About Folklife publishers, and Folklife West

Note The map-image below is partly out of date § a revised version to follow, meanwhile an updated list of correspondents below this image.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

Eden Tanner (left) and Colin Davies have joined us as volunteer photographers. As you'll see in FW.

If no Correspondents yet, we sometimes offer free Membership and 1 copy of FW per issue in exchange with local list-providers (currently applies to Bristol area, and to Oxfordshire)
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.
Correspondents
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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
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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

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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