Update Drafts ~ for Updates page ~Keeping Folk In Touch
www.folklife.uk/updates-drafts for news & listings
(1) Journal, (2) Directory, (3) Folk News (a) from Folklife members, & (b) from International non-members
a "Work in progress" page -- to be confirmed, or to be edited by us. These are only drafts (eg listings suggested by us, on basis of websites).
For your information, believed to be correct, but wording may change. Not confirmed until moved to Your Updates page!
Draft listings are for the benefit of those wanting to be listed, so they can see how they look.
Typically, I'll copy an unrelated entry & then overwrite that. This may be typed up live, so change line by line, as typed!
Updates are emailed roughly every 2 weeks
For more details of 🄵 Folklife members (UK & International), Ø Associate members, see Folklife West.
We also list in Directory, free, 🅄 other UK Updates-signups, 🄹 Folklife Traditions Journal other subscribers/contributors. ØØ International Updates-signups who aren't Members can send Updates news but not included in Folklife West.
We also list in Directory, free, 🅄 other UK Updates-signups, 🄹 Folklife Traditions Journal other subscribers/contributors. ØØ International Updates-signups who aren't Members can send Updates news but not included in Folklife West.
Mainly Wales, West Country & West Midlands; but all areas, UK and International, are most welcome!
- Updates (1) Folklife Traditions Journal magazine ~ researched articles. Updates news from organisations & researchers.
- Updates (2) Folklife's online Directory ~ Venues, Performers, Services ~ free entries, open to all, no deadlines, send any time.
- Updates (3) Folklife West magazine ~ Folk News from our Members, & world readers on our "Updates" email list.
- most (1) Journal updates, and (2) news updates, go straight to Updates, without drafts below
Your Updates: please send email text (no attachments, no pdf, jpg, etc)
Simply EMAIL TEXT with SUBJECT: "Journal or Directory or Folk News Updates ". (And as we said, no attachments please).
- "Journal Updates" for Journal (researched articles). Open to all. Societies, researchers; book publishers. Up to 200 words.
- "Directory Updates" ~ Venues, Performers, Media, Services. Open to all, free entries, see Get listed! page
- "Folk News Updates" ~ only Folklife Members (Membership details foot of page) or all overseas readers (= non-UK/Ireland). For each folk news item (club, session, act, festival), title; contact, websites, media; + up to 160 words.
(1) Folklife Traditions Journal: Updates
Traditional Song Forum & other research news is usually copied straight to Updates page
(2) Online Directory: Updates
DIRECTORY ~ Venues
Venues ~ UK
→ [venue & times] (for venues only - clubs, sessions, concert series, etc)
⇒ [contact, social media]
⊕ [more details section: up to 40 words] LOCAL MEDIA (LISTINGS & MAGAZINES) are under their area in Venue listings
Cymru - South-East
🄵 Monday, 2nd, weekly Caerphilly BARGOED FOLK AND ACOUSTIC MUSIC CLUB venue website www.facebook.com/bourtonsbar/
→ Bourtons Live Music Café Bar ,15 High Street , Bargoed, CF81 8RA Open from 7pm, club gets underway at 8pm. Food served until 9pm (no entry after 9pm).
⇒ Greg & Lindsay Rowlands. Venue phone 07547 356595, venue email bourtonsbar<at>gmail.com.
⊕ An evening of strictly unplugged acoustic singaround, come along and perform, or just have a listen and enjoy some food and drink in a relaxed and musician-focused atmosphere. [Sept 2025, new listing]
→ Bourtons Live Music Café Bar ,15 High Street , Bargoed, CF81 8RA Open from 7pm, club gets underway at 8pm. Food served until 9pm (no entry after 9pm).
⇒ Greg & Lindsay Rowlands. Venue phone 07547 356595, venue email bourtonsbar<at>gmail.com.
⊕ An evening of strictly unplugged acoustic singaround, come along and perform, or just have a listen and enjoy some food and drink in a relaxed and musician-focused atmosphere. [Sept 2025, new listing]
West Midlands - Worcs
🄵 Wednesday, 1st & 3rd Worcs MALVERN MALVERN CUBE SINGS! www.malverncube.com/malvern-cube-sings/
→ In the theatre at Malvern Cube (01684 575 363, 07483 411620), Albert Road North, Malvern, WR14 2YF. 7.00 p.m. until 8.30 p.m.
→ In the theatre at Malvern Cube (01684 575 363, 07483 411620), Albert Road North, Malvern, WR14 2YF. 7.00 p.m. until 8.30 p.m.
⇒ ? Liz Dilnot-Johnson liz<at>lizdilnotjohnson.co.uk
and/or ? Ann-Lill MacLusky Alnmaclusky<at>yahoo.com 01684 575363
⊕ Community singing group. Very friendly, social, no need to read music. World/folk music, shanties, rounds, warm ups, all taught by ear. Mixed ages and genders. Led by Liz Dilnot-Johnson – experienced in teaching all. £5 per session, see details on website.
West Midlands - Worcs
🄵 Tuesday, 3rd Worcs BROMSGROVE BLACKWELL CLUB: FOLK SESSION Blackwell Club's website: https://blackwellclub.co.uk
→ Blackwell Club, 84 Linthurst Newtown, Blackwell, Bromsgrove B60 1BS (wheelchair access ramp to the rear door). 8pm to 11pm.
→ Blackwell Club, 84 Linthurst Newtown, Blackwell, Bromsgrove B60 1BS (wheelchair access ramp to the rear door). 8pm to 11pm.
⇒ John Yair, email johnyair<at>ymail.com
⊕ [THEN UP TO 40 WORDS - BELOW IS 38 WORDS]
From Irish, Scottish, English and French Dance Music to unaccompanied singing, shanties etc including American, both ancient and modern. The main thing is we have fun!!! The Club is very comfortable and welcoming. The beer is always good!
DIRECTORY ~ Performers
For PERFORMERS, list order is by category, then by county, and then by first name.
Pf.1 Folk Music & Song ~ Pf.1a Music/Song - Bands/Groups (incl. Choirs, Quires, Community Bands), Pf.1b Duos, Pf.1c Solo, Pf.1d Shanty
Pf.2 Folk Dance ~ Pf.2a Folk Dance Callers, Pf.2b Folk Dance Bands, Pf.2c Ceremonial & Display (Clog, Morris, Sword)
Pf.3 Spoken Word ~ Pf.3a Folk Shows, Theatre, Mummers, Pf.3b Poetry & Monologuists, Pf.3c Storytellers
Pf.4 Workshop-Providers. Folklife Members' current workshops listed in 🄵🅆 Festivals & Workshops Diary www.folklife.uk/festivals
Pf.1 Folk Music & Song ~ Pf.1a Music/Song - Bands/Groups (incl. Choirs, Quires, Community Bands), Pf.1b Duos, Pf.1c Solo, Pf.1d Shanty
Pf.2 Folk Dance ~ Pf.2a Folk Dance Callers, Pf.2b Folk Dance Bands, Pf.2c Ceremonial & Display (Clog, Morris, Sword)
Pf.3 Spoken Word ~ Pf.3a Folk Shows, Theatre, Mummers, Pf.3b Poetry & Monologuists, Pf.3c Storytellers
Pf.4 Workshop-Providers. Folklife Members' current workshops listed in 🄵🅆 Festivals & Workshops Diary www.folklife.uk/festivals
Perfformwyr: Cymru • Performers: Wales
Pf.1 CERDDORIAETH A CHÂN
Pf.1c Unawd.
🄵 Ceredigion CYNEFIN: OWEN SHIERS https://cynefinmusic.wales/cy/home-page-2
⇒ Owen Shiers, owen<at>gemtone.co.uk, 07842 983735, https://www.facebook.com/cynefinmusic, https://www.instagram.com/cynefinmusic/, https://twitter.com/CynefinMusic
⇒ Owen Shiers, owen<at>gemtone.co.uk, 07842 983735, https://www.facebook.com/cynefinmusic, https://www.instagram.com/cynefinmusic/, https://twitter.com/CynefinMusic
⊕ Yn blentyn ymennydd y brodor o Orllewin Cymru Owen Shiers, mae’r Cynefin hwn yn brosiect mapio cerddorol sy’n olrhain llinell o’r gorffennol i’r presennol – gan ddechrau yn Nyffryn Clettwr lle magwyd Owen, ymgolli yng ngherddoriaeth Cymru.
Pf.1 FOLK MUSIC & SONG
Pf.1c. Solo
🄵 Ceredigion CYNEFIN: OWEN SHIERS https://cynefinmusic.wales/en/home-page
⇒ Owen Shiers, owen<at>gemtone.co.uk, 07842 983735, https://www.facebook.com/cynefinmusic, https://www.instagram.com/cynefinmusic/, https://twitter.com/CynefinMusic
🄵 Ceredigion CYNEFIN: OWEN SHIERS https://cynefinmusic.wales/en/home-page
⇒ Owen Shiers, owen<at>gemtone.co.uk, 07842 983735, https://www.facebook.com/cynefinmusic, https://www.instagram.com/cynefinmusic/, https://twitter.com/CynefinMusic
⊕ [then up to 40 words - this is 38 ]
The brain-child of West Wales native Owen Shiers, this Cynefin § is a musical mapping project which traces a line from the past to the present – starting in the Clettwr Valley where Owen grew up, immersed in Welsh music.
§ Cynefin, 'kuh-neh-vin', a Welsh word with no direct equivalent in English, is a journey to discover. Often translated into English as ‘habitat’, but more than a place in a physical or geographical sense; it's a historic, cultural and social place which has shaped and continues to shape the community which inhabits it. The word has been included as a core concept within the Schools Curriculum for Wales. Originally, it meant a habitual sheep-track. ~ Editor.
Pf.1 FOLK MUSIC & SONG
Pf.1c. Solo
🅄 Caerphilly GREG ROWLANDS www.facebook.com/GregFolkRowlands
⇒ Greg Rowlands, email gregfolkrowlands<at>gmail.com
⊕ One of South Wales' most "revered and well loved" musicians; "He conveys the songwriters' art with empathetic understanding." - Folk Wales magazine. Greg plays folk clubs and concert halls, raising the temperature with a voice that echoes to the rafters [Sept 2025, new listing]
Pf.1c. Solo
🅄 Caerphilly GREG ROWLANDS www.facebook.com/GregFolkRowlands
⇒ Greg Rowlands, email gregfolkrowlands<at>gmail.com
⊕ One of South Wales' most "revered and well loved" musicians; "He conveys the songwriters' art with empathetic understanding." - Folk Wales magazine. Greg plays folk clubs and concert halls, raising the temperature with a voice that echoes to the rafters [Sept 2025, new listing]
DIRECTORY ~ Services; Media
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NEWS draft
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