Free publicity* for folk clubs, Zoom, performers, services -- 2020 Sep-Dec
We welcome enthusiasts! ​​​​
*North of England:  sign up below!  for our (free) Newsletter mailing list,
when signed up, you can send your news (up to 200 words) to sam@folklife.uk

4/11/2020 - Scotland now on a separate webpage

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​As well as these NEWS pages, we have an online DIRECTORY giving full listings for our Folklife Members.

​We have some members outside our 'usual' area, these are listed in our Directory. - more Members welcome!
During lockdown, we are covering other areas & countries, but entries only in our detailed DIRECTORY if joining Folklife.
Below, our NEWS pages include 1-line summaries from our Directory full listings.

Copies of pages from   FW, Folklife West print magazine

​The NEWS PAGES below, from our members, cover:  --- ➀ Venues  --- ➁ Performers   --- ➂ Media   --- ➃ Services.  ​
​Other information is on other FW print pages, and on our other websites:
--- for ➄ Festivals, adverts and fully-detailed diary listings - see our Folklife's Directory website, Festival Diary pages
--- for ➅ Workshops, adverts and fully-detailed diary listings  - see our Folklife's Directory website, Workshop Diary pages
--- 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 … posted magazine (3 per year), news for up to 200 words for each of your news items!          Membership is £16 a year UK, see Info webpage

‡‡  Pandemic 2020, Sept-Dec:  non-members on our Newsletter mailing list (sign up: above!) can also send in news items, free
      (if contributing, we ask you to join mailing list, to save us time repeating emails etc)
When this is all over (sigh...),  Folk News will return to being Members-only, except that we'll accept news from other enthusiasts outside our usual area
- so we'll accept news from North of England enthusiasts who have signed up in 2020 for our mailing list and  have sent news/information.

​In the print magazine, news pages from East Mids & East and  North & Scotland are combined, so the PDF contains both.

​North of England,   news page below
​--or--        download this PDF 
UPDATES at foot, below news pages
east-mids--north-65.pdf
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Download File
4/11/2020 - Scotland now on a separate webpage


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:  East Midlands & North
      
* RED: new/revised listings (= since last FW), details confirmed √    * GREEN: new/revised listings, TBC
North of England - Members:  VENUES
always glad to hear from enthusiasts who would like to join us !​  eg a venue in a popular holiday area, or near our area
1st & 3rd Tue   W.Yorks    MORLEY       MORLEY FOLK CLUB       www.morleyfolk.org       Alan Street
​
North of England - Members:  PERFORMERS

MUSIC & SONG
Pf.1a    Folk Music & Song - Bands & Groups
Agency  UK         ARTISAN             Jacey Bedford Tour Management (Booking Agency)    www.jacey-bedford.com     Jacey Bedford        01484 606230
Agency  UK         COSMOTHEKA    Jacey Bedford Tour Management (Booking Agency)    www.jacey-bedford.com     Jacey Bedford        01484 606230
Agency  S.Africa  UBUNYE              Jacey Bedford Tour Management (Booking Agency)  www.jacey-bedford.com    Jacey Bedford        01484 606230
Agency  S.Africa  ZULU TRADITION  Jacey Bedford Tour Management (Booking Agency)  www.jacey-bedford.com    Jacey Bedford        01484 606230
Pf.1b    Folk Music & Song - Duo 
Agency  UK      IDIOT AND FRIEND    (Les Barker & Keith Donnelly) Jacey Bedford  as above   www.jacey-bedford.com   Jacey Bedford        01484 606230
Agency  UK      QUICKSILVER     (Hilary Spencer & Grant Baynham)  Jacey as above       www.jacey-bedford.com      Jacey Bedford        01484 606230
Agency  USA    TANIA OPLAND & MIKE FREEMAN Jacey Bedford Tour Management (Booking Agency) www.jacey-bedford.com   Jacey  01484 606230
Agency  UK      UNION JILL    Jacey Bedford Tour Management (Booking Agency)         www.jacey-bedford.com        Jacey Bedford         01484 606230
Pf.1c    Folk Music & Song - Solo
Agency  Canada    DAN MCKINNON   Jacey Bedford Tour Management (Booking Agency)    www.jacey-bedford.com     Jacey Bedford      01484 606230
Agency  Australia  JAY TURNER         Jacey Bedford Tour Management (Booking Agency)    www.jacey-bedford.com     Jacey Bedford      01484 606230
Agency  UK           LEE COLLINSON   Jacey Bedford Tour Management (Booking Agency)    www.jacey-bedford.com     Jacey Bedford      01484 606230
Agency  UK           LES BARKER         Jacey Bedford Tour Management (Booking Agency)    www.jacey-bedford.com      Jacey Bedford    01484 606230
Agency  UK           ROBB JOHNSON   Jacey Bedford Tour Management (Booking Agency)    www.jacey-bedford.com     Jacey Bedford      01484 606230
Agency  S.Africa    THANDA GUMEDE Jacey Bedford Tour Management (Booking Agency)   www.jacey-bedford.com     Jacey Bedford      01484 606230

North of England - Members:  MEDIA
​M.1 ONLINE FOLK MAGAZINES & LISTINGS
mainly Wales, West County, S/W Mids   FOLKLIFE MEMBERS’ ONLINE DIRECTORY   www.folklife-directory.uk   Sam Simmons    01684 561378
     For more details of listings on this page: www.folklife-directory.uk/other.html​
UK & Ireland                           LIVING TRADITION               www.livingtradition.co.uk                     Office        01563 571220
M.2 PRINTED FOLK MAGAZINES & LISTINGS    (for Journals, see List 8: Folklife Studies)
England                                  EDS (ENGLISH DANCE & SONG)   www.efdss.org/efdss-join-us/english-dance-and-song   EFDSS    020 7485 2206
UK & Ireland                           LIVING TRADITION               www.livingtradition.co.uk                     Office        01563 571220
        And we’re     FOLKLIFE WEST     www.folklife.uk - this page is www.folklife.uk/other.html     Sam Simmons     01684 561378
        ⊕  Includes FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS pages, FESTIVAL DIARY; WORKSHOPS DIARY; LISTINGS; plus the usual folk news & some adverts.

North of England - Members:  SERVICES
S.2    Agents, Managers, Promoters, MCs and Stage Management  (for Dance or Concert Series, see List 1: Venues)
Yorks+Humb   W Yorks    JACEY BEDFORD TOUR MANAGEMENT (BOOKING AGENCY)  www.jacey-bedford.com      Jacey Bedford        01484 606230
S.7    Shops    [ FOLK PUBLISHERS (Books, Recordings), BOOKSELLERS ⇒ list 8: Folklife Studies ]
England                        HOBGOBLIN MUSIC, mail order    www.hobgoblin.com     Mail Order     0845 130 9500
•  2 shops within our main area, HOBGOBLIN BIRMINGHAM see under Central Midlands and HOBGOBLIN BRISTOL see under Bristol, SG, Glos
•  Shops not within our main area of Wales, West County, West Midlands
•  South-East       HOBGOBLIN BRIGHTON   01273 760022.   CANTERBURY 01227 769484   
•  South-East       LONDON  020 7323 9040.  SOUTHAMPTON 023 8023 1099
•  Yorks+Humb    Leeds   HOBGOBLIN LEEDS               0113 245 3311 
•  North-West      M'c'r      HOBGOBLIN MANCHESTER  0161 273 1000  
• Other SERVICES welcome, eg • PR • Folk Industry bodies

    DETAILED LISTINGS for more details of listings on this page: www.folklife-directory.uk/other.html​   --   our online Members DIRECTORY
                   ⇒ our Membership (only £16 a year! see p 3)  includes listings & your publicity & FW posted to you

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Virtual Folk:  North of England 

more entries welcome
left:    North-West.  Cumbria - Alston. ALSTON HOUSE FOLK SESSION
right:  North-East.   Newcastle upon Tyne.  
​PHOENIX FOLK TUNES SESSIONS, PHOENIX FOLK SINGAROUND ​
North-East
Sunday
‡‡   North-East - LOCH DOWN FOLK CLUB - Weekly Sundays, 8pm.   Songs, tunes, poems or just come for the craic and have a listen. All nationalities. All languages. All welcome.  
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/445376545?pwd=L1BiRlozc2NqYXJZQlQ4ZkVIaW45dz09
Meeting ID: 445 376 545
Password: 000338              (added 24/9/2020)
​
​Monday  
‡‡ Newcastle upon Tyne.   PHOENIX FOLK TUNES SESSIONS - Weekly Mondays & Thursdays, 8pm-9.30pm. You'll hear the tune leaders playing live fiddle & guitar so that you can play along at home. Everyone joining in will be muted during the tunes (this is how Zoom works). This means you won't hear each other, and we won't hear you...but we'll still all be playing music together, and your microphone can be un-muted in between tunes!
Weblinks and other info on phoenixfolk.org.uk/online-sessions/4594895190  .      PHOENIX NEWS SEE ABOVE page 1

Tuesday
‡‡ Newcastle upon Tyne.  PHOENIX FOLK SINGAROUND - Weekly Tuesdays, 7.30pm - 9.30pm. You can perform a song (or tune) to the rest of the group, just as you would in a regular folk club.   Weblinks and other info on phoenixfolk.org.uk/online-sessions/4594895190  
​
Thursday
‡‡ Gateshead.  VIRTUAL THURSDAY ZOOM SESSION at CENTRAL BAR, GATESHEAD, Weekly Thursdays, 1pm.  
Meeting number is  895 8997 2620 and pass number id 015239.  Ged Moore.
‡‡ Newcastle upon Tyne.  PHOENIX FOLK TUNES SESSIONS - Weekly Mondays & Thursdays, 8pm-9.30pm. You'll hear the tune leaders playing live fiddle & guitar so that you can play along at home. Everyone joining in will be muted during the tunes (this is how Zoom works). This means you won't hear each other, and we won't hear you...but we'll still all be playing music together, and your microphone can be un-muted in between tunes!
Weblinks and other info on phoenixfolk.org.uk/online-sessions/4594895190 

Friday
‡‡  North-East - GAELIC SINGING WORKSHOPS - Weekly Fridays, 6.30pm - 8pm.  Mixture of Irish and Scottish (with phonetics). Maria comes from an Irish-speaking background and sings in Irish and Scots Gaelic.  Her 'phonetics' coupled with singable translations make these songs accessible to all and easy to learn. 
Beginners always welcome – works best if you let Maria know in advance before coming for the first time, mariaboylegalway<at>gmail.com 
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/704402088?pwd=RkkzMjNVQjNvcXpDajBla054S1lnUT09
Meeting ID: 704 402 088             Password: 006564           (added 24/9/2020) 

North-West

Tuesday
‡‡ ​Cumbria - Alston.            ALSTON HOUSE FOLK SESSION, First Tuesdays, 8pm until at least 11pm.   
       ABOUT THE FOLK SESSION:  A friendly gathering of local folkies, with both instrumentalists and singers. All visitors welcome on the first Tuesday of the month. Alston is the highest market town in England at ~1000' so your voice might unwittingly be raised a semi-tone (joke).
        ABOUT THE ZOOM SESSION:      For Zoom invitation, please email Phil, harley.science <at> btinternet.com  (added 1/8/2020)

​‡‡ ​Cumbria - Brampton (near Carlisle).  BRAMPTON FOLK SESSIONS, Third Tuesdays, 8pm.  
       ABOUT THE FOLK SESSION:  We work on a 'singers' session' format.  We have lots of vocalists, not so many instrumentalists but we'd be really pleased to welcome more.  In the happy days when we could meet live, we would go round in a circle, taking turns.  Now that we are reduced to Zoom, we still try to operate on a strict taking turns basis - though it's harder to keep track of whose turn it is!
      What makes us a little different from most sessions is that we have a 'theme' each month which is discussed and decided upon the previous month and announced on our website.  It gives us an incentive to learn new material, or to be very devious about finding a way of introducing what we wanted to sing/play all along!'   Katy van den Berg
        ABOUT THE ZOOM SESSION:  ​For Zoom invitation please email kmvandenbergstewart<at>gmail.com   
​       There is a monthly theme, for details see website laverocks.co.uk/folkclub/    Singers and players of all standards, and listeners are welcome to this friendly Sing-Around.  For more information phone Katy on 01228 674209.   (added 1/8/2020)

Zoom from Yorks & Humber region welcome.

LATEST NEWS, so not included in downloadable-PDF of pages (above). 
Added 21/10/2020 :
North-East
‡‡  NORTHUMBERLAND FOLK SONG & MUSIC DIARY for North East England  http://northumbriafolk.org.uk/
This diary normally includes events from the banks of the Tyne to the Tweed. Whilst normal club meetings are not taking place at the moment due to Covid constraints, the web site provides many links to information about folk song and music, particularly in the British Isles. 
For submissions, corrections or comments for this web site contact Peter Burnham, peter.burnham<at>gmail.com


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

North of England   members' folk news
from FW, the Folklife West magazine, below

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; as yet, no FW sales outlets in other areas
and you?   FW discounts are available for resellers (6 or more, £2 for £3) - see Info page

•  Workshops Diary & Festivals Diary follow the folk-news pages in the printed FW  . . . Online, full details are on our Folklife's Directory website

North of England: member-Festivals.

Our Folklife Directory FESTIVAL DIARY, not included in the news-pages download file,
as copied online to ​www.folklife-directory.uk/festivals.html​  for ads & detailed listings
MARCH          SPRING FLING Dulcimer Workshop Weekend  http://dulcimer.org.uk/calendar.html            DENEHOLME, Allendale, Northumbria.

JULY              CLECKHEATON FOLK FESTIVAL      www.cleckheatonfolkfestival.org

AUGUST          WHITBY FOLK WEEK                      whitbyfolk.co.uk             North Yorkshire.   
 

Every Issue, we cover Member-Festivals for the next 12 Months !

​Those who are Members get very detailed listings, see   www.folklife-directory.uk/festivals.html
Special note:  Folklife West, Nº 65, 1 Sep 2020  Online only!

Therefore, ​Membership-subscriptions (& prepaid repeat ads) are extended 1 issue (4 months)
• Generally, our information 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, in our online-Directory, only listings from our supportive Members are publicised.