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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
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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.
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"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)
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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
🄵🄳 Folklife's online DIRECTORY
free entries for all ! forms on website pages www.folklife-directory.uk
free entries for all ! forms on website pages www.folklife-directory.uk
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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🄵🅃🄹 Folklife Traditions Journal, www.folklife-traditions.uk
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- Researched articles + archive, new, on a separate website. Folk studies and cultural traditions.
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⎈ 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, and non-UK organised) 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).
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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
"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).
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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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🄵🅆 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
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.
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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🄵🅆 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 WEST, FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS JOURNAL, print magazines, and copied online ● 1 MAY (May, Jun, Jul, Aug), DEADLINE 20 MAR.
CHANGES TO AD RATE & MEMBERSHIP RATES AD RATES - the cheaper "prepaid" rates will now apply (and not "invoiced rate", £2 more), for BACS & cheque.
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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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🄵🅆 Festivals, Workshops Diary
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 --
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Updates sent 27 Feb 2023 |
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]
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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
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‡‡ 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]
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🄵 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]
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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]
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
------------ Warks -------------
🄵 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.
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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
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7 November Newsletter
Updates since 20 Sep 2022 Newsletter |
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
-------------- North of England: THURSDAY -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
‡ 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)
-------------- North of England: FRIDAY -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
🄵 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
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20 September 2022 Newsletter
updates since 1 Sep 2022 magazine ----- and ----- some updates since July print deadline |
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
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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
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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.
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.
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from: 7 July 2022 Newsletter
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🄵🄳 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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🄵🅃🄹 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.
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from: 26 June 2022 Newsletter,
& revised with LT Aug/Sep issue details. |
🄵🅆 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
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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 |
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updates since 19 July 2022 Newsletter
Newsletter is sent as a plain-text email, whilst this is set out as a webpage. |
🄵🄳 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.
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⎈ 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. |
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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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19 July 2022 Newsletter
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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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7 July 2022 Newsletter
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🄵🅃🄹 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
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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.