🄵🅆 England: North North-West, North-East, Yorkshire
Below: copies of our print pages: folk news by area, + Festivals & Workshops Diary.
LIVE LOCAL FOLK: we publicise news from our Folklife Members:
singarounds, sessions, clubs, concerts, gigs, album news, festivals, workshops.
As our name "Folklife West" suggests . . . mainly Wales, England West Country & West Midlands.
singarounds, sessions, clubs, concerts, gigs, album news, festivals, workshops.
As our name "Folklife West" suggests . . . mainly Wales, England West Country & West Midlands.
Since Zoom, enthusiasts from other areas & countries joined us. We welcome enthusiasts from everywhere!
READ FOLKLIFE WEST (44 pages) ONLINE here, free.
• In PRINT, £4 (at clubs), or posted £6; Europe £9; World £11.
ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP : 5 magazines ~ 3 Folklife Wests, 2 Journals.
• As PDFs, £9, with password to download from Prepaid PDF page.
• In PRINT, posted £21; Europe £27; World £33. Payments details foot of page.
For many years, Folklife has used woodcut-style illustrations by Joseph Crawhall of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1821-1896)
Since May FW publication, added more Media details, so in future will start like this, replacing start of p.36
Keeping Folk In Touch: see UPDATES webpage for Updates, plus our free "Updates" email list (6-12/year) covering all 3 publications; and see Info page (for membership, sales discounts, ads)
North-East region.
We are pleased to announce that Eileen Richardson has kindly volunteered to be our North-East Correspondent from September.Eileen is a Wearside folk song collector, and the organiser of The Stumble Inn Folk & Acoustic Afternoon, Sunderland, 4th Tuesdays. She is a regular at the Wilson's club, the Welly, as well as visiting Tynefolk and South Shields Folk Club.
Eileen Richardson, 07929 599851, or contact on Messenger, or email eileenrich<at>hotmail.com
We look forward to this new column!
Local Listings Guides:
And for Sept. 2025, we'll also be adding NORTHUMBRIA FOLK MUSIC DIARY, and FOLK ROUNDABOUT
Yorkshire & The Humber: next issue will be 'Yorkshire'.
Regions. Note - for Sept. 2025 Folklife West, Yorkshire instead of Yorks & Humber. The Yorkshire areas of Humberside to be included under Yorkshire, and the Lincolnshire areas of Humberside now under Lincolnshire - so under East Midlands. Likewise with Directory areas.
Local listings guides:
FILOFOLK as before, plus since May 2025 publication, added SHEFFIELD FOLK GUIDE and FOLK ROUNDABOUT details, so in future text will be as below.
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(UK) by BACS: Folklife West t/a Folklife, Sort Code 09-01-55, Account 18675181.
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(UK) by BACS: Folklife West t/a Folklife, Sort Code 09-01-55, Account 18675181.
(UK and world-wide) Card: "Ko-Fi" link, on right.