Bewnans Gwerin - Kesskrifer  Kernow     /   Folklife - Correspondent Cornwall
    We were so sorry to hear the sad news about Mike Walford, Folklife West's Cornish correspondent [see Newsletter, 16 September].   His contributions were much appreciated, as was his tremendous support and promotion of folk music in Cornwall and the wider world, including the Cornwall Folk Festival and the various clubs and sessions in which he was involved.
    We are very pleased to announce that Nigel Morson (pictured left) has kindly agreed to take on this role.  Nigel is an active performer and one of the MCs at the well-known Dreamers Folk Club (www.dreamersfolk.co.uk).  
    Please contact Nigel at ntmorson <at> aol.com                               [15/11/2020]

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​The NEWS PAGES below, from our Members, cover:  --- ➀ Venues  --- ➁ Performers   --- ➂ Media   --- ➃ Services.  ​

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​Our printed SUMMARY list of our Members is here replaced,  by a handy ONLINE VERSION - that is, with live WEBLINKS in blue
           
Below:  we print, & copy here online, the 1st lines of our fully-detailed online Directory listings ​

FULL DETAILS for each listing, in our ONLINE DIRECTORY webpage :  KERNOW/CORNWALL and DEVON
      
* RED: new/revised listings (= since last FW), details confirmed √    * GREEN: new/revised listings, TBC
Cornwall & Devon Members:  VENUES 
​Sunday
Weekly    Sun  Cornwall  FOUR LANES    DREAMERS FOLK CLUB    www.dreamersfolk.co.uk  Nigel Morson  [added 31/10/2020]
Some   Sun     Cornwall    GOLANT   GOLANT SESSION www.folkincornwall.co.uk/clubdetail.php?clubname=GOLANT%20SESSION 
                                                                                                                                                                                 John Tremaine      01208 872124
Last    Sun,*L*    Devon    PENNYMOOR      CRUWYS ARMS MUSIC SESSION   Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround    Clare Penney     01884 860023
1st        Sun       Devon    STICKLEPATH     DEVONSHIRE INN SESSION      Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround          Derek Moore     01837 659715
Monday
1st Mon      Devon        TOPSHAM        TOPSHAM FC INSTRUMENTAL SESSION  www.topshamfolkclub.co.uk        John Stephens  01392 875332
​Tuesday
Wkly Tue      Devon        TOPSHAM        TOPSHAM FC SINGERS NIGHT    www.topshamfolkclub.co.uk                    John Stephens  01392 875332
Last     Tue        Devon    COLEFORD         THE NEW INN SESSION             Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround         Ollie Holland     01363 85022
1st       Tue        Devon    SANDFORD         THE LAMB INN SESSION           Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround         Hazel / Paul      01363 776275
Wednesday
3rd      Wed       Devon    PENNYMOOR      PENNYMOOR SINGAROUND     Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround         Biddy                01271 373305 
Thursday
Wkly   Thu       Devon     BIDEFORD          BIDEFORD FOLK CLUB              www.bidefordfolkclub.com                    John Purser      01237 424286
1st     Thu, 12 noon   Devon  MORCHARD BISHOP LONDON INN SONG/MUSIC SESSION  Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround  Jon    01363 83740
​2nd    Thu        Devon    TOTNES              TOTNES FOLK SONG CLUB       www.flaxey-green.co.uk                         Anne Gill           01803 290427
2nd    Thu    Cornwall    WADEBRIDGE    WADEBRIDGE FOLK CLUB         www.wadebridgefolkclub.com               Tim & Sue Brine       07880 592065
Last   Thu       Devon    TEIGNMOUTH     TEIGNMOUTH FOLK CLUB        www.communigate.co.uk/twc/teignfc   Martyn Hillstead 01626 778071
Friday
Weekly  Fri     Cornwall    BODMIN             BODMIN FOLK CLUB               www.bodminfolk.co.uk                              Mike Freemantle   01726 816454
1st       Fri         Devon    BRIXHAM             BRIXHAM FOLK CLUB             www.flaxey-green.co.uk                            Anne Gill           01803 290427 
Saturday
4th  Sat     Devon    COMBE MARTIN   SHAMMICK ACOUSTIC  has now closed. - See NEWS, below  


Cornwall & Devon Members:  PERFORMERS
Pf.1a    Folk Music & Song - Bands / Groups
   Devon    MOTHER’S RUIN    www.lemonrock.com/mothersruinbishopsteignton    Martyn Hillstead    01626 778071
   Devon    WREN BAND    www.wrenmusic.co.uk   Wren Music      01837 53754
Pf.1b    Folk Music & Song - Duo 
    Devon    MARILYN TUCKER & PAUL WILSON     www.wrenmusic.co.uk    Wren Music    01837 53754
    Devon    TOM & BARBARA BROWN    www.umbermusic.co.uk    Tom/Barbara Brown    01271 882366
Pf.1c    Folk Music & Song - Solo     
​Cornwall    SARAH McQUAID                    www.sarahmcquaid.com              Sarah McQuaid    01736 810807
Pf.1d    Choirs & Quires: Folk & Community Choirs & Bands, West Gallery 
    Devon    WREN MUSIC groups: see List 5, WORKSHOPS.
Pf.2b    Folk Dance Bands  
Devon    WREN BAND    www.wrenmusic.co.uk    Wren Music    01837 53754
Pf.2c    Ceremonial & Dance Display (including Clog, Morris, Sword) 
Cornwall    TYWARDREATH MORRIS        www.tywardreathmorris.org.uk     John                    01208 872124
Pf.3a    Folk Shows & Theatre, Mummers
Devon    TOM & BARBARA BROWN    www.umbermusic.co.uk    Tom/Barbara Brown    01271 882366
Pf.3b    Poets & Monologuists 
Cornwall    ROB BARRATT  comic poet     www.robbarratt.co.uk                   Rob Barratt          01566 880336

Cornwall & Devon Members:  MEDIA
M.1    ONLINE FOLK MAGAZINES & LISTINGS 
Cornwall                                     FOLK IN CORNWALL                                    www.folkincornwall.co.uk​   John Tremaine    01208 872124
West County, S/W Mids, Wales  FOLKLIFE MEMBERS’ ONLINE DIRECTORY   www.folklife-directory.uk    Sam Simmons    01684 561378
West County                              THE ACOUSTIC CALENDAR                           https://sanchobramble.weebly.com​  Tony Watts
Cornwall                                    WHEAL ALICE MUSIC                              www.whealalice.com         David Harley  01736 740337 [30/10/2020]
M.2    PRINTED FOLK MAGAZINES & LISTINGS            for Journals, see List 8: Folklife Studies
​Cornwall                                     FOLK IN CORNWALL                                     www.folkincornwall.co.uk​   John Tremaine    01208 872124
Devon                                       WHAT’S AFOOT                                              www.devonfolk.co.uk   Anne Gill    01803 290427

Cornwall & Devon Members:  SERVICES 
S.3    TECHNICAL:  PA  &  Sound  Hire,  Engineers,  Studios
Devon    WREN MUSIC PA System & operator, short run CDs     www.wrenmusic.co.uk      Paul Tucker      01837 53754 
Ø     Normally, only Folklife members  Ø   listed, as we  - er -  need money coming in to keep going.  So if you can spare £16 a year to help . . 
‡‡  Exceptionally  . . .  we now list      ‡‡ others' Zoom sessions,  free,  if  you've signed up for our Newsletter mailing list
Would you like to publicise your Zoom or other virtual session ?   We can draft a listing for you based on your website etc details  
To be be added:  ​simply sign up for our free emailed Newsletter Updates webpage [on our folklife.uk website] and then email  sam@folklife.uk _________________________________________________________________________________ 

Sunday
Ø   Cornwall - DREAMERS FOLK CLUB - Weekly on Sundays, live on Zoom.  We manage access to our zoom sessions so folk can see each other and interact, preserving some of the Club atmosphere. So we keep around 2/3 of our seats for those who have supported us regularly and ask others to contact ntmorson <at> aol.com in advance if they want to come along on any particular night.  Hoping to have e-guests once a month.
Also check www.dreamersfolk.uk  [added 28/10/2020]
Thursday  
Ø   Devon - BIDEFORD FOLK CLUB:  recordings on bidefordfolkclub.com/virtual-folk-club/
Friday 
​Ø ​Cornwall - BODMIN FOLK CLUB Virtual Open House, every Friday, 8pm – 10.30pm.  Email bodminfolk<at>yahoo.com for details.
     www.bodminfolk.co.uk

​Folklife's list of Zoom sessions etc for all areas is on  folklife.uk/virtual-folk.html


LATEST NEWS, so not included in downloadable-PDF of pages (above). 
New member, added 31/10/2020
DREAMERS FOLK CLUB,  Sportsmans Arms (in the back room), Four Lanes, near Redruth TR16 6LR.   Every Sunday, 7.30pm
            We never closed!
            In what now seems a different age, Dreamers Folk Club met at the Sportsmans Arms in Four Lanes (outside Redruth) every Sunday at 7.30.
            As soon as the pandemic made it impossible for live music in pubs to go ahead, Dreamers started weekly “Watch Parties” with recordings sent in by regulars, past guests and other friends from far and wide. In August, that morphed into weekly live sessions on Zoom, still at 7.30 on Sunday evenings. More recently, we have experimented successfully with re-introducing short guest spots on an occasional basis.
            Numbers are a little limited to ensure that those who have supported us through these difficult months have priority but visitors have always been warmly welcomed at Dreamers and they are still welcome – if you want to come along, to perform or just listen, please contact ntmorson@aol.com not later than the Friday night before your visit and we’ll send the link for that week’s session.
            Our weekly Newsletter can be found on the Dreamers web-site at www.dreamersfolk.co.uk, 
and our Facebook page at https://en-gb.facebook.com/MistOverFourLanes/
            The Show Goes On!
                                                         Nigel Morson, ntmorson <at> aol.com
www.dreamersfolk.co.uk,  https://en-gb.facebook.com/MistOverFourLanes/
 


Folk Directory:  Cornwall-Devon webpage

​VENUES  New Member:
Weekly    Sun  Cornwall  FOUR LANES    DREAMERS FOLK CLUB    www.dreamersfolk.co.uk  Nigel Morson
→   Sportsmans Arms (in the back room), Four Lanes, near Redruth TR16 6LR. 7.30pm
⇒   Nigel Morson, ntmorson <at>  aol.com. https://en-gb.facebook.com/MistOverFourLanes/
⊕    The “family” feel on our folk nights is widely admired. We extend a very warm welcome to one & all to experience that special atmosphere of friends in harmony raising the roof in song. Now on Zoom, see listings above. [added 31/10/2020]

MEDIA   M.1    ONLINE FOLK MAGAZINES & LISTINGS.    New listing:
Cornwall              WHEAL ALICE MUSIC   www.whealalice.com         David Harley  01736 740337
⇒ St. Ives, Cornwall.       david.a.harley<at>gmail.com     
Facebook: www.facebook.com/WhealAlice/
Combines the folk-oriented music of David Harley with writing about musical techniques and history, music reviews, and information on Cornish events and resources. [30 October 2020]

FW Deadlines
☞    ●   1 Jan :  19 Nov 
☞    ●   1 May :  19 Mar
☞    ●   1 Sep :  19 Jul
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Kernow/Cornwall:  members' folk news
from FW, the Folklife West magazine, below

We are now working with FOLK IN CORNWALL
​magazine, sharing news and information.
● we're a non-profit group; to continue, we need your support, by membership or advertising - details foot of page
FW usually has 60 to 64 pages, printed, A4-size.
​FW has 3 sections: News & Listings;, as below; also Festival & Workshop Diaries, and Folklife Traditions.
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 & Listings pages - is on this site.

FW available in Cornwall at
  • Bodmin Folk Club
​​ ​FW available in Devon at
  • Bideford Folk Club (us’d luv to zee ‘ee!),
  • various Pennymoor sessions
  • Topsham Folk Club
  • Teignmouth Folk Club, Martyn is our South Devon Correspondent
and you? FW discounts are available for resellers (6 or more, £2 for £3) - see Info page

​
Library Reference copies.
FW reference copy is sent to: Exeter Central Library, to Plymouth Central Library (Music & Drama Library), and to Torquay Reference Library.
​​"Folk What's On" (simply a leaflet made up of the ads from FW), a reference copy is sent to these libraries:
  • ​​Devon libraries: Barnstaple, Bideford, Braunton, Crediton, Cullompton, Dawlish, Exmouth, Honiton, Ilfracombe, Ivybridge, Newton Abbot, Okehampton, Ottery St. Mary, Seaton, Sidmouth, St. Thomas, Tavistock, Teignmouth, Tiverton, Topsham, Totnes
  • Cornwall libraries: Bodmin, Bude, Camborne, Cornish Studies Library (Redruth), Cornwall Performing Arts Library (St Austell), Falmouth, Hayle, Helston, Launceston, Liskeard, Newquay, Penzance, Redruth, Saltash, St Austell, St Ives, Torpoint, Truro, Wadebridge.
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Us’d luv to zee ‘ee!

Martyn Hillstead, Correspondent,  South Devon
● we're a non-profit group; to continue, we need your support, by membership or advertising - details foot of page
FT55 advert from Roy & Lesley Adkins, Devon-based authors and contributers to FW's articles in the Folklife Traditions pages. See our Folklife Traditions website
Article below from FW 59, Oct 2018, Folklife Traditions pages
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•  Workshops Diary & Festivals Diary follow the news pages in printed FW
​ . . . Online, full details on our Folklife's Directory website

Cornwall & Devon
​member-Festivals.

Not included in the news-pages download file,
as for latest info, check our Folklife Directory FESTIVAL DIARY
​- link to online copy from FW on 
​www.folklife-directory.uk/festivals.html​
for ads & detailed listings
June 2020 cancelled. next 2021            The PENNYMOOR SONG AND ALE               Facebook:  Pennymoor Singaround    
Pennymoor SAR → see FW Devon news (copied here)     →    MORCHARD BISHOP: The London Inn, Morchard Bishop, Devon, EX17 6NW.
 
June 2020 cancelled. next 2021              TEIGNMOUTH FOLK FESTIVAL                      www.teignmouthfolk.co.uk 
→    TEIGNMOUTH, Devon.  

August 2020 cancelled. next 2021          DARTMOOR FOLK FESTIVAL                               www.dartmoorfolkfestival.org.uk
→    SOUTH ZEAL, near Okehampton, Devon.  In the foothills of Dartmoor.      

August 2020 cancelled. next 2021           CORNWALL FOLK FESTIVAL                               www.cornwallfolkfestival.com
→    WADEBRIDGE, Cornwall.  Numerous venues throughout the town.      

October 2020 tbc                                BARING-GOULD FOLK WEEKEND                     www.baring-gould.co.uk
→    OKEHAMPTON, Devon.  Held in comfortable indoor venues in the old market town of Okehampton, nestling on the northern slopes of Dartmoor.
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Every Issue, we cover Member-Festivals for the next 12 Months !
Special note:  Folklife West, Nº 65, 1 Sep 2020  Online only!

Therefore, ​Membership-subscriptions (& prepaid repeat ads) are extended 1 issue (4 months)
• All information below relates to standard 1 year = 3 printed issues;
​• this online issue (4 months Sep-Dec) is not counted
See  Folklife Newsletter on UPDATES webpage for details

​Do join us  ---  New Members: extended subscription as above - this issue not counted - you get 3 print issues;
if you join now, you can publicise yourself now, be added to Directory, mentioned in UPDATES, etc

We are supporting our Folklife Members, who support Folklife ​(£16 a year, since you ask).
With recurring costs (websites, domains, email, repairs & upgrades for computers & software)
and no income from May printed magazine sales, we are losing even more money than usual !
Therefore, only listings from our supportive Members are publicised.