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UPDATES, UK & international,  see our Updates & Newsletters webpage: @ Updates
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Folklife Members' Zoom List, West Midlands :    
Subject to change, please check with organisers, we may not have been told.    To avoid spam, we put <at> for @,   please revert to @

DAY VARIES; and  sessions/concerts with several events on different days 
🄵 West Midlands county     TRADITIONAL ARTS TEAM – various Zoom sessions.  
​For security, we are only sending out links by email.  You can sign up to our monthly newsletter from our website tradartsteam.co.uk – enter your email address in the box at the bottom on the left (you may get a message asking you to click on a link to confirm that you want to join).  The newsletter goes out just before the beginning of the month.
All our events are listed in the left hand column of our website tradartsteam.co.uk and include:  
* Zoom into Tales and Ales - tradartsteam.co.uk/tales-and-ales.html
* Traditional song session online tradartsteam.co.uk/song-sessions.html
* Zoom into Sing Political! and Sing Political Extra! tradartsteam.co.uk/sing-political.html
* Lockdown Storytelling Cafe tradartsteam.co.uk/About-Storytelling-Cafe.html
WEDNESDAY
​🄵   West Midlands county     TRADITIONAL ARTS TEAM – various Zoom sessions.  
DETAILS please see under Day Varies; and  sessions/concerts with several events on different days 
INCLUDING  
* Zoom into Tales and Ales - 1st Wednesdays
* Zoom into Sing Political!  - 2nd Wednesdays, not August
* Lockdown Storytelling Cafe  - 3rd Wednesdays
THURSDAY 
​🄵  West Midlands county   TRADITIONAL ARTS TEAM – various Zoom sessions.  
DETAILS please see under Day Varies; and  sessions/concerts with several events on different days
INCLUDING * Traditional song session online - 1st Thursdays

🄰  Folklife's UK & World list of Zooms includes both members & non-members, see  our complete LIST for ALL AREAS on our ZOOM LIST webpage.
​       Non-Folklife members can publicise Zoom sessions:  we can draft a listing for you, based on your website details.   
       To be be added:  sign up for our free emailed Newsletter, top of page, and then email  sam@folklife.uk

Copies of pages from FW, Folklife West print magazine  (news from Folklife members)

Page Header insert & above:  Nuneaton Folk Club
Page Header:   Black Diamond Folk Club: 50th Birthday celebrations:  John Crane in front of backdrop he created.  Photo © Derek Catley, 2014.                
Traditional Arts Team,​Tim Ralphs, storyteller, enchants the audience at Storytelling Café.  
Ian Pittaway
Cotteswolde Country Dance Band 
The Traditional Ilmington Morris Men

Correspondents                                          

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

We're always glad to hear from enthusiasts who would like to join us at Folklife magazine (3 per year), for your news plus your Members' Directory listings.
Annual Membership is £18 a year, for posted UK (but £2 credit for this smaller issue), or for PDF via WeTransfer worldwide, see Info webpage
West Midlands region (other than Herefs-Worcs) :   Members' Updates

​  -- not included in news pages & May issue pdf, below

🄵 News from the Traditional Arts Team.  The Team loves everything about folk music, songs, dances and stories, and wants to encourage everyone to get involved.  However, because of coronavirus and the need for social distancing, we don’t know whether we can return to running physical events this autumn.  We are planning some online sessions as below and will see what happens.  Links are sent out in our monthly email newsletter - please sign up if you aren't already on our mailing list.  You can do this by entering your email address in the box at www.tradartsteam.co.uk or just by emailing info<at>tradartsteam.co.uk
Monthly Online Song and Story Sessions: 
All are welcome to join these online sessions, to take part or just to listen.  Links are sent out to our mailing list.  1st Wednesday – Tales and Ales storytelling session, 8-10pm; 2nd Sunday – Swedish music session, 2-4pm; 2nd Wednesday – Sing Political, 8-10pm; Left-Write songwriting sessions, 8-10pm  
Birmingham Storytelling Café 
It’s hoped there will be a new season of Storytelling Café starting on Wednesday 15 September at Kitchen Garden Cafe.  Storytelling Café is a place of magic and mischief, where you can enjoy being whisked away to a world of wonderful stories that will amuse and enrich you.  The Café is held on the third Wednesday of each month, starting at 7:30pm, and you can get the latest information from our web calendar.
Please check our website www.tradartsteam.co.uk for updates on all our activities, in case of changes, cancellations or even new events as they become possible!

WEST MIDLANDS
Birmingham
Black Diamond Folk Club, The Lamp Tavern, 157 Barford Street, Highgate, B5 6AH.  Friday, weekly, 8pm.
Following the coronavirus epidemic we are intending to reopen the club from 3rd September.
Most nights will be singers' nights, but we are hoping to have some guest nights. However, given the current level of uncertainty information on guests will only be published on our website:  http://blackdiamondfolkclub.org.uk
In view of the need for social distancing numbers will be limited and admittance by invitation. 
If you would like an invitation please contact Paul Ryan at  contact<at>blackdiamondfolkclub.org.uk  or by telephoning 0121 357 7326.

West Midland region News from  Folklife members

News pages below, ​or download this PDF:
west_mids_67_v1.pdf
File Size: 4089 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File
 Printed LISTINGS (above) are summaries from the DETAILED LISTINGS in our online DIRECTORY, here's the links:


FW Deadlines

☞    ●   1 Jan :  19 Nov 
☞    ●   1 May :  19 Mar
☞    ●   1 Sep :  19 Jul
● we're a non-profit group; to continue, we need your support, by membership or advertising - details foot of page

Members' folk news, West Midlands
the region except Herefs-Worcs on separate webpage
Currently we have news from folk enthusiasts in
• West Midlands County :  Birmingham & Walsall (other WM welcome!)
• Warwickshire  with Coventry  
Currently we have no Folklife members' news from Shropshire (including Telford & Wrekin) or Staffs

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 is available
  • by post from Folklife
  • at the Black Diamond Folk Song Club, Birmingham
  • at Hobgoblin Music, Birmingham
  • at the Bedworth Folk Club, Warwickshire
  • as yet, no FW sales outlets in Shropshire, Staffordshire
and you?   FW discounts are available for resellers (6 or more, £2 for £3) - see Info page

Library Reference copy:
  • Library of Birmingham's Music Library
  • Solihull Central Library
  • Coventry Central Library
  • Nuneaton Music & Drama Library. Warks 
  • Rugby Library, Warks
Member-Festivals
Not included in the above news-pages download file, as for latest info, check our  ​Festivals & Workshops Diary webpage  for ads & detailed listings
July           WARWICK FOLK FESTIVAL               www.warwickfolkfestival.co.uk
October     NONSUCH ANNUAL WEEKEND        http://dulcimer.org.uk/calendar.html
Every Issue, we cover Member-Workshops & Member- Festivals for the next 12+ Months !
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