About Folklife publishers, and Folklife West
FOLKLIFE
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Note The map-image below is partly out of date § a revised version to follow, meanwhile an updated list of correspondents below this image.
§ East & Mid Devon, East Somerset Bill Crawford retired with Sept 2019 issue.
Jan 2020 added Gwynedd Travelling Sessions list: local sessions
May 2020 David retires as Shropshire correspondent
§ East & Mid Devon, East Somerset Bill Crawford retired with Sept 2019 issue.
Jan 2020 added Gwynedd Travelling Sessions list: local sessions
May 2020 David retires as Shropshire correspondent
FOLKLIFE CORRESPONDENTS and OTHER VOLUNTEERS
The Editors : Sam & Eleanor Simmons
• Illustrations, Chris Beaumont • Logos, Chris Stewart • Photographs, Eden Tanner, Colin Davies.
• And for our Folklife Traditions pages in Folklife West, we are regularly indebted to Doc Rowe for his list & pictures, to Roy & Leslie Adkins, and to Ian Pittaway, for articles; and to Charles Menteith and to Gwilym Davies for songs with notes; and to others from time to time, as listed in FT.
From 2019 January, Meurig Williams on Welsh instrumental music, and from 2019 May, Helen Adam, Welsh tunes.
The Editors : Sam & Eleanor Simmons
• Illustrations, Chris Beaumont • Logos, Chris Stewart • Photographs, Eden Tanner, Colin Davies.
• And for our Folklife Traditions pages in Folklife West, we are regularly indebted to Doc Rowe for his list & pictures, to Roy & Leslie Adkins, and to Ian Pittaway, for articles; and to Charles Menteith and to Gwilym Davies for songs with notes; and to others from time to time, as listed in FT.
From 2019 January, Meurig Williams on Welsh instrumental music, and from 2019 May, Helen Adam, Welsh tunes.
Correspondents
CYMRU / WALES • Cymru/Wales page …...............… Mick Tems • North-East Wales & Cheshire Brian Bull • Gwynedd Travelling Sessions list: local sessions • SE, NW, Midlands ……. volunteers welcome • Welsh-language folk ………. volunteers welcome ENGLAND, WEST COUNTRY Kernow / Cornwall & Devon Cornwall ........................................................... Mike Walford South Devon ................................................. Martyn Hillstead Somerset & Dorset, and Wilts (includes BANES, N.Som., Swindon) North Dorset & South Somerset John Waltham • Wiltshire………. volunteer welcome Bristol, S. Glos, and Gloucestershire • Bristol / S Glos volunteer welcome; meanwhile Chipping Sodbury Folk Night’s ‘Folk News’ local venues list Roving: Folklife area & beyond ....... Cresby aka Mr Red Gloucestershire & nearby notes in brief ............... Bill Pullen |
Correspondents
ENGLAND, SOUTH / WEST MIDLANDS Herefordshire and Worcestershire SW Herefs, occ. nearby Wales ................ John & Jane Baxter [Worcestershire has several news pages so no Correspondent needed ! ] Shropshire, Birmingham & Nearby (Nearby: currently = Walsall, Tamworth) and Warwickshire (+Coventry) & Oxfordshire Shropshire with Telford & Wrekin ........ David Harley local venues list *** *** David has now moved, last column May 2020 == we welcome a volunteer for either Shropshire, or S .Shropshire & N. Herefs South Birmingham & Nearby .............................. Bob Bignell Warwickshire with Coventry .............................. Malc Gurnham Cotswold Folk: S.Warks / N.Cotswolds + listings.... Paul Bryan • Oxfordshire volunteer welcome; meanwhile we have Folk Arts Oxford website listings ......... local notes We also cover "and ELSEWHERE" but no Correspondents |
⊕ we thank our team, all volunteers
- MORE Correspondents welcome - COVER an area, as listed above, OR a SPECIAL INTEREST (eg morris, concertina, social dance … ), within above areas
- DETAILS BELOW
In memory of Roy Palmer, left, a generous contributor of researched articles for our Folklife Traditions pages, freely donated for for over 30 years, from the days of FW’s predecessor, the Somers’ Broadsheet, Aug 1983, to 2014.
And in memory of Tony Slinger, centre, former Bristol Correspondent; and of John Taylor, right, our Worcs & Herefds Sessions Correspondent for many years; a tribute to John appears on http://jt-evening.weebly.com |