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ABOUT "Folklife". Publishers: print & online information. 3 publications --- 3 websites
• FOLKLIFE WEST (this site) • FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS JOURNAL • FOLKLIFE DIRECTORY. click to open (& close!)
• FOLKLIFE WEST (this site) • FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS JOURNAL • FOLKLIFE DIRECTORY. click to open (& close!)
2 print magazines, copied free online
① "FOLKLIFE WEST" print magazine, 52-60 A4 pages, 3/year, Posted UK £18, EU £27. Incl. Journal (also available separately).
● 1 JAN covering Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr. DEADLINE 20 NOV.
● 1 MAY covering May, Jun, Jul, Aug. DEADLINE 20 MAR.
● 1 SEP, covering Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec. DEADLINE 20 JULY.
② "FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS JOURNAL" print magazine, 10-20 A4 pages, 3/year, UK £9, EU £27, rest of world. See www.folklife-traditions.uk
① "FOLKLIFE WEST" print magazine, 52-60 A4 pages, 3/year, Posted UK £18, EU £27. Incl. Journal (also available separately).
● 1 JAN covering Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr. DEADLINE 20 NOV.
● 1 MAY covering May, Jun, Jul, Aug. DEADLINE 20 MAR.
● 1 SEP, covering Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec. DEADLINE 20 JULY.
② "FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS JOURNAL" print magazine, 10-20 A4 pages, 3/year, UK £9, EU £27, rest of world. See www.folklife-traditions.uk
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also ! a separate directory, online only
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Folklife's Directory on www.folklife-directory.uk Online-only, not part of magazine.
Free entries. Live & zoom. Details + up to 40 words description (no dates - no concerts, festivals) Simple text entries - no maps, pictures, etc. Send any time - no deadlines. Mostly Wales, West Country, West Midlands, but other welcome, incl. international. Your new & amended entries appear on the ⎈ Updates webpage & in our emailed Updates |
Folklife is a non-profit group, all of us are unpaid volunteers. Editors: Sam & Eleanor Simmons sam@folklife.uk
🄵🅆 News Webpages, and our Correspondents. FOLKLIFE WEST's main areas: Wales, West Midlands, West Country, but all areas welcome
🄵🅆 Cymru .... Tudalen Cymru / Wales page, Mick Tems. ....................................... N-E Wales & Cheshire, Brian Bull.
Gwynedd, Travelling Sessions list local sessions.
England 🄵🅆 West Country (S-W) Kernow (acting) David Harley; from May, Lamorna Spry. ............. Glos-based & Roving, Cresby aka Mr Red
🄵🅆 Midlands S. Birmingham & nearby, Bob Bignell. ....................... Warwickshire with Coventry, Malc Gurnham.
S.W. Herefs and nearby, John & Jane Baxter. ......... Cotswold Folk: S.Warks/N.Cotswolds + listings, Paul Bryan.
🄵🅆 South-East, London, East ................... Folk Arts Oxford website list: local folk
🄵🅆 North: North-West Cumbria & North Lancashire, Steve Harrison North-East Yorks & Humber
🄵🅆 Alba ⎈ International [online only] 🄵🅆 Festivals & Workshops Diary
Editors: Sam & Eleanor Simmons (Worcs). Editing Team: David Harley (Cornwall). Zoom, web advice: Paul Clarke (Southampton).
Illustrations & Logos: Chris Stewart (Worcs), John Crane (Wolverhampton), Chris Beaumont (Glos).
Photographs: Eden Tanner (Herefs), Colin Davies (Worcs). We thank our Team, we are all Volunteers --- more welcome!
🄵🅆 News Webpages, and our Correspondents. FOLKLIFE WEST's main areas: Wales, West Midlands, West Country, but all areas welcome
🄵🅆 Cymru .... Tudalen Cymru / Wales page, Mick Tems. ....................................... N-E Wales & Cheshire, Brian Bull.
Gwynedd, Travelling Sessions list local sessions.
England 🄵🅆 West Country (S-W) Kernow (acting) David Harley; from May, Lamorna Spry. ............. Glos-based & Roving, Cresby aka Mr Red
🄵🅆 Midlands S. Birmingham & nearby, Bob Bignell. ....................... Warwickshire with Coventry, Malc Gurnham.
S.W. Herefs and nearby, John & Jane Baxter. ......... Cotswold Folk: S.Warks/N.Cotswolds + listings, Paul Bryan.
🄵🅆 South-East, London, East ................... Folk Arts Oxford website list: local folk
🄵🅆 North: North-West Cumbria & North Lancashire, Steve Harrison North-East Yorks & Humber
🄵🅆 Alba ⎈ International [online only] 🄵🅆 Festivals & Workshops Diary
Editors: Sam & Eleanor Simmons (Worcs). Editing Team: David Harley (Cornwall). Zoom, web advice: Paul Clarke (Southampton).
Illustrations & Logos: Chris Stewart (Worcs), John Crane (Wolverhampton), Chris Beaumont (Glos).
Photographs: Eden Tanner (Herefs), Colin Davies (Worcs). We thank our Team, we are all Volunteers --- more welcome!
FOLKLIFE WEST, FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS JOURNAL, print magazines, and copied online ● next 1 JAN (Jan to Apr), DEADLINE 20 NOV
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Updates to Members' folk news; Journal; online Directory on UPDATES webpage & emailed updates ---
Join our Mailing List, and get free Directory listings online!
Join our Mailing List, and get free Directory listings online!
free emailed UPDATES (6-12/year) & "UPDATES" WEBPAGE .
also: Free directory entries for details, click to open ( & close !)
also: Free directory entries for details, click to open ( & close !)
UPDATES webpage + emailed updates
Keeping folk in touch with our free emailed occasional Updates with News, Directory, Folklife Traditions -- & Deadline Reminders ! Updates are added to Updates webpage, then if still timely are added to next emailed Updates to those opted-in. We don't pass on details: for data policy see Data webpage : for updates, we collect only email, names, + country, or English region, we don't need your address etc unless also buying a magazine, that info is kept on a separate file. On right: a form to sign up to Folklife Updates and/or for new Folklife members OR --- simply email same details to sam@folklife.uk This is useful for you, with Updates for News, Directory, & Folklife Traditions (& deadline reminders). And knowing our online readership's folk interests, and country or for England, regions, helps us to help you with resources. ![]() FREE LISTINGS in our DIRECTORY
www.folklife-directory.uk if you're on our emailed Updates list
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Our "Updates" emails (6 - 12 a year)Thank you!You have successfully joined Folklife's Updates list. You can also send in free entries for Folklife's online Directory on www.folklife-directory.uk To unsubscribe: there's a link on Updates emails, or email sam@folklife.uk, we will also delete listings from our Directory |
"INFO page" : details of deadlines, ad rates, & membershipFOLKLIFE WEST, FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS JOURNAL, print magazines, and copied online ● next 1 JAN (Jan to Apr), DEADLINE 20 NOV AD RATES - BACS/bank, cheque, card
To buy, by post or as PDF, see green box below "BUY FOLKLIFE WEST" SINGLE COPIES (pdf £3 worldwide, or posted UK £6. EU £9. world £11.) or ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP (for each issue you can send in your folk news; word limits apply: 200 words, more if advertising, see below). See details below, download as PDF and/or read image of FW page 3 Data policy is on Data webpage. Sizes webpage --- ad sizes for beginners if you're new to publicity, unsure which is A4 or A5, etc
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"Info-page" as a pdf -- download (same as p.3 image below) ---> |
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Using Word.docx ? Using 'Word' Footnotes and Endnotes For any notes: please use Endnotes, do not use Footnotes. For how to convert Footnotes to Endnotes, see the Contact & Contribute webpage, on the Folklife Traditions website |
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"Buy a coffee [or a broadsheet?]" for Folklife: £3 donation
We are a non-profit group -- FW runs at a healthy loss. . . plus, these free websites cost c.£300 a year . . . If you find this free website useful . . . you may wish to donate £3 very occasionally, by clicking the DONATIONS BY CARD - LINK box (for our "Ko-fi" site) for a 1-off £3 card payment. Thank you!
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BUY FOLKLIFE WEST --- PDF (£3 worldwide) OR POST (£6 UK) -- or annUAL membership
for details, click to open (& close!)
for details, click to open (& close!)
PAYMENTS:
BACS / phone banking Folklife West T/A Folklife, Sort Code 09-01-55, Account 18675181. Overseas banking, email sam@folklife.uk for details.
Or CHEQUE to "Folklife", 16 Barrett Rise,Malvern, WR14 2UJ. Or CARD - our payments site, ko-fi.com/folklife/shop
BACS / phone banking Folklife West T/A Folklife, Sort Code 09-01-55, Account 18675181. Overseas banking, email sam@folklife.uk for details.
Or CHEQUE to "Folklife", 16 Barrett Rise,Malvern, WR14 2UJ. Or CARD - our payments site, ko-fi.com/folklife/shop
FOLKLIFE WEST: EMAILED PDF
--- £3 for 1 copy, worldwide, via WeTransfer (A4 or US-letter) --- ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP, 3 issues, £9 Link to card payment for FW PDF ko-fi.com/s/8e92e77df9 |
FOLKLIFE WEST: BY POST
--- x1: UK £6. EU £9. world £11. --- Annual Membership: FW (3 issues) + Journal (2 issues) UK £18, EU £27. Discounts for 2+. Link to card payment: FW by post ko-fi.com/s/8624d72d04 |
--- FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS JOURNAL
BY POST. (PDF free see website) ••• x1: May 2023 issue --- UK: £3, or EU: £5, or rest of world £6.50 ••• Subscriber: 1 copies of 3 issues. --- UK: £9, or EU £15, or rest of world £19 Link to card payment: FTJ by post ko-fi.com/s/d479e8d448 |
---- Adverts from 1/8 A4 mono [£10] to A4 colour
Link to card payments for adverts ko-fi.com/s/34cd1547ab |
About us: meet the Folklife team: our volunteers (as listed on page 3 above)
OUR POLICY
CORRESPONDENTS
FOLKLIFE MEMBERS can send in their own news items to editors (up to 200 words per item, more if advert)
SENDING YOUR INFO TO CORRESPONDENTS
Our priorities … informal free gatherings, & volunteer-run organisations … do-it-yourself folk
- such as folk clubs, dances, music sessions, singarounds, small halls, and festivals run by unpaid volunteers.
- All of us (correspondents, editors, designers, etc) are volunteers, we receive no payment, no free adverts, etc.
- Correspondents can receive 3 copies of FW per issue, to sell, or give away, or circulate at their venue, as they wish
- Other Volunteers such as those who supply lists, receive 1 copy of FW per issue
- Correspondents and Volunteers receive free Membership of Folklife, so free news of all their folk activities
- The magazine will run on a non-profit basis. Note: so far, it has always run at a loss, subsidised by the editors. No grants or sponsorships are currently received.
CORRESPONDENTS
- Correspondents include festival-organisers, club organisers, performers
- Correspondents give an area or special-interest overview
- Correspondents can mention their own festivals, clubs, sessions, performances: to a maximum about 1/4 of the column
- Otherwise, what Correspondents put in, and leave out, is entirely up to them
- So (eg) in order to mention as many venues as possible, a venue might be mentioned but not their guests **
- MORE for those interested in BECOMING A FW CORRESPONDENT below - see And you ?
FOLKLIFE MEMBERS can send in their own news items to editors (up to 200 words per item, more if advert)
SENDING YOUR INFO TO CORRESPONDENTS
Our priorities … informal free gatherings, & volunteer-run organisations … do-it-yourself folk
- such as folk clubs, dances, music sessions, singarounds, small halls, and festivals run by unpaid volunteers.
Many printed folk magazines have folded over the years!
So, whilst we are not a commercial organisation, we must closely monitor costs, adverts, and sales, in order to survive.
So, whilst we are not a commercial organisation, we must closely monitor costs, adverts, and sales, in order to survive.
Venues that have paid guests : we cannot guarantee that Correspondents will have room to mention guests;
but for just £18 a year, you can join Folklife, and send in 200 words publicity per issue (more words if paid advertising).
Organisations employing paid staff should consider joining Folklife for just £18 a year - less than 1 ticket for some events!
You can then send in up to 200 words per issue (more if advertising).
but for just £18 a year, you can join Folklife, and send in 200 words publicity per issue (more words if paid advertising).
Organisations employing paid staff should consider joining Folklife for just £18 a year - less than 1 ticket for some events!
You can then send in up to 200 words per issue (more if advertising).
Correspondent - And you ?
If you would like to email a column every quarter, covering your area (which can include some mentions of your session/club/act/festival/etc), anywhere,
then we offer FREE MEMBERSHIP incl. free listings and up to 3 free copies.
*** as above - not mostly about your club/act - and - must be every issue ! ***
Read on, and then contact us ! Contact details see Info webpage
then we offer FREE MEMBERSHIP incl. free listings and up to 3 free copies.
*** as above - not mostly about your club/act - and - must be every issue ! ***
Read on, and then contact us ! Contact details see Info webpage
- COVER an area, large or small, OR a SPECIAL INTEREST (eg morris, concertina, social dance ...)
- Your 3 free copies: up to you what you do with them,
- some only want 1 or 2
- some give away 1 to other club organisers,
- some circulate at their session on a read-and-return next time basis ...
- some sell 'em (in eg own club or elsewhere),
- some buy more -- we give 3, any more charged at discount rate (buy @ £2.40, sell @ £3) - see prices above
- Some like to write a lot, some don't.
- Correspondents' word limit: 700 words
- Suggested minimum is 350 ....... • word count doesn't include heading, contact details, etc.
- House style: please avoid CAPITALS FOR NAMES ETC as we emphasize by using bold.
- We may add ® symbol for Members "(see ad/directory/festivals etc)"
- Your style: some give bullet-point lists, some ramble on .... we welcome whatever style suits you
- Area covered: size of area is up to you. It doesn't matter if there is a bit of overlap.
- Or perhaps a special interest, eg sessions, morris, concertina, dance.
- Correspondents give an area overview
- Correspondents can mention their own festivals, clubs, sessions, performances: to a maximum about 1/4 of the column!
- Otherwise, what Correspondents put in, and leave out, is entirely up to them
- So (eg) in order to mention as many venues as possible, a venue might be mentioned, but not their guests. See above "Our priorities … informal free gatherings, & volunteer-run organisations … do-it-yourself folk, and Venues that have paid guests
- Your photo - please send a head and shoulders type (see examples below)
- Pictures for column: entirely optional: a few high-res photo welcome. Printed in mono (so won't work if eg mainly black & red).
- Deadlines: as top of page
- copyright Folklife, publishers.