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We'd like to have a comprehensive list of folk magazines & listings websites in Great Britain. So far, we've emailed all those we could find - those confirmed as of 7/7/2025 listed below. So watch this space!
* For Zoom, Ireland, International: volunteer(s) to research welcome.
- For Journals, see our Folklife Traditions site, on our Folklife Studies webpage
- Note: we're aiming for a comprehensive list of websites.
- Social media entries welcome, but not researched as "You must log in to continue", and I don't have time; if you do, volunteer(s) welcome.
then M.3, 4, 5 are for Print & online folk magazines & listings: ... M.3 Summary for: Wales; English local & regional media; Scotland; Zoom
M.4 Details of those which cover all of GB, or all of England, or GB+International M.5 Details of these Folklife publications
For more details of those listed who are 🄵 Folklife members, Ø Associate members, see Folklife West folk news and Updates page.
ØØ International Updates-signups who aren't Members ~ news welcome for Updates page.
We also list, free, in this Directory, 🅄 UK Updates-signups (other than above), and 🄹 Folklife Traditions Journal subscribers/contributors.
We also list, free, in this Directory, 🅄 UK Updates-signups (other than above), and 🄹 Folklife Traditions Journal subscribers/contributors.
M.1 Folk Journalists & Reviewers
ENGLAND WEST MIDLANDS
🅄 Warks MAC AWE ON TOUR, Folk Journalist and Blogger http://macaweontour.blogspot.co.uk
⇒ Geoff Veasey, abolper<at>yahoo.co.uk
⊕ Folk Journalist and Reviewer. Blog : Mac Awe On Tour [new member, Apr 2018]
🅄 Warks MAC AWE ON TOUR, Folk Journalist and Blogger http://macaweontour.blogspot.co.uk
⇒ Geoff Veasey, abolper<at>yahoo.co.uk
⊕ Folk Journalist and Reviewer. Blog : Mac Awe On Tour [new member, Apr 2018]
M.2 Publishers (music & print)
🄵 S Glos SAYDISC www.saydisc.com
⇒ Gef Lucena. The Barton, Inglestone Common, Badminton, S. Glos. GL9 1BX, England Saydisc<at>aol.com
⊕ Maddy Prior/Carnival Band, Mellstock Band, Broadside Band, Kathryn Tickell, Nigel Eaton, Ray Fisher, Chinese, Japanese, Pacific, African, Indian and many other cultures, trad performers and rare musics.
⇒ Gef Lucena. The Barton, Inglestone Common, Badminton, S. Glos. GL9 1BX, England Saydisc<at>aol.com
⊕ Maddy Prior/Carnival Band, Mellstock Band, Broadside Band, Kathryn Tickell, Nigel Eaton, Ray Fisher, Chinese, Japanese, Pacific, African, Indian and many other cultures, trad performers and rare musics.
🄵 Herefs TOM HUGHES www.tomhughesmusic.co.uk
⇒ Tom Hughes. Contact: tomhughesmusic<at>outlook.com
⊕ Music transcription and engraving service, including music book production and publishing of folk/traditional music. I can offer special rates to folk musicians looking to release a music book. Now available: ALAWON:MELODIES Tune Book from the fantastic Welsh folk trio ALAW. [Feb 2020, new Member]
⇒ Tom Hughes. Contact: tomhughesmusic<at>outlook.com
⊕ Music transcription and engraving service, including music book production and publishing of folk/traditional music. I can offer special rates to folk musicians looking to release a music book. Now available: ALAWON:MELODIES Tune Book from the fantastic Welsh folk trio ALAW. [Feb 2020, new Member]
🄵 Kent DEREK TAYLOR BOOKS http://www.derektaylor.org
⇒ 01303 760 546. books<at>derektaylor.org, Facebook: Derek Taylor, Twitter: twitter.com/@derektaylor201
⊕ Publishers of ‘Little Book Of Ballads’, a portable little pocket book. The book is available at Amazon etc and http://www.derektaylor.org [added, Feb 2024]
⇒ 01303 760 546. books<at>derektaylor.org, Facebook: Derek Taylor, Twitter: twitter.com/@derektaylor201
⊕ Publishers of ‘Little Book Of Ballads’, a portable little pocket book. The book is available at Amazon etc and http://www.derektaylor.org [added, Feb 2024]
M.3 Print & online folk magazine & listings (and a few radio programmes)Summary for: Wales; English local / regional media; Scotland; Zoom
✅ confirmed, see detailed listings ➡️ entry to follow shortly, being drafted
❓those we've emailed, believed to exist - not listed on Venues webpages until confirmed (I knew an editor who died in 2020 - website's still up, unchanged ...).
All England & Wales listings confirmed ✅ in this section (M.3) will also be included in Folklife West print magazine.
National ✅ ALAWON CYMRU ✅ SESIWM.COM ✅ TRAC CYMRU: Music Traditions Wales/Traddodiadau Cerdd Cymru
South-West & South-East ✅ CASBAR
North-East ✅ CALENDAR - OPEN MIKE FOLK & ACOUSTIC EVENTS • North-West ✅ GWYNEDD MUSIC SESSIONS
Cornwall ✅ WHEAL ALICE MUSIC ❗️FOLK IN CORNWALL : Editor John Tremaine has died
Devon
✅ WHAT’S AFOOT ✅ DEVON FOLK
✅ HARBERTON FOLKSomerset, and Dorset
✅ SOMERSET AND DORSET FOLK DIARY (SaDFOLK)Gloucestershire, & South Gloucestershire ✅ GLOSFOLK
✅ MR RED’s MID WEST listings ✅ Radio: FOLK & ACOUSTIC MUSIC with Chris ArscottSee Venues: England West Midlands, at foot of that webpage, for details of
See Venues: England East & South for details of the publications below. Listed by region - Media comes after each region's venues list
EAST MIDLANDS ✅ LEICESTERSHIRE FOLK DIARY
EAST ✅ UNICORN FOLK (Beds, Bucks, Cambs, Essex & Herts; some overlap into surrounding counties such as Norfolk and Suffolk)
SOUTH-EAST ✅ FOLK IN OXFORD ✅ FOLK ON WIGHT ✅ FASH ✅ SOLENT WAVES ✅ UNICORN FOLK (Bucks + see under EAST)
LONDON ✅ FOLK LONDON
❓other We emailed (2025 May/June); you may wish to google: Fizgig Lincs, E Mids; Mardles East Anglia; Essex Folk News; Around Kent Folk; SusFA Sussex
See Venues: England North for details of the publications below. Listed by region - Media comes after each region's venues list.
NORTH-WEST ✅ FOLK NORTH WEST ✅ FOLKIMAGES ✅ CALENDAR: OPEN MIKE, FOLK & ACOUSTIC EVENTS ✅ Radio: NEAR AND FAR
NORTH-EAST ✅ NORTHUMBRIA FOLK MUSIC DIARY • ✅ FOLK ROUNDABOUT (Yorkshire, Northumberland, Durham)
YORKSHIRE ✅ FILOFOLK ✅ SHEFFIELD FOLK MUSIC DIARY • ✅ FOLK ROUNDABOUT (Yorkshire, Northumberland, Durham)
❓other We emailed (2025 May/June); you may wish to google: Lancashire Folk; Sheffield Music Sessions
For the remaining M.3 categories below, a volunteer to research / google other listings is welcome.
Ireland ✅ FONN TRADITIONAL MUSIC & SONG
Scotland ❓ We emailed (2025 May, June); you may wish to google: Scottish Borders Folk; TSMA
USA: ✅ AMERICELTIC ✅ AMERICELTIC CALENDAR
Zooms listings Britain: see our Zoom webpage!
Zooms listings Ireland: ✅ FONN TRADITIONAL MUSIC & SONG.
Zooms listings USA: ✅ CALENDAR of VIRTUAL SONG SESSIONS ✅ COUNTRY DANCE & SONG SOCIETY'S ONLINE EVENTS CALENDAR
✅ AMERICELTIC ✅ AMERICELTIC CALENDAR.
M.4 Print & online folk magazine & listings.Details of those which cover all of England, or all of GB, or GB-based with International coverage
🄵 PRINT England. EDS (English Dance & Song) www.efdss.org/efdss-join-us/english-dance-and-song
⇒ EFDSS, 020 7485 2206. To join EFDSS [English Folk Dance & Song Society] and receive EDS and other benefits: www.efdss.org/efdss-join-us
⇒ Editorial: EDS Editor, Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London, NW1 7AY. eds.editor<at>efdss.org
⊕ An international publication, going out to the almost 4,000 members of the Society. It’s the world’s longest-running folk magazine, first published in 1936, and balances professional folk with grassroots folk, both traditional and contemporary. [EFDSS, now a FL member, October 2017]
⇒ EFDSS, 020 7485 2206. To join EFDSS [English Folk Dance & Song Society] and receive EDS and other benefits: www.efdss.org/efdss-join-us
⇒ Editorial: EDS Editor, Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London, NW1 7AY. eds.editor<at>efdss.org
⊕ An international publication, going out to the almost 4,000 members of the Society. It’s the world’s longest-running folk magazine, first published in 1936, and balances professional folk with grassroots folk, both traditional and contemporary. [EFDSS, now a FL member, October 2017]
🅄 ONLINE FATEA www.fatea-records.co.uk
⇒ Dorset-based. info[at]fatea.co.uk https://twitter.com/Fatea_Magazine, https://en-gb.facebook.com/FateaMagazine,
Review material: to FATEA, PO Box 2218, Parkstone, Poole, BH17 7ZZ, & electronic copy of sleeve to reviews[at]fatea.co.uk
⊕ News & Features, keeping you up to date; Reviews, detailed thoughts on albums, singles, EPs, the odd book and DVD; Live Gig & Festival reviews; Shop, support Fatea and help Fatea support live events by visiting the shop. [Dec 2022, new listing]
🅄 ONLINE U.K. OPEN CONCERTS AND RECITALS www.open-concerts.co.uk
⇒ Contact Ray Lester, Compiler, via form on website www.open-concerts.co.uk/contact-us.html
⇒ Contact Ray Lester, Compiler, via form on website www.open-concerts.co.uk/contact-us.html
To suggest a new Entry for the Directory, simply send me its Title and the URL of its Website. I will do the rest.
⊕ A vast range of musical activities. This includes Accordion and Fiddle Clubs, Early Music Ensembles, Early Music Festivals, Folk Clubs, Folk Festivals, Folk Music Ensembles ... (May 2025, new listing)⇒ London-based.
⊕ The O2 Music Mapper is a platform for folk music enthusiasts, using location-based technology to explore the UK's vibrant folk scene. It highlights legendary and emerging artists on a UK map, including their bios, hometowns, and career highlights. [Aug 2024, new listing]
⊕ The O2 Music Mapper is a platform for folk music enthusiasts, using location-based technology to explore the UK's vibrant folk scene. It highlights legendary and emerging artists on a UK map, including their bios, hometowns, and career highlights. [Aug 2024, new listing]
⇒ Sussex-based. Jeremy Keith, https://thesession.org/contact, but check the help page first: https://thesession.org/help Membership is free and only takes a moment to sign up: https://thesession.org/signup You can also install The Session app on your phone or computer. To get the latest activity on The Session: Follow @thesession on Mastodon. Follow @thesession.org on Bluesky. Like The Session on Facebook.
⊕ An international community website dedicated to Irish traditional music. Find tunes to play, sessions to play them in, events (like concerts and festivals), or explore the track listings of recordings, and join in discussions about the music. (2025 May, new listing)
M.5 Print & online folk magazine & listings. Details of these Folklife publications
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🄵 PRINT & ONLINE mainly Cymru, England West Country & West Midlands * FOLKLIFE WEST www.folklife.uk
* mainly as above, now with some news from rest of England, Scotland, & international
⇒ Editors: Sam & Eleanor Simmons, phone, address, email, as above.
⊕ Each issue has Members' news pages plus Festival & Workshop Diaries (also copied online to www.folklife.uk).
🄵 PRINT & ONLINE mainly UK, some international FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS JOURNAL articles & news www.folklife-traditions.uk
⇒ Editors: Sam & Eleanor Simmons, phone, address email as above.
⊕ Researched articles, news from societies and researchers, books announced (also copied online to www.folklife-traditions.uk)
🄵 ONLINE International This website is the FOLKLIFE ONLINE DIRECTORY www.folklife.uk
⇒ Sam, phone, address, email, as above.
🄵 ONLINE International FOLKLIFE's ZOOM LISTINGS www.folklife.uk/zoom which is the "Venues Zoom" webpage
⇒ Sam, phone, address, email, as above.
🄵 ONLINE International FOLKLIFE's ZOOM LISTINGS www.folklife.uk/zoom which is the "Venues Zoom" webpage
⇒ Sam, phone, address, email, as above.