NEFFA Live Online Double Duos
- Sunday, December 5: Ballad Sing
- Thursday, December 16: Molly Hebert-Wilson in Concert
- Saturday December 18: Wassail! with Philadelphia Folk School
- Sunday, December 19: Chantey and Tavern Sing
- Sunday, December 19: NEFFA Live Online TBA
- Sunday, December 26: Mallard Wassail
- Sunday, January 2: Ballad Sing
- Thursday, January 13: Concert TBA
- Sunday, January 16: Chantey and Tavern Sing
- Sunday, January 16: NEFFA Live Online TBA
- Sunday, January 23: Robert Burns Night
FTJ: Folklife Traditions Journal. Researched articles + archive, news, on a separate website, www.folklife-traditions.uk
Folk studies and cultural traditions. Current FTJ issue copied online: www.folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html, read, or download PDF.
Folklife Traditions Journal - updates since Sept Journal
Traditional Song Forum https://tradsong.org/ Zoom meetings Diary
31 October – TSF Online meeting 33 (Note that we revert to GMT)
14 November – No meeting (EFDSS Conference)
28 November – TSF Online meeting 34
12 December – TSF Online meeting 35 (Christmas Special)
2 January 2022 – TSF Online meeting 36 (and a new year begins!)
Broadside Day 12th February 2022
The Broadside Day is the annual one-day conference for people interested in Street Literature and Cheap Print in all its fascinating aspects - broadsides, chapbooks, songsters, woodcuts, engravings, last dying speeches, catchpennies, news (real and fake), almanacs, carol sheets, wonder tales, and all kinds of cheap printed ephemera sold or distributed to ordinary people in the streets and at fairs, from pedlars’ packs, and in back-street shops, up and down the country.
Organised jointly by the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library and the Traditional Song Forum, next year’s Day will be an in-person event (with live online streaming) on Saturday 12th February, at the Centre for Printing History and Culture, at the University of Birmingham.
Papers of 20 minutes length are invited on any aspect of our broad subject, including the content, the technology, the artifacts, the trade, the sellers, the audience, the illustrations, or on any other features of this diverse field. We hope to be able to accommodate remote presentations from those who cannot get to Birmingham.
Please send a proposal of not more than 250 words to Steve Roud (steveroud@gmail.com) by Friday 19th November; indicating also whether you hope to be there in person or can only offer a remote presentation.
As with previous conferences, we plan to make selected papers available in the Street Literature series published by The Ballad Partners (theballadpartners.co.uk) in due course.
Steve Roud (Pedlars Pack Google Group)
FESTIVALS & WORKSHOPS --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 Festivals, workshops --- no changes.
FOLK NEWS webpages:
FOLK NEWS webpages:
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CYMRU/ WALES --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 Wales --- no changes
WEST COUNTRY --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 West Country
Cornwall
🄵 ROB BARRATT comic poet
November 3rd Philleigh Folk Club, Philleigh-in- Roseland, near Truro, Cornwall.
Rob Barratt , 01566 880336, rbarratt@cooptel.net For more information, see: www.robbarratt.co.uk
Devon
🄵 PENNYMOOR SINGAROUND - revised listings.
After over 40 years at the Cruwys Arms in Pennymoor, the singaround has now lost this venue due to a change of landlord.
Here is a summary of the revised list of sessions in mid Devon run by Pennymoor members.
Full details are given below under VENUES in Online DIRECTORY box on the West Country webpage
🄵 1st Sun Sticklepath session has closed
🄵 VENUE CHANGE:
Last Sun, 12 noon Devon CHERITON FITZPAINE HALF MOON LUNCHTIME MUSIC SESSION Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Clare Penney 01884 860023
🄵 NO CHANGE:
1st Tue Devon SANDFORD THE LAMB INN SESSION Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Hazel / Paul 01363 776275
🄵 NEW CONTACT:
Last Tue Devon COLEFORD THE NEW INN SESSION Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Dave Brassington 01363 84914
🄵 VENUE CHANGE:
3rd Wed Devon SANDFORD THE LAMB INN SINGAROUND Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Biddy 01271 373305
🄵 NEW SESSION
4th Wed Devon STOKE CANNON FOLK AT THE STOKE Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Alison/Paul 07709324836
🄵 VENUE CHANGE:
1st Thu, 12 noon Devon (venue: contact us) LUNCHTIME SONG/MUSIC SESSION Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Jon 01363 83740
Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire, Bristol & S Glos --- no changes
GLOS & OXON --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 Glos-Oxon
Glos
🄵 CHELTENHAM FOLK CLUB. The Club has been on Zoom, 2nd & 4th Sundays, but is now live, and has just tried out a new venue, Upstairs at Charlton Kings Social Club, Church Street, Charlton Kings GL53 8AP. The first live meeting was held 24th October, for future meetings see www.cheltenhamfc.org.uk or telephone Chris 01242 571185 or Judith 01242 577506.
Judith writes: A big thank you to those of you who performed and listened on Sunday and made it such a good -- and Covid-safe -- evening. It was wonderful to hear real voices in person and to see you.
We have now booked the room in the Charlton Kings Social Club for the following evenings -- we will review going back to the Alehouse in December, see how it's all going. As the room is large and safe, and there's no noise from the downstairs room, it's probably our best choice.
Sunday November 14 Open night
Sunday November 28 Open night
Sunday December 12 Christmas/winter celebration, only seasonal songs/tunes for this one, please!
All 8pm for an 8:15 start.
Looking forward to these 3 nights very much!
Judith
Covid safety: lateral flow tests, social distancing, sanitising, masks etc will all be appreciated. Details will be sent to those on the mailing list. To join our mailing list, just email machteltj <at> gmail.com and say you would like to be on the list.
Glos (& Warks)
🄵 THE SHIFTING SUNDAY SESSION (SSS) ... every Sunday, same time, different pub. Just to confirm some times changed, plus a venue change, noted last Newsletter, now fully updated in under VENUES in the DIRECTORY on Glos-Oxon webpage for Glos, or W.Mids webpage for Warks,
A folk music session that take place every week in the South Warwickshire / North Cotswolds area, in four regular venues, with it being in a different village pub each Sunday of the month. Times as notified below, and typically around 20 musicians will turn up.
The current lineup of venues during each month is:
Glos
🄵 WINCHCOMBE WHITE HART FOLK CLUB.
This is just to say that Folk continues Live in Winchcombe on the first Tuesday of the month, from 8.00 pm, with a cheery, growing band of minstrels.
Please join us if you can, and we quite understand if you are one of our trusty singers who can't be there for health or distance reasons. We will miss you.
Nov 2nd.- Happy Hallowe'en and Guy Fawkes' Night. Patchwork have some spooky/anarchic songs so you don't need to - unless likewise tempted!
Hope to see you soon
Yours Chris
WEST MIDLANDS --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 W. Mids
Birmingham
🄵 TRADITIONAL ARTS TEAM.
Just to confirm some changes, noted last Newsletter, now fully updated in W Mids Directory VENUES on the webpage:
NEW VENUE & NOW MONTHLY
2nd Sun, monthly Birmingham MOSELEY SCANDI MUSIC SESSIONS www.tradartsteam.co.uk Trad. Arts Team 0121 247 3856
→ Irish Centre, 205 Wheelers Lane, Kings Heath, Birmingham, B13 0ST. 2pm - 5pm
⇒ Traditional Arts Team, 19 Springfield Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham B14 7DU; info<at>tradartsteam.co.uk
⊕ Meet up and play a few Swedish and other Scandinavian tunes. All musicians welcome - more info and links to tunes via the ScandiBrum facebook page [2021 Oct new venue & now monthly]
CURRENTLY ONLINE
1st Wed Birmingham MOSELEY TALES & ALES STORY SESSION www.tradartsteam.co.uk Trad. Arts Team 07946 718286
→ Currently online. Prince of Wales pub, Alcester Road, Birmingham B13 8EE. 8pm
⇒ Traditional Arts Team, 19 Springfield Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham B14 7DU info<at>tradartsteam.co.uk
⊕ Come along to share stories and ales at this great storytelling venue. [2021 - online]
CURRENTLY ONLINE
2nd Wed Birmingham MOSELEY POLITICAL SONG SESSION www.tradartsteam.co.uk Trad. Arts Team 07946 718286
→ Currently online. Prince of Wales pub, Alcester Road, Birmingham B13 8EE, 8pm
⇒ Traditional Arts Team, 19 Springfield Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham B14 7DU; info<at>tradartsteam.co.uk
⊕ Come along, raise your voices, let the songs be heard, whether they were written yesterday or hundreds of years ago, let us learn from them and take heart from them. [2021 - online]
NO CHANGE - details as before § for the last one (Worcs) details on Herefs-Worcs webpage
Warks (& Glos)
🄵 THE SHIFTING SUNDAY SESSION (SSS) ... every Sunday, same time, different pub. Just to confirm some times changed, plus a venue change, noted last Newsletter, now fully updated in under VENUES in the DIRECTORY on Glos-Oxon webpage for Glos, or W.Mids webpage for Warks,
A folk music session that take place every week in the South Warwickshire / North Cotswolds area, in four regular venues, with it being in a different village pub each Sunday of the month. Times as notified below, and typically around 20 musicians will turn up.
The current lineup of venues during each month is:
HEREFS & WORCS --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 Herefs-Worcs
Herefs
🄵 FOLK AT THE FALCON Falcon Hotel, High St, Bromyard HR7 4BT.
National-class acoustic music venue with a first-in-the-region concert on Friday 12th November, 7.30pm, from the outstanding Sarah McQuaid, part of Sarah's international launch tour for her new album The St Buryan Sessions.
“One of the most instantly recognisable voices in current music … Shades of Joni Mitchell in a jam with Karen Carpenter and Lana Del Rey.” Neil March, Trust The Doc
Award-winning musicianship, distinctive chocolatey vocals and mastery of the songwriting craft -- and add to that a warm, charismatic stage presence, five critically acclaimed solo albums and a battery of instruments including acoustic and electric guitars, drum and piano — this is a one-woman powerhouse who defies categorisation because there simply isn’t anyone else out there quite like her. Hear some of Sarah’s new album: https://sarahmcquaid.bandcamp.com/album/the-st-buryan-sessions
Support: wonderful poet and songwriter Lawrence Illsley (www.lawrenceillsley.com) whose beautiful debut album Trees features contributions from Sarah McQuaid on backing vocals.
Not to be missed! Early booking highly recommended, and helps the team prepare seating! If there’s any unsold tickets, they'll be sold at the door. Tickets £10 from the Falcon Hotel, or from Roger Pugh at pugh@live.co.uk, 01885 483425, 07779 694615 .
For our ongoing concert programme see www.folkatthefalcon.com / www.facebook.com/folkatthefalcon
Herefs
🄵 HOMEND POETS & MUSICIANS, Ledbury, last Tuesdays, restarted at the end of September, but venue has just closed permanently. Looking for a new home. Nick Halligan 01684 563281 Email nickh2009<at>btinternet.com, but phone preferred
https://www.folklife.uk/homend-poets.html [17/10/2021]
Worcs
🄰 SYTCHAMPTON FOLK DANCE CLUB is now fully operational. www.sytchamptondanceclub.org.uk
Wednesday nights All welcome 8 till 10 £2 Various Callers and live Bands .
Saturday Dances December 18th Ivan Aitken with The Falconers 7.30 till 10.30
January 29th Lynne Render with NOZZY 7.30 till 10.30
Club finishes 22nd Dec and Resumes 5th January 2022
Regards, John Evans Chairman
Worcs
🄵 STRING BOX DUO. Fiddle, Guitar and harmonicas. Lovely, lively harmonious songs. From 1920 onwards. Not too loud - un plugged for relaxing fun.
Call 07754950939 to book, sometimes on Facebook Jill M Peer. Can be seen at the Barn, Ledbury on Saturdays from time to time. Ask for a date and time.
Worcs
🄵 WYRE PIDDLE SESSION.
I’ve just made arrangements for the restart of the Wyre Piddle session, at the different venue of the Anchor Inn in Wyre Piddle. (Pidele House has closed as a pub.) It will meet on the first Monday of every month, from 7 pm to 10 pm. The first session will be on 1st November. Everyone welcome.
Best wishes
Frank
Worcs
RECORDINGS by CHRIS STEWART and 'CRABBE'
"Two years ago I recorded a new set of original guitar instrumentals, then asked Bryan Neville-Lee (better known to most of us as 'Crabbe') to alternate these with his wonderful readings of selected poetry and prose on matching themes by authors such as W.B. Yeats, John Clare, and Kenneth Grahame. The result is really very special, but unfortunately, the project got shelved during the pandemic, and then, very sadly, we lost Bryan during the second lockdown early this year. Now it has finally been published as an album simply entitled Words & Music. People who've heard it so far have described it as:
'an enchanting journey in words and music'
'a real tour de force!'
'a fine tribute to Bryan'
It is available for £10 on CD or on a memory stick with high resolution MP3s plus artwork and a bonus video, with proceeds going to a charity that we both support called Mary's Meals (https://www.marysmeals.org.uk), which provides school meals for children in the developing world. I will have these with me at Worcester-area club meetings. Previews of the tracks can be heard at:- http://www.somers-folk-club.org.uk/CS/trax/
Thanks in advance for your kind support.
Chris Stewart.
OTHER UK AREAS --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 Other UK
Alba/Scotland
🄵 THE SILLERTIDES is Doug Huggins and Linn Phipps, singing conversation songs together. The unique feature of our singing is that - through the magic of Zoom – we live-sing together across the Atlantic Ocean, over a distance of 5000 miles. Every week, we live-sing our conversation songs at singarounds, based in the USA, UK and Ireland. These days, distance is no object! The first song we ever sang together is Norland Wind. And when we were seeking a name for our duo, The Wind’s line about sillertides seemed to us to fit us best. SIllertides (Doug and Linn) transatlantically-recorded debut CD “Silk and Leather”, on our Youtube channel, https://bit.ly/3hzmYNC. Linn Phipps https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk
Alba/Scotland
🄰 TEVIOTDALE Online Music Sessions
As a lot of the clubs running online events are now returning to live venues we have decided to try a monthly online session on a Friday night to fill the gap and cater for those that are not ready or who cannot attend live events.
Initially it will be the 2nd Friday of each month as the Timperly and Dragon's Breath Clubs are doing the 3rd and 4th. From 20:00 to 2200 GMT.
Links to these are available if you need them send PM or your email.
Link to the Teviotdale Online Session -
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86046781202?pwd=Y08xWEpBNlZYaUpEbEpRdXVrTWU1dz09
Meeting ID: 860 4678 1202
Passcode: Music
Singers and musicians of all abilities welcome.
Ray.
England North West
🄰 Cumbria - Brampton (near Carlisle) - BRAMPTON FOLK SESSIONS, Third Tuesdays, 8pm. Zoom sessions stopped as this is now live.
The Howard Arms is in Brampton, Cumbria, CA8 1NG
Come along on the Third Tuesday of the month at 8:00pm to sing; play a tune; recite a poem; tell a story; or just to listen.
There is a monthly theme, for details see website www.laverocks.org.uk
Next Session Tuesday 16th November 8:00pm Live upstairs in the hotel. Theme is: plants.
Singers and players of all standards, and listeners are welcome to this friendly Sing-Around. For more information phone Katy on 01434 298792 kmvandenbergstewart<at>gmail.com
We are a friendly, informal singers’ session, meeting on the third Tuesday of every month at 8pm. We work on the principle of going round the group, taking turns. Anyone, of any ability or degree of confidence, is welcome to join us: our ‘mission statement’ has always been:
‘Live Music by Real People in the Community’
We welcome singers, instrumentalists, story-tellers, poetry reciters and anyone who would just like to sit with their pint and listen! The music you will hear might be a tune that Wellington’s soldiers whistled as they went off to fight in the Peninsula, or a song about the Border Reivers, but it’s just as likely to be a music-hall number or ‘here’s one I wrote last week’.
WEST COUNTRY --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 West Country
Cornwall
🄵 ROB BARRATT comic poet
November 3rd Philleigh Folk Club, Philleigh-in- Roseland, near Truro, Cornwall.
Rob Barratt , 01566 880336, rbarratt@cooptel.net For more information, see: www.robbarratt.co.uk
Devon
🄵 PENNYMOOR SINGAROUND - revised listings.
After over 40 years at the Cruwys Arms in Pennymoor, the singaround has now lost this venue due to a change of landlord.
Here is a summary of the revised list of sessions in mid Devon run by Pennymoor members.
Full details are given below under VENUES in Online DIRECTORY box on the West Country webpage
🄵 1st Sun Sticklepath session has closed
🄵 VENUE CHANGE:
Last Sun, 12 noon Devon CHERITON FITZPAINE HALF MOON LUNCHTIME MUSIC SESSION Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Clare Penney 01884 860023
🄵 NO CHANGE:
1st Tue Devon SANDFORD THE LAMB INN SESSION Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Hazel / Paul 01363 776275
🄵 NEW CONTACT:
Last Tue Devon COLEFORD THE NEW INN SESSION Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Dave Brassington 01363 84914
🄵 VENUE CHANGE:
3rd Wed Devon SANDFORD THE LAMB INN SINGAROUND Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Biddy 01271 373305
🄵 NEW SESSION
4th Wed Devon STOKE CANNON FOLK AT THE STOKE Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Alison/Paul 07709324836
🄵 VENUE CHANGE:
1st Thu, 12 noon Devon (venue: contact us) LUNCHTIME SONG/MUSIC SESSION Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Jon 01363 83740
Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire, Bristol & S Glos --- no changes
GLOS & OXON --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 Glos-Oxon
Glos
🄵 CHELTENHAM FOLK CLUB. The Club has been on Zoom, 2nd & 4th Sundays, but is now live, and has just tried out a new venue, Upstairs at Charlton Kings Social Club, Church Street, Charlton Kings GL53 8AP. The first live meeting was held 24th October, for future meetings see www.cheltenhamfc.org.uk or telephone Chris 01242 571185 or Judith 01242 577506.
Judith writes: A big thank you to those of you who performed and listened on Sunday and made it such a good -- and Covid-safe -- evening. It was wonderful to hear real voices in person and to see you.
We have now booked the room in the Charlton Kings Social Club for the following evenings -- we will review going back to the Alehouse in December, see how it's all going. As the room is large and safe, and there's no noise from the downstairs room, it's probably our best choice.
Sunday November 14 Open night
Sunday November 28 Open night
Sunday December 12 Christmas/winter celebration, only seasonal songs/tunes for this one, please!
All 8pm for an 8:15 start.
Looking forward to these 3 nights very much!
Judith
Covid safety: lateral flow tests, social distancing, sanitising, masks etc will all be appreciated. Details will be sent to those on the mailing list. To join our mailing list, just email machteltj <at> gmail.com and say you would like to be on the list.
Glos (& Warks)
🄵 THE SHIFTING SUNDAY SESSION (SSS) ... every Sunday, same time, different pub. Just to confirm some times changed, plus a venue change, noted last Newsletter, now fully updated in under VENUES in the DIRECTORY on Glos-Oxon webpage for Glos, or W.Mids webpage for Warks,
A folk music session that take place every week in the South Warwickshire / North Cotswolds area, in four regular venues, with it being in a different village pub each Sunday of the month. Times as notified below, and typically around 20 musicians will turn up.
The current lineup of venues during each month is:
- 1st Sunday: The Howard Arms SSS at Ilmington, Warks CV36 4LT. 7-10pm Tel: 01608 682226
- 2nd Sunday: The New Inn SSS at Willersey, Glos WR12 7PJ 6-9pm Tel. 01386 853226 [change of venue]
- 3rd Sunday: The Blue Boar SSS at Temple Grafton, Warks B49 6NR. 7-10pm Tel: 01789 750010
- 4th Sunday: The Baker’s Arms SSS at Broad Campden, Glos GL55 0UR. 7-10pm Tel: 01386 840515
- 5th Sunday (when there is one) SSS : Different Venues each occurrence – as notified
Glos
🄵 WINCHCOMBE WHITE HART FOLK CLUB.
This is just to say that Folk continues Live in Winchcombe on the first Tuesday of the month, from 8.00 pm, with a cheery, growing band of minstrels.
Please join us if you can, and we quite understand if you are one of our trusty singers who can't be there for health or distance reasons. We will miss you.
Nov 2nd.- Happy Hallowe'en and Guy Fawkes' Night. Patchwork have some spooky/anarchic songs so you don't need to - unless likewise tempted!
Hope to see you soon
Yours Chris
WEST MIDLANDS --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 W. Mids
Birmingham
🄵 TRADITIONAL ARTS TEAM.
Just to confirm some changes, noted last Newsletter, now fully updated in W Mids Directory VENUES on the webpage:
NEW VENUE & NOW MONTHLY
2nd Sun, monthly Birmingham MOSELEY SCANDI MUSIC SESSIONS www.tradartsteam.co.uk Trad. Arts Team 0121 247 3856
→ Irish Centre, 205 Wheelers Lane, Kings Heath, Birmingham, B13 0ST. 2pm - 5pm
⇒ Traditional Arts Team, 19 Springfield Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham B14 7DU; info<at>tradartsteam.co.uk
⊕ Meet up and play a few Swedish and other Scandinavian tunes. All musicians welcome - more info and links to tunes via the ScandiBrum facebook page [2021 Oct new venue & now monthly]
CURRENTLY ONLINE
1st Wed Birmingham MOSELEY TALES & ALES STORY SESSION www.tradartsteam.co.uk Trad. Arts Team 07946 718286
→ Currently online. Prince of Wales pub, Alcester Road, Birmingham B13 8EE. 8pm
⇒ Traditional Arts Team, 19 Springfield Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham B14 7DU info<at>tradartsteam.co.uk
⊕ Come along to share stories and ales at this great storytelling venue. [2021 - online]
CURRENTLY ONLINE
2nd Wed Birmingham MOSELEY POLITICAL SONG SESSION www.tradartsteam.co.uk Trad. Arts Team 07946 718286
→ Currently online. Prince of Wales pub, Alcester Road, Birmingham B13 8EE, 8pm
⇒ Traditional Arts Team, 19 Springfield Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham B14 7DU; info<at>tradartsteam.co.uk
⊕ Come along, raise your voices, let the songs be heard, whether they were written yesterday or hundreds of years ago, let us learn from them and take heart from them. [2021 - online]
NO CHANGE - details as before § for the last one (Worcs) details on Herefs-Worcs webpage
- 3rd Wed Birmingham KINGS HEATH BIRMINGHAM STORYTELLING CAFÉ www.tradartsteam.co.uk Trad. Arts Team 07946 71828
- 2nd,4th Thu Birmingham MOSELEY MOSELEY VILLAGE BAND www.tradartsteam.co.uk Trad. Arts Team 0121 443 5687
- 1st Sat Worcs ALVECHURCH ALVECHURCH FRENCH DANCE & MUSIC www.tradartsteam.co.uk Trad. Arts Team §
Warks (& Glos)
🄵 THE SHIFTING SUNDAY SESSION (SSS) ... every Sunday, same time, different pub. Just to confirm some times changed, plus a venue change, noted last Newsletter, now fully updated in under VENUES in the DIRECTORY on Glos-Oxon webpage for Glos, or W.Mids webpage for Warks,
A folk music session that take place every week in the South Warwickshire / North Cotswolds area, in four regular venues, with it being in a different village pub each Sunday of the month. Times as notified below, and typically around 20 musicians will turn up.
The current lineup of venues during each month is:
- 1st Sunday: The Howard Arms SSS at Ilmington, Warks CV36 4LT. 7-10pm Tel: 01608 682226
- 2nd Sunday: The New Inn SSS at Willersey, Glos WR12 7PJ 6-9pm Tel. 01386 853226 [change of venue]
- 3rd Sunday: The Blue Boar SSS at Temple Grafton, Warks B49 6NR. 7-10pm Tel: 01789 750010
- 4th Sunday: The Baker’s Arms SSS at Broad Campden, Glos GL55 0UR. 7-10pm Tel: 01386 840515
- 5th Sunday (when there is one) SSS : Different Venues each occurrence – as notified
HEREFS & WORCS --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 Herefs-Worcs
Herefs
🄵 FOLK AT THE FALCON Falcon Hotel, High St, Bromyard HR7 4BT.
National-class acoustic music venue with a first-in-the-region concert on Friday 12th November, 7.30pm, from the outstanding Sarah McQuaid, part of Sarah's international launch tour for her new album The St Buryan Sessions.
“One of the most instantly recognisable voices in current music … Shades of Joni Mitchell in a jam with Karen Carpenter and Lana Del Rey.” Neil March, Trust The Doc
Award-winning musicianship, distinctive chocolatey vocals and mastery of the songwriting craft -- and add to that a warm, charismatic stage presence, five critically acclaimed solo albums and a battery of instruments including acoustic and electric guitars, drum and piano — this is a one-woman powerhouse who defies categorisation because there simply isn’t anyone else out there quite like her. Hear some of Sarah’s new album: https://sarahmcquaid.bandcamp.com/album/the-st-buryan-sessions
Support: wonderful poet and songwriter Lawrence Illsley (www.lawrenceillsley.com) whose beautiful debut album Trees features contributions from Sarah McQuaid on backing vocals.
Not to be missed! Early booking highly recommended, and helps the team prepare seating! If there’s any unsold tickets, they'll be sold at the door. Tickets £10 from the Falcon Hotel, or from Roger Pugh at pugh@live.co.uk, 01885 483425, 07779 694615 .
For our ongoing concert programme see www.folkatthefalcon.com / www.facebook.com/folkatthefalcon
Herefs
🄵 HOMEND POETS & MUSICIANS, Ledbury, last Tuesdays, restarted at the end of September, but venue has just closed permanently. Looking for a new home. Nick Halligan 01684 563281 Email nickh2009<at>btinternet.com, but phone preferred
https://www.folklife.uk/homend-poets.html [17/10/2021]
Worcs
🄰 SYTCHAMPTON FOLK DANCE CLUB is now fully operational. www.sytchamptondanceclub.org.uk
Wednesday nights All welcome 8 till 10 £2 Various Callers and live Bands .
Saturday Dances December 18th Ivan Aitken with The Falconers 7.30 till 10.30
January 29th Lynne Render with NOZZY 7.30 till 10.30
Club finishes 22nd Dec and Resumes 5th January 2022
Regards, John Evans Chairman
Worcs
🄵 STRING BOX DUO. Fiddle, Guitar and harmonicas. Lovely, lively harmonious songs. From 1920 onwards. Not too loud - un plugged for relaxing fun.
Call 07754950939 to book, sometimes on Facebook Jill M Peer. Can be seen at the Barn, Ledbury on Saturdays from time to time. Ask for a date and time.
Worcs
🄵 WYRE PIDDLE SESSION.
I’ve just made arrangements for the restart of the Wyre Piddle session, at the different venue of the Anchor Inn in Wyre Piddle. (Pidele House has closed as a pub.) It will meet on the first Monday of every month, from 7 pm to 10 pm. The first session will be on 1st November. Everyone welcome.
Best wishes
Frank
Worcs
RECORDINGS by CHRIS STEWART and 'CRABBE'
"Two years ago I recorded a new set of original guitar instrumentals, then asked Bryan Neville-Lee (better known to most of us as 'Crabbe') to alternate these with his wonderful readings of selected poetry and prose on matching themes by authors such as W.B. Yeats, John Clare, and Kenneth Grahame. The result is really very special, but unfortunately, the project got shelved during the pandemic, and then, very sadly, we lost Bryan during the second lockdown early this year. Now it has finally been published as an album simply entitled Words & Music. People who've heard it so far have described it as:
'an enchanting journey in words and music'
'a real tour de force!'
'a fine tribute to Bryan'
It is available for £10 on CD or on a memory stick with high resolution MP3s plus artwork and a bonus video, with proceeds going to a charity that we both support called Mary's Meals (https://www.marysmeals.org.uk), which provides school meals for children in the developing world. I will have these with me at Worcester-area club meetings. Previews of the tracks can be heard at:- http://www.somers-folk-club.org.uk/CS/trax/
Thanks in advance for your kind support.
Chris Stewart.
OTHER UK AREAS --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 Other UK
Alba/Scotland
🄵 THE SILLERTIDES is Doug Huggins and Linn Phipps, singing conversation songs together. The unique feature of our singing is that - through the magic of Zoom – we live-sing together across the Atlantic Ocean, over a distance of 5000 miles. Every week, we live-sing our conversation songs at singarounds, based in the USA, UK and Ireland. These days, distance is no object! The first song we ever sang together is Norland Wind. And when we were seeking a name for our duo, The Wind’s line about sillertides seemed to us to fit us best. SIllertides (Doug and Linn) transatlantically-recorded debut CD “Silk and Leather”, on our Youtube channel, https://bit.ly/3hzmYNC. Linn Phipps https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk
Alba/Scotland
🄰 TEVIOTDALE Online Music Sessions
As a lot of the clubs running online events are now returning to live venues we have decided to try a monthly online session on a Friday night to fill the gap and cater for those that are not ready or who cannot attend live events.
Initially it will be the 2nd Friday of each month as the Timperly and Dragon's Breath Clubs are doing the 3rd and 4th. From 20:00 to 2200 GMT.
Links to these are available if you need them send PM or your email.
Link to the Teviotdale Online Session -
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86046781202?pwd=Y08xWEpBNlZYaUpEbEpRdXVrTWU1dz09
Meeting ID: 860 4678 1202
Passcode: Music
Singers and musicians of all abilities welcome.
Ray.
England North West
🄰 Cumbria - Brampton (near Carlisle) - BRAMPTON FOLK SESSIONS, Third Tuesdays, 8pm. Zoom sessions stopped as this is now live.
The Howard Arms is in Brampton, Cumbria, CA8 1NG
Come along on the Third Tuesday of the month at 8:00pm to sing; play a tune; recite a poem; tell a story; or just to listen.
There is a monthly theme, for details see website www.laverocks.org.uk
Next Session Tuesday 16th November 8:00pm Live upstairs in the hotel. Theme is: plants.
Singers and players of all standards, and listeners are welcome to this friendly Sing-Around. For more information phone Katy on 01434 298792 kmvandenbergstewart<at>gmail.com
We are a friendly, informal singers’ session, meeting on the third Tuesday of every month at 8pm. We work on the principle of going round the group, taking turns. Anyone, of any ability or degree of confidence, is welcome to join us: our ‘mission statement’ has always been:
‘Live Music by Real People in the Community’
We welcome singers, instrumentalists, story-tellers, poetry reciters and anyone who would just like to sit with their pint and listen! The music you will hear might be a tune that Wellington’s soldiers whistled as they went off to fight in the Peninsula, or a song about the Border Reivers, but it’s just as likely to be a music-hall number or ‘here’s one I wrote last week’.
Updates for webpages not included in the printed magazine
🄲 Iaith Gymraeg/Welsh Language 🄰 Associates (those signed up to Newsletter), 'UK Other Areas' & 'International'
Our priority - a full print magazine & Folklife members' news, so new entries only from members or Associates (=signed up for Newsletter)
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🄲 Iaith Gymraeg/Welsh Language 🄰 Associates (those signed up to Newsletter), 'UK Other Areas' & 'International'
Our priority - a full print magazine & Folklife members' news, so new entries only from members or Associates (=signed up for Newsletter)
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⎈ Zoom List webpage updates
Some stop, others still zooming but only till they can reopen (which may be at short notice!), others will continue, others hybrid (live+zoom) . . . WEDNESDAYS 🄵 BIRMINGHAM - TRADITIONAL ARTS TEAM. See West Midlands news above; all now live except these 2 continue online for now 1st Wed Birmingham MOSELEY TALES & ALES STORY SESSION www.tradartsteam.co.uk 2nd Wed Birmingham MOSELEY POLITICAL SONG SESSION www.tradartsteam.co.uk |
FRIDAYS
🄰 SCOTLAND - TEVIOTDALE Online Music Session, 2nd Friday of each month From 20:00 to 2200 GMT.
As a lot of the clubs running online events are now returning to live venues we have decided to try a monthly online session on a Friday night to fill the gap and cater for those that are not ready or who cannot attend live events.
Initially it will be the 2nd Friday of each month as the Timperly and Dragon's Breath Clubs are doing the 3rd and 4th. From 20:00 to 2200 GMT.
Links to these are available if you need them send PM or your email.
Link to the Teviotdale Online Session -
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86046781202?pwd=Y08xWEpBNlZYaUpEbEpRdXVrTWU1dz09
Meeting ID: 860 4678 1202
Passcode: Music
Singers and musicians of all abilities welcome.
Ray.
Zoom stopped, now live, § see news reports above
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⎈ International folk news webpage
🄰 Associates, for 'Other Areas' 'International' (associates are those signed up to our Folklife Newsletter).
- Folklife Newsletter sign up email sam@folklife.uk 'Opt In’ + country or Eng. region .... or use form above
USA
🄰 Mass - Boston - LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN
for details see sites.google.com/view/lynnoel/music/mermaidstavern
November
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🄰 SCOTLAND - TEVIOTDALE Online Music Session, 2nd Friday of each month From 20:00 to 2200 GMT.
As a lot of the clubs running online events are now returning to live venues we have decided to try a monthly online session on a Friday night to fill the gap and cater for those that are not ready or who cannot attend live events.
Initially it will be the 2nd Friday of each month as the Timperly and Dragon's Breath Clubs are doing the 3rd and 4th. From 20:00 to 2200 GMT.
Links to these are available if you need them send PM or your email.
Link to the Teviotdale Online Session -
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86046781202?pwd=Y08xWEpBNlZYaUpEbEpRdXVrTWU1dz09
Meeting ID: 860 4678 1202
Passcode: Music
Singers and musicians of all abilities welcome.
Ray.
Zoom stopped, now live, § see news reports above
- SUNDAYS 🄵 GLOS - CHELTENHAM FOLK CLUB §
- TUESDAYS 🄵 GLOS - WINCHCOMBE WHITE HART FOLK CLUB §
- TUESDAYS 🄰 CUMBRIA - BRAMPTON FOLK SESSIONS §
- TUESDAYS 🄵 SUNDERLAND - STUMBLE INN FOLK & ACOUSTIC AFTERNOON
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⎈ International folk news webpage
🄰 Associates, for 'Other Areas' 'International' (associates are those signed up to our Folklife Newsletter).
- Folklife Newsletter sign up email sam@folklife.uk 'Opt In’ + country or Eng. region .... or use form above
USA
🄰 Mass - Boston - LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN
for details see sites.google.com/view/lynnoel/music/mermaidstavern
November
- Saturday, November 6: Sophie et Adam in Concert
- Sunday, November 7: Ballad Sing
- Thursday, November 18: Lynz Morahn in Concert
- Sunday, November 21: Chantey & Tavern Sing
- Saturday TBD: Wassail! with Philadelphia Folk School
- Sunday, December 5: Ballad Sing
- Thursday, December 16: Molly Hebert-Wilson in Concert
- Sunday, December 19: Chantey and Tavern Sing
- Sunday, December 26: Mallard Wassail
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Alba/Scotland
🄵 THE SILLERTIDES is Doug Huggins and Linn Phipps, singing conversation songs together. The unique feature of our singing is that - through the magic of Zoom – we live-sing together across the Atlantic Ocean, over a distance of 5000 miles. Every week, we live-sing our conversation songs at singarounds, based in the USA, UK and Ireland. These days, distance is no object! The first song we ever sang together is Norland Wind. And when we were seeking a name for our duo, The Wind’s line about sillertides seemed to us to fit us best. SIllertides (Doug and Linn) transatlantically-recorded debut CD “Silk and Leather”, on our Youtube channel, https://bit.ly/3hzmYNC. Linn Phipps https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk
of all abilities welcome.
England North West
🄰 Cumbria - Brampton (near Carlisle) - BRAMPTON FOLK SESSIONS, Third Tuesdays, 8pm. Zoom sessions stopped as this is now live.
The Howard Arms is in Brampton, Cumbria, CA8 1NG
Come along on the Third Tuesday of the month at 8:00pm to sing; play a tune; recite a poem; tell a story; or just to listen.
There is a monthly theme, for details see website www.laverocks.org.uk
Next Session Tuesday 16th November 8:00pm Live upstairs in the hotel. Theme is: plants.
Singers and players of all standards, and listeners are welcome to this friendly Sing-Around. For more information phone Katy on 01434 298792 kmvandenbergstewart<at>gmail.com
We are a friendly, informal singers’ session, meeting on the third Tuesday of every month at 8pm. We work on the principle of going round the group, taking turns. Anyone, of any ability or degree of confidence, is welcome to join us: our ‘mission statement’ has always been:
‘Live Music by Real People in the Community’
We welcome singers, instrumentalists, story-tellers, poetry reciters and anyone who would just like to sit with their pint and listen! The music you will hear might be a tune that Wellington’s soldiers whistled as they went off to fight in the Peninsula, or a song about the Border Reivers, but it’s just as likely to be a music-hall number or ‘here’s one I wrote last week’.
England North-West
Lancs - new listing
🄰 And ZOOM AT THE TOP is on 1st Monday of the month, 8.15 for 8.30 start. We’re on Facebook or e.mail me for the link, maggihuyton<at>yahoo.com. Meeting ID 174 901 873
🄵 THE SILLERTIDES is Doug Huggins and Linn Phipps, singing conversation songs together. The unique feature of our singing is that - through the magic of Zoom – we live-sing together across the Atlantic Ocean, over a distance of 5000 miles. Every week, we live-sing our conversation songs at singarounds, based in the USA, UK and Ireland. These days, distance is no object! The first song we ever sang together is Norland Wind. And when we were seeking a name for our duo, The Wind’s line about sillertides seemed to us to fit us best. SIllertides (Doug and Linn) transatlantically-recorded debut CD “Silk and Leather”, on our Youtube channel, https://bit.ly/3hzmYNC. Linn Phipps https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk
of all abilities welcome.
England North West
🄰 Cumbria - Brampton (near Carlisle) - BRAMPTON FOLK SESSIONS, Third Tuesdays, 8pm. Zoom sessions stopped as this is now live.
The Howard Arms is in Brampton, Cumbria, CA8 1NG
Come along on the Third Tuesday of the month at 8:00pm to sing; play a tune; recite a poem; tell a story; or just to listen.
There is a monthly theme, for details see website www.laverocks.org.uk
Next Session Tuesday 16th November 8:00pm Live upstairs in the hotel. Theme is: plants.
Singers and players of all standards, and listeners are welcome to this friendly Sing-Around. For more information phone Katy on 01434 298792 kmvandenbergstewart<at>gmail.com
We are a friendly, informal singers’ session, meeting on the third Tuesday of every month at 8pm. We work on the principle of going round the group, taking turns. Anyone, of any ability or degree of confidence, is welcome to join us: our ‘mission statement’ has always been:
‘Live Music by Real People in the Community’
We welcome singers, instrumentalists, story-tellers, poetry reciters and anyone who would just like to sit with their pint and listen! The music you will hear might be a tune that Wellington’s soldiers whistled as they went off to fight in the Peninsula, or a song about the Border Reivers, but it’s just as likely to be a music-hall number or ‘here’s one I wrote last week’.
England North-West
Lancs - new listing
🄰 And ZOOM AT THE TOP is on 1st Monday of the month, 8.15 for 8.30 start. We’re on Facebook or e.mail me for the link, maggihuyton<at>yahoo.com. Meeting ID 174 901 873
Herefs
🄰 CHARITY CONCERT Saturday November 13 Autumn Leaves Folk Spectacular
- Marianne McAleer: Exhilarating, moving, exquisite artist in unaccompanied Irish Trad. Songs Multi-award winner at Fleadh Cheoil, frequently on Irish radio.
- Martyn Wyndham-Read: Folk Legend for beautiful songs, mainly Aussie, always sung from the heart.
- Pete Morton: Pete is everything we want our singer-songwriters to be; fiercely creative, talented, terminally unpredictable.
TIME: 6-7.30pm (Interval) 8-10pm
PLACE: Steiner Academy Hereford, Much Dewchurch HR2 8 DL (2 minutes walk from the ‘Black Swan’)
TICKETS: £15, students half-price, 12 and under, free.
Seating plan allows for distancing.
E-mail; richard@fizzandbuzz.co.uk Or Text; 07565539764. Or phone Richard on 01209 219944.
Book early for the best seats!
* Richard Wilson has presented 60 classical and folk concerts over the last 30 years on a voluntary basis, almost singlehandedly,
and has given £20,000 to charity from them. [ 1/11/21 ] -- on updates page, but too late to be included in Newsletter
FTJ: Folklife Traditions Journal. Researched articles + archive, news, on a separate website, www.folklife-traditions.uk
Folk studies and cultural traditions. Current FTJ issue copied online: www.folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html, read, or download PDF.
Folklife Traditions Journal - updates since Sept Journal
Traditional Song Forum https://tradsong.org/ Zoom meetings Diary
3 October – No meeting
17 October – TSF Online meeting 32
31 October – TSF Online meeting 33 (Note that we revert to GMT)
14 November – No meeting (EFDSS Conference)
28 November – TSF Online meeting 34
12 December – TSF Online meeting 35 (Christmas Special)
2 January 2022 – TSF Online meeting 36 (and a new year begins!)
Folk studies and cultural traditions. Current FTJ issue copied online: www.folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html, read, or download PDF.
Folklife Traditions Journal - updates since Sept Journal
Traditional Song Forum https://tradsong.org/ Zoom meetings Diary
3 October – No meeting
17 October – TSF Online meeting 32
31 October – TSF Online meeting 33 (Note that we revert to GMT)
14 November – No meeting (EFDSS Conference)
28 November – TSF Online meeting 34
12 December – TSF Online meeting 35 (Christmas Special)
2 January 2022 – TSF Online meeting 36 (and a new year begins!)
Never had an issue like this where so much is unknown, I had hoped that by delaying from Sep to Oct, things would be clearer!
NOTE: I've put "copied to Webpage ...." , but not all copied to area webpages as busy with Oct issue to include everything below from October,
FESTIVALS & WORKSHOPS --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 Festivals, workshops
🄵 The Llanwddyn Folk & Acoustic weekend 2022 ! - revised posted on webpage Instead of the Edgelarkes, we have Honey and the Bear appearing.
Happily, all the people who had bought tickets have held onto them for next year bar 6, which is amazing as this only leaves around 60 to sell now.
🄵 2022 JUNE 10th - 12th Pennymoor Song and Ale Same venue and details but please note new date (a week later than previously announced).
NOTE FESTIVALS & WORKSHOPS NOW UPDATED (23/9) READY FOR OCT 2021 FOLKLIFE WEST. Haven't heard from some festivals. As my mind-reading skills are not too good, checked websites for basics like dates. New dates for 2022 too numerous to list here - see the webpage.
CYMRU/ WALES --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 Wales
🄵 Ruth & Ken Powell
We have our first dates! Yay! Here’s hoping we get many more! Although I think its going to be later 2022 into 2023 if we do, as lots of clubs have moved 2021 artists over.
8th October, The Woodman Folk Club, Ashwood Marina, Ashwood Lower Road, Kingswinford, DY6 0AQ
9th December, Lymm Folk Club - The Spread Eagle, Eagle Brow, Lymm, Cheshire, WA13 0AG
19th - 21st August 2022, Moira Furnace Folk Festival, more details to follow soon
We’ve also been busy recording a new CD. It’s in the mixing stage now and hopefully will be available from October. It's entitled ‘Simple Living’.
Ruth and Ken Powell, And The Riskies (aka Risky Business) 01691 870501
WEST COUNTRY --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 West Country
Cornwall
🄵 Sarah McQuaid I’m very happy to announce that my new album The St Buryan Sessions, recorded and filmed live in lockdown in St Buryan Church, Cornwall, will be released Friday 15 October on CD and limited-edition double LP. I’ll be doing a very special album launch benefit concert that day, in — and for — St Buryan Church. In order to make it accessible for all in the local community, no entrance fee will be charged, but there will be a voluntary retiring collection for church funds. A six-week UK-wide tour will follow the album launch and continue through the end of November; see http://www.sarahmcquaid.com/tour for details of all shows. 15/8/21
Devon
🄵 Totnes Folk Song Club. We plan to open Totnes Folk Song Club on Thursday 14th October (all being well). Still 2nd Thursday in the month at The Dartmouth Inn, Totnes. 8.00pm. Singers Night. Best wishes. Anne 12/8/21
🄵 Bideford Folk Club has resumed its regular Thursday nights each week from 8pm at The Joiners Arms, Market Street, EX31 2 DR. All welcome to sing, say, play, listen and enjoy. Pub drinks, tea, coffee and cushions abound - a warm, Bideford welcome awaits. Also, plenty of fresh air, too whilst the weather allows!
Special guests booked so far are: Steve Turner - a nationally renowned fine singer and musician with a long and distinguished pedigree - appearing on Thursday, 23rd September (doors open just after 7pm) We can promise impeccable concertina and string playing to accompany this superb singer. Next up will be Moor Music - the collective might of traditional Dartmoor singers, musicians and step dancers, on Thursday 28th October. This'll be a 'proper job evenin,' me dears, daunee miss it'. Not only will there be playing and singing of the highest quality, but also world championship standard Dartmoor step-dancing to test the very fabric of the building! Now you can't want better than that for a night out, can you? So come along and enjoy the show. Al 15/8/21
🄵 Pennymoor Singaround - revised listings. Note not yet updated on Directory webpages
After over 40 years at the Cruwys Arms in Pennymoor, the singaround has now lost this venue due to a change of landlord.
Here is a summary of the revised list of sessions in mid Devon run by Pennymoor members.
Full details are given below under ⎈ Directories webpage updates
🄵 1st Sun Sticklepath session has closed
🄵 Last Sun 12 noon — venue changed to The Half Moon
Last Sun Devon CHERITON FITZPAINE HALF MOON LUNCHTIME MUSIC SESSION Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Clare Penney 01884 860023
🄵 1st Tue — no change
1st Tue Devon SANDFORD THE LAMB INN SESSION Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Hazel / Paul 01363 776275
🄵 Last Tues —— Coleford new contact
Last Tue Devon COLEFORD THE NEW INN SESSION Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Dave Brassington 01363 84914
🄵 3rd Wed —— venue changed to the Lamb Inn for Pennymoor Singaround/music sessions
3rd Wed Devon SANDFORD THE LAMB INN SINGAROUND Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Biddy 01271 373305
🄵 4th Wed — new session, Stoke Cannon, Folk at the Stoke
🄵 1st Thurs 12noon — for venue, contact Jon
Somerset
🄵 Eli's, Huish Episcopi Hello, Sam - a bit of information for you on Eli's Traditional Singarounds. The pub is unfortunately closing in October for a period of around 6 months. The bad news is that the three siblings who run the pub are retiring. The good news is that it's being taken over by one of the sons who currently lives abroad. This means that the pub will have been in the same family for over 100 years and it will have minimal physical changes.
We'll run our normal September session and then obviously close until the grand re-opening.
Best wishes to you. Rod, 14/8/21
UPDATE
We had a great night on Saturday 18th Sept. Pub closure postponed till end of October, so we can meet again at Eli's on the 16th October. Then the pub is unfortunately closing at the end of October for a period of around 6 months. It’s possible we may look for a temporary replacement venue whilst Eli’s is closed.
Dorset
🄵 Music sessions at the Trooper have been happening out of doors since May, and are now coming indoors for the winter. Still on the 4th Sunday of the month, but check timings with Mandy Waltham on 01963 362890 as these may change from afternoon to evening. The same applies to the 2nd Sunday song sessions, which has moved to the 2nd Wednesday evening from 8pm for the foreseeable future - and held in the Old Barn (= skittle alley) at the back of the Trooper.
Wiltshire
🄵 WHITE HORSE FOLK CLUB ®, St Michael’s Hall, Lechlade Road, Highworth SN6 7HQ.
1st & 3rd Wed, 7.30pm; normally occasional concerts, day varies, but not at present due to Covid 19.
White Horse Folk Club are pleased to say that we reopened in a new venue in September to allow more space for those who wish to socially distance. All details remain the same except for a 7.30pm start and the venue is St Michael’s Hall (address above).
We have had our first meeting with more than 20 people present and some excellent songs. We shall continue with the first and third Wednesday, and on the fourth Wednesday we shall have a zoom meeting, so that we can still see the people who supported us in this from various parts of the country!
Folk Club Information: Derrick Beer 01793 762070; Geoff Davies 01793 706753; www.whitehorsefolkclub.co.uk
Wiltshire
🄵 SWINDON FOLK CLUB, The RAFA Club, 41-43 Belle Vue Road, SN1 3HN. 1st and 3rd Fri, 8.00 - 11pm
Bryony and David have stepped down from running the club. They write: We are thrilled and delighted to announce that a new team of people have come forward to run & carry on the club! The team are: Claire Louise (of The Bellflowers); Chantelle Smith (of Chantelle Smith: Folk Singer, & of The Bellflowers); Mike Rendall (of Splat The Rat). They are working towards a re-opening date of Friday 15th October at the RAFA Club. Watch this space!
® Contact swindonfolkclub<at>gmail.com https://swindonfolkclub.wordpress.com and see us on Facebook
Wiltshire
Groups and Shanty Groups
🄰 Wilts FRIGGITT www.friggitt.co.uk
New contact details: Chris Turpin, 07766492415, christurpin2016<at>gmail.com
Friggitt perform songs and tunes from the nautical tradition and beyond.
Bristol & S Glos
🄵 The Redcatch Club in Bristol will be reopening on 11th September. See website https://redcatchclub.vistaprintdigital.com/ for details. Cheers Trevor 13/8/21
GLOS & OXON --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 Glos-Oxon
Glos
🄵 Churchdown - Folk at the Club / Zoom: Folk in the Cloud
Sam, I have booked the hall again for October 4th - from then it will be 1st & 3rd Mondays
I am going to continue zoom but when the club opens again Zoom will move from 1 & 3 Mondays to 2nd & 4th Mondays.
Will
Glos
🄵 THE SHIFTING SUNDAY SESSION (SSS) --- see below under Warks, some Glos entries.
WEST MIDLANDS --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 W. Mids
Birmingham
🄵 Black Diamond Folk Club, The Lamp Tavern, 157 Barford Street, Highgate, B5 6AH. Friday, weekly, 8pm.
Following the coronavirus epidemic we are intending to reopen the club from 3rd September.
Most nights will be singers' nights, but we are hoping to have some guest nights. However, given the current level of uncertainty information on guests will only be published on our website: http://blackdiamondfolkclub.org.uk
In view of the need for social distancing numbers will be limited and admittance by invitation.
If you would like an invitation please contact Paul Ryan at contact<at>blackdiamondfolkclub.org.uk or by telephoning 0121 357 7326.
Warks (& Glos)
🄵 THE SHIFTING SUNDAY SESSION (SSS) ... every Sunday, same time, different pub. Some times changed, plus a venue change.
A folk music session that take place every week in the South Warwickshire / North Cotswolds area, in four regular venues, with it being in a different village pub each Sunday of the month. Times as notified below, and typically around 20 musicians will turn up.
The current lineup of venues during each month is:
• 1st Sunday: The Howard Arms SSS at Ilmington, Warks CV36 4LT. 7-10pm Tel: 01608 682226
• 2nd Sunday: The New Inn SSS at Willersey, Glos WR12 7PJ 6-9pm Tel. 01386 853226 [change of venue since last FW]
• 3rd Sunday: The Blue Boar SSS at Temple Grafton, Warks B49 6NR. 7-10pm Tel: 01789 750010
• 4th Sunday: The Baker’s Arms SSS at Broad Campden, Glos GL55 0UR. 7-10pm Tel: 01386 840515
• 5th Sunday (when there is one) SSS : Different Venues each occurrence – as notified
HEREFS & WORCS --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 Herefs-Worcs
🄵 Herefs
FOLK AT THE FALCON Falcon Hotel, High St, Bromyard HR7 4BT.
Friday 8th October, Sam Carter, support The Cherrystones. Friday Nov 12th: Sarah McQuaid, support Lawrence Illsley
Friday Dec 10th: Magpie Lane’s Christmas Concert, support OneAchord. Friday Jan 14th: Nick Dow, support Dora Darling.
For Folk at the Falcon’s ongoing concert programme, see www.folkatthefalcon.com / www.facebook.com/folkatthefalcon
Contact Roger Pugh, pugh<at>live.co.uk, 01885 483425 or 07779 694615
Worcs
🄵 Folk at the Fold
After some very successful summer sessions in the covered barn, 'Folk at the Fold' have now moved back into the warmer winter surroundings of their usual haunt in the Cart House for their 'Folk at the Fold' gatherings. The club runs from 8pm until 10.30pm. The remaining dates for this year are the 23rd October, 27th of November and the 18th of December.
Continuing uncertainties regarding Covid means that numbers will have to be restricted and Covid precautions will continue to be in place. If you plan to come along ( and we hope you do !) please email eric_payne<at>.btinternet.com in advance to book a place. Information about our covid precautions can be found on the website at www.ericpaynefolksongs.co.uk
Worcs
🄵 Appleyard Dancers are meeting up again! Thursday 7.30 to 9.30pm at Earls Croome village Hall.
Also hope to dance at the Three Kings in Hanley Castle on November 14th.
If you would like more information please contact Diana at info4appleyard<at>gmail.com or visit our website www.appleyardfolk.co.uk
OTHER UK AREAS --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 Other UK
Scotland
🄵 Linn Phipps
My newest Youtube video, The Moonshiner https://youtu.be/92pSjLVcMO0
My new Youtube channel is: https://www.youtube.com/c/LinnPhipps - PLEASE subscribe it’s free!
New Sillertides (Linn & Doug) Youtube channel: https://bit.ly/3hzmYNC- PLEASE subscribe it’s free!
Linn Phipps https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk
London
🄰 NEW ASSOCIATE London - Sea Shanty Singaround Session
Hi Eleanor & Sam,
I'm very pleased to announce that the monthly sea shanty sessions in central London, hosted by The HogEye Men, are to resume in September.
The details are as follows:-
Sea Shanty Singaround Session, The Horseshoe Inn, 26 Melior Street London, SE1 3QP
The pub is a 5 minute walk from London Bridge Station and the session takes place in the upstairs room.
12 noon until 3pm.
Whilst songs of the sea set the scene, all types of folk music - song or tune - are welcome.
Confirmed dates are:-
September 19th, October 17th & November 21st
(always the 3rd Sunday, but never in August)
Hopefully we may meet up there one day.
Kind Regards,
Mike Green 15/8/21
London
🄰 NEW ASSOCIATE, London - SHARPS FOLK CLUB, weekly, Tues - returns to live in September (no Zoom)
South East
🄰 Kent -- DEAL FOLK CLUB is still meeting on Zoom on Fridays for the present, Sue (2/9/2021)
North West
🄰 NEW ASSOCIATE, NEW WEBSITE Cumbria - Brampton (near Carlisle) - BRAMPTON FOLK SESSIONS, Third Tuesdays, 8pm. For Zoom invitation please email
kmvandenbergstewart<at>gmail.com There is a monthly theme, for details see website www.laverocks.org.uk Singers and players of all
standards, and listeners are welcome to this friendly Sing-Around. For more information phone Katy on 01434 298792.. (new website, new phone 30/8/2021)
NOTE: I've put "copied to Webpage ...." , but not all copied to area webpages as busy with Oct issue to include everything below from October,
FESTIVALS & WORKSHOPS --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 Festivals, workshops
🄵 The Llanwddyn Folk & Acoustic weekend 2022 ! - revised posted on webpage Instead of the Edgelarkes, we have Honey and the Bear appearing.
Happily, all the people who had bought tickets have held onto them for next year bar 6, which is amazing as this only leaves around 60 to sell now.
🄵 2022 JUNE 10th - 12th Pennymoor Song and Ale Same venue and details but please note new date (a week later than previously announced).
NOTE FESTIVALS & WORKSHOPS NOW UPDATED (23/9) READY FOR OCT 2021 FOLKLIFE WEST. Haven't heard from some festivals. As my mind-reading skills are not too good, checked websites for basics like dates. New dates for 2022 too numerous to list here - see the webpage.
CYMRU/ WALES --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 Wales
🄵 Ruth & Ken Powell
We have our first dates! Yay! Here’s hoping we get many more! Although I think its going to be later 2022 into 2023 if we do, as lots of clubs have moved 2021 artists over.
8th October, The Woodman Folk Club, Ashwood Marina, Ashwood Lower Road, Kingswinford, DY6 0AQ
9th December, Lymm Folk Club - The Spread Eagle, Eagle Brow, Lymm, Cheshire, WA13 0AG
19th - 21st August 2022, Moira Furnace Folk Festival, more details to follow soon
We’ve also been busy recording a new CD. It’s in the mixing stage now and hopefully will be available from October. It's entitled ‘Simple Living’.
Ruth and Ken Powell, And The Riskies (aka Risky Business) 01691 870501
WEST COUNTRY --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 West Country
Cornwall
🄵 Sarah McQuaid I’m very happy to announce that my new album The St Buryan Sessions, recorded and filmed live in lockdown in St Buryan Church, Cornwall, will be released Friday 15 October on CD and limited-edition double LP. I’ll be doing a very special album launch benefit concert that day, in — and for — St Buryan Church. In order to make it accessible for all in the local community, no entrance fee will be charged, but there will be a voluntary retiring collection for church funds. A six-week UK-wide tour will follow the album launch and continue through the end of November; see http://www.sarahmcquaid.com/tour for details of all shows. 15/8/21
Devon
🄵 Totnes Folk Song Club. We plan to open Totnes Folk Song Club on Thursday 14th October (all being well). Still 2nd Thursday in the month at The Dartmouth Inn, Totnes. 8.00pm. Singers Night. Best wishes. Anne 12/8/21
🄵 Bideford Folk Club has resumed its regular Thursday nights each week from 8pm at The Joiners Arms, Market Street, EX31 2 DR. All welcome to sing, say, play, listen and enjoy. Pub drinks, tea, coffee and cushions abound - a warm, Bideford welcome awaits. Also, plenty of fresh air, too whilst the weather allows!
Special guests booked so far are: Steve Turner - a nationally renowned fine singer and musician with a long and distinguished pedigree - appearing on Thursday, 23rd September (doors open just after 7pm) We can promise impeccable concertina and string playing to accompany this superb singer. Next up will be Moor Music - the collective might of traditional Dartmoor singers, musicians and step dancers, on Thursday 28th October. This'll be a 'proper job evenin,' me dears, daunee miss it'. Not only will there be playing and singing of the highest quality, but also world championship standard Dartmoor step-dancing to test the very fabric of the building! Now you can't want better than that for a night out, can you? So come along and enjoy the show. Al 15/8/21
🄵 Pennymoor Singaround - revised listings. Note not yet updated on Directory webpages
After over 40 years at the Cruwys Arms in Pennymoor, the singaround has now lost this venue due to a change of landlord.
Here is a summary of the revised list of sessions in mid Devon run by Pennymoor members.
Full details are given below under ⎈ Directories webpage updates
🄵 1st Sun Sticklepath session has closed
🄵 Last Sun 12 noon — venue changed to The Half Moon
Last Sun Devon CHERITON FITZPAINE HALF MOON LUNCHTIME MUSIC SESSION Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Clare Penney 01884 860023
🄵 1st Tue — no change
1st Tue Devon SANDFORD THE LAMB INN SESSION Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Hazel / Paul 01363 776275
🄵 Last Tues —— Coleford new contact
Last Tue Devon COLEFORD THE NEW INN SESSION Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Dave Brassington 01363 84914
🄵 3rd Wed —— venue changed to the Lamb Inn for Pennymoor Singaround/music sessions
3rd Wed Devon SANDFORD THE LAMB INN SINGAROUND Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Biddy 01271 373305
🄵 4th Wed — new session, Stoke Cannon, Folk at the Stoke
🄵 1st Thurs 12noon — for venue, contact Jon
Somerset
🄵 Eli's, Huish Episcopi Hello, Sam - a bit of information for you on Eli's Traditional Singarounds. The pub is unfortunately closing in October for a period of around 6 months. The bad news is that the three siblings who run the pub are retiring. The good news is that it's being taken over by one of the sons who currently lives abroad. This means that the pub will have been in the same family for over 100 years and it will have minimal physical changes.
We'll run our normal September session and then obviously close until the grand re-opening.
Best wishes to you. Rod, 14/8/21
UPDATE
We had a great night on Saturday 18th Sept. Pub closure postponed till end of October, so we can meet again at Eli's on the 16th October. Then the pub is unfortunately closing at the end of October for a period of around 6 months. It’s possible we may look for a temporary replacement venue whilst Eli’s is closed.
Dorset
🄵 Music sessions at the Trooper have been happening out of doors since May, and are now coming indoors for the winter. Still on the 4th Sunday of the month, but check timings with Mandy Waltham on 01963 362890 as these may change from afternoon to evening. The same applies to the 2nd Sunday song sessions, which has moved to the 2nd Wednesday evening from 8pm for the foreseeable future - and held in the Old Barn (= skittle alley) at the back of the Trooper.
Wiltshire
🄵 WHITE HORSE FOLK CLUB ®, St Michael’s Hall, Lechlade Road, Highworth SN6 7HQ.
1st & 3rd Wed, 7.30pm; normally occasional concerts, day varies, but not at present due to Covid 19.
White Horse Folk Club are pleased to say that we reopened in a new venue in September to allow more space for those who wish to socially distance. All details remain the same except for a 7.30pm start and the venue is St Michael’s Hall (address above).
We have had our first meeting with more than 20 people present and some excellent songs. We shall continue with the first and third Wednesday, and on the fourth Wednesday we shall have a zoom meeting, so that we can still see the people who supported us in this from various parts of the country!
Folk Club Information: Derrick Beer 01793 762070; Geoff Davies 01793 706753; www.whitehorsefolkclub.co.uk
Wiltshire
🄵 SWINDON FOLK CLUB, The RAFA Club, 41-43 Belle Vue Road, SN1 3HN. 1st and 3rd Fri, 8.00 - 11pm
Bryony and David have stepped down from running the club. They write: We are thrilled and delighted to announce that a new team of people have come forward to run & carry on the club! The team are: Claire Louise (of The Bellflowers); Chantelle Smith (of Chantelle Smith: Folk Singer, & of The Bellflowers); Mike Rendall (of Splat The Rat). They are working towards a re-opening date of Friday 15th October at the RAFA Club. Watch this space!
® Contact swindonfolkclub<at>gmail.com https://swindonfolkclub.wordpress.com and see us on Facebook
Wiltshire
Groups and Shanty Groups
🄰 Wilts FRIGGITT www.friggitt.co.uk
New contact details: Chris Turpin, 07766492415, christurpin2016<at>gmail.com
Friggitt perform songs and tunes from the nautical tradition and beyond.
Bristol & S Glos
🄵 The Redcatch Club in Bristol will be reopening on 11th September. See website https://redcatchclub.vistaprintdigital.com/ for details. Cheers Trevor 13/8/21
GLOS & OXON --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 Glos-Oxon
Glos
🄵 Churchdown - Folk at the Club / Zoom: Folk in the Cloud
Sam, I have booked the hall again for October 4th - from then it will be 1st & 3rd Mondays
I am going to continue zoom but when the club opens again Zoom will move from 1 & 3 Mondays to 2nd & 4th Mondays.
Will
Glos
🄵 THE SHIFTING SUNDAY SESSION (SSS) --- see below under Warks, some Glos entries.
WEST MIDLANDS --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 W. Mids
Birmingham
🄵 Black Diamond Folk Club, The Lamp Tavern, 157 Barford Street, Highgate, B5 6AH. Friday, weekly, 8pm.
Following the coronavirus epidemic we are intending to reopen the club from 3rd September.
Most nights will be singers' nights, but we are hoping to have some guest nights. However, given the current level of uncertainty information on guests will only be published on our website: http://blackdiamondfolkclub.org.uk
In view of the need for social distancing numbers will be limited and admittance by invitation.
If you would like an invitation please contact Paul Ryan at contact<at>blackdiamondfolkclub.org.uk or by telephoning 0121 357 7326.
Warks (& Glos)
🄵 THE SHIFTING SUNDAY SESSION (SSS) ... every Sunday, same time, different pub. Some times changed, plus a venue change.
A folk music session that take place every week in the South Warwickshire / North Cotswolds area, in four regular venues, with it being in a different village pub each Sunday of the month. Times as notified below, and typically around 20 musicians will turn up.
The current lineup of venues during each month is:
• 1st Sunday: The Howard Arms SSS at Ilmington, Warks CV36 4LT. 7-10pm Tel: 01608 682226
• 2nd Sunday: The New Inn SSS at Willersey, Glos WR12 7PJ 6-9pm Tel. 01386 853226 [change of venue since last FW]
• 3rd Sunday: The Blue Boar SSS at Temple Grafton, Warks B49 6NR. 7-10pm Tel: 01789 750010
• 4th Sunday: The Baker’s Arms SSS at Broad Campden, Glos GL55 0UR. 7-10pm Tel: 01386 840515
• 5th Sunday (when there is one) SSS : Different Venues each occurrence – as notified
HEREFS & WORCS --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 Herefs-Worcs
🄵 Herefs
FOLK AT THE FALCON Falcon Hotel, High St, Bromyard HR7 4BT.
Friday 8th October, Sam Carter, support The Cherrystones. Friday Nov 12th: Sarah McQuaid, support Lawrence Illsley
Friday Dec 10th: Magpie Lane’s Christmas Concert, support OneAchord. Friday Jan 14th: Nick Dow, support Dora Darling.
For Folk at the Falcon’s ongoing concert programme, see www.folkatthefalcon.com / www.facebook.com/folkatthefalcon
Contact Roger Pugh, pugh<at>live.co.uk, 01885 483425 or 07779 694615
Worcs
🄵 Folk at the Fold
After some very successful summer sessions in the covered barn, 'Folk at the Fold' have now moved back into the warmer winter surroundings of their usual haunt in the Cart House for their 'Folk at the Fold' gatherings. The club runs from 8pm until 10.30pm. The remaining dates for this year are the 23rd October, 27th of November and the 18th of December.
Continuing uncertainties regarding Covid means that numbers will have to be restricted and Covid precautions will continue to be in place. If you plan to come along ( and we hope you do !) please email eric_payne<at>.btinternet.com in advance to book a place. Information about our covid precautions can be found on the website at www.ericpaynefolksongs.co.uk
Worcs
🄵 Appleyard Dancers are meeting up again! Thursday 7.30 to 9.30pm at Earls Croome village Hall.
Also hope to dance at the Three Kings in Hanley Castle on November 14th.
If you would like more information please contact Diana at info4appleyard<at>gmail.com or visit our website www.appleyardfolk.co.uk
OTHER UK AREAS --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 Other UK
Scotland
🄵 Linn Phipps
My newest Youtube video, The Moonshiner https://youtu.be/92pSjLVcMO0
My new Youtube channel is: https://www.youtube.com/c/LinnPhipps - PLEASE subscribe it’s free!
New Sillertides (Linn & Doug) Youtube channel: https://bit.ly/3hzmYNC- PLEASE subscribe it’s free!
Linn Phipps https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk
London
🄰 NEW ASSOCIATE London - Sea Shanty Singaround Session
Hi Eleanor & Sam,
I'm very pleased to announce that the monthly sea shanty sessions in central London, hosted by The HogEye Men, are to resume in September.
The details are as follows:-
Sea Shanty Singaround Session, The Horseshoe Inn, 26 Melior Street London, SE1 3QP
The pub is a 5 minute walk from London Bridge Station and the session takes place in the upstairs room.
12 noon until 3pm.
Whilst songs of the sea set the scene, all types of folk music - song or tune - are welcome.
Confirmed dates are:-
September 19th, October 17th & November 21st
(always the 3rd Sunday, but never in August)
Hopefully we may meet up there one day.
Kind Regards,
Mike Green 15/8/21
London
🄰 NEW ASSOCIATE, London - SHARPS FOLK CLUB, weekly, Tues - returns to live in September (no Zoom)
South East
🄰 Kent -- DEAL FOLK CLUB is still meeting on Zoom on Fridays for the present, Sue (2/9/2021)
North West
🄰 NEW ASSOCIATE, NEW WEBSITE Cumbria - Brampton (near Carlisle) - BRAMPTON FOLK SESSIONS, Third Tuesdays, 8pm. For Zoom invitation please email
kmvandenbergstewart<at>gmail.com There is a monthly theme, for details see website www.laverocks.org.uk Singers and players of all
standards, and listeners are welcome to this friendly Sing-Around. For more information phone Katy on 01434 298792.. (new website, new phone 30/8/2021)
Updates for webpages not included in the printed magazine
🄲 Iaith Gymraeg/Welsh Language 🄰 Associates (those signed up to Newsletter), 'UK Other Areas' & 'International'
Due to pressures of producing a full print magazine (as before covid), new entries only from Folklife members or Associates
🄲 Iaith Gymraeg/Welsh Language 🄰 Associates (those signed up to Newsletter), 'UK Other Areas' & 'International'
Due to pressures of producing a full print magazine (as before covid), new entries only from Folklife members or Associates
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⎈ Zoom List webpage updates
Some stop, others still zooming but only till they can reopen (which may be at short notice!), others will continue, others hybrid (live+zoom) . . .
South West region
🄵 Wilts: Highworth - WHITE HORSE FOLK CLUB. We meet 4th Wednesdays about 7.45pm for 8pm, and the contact is Geoff Davies 01793 706753. (revised 30/8/2021, was 1st & 3rd)
Other UK - North West
🄰 NEW ASSOCIATE, NEW WEBSITE Cumbria - Brampton (near Carlisle) - BRAMPTON FOLK SESSIONS, Third Tuesdays, 8pm. For Zoom invitation please email
kmvandenbergstewart<at>gmail.com There is a monthly theme, for details see website www.laverocks.org.uk Singers and players of all
standards, and listeners are welcome to this friendly Sing-Around. For more information phone Katy on 01434 298792.. (new website, new phone 30/8/2021) Hoping to reopen live when that's possible..
Other UK - South East & London
🄰 SHARPS FOLK CLUB are now live and no longer zooming.
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⎈ International folk news webpage
🄰 Associates, for 'Other Areas' 'International' (associates are those signed up to our Folklife Newsletter).
- Folklife Newsletter sign up email sam@folklife.uk 'Opt In’ + country or Eng. region .... or use form below
USA --- DC area
🄰 The Folklore Society of Greater Washington
2021 Getaway runs from Friday, October 8, 2021, at noon (Eastern US time) through Monday evening, October 11 (again, Eastern US time).
It's bigger and better! Zoom has instituted breakout rooms since our last Getaway, so we have more simultaneous choices than last year. You can see the tentative schedule in several formats at www.fsgw.org/Getaway , which is also where you can register.
So go to www.fsgw.org/Getaway, and register for the 2021 Getaway.
There are also additional registrations for performing in the concerts on Saturday or Sunday night, or for volunteering to be worked on in Ken Schatz's vocal clinic or Elly Wininger's masterclass on slide-guitar technique. There's also a special registration for George Rathbone's Summerquest for children, and if you register for that, you'll need to provide a snail-mail address and give us enough advance time so we can ship you some things for the quest. Lots of other wonderful sessions--check out the schedule online.
Once again, it's free to register (although we wouldn't mind donations to help keep the lights on and the Zoom account open). Looking forward to seeing you again online October 8 through 11.
--The 2021 Getaway Committee
USA --- New Hampshire
🄰 2021 Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival was held Sept 25-26. Go to http://pmffest.org/ to watch videos of this wonderful festival. - and all their other activities including monthly Zoom.
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⎈ Directories webpage updates
Additionally, not noted here: other changes noted under News above, to be added to Directory after magazine is at the printers.
West Country - performers https://www.folklife.uk/s-w-directory-2.html
• Wiltshire-based under Groups and under Shanty Groups
🄰 Wilts FRIGGITT www.friggitt.co.uk Chris Turpin 07766492415
⇒ christurpin2016<at>gmail.com
⊕ Friggitt perform songs and tunes from the nautical tradition and beyond.
West Country - venues https://www.folklife.uk/s-w-directory-1.html Note not yet updated on Directory pages
🄵 Pennymoor Singaround - revised listings.
After over 40 years at the Cruwys Arms in Pennymoor, the singaround has now lost this venue due to a change of landlord.
Here is the revised list of sessions in mid Devon run by Pennymoor members.
🄵 1st Sun Sticklepath session has closed
🄵 Last Sun 12 noon — venue changed to The Half Moon
Last Sun Devon CHERITON FITZPAINE HALF MOON LUNCHTIME MUSIC SESSION Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Clare Penney 01884 860023
→ The Half Moon, Cheriton Fitzpaine EX17 4JW. 12 noon
⇒ Clare Penney, Westland, Pennymoor, Tiverton, Devon EX16 8PG. west.land<at>talktalk.net
⊕ An informal session in the bar, all welcome, no charge [venue change, Sep 2021]
🄵 1st Tue — no change
1st Tue Devon SANDFORD THE LAMB INN SESSION Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Hazel / Paul 01363 776275
→ The Lamb Inn (01363 773676), The Square, Sandford, near Crediton, Devon EX17 4LW. 8pm
⊕ Music and song. [add Facebook 2/2017]
🄵 Last Tues —— Coleford new contact
Last Tue Devon COLEFORD THE NEW INN SESSION Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Dave Brassington 01363 84914
→ The New Inn (01363 84242), Coleford, near Crediton, Devon EX 17 5BZ. 8.00pm
⊕ Song and music. [new contact, Sep 2021]
🄵 3rd Wed —— venue changed to the Lamb Inn for Pennymoor Singaround/music sessions
3rd Wed Devon SANDFORD THE LAMB INN SINGAROUND Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Biddy 01271 373305
→ The Lamb Inn (01363 773676), The Square, Sandford, near Crediton, Devon, EX17 4LW. 7.30pm, all year.
⇒ biddy.mallabone<at>outlook.com
⊕ A good pub session, all welcome, no guests. [venue change, Sep 2021]
🄵 4th Wed — new session, Stoke Cannon, Folk at the Stoke
4th Wed Devon STOKE CANNON FOLK AT THE STOKE Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Alison/Paul 07709324836
→ Stoke Canon Inn (01392 840063), High Street, Stoke Canon. Devon EX5 4AR. 8.30pm, all year.
⇒ biddy.mallabone<at>outlook.com
⊕ A good pub session, all welcome, no guests. [new session, Sep 2021]
🄵 1st Thurs 12noon — for venue, contact Jon
1st Thu, 12 noon Devon (venue: contact us) LUNCHTIME SONG/MUSIC SESSION Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Jon 01363 83740
→ Please contact us for venue or see Facebook. Lunchtime session on the 1st Thursday, 12 to 3pm. [venue change, Sep 2021]
⎈ Zoom List webpage updates
Some stop, others still zooming but only till they can reopen (which may be at short notice!), others will continue, others hybrid (live+zoom) . . .
South West region
🄵 Wilts: Highworth - WHITE HORSE FOLK CLUB. We meet 4th Wednesdays about 7.45pm for 8pm, and the contact is Geoff Davies 01793 706753. (revised 30/8/2021, was 1st & 3rd)
Other UK - North West
🄰 NEW ASSOCIATE, NEW WEBSITE Cumbria - Brampton (near Carlisle) - BRAMPTON FOLK SESSIONS, Third Tuesdays, 8pm. For Zoom invitation please email
kmvandenbergstewart<at>gmail.com There is a monthly theme, for details see website www.laverocks.org.uk Singers and players of all
standards, and listeners are welcome to this friendly Sing-Around. For more information phone Katy on 01434 298792.. (new website, new phone 30/8/2021) Hoping to reopen live when that's possible..
Other UK - South East & London
🄰 SHARPS FOLK CLUB are now live and no longer zooming.
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⎈ International folk news webpage
🄰 Associates, for 'Other Areas' 'International' (associates are those signed up to our Folklife Newsletter).
- Folklife Newsletter sign up email sam@folklife.uk 'Opt In’ + country or Eng. region .... or use form below
USA --- DC area
🄰 The Folklore Society of Greater Washington
2021 Getaway runs from Friday, October 8, 2021, at noon (Eastern US time) through Monday evening, October 11 (again, Eastern US time).
It's bigger and better! Zoom has instituted breakout rooms since our last Getaway, so we have more simultaneous choices than last year. You can see the tentative schedule in several formats at www.fsgw.org/Getaway , which is also where you can register.
So go to www.fsgw.org/Getaway, and register for the 2021 Getaway.
There are also additional registrations for performing in the concerts on Saturday or Sunday night, or for volunteering to be worked on in Ken Schatz's vocal clinic or Elly Wininger's masterclass on slide-guitar technique. There's also a special registration for George Rathbone's Summerquest for children, and if you register for that, you'll need to provide a snail-mail address and give us enough advance time so we can ship you some things for the quest. Lots of other wonderful sessions--check out the schedule online.
Once again, it's free to register (although we wouldn't mind donations to help keep the lights on and the Zoom account open). Looking forward to seeing you again online October 8 through 11.
--The 2021 Getaway Committee
USA --- New Hampshire
🄰 2021 Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival was held Sept 25-26. Go to http://pmffest.org/ to watch videos of this wonderful festival. - and all their other activities including monthly Zoom.
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⎈ Directories webpage updates
Additionally, not noted here: other changes noted under News above, to be added to Directory after magazine is at the printers.
West Country - performers https://www.folklife.uk/s-w-directory-2.html
• Wiltshire-based under Groups and under Shanty Groups
🄰 Wilts FRIGGITT www.friggitt.co.uk Chris Turpin 07766492415
⇒ christurpin2016<at>gmail.com
⊕ Friggitt perform songs and tunes from the nautical tradition and beyond.
West Country - venues https://www.folklife.uk/s-w-directory-1.html Note not yet updated on Directory pages
🄵 Pennymoor Singaround - revised listings.
After over 40 years at the Cruwys Arms in Pennymoor, the singaround has now lost this venue due to a change of landlord.
Here is the revised list of sessions in mid Devon run by Pennymoor members.
🄵 1st Sun Sticklepath session has closed
🄵 Last Sun 12 noon — venue changed to The Half Moon
Last Sun Devon CHERITON FITZPAINE HALF MOON LUNCHTIME MUSIC SESSION Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Clare Penney 01884 860023
→ The Half Moon, Cheriton Fitzpaine EX17 4JW. 12 noon
⇒ Clare Penney, Westland, Pennymoor, Tiverton, Devon EX16 8PG. west.land<at>talktalk.net
⊕ An informal session in the bar, all welcome, no charge [venue change, Sep 2021]
🄵 1st Tue — no change
1st Tue Devon SANDFORD THE LAMB INN SESSION Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Hazel / Paul 01363 776275
→ The Lamb Inn (01363 773676), The Square, Sandford, near Crediton, Devon EX17 4LW. 8pm
⊕ Music and song. [add Facebook 2/2017]
🄵 Last Tues —— Coleford new contact
Last Tue Devon COLEFORD THE NEW INN SESSION Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Dave Brassington 01363 84914
→ The New Inn (01363 84242), Coleford, near Crediton, Devon EX 17 5BZ. 8.00pm
⊕ Song and music. [new contact, Sep 2021]
🄵 3rd Wed —— venue changed to the Lamb Inn for Pennymoor Singaround/music sessions
3rd Wed Devon SANDFORD THE LAMB INN SINGAROUND Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Biddy 01271 373305
→ The Lamb Inn (01363 773676), The Square, Sandford, near Crediton, Devon, EX17 4LW. 7.30pm, all year.
⇒ biddy.mallabone<at>outlook.com
⊕ A good pub session, all welcome, no guests. [venue change, Sep 2021]
🄵 4th Wed — new session, Stoke Cannon, Folk at the Stoke
4th Wed Devon STOKE CANNON FOLK AT THE STOKE Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Alison/Paul 07709324836
→ Stoke Canon Inn (01392 840063), High Street, Stoke Canon. Devon EX5 4AR. 8.30pm, all year.
⇒ biddy.mallabone<at>outlook.com
⊕ A good pub session, all welcome, no guests. [new session, Sep 2021]
🄵 1st Thurs 12noon — for venue, contact Jon
1st Thu, 12 noon Devon (venue: contact us) LUNCHTIME SONG/MUSIC SESSION Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Jon 01363 83740
→ Please contact us for venue or see Facebook. Lunchtime session on the 1st Thursday, 12 to 3pm. [venue change, Sep 2021]
Our latest Folklife Traditions Journal, 1 Sep 2021,
is available today for you to read online and/or download as a PDF.
FTJ: Folklife Traditions Journal - Folk studies and cultural traditions Researched articles + archive, news, on separate website, www.folklife-traditions.uk
FTJ copied online: www.folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html, to read, or download PDF. This Sep FTJ will be printed in Oct Folklife West, along with Members' folk news.
FTJ has 18 pages including 7 researched articles - a record ! Plus News, Folklife Studies & Traditions: books, recordings announced; Societies.
FW’s FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS JOURNAL Our aims include stimulating a wider interest in folk studies & folk culture: the FT pages
18 A4 pages (in print, 0pp colour, 18pp mono; online & PDFs, some pages in colour)
is available today for you to read online and/or download as a PDF.
FTJ: Folklife Traditions Journal - Folk studies and cultural traditions Researched articles + archive, news, on separate website, www.folklife-traditions.uk
FTJ copied online: www.folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html, to read, or download PDF. This Sep FTJ will be printed in Oct Folklife West, along with Members' folk news.
FTJ has 18 pages including 7 researched articles - a record ! Plus News, Folklife Studies & Traditions: books, recordings announced; Societies.
FW’s FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS JOURNAL Our aims include stimulating a wider interest in folk studies & folk culture: the FT pages
18 A4 pages (in print, 0pp colour, 18pp mono; online & PDFs, some pages in colour)
- Article: The modern myth of Bosch’s butt music, by Ian Pittaway, pp4-7
- Article & songs: ‘The Cherry Tree Carol - Part 2’ and ‘Part 3’, by Charles Menteith. (Part 2, p8-9; Part 3, p10-11) pp8-11
- Article: Some song sources for a semi-professional folk singer in the 1970s. Includes song & notes: ‘I Trudged Up To London’ (by Ewan Clark, 1785). By Keith Gregson, pp12-13
- Song & notes: ‘Long A-Growing’, sung by Harry Brazil. By Gwilym Davies, p14
- Welsh traditional tune & notes: ‘Walts Trefforest’ / ‘The Treforest Waltz’, from Helen Adam, p15
- Songs’ notes: ‘The singing birds’. Three songs sung by Merêd and Phyllis Kinney, by Nia Mai Daniel, p16
- Obit: John Shaw, p9
- Trac, p2; TSF, p2; Folklore Society, p2; Folk21, p13; EFDSS VWM Library, p17
- The Roots of Welsh Border Morris, p2;
- Tunelines, p2
- Llyfr Alawon DnA Tune Book, Delyth & Angharad Jenkins, p17
- The Forgotten Songs of the Upper Thames: Folk Songs from the Alfred Williams Collection, Ed. Martin Graebe, p17
- Blues From The Avon Delta, Mark Jones, p17
- Saydisc, 'Matchbox Bluesmaster Series', set 4, p17
- List 7, Folklife Societies: Assoc'ns, Trusts, Organisations, p18
- List 8, Folklife Studies & Institutions, p19
- List 9, Seasonal Local Celebrations, May-Sep, a list & photos, mostly by Doc Rowe, p20
webpages not included in the printed magazine
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⎈ Zoom List webpage (https://www.folklife.uk/zoom.html) replaces ⎈ Virtual Folk webpage
We will maintain zoom sessions & singarounds listings, open to all - Members, plus those who have signed up for this Newsletter.
As we return to normal printing, as print news expands, we have less time, as we prioritise our Folklife members - who pay for Folklife.
So... for other "Virtual Folk" such as Facebook concerts:
UK - from Folklife members only - see area Folk news webpages; International - open to all (this Newsletter list) ~ see International webpage
Accordingly, we've renamed the "⎈ Virtual Folk" webpage as "⎈ Zoom List".
⎈ Zoom List webpage (https://www.folklife.uk/zoom.html) replaces ⎈ Virtual Folk webpage
We will maintain zoom sessions & singarounds listings, open to all - Members, plus those who have signed up for this Newsletter.
As we return to normal printing, as print news expands, we have less time, as we prioritise our Folklife members - who pay for Folklife.
So... for other "Virtual Folk" such as Facebook concerts:
UK - from Folklife members only - see area Folk news webpages; International - open to all (this Newsletter list) ~ see International webpage
Accordingly, we've renamed the "⎈ Virtual Folk" webpage as "⎈ Zoom List".
FTJ: Folklife Traditions Journal. Researched articles + archive, news, on a separate website, www.folklife-traditions.uk
Folk studies and cultural traditions. Current FTJ issue copied online: www.folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html, read, or download PDF.
A record 7 researched articles are being prepared for FTJ's September 1st online issue!
****** FTJ's September 1st online issue will be included as part of the Folklife West October 1st print issue.
The deadline has passed for Sept online issue, but further Folklife News welcome for Oct print issue, and these updates/newsletters.
Folk studies and cultural traditions. Current FTJ issue copied online: www.folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html, read, or download PDF.
A record 7 researched articles are being prepared for FTJ's September 1st online issue!
- Article: The modern myth of Bosch’s butt music, by Ian Pittaway.
- Article & songs: ‘The Cherry Tree Carol - Part 2’ and ‘Part 3’, by Charles Menteith.
- Article: Some song sources for a semi-professional folk singer in the 1970s. Incl. song & notes: ‘I Trudged Up To London’ (Ewan Clarke, 1785). By Keith Gregson.
- Song & notes: ‘Long A-Growing’, sung by Harry Brazil. By Gwilym Davies
- Welsh traditional tune & notes: ‘Walts Trefforest’ / ‘The Treforest Waltz’, from Helen Adam.
- Songs’ notes: ‘The singing birds’. Three songs sung by Merêd and Phyllis Kinney, by Nia Mai Daniel.
****** FTJ's September 1st online issue will be included as part of the Folklife West October 1st print issue.
The deadline has passed for Sept online issue, but further Folklife News welcome for Oct print issue, and these updates/newsletters.
Member-Festivals & Workshops Diary updates.
Copied online: www.folklife.uk/festivals.html, so read online or (new!) download PDF of the printed version in Folklife West May 2021. Very full details, to Oct 2022!
Some live; some online as noted, so overseas friends can join us.
🄵 2021 Aug 27 - 30 CORNWALL FOLK FESTIVAL in Wadebridge is live - www.cornwallfolkfestival.com
🄵 9-12 September 2021 BROMYARD FOLK FESTIVAL -- a message from the organisers updated Aug 2021
It gives me great pleasure to announce that this year’s festival will be running with a full programme of events. These will include Morris dance performances and ceilidhs or listening to the bands. The artists booked are dual purpose ceilidh/concert bands with callers.
The infrastructure remains the same but with larger more capacious marquees for the bar and music venues. The bar will offer table service and ordering drinks by app, this system has been tried and tested by our wonderful bar provider, Nigel from the Fleece. The staff will wear masks and have been vaccinated and/or tested daily. There will be more room for spreading out to eat, drink and sit to enjoy the atmosphere in a safer environment. We are committed to making our site as safe as possible, and will require your help to make this happen, by giving others space and using the hand sanitising points around the site.
We will be welcoming back our loyal regular food traders providing the usual range of excellent food and drink.
The exciting list of artists are raring to perform, you will not be disappointed. See https://www.bromyardfolkfestival.co.uk
Lynne, Dick, Dave, Ross, James and the organising team
🄵 October 22 – 24 2021. WREN MUSIC FOLK FESTIVAL ( formally the Baring-Gould Folk Weekend) www.wrenmusic.co.uk updated Aug 2021
→ OKEHAMPTON, Devon. Held in comfortable indoor venues in the old market town of Okehampton, nestling on the northern slopes of Dartmoor.
⌂ WREN MUSIC 01837 53754 Ebenezer Hall, North Street, Okehampton, EX20 1AR.
⊕ The festival is hosted by the professional musicians at Wren Music, in easy-access venues across the centre of the old market town of Okehampton, Devon. Over the weekend the artists and audience create one very special community. The weekend features concerts, workshops for singers and players, folk clubs and pub sessions. There will be a Saturday night Ceilidh and local dance sides performing across the weekend. The ‘Share the Stage’ concerts put you on the bill with the artists. This year Wren welcomes accordion players Mel & Kat Biggs, performing as a rare duo. Back by popular demand, international singer Lucky Moyo, who has performed for Nelson Mandela and Queen Elizabeth II. Also Scott Gardiner, an award-winning singer of Scottish folk and bothy ballads. You’ll also see local favourites and the full Wren Ensemble. All artists perform and run workshops across the weekend. There will be delicious home-cooked food and local ales available at all events. Join the special Saturday supper with the artists, games and fun, and Sunday features the annual Prize Conker Competition. There will be events specifically for families and all ages are welcome. Discounted tickets for groups and families. Information and booking: www.wrenmusic.co.uk/whats-on
🄵 2021 Oct TBA BARING-GOULD FOLK SONG SCHOOL updated Aug 2021
The Song School will be held later in 2022. Details TBC. www.wrenmusic.co.uk
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Folk News, area/country pages & webpages updates.
Print-pages images, + PDF download (May was online only; Oct. will be in print & copied online).
Cymru/Wales
🄵 Clwb Gwerin LLANTRISANT Folk Club
Hiya Sam,
We are here in Wales of course waiting for August 7th when we will find out if Drakeford is going to lift our restrictions. We held a social live folk club last night in our room at the Athletic Club to test the waters. We chatted a lot, played music and read poetry but of course NO SINGING! We had a real live raffle which was so funny as we all chanted the raffle chorus completely out of time with each other just like it would be on Zoom. Everyone really enjoyed it and we are having another in 2 week's time with a hope for opening the club again properly when we hear on August 7th. We held it on Tuesday so it wouldn't interfere with our Wednesday Zoom meeting.
When we do eventually open up, it will be on a Wednesday as normal and we will move the Zoom to a Tuesday. We have met so many people and made so many friends from all over the world, we don't want to stop the Zooms.
Keep an eye on the folkclub website : www.folk.wales and Facebook page www.facebook.com/pages/Llantrisant-Folk-Club/226706954032491 for details as it will be great to see you here in person.
X Pat
8/8/21 ---- UPDATE from Mick Tems
🄵 LYCEUM FOLK & ACOUTIC CLUB of NEWPORT going LIVE on 19th. LAST THURSDAY ZOOM 12th AUGUST
11 August 2021 11:56
Hi Everyone,
Well the time has come to welcome back live music to Lyceum Folk Club of Newport, so this will happen on Thursday 19th August 2021 at 8.30pm at CRINDAU Cons Club Malpas Road Newport.
Even though restrictions have been relaxed we are still being cautious.
We will have hand sanitiser and antibacterial wipes available. If anyone wants to bring their own mics please do so. We have washable mic socks available.
We will be taking names and contact details so that the Cons Club can adhere to their Risk Assessment.
Should you wish to continue to wear a mask, especially when moving around, please feel free to do so.
We have had 71 fantastic on line Thursdays since this all started and have made friends from all over the country and the world. We do not want to lose touch with these new friends so we will be continuing with Zoom on the third Tuesday of the month starting on 21st September. Emails will be sent nearer the date. Same Zoom code.
Our last Thursday Zoom will be our 72nd this Thursday 12th August.
Thank you to everyone for your support.
Hope to see you in person on Thursday 19th August 8.30 p.m.
Cheers
Andy & Ruth. xx
Do join us for our last Thursday Zoom
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2802265304
Meeting ID: 280 226 5304
For more details about our Zoom evenings, see "Lyceum Folk Club of Newport" on Facebook,
facebook.com/Lyceum-Folk-Club-of-Newport-213395425376402/ and on lyceumfolknewport.org.uk/ [added 4 Jul 2020]
West Country
We are very sorry to have to announce that the amazing Acoustic Calendar is closing. Thanks to Tony Watts for all his hard work.
We have been in touch with Tony for many years, and finally met at Eli's traditional singaround in Huish Episcopi, Somerset. There are many unexplained mysteries in the universe; the main one is how Tony managed to find the time to set up, maintain, and regularly send out such comprehensive venue listings and monthly calendars.
Tony writes:
It seems like over a year ago that I last wrote ‘Hello People’. And it is. Some of you may have hoped that I would soldier on through the pandemic as an ambassador for Zoom, keeping you in touch with any little pockets of virtual song that may have appeared over the past months. Also the live sessions that are now cautiously easing themselves back to normality. Alas, I did not, and here’s the reason.
Even before the pandemic I was thinking of retiring, and wondering how I could wind up the Acoustic Calendar without causing too much human misery. When Lockdown was imposed, I thought it was the perfect opportunity (or, if you like, excuse) to grasp the nettle by the horns and go for it. I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to come clean, but this is how it is. I was 80 last birthday and there are other things I want to do before I join the great music session in the sky.
Reviving the Acoustic Calendar would effectively mean building it up again from scratch. Nothing can be guaranteed to be still happening. Many pubs have closed for good and those that are open will not necessarily continue to host music or to operate according to their pre- covid schedules.
If anyone is mad enough to want to take it on, I would work with them initially, but a more realistic scenario might be for the AC to split into areas with different people responsible for each, rather than one person doing the whole thing.
The Venues List will remain on my website. Although it's now more of an historical document than a guide to what's currently happening, it should still be useful to anyone who wants to do their own research into what may or may not still be going on.
I intend to make my calendar templates, etc. available to anyone who wants to have a go at maintaining an acoustic calendar of their own.
The Acoustic Calendar, under it’s original title Tony & Peter’s Folk Diary, first saw the light of day in 2006. It began as a short private list of relatively local venues for my brother Peter and I to use in our exploration of the folk world (we did a lot of folking in those days). Since then, it has grown to embrace the whole west country peninsula and beyond. I soon realised that its potential was too great for merely private use and decided to give it to the world through the medium of a website and monthly newsletters. The rest, as they say, is history. Or is it? Ah, well, that depends on you. Any possible future the Acoustic Calendar may have now rests in the hands of anyone who cares to take it on, in whole or in part.
I realise this news is not what any of you want to hear. I know from a wealth of positive feedback that many of you found the Acoustic Calendar an invaluable guide to all the places you could go with your voices and instruments to have a good time making music. Some of you even claim to have enjoyed my attempts at humour!
I’d like to end with a big thankyou to those special few (you know who you are) who made a point of keeping me informed about new venues, changes of schedule and other information vital in keeping the Calendar reliable and up-to-date.
I enjoyed the trip while it lasted.
I love you all, Tony https://sanchobramble.weebly.com
Cornwall
Many Clubs and sessions in Cornwall are generally waiting till the crowds have gone home.
🄵 Our Kernow correspondent Nigel Morson of Dreamers Folk Club reports in the Dreamers Newsletter that "It looks as though some live events are beginning to take place though most Clubs are waiting a little longer." www.dreamersfolk.co.uk
🄵 John Tremaine of Folk in Cornwall magazine reports that "I only know of one session in Cornwall that has restarted - at the Countryman Inn near Redruth. My local Morris side has started meeting outside in a car park to practice. We have a couple of bookings in August, including Cornwall Folk Festival. Most people seems very cautious about resuming social events, particularly with the large number of visitors Cornwall gets in the summer." There is a Directory on the website where you can see venues on Zoom, venues that are live, www.folkincornwall.co.uk
🄵 Rob Barratt's next few gigs. See http://www.robbarratt.co.uk
September 18th - St Ives September Festival, Cornwall. in The Arts Club with Dave Richey. Improv comedy, musical comedy and comic poetry. 8pm.
September 20th - Appledore Book Festival, North Devon. Appledore Social Club, 7.30pm. A two-person show of comedy through performance poetry with Liv Torc. October 2nd - The Old Library, Bodmin, Cornwall. The Two Robbies Show with "Professor of Whimsy", Robert Garnham. An evening with two of the South West's funniest spoken word performers.
Dorset
Our Correspondent John Waltham reports:
🄵 Music sessions at the Trooper have been happening out of doors since May, and are now coming indoors for the winter. Still on the 4th Sunday of the month, but check timings with Mandy Waltham on 01963 362890 as these may change from afternoon to evening
🄵 The same applies to the Second Sunday song sessions, but these may well move permanently to another day - probably Wednesdays - and be held in the Old Barn (= skittle alley) at the back of the Trooper.
Monthly sessions at the Exchange in Sturminster Newton have resumed on the 3rd Thursday evening of the month - contact Neil Gillard on 1963 363816.
Wiltshire
🄵 White Horse Folk Club Highworth are pleased to say that we are opening in a new venue in September to allow more space for those who wish to socially distance.
All details remain the same except for a 7.30pm start and the venue is St Michael’s Hall Lechlade Road Highworth SN6 7HQ. Derrick and Chris Beer
Copied online: www.folklife.uk/festivals.html, so read online or (new!) download PDF of the printed version in Folklife West May 2021. Very full details, to Oct 2022!
Some live; some online as noted, so overseas friends can join us.
🄵 2021 Aug 27 - 30 CORNWALL FOLK FESTIVAL in Wadebridge is live - www.cornwallfolkfestival.com
🄵 9-12 September 2021 BROMYARD FOLK FESTIVAL -- a message from the organisers updated Aug 2021
It gives me great pleasure to announce that this year’s festival will be running with a full programme of events. These will include Morris dance performances and ceilidhs or listening to the bands. The artists booked are dual purpose ceilidh/concert bands with callers.
The infrastructure remains the same but with larger more capacious marquees for the bar and music venues. The bar will offer table service and ordering drinks by app, this system has been tried and tested by our wonderful bar provider, Nigel from the Fleece. The staff will wear masks and have been vaccinated and/or tested daily. There will be more room for spreading out to eat, drink and sit to enjoy the atmosphere in a safer environment. We are committed to making our site as safe as possible, and will require your help to make this happen, by giving others space and using the hand sanitising points around the site.
We will be welcoming back our loyal regular food traders providing the usual range of excellent food and drink.
The exciting list of artists are raring to perform, you will not be disappointed. See https://www.bromyardfolkfestival.co.uk
Lynne, Dick, Dave, Ross, James and the organising team
🄵 October 22 – 24 2021. WREN MUSIC FOLK FESTIVAL ( formally the Baring-Gould Folk Weekend) www.wrenmusic.co.uk updated Aug 2021
→ OKEHAMPTON, Devon. Held in comfortable indoor venues in the old market town of Okehampton, nestling on the northern slopes of Dartmoor.
⌂ WREN MUSIC 01837 53754 Ebenezer Hall, North Street, Okehampton, EX20 1AR.
⊕ The festival is hosted by the professional musicians at Wren Music, in easy-access venues across the centre of the old market town of Okehampton, Devon. Over the weekend the artists and audience create one very special community. The weekend features concerts, workshops for singers and players, folk clubs and pub sessions. There will be a Saturday night Ceilidh and local dance sides performing across the weekend. The ‘Share the Stage’ concerts put you on the bill with the artists. This year Wren welcomes accordion players Mel & Kat Biggs, performing as a rare duo. Back by popular demand, international singer Lucky Moyo, who has performed for Nelson Mandela and Queen Elizabeth II. Also Scott Gardiner, an award-winning singer of Scottish folk and bothy ballads. You’ll also see local favourites and the full Wren Ensemble. All artists perform and run workshops across the weekend. There will be delicious home-cooked food and local ales available at all events. Join the special Saturday supper with the artists, games and fun, and Sunday features the annual Prize Conker Competition. There will be events specifically for families and all ages are welcome. Discounted tickets for groups and families. Information and booking: www.wrenmusic.co.uk/whats-on
🄵 2021 Oct TBA BARING-GOULD FOLK SONG SCHOOL updated Aug 2021
The Song School will be held later in 2022. Details TBC. www.wrenmusic.co.uk
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Folk News, area/country pages & webpages updates.
Print-pages images, + PDF download (May was online only; Oct. will be in print & copied online).
Cymru/Wales
🄵 Clwb Gwerin LLANTRISANT Folk Club
Hiya Sam,
We are here in Wales of course waiting for August 7th when we will find out if Drakeford is going to lift our restrictions. We held a social live folk club last night in our room at the Athletic Club to test the waters. We chatted a lot, played music and read poetry but of course NO SINGING! We had a real live raffle which was so funny as we all chanted the raffle chorus completely out of time with each other just like it would be on Zoom. Everyone really enjoyed it and we are having another in 2 week's time with a hope for opening the club again properly when we hear on August 7th. We held it on Tuesday so it wouldn't interfere with our Wednesday Zoom meeting.
When we do eventually open up, it will be on a Wednesday as normal and we will move the Zoom to a Tuesday. We have met so many people and made so many friends from all over the world, we don't want to stop the Zooms.
Keep an eye on the folkclub website : www.folk.wales and Facebook page www.facebook.com/pages/Llantrisant-Folk-Club/226706954032491 for details as it will be great to see you here in person.
X Pat
8/8/21 ---- UPDATE from Mick Tems
- We are returning to weekly LIVE MUSIC events with… August 18, 2021: The Jigantics at the Pontyclun Institute Athletic Club, Castan Road, Pontyclun CF72 9EH.
- WEEKLY Zoomaround on Wednesdays now finished as Club reopens, but we don’t want to lose touch with all the new (and old) friends we’ve made over the country and the world – so our Zoomarounds will continue on the first Tuesday of each month, starting on Tuesday, September 7. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89787380016 Meeting ID: 897 8738 0016 – no password.
- September 22, 2021: Geoff Lakeman & Rob Murch
- October 20, 2021: Ryan Young and Chris Amer (Scotland)
- Rescheduled: November 17, 2021: Daoirí Farrell (Ireland)
- December 1, 2021: Quicksilver
- December 15, 2021: Christmas Party No. 1 with Chiefly Ourselves and a buffet
- December 22, 2021: Christmas Party No. 2 – Jackie Oates & John Spiers
- Rescheduled: January 12, 2022: Jack Dawgs (Wales)
- See http://folk.wales/updates/folk-club-wots-occurring
🄵 LYCEUM FOLK & ACOUTIC CLUB of NEWPORT going LIVE on 19th. LAST THURSDAY ZOOM 12th AUGUST
11 August 2021 11:56
Hi Everyone,
Well the time has come to welcome back live music to Lyceum Folk Club of Newport, so this will happen on Thursday 19th August 2021 at 8.30pm at CRINDAU Cons Club Malpas Road Newport.
Even though restrictions have been relaxed we are still being cautious.
We will have hand sanitiser and antibacterial wipes available. If anyone wants to bring their own mics please do so. We have washable mic socks available.
We will be taking names and contact details so that the Cons Club can adhere to their Risk Assessment.
Should you wish to continue to wear a mask, especially when moving around, please feel free to do so.
We have had 71 fantastic on line Thursdays since this all started and have made friends from all over the country and the world. We do not want to lose touch with these new friends so we will be continuing with Zoom on the third Tuesday of the month starting on 21st September. Emails will be sent nearer the date. Same Zoom code.
Our last Thursday Zoom will be our 72nd this Thursday 12th August.
Thank you to everyone for your support.
Hope to see you in person on Thursday 19th August 8.30 p.m.
Cheers
Andy & Ruth. xx
Do join us for our last Thursday Zoom
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2802265304
Meeting ID: 280 226 5304
For more details about our Zoom evenings, see "Lyceum Folk Club of Newport" on Facebook,
facebook.com/Lyceum-Folk-Club-of-Newport-213395425376402/ and on lyceumfolknewport.org.uk/ [added 4 Jul 2020]
West Country
We are very sorry to have to announce that the amazing Acoustic Calendar is closing. Thanks to Tony Watts for all his hard work.
We have been in touch with Tony for many years, and finally met at Eli's traditional singaround in Huish Episcopi, Somerset. There are many unexplained mysteries in the universe; the main one is how Tony managed to find the time to set up, maintain, and regularly send out such comprehensive venue listings and monthly calendars.
Tony writes:
It seems like over a year ago that I last wrote ‘Hello People’. And it is. Some of you may have hoped that I would soldier on through the pandemic as an ambassador for Zoom, keeping you in touch with any little pockets of virtual song that may have appeared over the past months. Also the live sessions that are now cautiously easing themselves back to normality. Alas, I did not, and here’s the reason.
Even before the pandemic I was thinking of retiring, and wondering how I could wind up the Acoustic Calendar without causing too much human misery. When Lockdown was imposed, I thought it was the perfect opportunity (or, if you like, excuse) to grasp the nettle by the horns and go for it. I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to come clean, but this is how it is. I was 80 last birthday and there are other things I want to do before I join the great music session in the sky.
Reviving the Acoustic Calendar would effectively mean building it up again from scratch. Nothing can be guaranteed to be still happening. Many pubs have closed for good and those that are open will not necessarily continue to host music or to operate according to their pre- covid schedules.
If anyone is mad enough to want to take it on, I would work with them initially, but a more realistic scenario might be for the AC to split into areas with different people responsible for each, rather than one person doing the whole thing.
The Venues List will remain on my website. Although it's now more of an historical document than a guide to what's currently happening, it should still be useful to anyone who wants to do their own research into what may or may not still be going on.
I intend to make my calendar templates, etc. available to anyone who wants to have a go at maintaining an acoustic calendar of their own.
The Acoustic Calendar, under it’s original title Tony & Peter’s Folk Diary, first saw the light of day in 2006. It began as a short private list of relatively local venues for my brother Peter and I to use in our exploration of the folk world (we did a lot of folking in those days). Since then, it has grown to embrace the whole west country peninsula and beyond. I soon realised that its potential was too great for merely private use and decided to give it to the world through the medium of a website and monthly newsletters. The rest, as they say, is history. Or is it? Ah, well, that depends on you. Any possible future the Acoustic Calendar may have now rests in the hands of anyone who cares to take it on, in whole or in part.
I realise this news is not what any of you want to hear. I know from a wealth of positive feedback that many of you found the Acoustic Calendar an invaluable guide to all the places you could go with your voices and instruments to have a good time making music. Some of you even claim to have enjoyed my attempts at humour!
I’d like to end with a big thankyou to those special few (you know who you are) who made a point of keeping me informed about new venues, changes of schedule and other information vital in keeping the Calendar reliable and up-to-date.
I enjoyed the trip while it lasted.
I love you all, Tony https://sanchobramble.weebly.com
Cornwall
Many Clubs and sessions in Cornwall are generally waiting till the crowds have gone home.
🄵 Our Kernow correspondent Nigel Morson of Dreamers Folk Club reports in the Dreamers Newsletter that "It looks as though some live events are beginning to take place though most Clubs are waiting a little longer." www.dreamersfolk.co.uk
🄵 John Tremaine of Folk in Cornwall magazine reports that "I only know of one session in Cornwall that has restarted - at the Countryman Inn near Redruth. My local Morris side has started meeting outside in a car park to practice. We have a couple of bookings in August, including Cornwall Folk Festival. Most people seems very cautious about resuming social events, particularly with the large number of visitors Cornwall gets in the summer." There is a Directory on the website where you can see venues on Zoom, venues that are live, www.folkincornwall.co.uk
🄵 Rob Barratt's next few gigs. See http://www.robbarratt.co.uk
September 18th - St Ives September Festival, Cornwall. in The Arts Club with Dave Richey. Improv comedy, musical comedy and comic poetry. 8pm.
September 20th - Appledore Book Festival, North Devon. Appledore Social Club, 7.30pm. A two-person show of comedy through performance poetry with Liv Torc. October 2nd - The Old Library, Bodmin, Cornwall. The Two Robbies Show with "Professor of Whimsy", Robert Garnham. An evening with two of the South West's funniest spoken word performers.
Dorset
Our Correspondent John Waltham reports:
🄵 Music sessions at the Trooper have been happening out of doors since May, and are now coming indoors for the winter. Still on the 4th Sunday of the month, but check timings with Mandy Waltham on 01963 362890 as these may change from afternoon to evening
🄵 The same applies to the Second Sunday song sessions, but these may well move permanently to another day - probably Wednesdays - and be held in the Old Barn (= skittle alley) at the back of the Trooper.
Monthly sessions at the Exchange in Sturminster Newton have resumed on the 3rd Thursday evening of the month - contact Neil Gillard on 1963 363816.
Wiltshire
🄵 White Horse Folk Club Highworth are pleased to say that we are opening in a new venue in September to allow more space for those who wish to socially distance.
All details remain the same except for a 7.30pm start and the venue is St Michael’s Hall Lechlade Road Highworth SN6 7HQ. Derrick and Chris Beer
Bristol & South Glos
Obituary – John Shaw The traditional folk song scene in the Bristol area, and the mountain dulcimer world more widely, lost one of its most significant, eclectic and distinctive performers with the passing of John Shaw on 29th June aged 77. John moved to Bristol in 1968 with his wife, Angela, to pursue their careers in social work. John quickly developed a large and varied repertoire of mainly British but also American traditional songs and gained a reputation for interpreting them in his own particular style. John also began researching into Bristol’s musical heritage which resulted in 1982 in the production of a book, recording and stage show, ‘Alongside Bristol Quay’. He also became interested in the life and repertoire of Joseph Elliot from Todber and he recorded a number of his songs on an album, ‘Songs of a Dorset Fisherman’. The ‘electric folk’ movement was taking off and John, Angela and friends formed the group ‘Elecampane’ with him playing bass. The group quickly moved into what became known as ‘folk theatre’. During the recording of their first LP, ‘When God’s on the Water’, John purchased his first mountain dulcimer This instrument was to become a passion for the rest of his life. It is probably in his playing of it and its use for the accompaniment of his singing that he is best known. His wide repertoire, best illustrated in his own personal recordings, ‘Hourglass’, ‘Regional Curiosity’ and ‘Says Plato’ and on collaborations with the singer/ songwriter, Alan Kirkpatrick, was unique. He was a one-time Chair of the UK Nonsuch Dulcimer Society. John was also a founder member of the Bristol Shantymen, played bass with the celidh band ‘Jig Mad Wolf’, was the musical director of the West Gallery Group ‘Called To Be Saints’ and the unacknowledged leader of ‘The Hotwells Howlers’, a group that specialises in researching local and seasonal songs and staging multimedia folk productions. Another sideline was as a Punch and Judy man and he co-wrote Elecampane’s LP and stageshow, ‘The Further Adventures of Mr Punch’. John was a ’one-off’. A kind, gentle, modest, generous and considerate man, a loving husband to Angela, father to Cathy and Rosie and grandfather to Jim and Holly; the world is a lesser place without him. Dave Byrne. |
Glos-Oxon
🄵 ROVING FOLK, Kempley Village Hall, opposite St Edward’s Church, Kempley, Glos, GL18 2BP. 1st Thu, 7.30pm (changed from 8pm start)
Firstly, thanks to Stephanie for keeping us all updated with news of our monthly meeting, be they live or by zoom for the past few years, many thanks, Steph.
John Hodgson and myself are taking on Steph’s various tasks. John is one of our entertaining and talented performers and taking on general record keeping and correspondence. I am just an enthusiastic audience participant, only joining in for the chorus, which is why I have volunteered for an admin role to send out the monthly email.
The Club never charges for its folk evenings but always holds a raffle, the proceeds of which go to charity after expenses have been deducted.
After the wonderful atmosphere and success of our long awaited return to Kempley in July, we are continuing in the same vein. Therefore, we shall be gathering again at the earlier time of 7.15 for a 7.30 start. Please bring your own refreshments along with your instruments and voices.
Looking forward to seeing you in good voice! Lin Bourne and John Hodgson, on behalf of Roving Folk at Kempley.
Contact John Hodgson 01531 890852, email rovingfolkkempley<at>btinternet.com to join the mailing list.
🄵 SINGING SESSION at the Victoria in Stroud on hold for the moment - I’ll let you know when anything happens. Well done for keeping Folklife alive. Best wishes. Bob Bray
🄵 Revised from previously announced - adding Paul Burgess and start time.
Glos - JOHNNY COPPIN WITH PAUL BURGESS, Sat 23rd Oct. Minsterworth, Village Hall, 7.30pm. “One of the land's finest singer-songwriters....his music is as natural as the sun on the hills or the fresh waters of the streams" Tickets £15 (to incl. refreshments). For more information contact Terry on 01452 750160 or Joanna on 01452 750709 (event organised jointly by the church and village hall).
🄵 Winchcombe White Hart Folk, 1st Tuesday of month
"We might have predicted that "Freedom 19th July" might not become the new era of unbridled festivity we had hoped for. Instead there is increased caution, especially where singing indoors is involved" - Chris. The club was a -zooming in August; future plans are to be announced - to continue zooming or resuming live.
Herefs-Worcs
🄵 Rushwick Folk Club, 2nd Saturday of month - We will be reopening on Saturday 14th August.
We know common sense will prevail regards Covid safety but would ask you to be thoughtful when socialising with others within the hall.
We know the wearing of masks is no longer required by law but it would be appreciated if you can try to wear a mask when not seated at your table.
1. Doors will open at 7.45pm for a scheduled 8.00pm start. Can you please not enter before that time as we need to set the tables and chairs out.
2. Please make use of the hand sanitiser which will be located in the entrance before entering the hall itself
3. Unless you have a medical reason, can you please wear a mask until you are seated at a table.
4. Can you also please wear a mask when visiting the toilet.
5. There is no need to bring your own chairs as we will use those within the hall.
6. Tables will have already been wiped over with anti bacterial spray beforehand.
7. Windows and doors will be opened to provide a good circulation of fresh air.
£2 Entrance Fee To avoid having to handle cash, can you please bring the correct money and deposit it in the container when you enter the hall itself.
Refreshments for the time being, can you please bring your own tea and coffee etc (hopefully this will change before too long). We will however still provide the famous Rushwick KitKats, both in milk and dark chocolate, Whoopee did I hear someone say (Yes - the Editors)
Singing due to the size of the hall, tables can be spaced a good distance apart.
Clearing Up
We always appreciate any help you can provide in putting tables and chairs away at the end of the evening.
As most of you know, the small tables are put back in the room at the front of the hall.
Once they are all back in situ, they will be wiped down again with anti bacterial spray ready for the next users.
All we need now is to see your happy smiling faces on the 14th August.
We will do everything we can to make sure you have an enjoyable and relaxed evening and if anyone has any concerns or suggestions regards further enhancing Covid safety within the hall then please let us know.
It would be useful to know how many of you intend to come along so if you are able to let us know by Friday 13th that would be very much appreciated.
See you soon, Derek, Aidan and Cliff. Derek Lovell, 01299 824908, derek.lovell<at>yahoo.co.uk https://rushwickfolkclub.wixsite.com/home
🄵 Herefs FOLK AT THE FALCON, Bromyard Aug 13th Journeyman, Support – Koppelli (see previous Newsletter)
Sep 9th Bromyard Folk Festival weekend. Local Showcase – Thursday eve Lineup TBC
Oct 8th Sam Carter. Support – The Cherrystones
Nov 12th Sarah McQuaid. Support – Lawrence Illsley
Dec 10th Magpie Lane’s Christmas Concert. Support – OneAchord
For the full concert programme see https://folkatthefalcon.com / www.facebook.com/folkatthefalcon
🄵 Worcs: Great Malvern. 'Morris and Other Creatures' Art Exhibition & Morris dancing event, 16th & 17th Oct 2021 (some displays also during the following week).
Beginning 10am at Elgar Island on Bellevue, close to Worcester Rd, moving down Church St to the Priory gates. Then heading right, in Grange Road, to the Coach House Theatre for the Art Exhibition by local artists and students, and also more light entertainment / morris dancing there during the afternoons. There is also a Morris Art Competition for children. Please participate. Entries all around town. A poster will be seen top of town.
It is designed to encourage shoppers to our town, and generously supported by Malvern Town Council, The Elmley Foundation and the Malvern Hills Gallery Guild.
Covid-dependant: if it is not allowed, we shall cancel of course. Please be aware of masks, safety, and social distancing but enjoy.
Contact Jill Peer for details and to join us, 07754950939, spaces may be limited due to Covid, but so far we have plenty of space for all.
Jill M Peer Facebook
🄵 from Derek Lovell
Some of you will already know that over the last 18 months, I have been writing my own songs, some of which have been performed via folk club Zoom sessions Over the years I have composed many guitar instrumentals but this is a new venture for me. I did write a number of songs in my youth which were generally a lovey-dovey kind of stuff so it's best we don't talk about those! Anyway, as I was getting more than the occasional favourable response to my songs I was persuaded to get some of them recorded. The songs I have written will, I hope paint pictures in your mind as that was my intention from the very start. Some of the topics include tin mining in Cornwall, chain making in Cradley Heath, a visit to a fun fair and even Bonnie Prince Charlie's Battle Of Culloden Moor. Recordings have now been completed and I am pleased to say that the CD, which comprises of all my own material is called Flat Caps, Bowler Hats , Bonnets and Scarves and is now ready for you to purchase, if you are so inclined that is. All profits from the sale of the CD will be going directly the the charity Midlands Air Ambulance So, for less than the price of a couple of posh coffees and some sticky buns, you can buy this brilliant (not my words by the way) charity CD which won't make you hyperactive or fat but can always double up as a coaster if you don't like it. The CD will only cost you £10. It will be available for sale at Rushwick Folk Club sessions and also at our fellow Worcestershire folk clubs Quite a number of copies have already been sold and yes, people are still talking to me! In the meantime, take care, stay safe and I hope to see you soon. Best wishes, Derek Derek Lovell, 01299 824908, derek.lovell<at>yahoo.co.uk |
UK other areas
🄰 Associates, for 'Other Areas' 'International' (associates are those signed up to our Folklife Newsletter). - Folklife Newsletter sign up email sam@folklife.uk 'Opt In’ + country or Eng. region .... or use form below 🄰 Kent - DEAL FOLK CLUB Deal Folk Club will continue on Zoom until October. Our website www.dealfolkclub.org.uk will be kept updated with the latest information and any changes that should occur. Sue Watson, 19/7/21. 🄵 THE LIVING TRADITION MAGAZINE Issue 140 is the Aug-Nov 2021 issue of The Living Tradition magazine, featuring articles on Ian Bruce, Young Territorial, Tony Hall, Joe Derrane, The Marsden Rattlers, Carmel Gunning, Steve Ashley, Richard & Linda Thompson, John Kirkpatrick, Campfire Songs, In Search Of Mrs Saggs, Vincent Cross, Tales from the Road - Paul Downes, Transatlantic Connections, news, reviews and more. Essential reading for folk lovers! 10-issue subscriptions from £36. www.livingtradition.co.uk |
Updates for webpages not included in the printed magazine
🄲 Iaith Gymraeg/Welsh Language 🄰 Associates (those signed up to Newsletter), 'UK Other Areas' & 'International'
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⎈ Zoom List webpage updates "It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that an organisation, wishing to publicise a zoom session in Folklife, will tell the editors. It is universally acknowledged, that they might not tell the editors, when it stops." Some will stop, others continue, others hybrid (eg live & zoom). We note some smaller sessions are going outside when fine weather (at short notice, so you'll have to check). We'll update as and when we're told! .🄲 10.8.2021 Castell-nedd Port Talbot / Neath Port Talbot SESH SŴN Ddigidol - Ni'n cwrdd ar Zoom ail nos Fawth bob mis (2nd Tuesday of every month) 7-9pm. Contact details to have the zoom link is cymuned<at>micnpt.cymru Whether you’re fluent or learning Welsh, this is a chance to join in a traditional Welsh Folk Session. So grab your instruments and come along to enjoy in a friendly, supportive environment. A slower, slightly more formal session for folk beginners and Welsh learners, with popular Welsh-language sing-a-longs as well as traditional repertoire, although the sessions vary a lot from month to month. |
Cymru/Wales
🄵 Weekly WED -> 1st TUES
Clwb Gwerin LLANTRISANT Folk Club WEEKLY Zoomaround on Wednesdays now finished as Club reopens, see News above for details of live club, but we don’t want to lose touch with all the new (and old) friends we’ve made over the country and the world – so our Zoomarounds will continue on the first Tuesday of each month, starting on Tuesday, September 7. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89787380016 Meeting ID: 897 8738 0016 – no password.
🄵 Weekly THU -> 3rd TUES
LYCEUM FOLK & ACOUTIC CLUB of NEWPORT going LIVE on 19th. LAST THURSDAY ZOOM 12th AUGUST see News above for details of live club.
We have had 71 fantastic on line Thursdays since this all started and have made friends from all over the country and the world. We do not want to lose touch with these new friends so we will be continuing with Zoom on the third Tuesday of the month starting on 21st September. Emails will be sent nearer the date. Same Zoom code.
Our last Thursday Zoom will be our 72nd this Thursday 12th August. Thank you to everyone for your support.
Hope to see you in person on Thursday 19th August 8.30 p.m, Cheers Andy & Ruth. xx
Do join us for our last Thursday Zoom
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2802265304
Meeting ID: 280 226 5304
For more details about our Zoom evenings, see "Lyceum Folk Club of Newport" on Facebook,
facebook.com/Lyceum-Folk-Club-of-Newport-213395425376402/ and on lyceumfolknewport.org.uk/ [added 4 Jul 2020]
🄵 Weekly WED -> 1st TUES
Clwb Gwerin LLANTRISANT Folk Club WEEKLY Zoomaround on Wednesdays now finished as Club reopens, see News above for details of live club, but we don’t want to lose touch with all the new (and old) friends we’ve made over the country and the world – so our Zoomarounds will continue on the first Tuesday of each month, starting on Tuesday, September 7. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89787380016 Meeting ID: 897 8738 0016 – no password.
🄵 Weekly THU -> 3rd TUES
LYCEUM FOLK & ACOUTIC CLUB of NEWPORT going LIVE on 19th. LAST THURSDAY ZOOM 12th AUGUST see News above for details of live club.
We have had 71 fantastic on line Thursdays since this all started and have made friends from all over the country and the world. We do not want to lose touch with these new friends so we will be continuing with Zoom on the third Tuesday of the month starting on 21st September. Emails will be sent nearer the date. Same Zoom code.
Our last Thursday Zoom will be our 72nd this Thursday 12th August. Thank you to everyone for your support.
Hope to see you in person on Thursday 19th August 8.30 p.m, Cheers Andy & Ruth. xx
Do join us for our last Thursday Zoom
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2802265304
Meeting ID: 280 226 5304
For more details about our Zoom evenings, see "Lyceum Folk Club of Newport" on Facebook,
facebook.com/Lyceum-Folk-Club-of-Newport-213395425376402/ and on lyceumfolknewport.org.uk/ [added 4 Jul 2020]
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⎈ International folk news webpage
🄰 Associates, for 'Other Areas' 'International' (associates are those signed up to our Folklife Newsletter).
- Folklife Newsletter sign up email sam@folklife.uk 'Opt In’ + country or Eng. region .... or use form below
🄰 GERMANY - ENGLISH FOLK CLUB Update for the friends of the EFC / Info für die Freunde des EFCs
As you will all know by now the EFC has been organizing Online Concerts for over a year because of the pandemic. We’re been on a summer break July – September for a number of reasons, but it's not just a summer break, it's a pause for thought too.
The tenant of our venue, the KissVino, which is a winery, was till now a large health clinic, but now the city of Bad Kissingen is re-establishing the contract and it’s being renegotiated and there will very likely be a new tenant. Neither a date nor information about the possible new tenant is known. However, hopefully it will be by the end of summer at the latest.
As soon as this happens, we will hopefully be able to have our EFC evenings again. That is, as long as the pandemic doesn’t raise its ugly head again.
Be assured we will notify you as soon as we have the good news.
If you have any questions or suggestions please let us know.
Wie Ihr alle wisst, wir, der EFC, hat wegen der Pandemie seit über einem Jahr nur Online-Konzerte organisiert. Wir haben aus mehreren Gründen seit Juni eine Sommerpause eingelegt, aber es ist nicht nur eine Sommerpause, sondern auch eine Denkpause.
Das KissVino befindet sich im Alten Rathaus in Bad Kissingen und gehört der Stadt Bad Kissingen. Der Pächter ist bis jetzt eine große Gesundheitsklinik, aber jetzt wird der Vertrag neu verhandelt und es wird sehr wahrscheinlich einen neuen Pächter geben. Weder ein Datum noch Information über der evtl. neuen Pächter ist bekannt. Hoffentlich wissen wir es bis spätestens Ende des Sommers.
Sobald dies geschieht, hoffen wir, dass wir unsere EFC-Abende veranstalten können, aber auch was wichtig ist solange die Pandemie nicht wieder ihren hässlichen Kopf erhebt.
Sei versichert, dass wir Dich/Euch benachrichtigen und Bescheid geben, sobald wir mehr wissen.
Wenn DuFragen oder Anregungen hast, lasse es uns es bitte wissen.
Our best musical regards
https://www.facebook.com/EnglishFolkClubBadKissingen
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⎈ DIRECTORY Updates -- several changes of venues expected, watch this space . . .
🄵 New contact, new start time - added to ⎈ Glos-Oxon Directory 1 Venues
1st Thu Glos KEMPLEY ROVING FOLK (no website) John Hodgson 01531 890852
→ Kempley Village Hall, Glos, GL18 2BP. 7.30pm.
⇒ Email rovingfolkkempley<at>btinternet.com to join the mailing list.
⊕ A warm reception for singers, players and the spoken word. Bring your own drinks. Free entry. [contact update & start time changed, 2021 Aug]
Please support our performers, who have lost their income: check their Directory-listed websites for recordings to buy.
⎈ International folk news webpage
🄰 Associates, for 'Other Areas' 'International' (associates are those signed up to our Folklife Newsletter).
- Folklife Newsletter sign up email sam@folklife.uk 'Opt In’ + country or Eng. region .... or use form below
🄰 GERMANY - ENGLISH FOLK CLUB Update for the friends of the EFC / Info für die Freunde des EFCs
As you will all know by now the EFC has been organizing Online Concerts for over a year because of the pandemic. We’re been on a summer break July – September for a number of reasons, but it's not just a summer break, it's a pause for thought too.
The tenant of our venue, the KissVino, which is a winery, was till now a large health clinic, but now the city of Bad Kissingen is re-establishing the contract and it’s being renegotiated and there will very likely be a new tenant. Neither a date nor information about the possible new tenant is known. However, hopefully it will be by the end of summer at the latest.
As soon as this happens, we will hopefully be able to have our EFC evenings again. That is, as long as the pandemic doesn’t raise its ugly head again.
Be assured we will notify you as soon as we have the good news.
If you have any questions or suggestions please let us know.
Wie Ihr alle wisst, wir, der EFC, hat wegen der Pandemie seit über einem Jahr nur Online-Konzerte organisiert. Wir haben aus mehreren Gründen seit Juni eine Sommerpause eingelegt, aber es ist nicht nur eine Sommerpause, sondern auch eine Denkpause.
Das KissVino befindet sich im Alten Rathaus in Bad Kissingen und gehört der Stadt Bad Kissingen. Der Pächter ist bis jetzt eine große Gesundheitsklinik, aber jetzt wird der Vertrag neu verhandelt und es wird sehr wahrscheinlich einen neuen Pächter geben. Weder ein Datum noch Information über der evtl. neuen Pächter ist bekannt. Hoffentlich wissen wir es bis spätestens Ende des Sommers.
Sobald dies geschieht, hoffen wir, dass wir unsere EFC-Abende veranstalten können, aber auch was wichtig ist solange die Pandemie nicht wieder ihren hässlichen Kopf erhebt.
Sei versichert, dass wir Dich/Euch benachrichtigen und Bescheid geben, sobald wir mehr wissen.
Wenn DuFragen oder Anregungen hast, lasse es uns es bitte wissen.
Our best musical regards
https://www.facebook.com/EnglishFolkClubBadKissingen
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⎈ DIRECTORY Updates -- several changes of venues expected, watch this space . . .
🄵 New contact, new start time - added to ⎈ Glos-Oxon Directory 1 Venues
1st Thu Glos KEMPLEY ROVING FOLK (no website) John Hodgson 01531 890852
→ Kempley Village Hall, Glos, GL18 2BP. 7.30pm.
⇒ Email rovingfolkkempley<at>btinternet.com to join the mailing list.
⊕ A warm reception for singers, players and the spoken word. Bring your own drinks. Free entry. [contact update & start time changed, 2021 Aug]
Please support our performers, who have lost their income: check their Directory-listed websites for recordings to buy.
@ emailed Mon 19 July 2021 ... Updates
Newsletter Editorial 19/7/2021
Folklife 19 July 2021 Newsletter: reopening ...
Today's the day that Covid rules in England (not Wales, not Scotland) change . . .
"Hoping to open September, but haven't sorted a venue yet (regular pub may be too small if people want to distance themselves), or quite how we'll do it at all...."
Some folk venues opening, some not, and quite a few still thinking about it ...
As expected (that's why we said earlier we'd postpone our deadline, normally today).
Our revised deadline for folk news is 19 August, for October publication.
By then, we expect more will have decided, if all goes well . . .
Do let us know - we'll add to Updates webpage as we hear, & then in Newsletters.
Attending folk events - safety concerns - government gives organisers the job of reassuring audience in the absence of legally-binding Government rules (for example, poorly-ventilated rooms are a problem for many clubs).
Some folk events are fully prepared and ready to go! See Updates below.
Others are considering how best & when to open; and some are leaving opening till covid numbers look better.
Our last full-sized magazine, Jan 2020, was a record 64 A4 pages - fewer in October? We've gained new Members (thanks, Zoom); others left (lost venue; or given up due to Covid difficulties); and as above, some plan to continue - but not yet.
Accordingly, perhaps fewer news pages, and fewer adverts.
Therefore, we continue to be a very non-profit group, and currently extremely non-profit ...
So, if you're not a Member, your support (£16/year) will be gratefully appreciated...
Members' news before October: do send for Updates page & Newsletter!
Folklife 19 July 2021 Newsletter: reopening ...
Today's the day that Covid rules in England (not Wales, not Scotland) change . . .
"Hoping to open September, but haven't sorted a venue yet (regular pub may be too small if people want to distance themselves), or quite how we'll do it at all...."
Some folk venues opening, some not, and quite a few still thinking about it ...
As expected (that's why we said earlier we'd postpone our deadline, normally today).
Our revised deadline for folk news is 19 August, for October publication.
By then, we expect more will have decided, if all goes well . . .
Do let us know - we'll add to Updates webpage as we hear, & then in Newsletters.
Attending folk events - safety concerns - government gives organisers the job of reassuring audience in the absence of legally-binding Government rules (for example, poorly-ventilated rooms are a problem for many clubs).
Some folk events are fully prepared and ready to go! See Updates below.
Others are considering how best & when to open; and some are leaving opening till covid numbers look better.
Our last full-sized magazine, Jan 2020, was a record 64 A4 pages - fewer in October? We've gained new Members (thanks, Zoom); others left (lost venue; or given up due to Covid difficulties); and as above, some plan to continue - but not yet.
Accordingly, perhaps fewer news pages, and fewer adverts.
Therefore, we continue to be a very non-profit group, and currently extremely non-profit ...
So, if you're not a Member, your support (£16/year) will be gratefully appreciated...
Members' news before October: do send for Updates page & Newsletter!
FTJ: Folklife Traditions Journal. Researched articles + archive, news, on a separate website, www.folklife-traditions.uk
Folk studies and cultural traditions Current FTJ issue copied online: www.folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html, read, or download PDF.
🄵 = Folklife Members Ø = other contributions are welcome
🄲 = Iaith Gymraeg / Welsh language contributions; scroll down for English language under.
Folklife Organisations updates.
🄵 EFDSS Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Call for papers: Diversity in Folk
The annual conference of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library will take place on 13 and 14 November 2021 at Cecil Sharp House in London. Its theme will be ‘Diversity in Folk’. We seek papers on any aspect of folk music or dance and the issue of racial and ethnic diversity, both historically focused and in contemporary discourse. Topics may include, but are not necessarily limited to:
Our focus is mainly on the UK and Ireland, but we welcome papers – which should last around 20 minutes – on other traditions which tie into our theme, and those which encourage us to view England’s folk traditions from the widest possible range of viewpoints.
Please email tiffany<at>efdss.org for further information or to submit a proposal of no more than 400 words.
The deadline for proposals is Friday 30 July 2021.
🄵 The Traditional Song Forum downloads videos of its excellent fortnightly Zoom talks, simply google Traditional Song Forum - YouTube. See https://tradsong.org for more about the work of the TSF.
🄵 Wales: Trac Cymru. We mentioned (14 May newsletter) trac's new website at www.trac.cymru
Folk studies and cultural traditions Current FTJ issue copied online: www.folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html, read, or download PDF.
🄵 = Folklife Members Ø = other contributions are welcome
🄲 = Iaith Gymraeg / Welsh language contributions; scroll down for English language under.
Folklife Organisations updates.
🄵 EFDSS Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Call for papers: Diversity in Folk
The annual conference of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library will take place on 13 and 14 November 2021 at Cecil Sharp House in London. Its theme will be ‘Diversity in Folk’. We seek papers on any aspect of folk music or dance and the issue of racial and ethnic diversity, both historically focused and in contemporary discourse. Topics may include, but are not necessarily limited to:
- England’s folk traditions in the context of racism and anti-racism
- Early song collectors’ attitudes on race, ethnicity and the nature and purpose of folk song
- Minstrelsy and folk music
- Blackface in the folk arts
- The diverse roots of songs and tunes
- The treatment of ‘the other’ in the folk arts
- Library and archive approaches to potentially offensive material in music or dance
- Folk arts, diversity and society today.
Our focus is mainly on the UK and Ireland, but we welcome papers – which should last around 20 minutes – on other traditions which tie into our theme, and those which encourage us to view England’s folk traditions from the widest possible range of viewpoints.
Please email tiffany<at>efdss.org for further information or to submit a proposal of no more than 400 words.
The deadline for proposals is Friday 30 July 2021.
🄵 The Traditional Song Forum downloads videos of its excellent fortnightly Zoom talks, simply google Traditional Song Forum - YouTube. See https://tradsong.org for more about the work of the TSF.
🄵 Wales: Trac Cymru. We mentioned (14 May newsletter) trac's new website at www.trac.cymru
Publications: "Llyfr Alawon DnA Tune Book" Delyth & Angharad Jenkins
🄲 Nid oedd y ddeuawd mam a merch Delyth & Angharad Jenkins, sy’n cael eu hadnabod fel DnA, yn segur yn ystod y cyfnod clo. Gyda phob gig wedi ei ganslo fe aethon nhw ati i weithio ar brosiectau gwahanol, ac un ohonynt oedd creu llyfr alawon o’u dwy albwm cyntaf Adnabod (2013) a Llinyn Arian (2018). Mae'r llyfr yn cynnwys rhai o alawon traddodiadol gorau Cymru ac efallai llai adnabyddus, yn ogystal â chyfansoddiadau gwreiddiol. Er bod Delyth ac Angharad yn adnabyddus am chwarae'r delyn a'r ffidil, mae'r alawon yn y llyfr hwn yn gallu cael eu chwarae ar unrhyw offeryn. Gallai trefniannau'r delyn gael eu chwarae ar y piano. A llinell uchaf y trefniant yw llinell y ffidil, neu’r alaw. Mae cordiau wedi cael eu rhoi ar gyfer yr alawon, felly gallai gitâr neu unrhyw offeryn sy'n chwarae cordiau gyfeilio’r alawon. Mae'r llyfr hwn yn rhoi cyfle i bob cerddor rannu a mwynhau’r gerddoriaeth hon. www.dna-folk.co.uk Ø Mother and daughter duo Delyth & Angharad Jenkins, known affectionately as DnA, were not idle during lockdown. With all gigs cancelled they put their minds to alternative projects, one of which was to put together a tune book of music from their first two albums Adnabod (2013) and Llinyn Arian (2018). The book includes some of Wales’s finest and perhaps lesser known traditional tunes, as well as original compositions. Although Delyth and Angharad are known for playing the harp and fiddle, the tunes in this book could be played on any instrument. The harp arrangements could be played on the piano. And the fiddle or melody line is the top line of the arrangement. Chords have also been given for the tunes, so they could just as well be accompanied by a guitar or any chordal instrument. This book gives all musicians the opportunity to share and delight in this music. www.dna-folk.co.uk |
Member-Festivals & Workshops Diary.
Copied online: www.folklife.uk/festivals.html, so read online or (new!) download PDF of the print version. Very full details, to Oct 2022!
Some live; some online as noted, so overseas friends can join us.
🄵 now confirmed - live
2021 Aug 13 - 15 WHITE HORSE FOLK FESTIVAL www.WhiteHorseFolkFestival.co.uk
→ GROVE, near Wantage, Oxfordshire. Various venues in Grove.
⌂ WHITE HORSE FOLK FESTIVAL Jeff and Elaine Gillett, 01453 751256, whitehorsefolkfestival<at>gmail.com,
www.WhiteHorseFolkFestival.co.uk
⊕ WHFF is a small, friendly, traditional festival where there is an emphasis on taking part.
We are running the festival this summer but we are having to make some changes to reduce the risk of spreading the virus. We have cancelled the ceilidh because it isn't a non-contact sport! We will be having song sessions in an open-sided marquee. The concert guests and workshop leaders will be Jess and Richard Arrowsmith, Phoebe Rees, Carolyn Robson and Moira Craig and JIB who are Barry and Ingrid Temple with Jim Mageean. Jim will be joined by Graham Knights to lead a shanty session and the musicians sessions will be led by Bill McKinnion.
🄵 2021 Sep 3 - 5 LLANWDDYN WEEKEND OF FOLK & ACOUSTIC MUSIC POSTPONED www.llanwddynevents.co.uk
postponed to 2022. The new dates being
🄵 2022 Sep 2 - 4 LLANWDDYN WEEKEND OF FOLK & ACOUSTIC MUSIC www.llanwddynevents.co.uk
Also see Festivals/Workshops webpage for 2022 details
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Folk News, area/country pages & webpages.
Print-pages images, + PDF download (May was online only; Oct. in print & copied online).
Many clubs/sessions are still considering what to do before announcing definite plans.
We'll let you know when we hear, with more frequent newsletters as needed.
Cymru/Wales
🄵 Clwb Gwerin LLANTRISANT Folk Club MEETINGS SUSPENDED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. Website: www.folk.wales Pontyclun Institute Athletic Club, Castan Road, Pontyclun CF72 9EH (01443 222182) Organiser & bookings: Pat Smith (01443 226892. Mobile: 07989 209824)
FOLKWALES ONLINE MAGAZINE: www.folk.wales/magazine/ Email: folkclub@folkwales.org.uk
FB: www.facebook.com/pages/Llantrisant-Folk-Club/226706954032491
FOLK CLUB
July 28, 2021: POSTPONED TO A LATER DATE: Pharis and Jason Romero (Canada)
August 11, 2021: POSTPONED TO A LATER DATE: Sadie and Jay (New Zealand)
August 18, 2021: The Jigantics (rescheduled) (£8 admission, £5 members)
September 1, 2021: Hungrytown (USA - rescheduled) (£8 admission, £5 members)
October 6, 2021: Will Pound and Phoebe Rees (£8 admission, £5 members)
October 20, 2021: Ryan Young & Chris Amer (Scotland) (£8 admission, £5 members)
West Country
Devon and Cornwall
🄵 Bideford Folk Club, at the Joiners Arms, Bideford, N. Devon EX39 2DR will be meeting weekly once again from 8pm on Thursday 5th August.
Full guest list on our website ( https://bidefordfolkclub.com/ ) starting with the wonderful Steve Turner on 23rd September. Welcome back, everyone! (15/7/21)
Glos-Oxon
🄵 Glos - CHELTENHAM FOLK CLUB - 2nd & 4th Sundays - zoom over summer, back in pub Sept tbc, see note under Zoom List webpage updates below
🄵 Glos - JOHNNY COPPIN. Sat 23rd Oct. Minsterworth, Village Hall. “One of the land's finest singer-songwriters....his music is as natural as the sun on the hills or the fresh waters of the streams" Tickets £15 (to incl. refreshments). For more information contact Terry on 01452 750160 or Joanna on 01452 750709 (event organised jointly by the church and village hall).
🄵 Glos - BLACKTHORN BUSKERS. Saturday, 24 July 2021. 4pm - 6pm free, at The Carpenter's Arms, Miserden GL6 7JA. Blackthorn Buskers are a lively folk harmony quartet. Traditional English folk songs, shanties, a few original songs and the odd Dutch one, with guitar, flute, melodeon, bodhran and bass. www.thecarps-miserden.co.uk
West Midlands
🄵 News from the Traditional Arts Team. The Team loves everything about folk music, songs, dances and stories, and wants to encourage everyone to get involved. However, because of coronavirus and the need for social distancing, we don’t know whether we can return to running physical events this autumn. We are planning some online sessions as below and will see what happens. Links are sent out in our monthly email newsletter - please sign up if you aren't already on our mailing list. You can do this by entering your email address in the box at www.tradartsteam.co.uk or just by emailing info<at>tradartsteam.co.uk
Monthly Online Song and Story Sessions:
All are welcome to join these online sessions, to take part or just to listen. Links are sent out to our mailing list. 1st Wednesday – Tales and Ales storytelling session, 8-10pm; 2nd Sunday – Swedish music session, 2-4pm; 2nd Wednesday – Sing Political, 8-10pm; Left-Write songwriting sessions, 8-10pm
Birmingham Storytelling Café
It’s hoped there will be a new season of Storytelling Café starting on Wednesday 15 September at Kitchen Garden Cafe. Storytelling Café is a place of magic and mischief, where you can enjoy being whisked away to a world of wonderful stories that will amuse and enrich you. The Café is held on the third Wednesday of each month, starting at 7:30pm, and you can get the latest information from our web calendar.
Please check our website www.tradartsteam.co.uk for updates on all our activities, in case of changes, cancellations or even new events as they become possible!
Herefs-Worcs
🄵 Herefs - Prince of Wales, Ledbury (Wed weekly)
The PM’s announcement this evening would seem to suggest that we could be back in the Prince of Wales on 21st July if all goes as planned. I haven’t heard that there will be any restrictions still on singing, so fingers crossed.
🄵 FOLK AT THE FALCON is a new Member - see Updates for Directory below.
🄵 Herefs FOLK AT THE FALCON, Bromyard : Friday 13th August, 7.30pm. The Falcon Mews will echo once again to some of the country's finest and most entertaining acoustic musicians.
Journeyman play a unique blend of folk, pop, rock, Irish and country music. Brilliant and lively repertoire, and renowned for their laid back, tongue in cheek presentation! They are: Paul Beadle, vocals, guitar, mandolin, flute, percussion, playing and singing with amazing vigour; Andy Lindsay, vocals, guitar, mandolin, whistle and harmonica, and a fine songwriter; brilliant bass player Marc Miletich (The Roving Crows, Babajak and Worcester Symphony Orchestra); and Kimberly Turnbull (Flatworld), a superb singer and brilliant violinist.
Supported by Koppelli, Ludlow duo: Nathan Edwards, guitar, harmonica, vocals, and Sheena Wieckowicz, keyboards, accordion, percussion, handpans, vocals. They met two years ago at an open mic and have been together ever since, playing mostly their own original material. Sheena says: 'We play thoughtful, romantic and fun original songs, written by both of us, but predominantly Nathan.'
Audience numbers may continue to be limited by Covid restrictions, so it's advised to book early. Tickets are £10 from Roger Pugh at pugh<at>live.co.uk / 01885 483425 / 07779 694615
For the full concert programme see https://folkatthefalcon.com / www.facebook.com/folkatthefalcon
Copied online: www.folklife.uk/festivals.html, so read online or (new!) download PDF of the print version. Very full details, to Oct 2022!
Some live; some online as noted, so overseas friends can join us.
🄵 now confirmed - live
2021 Aug 13 - 15 WHITE HORSE FOLK FESTIVAL www.WhiteHorseFolkFestival.co.uk
→ GROVE, near Wantage, Oxfordshire. Various venues in Grove.
⌂ WHITE HORSE FOLK FESTIVAL Jeff and Elaine Gillett, 01453 751256, whitehorsefolkfestival<at>gmail.com,
www.WhiteHorseFolkFestival.co.uk
⊕ WHFF is a small, friendly, traditional festival where there is an emphasis on taking part.
We are running the festival this summer but we are having to make some changes to reduce the risk of spreading the virus. We have cancelled the ceilidh because it isn't a non-contact sport! We will be having song sessions in an open-sided marquee. The concert guests and workshop leaders will be Jess and Richard Arrowsmith, Phoebe Rees, Carolyn Robson and Moira Craig and JIB who are Barry and Ingrid Temple with Jim Mageean. Jim will be joined by Graham Knights to lead a shanty session and the musicians sessions will be led by Bill McKinnion.
🄵 2021 Sep 3 - 5 LLANWDDYN WEEKEND OF FOLK & ACOUSTIC MUSIC POSTPONED www.llanwddynevents.co.uk
postponed to 2022. The new dates being
🄵 2022 Sep 2 - 4 LLANWDDYN WEEKEND OF FOLK & ACOUSTIC MUSIC www.llanwddynevents.co.uk
Also see Festivals/Workshops webpage for 2022 details
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Folk News, area/country pages & webpages.
Print-pages images, + PDF download (May was online only; Oct. in print & copied online).
Many clubs/sessions are still considering what to do before announcing definite plans.
We'll let you know when we hear, with more frequent newsletters as needed.
Cymru/Wales
🄵 Clwb Gwerin LLANTRISANT Folk Club MEETINGS SUSPENDED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. Website: www.folk.wales Pontyclun Institute Athletic Club, Castan Road, Pontyclun CF72 9EH (01443 222182) Organiser & bookings: Pat Smith (01443 226892. Mobile: 07989 209824)
FOLKWALES ONLINE MAGAZINE: www.folk.wales/magazine/ Email: folkclub@folkwales.org.uk
FB: www.facebook.com/pages/Llantrisant-Folk-Club/226706954032491
FOLK CLUB
July 28, 2021: POSTPONED TO A LATER DATE: Pharis and Jason Romero (Canada)
August 11, 2021: POSTPONED TO A LATER DATE: Sadie and Jay (New Zealand)
August 18, 2021: The Jigantics (rescheduled) (£8 admission, £5 members)
September 1, 2021: Hungrytown (USA - rescheduled) (£8 admission, £5 members)
October 6, 2021: Will Pound and Phoebe Rees (£8 admission, £5 members)
October 20, 2021: Ryan Young & Chris Amer (Scotland) (£8 admission, £5 members)
West Country
Devon and Cornwall
🄵 Bideford Folk Club, at the Joiners Arms, Bideford, N. Devon EX39 2DR will be meeting weekly once again from 8pm on Thursday 5th August.
Full guest list on our website ( https://bidefordfolkclub.com/ ) starting with the wonderful Steve Turner on 23rd September. Welcome back, everyone! (15/7/21)
Glos-Oxon
🄵 Glos - CHELTENHAM FOLK CLUB - 2nd & 4th Sundays - zoom over summer, back in pub Sept tbc, see note under Zoom List webpage updates below
🄵 Glos - JOHNNY COPPIN. Sat 23rd Oct. Minsterworth, Village Hall. “One of the land's finest singer-songwriters....his music is as natural as the sun on the hills or the fresh waters of the streams" Tickets £15 (to incl. refreshments). For more information contact Terry on 01452 750160 or Joanna on 01452 750709 (event organised jointly by the church and village hall).
🄵 Glos - BLACKTHORN BUSKERS. Saturday, 24 July 2021. 4pm - 6pm free, at The Carpenter's Arms, Miserden GL6 7JA. Blackthorn Buskers are a lively folk harmony quartet. Traditional English folk songs, shanties, a few original songs and the odd Dutch one, with guitar, flute, melodeon, bodhran and bass. www.thecarps-miserden.co.uk
West Midlands
🄵 News from the Traditional Arts Team. The Team loves everything about folk music, songs, dances and stories, and wants to encourage everyone to get involved. However, because of coronavirus and the need for social distancing, we don’t know whether we can return to running physical events this autumn. We are planning some online sessions as below and will see what happens. Links are sent out in our monthly email newsletter - please sign up if you aren't already on our mailing list. You can do this by entering your email address in the box at www.tradartsteam.co.uk or just by emailing info<at>tradartsteam.co.uk
Monthly Online Song and Story Sessions:
All are welcome to join these online sessions, to take part or just to listen. Links are sent out to our mailing list. 1st Wednesday – Tales and Ales storytelling session, 8-10pm; 2nd Sunday – Swedish music session, 2-4pm; 2nd Wednesday – Sing Political, 8-10pm; Left-Write songwriting sessions, 8-10pm
Birmingham Storytelling Café
It’s hoped there will be a new season of Storytelling Café starting on Wednesday 15 September at Kitchen Garden Cafe. Storytelling Café is a place of magic and mischief, where you can enjoy being whisked away to a world of wonderful stories that will amuse and enrich you. The Café is held on the third Wednesday of each month, starting at 7:30pm, and you can get the latest information from our web calendar.
Please check our website www.tradartsteam.co.uk for updates on all our activities, in case of changes, cancellations or even new events as they become possible!
Herefs-Worcs
🄵 Herefs - Prince of Wales, Ledbury (Wed weekly)
The PM’s announcement this evening would seem to suggest that we could be back in the Prince of Wales on 21st July if all goes as planned. I haven’t heard that there will be any restrictions still on singing, so fingers crossed.
🄵 FOLK AT THE FALCON is a new Member - see Updates for Directory below.
🄵 Herefs FOLK AT THE FALCON, Bromyard : Friday 13th August, 7.30pm. The Falcon Mews will echo once again to some of the country's finest and most entertaining acoustic musicians.
Journeyman play a unique blend of folk, pop, rock, Irish and country music. Brilliant and lively repertoire, and renowned for their laid back, tongue in cheek presentation! They are: Paul Beadle, vocals, guitar, mandolin, flute, percussion, playing and singing with amazing vigour; Andy Lindsay, vocals, guitar, mandolin, whistle and harmonica, and a fine songwriter; brilliant bass player Marc Miletich (The Roving Crows, Babajak and Worcester Symphony Orchestra); and Kimberly Turnbull (Flatworld), a superb singer and brilliant violinist.
Supported by Koppelli, Ludlow duo: Nathan Edwards, guitar, harmonica, vocals, and Sheena Wieckowicz, keyboards, accordion, percussion, handpans, vocals. They met two years ago at an open mic and have been together ever since, playing mostly their own original material. Sheena says: 'We play thoughtful, romantic and fun original songs, written by both of us, but predominantly Nathan.'
Audience numbers may continue to be limited by Covid restrictions, so it's advised to book early. Tickets are £10 from Roger Pugh at pugh<at>live.co.uk / 01885 483425 / 07779 694615
For the full concert programme see https://folkatthefalcon.com / www.facebook.com/folkatthefalcon
Updates for webpages not included in the printed magazine
🄲 Iaith Gymraeg/Welsh Language 🄰 Associates (those signed up to Newsletter), 'UK Other Areas' & 'International'
🄲 Iaith Gymraeg/Welsh Language 🄰 Associates (those signed up to Newsletter), 'UK Other Areas' & 'International'
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⎈ Zoom List webpage updates
⎈ Zoom List webpage updates
SUNDAY
Glos-Oxon 🄵 Glos - CHELTENHAM FOLK CLUB - 2nd & 4th Sundays - will be live on Zoom, details will be sent to those on the mailing list. To join our mailing list, just email machteltje <at> gmail.com and say you would like to be on the list. **** Just to let you know the summer dates for Cheltenham Folk Club, all Sunday evenings: July 25th, August 8th, August 22nd. We had thought we'd be back in the pub in September, but we can't fully predict with the possibility of new variants and the sudden lifting of restrictions. So we'll keep in touch about this. 06/07/2021 TUESDAY Cymru/Wales 🄲 Castell-nedd Port Talbot / Neath Port Talbot SESH SŴN Ddigidol - Ni'n cwrdd ar Zoom ail nos Fawth bob mis (second Tuesday of every month) 7-9pm. Contact details to have the zoom link is cymuned<at>micnpt.cymru Whether you’re fluent or learning Welsh, this is a chance to join in a traditional Welsh Folk Session. So grab your instruments and come along to enjoy in a friendly, supportive environment. A slower, slightly more formal session for folk beginners and Welsh learners, with popular Welsh-language sing-a-longs as well as traditional repertoire, although the sessions vary a lot from month to month. |
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⎈ International folk news webpage
🄰 Associates, for 'Other Areas' 'International' (associates are those signed up to our Folklife Newsletter).
- Folklife Newsletter sign up email sam@folklife.uk 'Opt In’ + country or Eng. region .... or use form below
- dates
Isreal / USA
21 July 2021 Jerusalem Folk Music Evenings / North Reading Community Coffeehouse - Singing Together Virtually · Hosted by Jerusalem Folk Music Evenings
The Zoom Session will be open from 7:15 Israeli time, but singing starts promptly at 8pm Israeli time. Come join our “Singing Together Virtually” Session featuring 8 performers from the North Reading Community Coffeehouse and 8 performers from the Jerusalem Folk Music Virtual Sunday Evenings in a wonderful collaboration of music. It will be a lot of fun.
Representing Israel this evening: Mara Levine, Glen Gardener, Jan &Paul Ramsey, Daniel Dworsky, Jackie Conn, Yochanan (Hans) Mahler, Myra Bennett and Cowboy Wreck.
Representing North Reading Community Coffee House: John Loretz, Cynthia Greene, Dave Mason, Anne Sandstrom, Storm, Eric “Snake” Gulliksen, Joe Virga and Deb Semour.
We will be planning more sessions, until we can meet live. The event will be done via Zoom and live streamed to the North Reading Community Coffeehouse Facebook page.
To request the zoom info, please send a request to: NRCoffeehouse<at>gmail.com or jfolkclubhouseparties<at>gmail.com
USA --- Boston
🄰 LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ONLINE EVENTS, numerous events, day varies,
includes ONLINE BALLAD SING or CHANTY SING Sundays, weekly, 2-5 EDT [= UK 7pm-10pm]
For details see sites.google.com/view/lynnoel/music/mermaidstavern
join the mailing list at http://mailinglist.mermaidstavern.com
July
NEW SCHEDULE: Twice-monthly sessions second and fourth Sundays, monthly concerts third Thursdays
USA --- DC area
🄰 8-11 Oct 2021. FSGW (Folklore Society of Greater Washington) Getaway
If you love good music and good fellowship, you'll love the Getaway!
Getaway 2021 will be online this year via Zoom (Oct 8th to Oct 11th)
The FSGW Getaway, for decades a gathering of friends, old and new, to share music and enjoy fellowship, will be online this year again. We hope you will be able to come and participate and to bring your songs and your presence again this year, via the screen. We pioneered the on-line participatory weekend last year, and enjoyed it so much that we want to do it again. The uncertainty over the COVID-19 pandemic also makes us reluctant to plan a huge in-person gathering this fall (although we might do something small in real life--we'll see how recovery from social distancing goes). https://fsgw.org/getaway
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⎈ DIRECTORY Updates -- several changes of venues expected, watch this space . . .
🄵 NEW MEMBER - added to ⎈ H-W Directory 1 Venues
Monthly Fri Herefs BROMYARD FOLK AT THE FALCON https://folkatthefalcon.com Roger Pugh 01885 483425
→ Falcon Hotel, High St, Bromyard HR7 4BT.
⇒ e-mail: pugh<at>live.co.uk Landline: 01885 483425 Mob: 07779 694615 www.facebook.com/folkatthefalcon
⊕ Folk at the Falcon is a recently established folk and acoustic music evening which takes place in the atmospheric setting of the Falcon Mews. The Team bring you a selection of excellent local and national artists, monthly on a Friday. [new member 19/7/21]
Please support our performers, who have lost their income: check their Directory-listed websites for recordings to buy.
⎈ International folk news webpage
🄰 Associates, for 'Other Areas' 'International' (associates are those signed up to our Folklife Newsletter).
- Folklife Newsletter sign up email sam@folklife.uk 'Opt In’ + country or Eng. region .... or use form below
- dates
Isreal / USA
21 July 2021 Jerusalem Folk Music Evenings / North Reading Community Coffeehouse - Singing Together Virtually · Hosted by Jerusalem Folk Music Evenings
The Zoom Session will be open from 7:15 Israeli time, but singing starts promptly at 8pm Israeli time. Come join our “Singing Together Virtually” Session featuring 8 performers from the North Reading Community Coffeehouse and 8 performers from the Jerusalem Folk Music Virtual Sunday Evenings in a wonderful collaboration of music. It will be a lot of fun.
Representing Israel this evening: Mara Levine, Glen Gardener, Jan &Paul Ramsey, Daniel Dworsky, Jackie Conn, Yochanan (Hans) Mahler, Myra Bennett and Cowboy Wreck.
Representing North Reading Community Coffee House: John Loretz, Cynthia Greene, Dave Mason, Anne Sandstrom, Storm, Eric “Snake” Gulliksen, Joe Virga and Deb Semour.
We will be planning more sessions, until we can meet live. The event will be done via Zoom and live streamed to the North Reading Community Coffeehouse Facebook page.
To request the zoom info, please send a request to: NRCoffeehouse<at>gmail.com or jfolkclubhouseparties<at>gmail.com
USA --- Boston
🄰 LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ONLINE EVENTS, numerous events, day varies,
includes ONLINE BALLAD SING or CHANTY SING Sundays, weekly, 2-5 EDT [= UK 7pm-10pm]
For details see sites.google.com/view/lynnoel/music/mermaidstavern
join the mailing list at http://mailinglist.mermaidstavern.com
July
- Sunday, July 25: Ballad Sing
NEW SCHEDULE: Twice-monthly sessions second and fourth Sundays, monthly concerts third Thursdays
- Sunday, August 8: Ballad Sing
- Thursday, August 19: Sirius Doggerel singaround
- Sunday, August 22: Tavern & Chantey Sing
- Sunday, September 12: Ballad Sing
- Thursday, September 16: Lynn Noel - Apple Season Concert
- Sunday, September 19: NEFFA Live Online! Nicole Singer & Becky Wright
- Sunday, September 26: Tavern & Chantey Sing
- Sunday, October 3: Ballad Sing (FIRST SUNDAY!)
- October 9-11: FSGW Fall Getaway Weekend (see below)
- SAT Strong Songs, Strong Women with Lynn Noel and Janie Meneely
- Thursday, October 21: Concert Special Guest TBD
- Sunday, October 17: NEFFA Live Online! Jim & Susie Malcolm
- Sunday, October 24: Tavern & Chantey Sing
- Sunday, October 31: Tam Lin Marathon Ballad Sing
USA --- DC area
🄰 8-11 Oct 2021. FSGW (Folklore Society of Greater Washington) Getaway
If you love good music and good fellowship, you'll love the Getaway!
Getaway 2021 will be online this year via Zoom (Oct 8th to Oct 11th)
The FSGW Getaway, for decades a gathering of friends, old and new, to share music and enjoy fellowship, will be online this year again. We hope you will be able to come and participate and to bring your songs and your presence again this year, via the screen. We pioneered the on-line participatory weekend last year, and enjoyed it so much that we want to do it again. The uncertainty over the COVID-19 pandemic also makes us reluctant to plan a huge in-person gathering this fall (although we might do something small in real life--we'll see how recovery from social distancing goes). https://fsgw.org/getaway
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⎈ DIRECTORY Updates -- several changes of venues expected, watch this space . . .
🄵 NEW MEMBER - added to ⎈ H-W Directory 1 Venues
Monthly Fri Herefs BROMYARD FOLK AT THE FALCON https://folkatthefalcon.com Roger Pugh 01885 483425
→ Falcon Hotel, High St, Bromyard HR7 4BT.
⇒ e-mail: pugh<at>live.co.uk Landline: 01885 483425 Mob: 07779 694615 www.facebook.com/folkatthefalcon
⊕ Folk at the Falcon is a recently established folk and acoustic music evening which takes place in the atmospheric setting of the Falcon Mews. The Team bring you a selection of excellent local and national artists, monthly on a Friday. [new member 19/7/21]
Please support our performers, who have lost their income: check their Directory-listed websites for recordings to buy.
@ emailed Wed 30 June 2021 : Folk directory; Updates
We've added Members' online Directory webpages to this website
Arranged under same areas as news webpages - Wales, West Country, etc
We'll be closing www.folklife-directory.uk site.
The pages grew too big, so now 2 pages for each UK area (except 1 "Other UK").
Directory 1. Venues
Directory 2. Performers, Media, Services, Workshops Providers.
Access Directory pages: "DIRECTORY" page has links to all Directory pages; and
area news pages (so Glos-Oxon news has links to Glos-Oxon Directory pages).
We also added Wales News page and Wales Directory to this site
from website www.bywyd-gwerin.cymru (www.folklife.cymru), which will now cover Welsh Traditions (a work in progress as we change from a more general folk site).
While we wait for lockdown to end ... a good time for you to check your entries are up to date.
We know several members' clubs & sessions will change venues. Just let us know and we'll update Directory entries & publicise in these Newsletters.
Arranged under same areas as news webpages - Wales, West Country, etc
We'll be closing www.folklife-directory.uk site.
The pages grew too big, so now 2 pages for each UK area (except 1 "Other UK").
Directory 1. Venues
Directory 2. Performers, Media, Services, Workshops Providers.
Access Directory pages: "DIRECTORY" page has links to all Directory pages; and
area news pages (so Glos-Oxon news has links to Glos-Oxon Directory pages).
We also added Wales News page and Wales Directory to this site
from website www.bywyd-gwerin.cymru (www.folklife.cymru), which will now cover Welsh Traditions (a work in progress as we change from a more general folk site).
While we wait for lockdown to end ... a good time for you to check your entries are up to date.
We know several members' clubs & sessions will change venues. Just let us know and we'll update Directory entries & publicise in these Newsletters.
FTJ: Folklife Traditions Journal.
Updates: Folklife Organisations.
🄵 The Traditional Song Forum downloads videos of its excellent fortnightly Zoom talks, simply google Traditional Song Forum - YouTube. See https://tradsong.org for more about the work of the TSF.
TSF Online meeting 28, Sunday 11 July 2021, 16:00 BST (GMT+1)
A special meeting to mark the publication of the new book The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance edited by Peter Harrop and Steve Roud. Some of the chapters in the book have been the subject of previous presentations to our online events but, on this occasion, we have three very highly qualified speakers summarising their own chapter.
You will, as usual, need to book a place for the meeting. Bookings will close 24 hours before the start of the event which will also be available as a YouTube live stream. As with all TSF Online events, a video will be available on the Traditional Song Forum YouTube channel after the meeting.
Julia Bishop ‘The Performers in the Playground’
Sue Allan ‘Merry neets and bridewains: contemporary commentaries on folk music, dance and song in the Lake Counties during the Romantic period’.
Vic Gammon ‘The Rise and Fall of the West Gallery: popular religious music in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries’
For details see https://tradsong.org
🄵 Wales: Trac Cymru. We mentioned (14 May newsletter) trac's new website at www.trac.cymru
One particular resource is the collection of articles on https://trac.cymru/en/articles/
These are: Cadi Ha; 400 Years of the Robert ap Huw Manuscript; Iolo Morganwg: Folk Song Hero; Crwth Tunes; Plygain; May Carols; Welsh Shanties; Playford Tunes in Wales; Pipes and Pibgorn; The Triple Harp; Hunting The Wren.
Updates: Folklife Organisations.
🄵 The Traditional Song Forum downloads videos of its excellent fortnightly Zoom talks, simply google Traditional Song Forum - YouTube. See https://tradsong.org for more about the work of the TSF.
TSF Online meeting 28, Sunday 11 July 2021, 16:00 BST (GMT+1)
A special meeting to mark the publication of the new book The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance edited by Peter Harrop and Steve Roud. Some of the chapters in the book have been the subject of previous presentations to our online events but, on this occasion, we have three very highly qualified speakers summarising their own chapter.
You will, as usual, need to book a place for the meeting. Bookings will close 24 hours before the start of the event which will also be available as a YouTube live stream. As with all TSF Online events, a video will be available on the Traditional Song Forum YouTube channel after the meeting.
Julia Bishop ‘The Performers in the Playground’
Sue Allan ‘Merry neets and bridewains: contemporary commentaries on folk music, dance and song in the Lake Counties during the Romantic period’.
Vic Gammon ‘The Rise and Fall of the West Gallery: popular religious music in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries’
For details see https://tradsong.org
🄵 Wales: Trac Cymru. We mentioned (14 May newsletter) trac's new website at www.trac.cymru
One particular resource is the collection of articles on https://trac.cymru/en/articles/
These are: Cadi Ha; 400 Years of the Robert ap Huw Manuscript; Iolo Morganwg: Folk Song Hero; Crwth Tunes; Plygain; May Carols; Welsh Shanties; Playford Tunes in Wales; Pipes and Pibgorn; The Triple Harp; Hunting The Wren.
Member-Festivals & Workshops Diary.
Copied online: www.folklife.uk/festivals.html, so read online or (new!) download PDF of the print version. Very full details, to Oct 2022!
Some live; some online as noted, so overseas friends can join us.
🄵 2021 Jul 15 – 18 WARWICK FOLK FESTIVAL CANCELLED www.warwickfolkfestival.co.uk
Following extensive planning and discussion in light of the most recent government guidelines, with huge regret it has been decided that Warwick Folk Festival, which was due to take place 15 - 18 July, will be postponed until 21 - 24 July 2022. This decision has not been taken lightly, but with the current situation, our absolute priority is the safety of our staff, artists, traders, audience and the local community. As previously, tickets can be transferred to next year’s festival. Thank you to everybody for your continued support and efforts during this difficult time, we miss you very much. 18/6/2021
🄵 2022 Jul 21 – 24 WARWICK FOLK FESTIVAL www.warwickfolkfestival.co.uk
🄵 2021 Jul 7 - 11 NEW FOREST FOLK FESTIVAL still on (16/6/21) www.newforestfolkfestival.co.uk
UPDATE 29/6/2021. We are pleased to announce that following the latest government announcement (14-6-21) we are ok to go ahead.
Unfortunately because of government guidelines we had limited numbers and tickets are now sold out.
🄵 2021 Jul 16 - 18 MITCHELDEAN FESTIVAL still on www.mitcheldeanfestival.fod.uk
→ MITCHELDEAN, Forest of Dean, Glos GL17 0AT
⇒ Email talktous<at>mitcheldeanfestival.fod.uk for more information, Andy Scarf 01594 544456
⊕ Free festival in the glorious Forest of Dean! All singers, musicians and dancers welcome.
UPDATE 19/5/2021: We’re sorry to announce that, in view of the ongoing uncertainty over the use of indoor venues for live music, the festival committee has decided not to run any formal music concerts as part of this year’s festival.
We are keeping our options open in respect of more informal/spontaneous live music opportunities. Watch for future posts on this on https://www.facebook.com/MitcheldeanFestival
We hope you will be able to join us - Cheers! ® Andy
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Folk News, area/country pages & webpages.
Print-pages images, + PDF download (May was online only; Oct. in print & copied online).
Most clubs/session are waiting for government before announcing definite plans.
We'll let you know when we hear, with more frequent newsletter as needed.
CYMRU / WALES
🄵 Weekly Thu Newport ROGERSTONE NEWPORT FOLK CLUB www.newportfolkclub.co.uk Bryn Millichip (Chair) 07397 98084
The Club has a new and much improved website, and are now meeting in person as follows
All are welcome, so join us on OPEN NIGHTS if you wish to perform, or just enjoy the music!
We would normally expect to be singing etc. from 8.30pm-11pm, though at the present time we are still enjoying the sunshine in the early evening by meeting outside at 6.30. However the Committee have now agreed with the Fugitives that subject to meeting the requirements of the WAG we can now return to singing in the Function room. Whoopee!!
In the first instance we will still meet outside at 6.30 til 8.30, weather permitting, and once we get a perspex screen to sing behind, those who wish to can join committee members inside for a few songs to assure the Fugies management that we are compliant. If all is well we should then be able to continue as normal thereafter, and barring any drastic changes in the current situation in Wales. (updated June 27th).
For the very latest information click on the https://www.facebook.com/groups/newportfolkclub/
Copied online: www.folklife.uk/festivals.html, so read online or (new!) download PDF of the print version. Very full details, to Oct 2022!
Some live; some online as noted, so overseas friends can join us.
🄵 2021 Jul 15 – 18 WARWICK FOLK FESTIVAL CANCELLED www.warwickfolkfestival.co.uk
Following extensive planning and discussion in light of the most recent government guidelines, with huge regret it has been decided that Warwick Folk Festival, which was due to take place 15 - 18 July, will be postponed until 21 - 24 July 2022. This decision has not been taken lightly, but with the current situation, our absolute priority is the safety of our staff, artists, traders, audience and the local community. As previously, tickets can be transferred to next year’s festival. Thank you to everybody for your continued support and efforts during this difficult time, we miss you very much. 18/6/2021
🄵 2022 Jul 21 – 24 WARWICK FOLK FESTIVAL www.warwickfolkfestival.co.uk
🄵 2021 Jul 7 - 11 NEW FOREST FOLK FESTIVAL still on (16/6/21) www.newforestfolkfestival.co.uk
UPDATE 29/6/2021. We are pleased to announce that following the latest government announcement (14-6-21) we are ok to go ahead.
Unfortunately because of government guidelines we had limited numbers and tickets are now sold out.
🄵 2021 Jul 16 - 18 MITCHELDEAN FESTIVAL still on www.mitcheldeanfestival.fod.uk
→ MITCHELDEAN, Forest of Dean, Glos GL17 0AT
⇒ Email talktous<at>mitcheldeanfestival.fod.uk for more information, Andy Scarf 01594 544456
⊕ Free festival in the glorious Forest of Dean! All singers, musicians and dancers welcome.
UPDATE 19/5/2021: We’re sorry to announce that, in view of the ongoing uncertainty over the use of indoor venues for live music, the festival committee has decided not to run any formal music concerts as part of this year’s festival.
We are keeping our options open in respect of more informal/spontaneous live music opportunities. Watch for future posts on this on https://www.facebook.com/MitcheldeanFestival
We hope you will be able to join us - Cheers! ® Andy
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Folk News, area/country pages & webpages.
Print-pages images, + PDF download (May was online only; Oct. in print & copied online).
Most clubs/session are waiting for government before announcing definite plans.
We'll let you know when we hear, with more frequent newsletter as needed.
CYMRU / WALES
🄵 Weekly Thu Newport ROGERSTONE NEWPORT FOLK CLUB www.newportfolkclub.co.uk Bryn Millichip (Chair) 07397 98084
The Club has a new and much improved website, and are now meeting in person as follows
All are welcome, so join us on OPEN NIGHTS if you wish to perform, or just enjoy the music!
We would normally expect to be singing etc. from 8.30pm-11pm, though at the present time we are still enjoying the sunshine in the early evening by meeting outside at 6.30. However the Committee have now agreed with the Fugitives that subject to meeting the requirements of the WAG we can now return to singing in the Function room. Whoopee!!
In the first instance we will still meet outside at 6.30 til 8.30, weather permitting, and once we get a perspex screen to sing behind, those who wish to can join committee members inside for a few songs to assure the Fugies management that we are compliant. If all is well we should then be able to continue as normal thereafter, and barring any drastic changes in the current situation in Wales. (updated June 27th).
For the very latest information click on the https://www.facebook.com/groups/newportfolkclub/
(updates for webpages not included in the printed magazine)
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Zoom List webpage updates
Tuesday USA also copied to International news webpage
California
🄰 San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO FOLK MUSIC CLUB'S SINGS, 1st and 3rd Tuesdays, 1pm - 3 pm PDT = 9pm - 11pm UK time.
Whether you sing traditional songs or newer songs, a cappella or with your guitar, whether you play Old-Time, Irish, or other instrumental tunes, whether you dance contra, Irish, or swing, we’re always thrilled to meet new musicians!
To receive an invitation to the meeting: subscribe to our Harmony email list, via the website www.sffmc.org [added 19 Jun 2021]
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International webpage - dates
USA --- Boston
🄰 LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ONLINE EVENTS, numerous events, day varies,
includes ONLINE BALLAD SING or CHANTY SING Sundays, weekly, 2-5 EDT [= UK 7pm-10pm]
For details see sites.google.com/view/lynnoel/music/mermaidstavern
join the mailing list at http://mailinglist.mermaidstavern.com
July
USA --- California
🄰 SF Folk Music Club 4th of July Camp Goes Virtual Once Again -- this news item in last newsletter was headed up SF Folk Club
-- correct title is San Francisco Folk Music Club
SFFMC website is www.sffmc.org Note: we've amended this in Newsletter below & on International webpage.
International webpage - venues (real & virtual) and performers
The SAN FRANCISCO FOLK MUSIC CLUB, one of the leading folk music organizations in the Bay Area, is dedicated to the enjoyment, preservation and promotion of acoustic music in individual, family, and community life. Our members include singers, instrumentalists, performers, song writers, dancers and listeners.We have musical meetings twice a month. We put on two folk festivals and four camps every year. We publish the folknik folk music newsletter and we host the Harmony e-mail group and a Facebook page. www.sffmc.org
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Updates for Directory ⎈ DIRECTORY
This Folklife website: now includes 'Directory' webpages.
See start of this newsletter. No Directory changes notified.
Please support our performers, who have lost their income: check their Directory-listed websites for recordings to buy.
Zoom List webpage updates
Tuesday USA also copied to International news webpage
California
🄰 San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO FOLK MUSIC CLUB'S SINGS, 1st and 3rd Tuesdays, 1pm - 3 pm PDT = 9pm - 11pm UK time.
Whether you sing traditional songs or newer songs, a cappella or with your guitar, whether you play Old-Time, Irish, or other instrumental tunes, whether you dance contra, Irish, or swing, we’re always thrilled to meet new musicians!
To receive an invitation to the meeting: subscribe to our Harmony email list, via the website www.sffmc.org [added 19 Jun 2021]
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International webpage - dates
USA --- Boston
🄰 LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ONLINE EVENTS, numerous events, day varies,
includes ONLINE BALLAD SING or CHANTY SING Sundays, weekly, 2-5 EDT [= UK 7pm-10pm]
For details see sites.google.com/view/lynnoel/music/mermaidstavern
join the mailing list at http://mailinglist.mermaidstavern.com
July
- Sunday, July 4: DARK (No Tavern Sing) Happy Fourth of July!
- Sunday, July 11: Ballad Sing (host Phillip Nimeskern)
- Thursday, July 15: Nicole Singer and Becky Wright Album Release Concert
- Sunday, July 18: Chantey Sing
- Sunday, July 25: Ballad Sing
- Sunday, August 8: Ballad Sing
- Thursday, August 19: Sirius Doggerel singaround
- Sunday, August 22: Tavern & Chantey Sing
USA --- California
🄰 SF Folk Music Club 4th of July Camp Goes Virtual Once Again -- this news item in last newsletter was headed up SF Folk Club
-- correct title is San Francisco Folk Music Club
SFFMC website is www.sffmc.org Note: we've amended this in Newsletter below & on International webpage.
International webpage - venues (real & virtual) and performers
The SAN FRANCISCO FOLK MUSIC CLUB, one of the leading folk music organizations in the Bay Area, is dedicated to the enjoyment, preservation and promotion of acoustic music in individual, family, and community life. Our members include singers, instrumentalists, performers, song writers, dancers and listeners.We have musical meetings twice a month. We put on two folk festivals and four camps every year. We publish the folknik folk music newsletter and we host the Harmony e-mail group and a Facebook page. www.sffmc.org
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Updates for Directory ⎈ DIRECTORY
This Folklife website: now includes 'Directory' webpages.
See start of this newsletter. No Directory changes notified.
Please support our performers, who have lost their income: check their Directory-listed websites for recordings to buy.
@ emailed Wed 16 (Members) & Thu 17 June 2021 : magazine; Updates
🄵 Folklife Members
🄰 Associates, for 'Other Areas' 'International' (associates are those signed up to our Folklife Newsletter).
- Folklife Newsletter sign up email sam@folklife.uk 'Opt In’ + country or Eng. region, or use form below
🄰 Associates, for 'Other Areas' 'International' (associates are those signed up to our Folklife Newsletter).
- Folklife Newsletter sign up email sam@folklife.uk 'Opt In’ + country or Eng. region, or use form below
Folklife West magazine, 1 May 2021 - do tell your folk friends!
IN PRINT as posted to Members, and - free - COPIED ONLINE
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Folklife Traditions Journal. Researched articles, contents as last Newsletter.
Copied online: www.folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html, read online or download PDF.
🄵 Steve Roud has announced Version 120 of Roud Indexes released.
🄵 Tiffany Hore, Library and Archives Director, Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, English Folk Dance and Song Society, announces that the online version at VWML has now been updated.
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Member-Festivals & Workshops Diary.
Copied online: www.folklife.uk/festivals.html, so read online or (new!) download PDF of the print version. Very full details, to Oct 2022!
Some live; some online as noted, so overseas friends can join us.
🄵 Churchdown Festival 2021 was recorded - now on YouTube
Summary of updates since Jan issue. Highlighted on webpages by a green box around updated news. for all your kind comments about the festival and many thanks to all who took part this year. We had a few tech hitches but it turned out to be a great day. I have tidied up the video recording now and uploaded it to YouTube, you can view it here: https://youtu.be/-Y4WW3gggJM
There is a link to part 2 at the end of part one. Looking forward to next year now at Churchdown Club I hope. Will.
🄵 2021 Jul 8 - 11 BROMSGROVE FOLK FESTIVAL cancelled www.bromsgrovefolkclub.co.uk
Hi one and all
Following the Prime Minister’s announcement extending restrictions on social distancing, etc., we have, with great regret, decided to cancel Bromsgrove Folk Festival 2021. The logistics of working on such a confined site render it almost impossible to safeguard the health and safety of festival goers, artists, and “crew”.
We trust that everyone will understand why we had to take this decision and look forward to returning “better not bigger” in 2022 (put 7th to 10th July 2022 in your diary).
Stay safe and well, look after one another
Bob 16/6/2021
🄵 added to Festivals page, 2022 Jul 7 - 10 BROMSGROVE FOLK FESTIVAL www.bromsgrovefolkclub.co.uk (with some details of festival).
🄵 2021 Oct 22 – 24 WREN MUSIC FOLK FESTIVAL www.wrenmusic.co.uk/what-we-do/folk-festival
We are planning for the festival to take place in person in 2021. Keep checking back for up to date information on this year’s festival, or follow us on Facebook for updates. 3/6/21
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Folk News, area/country pages & webpages. Print-pages images, & PDF downloads. May online only. Next issue in print & copied online.
WEST COUNTRY
🄵 Somerset: Sam - hope you're OK. Just to let you know that we would hope to get going at Eli's, Huish Episcopi in September. The pub isn't opening until the end of June so we may have a one-off before we get going properly again. It'll just be nice to get together with some human contact if Mr. Johnson's plan comes to fruition. We've been enjoying plenty of what's app song sessions but I think they've run their course now.
Best wishes
Rod 18/5/2021
HEREFS-WORCS
🄵 Bromsgrove Folk Club, Worcs.
The Club will, subject to confirmation, start on Thursday 12th August and continue of the second and last Thursdays. Bob, 24/5/2021
🄵 Saturday and Sunday 16/17th October 2021: Morris and Other Creatures, a Morris event, and also it is an Art Exhibition and Demonstration. There will only be three spots for dancing.. and they wont be missed. So please contact Jill Peer, email jillpeer<at>gmail.com and tel no 07754950939 or 01684 560919. Jill, 17/5/2021
IN PRINT as posted to Members, and - free - COPIED ONLINE
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Folklife Traditions Journal. Researched articles, contents as last Newsletter.
Copied online: www.folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html, read online or download PDF.
🄵 Steve Roud has announced Version 120 of Roud Indexes released.
🄵 Tiffany Hore, Library and Archives Director, Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, English Folk Dance and Song Society, announces that the online version at VWML has now been updated.
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Member-Festivals & Workshops Diary.
Copied online: www.folklife.uk/festivals.html, so read online or (new!) download PDF of the print version. Very full details, to Oct 2022!
Some live; some online as noted, so overseas friends can join us.
🄵 Churchdown Festival 2021 was recorded - now on YouTube
Summary of updates since Jan issue. Highlighted on webpages by a green box around updated news. for all your kind comments about the festival and many thanks to all who took part this year. We had a few tech hitches but it turned out to be a great day. I have tidied up the video recording now and uploaded it to YouTube, you can view it here: https://youtu.be/-Y4WW3gggJM
There is a link to part 2 at the end of part one. Looking forward to next year now at Churchdown Club I hope. Will.
🄵 2021 Jul 8 - 11 BROMSGROVE FOLK FESTIVAL cancelled www.bromsgrovefolkclub.co.uk
Hi one and all
Following the Prime Minister’s announcement extending restrictions on social distancing, etc., we have, with great regret, decided to cancel Bromsgrove Folk Festival 2021. The logistics of working on such a confined site render it almost impossible to safeguard the health and safety of festival goers, artists, and “crew”.
We trust that everyone will understand why we had to take this decision and look forward to returning “better not bigger” in 2022 (put 7th to 10th July 2022 in your diary).
Stay safe and well, look after one another
Bob 16/6/2021
🄵 added to Festivals page, 2022 Jul 7 - 10 BROMSGROVE FOLK FESTIVAL www.bromsgrovefolkclub.co.uk (with some details of festival).
🄵 2021 Oct 22 – 24 WREN MUSIC FOLK FESTIVAL www.wrenmusic.co.uk/what-we-do/folk-festival
We are planning for the festival to take place in person in 2021. Keep checking back for up to date information on this year’s festival, or follow us on Facebook for updates. 3/6/21
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Folk News, area/country pages & webpages. Print-pages images, & PDF downloads. May online only. Next issue in print & copied online.
WEST COUNTRY
🄵 Somerset: Sam - hope you're OK. Just to let you know that we would hope to get going at Eli's, Huish Episcopi in September. The pub isn't opening until the end of June so we may have a one-off before we get going properly again. It'll just be nice to get together with some human contact if Mr. Johnson's plan comes to fruition. We've been enjoying plenty of what's app song sessions but I think they've run their course now.
Best wishes
Rod 18/5/2021
HEREFS-WORCS
🄵 Bromsgrove Folk Club, Worcs.
The Club will, subject to confirmation, start on Thursday 12th August and continue of the second and last Thursdays. Bob, 24/5/2021
🄵 Saturday and Sunday 16/17th October 2021: Morris and Other Creatures, a Morris event, and also it is an Art Exhibition and Demonstration. There will only be three spots for dancing.. and they wont be missed. So please contact Jill Peer, email jillpeer<at>gmail.com and tel no 07754950939 or 01684 560919. Jill, 17/5/2021
OTHER AREAS: --------- EAST MIDLANDS
🄵 Steve Turner gigs 04-Jul-21 Folk in a Field Festival, Bradmoor Woods, West Acre, Kings Lynn, Norfolk PE32 1UL 11-Jul-21 Clovelly Maritime Festival, Clovelly, Devon 18-Aug-21 Over Hulton Folk Club Conservative Club, St Helens Road, Over Hulton, Bolton BL5 1AA. 07841 288238 02-Sep-21 Thursday to 05-Sep-21 Sunday Settle Folk Gathering, Settle, North Yorkshire 17-Sep-21 🄵 Swindon Folk Club, RAFA Club, 41-43 Belle Vue Road, Swindon SN1 3HN http://steve-turner.co.uk/gigs OTHER AREAS: --------- SCOTLAND 🄵 THE LIVING TRADITION MAGAZINE Issue 139 is the June / July 2021 issue of The Living Tradition magazine, featuring articles on Martin Simpson, Damien O'Kane, Jock Duncan, Gatehouse, Adam Sutherland, The Pearson Collection, Honoria Tomkins Galwey, Willie O Winsbury, George Townshend, The Strathspey And The Reel, A Brief History Of Tenterden Folk Club, Tales from Malcolm Storey, Transatlantic Connections, news, reviews and more. Subscription available from £36 for 10 issues, or individual issues available. www.livingtradition.co.uk |
These are additional webpages that are not included in the printed magazine.
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International webpage
🄰 GERMANY ------ Bad Kissingen ENGLISH FOLK CLUB. Online Concerts, the last Saturday of every month, with musicians and singers. An entertaining, varied and highly entertaining evening. See www.facebook.com/EnglishFolkClubBadKissingen
30/5/2021. For those who did not get a chance to watch Saturdays last EFC Online before the summer break, here it is,all performances can be seen in Youtube and Facebook:
Youtube: https://youtu.be/ARX3ZxNgL2M
Facebook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARX3ZxNgL2M
We should be back in September either Online again, or in our venue Kissvino in Bad Kissingen / Bavaria. Shoulöd the venue be open we may show it live too.
Till then we send our best musical regards - Dennis, Ana, Harfner, Horst, Alexander, Peter and Manu
🄰 USA ------ Boston: LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ONLINE EVENTS, numerous events, day varies,
includes ONLINE BALLAD SING or CHANTY SING Sundays, weekly, 2-5 EDT [= UK 7pm-10pm]
For details see sites.google.com/view/lynnoel/music/mermaidstavern
June
NEW SCHEDULE: Twice-monthly sessions second and fourth Sundays, monthly concerts third Thursdays
🄰 USA --- California
San Francisco Folk Music Club 4th of July Camp Goes Virtual Once Again -- Zoom meetings on Friday July 2, Saturday July 3 and Sunday July 4.
You may arrange to use as many breakout rooms as you wish, but please let us know ahead of time if at all possible so we can have them on the schedule in order for as many people to attend as possible.
Ed Hilton set up three Zoom links on our Club account for Memorial Day, one for each day of camp, and that worked so well that we'll be repeating the process. All you'll have to do to join in is click on the link, look at the list of breakout rooms, and then click on which one you'd like to join.
Friday Night July 2; [Pacific Time]
5-7 pm: Bring Your Own Everything Pot Luck - a chance to check in with your friends and eat some dinner (or not) with them. This won't be a musical meeting as much as a way for us just to talk to each other as we would if we were having a pot luck at a live camp.
7-11 pm: Song Swap. Cyprian's will be held online the following Friday, July 9. This will be a similarly styled song swap with people taking turns sharing songs.
Breakout rooms will be available from 5 - 11 pm.
Saturday July 3:
Workshop I: 11am - 12 noon (Hali Hammer hosts). Workshop II: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm (Ed Hilton hosts). Workshop III: 2 pm - 3 pm (Hali Hammer hosts). Workshop IV: 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm (Ed Hilton hosts). Open Mic 7-9 pm (this seemed to be the preferred time suggested by the most participants)
Breakout rooms will be available from 11 am to 11 pm.
Sunday, July 4: Same Schedule as Saturday. Breakout rooms will be available both Saturday and Sunday from 11 am to 11 pm.
If you're interested in leading a workshop, contact either Ed Hilton (ed_hilton@<at>yahoo.com) or Hali Hammer (halih<at>yahoo.com) to reserve your space. If you want to have a longer song swap you can do it in a breakout room.
If you want a slot for Open Mic, contact Ed for Saturday night or Hali for Sunday night.
We're hoping to have a live camp for Labor Day weekend (September 3-5) but if not, we'll continue to hold virtual camp. - Hali Hammer. SFFMC is at www.sffmc.org
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Updates Folk Directory www.folklife-directory.uk
On this (Folklife) website: ⎈ Directory webpage changed. It was set up to auto-redirect to www.folklife-directory.uk website.
Replaced by a new webpage, with links to that site, and now also to its individual Directory webpages, and to Folklife Traditions website's directory pages.
We intend to move Directory website content to this, our main site www.folklife.uk
When we do this, details will be in Newsletter, and on ⎈ Directory webpage webpage on this site & on www.folklife-directory.uk
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Other Areas UK new Members:
🄵 Venues - North-East
🄵 4th Tuesdays Tyne & Wear SUNDERLAND STUMBLE INN FOLK & ACOUSTIC AFTERNOON www.facebook.com/stumbleinnfolk Eileen Richardson
→ The Stumble Inn, Function Room, Chester Road, Sunderland, SR2 7PR. 1pm to 4pm (for Zoom, 2.10pm for 2.30pm)
⇒ Eileen Richardson, www.facebook.com/stumbleinnfolk, contact Stumble Inn Folk and Acoustic Afternoon on Messenger or email eileenrich<at>hotmail.com
⊕ The pub serves real ale, food, and coffee. Singers (unaccompanied or accompanied), musicians and listeners welcome! All welcome, whether Stumble Inn regulars or not, to share a song, tune, poem etc. or simply to come along and listen. (May 2021, new Member)
🄵 Folk Music & Song - Solo - North-East
🄵 Tyne & Wear KEITH GREGSON www.keithgregson.com Keith Gregson
⇒ e-mail keith.gregson<at>talk21.com, 0191 5109206. YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCcUZECZxt5OBL29_cxVzZWQ
⊕ BBC TV’s ‘Barn Dance’ dancer (1960s); North-East folk clubs organiser / semi-professional performer (1970s); folk-related schools material with Roy Palmer. Benfieldside dance team; Folk Camp Society (leader and musician). Singer/songwriter. Author articles and books on traditional song, dance and music. (May 2021, new Member)
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International webpage
🄰 GERMANY ------ Bad Kissingen ENGLISH FOLK CLUB. Online Concerts, the last Saturday of every month, with musicians and singers. An entertaining, varied and highly entertaining evening. See www.facebook.com/EnglishFolkClubBadKissingen
30/5/2021. For those who did not get a chance to watch Saturdays last EFC Online before the summer break, here it is,all performances can be seen in Youtube and Facebook:
Youtube: https://youtu.be/ARX3ZxNgL2M
Facebook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARX3ZxNgL2M
We should be back in September either Online again, or in our venue Kissvino in Bad Kissingen / Bavaria. Shoulöd the venue be open we may show it live too.
Till then we send our best musical regards - Dennis, Ana, Harfner, Horst, Alexander, Peter and Manu
🄰 USA ------ Boston: LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ONLINE EVENTS, numerous events, day varies,
includes ONLINE BALLAD SING or CHANTY SING Sundays, weekly, 2-5 EDT [= UK 7pm-10pm]
For details see sites.google.com/view/lynnoel/music/mermaidstavern
June
- Thursday, June 17: David Kessler in Concert
- Sunday, June 20: Chantey Sing
- Sunday, June 27: Ballad Sing
- Sunday, July 4: DARK (No Tavern Sing) Happy Fourth of July!
- Sunday, July 11: Ballad Sing (host Phillip Nimeskern)
- Thursday, July 15: Nicole Singer and Becky Wright Album Release Concert
- Sunday, July 18: Chantey Sing
- Sunday, July 25: Ballad Sing
NEW SCHEDULE: Twice-monthly sessions second and fourth Sundays, monthly concerts third Thursdays
- Sunday, August 8: Ballad Sing
- Thursday, August 19: Sirius Doggerel singaround
- Sunday, August 22: Tavern & Chantey Sing
🄰 USA --- California
San Francisco Folk Music Club 4th of July Camp Goes Virtual Once Again -- Zoom meetings on Friday July 2, Saturday July 3 and Sunday July 4.
You may arrange to use as many breakout rooms as you wish, but please let us know ahead of time if at all possible so we can have them on the schedule in order for as many people to attend as possible.
Ed Hilton set up three Zoom links on our Club account for Memorial Day, one for each day of camp, and that worked so well that we'll be repeating the process. All you'll have to do to join in is click on the link, look at the list of breakout rooms, and then click on which one you'd like to join.
Friday Night July 2; [Pacific Time]
5-7 pm: Bring Your Own Everything Pot Luck - a chance to check in with your friends and eat some dinner (or not) with them. This won't be a musical meeting as much as a way for us just to talk to each other as we would if we were having a pot luck at a live camp.
7-11 pm: Song Swap. Cyprian's will be held online the following Friday, July 9. This will be a similarly styled song swap with people taking turns sharing songs.
Breakout rooms will be available from 5 - 11 pm.
Saturday July 3:
Workshop I: 11am - 12 noon (Hali Hammer hosts). Workshop II: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm (Ed Hilton hosts). Workshop III: 2 pm - 3 pm (Hali Hammer hosts). Workshop IV: 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm (Ed Hilton hosts). Open Mic 7-9 pm (this seemed to be the preferred time suggested by the most participants)
Breakout rooms will be available from 11 am to 11 pm.
Sunday, July 4: Same Schedule as Saturday. Breakout rooms will be available both Saturday and Sunday from 11 am to 11 pm.
If you're interested in leading a workshop, contact either Ed Hilton (ed_hilton@<at>yahoo.com) or Hali Hammer (halih<at>yahoo.com) to reserve your space. If you want to have a longer song swap you can do it in a breakout room.
If you want a slot for Open Mic, contact Ed for Saturday night or Hali for Sunday night.
We're hoping to have a live camp for Labor Day weekend (September 3-5) but if not, we'll continue to hold virtual camp. - Hali Hammer. SFFMC is at www.sffmc.org
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Updates Folk Directory www.folklife-directory.uk
On this (Folklife) website: ⎈ Directory webpage changed. It was set up to auto-redirect to www.folklife-directory.uk website.
Replaced by a new webpage, with links to that site, and now also to its individual Directory webpages, and to Folklife Traditions website's directory pages.
We intend to move Directory website content to this, our main site www.folklife.uk
When we do this, details will be in Newsletter, and on ⎈ Directory webpage webpage on this site & on www.folklife-directory.uk
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Other Areas UK new Members:
🄵 Venues - North-East
🄵 4th Tuesdays Tyne & Wear SUNDERLAND STUMBLE INN FOLK & ACOUSTIC AFTERNOON www.facebook.com/stumbleinnfolk Eileen Richardson
→ The Stumble Inn, Function Room, Chester Road, Sunderland, SR2 7PR. 1pm to 4pm (for Zoom, 2.10pm for 2.30pm)
⇒ Eileen Richardson, www.facebook.com/stumbleinnfolk, contact Stumble Inn Folk and Acoustic Afternoon on Messenger or email eileenrich<at>hotmail.com
⊕ The pub serves real ale, food, and coffee. Singers (unaccompanied or accompanied), musicians and listeners welcome! All welcome, whether Stumble Inn regulars or not, to share a song, tune, poem etc. or simply to come along and listen. (May 2021, new Member)
🄵 Folk Music & Song - Solo - North-East
🄵 Tyne & Wear KEITH GREGSON www.keithgregson.com Keith Gregson
⇒ e-mail keith.gregson<at>talk21.com, 0191 5109206. YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCcUZECZxt5OBL29_cxVzZWQ
⊕ BBC TV’s ‘Barn Dance’ dancer (1960s); North-East folk clubs organiser / semi-professional performer (1970s); folk-related schools material with Roy Palmer. Benfieldside dance team; Folk Camp Society (leader and musician). Singer/songwriter. Author articles and books on traditional song, dance and music. (May 2021, new Member)
@ emailed 14 May 2021: magazine; Updates
Folklife West magazine, 1 May 2021 - do tell your folk friends!
IN PRINT as posted to Members, and - free - COPIED ONLINE
Ø Folklife Traditions Journal. Researched articles, contents as last Newsletter.
Copied online: www.folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html, read online or download PDF.
Ø Update since 1 May: Folklife Organisations. Wales: Trac Cymru. We hope you’ll enjoy checking out all the wonderful content on our new website at www.trac.cymru There are learning resources including videos and articles, and a directory of bands, tutors, instrument makers, and more. There’s listings of festivals, folk clubs, sessions and dance clubs – ready for when we can go to live events again. The new website, along with our new logo, celebrate Trac Cymru’s 21st birthday this year.
Ø Member-Festivals & Workshops Diary.
Numerous updates since last Newsletter - too many to list here - see the Diary.
Copied online: www.folklife.uk/festivals.html, so read onlineor (new!) download PDF of the print version. Very full details, to Oct 2022!
Some live; some online as noted, so overseas friends can join us.
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ONLINE ONLY, this issue (normally in print)
Folk news, prepared as print-pages images, & PDF downloads.
Summary of updates since Jan issue. Highlighted on webpages by a green box around updated news.
Venues, performers, media, services:
🄵 = Folklife Member
Cymru/Wales webpage: listings (p25) & news (other pages)
🄵 p25 Listings: new member, Lyceum Folk & Acoustic Club 🄵 p25 Listings: new contact details Rhyl Folk Club.
🄵 p26 Correspondent: Tudalen Cymru - Wales page by Mick Tems 🄵 p27 National Eisteddfod, postponed, new date
🄵 p29 New member, Lyceum Folk & Acoustic Club; TASC 🄵 p30 John Alderslade - more than 50 years of stories!
🄵 p30 new contact details Rhyl Folk Club.
England South-West region webpage: listings (p32) & news (other pages)
🄵 p32 Listings: Pennymoor Singaround Facebook link updated 🄵 p33 Wadebridge Folk Club updated; Dreamers Folk Club updated
🄵 p34 Sarah McQuaid updated • 🄵 p36 Halsway Manor updated 🄵 p37 Correspondent: North Dorset & South Somerset column by John Waltham
🄵 p38 Village Pump Friday Folk updated • 🄵 p39 The Redcatch Club updated
England Glos-Oxon webpage: listings (p40) & news (other pages)
🄵 p41 Accordion for sale, from William Craswell. ~ I have decided to concentrate on Melodeon only now so I would like to sell my Hohner Bravo 48 Accordion. It is in pretty much as new condition, you can see the pics here - http://liamtho.com/Bravo/ If interested, contact liamtho<at>me.com Cheers, Will
🄵 p41 Dursley Acoustic Music Nights updated • 🄵 p41 Cleeve Concerts updated
🄵 p43 Kim Lowings, Kim & Andrew Lowings, Kim Lowings & The Greenwood updated 🄵 p43 Roses Theatre updated
England West Midlands region webpage: listings (p46) & news (other pages)
🄵 p48 Traditional Arts Team updated
England Herefs & Worcs webpage: listings (p51) & news (other pages)
🄵 p52 Correspondent: Tales from under Black Hill (S.W. Herefs), column by John & Jane Baxter
🄵 p54 Mike Weaver updated 🄵 p55 Somers Traditional Folk Club updated; Colin Pitts updated
🄵 p55 Appleyard Dancers updated; ONEACHORD updated 🄵 p56 Foyer Folk, Number 8 updated • 🄵 p57 Folk at the Fold updated
Other UK areas webpage: listings (p58) & news (p58 & other pages)
🄰 Associates = 'Other UK' areas. signed up to this Folklife Newsletter.
🄵 p58 Listings: new members added
~ 4th Tue, Tyne & Wear, Sunderland, Stumble Inn Folk & Acoustic Afternoon
~ Folk Music & Song, Solo: N-E, Tyne & Wear, Keith Gregson;
~ Folk Music & Song, Solo: Scotland Western Isles / Na h-Eileanan Siar, Linn Phipps
🄵 p58 The Living Tradition, April-May issue; Linn Phipps updated (& now member)
🄰 p59 FOCSLE Music updated • 🄰 p60 Deal Folk Club updated
🄰 p61 Dave Mason updated 🄵 p61 new - Stumble Inn (new member); new - Keith Gregson (new member)
IN PRINT as posted to Members, and - free - COPIED ONLINE
Ø Folklife Traditions Journal. Researched articles, contents as last Newsletter.
Copied online: www.folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html, read online or download PDF.
Ø Update since 1 May: Folklife Organisations. Wales: Trac Cymru. We hope you’ll enjoy checking out all the wonderful content on our new website at www.trac.cymru There are learning resources including videos and articles, and a directory of bands, tutors, instrument makers, and more. There’s listings of festivals, folk clubs, sessions and dance clubs – ready for when we can go to live events again. The new website, along with our new logo, celebrate Trac Cymru’s 21st birthday this year.
Ø Member-Festivals & Workshops Diary.
Numerous updates since last Newsletter - too many to list here - see the Diary.
Copied online: www.folklife.uk/festivals.html, so read onlineor (new!) download PDF of the print version. Very full details, to Oct 2022!
Some live; some online as noted, so overseas friends can join us.
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ONLINE ONLY, this issue (normally in print)
Folk news, prepared as print-pages images, & PDF downloads.
Summary of updates since Jan issue. Highlighted on webpages by a green box around updated news.
Venues, performers, media, services:
🄵 = Folklife Member
Cymru/Wales webpage: listings (p25) & news (other pages)
🄵 p25 Listings: new member, Lyceum Folk & Acoustic Club 🄵 p25 Listings: new contact details Rhyl Folk Club.
🄵 p26 Correspondent: Tudalen Cymru - Wales page by Mick Tems 🄵 p27 National Eisteddfod, postponed, new date
🄵 p29 New member, Lyceum Folk & Acoustic Club; TASC 🄵 p30 John Alderslade - more than 50 years of stories!
🄵 p30 new contact details Rhyl Folk Club.
England South-West region webpage: listings (p32) & news (other pages)
🄵 p32 Listings: Pennymoor Singaround Facebook link updated 🄵 p33 Wadebridge Folk Club updated; Dreamers Folk Club updated
🄵 p34 Sarah McQuaid updated • 🄵 p36 Halsway Manor updated 🄵 p37 Correspondent: North Dorset & South Somerset column by John Waltham
🄵 p38 Village Pump Friday Folk updated • 🄵 p39 The Redcatch Club updated
England Glos-Oxon webpage: listings (p40) & news (other pages)
🄵 p41 Accordion for sale, from William Craswell. ~ I have decided to concentrate on Melodeon only now so I would like to sell my Hohner Bravo 48 Accordion. It is in pretty much as new condition, you can see the pics here - http://liamtho.com/Bravo/ If interested, contact liamtho<at>me.com Cheers, Will
🄵 p41 Dursley Acoustic Music Nights updated • 🄵 p41 Cleeve Concerts updated
🄵 p43 Kim Lowings, Kim & Andrew Lowings, Kim Lowings & The Greenwood updated 🄵 p43 Roses Theatre updated
England West Midlands region webpage: listings (p46) & news (other pages)
🄵 p48 Traditional Arts Team updated
England Herefs & Worcs webpage: listings (p51) & news (other pages)
🄵 p52 Correspondent: Tales from under Black Hill (S.W. Herefs), column by John & Jane Baxter
🄵 p54 Mike Weaver updated 🄵 p55 Somers Traditional Folk Club updated; Colin Pitts updated
🄵 p55 Appleyard Dancers updated; ONEACHORD updated 🄵 p56 Foyer Folk, Number 8 updated • 🄵 p57 Folk at the Fold updated
Other UK areas webpage: listings (p58) & news (p58 & other pages)
🄰 Associates = 'Other UK' areas. signed up to this Folklife Newsletter.
🄵 p58 Listings: new members added
~ 4th Tue, Tyne & Wear, Sunderland, Stumble Inn Folk & Acoustic Afternoon
~ Folk Music & Song, Solo: N-E, Tyne & Wear, Keith Gregson;
~ Folk Music & Song, Solo: Scotland Western Isles / Na h-Eileanan Siar, Linn Phipps
🄵 p58 The Living Tradition, April-May issue; Linn Phipps updated (& now member)
🄰 p59 FOCSLE Music updated • 🄰 p60 Deal Folk Club updated
🄰 p61 Dave Mason updated 🄵 p61 new - Stumble Inn (new member); new - Keith Gregson (new member)
These are additional webpages that are not included in the printed magazine.
🄵 = Folklife Member
🄰 = Associates = others signed up to our Folklife Newsletter.
‡ = Other entries (not signed up) since we're not in touch regularly, may get out of date.
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Zoom List webpage updates
SUNDAYS
‡ Israel. Jerusalem. LET’S SING TOGETHER (Virtually!) from Jerusalem, Twice monthly, Sundays. 8:15 (Israeli time) [8.15 UK time]. For the link please send an email to pgbacal<at>gmail.com Schedule change to meeting twice a month (week varies).
TUESDAYS
🄵 Sunderland - THE STUMBLE INN FOLK & ACOUSTIC AFTERNOON - 4th Tuesdays, 2.10pm for 2.30pm
So that we can meet virtually and have a catch-up and sing a few songs. The meeting will open at 2.10pm to allow for chat before the singing starts at 2.30pm. The link will be posted on Facebook during the weekend before that date.
All welcome, whether Stumble Inn regulars or not, to share a song, tune, poem etc. or simply to come along and listen. Eileen Richardson
Further information: www.facebook.com/stumbleinnfolk Contact Stumble Inn Folk and Acoustic Afternoon on Messenger or email eileenrich<at>hotmail.com (added 14/5/2020)
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International webpage
Israel
‡ Jerusalem Folk Music Evening. LET’S SING TOGETHER (Virtually!) from Jerusalem, Twice monthly, Sundays. We open at 8:00 pm and the singing starts at 8:15 (Israeli time) [6.00-6.15 UK time]. We usually finish around 11pm-ish Israeli time.
For the link please send an email to pgbacal<at>gmail.com
We are changing our schedule, but not our link, to meeting twice a month (week will vary). The next Sunday session is Sunday 30th, May, 2021, and then hopefully every other week after that. [updated 16/5/2021]
USA
🄰 California San Francisco Free Folk Festival -- one-day online festival Saturday June 12, from 10 am to 6 pm Pacific Time.
The 2021 San Francisco Free Folk Festival will be a one-day online festival on Saturday June 12, from 10 am to 6 pm. The festival program is now available at https://sffolkfest.org/program-2021 Save the date! We'll have a much bigger program than we did for the 2020 online festival, with vocal, instrumental and dance workshops, an open mic, and family and storytelling events (mostly on Zoom). There will also be many scheduled and "watch anytime" concert performances.
For more information on the festival, see the festival web site at sffolkfest.org. Free pre-registration will be required for all festival Zoom events. Registering once on Zoom will get you access to all the events. The Zoom registration link will be posted here and on the festival website as soon as it's ready. [May 8, 2021]
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Updates Folk Directory
Other Areas UK new Members:
🄵 Venues
🄵 4th Tue Tyne & Wear SUNDERLAND STUMBLE INN FOLK & ACOUSTIC AFTERNOON www.facebook.com/stumbleinnfolk Eileen Richardson
• futher Directory details to follow
🄵 Folk Music & Song - Solo
🄵 N-E Tyne & Wear KEITH GREGSON www.keithgregson.com Keith Gregson
• futher Directory details to follow
🄵 Folk Music & Song - Solo
🄵 Alba Na h-Eileanan Siar LINN PHIPPS https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk LInn Phipps
• Tha mi nam sheinneadair folk is traidiseanta, stèidhichte san Rìoghachd Aonaichte. Bidh mi a’ seinn mar aon-neach, le càirdean ceòlmhor ann am còmhlan-ciùil agus le dà chòisir Ghàidhlig (Còisir Ghàidhlig Lodainn agus Còisir Ghàidhlig Lunnainn) agus aig cèilidhean air feadh Alba agus Shasainn a Tuath.
🄵 Scotland Western Isles LINN PHIPPS https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk LInn Phipps
• I’m a UK-based traditional folk singer, in Gaelic and English. I sing as a soloist, with musician friends, in a folk group, with two Gaelic choirs (Lothian and Còisir Lunnainn); and at ceilidhs in Scotland and the North of England.
🄵 = Folklife Member
🄰 = Associates = others signed up to our Folklife Newsletter.
‡ = Other entries (not signed up) since we're not in touch regularly, may get out of date.
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Zoom List webpage updates
SUNDAYS
‡ Israel. Jerusalem. LET’S SING TOGETHER (Virtually!) from Jerusalem, Twice monthly, Sundays. 8:15 (Israeli time) [8.15 UK time]. For the link please send an email to pgbacal<at>gmail.com Schedule change to meeting twice a month (week varies).
TUESDAYS
🄵 Sunderland - THE STUMBLE INN FOLK & ACOUSTIC AFTERNOON - 4th Tuesdays, 2.10pm for 2.30pm
So that we can meet virtually and have a catch-up and sing a few songs. The meeting will open at 2.10pm to allow for chat before the singing starts at 2.30pm. The link will be posted on Facebook during the weekend before that date.
All welcome, whether Stumble Inn regulars or not, to share a song, tune, poem etc. or simply to come along and listen. Eileen Richardson
Further information: www.facebook.com/stumbleinnfolk Contact Stumble Inn Folk and Acoustic Afternoon on Messenger or email eileenrich<at>hotmail.com (added 14/5/2020)
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International webpage
Israel
‡ Jerusalem Folk Music Evening. LET’S SING TOGETHER (Virtually!) from Jerusalem, Twice monthly, Sundays. We open at 8:00 pm and the singing starts at 8:15 (Israeli time) [6.00-6.15 UK time]. We usually finish around 11pm-ish Israeli time.
For the link please send an email to pgbacal<at>gmail.com
We are changing our schedule, but not our link, to meeting twice a month (week will vary). The next Sunday session is Sunday 30th, May, 2021, and then hopefully every other week after that. [updated 16/5/2021]
USA
🄰 California San Francisco Free Folk Festival -- one-day online festival Saturday June 12, from 10 am to 6 pm Pacific Time.
The 2021 San Francisco Free Folk Festival will be a one-day online festival on Saturday June 12, from 10 am to 6 pm. The festival program is now available at https://sffolkfest.org/program-2021 Save the date! We'll have a much bigger program than we did for the 2020 online festival, with vocal, instrumental and dance workshops, an open mic, and family and storytelling events (mostly on Zoom). There will also be many scheduled and "watch anytime" concert performances.
For more information on the festival, see the festival web site at sffolkfest.org. Free pre-registration will be required for all festival Zoom events. Registering once on Zoom will get you access to all the events. The Zoom registration link will be posted here and on the festival website as soon as it's ready. [May 8, 2021]
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Updates Folk Directory
Other Areas UK new Members:
🄵 Venues
🄵 4th Tue Tyne & Wear SUNDERLAND STUMBLE INN FOLK & ACOUSTIC AFTERNOON www.facebook.com/stumbleinnfolk Eileen Richardson
• futher Directory details to follow
🄵 Folk Music & Song - Solo
🄵 N-E Tyne & Wear KEITH GREGSON www.keithgregson.com Keith Gregson
• futher Directory details to follow
🄵 Folk Music & Song - Solo
🄵 Alba Na h-Eileanan Siar LINN PHIPPS https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk LInn Phipps
• Tha mi nam sheinneadair folk is traidiseanta, stèidhichte san Rìoghachd Aonaichte. Bidh mi a’ seinn mar aon-neach, le càirdean ceòlmhor ann am còmhlan-ciùil agus le dà chòisir Ghàidhlig (Còisir Ghàidhlig Lodainn agus Còisir Ghàidhlig Lunnainn) agus aig cèilidhean air feadh Alba agus Shasainn a Tuath.
🄵 Scotland Western Isles LINN PHIPPS https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk LInn Phipps
• I’m a UK-based traditional folk singer, in Gaelic and English. I sing as a soloist, with musician friends, in a folk group, with two Gaelic choirs (Lothian and Còisir Lunnainn); and at ceilidhs in Scotland and the North of England.
Folklife 30 April 2021 Newsletter: 1st May magazine; Updates
Updates
Updates
- 🄵 Folklife Member (not individually shown if Members only -- headed up "Members" eg "Members' folk festivals")
- 🄰 Associates those signed up to our Folklife Newsletter - sign up email sam@folklife.uk 'Opt In’ + country or Eng. region, or use form above
- ‡ Other entries from those not signed up are also included; since we're not in touch with them regularly, this may get out of date.
🄵 Members' folk festivals & workshops, on Festivals & Workshops Diary webpage
Updated - additional info since last Newsletter
[revised listing]
2021 Jun 25 - 27 WEST SOMERSET FOLK FESTIVAL www.westsomersetfolkfestival.co.uk - CANCELLED
→ CARHAMPTON, Somerset. Carhampton Recreation Hall, Carhampton Recreation Ground.
⌂ WEST SOMERSET FOLK FESTIVAL Mike and Diane Dibble, 01643 841597, 3 The Glebe, Timberscombe, Minehead, Somerset, TA24 7TS.
⊕ West Som. Folk Festival is not on this year. We will be advertising our 2022 festival later this year.
For 2022: Workshops, Folk Club, Singarounds, Concert. Guests will be on the website. ® Mike & Di (12/4/2021)
2021 Jul 7 - 11 NEW FOREST FOLK FESTIVAL www.newforestfolkfestival.co.uk
advert added to Diary webpage
2021 Aug 20 - 27 WORKERS MUSIC ASSOCIATION: SUMMER SCHOOL OF MUSIC - FOLK COURSE www.wmasummerschoolofmusic.co.uk
[for rest of listing as before see Diary webpage]
Update 12/4/2021:
Travel restictions from residents of France may affect their attendance. Alternative arrangements are planned to cope with this.
2021 Aug 13 - 15 WHITE HORSE FOLK FESTIVAL www.WhiteHorseFolkFestival.co.uk
[for rest of listing as before see Diary webpage]
⊕ We are hoping to run the festival, and will confirm in June, so save the dates 13 - 15 August please!
2021 Oct 8 - 10 BANBURY FOLK FESTIVAL www.banburyfolkfestival.co.uk - CANCELLED
[for rest of listing as before see Diary webpage]
⊕ Festival is cancelled for 2021 but we hope to re-instate for 2022.
2021 Oct TBA PENTREFFEST AUTUMN FESTIVAL www.pentreffest.org.uk
[for rest of listing as before see Diary webpage]
⊕ Pentreffest Rudry Autumn Festival - is a long way off yet, but just to be prepared...
1. We still want to go ahead in the Autumn depending on circumstances. We will continue to monitor the situation as it develops.
2 people can still book. We won't take deposits until September in time for the early bird cut off date.
3 Anyone who has paid already will get a refund if the event is cancelled or they can't attend.
Stay safe everyone x
venues, performers, media, services:
Cymru/Wales
🄵 The Gwaun Valley Brewery acoustic nights are on Zoom! Every Saturday from 8.00p.m. until 10.30 p.m. Please email Sarah for the link at
gwaunvalleybrewery<at>gmail.com
🄵 From our latest Folklife Member, about the Club:
LYCEUM FOLK & ACOUSTIC CLUB ®, Crindau Constitutional Club, Malpas Road, Newport NP20 5PJ. Weekly, Thu, 8.30pm, all year.
Home of the Best Folk and Roots Music Around!
Welcome to the Lyceum Folk and Acoustic Club. We have been showcasing a selection of great Acoustic music every Thursday Since 2011.
We meet at the Crindau Constitutional Club, about 150 metres from M4, J26, on the Newport side.
We welcome ALL acoustic instruments and musical styles and players from beginners to virtuosos, whether you wrote it yourself or borrowed it from someone else. We are not averse to a bit of poetry or purple prose either.
The Club entrance is on Goodrich Crescent. There is usually ample parking in the surrounding streets, but you will need to get here early on guest nights and please be considerate of the local residents, particularly when leaving the club.
We use the Function Room upstairs and the atmosphere is terrific. Come along and find out for yourself!
We charge £2.00 on the door, except when we have a Guest Artist.
Zoom: we are holding virtual club nights every Thursday via Zoom. The details are: Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2802265304, Meeting ID: 280 226 5304
For more details about our Zoom evenings,
see "Lyceum Folk Club of Newport" on Facebook: facebook.com/Lyceum-Folk-Club-of-Newport-213395425376402/ and on lyceumfolknewport.org.uk
Contact: Ruth: 07966 754366, e-mail info<at>lyceumfolknewport.org.uk, www.lyceumfolknewport.org.uk
England South-West region area
Zoom updates - Virtual folk webpage
🄰 Cornwall - MINER QUAY FOLK CLUB - Weekly on Tuesdays 8pm, live on Zoom.
Great mix of folk, acoustic and shanties. Listeners always welcome. There is currently a waiting list for performers but if you would like to listen or perform please contact Lamorna<at>icloud.com
Cornwall & Devon Members: VENUES
🄵 Added link for Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround, various sessions, for details see just below, FOLK DIRECTORY updates (yellow box)
link is www.facebook.com/groups/1221430771269195/
Other UK areas Zoom updates - Virtual folk webpage
England South East & London
🄰 Deal Folk Club will be staying online for Zoom singarounds, probably until the autumn. Sue
Zoom updates - Virtual folk webpage
SATURDAY ENGLAND - South East & London
‡ London - THE HARRISON SINGAROUND, last Saturday of the month, 6pm - 9pm, see the Harrison Singaround Facebook page:
facebook.com/groups/harrisonsingaround/ To receive the link, either go to this Facebook page, or get in touch with Sophie Crawford at
s.u.crawford<at>gmail.com to be added to the mailing list. [New times, new email; revised 16 Apr 2021]
‡‡ London - SHANTIES AND SEA SONGS with London Sea Shanty Collective, weekly except last Saturday of the month , 7pm - 9pm, see https://twitter.com/LondonShanty Contact via Twitter or email shantycollective<at>gmail.com to join. [Now not last Sat.; revised 16 Apr 2021]
Scotland
🄵 From Linn Phipps
My big project to create a Salute to Rona Lightfoot - legendary original girl piper, as well as a fabulous Gaelic singer, storyteller and teacher - is close to fruition.
We expect the CDs at end April, a compilation of Rona’s own stories and canntaireachd (piper’s so-fa), singing of the piping songs Rona taught (singers include Linn) and pipers playing the pibroch /piping tune for each song.
Please see place holder page https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/salute-to-rona-lightfoot/ for more info, pdfs (to be uploaded!) and how to sample/buy the CDs. This is a non-profit-making project and net proceeds will go to Ceòlas South Uist.
Linn is also going to feature on a USA CD due c May, more of that next time!
Linn has just become a Folklife Member, details to follow
International webpage
Germany
🄰 English Folk Club in Bavaria.
The complete video from the last Online Concert from Saturday, April 24th, 2021
And Facebook under the English Folk Club in Bavaria:
https://www.facebook.com/100050581842577/videos/324032972626095/
https://youtu.be/cmwduTQCKR8
The next Online Concert will be on Saturday the 29th May
Musicians who would like to perform need to send in their contributions no later than Saturday 22nd May
for more info email: english.folk.club<at>gmail.com
Our best musical regards
https://www.facebook.com/EnglishFolkClubBadKissingen
Israel
‡ Jerusalem Folk Music Evening. LET’S SING TOGETHER (Virtually!) from Jerusalem, Twice monthly, Sundays. We open at 8:00 pm and the singing starts at 8:15 (Israeli time) [6.00-6.15 UK time]. We usually finish around 11pm ish Israeli time.
For the link please send an email to pgbacal <at> gmail.com
Israel is opening up, and we are changing our schedule, but not our link, to meeting twice a month (week will vary). Our next Zoom will be on Sunday 2nd May.
We had an absolutely fabulous twinning zoom with the Duncow Acoustic Club last Wednesday, and our next monthly Wednesday is 19th May, with the North Reading Community Arts Center, Art Grossman's group. Information nearer the time.
It is good we are getting back to our lives, carefully, and mostly outdoors, BUT we want to continue meeting everyone and also new people. The zooms this year have saved us, and actually created lots of new friendships and opportunities to listen to wonderful performers and music and make many new friends. When this is all over and we are able to travel, we hope to visit our new friends and hope they will come to visit us.
Regards to everyone, and don't forget to join us on Sunday 2nd May, when once again we will "Sing Together Virtually from Jerusalem" [updated 28/04/2021]
USA -- Alaska
‡ Celtic Spring Festival May 1st !
www.akcelts.org
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/celtic-spring-festival-2021-registration-150618151947?utm_campaign=post_publish&utm_medium=email&utm_s
About this Event
All classes last one hour unless otherwise noted. Detailed course descriptions and instructor bios are found below this schedule, and more information is at www.akcelts.org. Class schedule for the day:
9 am ADT --------------------------9 hours behind UK, so 6pm UK
Robert Tannahill: Paisley’s Weaver Poet With Pauline Vallance (U.K.)
Welsh-English Long Bow with War Arrow Make and Take with Brian Mooyaart (UK)
10:00 am ADT
Celtic Vibe Dance Session (30 minutes) with Dixine Schiavi and Midnight Sun Cloggers (AK)co
Scottish Lullabies Light and Dark (a mini-talk) with Linn Phipps (U.K.)
10:30 am ADT
Learn Scots Gaelic Song (Beginners) with Linn Phipps (U.K)
The Welsh Wizard: Dylan Thomas with Toby Widdicombe, Ph.D. (AK)
12 pm ADT
Bookbinding with Anne Freitag (AK)
Sean Nos Singing: As Gaeilge with Amelia Hogan (CA)
Celtic Trivia
1:00pm
Celtic Trivia
1:30 pm ADT
Uke of the Irish (90 min) with Kate Ferris (Winnipeg, Canada)
Book of Kells: History and Mystery with Natalie Novik (AK)
2:00 pm
David Ingerson Performance
3:00 pm ADT
Ogham Writing with Kevin Hall (AK)
The Celtic Harp History with Linda Yarborough and Natalie Novik (AK)
The Variety of Irish Song Styles with David Ingerson (OR)
Whiskey: Its History, Production and Tasting Notes
4:30 pm ADT
Movie: Eire 1916 a play by Philip Price
Irish Themed Song Circle with David Ingerson
Updated - additional info since last Newsletter
[revised listing]
2021 Jun 25 - 27 WEST SOMERSET FOLK FESTIVAL www.westsomersetfolkfestival.co.uk - CANCELLED
→ CARHAMPTON, Somerset. Carhampton Recreation Hall, Carhampton Recreation Ground.
⌂ WEST SOMERSET FOLK FESTIVAL Mike and Diane Dibble, 01643 841597, 3 The Glebe, Timberscombe, Minehead, Somerset, TA24 7TS.
⊕ West Som. Folk Festival is not on this year. We will be advertising our 2022 festival later this year.
For 2022: Workshops, Folk Club, Singarounds, Concert. Guests will be on the website. ® Mike & Di (12/4/2021)
2021 Jul 7 - 11 NEW FOREST FOLK FESTIVAL www.newforestfolkfestival.co.uk
advert added to Diary webpage
2021 Aug 20 - 27 WORKERS MUSIC ASSOCIATION: SUMMER SCHOOL OF MUSIC - FOLK COURSE www.wmasummerschoolofmusic.co.uk
[for rest of listing as before see Diary webpage]
Update 12/4/2021:
Travel restictions from residents of France may affect their attendance. Alternative arrangements are planned to cope with this.
2021 Aug 13 - 15 WHITE HORSE FOLK FESTIVAL www.WhiteHorseFolkFestival.co.uk
[for rest of listing as before see Diary webpage]
⊕ We are hoping to run the festival, and will confirm in June, so save the dates 13 - 15 August please!
2021 Oct 8 - 10 BANBURY FOLK FESTIVAL www.banburyfolkfestival.co.uk - CANCELLED
[for rest of listing as before see Diary webpage]
⊕ Festival is cancelled for 2021 but we hope to re-instate for 2022.
2021 Oct TBA PENTREFFEST AUTUMN FESTIVAL www.pentreffest.org.uk
[for rest of listing as before see Diary webpage]
⊕ Pentreffest Rudry Autumn Festival - is a long way off yet, but just to be prepared...
1. We still want to go ahead in the Autumn depending on circumstances. We will continue to monitor the situation as it develops.
2 people can still book. We won't take deposits until September in time for the early bird cut off date.
3 Anyone who has paid already will get a refund if the event is cancelled or they can't attend.
Stay safe everyone x
venues, performers, media, services:
Cymru/Wales
🄵 The Gwaun Valley Brewery acoustic nights are on Zoom! Every Saturday from 8.00p.m. until 10.30 p.m. Please email Sarah for the link at
gwaunvalleybrewery<at>gmail.com
🄵 From our latest Folklife Member, about the Club:
LYCEUM FOLK & ACOUSTIC CLUB ®, Crindau Constitutional Club, Malpas Road, Newport NP20 5PJ. Weekly, Thu, 8.30pm, all year.
Home of the Best Folk and Roots Music Around!
Welcome to the Lyceum Folk and Acoustic Club. We have been showcasing a selection of great Acoustic music every Thursday Since 2011.
We meet at the Crindau Constitutional Club, about 150 metres from M4, J26, on the Newport side.
We welcome ALL acoustic instruments and musical styles and players from beginners to virtuosos, whether you wrote it yourself or borrowed it from someone else. We are not averse to a bit of poetry or purple prose either.
The Club entrance is on Goodrich Crescent. There is usually ample parking in the surrounding streets, but you will need to get here early on guest nights and please be considerate of the local residents, particularly when leaving the club.
We use the Function Room upstairs and the atmosphere is terrific. Come along and find out for yourself!
We charge £2.00 on the door, except when we have a Guest Artist.
Zoom: we are holding virtual club nights every Thursday via Zoom. The details are: Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2802265304, Meeting ID: 280 226 5304
For more details about our Zoom evenings,
see "Lyceum Folk Club of Newport" on Facebook: facebook.com/Lyceum-Folk-Club-of-Newport-213395425376402/ and on lyceumfolknewport.org.uk
Contact: Ruth: 07966 754366, e-mail info<at>lyceumfolknewport.org.uk, www.lyceumfolknewport.org.uk
England South-West region area
Zoom updates - Virtual folk webpage
🄰 Cornwall - MINER QUAY FOLK CLUB - Weekly on Tuesdays 8pm, live on Zoom.
Great mix of folk, acoustic and shanties. Listeners always welcome. There is currently a waiting list for performers but if you would like to listen or perform please contact Lamorna<at>icloud.com
Cornwall & Devon Members: VENUES
🄵 Added link for Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround, various sessions, for details see just below, FOLK DIRECTORY updates (yellow box)
link is www.facebook.com/groups/1221430771269195/
Other UK areas Zoom updates - Virtual folk webpage
England South East & London
🄰 Deal Folk Club will be staying online for Zoom singarounds, probably until the autumn. Sue
Zoom updates - Virtual folk webpage
SATURDAY ENGLAND - South East & London
‡ London - THE HARRISON SINGAROUND, last Saturday of the month, 6pm - 9pm, see the Harrison Singaround Facebook page:
facebook.com/groups/harrisonsingaround/ To receive the link, either go to this Facebook page, or get in touch with Sophie Crawford at
s.u.crawford<at>gmail.com to be added to the mailing list. [New times, new email; revised 16 Apr 2021]
‡‡ London - SHANTIES AND SEA SONGS with London Sea Shanty Collective, weekly except last Saturday of the month , 7pm - 9pm, see https://twitter.com/LondonShanty Contact via Twitter or email shantycollective<at>gmail.com to join. [Now not last Sat.; revised 16 Apr 2021]
Scotland
🄵 From Linn Phipps
My big project to create a Salute to Rona Lightfoot - legendary original girl piper, as well as a fabulous Gaelic singer, storyteller and teacher - is close to fruition.
We expect the CDs at end April, a compilation of Rona’s own stories and canntaireachd (piper’s so-fa), singing of the piping songs Rona taught (singers include Linn) and pipers playing the pibroch /piping tune for each song.
Please see place holder page https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/salute-to-rona-lightfoot/ for more info, pdfs (to be uploaded!) and how to sample/buy the CDs. This is a non-profit-making project and net proceeds will go to Ceòlas South Uist.
Linn is also going to feature on a USA CD due c May, more of that next time!
Linn has just become a Folklife Member, details to follow
International webpage
Germany
🄰 English Folk Club in Bavaria.
The complete video from the last Online Concert from Saturday, April 24th, 2021
And Facebook under the English Folk Club in Bavaria:
https://www.facebook.com/100050581842577/videos/324032972626095/
https://youtu.be/cmwduTQCKR8
The next Online Concert will be on Saturday the 29th May
Musicians who would like to perform need to send in their contributions no later than Saturday 22nd May
for more info email: english.folk.club<at>gmail.com
Our best musical regards
https://www.facebook.com/EnglishFolkClubBadKissingen
Israel
‡ Jerusalem Folk Music Evening. LET’S SING TOGETHER (Virtually!) from Jerusalem, Twice monthly, Sundays. We open at 8:00 pm and the singing starts at 8:15 (Israeli time) [6.00-6.15 UK time]. We usually finish around 11pm ish Israeli time.
For the link please send an email to pgbacal <at> gmail.com
Israel is opening up, and we are changing our schedule, but not our link, to meeting twice a month (week will vary). Our next Zoom will be on Sunday 2nd May.
We had an absolutely fabulous twinning zoom with the Duncow Acoustic Club last Wednesday, and our next monthly Wednesday is 19th May, with the North Reading Community Arts Center, Art Grossman's group. Information nearer the time.
It is good we are getting back to our lives, carefully, and mostly outdoors, BUT we want to continue meeting everyone and also new people. The zooms this year have saved us, and actually created lots of new friendships and opportunities to listen to wonderful performers and music and make many new friends. When this is all over and we are able to travel, we hope to visit our new friends and hope they will come to visit us.
Regards to everyone, and don't forget to join us on Sunday 2nd May, when once again we will "Sing Together Virtually from Jerusalem" [updated 28/04/2021]
USA -- Alaska
‡ Celtic Spring Festival May 1st !
www.akcelts.org
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/celtic-spring-festival-2021-registration-150618151947?utm_campaign=post_publish&utm_medium=email&utm_s
About this Event
All classes last one hour unless otherwise noted. Detailed course descriptions and instructor bios are found below this schedule, and more information is at www.akcelts.org. Class schedule for the day:
9 am ADT --------------------------9 hours behind UK, so 6pm UK
Robert Tannahill: Paisley’s Weaver Poet With Pauline Vallance (U.K.)
Welsh-English Long Bow with War Arrow Make and Take with Brian Mooyaart (UK)
10:00 am ADT
Celtic Vibe Dance Session (30 minutes) with Dixine Schiavi and Midnight Sun Cloggers (AK)co
Scottish Lullabies Light and Dark (a mini-talk) with Linn Phipps (U.K.)
10:30 am ADT
Learn Scots Gaelic Song (Beginners) with Linn Phipps (U.K)
The Welsh Wizard: Dylan Thomas with Toby Widdicombe, Ph.D. (AK)
12 pm ADT
Bookbinding with Anne Freitag (AK)
Sean Nos Singing: As Gaeilge with Amelia Hogan (CA)
Celtic Trivia
1:00pm
Celtic Trivia
1:30 pm ADT
Uke of the Irish (90 min) with Kate Ferris (Winnipeg, Canada)
Book of Kells: History and Mystery with Natalie Novik (AK)
2:00 pm
David Ingerson Performance
3:00 pm ADT
Ogham Writing with Kevin Hall (AK)
The Celtic Harp History with Linda Yarborough and Natalie Novik (AK)
The Variety of Irish Song Styles with David Ingerson (OR)
Whiskey: Its History, Production and Tasting Notes
4:30 pm ADT
Movie: Eire 1916 a play by Philip Price
Irish Themed Song Circle with David Ingerson
🄰 AMERICELTIC
AmeriCeltic is a user supported, non-profit service organization. Our Mission is to restore awareness, celebrate and preserve the culture and history of Celtic Americans by promoting live Celtic music, festivals, history & ancestry as well as report and comment on related current events. We maintain a public Calendar of related events here: AmeriCeltic Calendar, and a weekly newsletter here: AmeriCeltic Newsletter A weekly newsletter needs NEWS! Please submit your relevant news to us at americeltic<at>gmail.com. Read more about all our work on our About page here: www.AmeriCeltic.net/about |
Members' online FOLK DIRECTORY listings www.folklife-directory.uk
Cornwall & Devon Members: VENUES
Added link for Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround, link is www.facebook.com/groups/1221430771269195/
Sunday
Last Sun,*L* Devon PENNYMOOR CRUWYS ARMS MUSIC SESSION Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Clare Penney 01884 860023
1st Sun Devon STICKLEPATH DEVONSHIRE INN SESSION Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Derek Moore 01837 659715
Tuesday
Last Tue Devon COLEFORD THE NEW INN SESSION Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Ollie Holland 01363 85022
1st Tue Devon SANDFORD THE LAMB INN SESSION Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Hazel / Paul 01363 776275
Wednesday
3rd Wed Devon PENNYMOOR PENNYMOOR SINGAROUND Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Biddy 01271 373305
Thursday
1st Thu, 12 noon Devon MORCHARD BISHOP LONDON INN SONG/MUSIC SESSION Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Jon 01363 83740
Other Pennymoor details unchanged, see Directory for full details: www.folklife-directory.uk/south-west.html
Added link for Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround, link is www.facebook.com/groups/1221430771269195/
Sunday
Last Sun,*L* Devon PENNYMOOR CRUWYS ARMS MUSIC SESSION Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Clare Penney 01884 860023
1st Sun Devon STICKLEPATH DEVONSHIRE INN SESSION Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Derek Moore 01837 659715
Tuesday
Last Tue Devon COLEFORD THE NEW INN SESSION Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Ollie Holland 01363 85022
1st Tue Devon SANDFORD THE LAMB INN SESSION Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Hazel / Paul 01363 776275
Wednesday
3rd Wed Devon PENNYMOOR PENNYMOOR SINGAROUND Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Biddy 01271 373305
Thursday
1st Thu, 12 noon Devon MORCHARD BISHOP LONDON INN SONG/MUSIC SESSION Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Jon 01363 83740
Other Pennymoor details unchanged, see Directory for full details: www.folklife-directory.uk/south-west.html
Please support our performers, who have lost their income: check their Directory-listed websites for recordings to buy.
Folklife -- 8 April 2021 Newsletter:
Updates
Updates
FOLK FESTIVALS & WORKSHOPS - see Festivals & Workshops Diary webpage
Updated listing with guests added:
2021 Sep 3 - 5 LLANWDDYN WEEKEND OF FOLK & ACOUSTIC MUSIC www.llanwddynevents.co.uk
→ LLANWDDYN, Lake Vyrnwy, Powys. At Llanwddyn Community Centre, Abertridwr, Llanwddyn, Lake Vyrnwy, SY10 0LR - See website for map and directions (they are needed).
⌂ contact details see below
⊕ A small homely festival that packs a punch ! Guests: Martyn Joseph, Jez Lowe, The Edgelarks, Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer, The Lost Notes, Harriet Earis, Marie Little , The Penybontfawr Choir, Twmpathology. With 70% returnees every year, it’s always best to get your tickets early. Friday night: ceilidh and hog roast supper (included in the weekend ticket price), Saturday: Concerts from 1pm, Sing-arounds in the bar. Basic Camping just £3 extra (see website for details), Bar over the weekend, Onsite Cafe & BBQ on Saturday. Festival celebration folk service only on Sunday at St Wddyns Church.
Go online and download our ticket application form, 01691 870501 or email: info<at>llanwddynevents.co.uk Postal address for tickets: Llanwddyn Events, 30 Abertridwr, Llanwddyn, Powys SY10 0LR. You can pay by cheque, cash or paypal. All tickets must be paid for before the event. Weekend tickets include your hog roast supper on the Friday night!
This is subject to cancellation depending on government COVID guidance. We have to run at full capacity to cover our costs. Our final decision will be made in early July. Of course if it does get cancelled, peeps can push tickets to next year or take a refund.
Meanwhile please take care of yourselves, stay well, stay safe. Keep in touch too, we are on Facebook and Twitter and there is always email. We’d love to hear how you are all getting on over the coming months.
Lots of Love, Ruth, Ken, and the Whole Festival Team. [30/3/2021]
THIS MONTH - MORE INFO
2021 April 30 - May 3 UPTON UPON SEVERN FOLK FESTIVAL www.uptonfolk.org - virtual festival
→ UPTON-UPON-SEVERN, Worcs.
⌂ UPTON FOLK FESTIVAL, please see our website for further details or contact chairman<at>uptonfolk.org for specific enquiries.
This year’s Upton upon Severn Folk Festival is an online event with an exciting mix of pre-recorded concerts and live events on Zoom - delivered to your Door in 2021!
Access information available at www. uptonfolk.org
All Tip Jar donations will be used to pay for the running of this online festival and shared with our wonderful Festival performers. Please give generously!
Friday 30th April
Opening Concert from 8.00 - 9.30pm (in running order): Ben Robertson; Rosie Hood; Jackie Oates and John Spiers.
Welcome Late Night Session LIVE from 10.00pm with Steve and Sandra Harrison.
Saturday 1st May
Traditional May Day Sunrise LIVE - all Morris sides welcome to socially distance at 5.35am.
Lunchtime Storytelling LIVE from 12.00 - 2.00 with Chris Lowe
Tune Session LIVE from 2.30 - 4.30pm with Martin Hughes
Early Evening Ceilidh LIVE from 6.00 - 8.00pm with Doug Eunson and Sarah Matthews and caller Jo Freya
Evening Concert from 8.15 - 9.45pm Close Quarters; Phoebe Rees; Damien Barber
Sunday 2nd May
Midday Morris Processional - recordings of previous years’ festival for a bit of nostalgia to remind us about what we are missing!
Song Session LIVE from 2.30 - 4.00pm with Graeme Knights
Evening Concert from 8.00 - 9.30pm Jo Freya; Matt Quinn; Doug Eunson and Sarah Matthews
3rd May
Lunchtime Session LIVE from 12.00 to 2.00pm with Russ Franklin
Festival Final Concert from 2.30 - 4.00pm Pat Smith and Ned Clamp; Jim Mageean and Graeme Knights
Festival Farewell Session 6.00 – ‘til Stumps with Dave and Ann Reader
THE LATEST FESTIVAL & WORKSHOP UPDATES - see Festivals & Workshops Diary webpage for details
Revised listings, including now cancelled, or dates that were TBC now announced, plus adverts.
2021 Apr 30 - May 3 UPTON UPON SEVERN FOLK FESTIVAL, revised advert listing online guests.
2021 May 28 - 31 CHIPPENHAM FOLK FESTIVAL is now CHESTER & CHIPPENHAM ONLINE FOLK FESTIVAL
2021 Jun 04 - 06 The PENNYMOOR SONG AND ALE cancelled (2022 date below)
2021 Jul 7 - 11 NEW FOREST FOLK FESTIVAL -- advert follows tomorrow
2021 Jul 9 - 11 PRIDDY FOLK FESTIVAL cancelled
2021 Jul 15 - 18 WARWICK FOLK FESTIVAL -- advert added
2021 Jul 31 - Aug 7 TŶ GWERIN at the NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD cancelled (2022 date below)
2021 Aug 6 - 8 DARTMOOR FOLK FESTIVAL cancelled but will still hold Step & Broom Dance competitions live or virtual, + possibly a small event
2021 Aug 12 - 15 SALTBURN FOLK FESTIVAL, online
2021 Aug 20 -22 MOIRA FURNACE FOLK FESTIVAL date, and guests, added
2021 Aug 27 - 30 CORNWALL FOLK FESTIVAL -- advert added
2021 Sep 3 - 5 LLANWDDYN WEEKEND OF FOLK & AC. MUSIC (advert) guests added to listing, see above
2021 Sep 9 - 12 BROMYARD FOLK FESTIVAL --- advert added
2021 Sep 16 - 19 SOUTHDOWNS FOLK FESTIVAL --- advert added
2021 Sep tba STROUD FOLK WEEKEND cancelled
2021 Oct 8 - 10 BANBURY FOLK FESTIVAL dates added
More 2022 dates announced
2022 Jun 03 - 05 The PENNYMOOR SONG AND ALE
2022 Jul 30 - Aug 6 TŶ GWERIN at the NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD
venues, performers, media, services:
International
USA
Massachusetts Boston. Day varies.
LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ONLINE EVENTS, numerous events,
including ONLINE BALLAD SING or CHANTY SING Sundays, weekly, 2-5 EDT [= UK 7pm-10pm],
for details see sites.google.com/view/lynnoel/music/mermaidstavern
APRIL
- Sunday, April 11: Ballad Sing (host Phillip Nimeskern)
- Thursday, April 15: Lynn Noel and Nora Rodes - Eloise Linscott's Folk Songs of Old New England
- Sunday, April 18: Chantey Sing
- Friday, April 23-Sunday, April 25: NEW ENGLAND FOLK FESTIVAL (NEFFA)
- Saturday, April 24: NEFFA Ballad Sing
- Sunday, April 25: DARK (NO BALLAD SING) - Come to NEFFA!
- Saturday, May 1: May Morning - Sing Up the Sun 5;30-8:30 am EDT
- Sunday, May 2: Tavern Sing
- Saturday, May 8: Strong Songs, Strong Women with Janie Meneely
- Sunday, May 9: Ballad Sing (host Phillip Nimeskern)
- Sunday, May 16: Chantey Sing
- Thursday, May 20: Alex Sturbaum in Concert
- Sunday, May 23: Ballad Sing
- Sunday, May 30: Open Sing
Members' online FOLK DIRECTORY listings www.folklife-directory.uk
Please support our performers, who have lost their income: check their Directory-listed websites for recordings to buy.
Cymru/Wales on www.folklife.cymru site DIRECTORY webpage
De-Ddwyrain / South-East (Glamorgan, Gwent)
New Member
Wkly Thu Newport NEWPORT LYCEUM FOLK & ACOUSTIC CLUB www.lyceumfolknewport.org.uk Ruth 07966 754366
→ Crindau Constitutional Club, Malpas Road, Newport NP20 5PJ, about 150 metres from M4, J26, on the Newport side. 8.30pm, all year.
⇒ Ruth: 07966 754366, e-mail info<at>lyceumfolknewport.org.uk
⊕ We welcome ALL acoustic instruments and musical styles and players from beginners to virtuosos, whether you wrote it yourself or borrowed it from someone else. We are not averse to a bit of poetry or purple prose either. [2/4/2021]
England South-West region
Devon
Pennymoor Singaround - various sessions - I'll be adding Facebook link: www.facebook.com/groups/1221430771269195/
Cymru/Wales on www.folklife.cymru site DIRECTORY webpage
De-Ddwyrain / South-East (Glamorgan, Gwent)
New Member
Wkly Thu Newport NEWPORT LYCEUM FOLK & ACOUSTIC CLUB www.lyceumfolknewport.org.uk Ruth 07966 754366
→ Crindau Constitutional Club, Malpas Road, Newport NP20 5PJ, about 150 metres from M4, J26, on the Newport side. 8.30pm, all year.
⇒ Ruth: 07966 754366, e-mail info<at>lyceumfolknewport.org.uk
⊕ We welcome ALL acoustic instruments and musical styles and players from beginners to virtuosos, whether you wrote it yourself or borrowed it from someone else. We are not averse to a bit of poetry or purple prose either. [2/4/2021]
England South-West region
Devon
Pennymoor Singaround - various sessions - I'll be adding Facebook link: www.facebook.com/groups/1221430771269195/
Folklife -- 28 March 2021 Newsletter:
Updates
Updates
Folklife Traditions pages on website folklife-traditions.uk
researched articles; folklife studies & organisations; publications
Your help welcome - database of Articles
The "Index: ARTICLES" webpage contains lists of articles, arranged by author.
Ideally they would go in a database, but learning how to do this is too time-consuming for us just now. Suggestions, and volunteers, welcome . . .
The "Index: ARTICLES" webpage contains lists of articles, arranged by author.
Ideally they would go in a database, but learning how to do this is too time-consuming for us just now. Suggestions, and volunteers, welcome . . .
Folklife news & organisations: Updates
Ø The Traditional Song Forum has organised successful talks on Zoom, more are planned. These talks are very popular, now attracting international visitors, currently limited to 100 places; so if interested, see tradsong.org sooner rather than later. This website is a gateway to a number of useful resources for those interested in researching or performing traditional folk songs. There is a newsletter to sign up to.
18, 19 April, 2 May 2021- TSF Spring Conference (The Folk Voice).
Ø trac, music traditions Wales, Wales folk development organisation, has a website full of resources, https://trac.wales; a mailing list to sign up to; and is on Facebook, at facebook.com/traccymruwales, where you will find videos, details of online gigs, etc.
Ø An interesting video mentioned in the trac newsletter: Welsh Trad Music, A Beginner's Guide, by Rhodri McDonagh,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoRdSkJLAfw
Directory: Folklife Societies Associations, Trusts, Organisations
A.1 General: National Societies
FL trac TRADDODIADAU CERDD CYMRU https://trac.cymru/ Blanche Rowen, Rheolydd 01446 748 556
⌂ trac, trac<ar>trac-cymru.org
⊕ Sefydliad Ddatblygu Gwerin Cymru yw trac; ei swyddogaeth yw hyrwyddo a datblygu traddodiadau cerdd a dawns Cymru - o fewn Cymru a'r tu hwnt. Mae trac yn darparu gwasanaeth gwybodaeth, a gwefan yn rhestru perfformwyr, digwyddiadau a chysylltiadau.
FL trac MUSIC TRADITIONS WALES https://trac.wales Blanche Rowen, Manager 01446 748 556
⌂ trac, trac<at>trac-cymru.org
⊕ Wales’ Folk Development organisation; its rôle to promote and develop the music and dance traditions of Wales - both within Wales and beyond. trac provides an information service, and the website lists performers, events and contacts. (19/3/2021, updated with new website, new contact details)
Ø The Traditional Song Forum has organised successful talks on Zoom, more are planned. These talks are very popular, now attracting international visitors, currently limited to 100 places; so if interested, see tradsong.org sooner rather than later. This website is a gateway to a number of useful resources for those interested in researching or performing traditional folk songs. There is a newsletter to sign up to.
18, 19 April, 2 May 2021- TSF Spring Conference (The Folk Voice).
Ø trac, music traditions Wales, Wales folk development organisation, has a website full of resources, https://trac.wales; a mailing list to sign up to; and is on Facebook, at facebook.com/traccymruwales, where you will find videos, details of online gigs, etc.
Ø An interesting video mentioned in the trac newsletter: Welsh Trad Music, A Beginner's Guide, by Rhodri McDonagh,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoRdSkJLAfw
Directory: Folklife Societies Associations, Trusts, Organisations
A.1 General: National Societies
FL trac TRADDODIADAU CERDD CYMRU https://trac.cymru/ Blanche Rowen, Rheolydd 01446 748 556
⌂ trac, trac<ar>trac-cymru.org
⊕ Sefydliad Ddatblygu Gwerin Cymru yw trac; ei swyddogaeth yw hyrwyddo a datblygu traddodiadau cerdd a dawns Cymru - o fewn Cymru a'r tu hwnt. Mae trac yn darparu gwasanaeth gwybodaeth, a gwefan yn rhestru perfformwyr, digwyddiadau a chysylltiadau.
FL trac MUSIC TRADITIONS WALES https://trac.wales Blanche Rowen, Manager 01446 748 556
⌂ trac, trac<at>trac-cymru.org
⊕ Wales’ Folk Development organisation; its rôle to promote and develop the music and dance traditions of Wales - both within Wales and beyond. trac provides an information service, and the website lists performers, events and contacts. (19/3/2021, updated with new website, new contact details)
Publications
Roy and Lesley Adkins, authors of history and archaeology books, and FT contributors, have produced their latest occasional news, which you can view in your browser at https://www.adkinshistory.com/newsletters/newsletter-60/
Roy and Lesley Adkins, authors of history and archaeology books, and FT contributors, have produced their latest occasional news, which you can view in your browser at https://www.adkinshistory.com/newsletters/newsletter-60/
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Folk News, (normally) printed in FW, copied online. Temporarily, online only.
Our POLICY: in our usual area: news only from our members. + during lockdown: Zoom sessions from non-members.
the festivals & workshops diary
2021 April 30 - May 3 MAY HEYDAYS at Evesham http://mayheydays.org.uk - cancelled.
→ EVESHAM, Worcs. The De Montfort School, Evesham, WR11 1DQ
⌂ MAY HEYDAYS, Mecki Testroet, director<at>mayheydays.org.uk, tel. 01308 423 442.
The 2021 festival has been cancelled. The next festival dates are 29 April to 2 May 2022. The line-up is not yet known. For more details see: http://mayheydays.org.uk/news.html
Prior to booking our performers for 2022, we will consult with the other relevant festivals to find out which acts they are planning to book for next year, so that, between us, we can provide you with a varied programme.We will start planning for next year's festival in the autumn and will keep you updated on our plans as they take shape. One innovation we may try is offering some concerts as maybe people won't want to dance all day long. If you have any other suggestions for 2022's programme, we'd be delighted to hear from you.
Looking forward to the time when we can all meet again. We have every intention of running the festival next year: Friday 29th April — Monday 2nd May 2022. The May Heydays Team [19/03/2021]
2021 May 7 - 9 TREDEGAR HOUSE FOLK FESTIVAL www.tredegarhousefestival.org.uk - cancelled
→ NEWPORT. Tredegar House & Country Park, Newport, Gwent NP10 8YW. South Wales
⌂ TREDEGAR HOUSE FOLK FESTIVAL; for further details, contact: Sue Oates, susieoates135<at>hotmail.com, 01633 246241
⊕ A weekend of international dance, music, and song.
Sadly, the Tredegar House Folk Festival has been cancelled for 2021.
We hope the 31st festival will now take place 6th - 8th May 2022 with almost the same line-up as we had planned for 2021: Barbara Dickson, Fara, Alaw, Rusty Shackle, Avanc, Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman and many more singers and dancers from this year.
Sue Venn [18/03/2021]
2021 Jun TEIGNMOUTH FOLK FESTIVAL www.teignmouthfolk.co.uk - cancelled
2021 Nov 6 -- 7 NONSUCH ANNUAL WEEKEND https://www.dulcimer.org.uk/
*** This was recently announced as 2021 Nov 5 -- 6 - it should have been 6 -- 7.
Online Workshops for hammered and mountain dulcimer players at all levels, with a range of exciting tutors. Keep checking our website for the latest information and how to book.
venues, performers, media, services: in area webpages on this website
Your news & listings, print-style pages, plus PDF downloads for each page.
Zoom details on Virtual Folk webpage; and, for Folklife members, also on the relevant area page below.
England South-West
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Sarah McQuaid Releases New St Buryan Sessions Singles and Videos
For the second and third singles of her new album and video series The St Buryan Sessions, Cornwall-based singer-songwriter Sarah McQuaid delves deep into her back catalog to resurrect “Charlie’s Gone Home”, the first original song she ever recorded as a solo artist, then jumps forward again with “The Day Of Wrath, That Day”, a powerful instrumental composition for electric guitar. Originally recorded on her 1997 debut album When Two Lovers Meet, “Charlie’s Gone Home” wasn’t a brand new song even then, Sarah recalls. “I’d actually written it back when I was still living in Philadelphia, so it would have been the late 1980s or early 90s. I can remember very clearly the day I wrote it – back in those days I was still thinking of myself not as a songwriter but as a folksinger who happened to write an occasional song when inspiration struck, so to speak. “I remember reading an interview with some poet whose name I can’t remember, where she said that when she felt a new poem starting to arrive it was like an oncoming train, and she had to rush to her desk to be there ready with pen and paper when the train pulled in to the station. “Well, this song hit me exactly like an oncoming train, only one that was barrelling along at full steam with whistles blaring. It really knocked me for six, and I remember just sitting on the sofa crying and trying to wipe the tears off my guitar so they didn’t mark the finish – not because it was a sad song but just from the overwhelming emotional impact of writing it. “It’s been kind of a special song for me ever since, and a lot of people have told me it’s a special song for them, too – at least two different people said ‘Well, I hope “Charlie’s Gone Home” is going to be on it’ as soon as I told them about the project.” Released on February 19, “Charlie’s Gone Home (The St Buryan Sessions)” was followed on Friday March 12 with a new live interpretation of “The Day Of Wrath, That Day”, a track that only achieved its finished form on the day she recorded it for her landmark Michael Chapman-produced 2018 album If We Dig Any Deeper It Could Get Dangerous. Now available for streaming and download via Spotify, iTunes/Apple Music, Amazon and other services and also as a pay-what-you-want download via https://sarahmcquaid.bandcamp.com. The videos can all be viewed on my YouTube channel - https://youtube.com/sarahmcquaid The next single release is an a cappella song, “Sweetness and Pain” — single release Apr 2, video premiere Apr 3, and after that they’ll be continuing every 3 weeks; the best way for people to keep track of them is to subscribe to my YouTube channel and/or follow me on Bandcamp |
West Midlands region
News from the Trad Arts Team, May to August 2021
The Team loves everything about traditional music, songs, dances and stories, and looks forward to enjoying future events in real life. However, events will continue online until July, as listed below and on our web calendar at www.tradartsteam.co.uk – join our mailing list to receive the Zoom links.
Storytelling Café
Storytelling Café is a place of magic and mischief, where you can enjoy being whisked away to a world of wonderful stories that will amuse and enrich you. It’s held at 7:30pm on the third Wednesday of each month.
Storytelling, Music and Song Sessions
Nine books of songs from contributors to Sing Political were published online last year under the title “Political Songster” – there’s an online index at www.tradartsteam.co.uk/songster-index.html with relevant links. Songs contributed in 2021 are uploaded individually to our “Song Depot” at www.tradartsteam.co.uk/depot.html Pam Bishop
Herefs-Worcs
Somers Traditional Folk Club, Worcester (the club your editors are involved with), a special club recording of the traditional song 'Thousands Or More' put together by Alan Courtney from individual member contributions made under lockdown conditions. It's on the club website:
http://www.somers-folk-club.org.uk/
We all recorded ourselves (the first time your editors have done this!) - and Alan put it together and it sounds great! like a real pre-Covid Friday night sing!
From Colin Pitts, 8/3/2021:
Katie Grace Harris, Colin Pitts, Mike Weaver
Thursday 24th June 2021
Evesham Town Hall, Vine Street, Evesham WR11 4RL
Promoted by Evesham Live, part of Evesham Arts Association
8pm | Doors 7.30pm | Tickets £10 online from www.eveshamlive.co.uk or The Almonry Museum, Abbey Gates, Evesham WR11 4BQ
All government guidelines for audiences and performers will be adhered to
I'm performing at Bill Craswell's Churchdown Folk Festival [details below] on 5th June That will be online.
Also I plan to record a new album very soon.
News from the Trad Arts Team, May to August 2021
The Team loves everything about traditional music, songs, dances and stories, and looks forward to enjoying future events in real life. However, events will continue online until July, as listed below and on our web calendar at www.tradartsteam.co.uk – join our mailing list to receive the Zoom links.
Storytelling Café
Storytelling Café is a place of magic and mischief, where you can enjoy being whisked away to a world of wonderful stories that will amuse and enrich you. It’s held at 7:30pm on the third Wednesday of each month.
Storytelling, Music and Song Sessions
- first Wednesday – Tales and Ales, 8-10pm. Come along to tell or listen to stories
- second Sunday – Scandi music session, 2-4pm, to share Swedish and other Nordic tunes
- second Wednesday – Sing Political, 8-10pm. Political discourse through song – sing or listen to songs that give us heart and hope
- fourth Wednesday – Left-Write, 8-10pm, a support session for songwriters
Nine books of songs from contributors to Sing Political were published online last year under the title “Political Songster” – there’s an online index at www.tradartsteam.co.uk/songster-index.html with relevant links. Songs contributed in 2021 are uploaded individually to our “Song Depot” at www.tradartsteam.co.uk/depot.html Pam Bishop
Herefs-Worcs
Somers Traditional Folk Club, Worcester (the club your editors are involved with), a special club recording of the traditional song 'Thousands Or More' put together by Alan Courtney from individual member contributions made under lockdown conditions. It's on the club website:
http://www.somers-folk-club.org.uk/
We all recorded ourselves (the first time your editors have done this!) - and Alan put it together and it sounds great! like a real pre-Covid Friday night sing!
From Colin Pitts, 8/3/2021:
Katie Grace Harris, Colin Pitts, Mike Weaver
Thursday 24th June 2021
Evesham Town Hall, Vine Street, Evesham WR11 4RL
Promoted by Evesham Live, part of Evesham Arts Association
8pm | Doors 7.30pm | Tickets £10 online from www.eveshamlive.co.uk or The Almonry Museum, Abbey Gates, Evesham WR11 4BQ
All government guidelines for audiences and performers will be adhered to
I'm performing at Bill Craswell's Churchdown Folk Festival [details below] on 5th June That will be online.
Also I plan to record a new album very soon.
Other UK: Other UK includes non-member news for 'other UK' news - from those signed up for Newsletter
∆ Scotland The Living Tradition covering UK & Ireland The April / May 2021 issue of The Living Tradition is out now, including articles on Chris Newman & Máire Ní Chathasaigh, John Pilgrim, Patterson Dipper, Josephine Marsh, Folk Music In Kent, Gavin Paterson, Bogie's Bonnie Belle, Hamish Moore Opinion - 'It Might Lead To Dancing', 2021 Festival Listings, news, reviews and more... Subscriptions and magazines available from www.livingtradition.co.uk The Living Tradition is committed to promoting Traditional Music and Song. Please help us to continue to do this by subscribing at www.livingtradition.co.uk/subscribe LINN PHIPPS ɸ I have now posted several new collaborations on my website - there is a hot link from my About/ posts page or direct here: https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/music/#collabs Also I am the singer on “Cho sean ris na Cnuic (As old as the hills)”, a collaboration with Australian Singer-Songwriter Adrian Newington. It is a Gaelic translation of a mediaeval themed song originally composed in English as a simple spiritual reflection and imagining of village life thousand or so years ago, conveying the idea that spiritual contentment is for any person in any era or age https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXOziuFC8ZE International (online extra) [deleted - Newsletter had dates/events now passed] |
Folklife -- 15 March 2021 Newsletter:
Festival Updates we moved the Festivals & Workshops Diary to this, our main website, it's now on www.folklife.uk/festivals.html The old webpage (Directory site), www.folklife-directory.uk/festivals.html will redirect. |
Members' online FOLK DIRECTORY listings www.folklife-directory.uk
Having reviewed, and revised, our folk news webpages (Jan/Feb), we have now reviewed, and revised, our Directory webpages.
Workshop Providers are now on area webpages, in future print issues they will be added to the area listings::
W.1 Workshop Providers: Study Centres, Teachers, Tutors, Development Workers, Organisers.
W.2 Continuing (longer-term) Workshops Series, eg termtime series. 1-off workshops (1 day or 1 week), in Festival/Workshop Diary.
We have combined the Festival Diary and the Workshop Diary, as some overlaps -- will save space when we print FW again (May issue), and now on this site.
Folk News: Festivals & Workshops Diary on this website, formerly on Directory website
2021 WORKSHOPS ALL YEAR ROUND
Halsway Manor - year round
Workshops & Courses
Somerset HALSWAY MANOR National Centre for the Folk Arts www.halswaymanor.org.uk All enquiries 01984 618274
→ Halsway Manor, Halsway Lane, near Crowcombe, Somerset TA4 4BD.
⊕ Halsway Manor is an independent charity providing a year round programme of events and learning activities in traditional folk music, dance, song, storytelling, folklore and related arts and crafts. All are welcome.
Halsway Provisional Re-Opening: 17 May
Updated 26.02.2021
In their recent COVID-19 response, the UK Government have suggested that organisations like ours will be able to open when we reach Step 3 of the roadmap out of lockdown. This will be no sooner that 17 May, and will be dependent upon favourable data regarding infection and transmission rates for the virus.
With this in mind, we are planning to re-open to guests on Mon 17 May. Covid-secure guidance will remain in place and we expect to operating at reduced capacity. We will be reviewing this in the coming weeks and months, and we’ll continue to make further information available to you.
At present the Manor is still closed, with the office open for Booking Enquiries on Mondays only, 10am-4pm. In the month prior to opening staff will be returning to work and our office hours will return to normal.
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2021 Jun 05 CHURCHDOWN FOLK FESTIVAL http://liamtho.com/Churchdown2021 revised entry
→ CHURCHDOWN, Gloucestershire. The Churchdown Club (http://churchdownclub.co.uk), Church Road, Churchdown, Gloucester, GL3 2ER
⌂ A one day online festival this year.
For more info: website as above, Facebook: "Churchdown Folk Festival 2021", http://liamtho.com/FolkAtTheClub.
Please contact Bill Craswell, 07740 248785, liam<at>liamtho.com ® Bill Craswell
Probably cancelled - further info to follow.
2021 Jun 25 - 27 WEST SOMERSET FOLK FESTIVAL www.westsomersetfolkfestival.co.uk
→ CARHAMPTON, Somerset. Carhampton Recreation Hall, Carhampton Recreation Ground.
⌂ WEST SOMERSET FOLK FESTIVAL Mike and Diane Dibble, 01643 841597, 3 The Glebe, Timberscombe, Minehead, Somerset, TA24 7TS.
⊕ Workshops, Folk Club, Singarounds, Concert. Guests are on the website. ® Mike & Di
Just one week after the earliest date for allowed gatherings and as there's sure to be slippage some time in the next few months I do not expect we will run in 2021 either. Mike
2021 Jul 2 - 4 CLECKHEATON FOLK FESTIVAL cancelled
2022 Jul 1 - 3 CLECKHEATON FOLK FESTIVAL www.cleckheatonfolkfestival.org
→ CLECKHEATON, West Yorkshire. The Town Hall (main concerts) plus various venues around the town.
⌂ Cleckheaton Folk Festival, 84 Pyenot Hall Lane, Cleckheaton, West Yorks BD19 5BA. info<at>cleckheatonfolkfestival.org
Facebook - Friends of Cleckheaton Folk Festival. Tweet us @cleckheatonFF
⊕ Previously booked guests for 2020 & then 2021 were: Peter Knight's Gig Spanner Big Band, Bella Hardy Trio, Copper Kettle, Tom Perry And Clive Brooks, Vicki Swan And Jonny Dyer, Bob Fox, Nick Dow, Pete Norman & Kath Charnock, Bob & Gill Berry, Steve Canavan, Idiot & Friend (Les Barker & Keith Donnelly) Son Of A Gun, The Wilson Family. The Bromleys, Bella Hardy, Black Box Band, Marie Little, Si Barron, Jess & Richard Arrowsmith, Monkeys Fist, Edwina Hayes, Kimbers Men, Pete Coe, Den Miller. With Hiring Fair and Street Market, Sessions and Singarounds, Workshops, Specials, Street entertainment.
CFF Coronavirus Update: we are sad to report that following the recent government review and discussions with our organising committee we have made the decision to take the cautious and safest route and postpone the planned 2021 festival. Although the Government Road Map laid out on 22nd February indicates that all restrictions may be removed by no sooner than 21st June, we can’t rely on there being no further slippage, so it is unrealistic to assume we could definitely go ahead with a full-blown festival by 2nd July.
Our volunteer organisers and most of our visitors fall into the “vulnerable group” category and we feel that it may not be sufficiently safe for them to return to an indoor festival in early July. If any form of Social distancing remains in place the restrictions would not allow us to mix and mingle in the friendly manner we have come to know and love at Cleckheaton. Singarounds, Sessions and the Ceilidh would be a massive problem area and workshops and specials would be difficult too. Restrictions on seating in our Town Hall could reduce the capacity to as little as 65 people and we have no certainty that our other venues will have become available in time.
We have secured all the artists that were re-scheduled for 2021 and the line-up for 2022 is now in place so, as disappointed as we are, we can now look forward to 1st, 2nd & 3rd July 2022 when we can all meet again, in as safe an environment as possible, to enjoy what should be a brilliant festival. All tickets originally purchased for 2020 will be honoured in 2022 and we have contacted all ticket holders.
Our website details will be amended in the next few days [as of 8/3/2021. - Ed.]
2021 Jul 15 – 18 WARWICK FOLK FESTIVAL www.warwickfolkfestival.co.uk revised entry
→ WARWICK. Festival main venue and campsite: Castle Park adjacent to Warwick Castle, Stratford Rd Warwick. Numerous venues in and around the historic town of Warwick.
⌂ WARWICK FOLK FESTIVAL: email info<at>warwickfolkfestival.co.ukBooking: onlinewww.warwickfolkfestival.co.uk
⊕ We are delighted that many of our artists that wre booked for 2020 have confirmed their availability for 2021 so we can bring you the same great line up.
So for 2021 we will be at our exciting new site adjacent to Warwick Castle. After the disruption by development at our old site over the last couple of festivals, the new site will allow us to have a much improved layout with room for whatever social distancing regulations may be in place and everyone camping in easy reach of the venues, also plenty of free parking for day visitors. Lots of showers and toilets, crafts, food and drink as you have come to expect. Again the real ale festival bar will be run by the famous Fleece Inn of Bretforton.
The town centre is only 10 minutes away, and on the walk up the road there are shops and ancient hostelries to distract you or take the route up the drive past the castle which will be offering special deals to festival ticket holders.,
The festival brings together leading names from around the world for a 4-day music and dance extravaganza. Its unique programme has something for everyone from dedicated folk fans to music lovers who are discovering that ‘folk’ covers a wide range of tastes and styles. See our website for full details.
For more information please visit www.warwickfolkfestival.co.uk ® Peter Cranage
2021 Jul 16 - 18 MITCHELDEAN FESTIVAL www.mitcheldeanfestival.fod.uk revised entry
→ MITCHELDEAN, Forest of Dean, Glos GL17 0AT
⇒ Email talktous<at>mitcheldeanfestival.fod.uk for more information, Andy Scarf 01594 544456
⊕ Free festival in the glorious Forest of Dean! All singers, musicians and dancers welcome.
We will announce whether it's only online (as last year) or live around the end of May, but the poetry competition is already under way.
We hope you will be able to join us - Cheers! ® Andy
2021 Aug 21 - 27 WHITBY FOLK WEEK www.whitbyfolk.co.uk changed contact for ticket sales
→ WHITBY, North Yorkshire. Numerous venues throughout the town.
⌂ Whitby Folk Week, PO Box 10732, Nottingham, NG5 0JX, phone: 07597 541899. General Enquiries email: folk<at>whitbyfolk.co.uk, phone 01977 792205. Ticket Sales, Melanie Barber, 72 Freedom Road, Walkley, Sheffield S6 2XD, email: tickets<at>whitbyfolk.co.uk . Camping Enquiries email: camping<at>whitbyfolk.co.uk
⊕ Tickets: please check the website. If you haven’t as yet bought a ticket, and want to help keep the festival alive, the 2021 ticket form is now online, and we are holding the 2020 early bird price in place until 30th April 2021.
2021 Nov 5 - 6 NONSUCH ANNUAL WEEKEND https://www.dulcimer.org.uk/ revised entry
Online Workshops for hammered and mountain dulcimer players at all levels, with a range of exciting tutors. Keep checking our website for the latest information and how to book.
2022 Mar tba SPRING FLING Dulcimer Workshop Weekend https://www.dulcimer.org.uk/ revised entry
Details TBA. Check our website later in the year.
Halsway Manor - year round
Workshops & Courses
Somerset HALSWAY MANOR National Centre for the Folk Arts www.halswaymanor.org.uk All enquiries 01984 618274
→ Halsway Manor, Halsway Lane, near Crowcombe, Somerset TA4 4BD.
⊕ Halsway Manor is an independent charity providing a year round programme of events and learning activities in traditional folk music, dance, song, storytelling, folklore and related arts and crafts. All are welcome.
Halsway Provisional Re-Opening: 17 May
Updated 26.02.2021
In their recent COVID-19 response, the UK Government have suggested that organisations like ours will be able to open when we reach Step 3 of the roadmap out of lockdown. This will be no sooner that 17 May, and will be dependent upon favourable data regarding infection and transmission rates for the virus.
With this in mind, we are planning to re-open to guests on Mon 17 May. Covid-secure guidance will remain in place and we expect to operating at reduced capacity. We will be reviewing this in the coming weeks and months, and we’ll continue to make further information available to you.
At present the Manor is still closed, with the office open for Booking Enquiries on Mondays only, 10am-4pm. In the month prior to opening staff will be returning to work and our office hours will return to normal.
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2021 Jun 05 CHURCHDOWN FOLK FESTIVAL http://liamtho.com/Churchdown2021 revised entry
→ CHURCHDOWN, Gloucestershire. The Churchdown Club (http://churchdownclub.co.uk), Church Road, Churchdown, Gloucester, GL3 2ER
⌂ A one day online festival this year.
For more info: website as above, Facebook: "Churchdown Folk Festival 2021", http://liamtho.com/FolkAtTheClub.
Please contact Bill Craswell, 07740 248785, liam<at>liamtho.com ® Bill Craswell
Probably cancelled - further info to follow.
2021 Jun 25 - 27 WEST SOMERSET FOLK FESTIVAL www.westsomersetfolkfestival.co.uk
→ CARHAMPTON, Somerset. Carhampton Recreation Hall, Carhampton Recreation Ground.
⌂ WEST SOMERSET FOLK FESTIVAL Mike and Diane Dibble, 01643 841597, 3 The Glebe, Timberscombe, Minehead, Somerset, TA24 7TS.
⊕ Workshops, Folk Club, Singarounds, Concert. Guests are on the website. ® Mike & Di
Just one week after the earliest date for allowed gatherings and as there's sure to be slippage some time in the next few months I do not expect we will run in 2021 either. Mike
2021 Jul 2 - 4 CLECKHEATON FOLK FESTIVAL cancelled
2022 Jul 1 - 3 CLECKHEATON FOLK FESTIVAL www.cleckheatonfolkfestival.org
→ CLECKHEATON, West Yorkshire. The Town Hall (main concerts) plus various venues around the town.
⌂ Cleckheaton Folk Festival, 84 Pyenot Hall Lane, Cleckheaton, West Yorks BD19 5BA. info<at>cleckheatonfolkfestival.org
Facebook - Friends of Cleckheaton Folk Festival. Tweet us @cleckheatonFF
⊕ Previously booked guests for 2020 & then 2021 were: Peter Knight's Gig Spanner Big Band, Bella Hardy Trio, Copper Kettle, Tom Perry And Clive Brooks, Vicki Swan And Jonny Dyer, Bob Fox, Nick Dow, Pete Norman & Kath Charnock, Bob & Gill Berry, Steve Canavan, Idiot & Friend (Les Barker & Keith Donnelly) Son Of A Gun, The Wilson Family. The Bromleys, Bella Hardy, Black Box Band, Marie Little, Si Barron, Jess & Richard Arrowsmith, Monkeys Fist, Edwina Hayes, Kimbers Men, Pete Coe, Den Miller. With Hiring Fair and Street Market, Sessions and Singarounds, Workshops, Specials, Street entertainment.
CFF Coronavirus Update: we are sad to report that following the recent government review and discussions with our organising committee we have made the decision to take the cautious and safest route and postpone the planned 2021 festival. Although the Government Road Map laid out on 22nd February indicates that all restrictions may be removed by no sooner than 21st June, we can’t rely on there being no further slippage, so it is unrealistic to assume we could definitely go ahead with a full-blown festival by 2nd July.
Our volunteer organisers and most of our visitors fall into the “vulnerable group” category and we feel that it may not be sufficiently safe for them to return to an indoor festival in early July. If any form of Social distancing remains in place the restrictions would not allow us to mix and mingle in the friendly manner we have come to know and love at Cleckheaton. Singarounds, Sessions and the Ceilidh would be a massive problem area and workshops and specials would be difficult too. Restrictions on seating in our Town Hall could reduce the capacity to as little as 65 people and we have no certainty that our other venues will have become available in time.
We have secured all the artists that were re-scheduled for 2021 and the line-up for 2022 is now in place so, as disappointed as we are, we can now look forward to 1st, 2nd & 3rd July 2022 when we can all meet again, in as safe an environment as possible, to enjoy what should be a brilliant festival. All tickets originally purchased for 2020 will be honoured in 2022 and we have contacted all ticket holders.
Our website details will be amended in the next few days [as of 8/3/2021. - Ed.]
2021 Jul 15 – 18 WARWICK FOLK FESTIVAL www.warwickfolkfestival.co.uk revised entry
→ WARWICK. Festival main venue and campsite: Castle Park adjacent to Warwick Castle, Stratford Rd Warwick. Numerous venues in and around the historic town of Warwick.
⌂ WARWICK FOLK FESTIVAL: email info<at>warwickfolkfestival.co.ukBooking: onlinewww.warwickfolkfestival.co.uk
⊕ We are delighted that many of our artists that wre booked for 2020 have confirmed their availability for 2021 so we can bring you the same great line up.
So for 2021 we will be at our exciting new site adjacent to Warwick Castle. After the disruption by development at our old site over the last couple of festivals, the new site will allow us to have a much improved layout with room for whatever social distancing regulations may be in place and everyone camping in easy reach of the venues, also plenty of free parking for day visitors. Lots of showers and toilets, crafts, food and drink as you have come to expect. Again the real ale festival bar will be run by the famous Fleece Inn of Bretforton.
The town centre is only 10 minutes away, and on the walk up the road there are shops and ancient hostelries to distract you or take the route up the drive past the castle which will be offering special deals to festival ticket holders.,
The festival brings together leading names from around the world for a 4-day music and dance extravaganza. Its unique programme has something for everyone from dedicated folk fans to music lovers who are discovering that ‘folk’ covers a wide range of tastes and styles. See our website for full details.
For more information please visit www.warwickfolkfestival.co.uk ® Peter Cranage
2021 Jul 16 - 18 MITCHELDEAN FESTIVAL www.mitcheldeanfestival.fod.uk revised entry
→ MITCHELDEAN, Forest of Dean, Glos GL17 0AT
⇒ Email talktous<at>mitcheldeanfestival.fod.uk for more information, Andy Scarf 01594 544456
⊕ Free festival in the glorious Forest of Dean! All singers, musicians and dancers welcome.
We will announce whether it's only online (as last year) or live around the end of May, but the poetry competition is already under way.
We hope you will be able to join us - Cheers! ® Andy
2021 Aug 21 - 27 WHITBY FOLK WEEK www.whitbyfolk.co.uk changed contact for ticket sales
→ WHITBY, North Yorkshire. Numerous venues throughout the town.
⌂ Whitby Folk Week, PO Box 10732, Nottingham, NG5 0JX, phone: 07597 541899. General Enquiries email: folk<at>whitbyfolk.co.uk, phone 01977 792205. Ticket Sales, Melanie Barber, 72 Freedom Road, Walkley, Sheffield S6 2XD, email: tickets<at>whitbyfolk.co.uk . Camping Enquiries email: camping<at>whitbyfolk.co.uk
⊕ Tickets: please check the website. If you haven’t as yet bought a ticket, and want to help keep the festival alive, the 2021 ticket form is now online, and we are holding the 2020 early bird price in place until 30th April 2021.
2021 Nov 5 - 6 NONSUCH ANNUAL WEEKEND https://www.dulcimer.org.uk/ revised entry
Online Workshops for hammered and mountain dulcimer players at all levels, with a range of exciting tutors. Keep checking our website for the latest information and how to book.
2022 Mar tba SPRING FLING Dulcimer Workshop Weekend https://www.dulcimer.org.uk/ revised entry
Details TBA. Check our website later in the year.
Welcome, new Folklife members and Newsletter signups!
Your news - zoom sessions; currently-closed folk clubs/sings; performers, albums -welcome from Folklife members; & for 'Online Extra' from Newsletter signups outside our area. Our priorities are based on who has signed up, who has sent news, - and from where. After nearly a year of zooming, we reviewed: which clubs/performers, which areas/countries have signed up to Newsletter? which areas are sending news in?
2021 Jan-Apr magazine: instead of the usual Folklife Traditions (FT) pages and your folk news, we printed May, Sep, & Jan FT pages (articles) in print & online, and your folk news online only. UK magazines went out before Christmas; EU ones were held up by the Post Office (and I have since learnt that they should have accepted Eire - but didn't!).
After that, we've been busy adding PDFs for you to download for past issues of our Folklife Traditions pages (articles), see below.
Your news - zoom sessions; currently-closed folk clubs/sings; performers, albums -welcome from Folklife members; & for 'Online Extra' from Newsletter signups outside our area. Our priorities are based on who has signed up, who has sent news, - and from where. After nearly a year of zooming, we reviewed: which clubs/performers, which areas/countries have signed up to Newsletter? which areas are sending news in?
2021 Jan-Apr magazine: instead of the usual Folklife Traditions (FT) pages and your folk news, we printed May, Sep, & Jan FT pages (articles) in print & online, and your folk news online only. UK magazines went out before Christmas; EU ones were held up by the Post Office (and I have since learnt that they should have accepted Eire - but didn't!).
After that, we've been busy adding PDFs for you to download for past issues of our Folklife Traditions pages (articles), see below.
Folklife Traditions pages on website folklife-traditions.uk
researched articles; folklife studies & organisations; publications
This issue on http://www.folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html includes
Researched articles: Y Ferch o’r Scêr / The Maid of Sker, Welsh traditional tune & song, by Helen Adam. The Leaving of Liverpool, by Roy & Lesley Adkins. 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. Publications announced include All My Life's Buried Here – The Story of George Butterworth, DVD & BluRay. Folklife Societies news.
New ! Download PDFs for all FT issues
... and thanks to Martin Graebe from TSF for his encouragement!
Earlier FT issues (FWJ 01 to FT 56) were originally set up as "Issuu" e-magazines; links are still available, but we cannot update them.
Therefore, we have added downloadable PDFs for ALL issues!
To cope with all the additional PDFs, our "Index: ISSUES" webpage was therefore split --
see "Index: ISSUES-1" (FWJ 1 to FT 50; 26 issues)
and "Index: ISSUES-2" (FT 51 to date; 16 issues). ... total 42 issues (perhaps 150 articles?)
We have also clarified the layout, as this was based on earlier links to e-magazines.
Links for Issuu are still available from FWJ 01 to FT 56.
*** Still to do: add in some print-only articles to online (PDFs). We'll let you know later when this is complete. Meanwhile, we may have a Pdf for an article that we can send you on request even if not on PDFs as published.
Researched articles: Y Ferch o’r Scêr / The Maid of Sker, Welsh traditional tune & song, by Helen Adam. The Leaving of Liverpool, by Roy & Lesley Adkins. 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. Publications announced include All My Life's Buried Here – The Story of George Butterworth, DVD & BluRay. Folklife Societies news.
New ! Download PDFs for all FT issues
... and thanks to Martin Graebe from TSF for his encouragement!
Earlier FT issues (FWJ 01 to FT 56) were originally set up as "Issuu" e-magazines; links are still available, but we cannot update them.
Therefore, we have added downloadable PDFs for ALL issues!
To cope with all the additional PDFs, our "Index: ISSUES" webpage was therefore split --
see "Index: ISSUES-1" (FWJ 1 to FT 50; 26 issues)
and "Index: ISSUES-2" (FT 51 to date; 16 issues). ... total 42 issues (perhaps 150 articles?)
We have also clarified the layout, as this was based on earlier links to e-magazines.
Links for Issuu are still available from FWJ 01 to FT 56.
*** Still to do: add in some print-only articles to online (PDFs). We'll let you know later when this is complete. Meanwhile, we may have a Pdf for an article that we can send you on request even if not on PDFs as published.
Folklife news & organisations: Updates
Ø The Traditional Song Forum has organised successful talks on Zoom, more are planned. These talks are very popular, now attracting international visitors, currently limited to 100 places; so if interested, see tradsong.org sooner rather than later. This website is a gateway to a number of useful resources for those interested in researching or performing traditional folk songs. There is a newsletter to sign up to.
Ø trac, music traditions Wales, Wales folk development organisation, has a website full of resources, https://trac.wales; a mailing list to sign up to; and is on Facebook, at facebook.com/traccymruwales, where you will find videos, details of online gigs, etc.
Ø A website containing popular songs and poetry about steam power: https://songsfromtheageofsteam.uk, curated by Colin Bargery. It includes folk songs, music hall songs, monologues, parlour ballads, and poems, from Britain and Ireland. The aim of the site is to put these pieces in their social and historical context. Thanks to Colin Davies for telling us about the site.
Ø The Traditional Song Forum has organised successful talks on Zoom, more are planned. These talks are very popular, now attracting international visitors, currently limited to 100 places; so if interested, see tradsong.org sooner rather than later. This website is a gateway to a number of useful resources for those interested in researching or performing traditional folk songs. There is a newsletter to sign up to.
- dates now updated in later Newsletter
Ø trac, music traditions Wales, Wales folk development organisation, has a website full of resources, https://trac.wales; a mailing list to sign up to; and is on Facebook, at facebook.com/traccymruwales, where you will find videos, details of online gigs, etc.
Ø A website containing popular songs and poetry about steam power: https://songsfromtheageofsteam.uk, curated by Colin Bargery. It includes folk songs, music hall songs, monologues, parlour ballads, and poems, from Britain and Ireland. The aim of the site is to put these pieces in their social and historical context. Thanks to Colin Davies for telling us about the site.
Folk News, venues, performers, media, services: in area webpages on this website
Your news & listings, print-style pages, plus PDF downloads for each page.
Zoom details on Virtual Folk webpage; and, for Folklife members, also on the relevant area page below.
_________________________________
Folklife Members' News Pages: (normally) printed in FW, copied online. Temporarily, online only.
Our "usual area" is: Wales, England West Country (plus Oxfordshire), West Midlands.
We also have an "Other UK" page for members from outside our usual area.
Our POLICY: in our usual area: news only from our members. + during lockdown: Zoom sessions from non-members.
For 2021: we have reviewed print pages, as copied to webpages below:
and we have adjusted them. Arranged so that areas reflect the number of members, their news items, & their listings,
so that each region/area in our "usual area" has 1 A4 page of members' listings for that area, followed by individual counties' news.
Cymru/Wales Cymru/Wales news links to our separate Wales website. Zoom copied to home page of folklife.cymru / bywyd-gwerin.cymru
no change
England South-West region area (Listings. Kernow/Cornwall news; Devon News; Somerset & Dorset news; Wilts news; Bristol & S.Glos news).
Sarah McQuaid New Single, Video Series & Forthcoming Album/Concert Film, January 2021
Cornwall-based singer/songwriter Sarah McQuaid is delighted to announce the release of the first two singles and videos from her forthcoming album, concert film and video series, The St Buryan Sessions. Released worldwide on Friday 29 January 2021, “The Silence Above Us” is the first single from The St Buryan Sessions, filmed and recorded live (with no audience due to COVID-19) last summer in the beautiful church of St Buryan, Cornwall, parts of which date back to the 11th century. A second single, “Charlie’s Gone Home,” will be released on Friday 19 February, once again with video premieres on YouTube and Facebook on the Saturday and Sunday. The roll-out of singles and videos will continue throughout the year, and Sarah hopes to release the full 15-track, 72-minute album on CD and double LP in late summer. "I’ve always believed that there’s an element of magic in a live concert that’s really difficult to replicate in a studio, plus a lot of my songs have evolved and changed since I originally recorded them. " “The Silence Above Us (The St Buryan Sessions)” is now available for streaming and download via Spotify, iTunes/Apple Music, Amazon and other services and also as a pay-what-you-want download via https://sarahmcquaid.bandcamp.com. |
Other UK: Other UK Listings for those based outside our 'usual area' as above,
∆ Scotland Media: covering UK & Ireland THE LIVING TRADITION The Feb / March 2021 issue of The Living Tradition includes articles on Mossy Christian, Eilis Kennedy, George Belton, Fraser Bruce, Carl Hession, Malin Lewis, Robin Hood Ballads, Janie Meneely & Rob Van Sante, Who Was Lord Randal, Straight Out Of The Book, news, reviews and more... Subscriptions and single copies available from www.livingtradition.co.uk The Living Tradition is committed to promoting Traditional Music and Song. Please help us to continue to do this by subscribing at www.livingtradition.co.uk/subscribe |
Online Extra:
International 'Online Extra' webpage for international (non-member) news.
This webpage currently has entries from ∆ Germany ∆ Ireland ∆ Israel ∆ USA. Other countries most welcome.
∆ Germany
English Folk Club (EFC), Bad Kissingen
2020 gave us the Online version of the English Folk Club (EFC), which kept the EFC philosophy active 'A platform for all kinds of musicians, whether young or old either beginners, semi-professionals or professionals to entertain on a stage and feel the magic of playing in front of an audience.'
This gave an opportunity for musicians not only from German but also from India, Turkey, Slovakia, Africa, the USA, and England to play in spite of the Corona restrictions.
It will be a while before the EFC Venue, KissVino, opens again, but patience is indeed a virtue.
In Facebook and YouTube you can see the photo album 2020.
Saturday the 30th January was a lovely long grand evening for peace with very good songs and instrumentals. Thanks to all who participated.
We have run these Machtfrieden Concerts a few times before and perhaps it will end be a January standard.
Videos of the Online Concert can be seen now and are available in:
YouTube:https://youtu.be/Bpib1I2E5cw
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/100050581842577/videos/272680784427981/
Our best musical regards - Dennis
https://www.facebook.com/EnglishFolkClubBadKissingen
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCza1kHXeJdMv1qy6fs2USlg
∆ USA
Massachusetts Boston. Day varies.
LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ONLINE EVENTS, numerous events,
including ONLINE BALLAD SING or CHANTY SING Sundays, weekly, 2-5 EDT [= UK 7pm-10pm],
for details see sites.google.com/view/lynnoel/music/mermaidstavern
This webpage currently has entries from ∆ Germany ∆ Ireland ∆ Israel ∆ USA. Other countries most welcome.
∆ Germany
English Folk Club (EFC), Bad Kissingen
2020 gave us the Online version of the English Folk Club (EFC), which kept the EFC philosophy active 'A platform for all kinds of musicians, whether young or old either beginners, semi-professionals or professionals to entertain on a stage and feel the magic of playing in front of an audience.'
This gave an opportunity for musicians not only from German but also from India, Turkey, Slovakia, Africa, the USA, and England to play in spite of the Corona restrictions.
It will be a while before the EFC Venue, KissVino, opens again, but patience is indeed a virtue.
In Facebook and YouTube you can see the photo album 2020.
Saturday the 30th January was a lovely long grand evening for peace with very good songs and instrumentals. Thanks to all who participated.
We have run these Machtfrieden Concerts a few times before and perhaps it will end be a January standard.
Videos of the Online Concert can be seen now and are available in:
YouTube:https://youtu.be/Bpib1I2E5cw
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/100050581842577/videos/272680784427981/
Our best musical regards - Dennis
https://www.facebook.com/EnglishFolkClubBadKissingen
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCza1kHXeJdMv1qy6fs2USlg
∆ USA
Massachusetts Boston. Day varies.
LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ONLINE EVENTS, numerous events,
including ONLINE BALLAD SING or CHANTY SING Sundays, weekly, 2-5 EDT [= UK 7pm-10pm],
for details see sites.google.com/view/lynnoel/music/mermaidstavern
FEBRUARY: CONCERTS MOVE to 1st and 3rd Thursdays!
- dates now updated in later Newsletter
Digital CD release: "Gulf of St Lawrence" Lynn Noel
Atlantic Canada is rich in traditional song and sense of place. From Newfoundland to New Brunswick and from Nova Scotia to PEI, I've been exploring both the region and its music since the 1970s as a camp counselor, park naturalist, touring artist, and author with Breakwater Books. My song "Topophilia" (love of place), originally released on Crosscurrents and reissued on A Woman's Way, grew from this roots music. This is a collection of campfire songs, learned and sung around the fire from Gros Morne National Park on Newfoundland's west coast to Camp Discovery in Cape Breton and Kouchibouguac National Park on the New Brunswick Gulf shore. French culture is interwoven with English, Scots, Gaelic and Micmac in this region, as you'll hear in the Maritime Mouth Music Medley. You'll find songs of the fishery and the lumber mills alongside songs for tramping, dancing, and yarning in the ballad and tall tale traditions. I hope that listening to these songs takes you back down home as much as singing them takes me. More details and to buy: see https://crosscurrentsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/gulf-of-st-lawrence |
Members' online FOLK DIRECTORY listings www.folklife-directory.uk
Folk Directory: area webpages - changed so same areas as these news webpages (but 'other UK' & 'International' combined)
Folk Directory: area webpages - changed so same areas as these news webpages (but 'other UK' & 'International' combined)
Folklife West (FW) magazine 2021 Jan.-Apr. issue. So your news will be online - publicity for 4 months.
<1> PRINTED PAGES (also copied online) 23/12/2020: posted out
except Post Office are not accepting EU post due to temporary border closures . <> FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS (FT) pages only ! Printed & on folklife-traditions.uk website. <> OPEN TO ALL, Folklife Members & non-Members. 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 previous online editions May & Sept 2020, plus for this issue. This being smaller than our usual FW, £2 credit to existing Folklife Members x 1 copy, pro rata for those who have more copies. <2> ONLINE-ONLY PAGES |
<> FOLK NEWS pages on this website, folklife.uk, - we welcome up to 200 words per news item. Plus an image (jpeg).
<> for FOLKLIFE MEMBERS and
exceptionally, for those on our NEWSLETTER MAILING LIST if outside our usual area of Wales, West Midlands, South-West
<> VIRTUAL FOLK DIRECTORY open to all, Folklife Members & non-Members. News can include
• your real (non-virtual) folk club/session/sing - a general description for when we all reopen; your lockdown news & stories; your plans for when we can reopen, if you've provisonally booked any guests for later 2020. We will also include your Zoom etc details if listed on our Virtual Folk webpage (if your Zoom session is an unlisted private group, we won't mention it).
• about you as a performer and/or your CDs/downloads (normally for Folklife, we don't do reviews, instead we ask our members to send us up to 200 words about their latest CD).
• regular advertisers - free repeat online adverts
<> THE ONLINE DIRECTORY on folklife-directory.uk website:
FESTIVALS DIARY and WORKSHOPS DIARY, LISTINGS for VENUES, PERFORMERS, MEDIA, SERVICES
<> for FOLKLIFE MEMBERS only, unless advertising (free adverts for our regular festival advertisers)
<> FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS pages on folklife-traditions.uk website -- copied from print as above.
Should you wish to pay to join Folklife, starting with January issue, a special price of £16 for 3 issues.
That's because it's normally £18 but we are giving existing members a £2 refund as January is smaller than our usual FW.
Normally, annual fee for new members £16, UK or overseas PDF via WeTransfer.
<> for FOLKLIFE MEMBERS and
exceptionally, for those on our NEWSLETTER MAILING LIST if outside our usual area of Wales, West Midlands, South-West
<> VIRTUAL FOLK DIRECTORY open to all, Folklife Members & non-Members. News can include
• your real (non-virtual) folk club/session/sing - a general description for when we all reopen; your lockdown news & stories; your plans for when we can reopen, if you've provisonally booked any guests for later 2020. We will also include your Zoom etc details if listed on our Virtual Folk webpage (if your Zoom session is an unlisted private group, we won't mention it).
• about you as a performer and/or your CDs/downloads (normally for Folklife, we don't do reviews, instead we ask our members to send us up to 200 words about their latest CD).
• regular advertisers - free repeat online adverts
<> THE ONLINE DIRECTORY on folklife-directory.uk website:
FESTIVALS DIARY and WORKSHOPS DIARY, LISTINGS for VENUES, PERFORMERS, MEDIA, SERVICES
<> for FOLKLIFE MEMBERS only, unless advertising (free adverts for our regular festival advertisers)
<> FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS pages on folklife-traditions.uk website -- copied from print as above.
Should you wish to pay to join Folklife, starting with January issue, a special price of £16 for 3 issues.
That's because it's normally £18 but we are giving existing members a £2 refund as January is smaller than our usual FW.
Normally, annual fee for new members £16, UK or overseas PDF via WeTransfer.
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- You can always read current & recent Newsletters here. Very occasionally, our Newsletters sent by MailChimp may be bounced by your email, especially if Yahoo/BT internet (includes associated Sky, AOL, etc), who may also not deliver our emails sent directly from Folklife !
Ø FOLKLIFE MEMBERS. We publicise Folklife Members [Ø] who pay our printers, Post Office, software, web fees, etc.
- Folk news welcome: up to 200 words for real clubs, virtual clubs, performers, CDs, etc (eligibility, see details below)
- Our Folklife Members' subscriptions keep us going -- so, normally, only their news & listings are publicised.
- Members' dates, at least 3 weeks notice; as we're on a huge number of e-mailing lists, please specifically ask that to be circulated in our Newsletter.
‡‡ During lockdown, all non-Members [‡‡] signed up to our Newsletter can list virtual-folk events;
Additionally, those outside our usual area (Wales, W.Mids, South-West), and signed up to our Newsletter can additionally send in news items.
At least 3 weeks notice for dates, please - we can then circulate in our Folklife Newsletter.
By email, not Zoom chats please - we can't easily copy info from chats,
Updates which will go in the next Folklife Newsletter
Below you will see our usual area webpages' headings, awaiting your news & listings! 1. Folklife Traditions pages open to all. www.folklife-traditions.uk
2. Folk News pages on this site Members-only, except that we'll try to fit in news from other enthusiasts outside our usual area who have signed up for our mailing list and have sent news/information. 3. Directory of Members including festivals & workshops. Detailed listings from Members only. www.folklife-directory.uk May not be updated now before January as we are preparing January issue., but we'll leave this up for later. |
Folklife Traditions pages on the FT pages website folklife-traditions.uk
researched articles; folklife organisations; researchers, etc; publications news
researched articles; folklife organisations; researchers, etc; publications news
FOLKLIFE NEWS & ORGANISATIONS --------------
Just a reminder that during lockdown . . .
Ø The Traditional Song Forum has organised successful talks on Zoom, more are planned. These talks are very popular, now attracting international visitors, currently limited to 100 places; so if interested, see tradsong.org sooner rather than later. This website is a gateway to a number of useful resources for those interested in researching or performing traditional folk songs. There is a newsletter to sign up to.
Ø trac, music traditions Wales, Wales folk development organisation, has a website full of resources, https://trac.wales; a mailing list to sign up to; and is on Facebook, at facebook.com/traccymruwales, where you will find videos, details of online gigs, etc.
Folk News, arranged by area webpages on this site: venues, performers, media, service
Your news & listings, print-style pages, plus PDF downloads for each page.
Zoom details also on Virtual Folk webpage & the relevant area page below.
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<> "OUR usual AREA" : Wales, England West Country, West Mids (+ Oxfordshire listed under South-East below)
POLICY: in our usual area: news only from our members. + during lockdown: Zoom session details from non-members.
CYMRU/WALES
Cymru/Wales news (links to our separate Wales website); Zoom is copied to home page of folklife.cymru / bywyd-gwerin.cymru
Ø Newport - NEWPORT FOLK CLUB Zoom Sessions - Weekly Mondays, 7.30pm-9.30pm Why not join us at our Monday Zoom sessions. All members are being contacted each week with the link for access. Alternatively, here are the details: Meeting ID: 868 1913 0439 Passcode: 797694
Contact the club: info <at> newportfolkclub.co.uk
Ø Pembrokeshire PONTFAEN, NEAR FISHGUARD GWAUN VALLEY BREWERY SESSIONS zoom weekly on Saturdays (8pm). Writer, singer and artist Sarah Davies hosts; if you would like to join the meeting, please email her on gwaunvalleybrewery <at> gmail.com [added 27 Dec 2020]
ENGLAND
Cornwall & Devon news
Somerset--Dorset--Wilts news no change
Bristol--S.Glos--Glos news no change
Herefs-Worcs news no change
West Midlands region news (WM: Herefs & Worcs, see above)
and we have added a new webpage
Oxfordshire news no change
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<> "OTHER AREAS": Everywhere else in England, plus other countries
A sampler of folk enthusiasts for your interest; not intended to be comprehensive.
POLICY other areas, applies till April 2021: news from others (non-members) accepted, IF signed up to our Newsletters.
Oxfordshire (South-East) is part of our usual area, see above.
Your news & listings, print-style pages, plus PDF downloads for each page.
Zoom details also on Virtual Folk webpage & the relevant area page below.
=====================================================================================================================
<> "OUR usual AREA" : Wales, England West Country, West Mids (+ Oxfordshire listed under South-East below)
POLICY: in our usual area: news only from our members. + during lockdown: Zoom session details from non-members.
CYMRU/WALES
Cymru/Wales news (links to our separate Wales website); Zoom is copied to home page of folklife.cymru / bywyd-gwerin.cymru
Ø Newport - NEWPORT FOLK CLUB Zoom Sessions - Weekly Mondays, 7.30pm-9.30pm Why not join us at our Monday Zoom sessions. All members are being contacted each week with the link for access. Alternatively, here are the details: Meeting ID: 868 1913 0439 Passcode: 797694
Contact the club: info <at> newportfolkclub.co.uk
Ø Pembrokeshire PONTFAEN, NEAR FISHGUARD GWAUN VALLEY BREWERY SESSIONS zoom weekly on Saturdays (8pm). Writer, singer and artist Sarah Davies hosts; if you would like to join the meeting, please email her on gwaunvalleybrewery <at> gmail.com [added 27 Dec 2020]
ENGLAND
Cornwall & Devon news
Somerset--Dorset--Wilts news no change
Bristol--S.Glos--Glos news no change
Herefs-Worcs news no change
West Midlands region news (WM: Herefs & Worcs, see above)
and we have added a new webpage
Oxfordshire news no change
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<> "OTHER AREAS": Everywhere else in England, plus other countries
A sampler of folk enthusiasts for your interest; not intended to be comprehensive.
POLICY other areas, applies till April 2021: news from others (non-members) accepted, IF signed up to our Newsletters.
Oxfordshire (South-East) is part of our usual area, see above.
We have combined some separate webpages so we now have two webpages for other areas.
"Other UK" - Other areas of England, plus Scotland
Covering
① England South-East
② England East Midlands & East
③ England North (NE, NW, Yorks+Humber)
④ Scotland
Other UK news
"Other UK" - Other areas of England, plus Scotland
Covering
① England South-East
② England East Midlands & East
③ England North (NE, NW, Yorks+Humber)
④ Scotland
Other UK news
"International"
This webpage currently has entries from Germany, Ireland, Israel, USA, other countries welcome.
International news
This webpage currently has entries from Germany, Ireland, Israel, USA, other countries welcome.
International news
Members' online FOLK DIRECTORY listings www.folklife-directory.uk
Folk Directory: area webpages
DIRECTORY includes our detailed Festivals Diary, folklife-directory.uk/festivals.html and Workshops, folklife-directory.uk/workshops.html
Ø Folklife listings: Member-Festivals & Workshops, please check your listings, and please let us know of any changes, 2021 dates, rebooked artists, etc.
Free online adverts (and if you wish paid print adverts by 30 Nov, see above)
‡‡ Non-member previous advertisers are also included.
Please support our performers, who have lost their income, by checking their Directory-listed websites for recordings to buy.
Recent adverts, not yet added to Festivals in Directory: ---
Folk Directory: area webpages
DIRECTORY includes our detailed Festivals Diary, folklife-directory.uk/festivals.html and Workshops, folklife-directory.uk/workshops.html
Ø Folklife listings: Member-Festivals & Workshops, please check your listings, and please let us know of any changes, 2021 dates, rebooked artists, etc.
Free online adverts (and if you wish paid print adverts by 30 Nov, see above)
‡‡ Non-member previous advertisers are also included.
Please support our performers, who have lost their income, by checking their Directory-listed websites for recordings to buy.
Recent adverts, not yet added to Festivals in Directory: ---
Folklife 10 December 2020 Newsletter:
Updates 1. Folklife Traditions pages open to all. www.folklife-traditions.uk
2. Folk News pages on this site Members-only, except that we'll try to fit in news from other enthusiasts outside our usual area who have signed up for our mailing list and have sent news/information. 3. Directory of Members including festivals & workshops. Detailed listings from Members only. www.folklife-directory.uk |
Dear Members, and other Newsletter readers,
We hope you are well.
2021 Jan-Apr magazine
Well! Unchartered territory here with Folklife Traditions pages (articles) in print & online, and your folk news online only.
Since the FT-only print pages went well & are at the printers, and I am now dealing with distribution! so we can extend the deadline!
Folk News deadline - extended to Sunday 20 December
<> Members' adverts will again be free online!
<> Members' news will be in usual print format, copied online,
and also available as PDF downloads.
Based on our experience thus far: we'll continue (during these strange times) including Non-Members' news from those outside our "usual area" (as above).
Online-only format, & in future restricted to those signed up for these Newsletters.
We hope you are well.
2021 Jan-Apr magazine
Well! Unchartered territory here with Folklife Traditions pages (articles) in print & online, and your folk news online only.
Since the FT-only print pages went well & are at the printers, and I am now dealing with distribution! so we can extend the deadline!
Folk News deadline - extended to Sunday 20 December
<> Members' adverts will again be free online!
<> Members' news will be in usual print format, copied online,
and also available as PDF downloads.
Based on our experience thus far: we'll continue (during these strange times) including Non-Members' news from those outside our "usual area" (as above).
Online-only format, & in future restricted to those signed up for these Newsletters.
Folklife Traditions pages on the FT pages website folklife-traditions.uk
researched articles; folklife organisations; researchers, etc; publications news
researched articles; folklife organisations; researchers, etc; publications news
Next FT issue: Jan 1 in print & online,
will also include FT May 1 & FT Sept 1, formerly online-only Now at the printers! Articles: Y Ferch o’r Scêr / The Maid of Sker, Welsh traditional tune & song, by Helen Adam The Leaving of Liverpool, by Roy & Lesley Adkins 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. From Stephen Rowley. "Catch it, Bottle it and Paint it Green" aka Tales of a Folk Song Collector by Gwilym Davies. From David Kidman. News: including Updates & Newsletters below, as appropriate (i.e. if not dated) ------------------------------------ PUBLICATION ANNOUNCED ------------- ALL MY LIFE'S BURIED HERE – The Story of George Butterworth DVD & BluRay George Butterworth (1885-1916) was a pioneering British composer, musician, folk song collector and dancer cut down in his prime on the battlefield of the Somme. This landmark film aims to bring about a better understanding of his life and work and presents fascinating, newly-uncovered information on the composer and his achievements. Having screened at many UK cinemas and folk festivals in 2019 to great acclaim, the DVD & Blu-Ray is now available and invites viewers to enjoy the film in the comfort of their own home. Each DVD/BluRay comes with an additional colour illustrated booklet featuring new articles on Butterworth by Anthony Murphy, Katie Howson, Malcolm Taylor and Shirley Collins. Plus there are extra interviews and bonus music recordings not included in the main feature. The film builds a rounded portrait of George Butterworth through insightful commentary from his biographer Anthony Murphy, family members and other distinguished contributors. We accompany Butterworth on his folk song collecting trips into the countryside with Ralph Vaughan Williams, and discover who the folk singers actually were were and how their music inspired Butterworth's own craft. We learn why Butterworth once described himself as a 'professional morris dancer' and experience his finest orchestral music in classic performances under conductor (and friend of Butterworth) Sir Adrian Boult. We enjoy Butterworth's Housman songs in exclusive new live renditions by Roderick Williams and hear contemporary reactions to these works, as well as uncovering what led Butterworth to destroy so much of his own music after volunteering in World War One. Through his letters home and the memoirs of those who fought alongside him we follow Butterworth's journey to the frontline of the Somme in 1916 where he met his tragically early demise, and are witness to a remarkable memorial ceremony still held annually in his honour in the French village where he died. ALL MY LIFE'S BURIED HERE – The Story of George Butterworth is available exclusively from the website www.georgebutterworth.co.uk [added 22/11/2020] |
FOLKLIFE NEWS & ORGANISATIONS --------------
<> The Mummers Festival is online 2nd – 4th January 2021, see www.mummersfestival.org
Just a reminder that during lockdown . . .
Ø The Traditional Song Forum has organised successful talks on Zoom, more are planned. These talks are very popular, now attracting international visitors, currently limited to 100 places; so if interested, see tradsong.org sooner rather than later. This website is a gateway to a number of useful resources for those interested in researching or performing traditional folk songs. There is a newsletter to sign up to.
Ø trac, music traditions Wales, Wales folk development organisation, has a website full of resources, https://trac.wales; a mailing list to sign up to; and is on Facebook, at facebook.com/traccymruwales, where you will find videos, details of online gigs, etc.
Folk News, arranged by area webpages on this site: venues, performers, media, service
Your news & listings, print-style pages, plus PDF downloads for each page.
Zoom details also on Virtual Folk webpage & the relevant area page below.
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<> "OUR usual AREA" : Wales, England West Country, West Mids (+ Oxfordshire listed under South-East below)
POLICY: in our usual area: news only from our members. + during lockdown: Zoom session details from non-members.
CYMRU/WALES
Cymru/Wales news (links to our separate Wales website); Zoom is copied to home page of folklife.cymru / bywyd-gwerin.cymru
no change
ENGLAND
Cornwall & Devon news
Somerset--Dorset--Wilts news no change
Bristol--S.Glos--Glos news no change
Herefs-Worcs news no change
West Midlands region news (WM: Herefs & Worcs, see above)
From Geoff Veasey:
Nuneaton Folk Club NFC held its last public session in March 2020, when our featured guests were the most excellent Bird In The Belly. After that, Coronavirus halted all further sessions. Throughout the rest of the year we kept in touch with all our booked guests and with the host venue, The Queen’s Hall. The outcome was that the Management of The Crew/Queen’s Hall gave us constant reassurances that our partnership with them remains safe.. They kept us informed also of venue improvements and new innovations via regular updates.
All but one of the artistes cancelled in 2020 agreed to roll forward their booked slot to the equivalent first Wednesday in 2021. ( If this process is further delayed by events at the start of the New Year, we will continue to renegotiate until all our lost 2020 bookings are all honoured).
Added to recent positive news about vaccines, it seems highly probable that at some point, Nuneaton Folk club will reinstate its successful relationship with the Town and the Live Music. Already some even more spectacular events are being planned. The club is working in close partnership with The Ragged Bear Festival to make events planned for 2021 special.
Anker Folk on Anker Radio
Despite being exiled from our hospital-based studios by the Pandemic in March, using Home recording and editing, we have continued to broadcast our twice monthly shows throughout the year. Online, on Hospicoms and on 1386 AM in the town itself, our shows continue to fly the flag for Folk music. 78 of the 480 artistes aired on Anker Folk are local and 77 of them have also appeared on stage at NFC.
We passed our fourth birthday in October. A new innovation in 2020 has been the occasional “Anker Blues” programme. Much of the already broadcast material is available via a “Listen Again” facility accessed via the Radio Station’s website
Performance News
Despite Lockdown, several local artistes successfully recorded and released new albums during the year. Of our NFC regulars, Adam Wilson Des Patalong and Paul Monks were among them. Other NFC supporters were very active online via “Live” Concerts. NFC regulars were also very generous in allowing Anker Folk access to new or as yet unreleased material.
NFC compere Geoff Veasey got a lot of work done on his new album “Folking Liberty,” prior to lockdown, thanks to substantial input from Malc Gurnham and John Kearney. Release has been delayed until 2021 at the earliest.
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<> "OTHER AREAS": Everywhere else in England, plus other countries
A sampler of folk enthusiasts for your interest; not intended to be comprehensive.
POLICY other areas, applies till April 2021: news from others (non-members) accepted, IF signed up to our Newsletters.
Applies until at least December. Oxfordshire (South-East), counts as part of our usual area, see above.
England - Other areas
Your news & listings, print-style pages, plus PDF downloads for each page.
Zoom details also on Virtual Folk webpage & the relevant area page below.
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<> "OUR usual AREA" : Wales, England West Country, West Mids (+ Oxfordshire listed under South-East below)
POLICY: in our usual area: news only from our members. + during lockdown: Zoom session details from non-members.
CYMRU/WALES
Cymru/Wales news (links to our separate Wales website); Zoom is copied to home page of folklife.cymru / bywyd-gwerin.cymru
no change
ENGLAND
Cornwall & Devon news
Somerset--Dorset--Wilts news no change
Bristol--S.Glos--Glos news no change
Herefs-Worcs news no change
West Midlands region news (WM: Herefs & Worcs, see above)
From Geoff Veasey:
Nuneaton Folk Club NFC held its last public session in March 2020, when our featured guests were the most excellent Bird In The Belly. After that, Coronavirus halted all further sessions. Throughout the rest of the year we kept in touch with all our booked guests and with the host venue, The Queen’s Hall. The outcome was that the Management of The Crew/Queen’s Hall gave us constant reassurances that our partnership with them remains safe.. They kept us informed also of venue improvements and new innovations via regular updates.
All but one of the artistes cancelled in 2020 agreed to roll forward their booked slot to the equivalent first Wednesday in 2021. ( If this process is further delayed by events at the start of the New Year, we will continue to renegotiate until all our lost 2020 bookings are all honoured).
Added to recent positive news about vaccines, it seems highly probable that at some point, Nuneaton Folk club will reinstate its successful relationship with the Town and the Live Music. Already some even more spectacular events are being planned. The club is working in close partnership with The Ragged Bear Festival to make events planned for 2021 special.
Anker Folk on Anker Radio
Despite being exiled from our hospital-based studios by the Pandemic in March, using Home recording and editing, we have continued to broadcast our twice monthly shows throughout the year. Online, on Hospicoms and on 1386 AM in the town itself, our shows continue to fly the flag for Folk music. 78 of the 480 artistes aired on Anker Folk are local and 77 of them have also appeared on stage at NFC.
We passed our fourth birthday in October. A new innovation in 2020 has been the occasional “Anker Blues” programme. Much of the already broadcast material is available via a “Listen Again” facility accessed via the Radio Station’s website
Performance News
Despite Lockdown, several local artistes successfully recorded and released new albums during the year. Of our NFC regulars, Adam Wilson Des Patalong and Paul Monks were among them. Other NFC supporters were very active online via “Live” Concerts. NFC regulars were also very generous in allowing Anker Folk access to new or as yet unreleased material.
NFC compere Geoff Veasey got a lot of work done on his new album “Folking Liberty,” prior to lockdown, thanks to substantial input from Malc Gurnham and John Kearney. Release has been delayed until 2021 at the earliest.
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<> "OTHER AREAS": Everywhere else in England, plus other countries
A sampler of folk enthusiasts for your interest; not intended to be comprehensive.
POLICY other areas, applies till April 2021: news from others (non-members) accepted, IF signed up to our Newsletters.
Applies until at least December. Oxfordshire (South-East), counts as part of our usual area, see above.
England - Other areas
ENGLAND
South-East news no change
East Midlands & East news no change
North of England news no change
South-East news no change
East Midlands & East news no change
North of England news no change
Other Countries
SCOTLAND, IRELAND, & INTERNATIONAL Scotland, Ireland, & International news
[this webpage currently has entries from Germany, Ireland, Israel, Scotland, other countries welcome]
Germany
The November Online concert from the English Folk Club in Bad Kissingen / Bavaria is now available in Youtube and Facebook.
The links are:
Youtube: https://youtu.be/lzspT3qkMfw
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EnglishFolkClubBadKissingen/videos/213034673725926/
Don't forget to click on 'Like' ☺🎼
Our best musical regards, the next concert is on the 19th December
https://www.facebook.com/EnglishFolkClubBadKissingen
[this webpage currently has entries from Germany, Ireland, Israel, Scotland, other countries welcome]
Germany
The November Online concert from the English Folk Club in Bad Kissingen / Bavaria is now available in Youtube and Facebook.
The links are:
Youtube: https://youtu.be/lzspT3qkMfw
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EnglishFolkClubBadKissingen/videos/213034673725926/
Don't forget to click on 'Like' ☺🎼
Our best musical regards, the next concert is on the 19th December
https://www.facebook.com/EnglishFolkClubBadKissingen
Scotland
Media: covering UK & Ireland The Dec 2020 / Jan 2021 issue of The Living Tradition includes articles on Fay Hield, John Doyle, Jon Dudley, Hamish Napier, The Future of English Fiddling, The Zoom Boom, 25 Years of the Elphinstone Institute, Street Drumming, The Online Folk Club Phenomenon, Patsy & Rosie, Mummers' Plays Revisited, Festival Listings, News, Reviews and more... Subscription available. www.livingtradition.co.uk |
USA & CANADA USA & Canada news
California
‡‡ December 31 until January 3. Sign up for the San Francisco Folk Music Club’s New Year’s camp—on line this year! Camp Harmony and SF Music Club here - https://www.sffmc.org And it’s free! (added 4/12/2020).
Massachusetts
‡‡ Boston. Day varies.
LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ONLINE EVENTS, numerous events, including BALLAD SING or CHANTY SING Sundays, weekly, 2-5 EDT [UK 7pm-10pm], details see sites.google.com/view/lynnoel/music/mermaidstavern
DECEMBER
Thursday, December 10: Lynn Noel - Summoning the Sun
Sunday, December 13: Ballad Sing
Sunday, December 20: Chantey Sing
Thursday, December 24: SPECIAL Sing We Noel Carol Sing
Sunday, December 27: SPECIAL Mallard Wassail
JANUARY
Sunday, January 3: Tavern Sing
Sunday, January 10: Ballad Sing
Thursday, January 14: Lynn Noel - Songs of French Canada
Sunday, January 17: Chantey Sing
Sunday, January 24: SPECIAL Robert Burns
Thursday, January 28: Special Guest David Ingerson
Sunday, January 31: SPECIAL Child Ballad Sing
FEBRUARY
Sunday, February 7: Tavern Sing
Thursday, February 11: Lynn Noel - Gulf of Saint Lawrence
Sunday, February 14: SPECIAL Valentine Ballad Sing
Sunday, February 21: Chantey Sing
Thursday, February 25: Special guest AJ Wright
Sunday, February 28: Ballad Sing
California
‡‡ December 31 until January 3. Sign up for the San Francisco Folk Music Club’s New Year’s camp—on line this year! Camp Harmony and SF Music Club here - https://www.sffmc.org And it’s free! (added 4/12/2020).
Massachusetts
‡‡ Boston. Day varies.
LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ONLINE EVENTS, numerous events, including BALLAD SING or CHANTY SING Sundays, weekly, 2-5 EDT [UK 7pm-10pm], details see sites.google.com/view/lynnoel/music/mermaidstavern
DECEMBER
Thursday, December 10: Lynn Noel - Summoning the Sun
Sunday, December 13: Ballad Sing
Sunday, December 20: Chantey Sing
Thursday, December 24: SPECIAL Sing We Noel Carol Sing
Sunday, December 27: SPECIAL Mallard Wassail
JANUARY
Sunday, January 3: Tavern Sing
Sunday, January 10: Ballad Sing
Thursday, January 14: Lynn Noel - Songs of French Canada
Sunday, January 17: Chantey Sing
Sunday, January 24: SPECIAL Robert Burns
Thursday, January 28: Special Guest David Ingerson
Sunday, January 31: SPECIAL Child Ballad Sing
FEBRUARY
Sunday, February 7: Tavern Sing
Thursday, February 11: Lynn Noel - Gulf of Saint Lawrence
Sunday, February 14: SPECIAL Valentine Ballad Sing
Sunday, February 21: Chantey Sing
Thursday, February 25: Special guest AJ Wright
Sunday, February 28: Ballad Sing
Members' online FOLK DIRECTORY listings www.folklife-directory.uk
Folk Directory: area webpages
DIRECTORY includes our detailed Festivals Diary, folklife-directory.uk/festivals.html and Workshops, folklife-directory.uk/workshops.html
Ø Folklife listings: Member-Festivals & Workshops, please check your listings, and please let us know of any changes, 2021 dates, rebooked artists, etc.
Free online adverts (and if you wish paid print adverts by 30 Nov, see above)
‡‡ Non-member previous advertisers are also included.
Please support our performers, who have lost their income, by checking their Directory-listed websites for recordings to buy.
Here are some recent adverts.
UPTON and SOUTHDOWNS appear in FW Jan 2021 print edition, which is at the printers, to be posted out before Christmas.
All members' adverts are free in online edition!
Folk Directory: area webpages
DIRECTORY includes our detailed Festivals Diary, folklife-directory.uk/festivals.html and Workshops, folklife-directory.uk/workshops.html
Ø Folklife listings: Member-Festivals & Workshops, please check your listings, and please let us know of any changes, 2021 dates, rebooked artists, etc.
Free online adverts (and if you wish paid print adverts by 30 Nov, see above)
‡‡ Non-member previous advertisers are also included.
Please support our performers, who have lost their income, by checking their Directory-listed websites for recordings to buy.
Here are some recent adverts.
UPTON and SOUTHDOWNS appear in FW Jan 2021 print edition, which is at the printers, to be posted out before Christmas.
All members' adverts are free in online edition!
James Eagle, Editor, Folk London writes:
As you may have seen in the latest edition of Folk London, friends and family of Ewan MacColl have been hoping for some years to install a memorial bench in London, next to the tree planted in his memory shortly after his death.
Ewan MacColl (1915-1989) was a giant of folk music: inspirational singer, actor, activist and writer of hundreds of songs including beloved classics Dirty Old Town, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Shoals Of Herring, The Manchester Rambler and more.
Today his name is on a plaque at a memorial oak in Russell Square, near many of the folk clubs he ran in the 1960s and 70s. Friends and family gather at the tree on 25 January and 22 October, the dates of his birth and death, to sing his songs and honour his memory.
We've finally got a crowdfunder up and running, with the blessing of his widow Peggy Seeger and his estate, and it's doing very well - just over £1,100 [as of 13/10] of the £1,600 quoted by the local council to install a bench. However, there's still some way to go. See https://www.gofundme.com/f/install-a-memorial-bench-for-ewan-maccoll and more on the memorial in the October-November Folk London.
Even if we meet the £1,600 target we'll keep the fundraiser going, as we also hope to renovate the plaque in Russell Square (we're still awaiting a quote from Camden council for this but we'll update the fundraiser page accordingly).
James Eagle, Editor, Folk London http://www.folklondon.co.uk · https://twitter.com/FolkLondonMag
UPDATE 20/10/2020: Target met ! Please continue to contribute, towards renovating the plaque. -- Editors.
As you may have seen in the latest edition of Folk London, friends and family of Ewan MacColl have been hoping for some years to install a memorial bench in London, next to the tree planted in his memory shortly after his death.
Ewan MacColl (1915-1989) was a giant of folk music: inspirational singer, actor, activist and writer of hundreds of songs including beloved classics Dirty Old Town, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Shoals Of Herring, The Manchester Rambler and more.
Today his name is on a plaque at a memorial oak in Russell Square, near many of the folk clubs he ran in the 1960s and 70s. Friends and family gather at the tree on 25 January and 22 October, the dates of his birth and death, to sing his songs and honour his memory.
We've finally got a crowdfunder up and running, with the blessing of his widow Peggy Seeger and his estate, and it's doing very well - just over £1,100 [as of 13/10] of the £1,600 quoted by the local council to install a bench. However, there's still some way to go. See https://www.gofundme.com/f/install-a-memorial-bench-for-ewan-maccoll and more on the memorial in the October-November Folk London.
Even if we meet the £1,600 target we'll keep the fundraiser going, as we also hope to renovate the plaque in Russell Square (we're still awaiting a quote from Camden council for this but we'll update the fundraiser page accordingly).
James Eagle, Editor, Folk London http://www.folklondon.co.uk · https://twitter.com/FolkLondonMag
UPDATE 20/10/2020: Target met ! Please continue to contribute, towards renovating the plaque. -- Editors.
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Updates 21 Aug Newsletter We're expanding this website by 2 new area news webpages for September issue
South-East news webpage, Oxfordshire news (currently under "Midlands", + other SE news (currently under "Other UK"). USA-Canada news webpage! zoom list + some news items --- do have a look
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● For SEPT online issue, all subs extended free: folk news welcome from ALL on our Newsletter list (sign up form below)
Up to 200 words for real clubs, virtual clubs, performers, CDs, etc Including from the USA & elsewhere outside the UK!
Up to 200 words for real clubs, virtual clubs, performers, CDs, etc Including from the USA & elsewhere outside the UK!
ZOOM CAL = in the online Calendar (see Virtual-Folk webpage for details)
Various dates USA
‡‡ CAL USA - Boston - LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ONLINE EVENTS, numerous events,
-- Existing entry, now with dates of many Zoom meets added, see USA & Canada news webpage
Wednesday UK
Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire, also copied to Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire news webpage
Ø Wilts: Highworth - WHITE HORSE FOLK CLUB. We meet 1st & 3rd Wednesdays about 7.45pm for 8pm, and the contact is Geoff Davies 01793 706753. (added 17/8/2020)
Friday UK
Cymru / Wales, also copied to home page of folklife.cymru / bywyd-gwerin.cymru website
Ø Swansea GLAIS, Nr CLYDACH THE VALLEY FOLK CLUB - some Fridays, details see website www.pontardawefolkclub.co.uk
VFC: the Pearshaped Sessions began on July 24, Heather will be there from 8.15pm to let you in ready for an 8.30pm start. Please come early (you will not be let in before 8.15pm.) If you are going to perform: please be ready and tuned up so we can fit in as many as possible.
We also welcome people to just come and listen. For the Zoom link, go to the club website www.pontardawefolkclub.co.uk [added 16 Aug 2020]
Saturday USA USA & Canada, also copied to USA & Canada news webpage
‡‡ CAL USA - NH - PMFF CHANTEY SING. 2nd Saturdays, 8-10 PM London time
An open chantey & maritime zoom-based sing with organizers and regulars of the Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival.
Shortly before each sing, we'll post zoom info on our website (http://www.pmffest.org/) and in the corresponding calendar entry at https://www.bostonsongsessions.org/virtual-sessions [added 8 Aug 2020]
Various dates USA
‡‡ CAL USA - Boston - LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ONLINE EVENTS, numerous events,
-- Existing entry, now with dates of many Zoom meets added, see USA & Canada news webpage
Wednesday UK
Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire, also copied to Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire news webpage
Ø Wilts: Highworth - WHITE HORSE FOLK CLUB. We meet 1st & 3rd Wednesdays about 7.45pm for 8pm, and the contact is Geoff Davies 01793 706753. (added 17/8/2020)
Friday UK
Cymru / Wales, also copied to home page of folklife.cymru / bywyd-gwerin.cymru website
Ø Swansea GLAIS, Nr CLYDACH THE VALLEY FOLK CLUB - some Fridays, details see website www.pontardawefolkclub.co.uk
VFC: the Pearshaped Sessions began on July 24, Heather will be there from 8.15pm to let you in ready for an 8.30pm start. Please come early (you will not be let in before 8.15pm.) If you are going to perform: please be ready and tuned up so we can fit in as many as possible.
We also welcome people to just come and listen. For the Zoom link, go to the club website www.pontardawefolkclub.co.uk [added 16 Aug 2020]
Saturday USA USA & Canada, also copied to USA & Canada news webpage
‡‡ CAL USA - NH - PMFF CHANTEY SING. 2nd Saturdays, 8-10 PM London time
An open chantey & maritime zoom-based sing with organizers and regulars of the Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival.
Shortly before each sing, we'll post zoom info on our website (http://www.pmffest.org/) and in the corresponding calendar entry at https://www.bostonsongsessions.org/virtual-sessions [added 8 Aug 2020]
NEWS & ARTICLES ... will be in September issue, but a few late-August dates
FutureOfFolk webpage
#FutureOfFolk: Lynn Noel of Digital Heritage Consulting Looks Ahead
We have created a new webpage for this important article by Lynn
Glos news webpage
Ø The ReBil Request Show
Rebecca Kay & Bill Taylor on Facebook Live
Saturday 22nd August 4pm ReBil Page on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pg/rebilduo/posts/
During our set at Mitcheldean Festival in July, and afterwards, we had people making requests, and saying they wished we had done their favourite song. This is the result, a set of socially distanced songs chosen by our regular supporters. Some oldies needing a bit of practice and one or two recent (pre-lockdown) songs. Bill b111t<at>aol.com
FutureOfFolk webpage
#FutureOfFolk: Lynn Noel of Digital Heritage Consulting Looks Ahead
We have created a new webpage for this important article by Lynn
Glos news webpage
Ø The ReBil Request Show
Rebecca Kay & Bill Taylor on Facebook Live
Saturday 22nd August 4pm ReBil Page on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pg/rebilduo/posts/
During our set at Mitcheldean Festival in July, and afterwards, we had people making requests, and saying they wished we had done their favourite song. This is the result, a set of socially distanced songs chosen by our regular supporters. Some oldies needing a bit of practice and one or two recent (pre-lockdown) songs. Bill b111t<at>aol.com
Other UK news webpage
Ø Issue 135 of The Living Tradition magazine (August-November 2020), includes articles on The Old Swan Band, The Si Fiddlers, Eric Bogle, Brown Boots, John Joe Kelly, Terence Blacker, The Road To Bonnymuir, Folk Music Performance Degrees, Keith Leech, Frankie Armstrong's Tales From The Road, Reflecting On Motivation, Festival Listings, News, Reviews and more... Subscribe now at www.livingtradition.co.uk USA & Canada news webpage Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival online, Saturday 26 September Portsmouth. Festival - Songwriting Competition deadline for submissions will be August 31. |
Archive Aug 6th INTERNATIONAL CONCERT: HIROSHIMA NEVER AGAIN
Thursday, August 6th, 2020 was the 75th Anniversary of the U.S. Bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, followed by the bombing of Nagasaki on August, 9th.
The world must never forget.
People's Music Network for Songs of Freedom and Struggle produced a historic event International Concert: Hiroshima Never Again,
featuring music, poetry, and spoken word by members and invited artists from Australia, Canada, England, Georgia, Scotland, and the USA:
-------- Raging Grannies, USA • Mike Marker, Canada • Charlie King, USA • David Rovics, USA • Foty Fusion, USA • David Bernz, USA • Bob Bossin, Canada • Miles Megaciph, USA • Storm, USA • Tayo Aluko, UK/Nigeria • Jim Page, USA • Klee Benally, USA • Ted Warmbrand, USA • Penny Stone, Scotland • Irakli Kakabadze, Georgia • Russ Chandler, UK • Courtney Dowe, USA • Peggy Seeger, UK • Pat Decou & Tex Lamountain USA • Margaret Walters, Australia • Luci Murphy, USA • Molly Scott, USA • Fred Small, USA •
The People's Music Network has always believed in international solidarity and cultural exchange.
The dramatic turn toward online video conferencing since the pandemic provides a unique impetus to put these beliefs into action.
Please view and share link to this event archived on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/705207820041966/
People's Music Network For Songs Of Freedom and Struggle presents
TransAtlantic Song Exchange, Part 2 of 2: Songs of Liberation, Justice, and People's Empowerment (Online Concert)
Sunday Aug. 23rd, 2020 4:00pm - 6:00pm ET USA, 9pm - 11pm BST https://www.facebook.com/Peoples.Music.Network/live/.
Thursday, August 6th, 2020 was the 75th Anniversary of the U.S. Bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, followed by the bombing of Nagasaki on August, 9th.
The world must never forget.
People's Music Network for Songs of Freedom and Struggle produced a historic event International Concert: Hiroshima Never Again,
featuring music, poetry, and spoken word by members and invited artists from Australia, Canada, England, Georgia, Scotland, and the USA:
-------- Raging Grannies, USA • Mike Marker, Canada • Charlie King, USA • David Rovics, USA • Foty Fusion, USA • David Bernz, USA • Bob Bossin, Canada • Miles Megaciph, USA • Storm, USA • Tayo Aluko, UK/Nigeria • Jim Page, USA • Klee Benally, USA • Ted Warmbrand, USA • Penny Stone, Scotland • Irakli Kakabadze, Georgia • Russ Chandler, UK • Courtney Dowe, USA • Peggy Seeger, UK • Pat Decou & Tex Lamountain USA • Margaret Walters, Australia • Luci Murphy, USA • Molly Scott, USA • Fred Small, USA •
The People's Music Network has always believed in international solidarity and cultural exchange.
The dramatic turn toward online video conferencing since the pandemic provides a unique impetus to put these beliefs into action.
Please view and share link to this event archived on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/705207820041966/
People's Music Network For Songs Of Freedom and Struggle presents
TransAtlantic Song Exchange, Part 2 of 2: Songs of Liberation, Justice, and People's Empowerment (Online Concert)
Sunday Aug. 23rd, 2020 4:00pm - 6:00pm ET USA, 9pm - 11pm BST https://www.facebook.com/Peoples.Music.Network/live/.
Folklife 6 August 2020 Newsletter: Deadlines & UpdatesFolklife 6 August 2020 Newsletter (non-Folklife Members)
Dear all, We hope you are well. A special offer - free publicity! - for those on our mailing list who are not (paying) Folklife Members. We normally only publish news from our (paying) Members to cover print, postage, etc. As September-December issue will be online only, exceptionally, we can include your news for our Sept-Dec issue. This includes USA and Canada news, which will be most welcome! |
Folklife magazine Sept.-Dec. issue. Mailing List special deadline: 18 August
So your news will be online for 4 months - free publicity.
<> FOLK NEWS pages on folklife.uk website - we welcome up to 200 words per news item. Plus an image (jpeg). News can include
• your real (non-virtual) folk club/session/sing - a general description for when we all reopen; your lockdown news & stories; your plans for when we can reopen, if you've provisonally booked any guests for later 2020. We will also include your Zoom etc details if listed on our Virtual Folk webpage (if your Zoom session is an unlisted private group, we won't mention it).
• about you as a performer and/or your CDs/downloads (normally for Folklife, we don't do reviews, instead we ask our members to send us up to 200 words about their latest CD).
<> FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS pages on folklife-traditions.uk website.
Researched articles - we anticipate that articles will be also copied to Jan 2021 printed issue.
Folklife news - about non-profit organisations promoting folk music; book news.
Our news pages are divided into Wales & English counties in West & Midlands [+ Oxfordshire] - and "Other". We're looking at "Other". Next issue, we'll have a new category, South-East (to include Oxfordshire); and perhaps other categories, depending on what we have from you. North? USA & Canada?
This is all free, but should you wish to pay to join Folklife, 'annual' fee for new members joining now - 1 year 4 months, Sept issue free.
So your news will be online for 4 months - free publicity.
<> FOLK NEWS pages on folklife.uk website - we welcome up to 200 words per news item. Plus an image (jpeg). News can include
• your real (non-virtual) folk club/session/sing - a general description for when we all reopen; your lockdown news & stories; your plans for when we can reopen, if you've provisonally booked any guests for later 2020. We will also include your Zoom etc details if listed on our Virtual Folk webpage (if your Zoom session is an unlisted private group, we won't mention it).
• about you as a performer and/or your CDs/downloads (normally for Folklife, we don't do reviews, instead we ask our members to send us up to 200 words about their latest CD).
<> FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS pages on folklife-traditions.uk website.
Researched articles - we anticipate that articles will be also copied to Jan 2021 printed issue.
Folklife news - about non-profit organisations promoting folk music; book news.
Our news pages are divided into Wales & English counties in West & Midlands [+ Oxfordshire] - and "Other". We're looking at "Other". Next issue, we'll have a new category, South-East (to include Oxfordshire); and perhaps other categories, depending on what we have from you. North? USA & Canada?
This is all free, but should you wish to pay to join Folklife, 'annual' fee for new members joining now - 1 year 4 months, Sept issue free.
Virtual Folk(s) updates CAL = in the online Calendar (see Virtual-Folk webpage for details)
Sunday
USA
‡‡ CAL USA - NY - New York City. Virtual SOUTH STREET SEAPORT MUSEUM’s monthly SEA CHANTEYS AND MARITIME MUSIC. 1st Sundays, 2pm - 4pm EST, this is 7pm- 8pm UK time. From our living rooms and kitchens, and even from the deck of Wavertree, join us for our round-robin of shared sea songs, featuring members of The New York Packet and friends. Listen in, lead or request a song, and belt out the choruses for your neighbors to hear. Hosted by singers from the New York Packet. The event is FREE. Sign up on https://southstreetseaportmuseum.org/chanteysing/ to receive the Zoom link 24 hours prior. The song-leader's list fills up in advance, but of course you are still welcome to register and enjoy singing along. If you'd like to lead a song, be sure to register at least a week before the sing. [added 2 Aug 2020]
Monday
North-East
‡‡ Newcastle upon Tyne - PHOENIX FOLK TUNES SESSIONS - Weekly Mondays & Thursdays, 8pm-9.30pm. You'll hear the tune leaders playing live fiddle & guitar so that you can play along at home. Everyone joining in will be muted during the tunes (this is how Zoom works). This means you won't hear each other, and we won't hear you...but we'll still all be playing music together, and your microphone can be un-muted in between tunes! Weblinks and other info on phoenixfolk.org.uk/online-sessions/4594895190 (added 22/7/2020) VIRTUAL VALLEY FOLK MUSIC TRANSATLANTIC ZOOM SINGS, Mondays
USA
‡‡ USA - NY - CORNING. VIRTUAL VALLEY FOLK MUSICTRANSATLANTIC ZOOM SINGS, Mondays, 3-5:30 pm (or 6 at the latest) EST.
= 8 - 10:30 pm UK time or 11 at the latest. We host a Trans-Atlantic Virtual Valley Folk Sing on Zoom for singers in our folk community, (Corning, NY) since our pub-sings, concerts and jams are all cancelled for now.
Our aim is to bring some US and UK singers together to sing for each other. One can mute your mics and sing and play along at home while your fellow musicians share their favorite songs. It’s not quite the same as being in the room, but for this trans-Atlantic bunch, it may be a perk of the lockdown to be able to see each other in this way (and one heck of a lot cheaper than a real visit). We chose the 3pm NY / 8pm UK time to suit some people who are not working long hours in the US, while not keeping the UK singers up too late. It is ok to arrive late or leave early. We use a numbering system so you know when your time to sing is coming.
We welcome any type of folk song, traditional or newly composed “in the tradition” (- think Jez Lowe, Bill Staines). Unlike in person, we are not insisting on a chorus or refrain. Sing unaccompanied or use an instrument.
Before you arrive, please find the Virtual Sing Zoom settings for your device on this website (complied by our good friends at US & UK Zoom sessions) focsle.org/virtual_index.php Scroll down to the Zoom settings. Especially if using an instrument, this is *essential*. Any questions? Please contact us for help preferably the day before the Sing.
To request the link to the Zoom sing, contact us at: info <at> valleyfolk.org [added 31 Jul 2020]
Tuesday
North-East
‡‡ Newcastle upon Tyne - PHOENIX FOLK SINGAROUND - Weekly Tuesdays,7.30pm - 9.30pm. You can perform a song (or tune) to the rest of the group, just as you would in a regular folk club. Weblinks and other info on phoenixfolk.org.uk/online-sessions/4594895190 (added 22/7/2020)
North-West
‡‡ Cumbria - Alston ALSTON HOUSE FOLK SESSION, 1st Tuesdays, 8pm until at least 11pm.
For Zoom invitation, please email Phil, harley.science <at> btinternet.com (added 1/8/2020)
North-West
‡‡ Cumbria - Brampton (near Carlisle) - BRAMPTON FOLK SESSIONS, Third Tuesdays, 8pm.
For Zoom invitation, please email kmvandenbergstewart <at> gmail.com
There is a monthly theme, for details see website http://www.laverocks.co.uk/folkclub/ Singers and players of all standards, and listeners are welcome to this friendly Sing-Around. For more information phone Katy on 01228 674209. (added 1/8/2020)
Wednesday
Central Midlands
‡‡ West Midlands: Walsall - WILLENHALL FOLK & ACOUSTIC CLUB zoom sessions, --- Wednesdays weekly, 7.30pm All Singers, Instrumentalists & Listeners are welcome on a Wednesday evening at 7.30pm. See our Facebook page for details
www.facebook.com/groups/121048754899613/?ref=bookmarks
Contact Roy Collingwood roy <at> roycollingwood.co.uk (added 1/8/2020)
South-East,
‡‡ Hampshire - SOUTHAMPTON: Virtual FOCSLE MUSIC, Weekly, Wednesdays, 8pm. For Zoom link, please see the website focsle.org/virtual_index.php FOCSLE Music now meets virtually, via Zoom. Join us and our international music friends (incl. some professionals) each Wednesday 8pm (UK). (added 1/8/2020
Thursday
Bristol, S Glos, Glos
Ø Glos - ROVING FOLK CLUB - 1st Thursdays - will be live on Zoom, details will be sent to those on the mailing list. To join our mailing list, just email Stephanie Rose, rose_stephanie <at> hotmail.co.uk and say you would like to be on the list. [added 5 Aug 2020]
North-East,
‡‡ Newcastle upon Tyne - PHOENIX FOLK TUNES SESSIONS - Weekly Mondays & Thursdays, 8pm-9.30pm. You'll hear the tune leaders playing live fiddle & guitar so that you can play along at home. Everyone joining in will be muted during the tunes (this is how Zoom works). This means you won't hear each other, and we won't hear you...but we'll still all be playing music together, and your microphone can be un-muted in between tunes! Weblinks and other info on www.phoenixfolk.org.uk/online-sessions/4594895190 (added 22/7/2020)
South-East, more details of members on folklife-directory.uk/other.html
‡‡ KENT - VIRTUAL FOLK AT THE DRUM, weekly, Thursdays , 7.30pm - 11pm, meeting opens at 7.15pm. For Zoom joining details, check the website folkatthedrum.co.uk [added 31 Jul 2020]
Friday
Central Midlands, more details of members on folklife-directory.uk/central-midlands.html
‡‡ Staffs PAUL WALKER & KAREN PFEIFFER. Join us every Friday at 4pm UK time for our "Afternoon Tea with Paul & Karen"! streaming live from our living room in Staffordshire to our Facebook page & our YouTube Channel. Get yourself a cup of tea & a scone & join in the music & fun! (added 30/7/2020)
Saturday
South-East, more details of members on folklife-directory.uk/other.html
‡‡ London - THE HARRISON SINGAROUND, last Saturday of the month, 5pm - 8pm, see the Harrison Singaround Facebook page: facebook.com/groups/harrisonsingaround/ To receive the link, either go to this Facebook page, or they can get in touch with Sophie Crawford at sophie <at> glimmertheatre.co.uk to be added to the mailing list. [added 27 Jul 2020]
During lockdown,
we welcome your Zoom details to list on folklife.uk/virtual-folk.html from both Members and non-Members on this Newsletter mailing-list.
Do tell your friends to sign up for this mailing list! and we can list their Zoom sessions ...
The publicity and visitors you receive may help your when we meet again.
Sunday
USA
‡‡ CAL USA - NY - New York City. Virtual SOUTH STREET SEAPORT MUSEUM’s monthly SEA CHANTEYS AND MARITIME MUSIC. 1st Sundays, 2pm - 4pm EST, this is 7pm- 8pm UK time. From our living rooms and kitchens, and even from the deck of Wavertree, join us for our round-robin of shared sea songs, featuring members of The New York Packet and friends. Listen in, lead or request a song, and belt out the choruses for your neighbors to hear. Hosted by singers from the New York Packet. The event is FREE. Sign up on https://southstreetseaportmuseum.org/chanteysing/ to receive the Zoom link 24 hours prior. The song-leader's list fills up in advance, but of course you are still welcome to register and enjoy singing along. If you'd like to lead a song, be sure to register at least a week before the sing. [added 2 Aug 2020]
Monday
North-East
‡‡ Newcastle upon Tyne - PHOENIX FOLK TUNES SESSIONS - Weekly Mondays & Thursdays, 8pm-9.30pm. You'll hear the tune leaders playing live fiddle & guitar so that you can play along at home. Everyone joining in will be muted during the tunes (this is how Zoom works). This means you won't hear each other, and we won't hear you...but we'll still all be playing music together, and your microphone can be un-muted in between tunes! Weblinks and other info on phoenixfolk.org.uk/online-sessions/4594895190 (added 22/7/2020) VIRTUAL VALLEY FOLK MUSIC TRANSATLANTIC ZOOM SINGS, Mondays
USA
‡‡ USA - NY - CORNING. VIRTUAL VALLEY FOLK MUSICTRANSATLANTIC ZOOM SINGS, Mondays, 3-5:30 pm (or 6 at the latest) EST.
= 8 - 10:30 pm UK time or 11 at the latest. We host a Trans-Atlantic Virtual Valley Folk Sing on Zoom for singers in our folk community, (Corning, NY) since our pub-sings, concerts and jams are all cancelled for now.
Our aim is to bring some US and UK singers together to sing for each other. One can mute your mics and sing and play along at home while your fellow musicians share their favorite songs. It’s not quite the same as being in the room, but for this trans-Atlantic bunch, it may be a perk of the lockdown to be able to see each other in this way (and one heck of a lot cheaper than a real visit). We chose the 3pm NY / 8pm UK time to suit some people who are not working long hours in the US, while not keeping the UK singers up too late. It is ok to arrive late or leave early. We use a numbering system so you know when your time to sing is coming.
We welcome any type of folk song, traditional or newly composed “in the tradition” (- think Jez Lowe, Bill Staines). Unlike in person, we are not insisting on a chorus or refrain. Sing unaccompanied or use an instrument.
Before you arrive, please find the Virtual Sing Zoom settings for your device on this website (complied by our good friends at US & UK Zoom sessions) focsle.org/virtual_index.php Scroll down to the Zoom settings. Especially if using an instrument, this is *essential*. Any questions? Please contact us for help preferably the day before the Sing.
To request the link to the Zoom sing, contact us at: info <at> valleyfolk.org [added 31 Jul 2020]
Tuesday
North-East
‡‡ Newcastle upon Tyne - PHOENIX FOLK SINGAROUND - Weekly Tuesdays,7.30pm - 9.30pm. You can perform a song (or tune) to the rest of the group, just as you would in a regular folk club. Weblinks and other info on phoenixfolk.org.uk/online-sessions/4594895190 (added 22/7/2020)
North-West
‡‡ Cumbria - Alston ALSTON HOUSE FOLK SESSION, 1st Tuesdays, 8pm until at least 11pm.
For Zoom invitation, please email Phil, harley.science <at> btinternet.com (added 1/8/2020)
North-West
‡‡ Cumbria - Brampton (near Carlisle) - BRAMPTON FOLK SESSIONS, Third Tuesdays, 8pm.
For Zoom invitation, please email kmvandenbergstewart <at> gmail.com
There is a monthly theme, for details see website http://www.laverocks.co.uk/folkclub/ Singers and players of all standards, and listeners are welcome to this friendly Sing-Around. For more information phone Katy on 01228 674209. (added 1/8/2020)
Wednesday
Central Midlands
‡‡ West Midlands: Walsall - WILLENHALL FOLK & ACOUSTIC CLUB zoom sessions, --- Wednesdays weekly, 7.30pm All Singers, Instrumentalists & Listeners are welcome on a Wednesday evening at 7.30pm. See our Facebook page for details
www.facebook.com/groups/121048754899613/?ref=bookmarks
Contact Roy Collingwood roy <at> roycollingwood.co.uk (added 1/8/2020)
South-East,
‡‡ Hampshire - SOUTHAMPTON: Virtual FOCSLE MUSIC, Weekly, Wednesdays, 8pm. For Zoom link, please see the website focsle.org/virtual_index.php FOCSLE Music now meets virtually, via Zoom. Join us and our international music friends (incl. some professionals) each Wednesday 8pm (UK). (added 1/8/2020
Thursday
Bristol, S Glos, Glos
Ø Glos - ROVING FOLK CLUB - 1st Thursdays - will be live on Zoom, details will be sent to those on the mailing list. To join our mailing list, just email Stephanie Rose, rose_stephanie <at> hotmail.co.uk and say you would like to be on the list. [added 5 Aug 2020]
North-East,
‡‡ Newcastle upon Tyne - PHOENIX FOLK TUNES SESSIONS - Weekly Mondays & Thursdays, 8pm-9.30pm. You'll hear the tune leaders playing live fiddle & guitar so that you can play along at home. Everyone joining in will be muted during the tunes (this is how Zoom works). This means you won't hear each other, and we won't hear you...but we'll still all be playing music together, and your microphone can be un-muted in between tunes! Weblinks and other info on www.phoenixfolk.org.uk/online-sessions/4594895190 (added 22/7/2020)
South-East, more details of members on folklife-directory.uk/other.html
‡‡ KENT - VIRTUAL FOLK AT THE DRUM, weekly, Thursdays , 7.30pm - 11pm, meeting opens at 7.15pm. For Zoom joining details, check the website folkatthedrum.co.uk [added 31 Jul 2020]
Friday
Central Midlands, more details of members on folklife-directory.uk/central-midlands.html
‡‡ Staffs PAUL WALKER & KAREN PFEIFFER. Join us every Friday at 4pm UK time for our "Afternoon Tea with Paul & Karen"! streaming live from our living room in Staffordshire to our Facebook page & our YouTube Channel. Get yourself a cup of tea & a scone & join in the music & fun! (added 30/7/2020)
Saturday
South-East, more details of members on folklife-directory.uk/other.html
‡‡ London - THE HARRISON SINGAROUND, last Saturday of the month, 5pm - 8pm, see the Harrison Singaround Facebook page: facebook.com/groups/harrisonsingaround/ To receive the link, either go to this Facebook page, or they can get in touch with Sophie Crawford at sophie <at> glimmertheatre.co.uk to be added to the mailing list. [added 27 Jul 2020]
During lockdown,
we welcome your Zoom details to list on folklife.uk/virtual-folk.html from both Members and non-Members on this Newsletter mailing-list.
Do tell your friends to sign up for this mailing list! and we can list their Zoom sessions ...
The publicity and visitors you receive may help your when we meet again.
Members' news & listings: venues, performers, media, services
Gloucestershire
Andy Smith.
Jenny from Roving Folk writes:
Andy first appeared at the folk night that Eric Bottomley held at the Slip Tavern at Much Marcle. He initially sat quietly at the back of the pub listening to everyone else, and it was several sessions later that he came forward to sing and play.
Before he retired and came to Much Marcle Andy had, at some stage in his working career, been a scriptwriter and had written jokes for the likes of Ronnie Barker amongst others. His writing was to continue as a member of the local amateur dramatics and he wrote several scripts and acted in many pantomimes. His sense of humour shone through at our Folk evenings and he always kept us entertained with his wit and eclectic mix of songs. Andy was also a talented artist.
Sadly in latter years his voice was not strong, but never one to give in he still regaled us with his rendition of “Ernie, the fastest milkman in the West” which was always well received. Andy was a modest man, never one to steal the limelight, and was always very forthcoming in his praise for others. Andy and Ann moved to Somerset 18 months ago hoping to have a long and happy retirement, but alas this was not to be. We shall very much miss his presence at our Roving Folk evenings. RIP Andy.
Andy Smith.
Jenny from Roving Folk writes:
Andy first appeared at the folk night that Eric Bottomley held at the Slip Tavern at Much Marcle. He initially sat quietly at the back of the pub listening to everyone else, and it was several sessions later that he came forward to sing and play.
Before he retired and came to Much Marcle Andy had, at some stage in his working career, been a scriptwriter and had written jokes for the likes of Ronnie Barker amongst others. His writing was to continue as a member of the local amateur dramatics and he wrote several scripts and acted in many pantomimes. His sense of humour shone through at our Folk evenings and he always kept us entertained with his wit and eclectic mix of songs. Andy was also a talented artist.
Sadly in latter years his voice was not strong, but never one to give in he still regaled us with his rendition of “Ernie, the fastest milkman in the West” which was always well received. Andy was a modest man, never one to steal the limelight, and was always very forthcoming in his praise for others. Andy and Ann moved to Somerset 18 months ago hoping to have a long and happy retirement, but alas this was not to be. We shall very much miss his presence at our Roving Folk evenings. RIP Andy.
South-East August-September Folk London is out now. Featuring • Trad2Mad : we talk to the winners of Islington Folk Club’s singing contest including DeLila Black, Iona Fyfe and Caroline Stupnicka • Folk gone viral: a collection of coronavirus songs • Cellar Upstairs: organiser Sheila Miller on the club’s history • Reviews: George Sansom, Friends of Vin Garbutt, Commoners Choir, Strings That Nimble Leap, Iyatra Quartet, Plumhall, Tom Fairnie, Saskia Griffiths-Moore To buy Folk London, go to : folklondon.co.uk/buy/ |
folklife-directory.uk includes detailed festivals & workshops diaries
Listings will be added to Directory Members offering online tuition are welcome to list.
Please support our performers, who have lost their income, by checking their websites (on folklife-directory.uk) for recordings to buy.
Festivals, folklife-directory.uk/festivals.html Workshops, folklife-directory.uk/workshops.html
Ø will be updated online when we're told (otherwise: when I have time to check)
Ø New & existing advertisers: cancelled 2020 festivals? Send us your 2021 festivals adverts, FREE online - this includes new members
Ø All Member-Festivals & Workshops are asked to check their Folklife 2020 & 2021 listings, please let us know of any changes, 2021 dates, rebooked artists
‡‡ Non-member previous advertisers are also included.
AUGUST
Despite the postponement of the full 2020 Dartmoor Folk Festival this August, the festival's traditional competitions and some fun activities will still be going ahead on-line. The festival was due to take place at South Zeal near Okehampton on August 6, 7 and 8. Instead, on Saturday, August 8, the traditional Dartmoor Step Dance and Broom Dancing competitions will take place via zoom meetings. For further details and to enter either of the competitions, please visit: www.dartmoorfolkfestival.org.uk . - Alan Quick
Listings will be added to Directory Members offering online tuition are welcome to list.
Please support our performers, who have lost their income, by checking their websites (on folklife-directory.uk) for recordings to buy.
Festivals, folklife-directory.uk/festivals.html Workshops, folklife-directory.uk/workshops.html
Ø will be updated online when we're told (otherwise: when I have time to check)
Ø New & existing advertisers: cancelled 2020 festivals? Send us your 2021 festivals adverts, FREE online - this includes new members
Ø All Member-Festivals & Workshops are asked to check their Folklife 2020 & 2021 listings, please let us know of any changes, 2021 dates, rebooked artists
‡‡ Non-member previous advertisers are also included.
AUGUST
Despite the postponement of the full 2020 Dartmoor Folk Festival this August, the festival's traditional competitions and some fun activities will still be going ahead on-line. The festival was due to take place at South Zeal near Okehampton on August 6, 7 and 8. Instead, on Saturday, August 8, the traditional Dartmoor Step Dance and Broom Dancing competitions will take place via zoom meetings. For further details and to enter either of the competitions, please visit: www.dartmoorfolkfestival.org.uk . - Alan Quick
Folklife West magazine -- Sept.-Dec. issue.
A deadline of 1 August
Prepared in print format, and then copied online as usual, but no print copies.
FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS pages.
Articles & news welcome. We anticipate that articles & still-relevant news (eg publications) will be copied from May & Sep 2020 to Jan 2021 printed issue.
MEMBERS' FOLK NEWS & LISTINGS pages
We'll repeat any standard info that we have.
We welcome your lockdown news & stories, your plans for when we can reopen, if you've provisonally booked any guests for later 2020, do let us know.
MEMBERS' WORKSHOPS & FESTIVALS pages
We'll publicise your 2021 dates & information, same text as online.
ADVERTS
Clubs etc - free repeat adverts - standard information or any provisional late 2020 dates. New members - same.
Festivals - free 2021 adverts. New members - same.
Existing subscriptions extended free for another 4 months ... total 1 year 8 months.
New members joining now - 1 year 4 months, Sept issue free
Stay safe! Best wishes, Sam and Eleanor
Sam & Eleanor Simmons, 01684 561378, for the Folklife volunteers. Copyright © 2020 Folklife all rights reserved.
Sam & Eleanor Simmons, 01684 561378, for the Folklife volunteers. Copyright © 2020 Folklife all rights reserved.
Folklife 11 July 2020 Newsletter: Deadlines & UpdatesFolklife 11 July 2020 Newsletter: Deadline & Updates
Hello folks. Hope you are well. A warm welcome to new readers, now including from the EU, US, and Canada for our Zoom updates . . . this Newsletter is free. For international friends seeking publicity in the UK, PDF membership is now available, £16 a year for 3 issues (paid via bank transfer), for a PDF sent by WeTransfer instead of a posted magazine, plus your publicity printed in the magaine & copied online. Our usual dealine-reminder is a little late as we needed time to assess if Sept-Dec issue could be printed. Indoor singing is problematic, no clubs & sessions can confirm definitely reopening. About 1/2 our readers aren't members, they obtain FW in member clubs & sessions, so we can't distribute as usual; and would lose advert revenue. Therefore, September issue will again be online-only. ~ So, later Deadline, 1 August, details after Updates. If your Zoom session isn't yet listed on folklife.uk/virtual-folk.html, let us know and we'll add it immediately. NEW During lockdown, we now invite non-Members on this Newsletter mailing-list to list virtual-folk events |
Virtual Folk(s) updates
As we realise that singing together is still some way off, more Zoom sessions have started. It's frustrating staying home, and we miss those clubroom harmonies, but it's great to get out and try new clubs, meet people not seen for years, make new friends.
Some sessions now begin to feel like real communties, not just virtual, with interaction - it's not like watching Facebook or Youtube - the audience engage and pay attention. When we return, new Zoom visitors could even improve real-life attendances!
Day varies, & several events on different days
Revised entries, see more details on Virtual-Folk webpage
Ø West Midlands county - TRADITIONAL ARTS TEAM – various Zoom sessions. Webpage links revised.
Ø Oxfordshire - FOLK IN OXFORD Oxford goes Live To Your Living RoomWebsite link revised, now on: folkinoxford.co.uk/online-events
‡‡ CALENDAR of VIRTUAL SONG SESSIONS bostonsongsessions.org/virtual-sessions Already listed, for UK & USA; continues to expand and now includes Australia & New Zealand for early risers!
New entry
‡‡ USA - Boston - LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ONLINE EVENTS, numerous events, for details see https://sites.google.com/view/lynnoel/music/mermaidstavern
-- Weekly series of ballad sings and chantey sings Sundays 2-5 EDT [= UK 7pm-10pm], more details listed under Sunday, below
-- Weekly houseconcerts Thursdays 7:30 EDT [= UK 12.30 at night ....]
-- Special events (ballad workshop, MayDay sing, masterclass)
-- Co-sponsorship of livestream events for Folk Song Society of Greater Boston
20 live events in the first 3 months of the COVID-19 pandemic! Transparent tech so we don’t waste valuable singing time. Zoom meetings for participants livestreamed to Facebook audience. Zoom links emailed to mailing list for security. Newsletter/blog links to other online sings and session calendars.
Watch live events, and view recordings of live events, on facebook.com/digitalheritageconsulting/live
Sunday
New entry
‡‡ USA - Boston - LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ONLINE BALLAD SING or CHANTY SING Weekly, 2-5 EDT [= UK 7pm-10pm],
for details see https://sites.google.com/view/lynnoel/music/mermaidstavern
Ballad sing: a ballad is a song that tells a story. Bring us your ballads from renowned collections, local history, family tradition, or just ripping good yarns.
Chanty sing: sadly, latency limits harmony, so we will gather in a song circle for solo chanteys, sea songs, maritime poetry, and entertainments at least faintly damp and salty. (More details about events generally see above)
Wednesday
New entry
Ø Rhondda Cynon Taf - LLANTRISANT FOLK CLUB (Pontyclun) - Weekly Wednesdays Yes, we’re making virtual music via Zoom! See Facebook facebook.com/Llantrisant-Folk-Club-226706954032491/
The doors open every Wednesday at 8:20pm, music starts 8.30pm – just go to Zoom link on the Facebook page
New entry
Ø Worcs - STRING BOX, Jill and Martin Peer are on Facebook every Weds night 8pm on Jill M Peer page. We are based in Malvern, can anyone is able to offer us a quiet garden space where we can safely sing, at present with no amplification (we are working on getting some soon as we are so confident in our music as a couple it may be necessary so we are seeking advice). Please ring 07754950939, Jill M Peer.
Thursday New entries
Ø Glos - MITCHELDEAN FOLK CLUB is now on Zoom on the 2nd Thursday of every month, 7.45pm, login always posted on Facebook under Andy Scarf Productions, en-gb.facebook.com/andyscarfproductions/
‡‡ Newport - THE LYCEUM FOLK & ACOUSTIC CLUB - Weekly Thursdays. We are holding virtual club nights every week via Zoom. The details are: Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2802265304
Meeting ID: 280 226 5304
For more details about our Zoom evenings, see "Lyceum Folk Club of Newport" on Facebook, facebook.com/Lyceum-Folk-Club-of-Newport-213395425376402/ and on lyceumfolknewport.org.uk/
Saturday New entries
‡‡ London - SHANTIES AND SEA SONGS with London Sea Shanty Collective, weekly, 7pm - 9pm, see twitter.com/LondonShanty Contact via Twitter or email shantycollective < at > gmail.com to join.
‡‡ USA - NY - SYRACUSE PUB SING. Syracuse Pub Sing: happens once a month on Zoom on a Saturday from 3-6 PM NYC time. [8-11 pm UK] For exact dates and details on registering email Karin Howe at syracusepubsing <at> gmail.com
During lockdown,
we welcome your Zoom details to list on folklife.uk/virtual-folk.html from both Members and non-Members on this Newsletter mailing-list.
Do tell your friends to sign up for this mailing list! and we can list their Zoom sessions ...
The publicity and visitors you receive may help your when we meet again.
As we realise that singing together is still some way off, more Zoom sessions have started. It's frustrating staying home, and we miss those clubroom harmonies, but it's great to get out and try new clubs, meet people not seen for years, make new friends.
Some sessions now begin to feel like real communties, not just virtual, with interaction - it's not like watching Facebook or Youtube - the audience engage and pay attention. When we return, new Zoom visitors could even improve real-life attendances!
Day varies, & several events on different days
Revised entries, see more details on Virtual-Folk webpage
Ø West Midlands county - TRADITIONAL ARTS TEAM – various Zoom sessions. Webpage links revised.
Ø Oxfordshire - FOLK IN OXFORD Oxford goes Live To Your Living RoomWebsite link revised, now on: folkinoxford.co.uk/online-events
‡‡ CALENDAR of VIRTUAL SONG SESSIONS bostonsongsessions.org/virtual-sessions Already listed, for UK & USA; continues to expand and now includes Australia & New Zealand for early risers!
New entry
‡‡ USA - Boston - LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ONLINE EVENTS, numerous events, for details see https://sites.google.com/view/lynnoel/music/mermaidstavern
-- Weekly series of ballad sings and chantey sings Sundays 2-5 EDT [= UK 7pm-10pm], more details listed under Sunday, below
-- Weekly houseconcerts Thursdays 7:30 EDT [= UK 12.30 at night ....]
-- Special events (ballad workshop, MayDay sing, masterclass)
-- Co-sponsorship of livestream events for Folk Song Society of Greater Boston
20 live events in the first 3 months of the COVID-19 pandemic! Transparent tech so we don’t waste valuable singing time. Zoom meetings for participants livestreamed to Facebook audience. Zoom links emailed to mailing list for security. Newsletter/blog links to other online sings and session calendars.
Watch live events, and view recordings of live events, on facebook.com/digitalheritageconsulting/live
Sunday
New entry
‡‡ USA - Boston - LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ONLINE BALLAD SING or CHANTY SING Weekly, 2-5 EDT [= UK 7pm-10pm],
for details see https://sites.google.com/view/lynnoel/music/mermaidstavern
Ballad sing: a ballad is a song that tells a story. Bring us your ballads from renowned collections, local history, family tradition, or just ripping good yarns.
Chanty sing: sadly, latency limits harmony, so we will gather in a song circle for solo chanteys, sea songs, maritime poetry, and entertainments at least faintly damp and salty. (More details about events generally see above)
Wednesday
New entry
Ø Rhondda Cynon Taf - LLANTRISANT FOLK CLUB (Pontyclun) - Weekly Wednesdays Yes, we’re making virtual music via Zoom! See Facebook facebook.com/Llantrisant-Folk-Club-226706954032491/
The doors open every Wednesday at 8:20pm, music starts 8.30pm – just go to Zoom link on the Facebook page
New entry
Ø Worcs - STRING BOX, Jill and Martin Peer are on Facebook every Weds night 8pm on Jill M Peer page. We are based in Malvern, can anyone is able to offer us a quiet garden space where we can safely sing, at present with no amplification (we are working on getting some soon as we are so confident in our music as a couple it may be necessary so we are seeking advice). Please ring 07754950939, Jill M Peer.
Thursday New entries
Ø Glos - MITCHELDEAN FOLK CLUB is now on Zoom on the 2nd Thursday of every month, 7.45pm, login always posted on Facebook under Andy Scarf Productions, en-gb.facebook.com/andyscarfproductions/
‡‡ Newport - THE LYCEUM FOLK & ACOUSTIC CLUB - Weekly Thursdays. We are holding virtual club nights every week via Zoom. The details are: Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2802265304
Meeting ID: 280 226 5304
For more details about our Zoom evenings, see "Lyceum Folk Club of Newport" on Facebook, facebook.com/Lyceum-Folk-Club-of-Newport-213395425376402/ and on lyceumfolknewport.org.uk/
Saturday New entries
‡‡ London - SHANTIES AND SEA SONGS with London Sea Shanty Collective, weekly, 7pm - 9pm, see twitter.com/LondonShanty Contact via Twitter or email shantycollective < at > gmail.com to join.
‡‡ USA - NY - SYRACUSE PUB SING. Syracuse Pub Sing: happens once a month on Zoom on a Saturday from 3-6 PM NYC time. [8-11 pm UK] For exact dates and details on registering email Karin Howe at syracusepubsing <at> gmail.com
During lockdown,
we welcome your Zoom details to list on folklife.uk/virtual-folk.html from both Members and non-Members on this Newsletter mailing-list.
Do tell your friends to sign up for this mailing list! and we can list their Zoom sessions ...
The publicity and visitors you receive may help your when we meet again.
Members' news & listings: venues, performers, media, services
Cymru/Wales
NEWS
Wales - Denbs - RUTHIN ALLSTYLES MUSIC CLUB. On 25 June, Ruthin AllStyles Folk & Acoustic Music Club had .. A Grand Night - More in fact . . . We raised £1,132 for a very special charity.
It was more than a grand night. In fact, it was a ‘grand’ plus £132.Yes, that’s right, our fund-raising evening raised a total of £1,132 no less, thanks to the incredible generosity of everybody who tuned-in to enjoy what was an absolute belter of a music night. Pretty much all the songs were dedicated to the charity RENEW and its relentless fund-raising to help the refugees locked-down on the Greek island of Leros. Many had chosen their songs for the meaningful lyrics, others had included a special introduction. The Club meet online, every Thursday, see our
Kernow/Cornwall, & Devon , Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire , Bristol, South Glos, Glos - no news
Herefordshire and Worcestershire
Ø Tom Hughes, Music Practitioner/Director, writes: Mordiford Community Choir has had a rename and new website!
LISTING in DIRECTORY, folklife-directory.uk/herefs-worcs.html
Pf.1d Choirs & Quires: Folk & Community Choirs & Bands, West Gallery
Herefs SING4JOY CHOIR sing4joy.uk Tom Hughes
⇒ Contact: sing4joychoir<at>outlook.com, or message us via FB See also: facebook.com/sing4joychoir
→ Hampton Bishop Village Hall, Hereford HR1 4JY. 7:30pm-9pm each Tuesday during term-time.
⊕ We provide an opportunity for people to gather and sing in an informal and friendly environment. “Very uplifting sessions”.
(Also running online sessions during COVID-19 pandemic until permitted to meet safely in person)
NEWS
SING4JOY CHOIR ®, Hampton Bishop Village Hall, Hereford HR1 4JY. Tuesdays during term-time, 7.30pm-9pm
We provide an opportunity for people to gather and sing in an informal and friendly environment. “very uplifting sessions”
The Sing4Joy Choir creates a positive environment and an opportunity for people to gather and sing together. It is the highlight of many peoples week, giving them a much needed lift or enabling them to switch off from the stresses of life for a couple of hours.
Singing helps people calm down physically. The body produces endorphins - the happy hormone that affects every cell in the body – which lift the spirits and boosts the immune system.
Firm and lasting friendships are formed. People look out for each other, support each other, laugh with each other and feel fantastic when they hear the wonderful harmonies they make together.
Singing together has great health benefits for breathing, for your heart and for emotional well-being.
The fee is £5 per session.
We always welcome new singers of any ability.
Website sing4joy.uk and email sing4joychoir<at>outlook.com
(Also running online sessions during COVID-19 pandemic until permitted to meet safely in person)
Best regards
Tom
Central Midlands [Shrops; Brum, Walsall, Tamworth; Warks, Coventry; Oxon]
NEWS
Ø Central Midlands - Staffs - TAMWORTH FOLK CLUB. Malcolm Robinson from Tamworth Folk Club has been busy! Malcolm writes:
Since the start of lockdown, I have been processing lots of archived audio and video material that I've had for many years and done little with. It all relates, directly or indirectly, to our club at Tamworth and has, and continues to be, a mammoth undertaking - a job still in progress. The oldest material I have goes back to 1985.
I've been doing this to:
- Preserve interest in our own club
- Entertain those who remember 'the good old days'
- Add to local and national cultural history
As of this moment I have posted 22 videos on YouTube and 42 tracks on Soundcloud.
A further 10 of my videos of a much looked-forward-to reunion concert of The Old Castle Band, just prior to lockdown, have been posted on another YouTube channel. The links are below.
<> 'Archives Of Tamworth Folk Club By The Folkie Man': youtube.com/channel/UCeYKGMIihpg8JlUsg__fUWQ
<> All extant songs of the late Bill Alldrick, who died in 1990 and which he recorded on cassette tapes, can be found on SoundCloud:
soundcloud.com/user-940585468 you can then, if you want, click on 'Playlists' and see/hear them all together.
<> For the Old Castle Band reunion concert on 6th March 2020 please go to our website and click on the prominent link on the home page. (There is also a link there to my 'Archives' YouTube channel, too): tamworthfolkclub.co.uk
<> Finally, I have also opened a Twitter account related to the above: twitter.com/TFC_Archives
And our thanks to Malcolm for forwarding our Folklife Newsletter to club members.
Cymru/Wales
NEWS
Wales - Denbs - RUTHIN ALLSTYLES MUSIC CLUB. On 25 June, Ruthin AllStyles Folk & Acoustic Music Club had .. A Grand Night - More in fact . . . We raised £1,132 for a very special charity.
It was more than a grand night. In fact, it was a ‘grand’ plus £132.Yes, that’s right, our fund-raising evening raised a total of £1,132 no less, thanks to the incredible generosity of everybody who tuned-in to enjoy what was an absolute belter of a music night. Pretty much all the songs were dedicated to the charity RENEW and its relentless fund-raising to help the refugees locked-down on the Greek island of Leros. Many had chosen their songs for the meaningful lyrics, others had included a special introduction. The Club meet online, every Thursday, see our
Kernow/Cornwall, & Devon , Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire , Bristol, South Glos, Glos - no news
Herefordshire and Worcestershire
Ø Tom Hughes, Music Practitioner/Director, writes: Mordiford Community Choir has had a rename and new website!
LISTING in DIRECTORY, folklife-directory.uk/herefs-worcs.html
Pf.1d Choirs & Quires: Folk & Community Choirs & Bands, West Gallery
Herefs SING4JOY CHOIR sing4joy.uk Tom Hughes
⇒ Contact: sing4joychoir<at>outlook.com, or message us via FB See also: facebook.com/sing4joychoir
→ Hampton Bishop Village Hall, Hereford HR1 4JY. 7:30pm-9pm each Tuesday during term-time.
⊕ We provide an opportunity for people to gather and sing in an informal and friendly environment. “Very uplifting sessions”.
(Also running online sessions during COVID-19 pandemic until permitted to meet safely in person)
NEWS
SING4JOY CHOIR ®, Hampton Bishop Village Hall, Hereford HR1 4JY. Tuesdays during term-time, 7.30pm-9pm
We provide an opportunity for people to gather and sing in an informal and friendly environment. “very uplifting sessions”
The Sing4Joy Choir creates a positive environment and an opportunity for people to gather and sing together. It is the highlight of many peoples week, giving them a much needed lift or enabling them to switch off from the stresses of life for a couple of hours.
Singing helps people calm down physically. The body produces endorphins - the happy hormone that affects every cell in the body – which lift the spirits and boosts the immune system.
Firm and lasting friendships are formed. People look out for each other, support each other, laugh with each other and feel fantastic when they hear the wonderful harmonies they make together.
Singing together has great health benefits for breathing, for your heart and for emotional well-being.
The fee is £5 per session.
We always welcome new singers of any ability.
Website sing4joy.uk and email sing4joychoir<at>outlook.com
(Also running online sessions during COVID-19 pandemic until permitted to meet safely in person)
Best regards
Tom
Central Midlands [Shrops; Brum, Walsall, Tamworth; Warks, Coventry; Oxon]
NEWS
Ø Central Midlands - Staffs - TAMWORTH FOLK CLUB. Malcolm Robinson from Tamworth Folk Club has been busy! Malcolm writes:
Since the start of lockdown, I have been processing lots of archived audio and video material that I've had for many years and done little with. It all relates, directly or indirectly, to our club at Tamworth and has, and continues to be, a mammoth undertaking - a job still in progress. The oldest material I have goes back to 1985.
I've been doing this to:
- Preserve interest in our own club
- Entertain those who remember 'the good old days'
- Add to local and national cultural history
As of this moment I have posted 22 videos on YouTube and 42 tracks on Soundcloud.
A further 10 of my videos of a much looked-forward-to reunion concert of The Old Castle Band, just prior to lockdown, have been posted on another YouTube channel. The links are below.
<> 'Archives Of Tamworth Folk Club By The Folkie Man': youtube.com/channel/UCeYKGMIihpg8JlUsg__fUWQ
<> All extant songs of the late Bill Alldrick, who died in 1990 and which he recorded on cassette tapes, can be found on SoundCloud:
soundcloud.com/user-940585468 you can then, if you want, click on 'Playlists' and see/hear them all together.
<> For the Old Castle Band reunion concert on 6th March 2020 please go to our website and click on the prominent link on the home page. (There is also a link there to my 'Archives' YouTube channel, too): tamworthfolkclub.co.uk
<> Finally, I have also opened a Twitter account related to the above: twitter.com/TFC_Archives
And our thanks to Malcolm for forwarding our Folklife Newsletter to club members.
Other areas England / UK / International
Ø New Member: DIRECTORY LISTING, , folklife-directory.uk/other.html draft listing made up by us to be confirmed
London FOLK LONDON folklondon.co.uk James Eagle ⇒ twitter.com/FolkLondonMag, facebook.com/Folk-London-363575950726372 ⊕ Bi-monthly listings magazine covering folk music, dance and song events in Greater London and beyond. To buy Folk London: folklondon.co.uk/buy |
NEWS June-July Folk London is out now. Featuring: • Fresh folk faces: a new generation of club organisers • Zoom in: how online singarounds are keeping us going • Lockdown livestreams: top tips for gig organisers • Lewes Favourites: the story behind the session • Reviews: Gigspanner Big Band, Rowan Godel, Kirsty Merryn, Minnie Birch, Pete Morton and more To buy Folk London, go to : folklondon.co.uk/buy/ |
folklife-directory.uk includes detailed festivals & workshops diaries
Festivals, folklife-directory.uk/festivals.html Workshops, folklife-directory.uk/workshops.html
Ø will be updated online when we're told (otherwise: when I have time to check)
Ø New & existing advertisers: cancelled 2020 festivals? Send us your 2021 festivals adverts, FREE online - this includes new members
Ø All Member-Festivals & Workshops are asked to check their Folklife 2020 & 2021 listings, please let us know of any changes, 2021 dates, rebooked artists
‡‡ Non-member previous advertisers are also included.
JULY changes since last Newsletter; 2021 details are given on webpage
Ø 2020 July 18 (Sat) Virtually MITCHELDEAN FESTIVAL online-only festival mitcheldeanfestival.fod.uk
→ MITCHELDEAN, Forest of Dean, Glos GL17 0AT - several venues around the village, including our own brewery and cider house!
⇒ Email talktous<at>mitcheldeanfestival.fod.uk for more information, Andy Scarf 01594 544456
⊕ Normally, a free weekend festival in the glorious Forest of Dean! All singers, musicians and dancers welcome. This year, Mitcheldean Festival will be an online-only Festival, just Saturday 18th July, details on the Festival website.
Join us on our Facebook page and Zoom for Virtually Mitcheldean Festival 2020 on July 18th from mid-day to 11pm (invitations to Zoom sessions will be posted nearer the time). facebook.com/MitcheldeanFestival -We hope you will be able to join us - Cheers! ® Andy
‡‡ was July, rescheduled to August, but now postponed to 2021 Jul 7 - 11.
NEW FOREST FOLK FESTIVAL newforestfolkfestival.co.uk
AUGUST & SEPTEMBER changes since last Newsletter
no changes since last Newsletter
Festivals, folklife-directory.uk/festivals.html Workshops, folklife-directory.uk/workshops.html
Ø will be updated online when we're told (otherwise: when I have time to check)
Ø New & existing advertisers: cancelled 2020 festivals? Send us your 2021 festivals adverts, FREE online - this includes new members
Ø All Member-Festivals & Workshops are asked to check their Folklife 2020 & 2021 listings, please let us know of any changes, 2021 dates, rebooked artists
‡‡ Non-member previous advertisers are also included.
JULY changes since last Newsletter; 2021 details are given on webpage
Ø 2020 July 18 (Sat) Virtually MITCHELDEAN FESTIVAL online-only festival mitcheldeanfestival.fod.uk
→ MITCHELDEAN, Forest of Dean, Glos GL17 0AT - several venues around the village, including our own brewery and cider house!
⇒ Email talktous<at>mitcheldeanfestival.fod.uk for more information, Andy Scarf 01594 544456
⊕ Normally, a free weekend festival in the glorious Forest of Dean! All singers, musicians and dancers welcome. This year, Mitcheldean Festival will be an online-only Festival, just Saturday 18th July, details on the Festival website.
Join us on our Facebook page and Zoom for Virtually Mitcheldean Festival 2020 on July 18th from mid-day to 11pm (invitations to Zoom sessions will be posted nearer the time). facebook.com/MitcheldeanFestival -We hope you will be able to join us - Cheers! ® Andy
‡‡ was July, rescheduled to August, but now postponed to 2021 Jul 7 - 11.
NEW FOREST FOLK FESTIVAL newforestfolkfestival.co.uk
AUGUST & SEPTEMBER changes since last Newsletter
no changes since last Newsletter
Stay safe! Best wishes, Sam and Eleanor
Sam & Eleanor Simmons, 01684 561378, for the Folklife volunteers. Copyright © 2020 Folklife all rights reserved.
Sam & Eleanor Simmons, 01684 561378, for the Folklife volunteers. Copyright © 2020 Folklife all rights reserved.
Folklife 16 June 2020 Newsletter: Online Folk updates, etcHello folks.
Hope you are well. The (Zoom) Folk Revival ! Zoom-folk is flourishing. Some more are listed below, and have been added to our existing Virtual-Folk webpage. As lockdown drags on, clubs that weren't going to bother with Zoom have started sessions; often, initially lots of visitors, then settling down to regulars plus some visitors. When we return, new Zoom visitors could even improve real-life attendances! It's frustrating staying home, and we miss those clubroom harmonies, but it's great to get out and try new clubs, meet people not seen for years, make new friends. If your Zoom session isn't yet listed on folklife.uk/virtual-folk.html, let us know and we'll add it immediately. NEW During lockdown, we now invite non-Members on this Newsletter mailing-list to list virtual-folk events |
Updates Ø Our members' subscriptions keep us going -- so, normally, only news & listings from our supportive Members are publicised. ‡‡ NEW. During lockdown, non-Members on this Newsletter's mailing-list can also list virtual-folk events For News & Updates below: Ø members ‡‡ others' Zoom sessions, if signed up to this Newsletter |
Venues, performers, media, services
Any updates received before next newsletter will be added to Directory, and also noted on Updates page, folklife.uk/updates.html
I receive a large number of emails from Members' mailing lists. If you want me to pass on information in next Newsletter, please tell me specifically, thanks.
Cymru/Wales - no news
Kernow/Cornwall, & Devon
Ø Cornwall - Sad news: Chris Ridley. The death has been announced of Chris, who was the long-time editor of the former Folknews Kernow newsletter, and one of Bodmin Folk Club's founders, and a well-known and much-loved figure in the folk movement. Info from Cresby, from Mudcat.
Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire
Ø Somerset - HALSWAY MANOR gigs. Halsway Manor announce closure extended to 1 September.
Bristol, South Glos, Gloucestershire and Herefordshire and Worcestershire - no news
Central Midlands [Shrops; Brum, Walsall, Tamworth; Warks, Coventry; Oxon]
Ø FOLK MONTHLY (Midlands print magazine) has ceased publishing
Ø ZOOM West Midlands county: TRADITIONAL ARTS TEAM, Tales and Ales, Traditional song session, Sing Political!, Lockdown Storytelling Cafe, see Virtual-Folk page.
Ø ZOOM Oxfordshire - FOLK IN OXFORD, online event updates are on the Folk in Oxford website, Online Events, folkinoxford.co.uk - concerts, ceilidhs, folk days, etc. These include those from Folk Weekend: Oxford goes#LiveToYourLivingRoom on:
folkinoxford.co.uk/online-events/773-folk-weekend-oxford-goes-livetoyourlivingroom.html It’s no surprise to anyone that the grassroots music industry is struggling at the moment; venues are closing, and artists are facing months of cancelled gigs. Here at Folk Weekend: Oxford we are determined to do what we can to help; offering live interactive gigs in Zoom. As long as you keep booking tickets, we’ll keep putting on gigs, and boy have we got an exciting line up for you over the next couple of months! Let us know if there are any artists you’d love to see and we’ll do our best! 19th June - Alasdair Roberts. 23rd June - Nancy Kerr & James Fagan. 12th July - Sam Carter. 28th July - Nick Hart. 31st July - Lucy Ward.
Other areas England / UK / International
Ø Issue 134 of THE LIVING TRADITION is out now. The June/July 2020 Issue features articles on Georgia Lewis, Chris Leslie, Natalie MacMaster, Ken Wilson, A Puckle Muckle Sangs, Autohoodening, The Humours of Cocoon, Zoe Wren, If At First, Hector Christie’s take on life in lockdown, Mike Silver’s Tales From The Road, Transatlantic Connections, Festival Updates, news, reviews and much more… livingtradition.co.uk
‡‡ ZOOM London: SHARPS FOLK CLUB - Sharp's in Isolation Zoom session every Tuesday, see facebook.com/sharps.folkclub
Each evening is recorded - catch up with all of our lockdown singarounds on YouTube (link from Facebook above).
Contact Amanda on sharpsfolkclub <at> gmail.com to join the mailing list.
‡‡ ZOOM UK and USA -- CALENDAR OF ONLINE SESSIONS
bostonsongsessions.org/virtual-sessions A calendar of online (mostly zoom-based) pub sings, chantey sings, and ballad sessions that have started up under the Coronavirus lockdown. More details see Virtual-Folk webpage.
Any updates received before next newsletter will be added to Directory, and also noted on Updates page, folklife.uk/updates.html
I receive a large number of emails from Members' mailing lists. If you want me to pass on information in next Newsletter, please tell me specifically, thanks.
Cymru/Wales - no news
Kernow/Cornwall, & Devon
Ø Cornwall - Sad news: Chris Ridley. The death has been announced of Chris, who was the long-time editor of the former Folknews Kernow newsletter, and one of Bodmin Folk Club's founders, and a well-known and much-loved figure in the folk movement. Info from Cresby, from Mudcat.
Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire
Ø Somerset - HALSWAY MANOR gigs. Halsway Manor announce closure extended to 1 September.
Bristol, South Glos, Gloucestershire and Herefordshire and Worcestershire - no news
Central Midlands [Shrops; Brum, Walsall, Tamworth; Warks, Coventry; Oxon]
Ø FOLK MONTHLY (Midlands print magazine) has ceased publishing
Ø ZOOM West Midlands county: TRADITIONAL ARTS TEAM, Tales and Ales, Traditional song session, Sing Political!, Lockdown Storytelling Cafe, see Virtual-Folk page.
Ø ZOOM Oxfordshire - FOLK IN OXFORD, online event updates are on the Folk in Oxford website, Online Events, folkinoxford.co.uk - concerts, ceilidhs, folk days, etc. These include those from Folk Weekend: Oxford goes#LiveToYourLivingRoom on:
folkinoxford.co.uk/online-events/773-folk-weekend-oxford-goes-livetoyourlivingroom.html It’s no surprise to anyone that the grassroots music industry is struggling at the moment; venues are closing, and artists are facing months of cancelled gigs. Here at Folk Weekend: Oxford we are determined to do what we can to help; offering live interactive gigs in Zoom. As long as you keep booking tickets, we’ll keep putting on gigs, and boy have we got an exciting line up for you over the next couple of months! Let us know if there are any artists you’d love to see and we’ll do our best! 19th June - Alasdair Roberts. 23rd June - Nancy Kerr & James Fagan. 12th July - Sam Carter. 28th July - Nick Hart. 31st July - Lucy Ward.
Other areas England / UK / International
Ø Issue 134 of THE LIVING TRADITION is out now. The June/July 2020 Issue features articles on Georgia Lewis, Chris Leslie, Natalie MacMaster, Ken Wilson, A Puckle Muckle Sangs, Autohoodening, The Humours of Cocoon, Zoe Wren, If At First, Hector Christie’s take on life in lockdown, Mike Silver’s Tales From The Road, Transatlantic Connections, Festival Updates, news, reviews and much more… livingtradition.co.uk
‡‡ ZOOM London: SHARPS FOLK CLUB - Sharp's in Isolation Zoom session every Tuesday, see facebook.com/sharps.folkclub
Each evening is recorded - catch up with all of our lockdown singarounds on YouTube (link from Facebook above).
Contact Amanda on sharpsfolkclub <at> gmail.com to join the mailing list.
‡‡ ZOOM UK and USA -- CALENDAR OF ONLINE SESSIONS
bostonsongsessions.org/virtual-sessions A calendar of online (mostly zoom-based) pub sings, chantey sings, and ballad sessions that have started up under the Coronavirus lockdown. More details see Virtual-Folk webpage.
folklife-directory.uk includes detailed festivals & workshops diaries
Festivals, www.folklife-directory.uk/festivals.html Workshops, www.folklife-directory.uk/workshops.html
Ø will be updated online when we're told (otherwise: when I have time to check)
Ø Existing advertisers: cancelled 2020 festivals? Send us 2021 festivals ads, FREE online
Ø All Member-Festivals & Workshops are asked to check their Folklife 2020 & 2021 listings, and please let us know of any changes, 2021 dates, rebooked artists,
‡‡ Non-member previous advertisers are also included.
JULY changes since last Newsletter; 2021 details are given on webpage
Ø Halsway Manor announce closure extended to to 1 September. Residential Workshops.
Ø Jul 10 - 12. Priddy FF postponed to 2021 July 9 - 11.
‡‡ was July, now August. New Forest Folk Festival - We are closely monitoring the situation on a daily basis while still working hard on our festival. Dates for 2020 have been rescheduled. If regulations allow and it is safe to do so we are moving our festival to August Bank Holiday 26th - 30th 2020.
AUGUST changes since last Newsletter; 2021 details are given on webpage
Ø Aug 21 - 23 Moira Furnace Folk Festival
15/6: "Unfortunately, due to the ongoing situation, the festival committee has made the decision to cancel this year's festival. An official statement will be posted on the festival website and Facebook page on Thursday [18/6] giving full details."
SEPTEMBER changes since last Newsletter; 2021 details are given on webpage
Ø Sept 4 - 6, Llanwddyn Weekend of Folk & Acoustic Music postponed to 2021 Sept 3 - 5. We are almost 99% sure our artists line up will remain the same as advertised, but in the event one may not be able to perform, we will replace them with an artist to equal the quality we feel we always provide you. We are so sorry to disappoint so many of our loyal supporters, many of which are now friends. Plus our new supporters of course. We hope you will continue to support the festival and come back again next year. Meanwhile please take care of yourselves, stay well, stay safe. Keep in touch too, we are on Facebook and Twitter and there is always email. We’d love to hear how you are all getting on over the coming months. Lots of Love, Ruth, Ken, and the Whole Festival Team.
Ø Sept 10 - 13. Bromyard Folk Festival postponed to 2021 Sept 9 - 12. With current Government predictions we will not be permitted to hold indoor gatherings with close contact for the foreseeable future. We are, as a team, determined to concentrate now on arrangements for next year, we are delighted that this years' line up of Artistes have agreed to perform alongside many more to be announced, it should be a festival worth waiting for. Please keep safe we will look forward to meeting up with you in 2021 somewhere sooner but definitely September 9th-12th: keep the date. Sending best wishes to you all, Lynne Barker, Chair of Directors. www.bromyardfolkfestival.co.uk
Ø Sept 17 - 20. Southdowns Folk Festival postponed to 2021 Sept 16 - 19.
Festivals, www.folklife-directory.uk/festivals.html Workshops, www.folklife-directory.uk/workshops.html
Ø will be updated online when we're told (otherwise: when I have time to check)
Ø Existing advertisers: cancelled 2020 festivals? Send us 2021 festivals ads, FREE online
Ø All Member-Festivals & Workshops are asked to check their Folklife 2020 & 2021 listings, and please let us know of any changes, 2021 dates, rebooked artists,
‡‡ Non-member previous advertisers are also included.
JULY changes since last Newsletter; 2021 details are given on webpage
Ø Halsway Manor announce closure extended to to 1 September. Residential Workshops.
Ø Jul 10 - 12. Priddy FF postponed to 2021 July 9 - 11.
‡‡ was July, now August. New Forest Folk Festival - We are closely monitoring the situation on a daily basis while still working hard on our festival. Dates for 2020 have been rescheduled. If regulations allow and it is safe to do so we are moving our festival to August Bank Holiday 26th - 30th 2020.
AUGUST changes since last Newsletter; 2021 details are given on webpage
Ø Aug 21 - 23 Moira Furnace Folk Festival
15/6: "Unfortunately, due to the ongoing situation, the festival committee has made the decision to cancel this year's festival. An official statement will be posted on the festival website and Facebook page on Thursday [18/6] giving full details."
SEPTEMBER changes since last Newsletter; 2021 details are given on webpage
Ø Sept 4 - 6, Llanwddyn Weekend of Folk & Acoustic Music postponed to 2021 Sept 3 - 5. We are almost 99% sure our artists line up will remain the same as advertised, but in the event one may not be able to perform, we will replace them with an artist to equal the quality we feel we always provide you. We are so sorry to disappoint so many of our loyal supporters, many of which are now friends. Plus our new supporters of course. We hope you will continue to support the festival and come back again next year. Meanwhile please take care of yourselves, stay well, stay safe. Keep in touch too, we are on Facebook and Twitter and there is always email. We’d love to hear how you are all getting on over the coming months. Lots of Love, Ruth, Ken, and the Whole Festival Team.
Ø Sept 10 - 13. Bromyard Folk Festival postponed to 2021 Sept 9 - 12. With current Government predictions we will not be permitted to hold indoor gatherings with close contact for the foreseeable future. We are, as a team, determined to concentrate now on arrangements for next year, we are delighted that this years' line up of Artistes have agreed to perform alongside many more to be announced, it should be a festival worth waiting for. Please keep safe we will look forward to meeting up with you in 2021 somewhere sooner but definitely September 9th-12th: keep the date. Sending best wishes to you all, Lynne Barker, Chair of Directors. www.bromyardfolkfestival.co.uk
Ø Sept 17 - 20. Southdowns Folk Festival postponed to 2021 Sept 16 - 19.
folklife-traditions.uk
researched articles, folklife organisations, researchers, etc, publications news
Ø "Wait Till the Clouds Roll By" Part 3 of the Old World / New World Trilogy MTCD518-0. 3-CD Set + 52 page integral booklet in DVD case. 79 tracks, 222 minutes. £20.00 Commercial recordings of American songs that have made it back to the Old World via 78rpm discs and/or printed music, together with how they sounded when taken up by the British oral tradition. There are quite a few songs here that you probably never knew were American, nor can imagine what the 'original' sounded like. Rod Stradling, Musical Traditions Records with on-line credit/debit card purchasing. mustrad.org.uk/editor.htm Musical Traditions Internet Magazine, 1 Castle Street, Stroud, Glos GL5 2HP, UK 01453 759475 Mobile: 0793 099 1641 rod<at>mustrad.org.uk
Ø The Traditional Song Forum has organised successful talks on Zoom, more are planned, next is 28 June, Ian Russell: Books. These talks are very popular, now attracting international visitors, currently limited to 100 places; so if interested, see tradsong.org sooner rather than later. This website is a gateway to a number of useful resources for those interested in researching or performing traditional folk songs. There is a newsletter to sign up to.
Ø trac, music traditions Wales, Wales folk development organisation, has a website full of resources, trac.wales, and is on Facebook, at facebook.com/traccymruwales, where you will find videos, details of online gigs, etc.
researched articles, folklife organisations, researchers, etc, publications news
Ø "Wait Till the Clouds Roll By" Part 3 of the Old World / New World Trilogy MTCD518-0. 3-CD Set + 52 page integral booklet in DVD case. 79 tracks, 222 minutes. £20.00 Commercial recordings of American songs that have made it back to the Old World via 78rpm discs and/or printed music, together with how they sounded when taken up by the British oral tradition. There are quite a few songs here that you probably never knew were American, nor can imagine what the 'original' sounded like. Rod Stradling, Musical Traditions Records with on-line credit/debit card purchasing. mustrad.org.uk/editor.htm Musical Traditions Internet Magazine, 1 Castle Street, Stroud, Glos GL5 2HP, UK 01453 759475 Mobile: 0793 099 1641 rod<at>mustrad.org.uk
Ø The Traditional Song Forum has organised successful talks on Zoom, more are planned, next is 28 June, Ian Russell: Books. These talks are very popular, now attracting international visitors, currently limited to 100 places; so if interested, see tradsong.org sooner rather than later. This website is a gateway to a number of useful resources for those interested in researching or performing traditional folk songs. There is a newsletter to sign up to.
Ø trac, music traditions Wales, Wales folk development organisation, has a website full of resources, trac.wales, and is on Facebook, at facebook.com/traccymruwales, where you will find videos, details of online gigs, etc.
Virtual folk, to keep us going
Meet old friends, make new ones - It's not the real thing, but friendly faces in these hard times
Our members' subscriptions keep us going -- therefore, normally, only news & listings from our supportive Members are publicised.
But for virtual folk, we'll include anyone else on Newsletter mailing list.
Any more ?? besides those on our webpage folklife.uk/virtual-folk.html
If you wish to publicise your online virtual folk (email list, Zoom, FaceBook, etc), please send details - members, plus Zoom: anyone else on this mailing list
Stay safe! Best wishes, Sam and Eleanor
Sam & Eleanor Simmons, 01684 561378, for the Folklife volunteers. Copyright © 2020 Folklife all rights reserved.
Meet old friends, make new ones - It's not the real thing, but friendly faces in these hard times
Our members' subscriptions keep us going -- therefore, normally, only news & listings from our supportive Members are publicised.
But for virtual folk, we'll include anyone else on Newsletter mailing list.
Any more ?? besides those on our webpage folklife.uk/virtual-folk.html
If you wish to publicise your online virtual folk (email list, Zoom, FaceBook, etc), please send details - members, plus Zoom: anyone else on this mailing list
Stay safe! Best wishes, Sam and Eleanor
Sam & Eleanor Simmons, 01684 561378, for the Folklife volunteers. Copyright © 2020 Folklife all rights reserved.
Folklife 11 May 2020 Newsletter: May Folklife, Online Folk, TuitionMay Folklife is online.
Reports: before the lock-down; and looking forward to post-Virus events ! Your news & listings, and these articles: ‘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, from Helen Adam. Our online version (as copied to our websites) is based on the print version. This time prepared as usual (but not printed), copied online. Our members' subscriptions keep us going -- therefore, only news & listings from our supportive Members are publicised. |
Virtual folk, to keep us going It's not the real thing, but friendly faces in these hard times
If you wish to publicise your online virtual folk
(email list, Zoom, FaceBook, etc), please send details and we'll put them on folklife.uk/virtual-folk.html (I've put a few that I know of; more welcome).
Please support our performers,
who have lost their income, by checking their websites (on folklife-directory.uk) for recordings to buy.
NEW: for Member performers who offer online tuition:
please email details and I will put at top of Workshops page: folklife-directory.uk/workshops.html
Stay safe! Best wishes, Sam and Eleanor Sam & Eleanor Simmons, 01684 561378
If you wish to publicise your online virtual folk
(email list, Zoom, FaceBook, etc), please send details and we'll put them on folklife.uk/virtual-folk.html (I've put a few that I know of; more welcome).
Please support our performers,
who have lost their income, by checking their websites (on folklife-directory.uk) for recordings to buy.
NEW: for Member performers who offer online tuition:
please email details and I will put at top of Workshops page: folklife-directory.uk/workshops.html
Stay safe! Best wishes, Sam and Eleanor Sam & Eleanor Simmons, 01684 561378
Folklife 2 May 2020 Newsletter: Updates; Virtual FolkA May Day like no other, so this from Bill Taylor (Glos) may bring a smile ... the Morris men virtually dancing on May Hill ....
facebook.com/LassingtonOakMM/videos/263094788072549/ Updates to Online Directory folklife-directory.uk Summary below ~ for detailed Listings, see links to our webpages listed below ! Festival Diary & Workshop Diary webpages FESTIVALS’ DIARY, on folklife-directory.uk/festivals.html and WORKSHOPS, on folklife-directory.uk/workshops.html Ø I have heard from some, for others, I've checked websites; so all updated as of 1 May. Ø All Member-Festivals & Workshops please check 2020 & 2021 listings, & let us know of any changes, 2021 dates, rebooked artists, etc. |
We need something to look forward to ! so --- we're listing our members 2021 festivals, as well !
Sadly, many cancelled festivals & workshops -- many have booked 2021 dates, some have rebooked their 2020 guests,
We welcome updates - during these exceptional times, We'll revise webpages promptly ! Just let us know.
So if postponed, do give us 2021 details ! Something to look forward to !
AREA WEBPAGES (Venues, Performers, Media, Services)
Cymru / Wales, on website folklife.cymru apart from the closures !, no changes ... for virtual clubs - see below
England, on regional webpages on folklife-directory.uk
Glos: I am sorry to have to report the passing of Bill Pullen, on Saturday 18th April, at his home in Alderton. Bill was our long-standing Correspondent for Glos and nearby, with his "Bill's Blues Bulletin", and before that for many years a contributor to the late Pat Scrase's Folkwrite magazine. Bill was a man of many musical talents, with his traditional folk songs, including those which he collected locally, as well as his own local compositions, and his amazing blues harmonica playing and singing. His dedication to supporting live music - not just in Glos, but everywhere from Ledbury and Much Marcle in Herefordshire to Worcestershire, Oxfordshire, and Warwickshire - was total. From being booked for blues and folk festivals, to supporting local sessions, Bill was there. Do have a listen to two songs collected from Bill by Gwilym Davies on the wonderful Glostrad site: Seven Nights Drunk, http://glostrad.com/seven-nights-drunk/, and The Crabfish, http://glostrad.com/crabfish-the-pullen/
Worcs: long-time Folklife Member venue ARTRIX, Bromsgrove Arts Centre ceased trading on 7 April 2020 after being forced to close its doors because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our sympathy in particular to the hard-working team who have lost their jobs.
Otherwise, apart from the obvious closures!, no changes ... for virtual clubs - see below
In FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS DIRECTORY on folklife-traditions.uk no changes this time
On FOLKLIFE (this website), for FOLK NEWS ~ our magazine's print pages, copied online
New ~ "Virtual Folk" on folklife.uk/virtual-folk.html
Stay safe! Best wishes, Sam and Eleanor
Sam & Eleanor Simmons, 01684 561378, for the Folklife volunteers.
Sadly, many cancelled festivals & workshops -- many have booked 2021 dates, some have rebooked their 2020 guests,
We welcome updates - during these exceptional times, We'll revise webpages promptly ! Just let us know.
So if postponed, do give us 2021 details ! Something to look forward to !
AREA WEBPAGES (Venues, Performers, Media, Services)
Cymru / Wales, on website folklife.cymru apart from the closures !, no changes ... for virtual clubs - see below
England, on regional webpages on folklife-directory.uk
Glos: I am sorry to have to report the passing of Bill Pullen, on Saturday 18th April, at his home in Alderton. Bill was our long-standing Correspondent for Glos and nearby, with his "Bill's Blues Bulletin", and before that for many years a contributor to the late Pat Scrase's Folkwrite magazine. Bill was a man of many musical talents, with his traditional folk songs, including those which he collected locally, as well as his own local compositions, and his amazing blues harmonica playing and singing. His dedication to supporting live music - not just in Glos, but everywhere from Ledbury and Much Marcle in Herefordshire to Worcestershire, Oxfordshire, and Warwickshire - was total. From being booked for blues and folk festivals, to supporting local sessions, Bill was there. Do have a listen to two songs collected from Bill by Gwilym Davies on the wonderful Glostrad site: Seven Nights Drunk, http://glostrad.com/seven-nights-drunk/, and The Crabfish, http://glostrad.com/crabfish-the-pullen/
Worcs: long-time Folklife Member venue ARTRIX, Bromsgrove Arts Centre ceased trading on 7 April 2020 after being forced to close its doors because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our sympathy in particular to the hard-working team who have lost their jobs.
Otherwise, apart from the obvious closures!, no changes ... for virtual clubs - see below
In FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS DIRECTORY on folklife-traditions.uk no changes this time
On FOLKLIFE (this website), for FOLK NEWS ~ our magazine's print pages, copied online
New ~ "Virtual Folk" on folklife.uk/virtual-folk.html
- Virtual folk, to keep us going It's not the real thing ~ but friendly faces in these hard times
- We have created this new webpage, to include anything virtual that Members wish to publicise - Zoom, Facebook, YouTube, etc - or, for the less technical, email lists to sign up for.
- We appreciate that some need to limit audience size and may not wish to publicise them further.
Stay safe! Best wishes, Sam and Eleanor
Sam & Eleanor Simmons, 01684 561378, for the Folklife volunteers.
Since Newsletter 8 April 2020
Ø Carol Davies (Winchcombe) has emailed that Radio 2's Folk Show With Mark Radcliffe (Wednesday) is now in a later slot (11pm-midnight). Ø Issue 133 of The Living Tradition (Apr/May 2020) features articles on: Christine Kydd, Les Barker, Liz Carroll, The Great Fife Roadshow, Peter Bellamy, Sally Hardaker, Aaron Clark, Session Etiquette, Dave Burland’s Tales From The Road, Hylda Sims, Getting A Life, Transatlantic Connections, Apr-Nov Festival Listings, news, reviews and much more.... www.livingtradition.co.uk |
Hello folks.
Hope you are well. Government is now saying that we can't predict when restrictions will be listed. Therefore, if you want to send news items or revise ones already sent, that's fine - I am full-time at home! - I have time to do revisions! [usual word limits, please]. Or you can leave your news items as sent. We'll state that: "We are leaving news as sent, to remind us of happier times in the past, to look forward to in the future!, meanwhile please check all dates nearer the time". Understandably, some of our regulars have not contacted us; I'll just keep your news as a 'standard' general description (= without dates) of your last news, to give readers an idea for when we do all restart; or you can still email, see above. And as previously stated, regular advertisers can have free online adverts - again, general ones about your club without dates would be fine. I'll contact you later about refunds / extending one issue. |
Subscriptions: we’ll adjust accordingly, when we know when we can next print a magazine.
Membership-renewals and new members: covering 3 printed issues (no charge for this online issue).
After 1 May, we will catch up on renewals as we need the money (losing advert income for this issue!).
All payments online only for now - no cheques please as I can't go out.
Online DIRECTORY www.folklife-directory.uk, UPDATES
FESTIVALS, WORKSHOPS, then AREA WEBPAGES (Venues, Performers, Media, Services) Summary below ~ for detailed Listings, see area webpages
FESTIVALS’ DIARY, on www.folklife-directory.uk/festivals.html and WORKSHOPS, on www.folklife-directory.uk/workshops.html
New Member-Festival (details see above webpage)
Ø 2020 July 03 - 04 Cleckheaton Folk Festival www.cleckheatonfolkfestival.org
Festivals before next issue May 1st
Ø Update: going online, see website: 2020 Apr 17 - 19 Folk Weekend Oxford, www.folkweekendoxford.co.uk
ALL Festivals from 1 May and ALL Workshops from 1 May
Ø I have heard from some, hoping to hold (pending Govt advice), or cancelled. For others, I've checked websites; so all updated.
Ø As this will change, I will carry on updating as we go to press for 1 May.
Ø 2021 dates welcome, including if cancelled 2020 & rebooked artists for 2021 as I know some festivals have already done.
Cymru / Wales, England, West Country, ALL areas; West Midlands ALL areas:
no changes except the obvious!
...other than virtual clubs - on new Virtual-Folk webpage
Other Areas UK (+ national Agencies), on www.folklife-directory.uk/other.html
Ø NEW MEMBER --- obviously closed for the time being, but when running again, details will follow.
1st & 3rd Tuesday W.Yorks MORLEY MORLEY FOLK CLUB www.morleyfolk.org Alan Street
FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS DIRECTORY, on www.folklife-traditions.uk
no changes this time
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This is all particularly disagreeable for all of us, who like to go out and enjoy folk and socialise ! And we are thinking of those affected financially, our members who are professionals or semi-professionals, and those who provide venues - from micropubs to concert venues, festivals, ...
Meanwhile ... we've now discovered how to shop for food online - stay up till midnight for a slot, and get some of what you order! Fortunately we have 2 local shops who deliver - fruit & veg shop, and a French patisserie!! It's a strange new world, we hope you are all coping.
Stay safe! Best wishes, Sam and Eleanor
Sam & Eleanor Simmons, 01684 561378, for the Folklife volunteers.
Membership-renewals and new members: covering 3 printed issues (no charge for this online issue).
After 1 May, we will catch up on renewals as we need the money (losing advert income for this issue!).
All payments online only for now - no cheques please as I can't go out.
Online DIRECTORY www.folklife-directory.uk, UPDATES
FESTIVALS, WORKSHOPS, then AREA WEBPAGES (Venues, Performers, Media, Services) Summary below ~ for detailed Listings, see area webpages
FESTIVALS’ DIARY, on www.folklife-directory.uk/festivals.html and WORKSHOPS, on www.folklife-directory.uk/workshops.html
New Member-Festival (details see above webpage)
Ø 2020 July 03 - 04 Cleckheaton Folk Festival www.cleckheatonfolkfestival.org
Festivals before next issue May 1st
Ø Update: going online, see website: 2020 Apr 17 - 19 Folk Weekend Oxford, www.folkweekendoxford.co.uk
ALL Festivals from 1 May and ALL Workshops from 1 May
Ø I have heard from some, hoping to hold (pending Govt advice), or cancelled. For others, I've checked websites; so all updated.
Ø As this will change, I will carry on updating as we go to press for 1 May.
Ø 2021 dates welcome, including if cancelled 2020 & rebooked artists for 2021 as I know some festivals have already done.
Cymru / Wales, England, West Country, ALL areas; West Midlands ALL areas:
no changes except the obvious!
...other than virtual clubs - on new Virtual-Folk webpage
Other Areas UK (+ national Agencies), on www.folklife-directory.uk/other.html
Ø NEW MEMBER --- obviously closed for the time being, but when running again, details will follow.
1st & 3rd Tuesday W.Yorks MORLEY MORLEY FOLK CLUB www.morleyfolk.org Alan Street
FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS DIRECTORY, on www.folklife-traditions.uk
no changes this time
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This is all particularly disagreeable for all of us, who like to go out and enjoy folk and socialise ! And we are thinking of those affected financially, our members who are professionals or semi-professionals, and those who provide venues - from micropubs to concert venues, festivals, ...
Meanwhile ... we've now discovered how to shop for food online - stay up till midnight for a slot, and get some of what you order! Fortunately we have 2 local shops who deliver - fruit & veg shop, and a French patisserie!! It's a strange new world, we hope you are all coping.
Stay safe! Best wishes, Sam and Eleanor
Sam & Eleanor Simmons, 01684 561378, for the Folklife volunteers.
Folklife 18 March 2020 Newsletter
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Folklife’s main website [this site], for
folk news magazine print pages, copied online
We’ll adjust your subscriptions accordingly, but not immediately till we see when we can print a magazine.
Members’ Adverts: free online ! Adverts already paid: to be refunded !
Our ‘other’ email, Sam@bywyd-gwerin.cymru, is now combined with our usual Sam@folklife.uk. That means that in future, whichever you use, it comes to the same account, however Sam@bywyd-gwerin.cymru wlll be automatically directed to a ‘Wales’ folder within that account.
We have received numerous updates to news items already received / emails about club closures, to which we’ll reply next week, as before then we’ll be busy with various errands, before we face staying at home for months! Particularly disagreeable for all of us, who like to go out and enjoy folk and socialise ! And next we will be busy discovering how to shop for food online !!
Stay well ! Best wishes, Sam and Eleanor
Sam & Eleanor Simmons, 01684 561378, for the Folklife volunteers.
folk news magazine print pages, copied online
We’ll adjust your subscriptions accordingly, but not immediately till we see when we can print a magazine.
Members’ Adverts: free online ! Adverts already paid: to be refunded !
Our ‘other’ email, Sam@bywyd-gwerin.cymru, is now combined with our usual Sam@folklife.uk. That means that in future, whichever you use, it comes to the same account, however Sam@bywyd-gwerin.cymru wlll be automatically directed to a ‘Wales’ folder within that account.
We have received numerous updates to news items already received / emails about club closures, to which we’ll reply next week, as before then we’ll be busy with various errands, before we face staying at home for months! Particularly disagreeable for all of us, who like to go out and enjoy folk and socialise ! And next we will be busy discovering how to shop for food online !!
Stay well ! Best wishes, Sam and Eleanor
Sam & Eleanor Simmons, 01684 561378, for the Folklife volunteers.
TECHNICAL PROBLEM, Newsletters 8/3/2020 and earlier LIVE LINKS
BELOW on this page: only site links & emails for Folklife are live links below;
Members links are live in the original emailed Newsletters, and on this website -- except when copied here below, Members links are not live links
BELOW on this page: only site links & emails for Folklife are live links below;
Members links are live in the original emailed Newsletters, and on this website -- except when copied here below, Members links are not live links
Online DIRECTORY www.folklife-directory.uk, UPDATES
Summary below - for detailed Listings, see area webpages weblinks listed below !
FESTIVALS, WORKSHOPS, then AREA WEBPAGES (Venues, Performers, Media, Services)
Festival Diary & Workshop Diary webpages
FESTIVALS’ DIARY, on www.folklife-directory.uk/festivals.html
Member-festivals: we welcome your listings & updates for the next 12 months
NEW MEMBER-FESTIVAL
2020 Aug 13 - 16 SALTBURN FOLK FESTIVAL www.saltburnfolkfestival.com
EXISTING MEMBER-FESTIVAL, NEW CONTACT EMAIL
2020 Aug 14 - 16 WHITE HORSE FOLK FESTIVAL www.WhiteHorseFolkFestival.co.uk — IMPORTANT NOTE: email is now whitehorsefolkfestival<at>gmail.com (and not whitehorsefest<at>btinternet.com as printed in January Folklife West
EXISTING MEMBER-FESTIVAL, DATE CHANGE
2020 Oct 16 - 18 PENTREFFEST AUTUMN FESTIVAL (not 23 - 25 as announced earlier) www.pentreffest.org.uk
We also welcome, for our Area News pages, Festival reports (up to 200 words).
WORKSHOPS, on www.folklife-directory.uk/workshops.html
DATE CHANGE
2020 Oct 16 - 18 PENTREFFEST AUTUMN FESTIVAL (not 23 - 25 as announced earlier) www.pentreffest.org.uk
Cymru / Wales, on website www.folklife.cymru
And now the good news! A dedicated WALES website!
We are very pleased to announce that our www.bywyd-gwerin.cymru website now can also be reached via www.folklife.cymru, and we have re-made this website as a copy of all Folklife info about Wales: Wales news pages, Wales Directory, Wales Folklife Traditions.
Ø DE-DDWYRAIN / SOUTH-EAST no changes this time
Ø DE-ORLLEWIN / SOUTH-WEST no changes this time
Ø Y CANOLBARTH / THE MIDLANDS - MID-WALES
WAS LISTED AS TBC, NOW CONFIRMED - VENUE:
3rd Mon Powys ABEREDW STEADY SESSION, SEVEN STARS www.tradartsupport.org.uk Louise Williams 01982 551116
Ø Y GOGLEDD / NORTH WALES
WAS LISTED AS TBC, NOW CONFIRMED - VENUES, all are: https://musicbars.co.uk Contact 01766 514 811
1st Sun Gwynedd PORTHMADOG THE SHIP INN LAZY DAYS SESSION (daytime)
3rd Sun Gwynedd MORFA BYCHAN TYDDEN LLWYN LAZY DAYS SESSION (daytime in summer)
1st Tue Gwynedd CRICCIETH THE PRINCE: THE TRAVELLING SESSION
2nd Tue Gwynedd PORTHMADOG THE SHIP INN: THE TRAVELLING SESSION
3rd Tue Gwynedd PORTHMADOG THE QUEENS: THE TRAVELLING SESSION
4th Tue Gwynedd PORTHMADOG THE SHIP INN: THE TRAVELLING SESSION
5th Tue Gwynedd PORTHMADOG Venue see website THE TRAVELLING SESSION
England, on regional webpages as below
Cornwall & Devon, on www.folklife-directory.uk/kernow-devon.html
EXISTING MEMBER, NEW SESSION
1st Thu, 12 noon Devon MORCHARD BISHOP LONDON INN SONG/MUSIC SESSION Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Jon 01363 83740
Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire (inc. BANES & N.Somerset, & Swindon),
on www.folklife-directory.uk/som-dor-wilts.html
Pf.1b Folk Music & Song - Duo EXISTING MEMBER, NEW LISTING
Wilts BOB & GILL BERRY www.bobandgillberry.co.uk Bob Berry 07714 550990
Bristol, S. Glos, Glos, on www.folklife-directory.uk/bristol-glos.html
EXISTING MEMBER, EARLIER START TIME, ADDITIONAL CONTACT
2nd, 4th Sun Glos CHELTENHAM CHELTENHAM FOLK CLUB www.cheltenhamfc.org.uk Chris Beaumont 01242 571185
Tunes now from 7.45pm; club now starting at 8pm.
2nd contact: Judith 01242 577506. Do join our mailing list — just email machteltje<at>gmail.com
EXISTING MEMBER, NEW WEBSITE
1st Tue Glos WINCHCOMBE WINCHCOMBE FOLK SONG NIGHT
www.facebook.com/Winchcombefolkclu/ Chris Carruthers 01242 602236
Herefs & Worcs, on www.folklife-directory.uk/herefs-worcs.html
NEW MEMBER
Weekly Thu Herefs MUCH DEWCHURCH BLACK SWAN SESSION [no pub or session website] Bob Chance 01981 540725
EXISTING MEMBER
1st Thu daytime Worcs REDDITCH [was listed as "MOUNTAIN DULCIMER MEET"], now listed as "MOUNTAIN DULCIMER Practice Sessions" https://dulcimer.org.uk Sally Whytehead 01527 64229
The 2nd-Tues Malvern Singaround has closed for now, but may re-open on a different date - (check the Directory, inbetween these Updates)
Pf.1a Folk Music & Song - Bands / Groups BAND NAME CHANGE
Worcs THE MALVERN SUPALELE STRING BAND www.jillpeertreatments.com Jill Peer 07754 950939, this was The Malvern Ukulele String Band. All other details the same.
Pf.1a Folk Music & Song - Bands / Groups NEW MEMBER
Worcs ONEACHORD www.oneachord.co.uk Peter Warner 07811 953480
Pf.1b Folk Music & Song - Duos NEW MEMBER
Worcs DIMINISHEDACHORD www.oneachord.co.uk Peter Warner 07811 953480
Pf.1c Folk Music & Song - Solo NEW MEMBER
Herefs DENNIS HOMES www.dennishomes.net Dennis Homes 07712 565 590
Pf.1c Folk Music & Song - Solo NEW MEMBER
Herefs TOM HUGHES www.tomhughesmusic.co.uk Tom Hughes
Pf.1d CHOIRS & QUIRES NEW MEMBER
Herefs MORDIFORD COMMUNITY CHOIR www.mordifordchoir.co.uk/ Tom Hughes
Pf.2c Ceremonial & Dance Display (including Clog, Morris, Sword) EXISTING MEMBER, NEW LISTING
Herefs LEDBURY MORRIS https://p.facebook.com/Ledbury-Morris-1846257259000470/ Ceri James 07870 382678
List 3: Folk Media --- M.4 Publishers (Music & Print) NEW MEMBER
Herefs TOM HUGHES MUSIC www.tomhughesmusic.co.uk Tom Hughes
Central Midlands, on www.folklife-directory.uk/central-midlands.html
Shropshire; West Midlands county + Staffs; Warks, Coventry, Oxfordshire
EXISTING MEMBER 2nd, 4th Thu Warks STUDLEY [was listed as "HAMMERED DULCIMER MEET"], now listed as "Make & Play HAMMERED DULCIMER Practice Nights" https://dulcimer.org.uk Sally Whytehead 01527 64229
Pf.1a Folk Music & Song - Bands / Groups EXISTING MEMBER, NEW WEBSITE
Warks NUNC/DRUNKMONKEY https://blackparrotseaside.weebly.com/nunc--druncmonkey.html Geoff Veasey
Pf.2b Folk Dance Bands NEW MEMBER
Oxon RANDOM CEILIDH BAND www.random-band.co.uk Contact 07733 084 184
M.1 ONLINE FOLK MAGAZINES & LISTINGS, existing member, additional listings
Warks & nearby COTSWOLD FOLK listings www.cotswoldfolk.co.uk Paul Bryan 07711 121210
Warks & nearby SHIFTING SUNDAY SESSIONS listings https://sessionfolk.blogspot.com Paul Bryan 07711 121210
Other Areas UK (+ national Agencies), on www.folklife-directory.uk/other.html
All below: existing member, additional listings:
Jacey Bedford Tour Management (Booking Agency) www.jacey-bedford.com. Jacey Bedford 01484 606230
Pf.1b Folk Music & Song - Duo
Agency UK IDIOT AND FRIEND (Les Barker & Keith Donnelly)
Agency UK QUICKSILVER (Hilary Spencer & Grant Baynham)
Pf.1c Folk Music & Song - Solo
Agency UK LES BARKER
FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS DIRECTORY, on www.folklife-traditions.uk
Folklife West Correction: Folklife Traditions pages, Jan 2020. Article/tune Y Ferch o Blwy Penderyn. I left out the credit: Translation by Caroline Yeates. My apologies.
That’s all, folks!
Best wishes, Sam and Eleanor
Sam & Eleanor Simmons, 01684 561378, for the Folklife volunteers.
Summary below - for detailed Listings, see area webpages weblinks listed below !
FESTIVALS, WORKSHOPS, then AREA WEBPAGES (Venues, Performers, Media, Services)
Festival Diary & Workshop Diary webpages
FESTIVALS’ DIARY, on www.folklife-directory.uk/festivals.html
Member-festivals: we welcome your listings & updates for the next 12 months
NEW MEMBER-FESTIVAL
2020 Aug 13 - 16 SALTBURN FOLK FESTIVAL www.saltburnfolkfestival.com
EXISTING MEMBER-FESTIVAL, NEW CONTACT EMAIL
2020 Aug 14 - 16 WHITE HORSE FOLK FESTIVAL www.WhiteHorseFolkFestival.co.uk — IMPORTANT NOTE: email is now whitehorsefolkfestival<at>gmail.com (and not whitehorsefest<at>btinternet.com as printed in January Folklife West
EXISTING MEMBER-FESTIVAL, DATE CHANGE
2020 Oct 16 - 18 PENTREFFEST AUTUMN FESTIVAL (not 23 - 25 as announced earlier) www.pentreffest.org.uk
We also welcome, for our Area News pages, Festival reports (up to 200 words).
WORKSHOPS, on www.folklife-directory.uk/workshops.html
DATE CHANGE
2020 Oct 16 - 18 PENTREFFEST AUTUMN FESTIVAL (not 23 - 25 as announced earlier) www.pentreffest.org.uk
Cymru / Wales, on website www.folklife.cymru
And now the good news! A dedicated WALES website!
We are very pleased to announce that our www.bywyd-gwerin.cymru website now can also be reached via www.folklife.cymru, and we have re-made this website as a copy of all Folklife info about Wales: Wales news pages, Wales Directory, Wales Folklife Traditions.
Ø DE-DDWYRAIN / SOUTH-EAST no changes this time
Ø DE-ORLLEWIN / SOUTH-WEST no changes this time
Ø Y CANOLBARTH / THE MIDLANDS - MID-WALES
WAS LISTED AS TBC, NOW CONFIRMED - VENUE:
3rd Mon Powys ABEREDW STEADY SESSION, SEVEN STARS www.tradartsupport.org.uk Louise Williams 01982 551116
Ø Y GOGLEDD / NORTH WALES
WAS LISTED AS TBC, NOW CONFIRMED - VENUES, all are: https://musicbars.co.uk Contact 01766 514 811
1st Sun Gwynedd PORTHMADOG THE SHIP INN LAZY DAYS SESSION (daytime)
3rd Sun Gwynedd MORFA BYCHAN TYDDEN LLWYN LAZY DAYS SESSION (daytime in summer)
1st Tue Gwynedd CRICCIETH THE PRINCE: THE TRAVELLING SESSION
2nd Tue Gwynedd PORTHMADOG THE SHIP INN: THE TRAVELLING SESSION
3rd Tue Gwynedd PORTHMADOG THE QUEENS: THE TRAVELLING SESSION
4th Tue Gwynedd PORTHMADOG THE SHIP INN: THE TRAVELLING SESSION
5th Tue Gwynedd PORTHMADOG Venue see website THE TRAVELLING SESSION
England, on regional webpages as below
Cornwall & Devon, on www.folklife-directory.uk/kernow-devon.html
EXISTING MEMBER, NEW SESSION
1st Thu, 12 noon Devon MORCHARD BISHOP LONDON INN SONG/MUSIC SESSION Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround Jon 01363 83740
Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire (inc. BANES & N.Somerset, & Swindon),
on www.folklife-directory.uk/som-dor-wilts.html
Pf.1b Folk Music & Song - Duo EXISTING MEMBER, NEW LISTING
Wilts BOB & GILL BERRY www.bobandgillberry.co.uk Bob Berry 07714 550990
Bristol, S. Glos, Glos, on www.folklife-directory.uk/bristol-glos.html
EXISTING MEMBER, EARLIER START TIME, ADDITIONAL CONTACT
2nd, 4th Sun Glos CHELTENHAM CHELTENHAM FOLK CLUB www.cheltenhamfc.org.uk Chris Beaumont 01242 571185
Tunes now from 7.45pm; club now starting at 8pm.
2nd contact: Judith 01242 577506. Do join our mailing list — just email machteltje<at>gmail.com
EXISTING MEMBER, NEW WEBSITE
1st Tue Glos WINCHCOMBE WINCHCOMBE FOLK SONG NIGHT
www.facebook.com/Winchcombefolkclu/ Chris Carruthers 01242 602236
Herefs & Worcs, on www.folklife-directory.uk/herefs-worcs.html
NEW MEMBER
Weekly Thu Herefs MUCH DEWCHURCH BLACK SWAN SESSION [no pub or session website] Bob Chance 01981 540725
EXISTING MEMBER
1st Thu daytime Worcs REDDITCH [was listed as "MOUNTAIN DULCIMER MEET"], now listed as "MOUNTAIN DULCIMER Practice Sessions" https://dulcimer.org.uk Sally Whytehead 01527 64229
The 2nd-Tues Malvern Singaround has closed for now, but may re-open on a different date - (check the Directory, inbetween these Updates)
Pf.1a Folk Music & Song - Bands / Groups BAND NAME CHANGE
Worcs THE MALVERN SUPALELE STRING BAND www.jillpeertreatments.com Jill Peer 07754 950939, this was The Malvern Ukulele String Band. All other details the same.
Pf.1a Folk Music & Song - Bands / Groups NEW MEMBER
Worcs ONEACHORD www.oneachord.co.uk Peter Warner 07811 953480
Pf.1b Folk Music & Song - Duos NEW MEMBER
Worcs DIMINISHEDACHORD www.oneachord.co.uk Peter Warner 07811 953480
Pf.1c Folk Music & Song - Solo NEW MEMBER
Herefs DENNIS HOMES www.dennishomes.net Dennis Homes 07712 565 590
Pf.1c Folk Music & Song - Solo NEW MEMBER
Herefs TOM HUGHES www.tomhughesmusic.co.uk Tom Hughes
Pf.1d CHOIRS & QUIRES NEW MEMBER
Herefs MORDIFORD COMMUNITY CHOIR www.mordifordchoir.co.uk/ Tom Hughes
Pf.2c Ceremonial & Dance Display (including Clog, Morris, Sword) EXISTING MEMBER, NEW LISTING
Herefs LEDBURY MORRIS https://p.facebook.com/Ledbury-Morris-1846257259000470/ Ceri James 07870 382678
List 3: Folk Media --- M.4 Publishers (Music & Print) NEW MEMBER
Herefs TOM HUGHES MUSIC www.tomhughesmusic.co.uk Tom Hughes
Central Midlands, on www.folklife-directory.uk/central-midlands.html
Shropshire; West Midlands county + Staffs; Warks, Coventry, Oxfordshire
EXISTING MEMBER 2nd, 4th Thu Warks STUDLEY [was listed as "HAMMERED DULCIMER MEET"], now listed as "Make & Play HAMMERED DULCIMER Practice Nights" https://dulcimer.org.uk Sally Whytehead 01527 64229
Pf.1a Folk Music & Song - Bands / Groups EXISTING MEMBER, NEW WEBSITE
Warks NUNC/DRUNKMONKEY https://blackparrotseaside.weebly.com/nunc--druncmonkey.html Geoff Veasey
Pf.2b Folk Dance Bands NEW MEMBER
Oxon RANDOM CEILIDH BAND www.random-band.co.uk Contact 07733 084 184
M.1 ONLINE FOLK MAGAZINES & LISTINGS, existing member, additional listings
Warks & nearby COTSWOLD FOLK listings www.cotswoldfolk.co.uk Paul Bryan 07711 121210
Warks & nearby SHIFTING SUNDAY SESSIONS listings https://sessionfolk.blogspot.com Paul Bryan 07711 121210
Other Areas UK (+ national Agencies), on www.folklife-directory.uk/other.html
All below: existing member, additional listings:
Jacey Bedford Tour Management (Booking Agency) www.jacey-bedford.com. Jacey Bedford 01484 606230
Pf.1b Folk Music & Song - Duo
Agency UK IDIOT AND FRIEND (Les Barker & Keith Donnelly)
Agency UK QUICKSILVER (Hilary Spencer & Grant Baynham)
Pf.1c Folk Music & Song - Solo
Agency UK LES BARKER
FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS DIRECTORY, on www.folklife-traditions.uk
Folklife West Correction: Folklife Traditions pages, Jan 2020. Article/tune Y Ferch o Blwy Penderyn. I left out the credit: Translation by Caroline Yeates. My apologies.
That’s all, folks!
Best wishes, Sam and Eleanor
Sam & Eleanor Simmons, 01684 561378, for the Folklife volunteers.
SPECIAL NEWSLETTER —. New website and email !
Please note new website & email, www.folklife.uk, sam@folklife.uk, if you use old website / old email, for a while they will be redirected to new website / email.
My apologies for occasionally-disappearing websites, and delays in answering emails.
What happened: when .uk became available, I wanted to make everything .uk (instead of .org.uk & .co.uk).
So, Mid-January, I copied our existing www.folklife.org.uk to a new site www.folklife.uk, just to test, for a changeover to be announced in May Folklife....
But .... problems with websites provider (Weebly). Great websites, but poor service. No reply to emails. California office hours for their ‘instant’ chat lines — and up to 20 minutes wait to connect! And then I had to explain from the start, every time. Meanwhile, website not available!
..... in the end, it was simpler to set up the new site. Bodmin-based WebMate who hold our domains (the www addresses) were brilliant, suggesting workarounds, arranging automatic redirect to new site, etc.
So: our website is now www.folklife.uk ~ if you type in www.folklife.org.uk as before, it will automatically re-direct to new site.
Our Directory site, www.folklife-directory.uk, no change.
Our Folklife Traditions pages (articles etc) site, www.folklife-traditions.uk, no change
(but has been upgraded, as previously occasionally did not respond).
Well! All sorted out, in the end!
Sam
Please note new website & email, www.folklife.uk, sam@folklife.uk, if you use old website / old email, for a while they will be redirected to new website / email.
My apologies for occasionally-disappearing websites, and delays in answering emails.
What happened: when .uk became available, I wanted to make everything .uk (instead of .org.uk & .co.uk).
So, Mid-January, I copied our existing www.folklife.org.uk to a new site www.folklife.uk, just to test, for a changeover to be announced in May Folklife....
But .... problems with websites provider (Weebly). Great websites, but poor service. No reply to emails. California office hours for their ‘instant’ chat lines — and up to 20 minutes wait to connect! And then I had to explain from the start, every time. Meanwhile, website not available!
..... in the end, it was simpler to set up the new site. Bodmin-based WebMate who hold our domains (the www addresses) were brilliant, suggesting workarounds, arranging automatic redirect to new site, etc.
So: our website is now www.folklife.uk ~ if you type in www.folklife.org.uk as before, it will automatically re-direct to new site.
Our Directory site, www.folklife-directory.uk, no change.
Our Folklife Traditions pages (articles etc) site, www.folklife-traditions.uk, no change
(but has been upgraded, as previously occasionally did not respond).
Well! All sorted out, in the end!
Sam