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FW pages
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🄵🅆 ​magazine

East Midlands & East

Folklife members' folk news

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Midlands news from Folklife Members:  free PDF of printed pages 
(as copied below) - download free
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Read together with UPDATES, see webpage button--->

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UPDATES webpage
NEWS PAGES below cover:  --- ➀ Venues  --- ➁ Performers   --- ➂ Media   --- ➃ Services  --- ➄  Workshops Providers
    --- for ➅  Members' Festivals & Workshops, adverts and fully-detailed diary listings  - see our Festival & Workshop webpage
    --- for ➆ Folklife Societies, ➇ Folklife Studies & Institutions, ➈ Seasonal Celebrations - see our Folklife Traditions website

Always glad to hear from enthusiasts who'd like to join us at Folklife magazine (3 per year), for your Folklife members' news.
Annual Membership is £18 a year, for posted UK, or for PDF via WeTransfer worldwide, see Info webpage  or contact sam@folklife.uk
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Keep in touch with our free emailed occasional Updates
  • Updates: News, Directory, Folklife Traditions (& deadline reminders!) 
  • 6 to 12 a year, you'll get information updates, -- and reminders to check your details haven't changed, thus we keep details up-to-date.
  • What do Updates look like?  See recent ones on Updates webpage
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And also from Folklife West publishers:--

our online   folklife-directory.uk -- free entries for all!

That Directory website has Venues, Performers, Media, Services, Workshop Providers
Details + up to 40 words description --- no dates on Directory website ​
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Steve Turner                            Turner Violins, Beeston, Nottingham

Page Header:   Black Diamond Folk Club: 50th Birthday celebrations:                
                       John Crane in front of backdrop he created.  
                       Photo © Derek Catley, 2014.    
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Correspondents                                          

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Bob Bignell,  
Bromsgove Folk Club
​& Festival,
our Correspondent for  
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South Birmingham & Nearby
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Malc Gurnham,  ​
​Bedworth Folk Club,
​our Correspondent for
Warwickshire with Coventry
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Centre: Paul Bryan, Cotswold Folk column (S. Warks;)  ​& Bagman, ​The Traditional Ilmington Morris Men; & Sunday Sessions
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Print Deadlines

☞    ●   1 Jan :  20 Nov 
☞    ●   1 May :  20 Mar
☞    ●   1 Sep :  
20 Jul
● we're a non-profit group; to continue, we need your support, by membership or advertising - details below

Members' folk news, Midlands
Currently we have news from folk enthusiasts in
• Herefs • Worcs • Staffs • West Midlands County• Warks with Coventry 
• Notts  
News from other Midlands areas welcome.

FW has around 60 pages, printed, A4-size
​FW has 3 sections: News & Listings, as this page; also Festival & Workshop Diary, and Folklife Traditions Journal.
As much as possible - but not everything - will be copied online. It is a print magazine and it's not possible to exactly reproduce it online.      Roughly 2/3rds - the area News pages - is on this site.
FW is available by post from Folklife and at
  • Black Diamond Folk Song Club, Birmingham
  • Hobgoblin Music, Birmingham
  • Bedworth Folk Club, Warwickshire
FW is available in Worcs at
  • Somers Traditional Folk Club (Worcester)
  • Bromsgrove Folk Club
  • Rushwick Folk Club
  • ​Folk at the Fold
FW  is available in Herefs at
  • Folk Night at the Crown Inn, Longtown
  • Homend Poets & Musicians, Ledbury
  • (when I visit)  Roving Folk, Much Marcle ​​
and you? FW discounts are available for resellers (6 or more @ £2.40 for £3 each) - see Info page
Library Reference copy:
  • Library of Birmingham's Music Library
  • Solihull Central Library
  • Coventry Central Library
  • Nuneaton Music & Drama Library. Warks
  • Hereford Library
  • Malvern Library
  • Worcester: St John's Library
  • Malvern Library
  • Worcester: The Hive (Level 3) Library
Info page (ad rates & membership)
"Folk What's On" (simply a leaflet made up of the ads from FW) ​ reference copies
  • Worcestershire Libraries:  Alvechurch, Bewdley, Broadway, Bromsgrove, Catshill Community, Droitwich Spa, Evesham, Hagley, Kidderminster, Martley, Pershore, Redditch, Rubery, Stourport on Severn, Tenbury Wells, Upton on Severn, Welland, Woodrow, Warndon, Wythall
"Folk What's On" (simply a leaflet made up of the ads from FW) ​free copies to concert venues & TICs
  • Bromyard TIC;  Worcester: TIC, and Huntingdon Hall;  Bretforton, The Fleece;  Upton: TIC.
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   If you find this free website useful . . .  as FW print magazine always makes a healthy loss . . .  plus, these free websites cost c.£300 a year . . . 
​​   you may wish to donate £3 very occasionally,     by clicking the yellow box (for our "Ko-fi" site) for a 1-off £3 card payment. Thank you!
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Folklife West 52-page print magazine, copied online *** Folk news on www.folklife.uk *** Researched articles on www.folklife-traditions.uk
If you can afford it, you may wish to support us, by a very occasional £3 donation, or buying a printed FW magazine, or a Pdf of FW, or by 
subscribing 

​–– Copied online - always free to view !     There's no obligation to buy magazines -- or to donate !
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Or CHEQUE to "Folklife",
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Or CARD - our payments site   
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---- Emailing PDF of current FW  
​--  £3
  Worldwide, via WeTransfer (sent as size A4 or US-letter)
​Link to card payment for PDF
ko-fi.com/s/8e92e77df9
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---- Posting the current FW 
     (UK, EU only)  
​     UK £6.  EU £9.

​Link to card payment 1 copy
ko-fi.com/s/42287c6234
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Annual Membership (3 issues) with
your news,

UK £18, EU £27.   Discounts for 2+.
​Link to card payment to subscribe
ko-fi.com/s/8624d72d04
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----  Adverts from 1/8 A4 mono to A4 colour
​Link to card payments for adverts
ko-fi.com/s/34cd1547ab
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  • 🄵🅆 News (by area)
    • 🄵🅆 Cymru
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    • 🄵🅆 Midlands
    • 🄵🅆 South-East
    • 🄵🅆 North
    • 🄵🅆 Alba
    • ⎈ International >
      • ⎈ International Archive
  • 🄵🅆 Festivals, Workshops
  • ⎈ Updates
  • ⎈ Send news
  • ⎈ Info
    • Data
    • Sizes
  • ⎈ Our other websites
    • Journal website
    • Directory website
    • Zoom / Virtual (Directory site)
    • Homend Poets