Photo: Upton Folk Festival, © Colin Davies
🄵🅆 Festivals & Workshops Diary 12 months from Sep 2026
Free Diary entry for Folklife Members, & colour advertisers
The prepaid PDF of this issue includes this Diary's pages as printed.
Images of A4-size pages may appear too small in phones. However, they'll give you a general idea (& you can always buy FW as a pdf or in print!)...To avoid email spam-harvesting, we don't make emails live - other than our own email - and we put <at> for @
PAGE ORDER - mostly as print magazine, except that some cover adverts are placed before appropriate Diary pages
★★★ A NOTE for ADVERTISERS ★★★
Our main festivals issue is May ~ costs on "INFO" page. Festival & workshop advertisers also receive a free listing in our Festival Diary
May 2026 festival & workshops advertisers were:
- Colour. A4: Chippenham FF, New Forest FF, Shrewsbury FF. 1/2: Warwick FF, Broadstairs Folk Week, Sidmouth FF, Cornwall FF. 1/4: Bromyard FF.
- Mono. 1/4: Halsway Manor courses/workshops. 1/8: White Horse FF.
- You can view May 2026 Festival adverts by downloading “Folklife's Adverts”, No. 82 (May 2026), A4-download.pdf
- For smaller festivals - just £9 a year Folklife PDF membership covers 3 issues to list your festival, see listings below.
READ FOLKLIFE WEST (44 pages):
• ONLINE here, free. Members' higher quality images as paid-for PDF.
• In PRINT, £4 (at clubs)
ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP : 6 magazines ~ 3 Folklife Wests, 3 Journals.
• As PDFs, £9, with password to download from Prepaid PDF page.
• In PRINT, posted £25 (UK only) includes PDF downloads.
Payments details Info page. Photo: Eisteddfod, © Trac Cymru
Folklife West: members' new news items; new advertisers
• Any new member is welcome to send in up to 150 words news/dates to be added to this webpage
-- so we'll insert below, between existing print pages, before September issue; likewise for any new advertiser
Meanwhile NEW for May issue
- in Workshops we've added GOUDHURST u3a COUNTRY DANCE TUNES GROUP 🄵,
- and in Festival Diary we've added June 19 -21, WEST SOMERSET FOLK FESTIVAL 🄵
- Aug 28 - 31, SHREWSBURY FOLK FESTIVAL (also new advertiser)
- Sep 11 - 13, SOUTHDOWNS MUSIC FESTIVAL 🄵
- 2026 Sept 18 - 20, CRANTOCK FREE MUSIC FESTIVAL
- 2026 Sept 18 - 20, COMPASS FOLK FESTIVAL
- 2026 Oct 17 (Sat), APPLE DAY AT THE FOLK OF GLOUCESTER 🄵
- 2027 Jan 16 , WASSAIL AT THE FOLK OF GLOUCESTER 🄵
24/8/2026 LATE-AUGUST FESTIVALS, ads & diary, from May issue ~ to be deleted in September (pink background pages)
Followed by the September issue of Folklife West (dark red background pages)
Below: the September issue
Also on this site ~ Updates; (FW, Journal, Directory); online Directory (free entry), Info (membership, sales discounts, ads)
Keeping Folk In Touch: see UPDATES webpage includes our free "Updates" email list (2-weekly) covering all our publications
Dyna ni ~ That's All, Folks!
Your LISTINGS FORM for FESTIVALS & WORKSHOPS 12-month DIARY
please use laptop/desktop to complete, rather than phone
-- OR -- send the same information by email
-- OR --- ask me to make up from website (may take longer to be published)
***** Whichever is easiest for you! *****
FESTIVALS & WORKSHOPS 12-month DIARY, from Folklife Members, & advertisers
In print, & copied as above from Folklife Members, & advertisers
Diary's layout
- Date ~ FESTIVAL or WORKSHOP NAME ~ webpage (social media if no website)
- → VENUE
- ⌂ CONTACT
- ⊕ MORE DETAILS
To be listed here: free listing for Folklife Members* , and free listing for display advertisers if 1/4 or bigger advert
* Membership: only £9/year including PDF magazines to download from our website, or £25 UK posted magazines + PDFs/
* Membership: only £9/year including PDF magazines to download from our website, or £25 UK posted magazines + PDFs/
NOTE: forms set up 3/2026. Tested extensively, worked fine,
but 1 person has said that "I pressed submit & nothing happens". Perhaps some browsers are not ok with these forms?
If that happens, please let me know, sam@folklife.uk, and simply paste from failed form into an email.
If that happens, please let me know, sam@folklife.uk, and simply paste from failed form into an email.
YOU - Entering a Ref. Nº: to deter spambots, as well as to help organising data.
If Member or on our Updates emails list: Ref. Nº at foot of your Updates emails (for members, same as Mem.Nº on invoices etc)
If Member or on our Updates emails list: Ref. Nº at foot of your Updates emails (for members, same as Mem.Nº on invoices etc)
Otherwise simply enter: 1000.
