Special note:  Folklife West, Nº 66, 1 Jan 2021  News Online only!

"Folklife Traditions" pages in print & copied online, ​Membership-subscriptions credited as smaller issue
• Standard 1 year Membership = 3 printed issues (each covers 4 months)

See  Folklife Newsletter (on UPDATES page)  for details

​Do join us  ---  New Members:  £16 (£18 - £2 credit for Jan. being a smaller issue) - 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 ​(£18 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, only Directory listings from our supportive Members are publicised.

Free publicity* for folk clubs, Zoom, performers, services, during lockdown
We welcome enthusiasts! ​​​​
* Other UK:  sign up below!  for (free) Newsletter mailing list,
when signed up, you can send your news (up to 200 words) to sam@folklife.uk
3 weeks notice for dates to circulate in Newsletter.  By email please, not Zoom chats  (we can't easily copy chats) 

Keep in touch with

A form for Folklife Newsletter, and/or for new Folklife members

DATA POLICY (opt-in, opt-out), please see Data webpage
NEW permissions only (so if any changes, please email instead)

For detailed online DIRECTORY listings, Folklife membership required, ​£18/year 

​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.

"OTHER UK, and WORLD"  webpage on our DIRECTORY site

Below, our NEWS pages include Members' 1-line summaries from our Member's 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 £18 a year UK, see Info webpage

‡‡  Pandemic:  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 other areas of England, and Scotland -- enthusiasts who have signed up for our mailing list and  have sent news/information.

Other areas of England, ​and Scotland 
news pages below   --or--     download these PDFs 
DATES & UPDATES at foot, below news pages

Two PDF files to download    (1) Members' news (pp47-49);   (2) Online Extra

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Our printed SUMMARY list of our Members, above, 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:  Other areas
      
* RED: new/revised listings (= since last FW), details confirmed √    * GREEN: new/revised listings, TBC

Other areas of England, and Scotland, 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
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Other areas of England, and Scotland, Members:   PERFORMERS

FOLK 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
South-East   Sussex    BLACKTHORN BAND                                     www.blackthornband.org      Fergus McClelland    01273 455202 

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

Pf.1c    Folk Music & Song - Solo    
South-East    Sussex    MARTYN WYNDHAM-READ                           https://dandadesign.co.uk        Martyn Wyndham-Read     01252 719556
East Midlands  Notts   STEVE TURNER    ............................                       www.steve-turner.co.uk            Steve Turner                      0115 9430333


FOLK DANCE

Pf.2b    Folk Dance Bands 
South-East   Sussex    BLACKTHORN BAND                                     www.blackthornband.org      Fergus McClelland    01273 455202 

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Other areas of England, and Scotland, Members:  MEDIA
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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.
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Other areas of England, and Scotland, Members:  SERVICES

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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 ]

East Midlands  Notts    TURNER VIOLINS, BEESTON   .........................                                 www.turnerviolins.co.uk        Shop                     0115 9430333

South-East       West Sussex HOBGOBLIN MUSIC, mail order    www.hobgoblin.com     Mail Order     0845 130 9500
       Our main area of Wales, West County, West Midlands
       •  2 shops within our main area, HOBGOBLIN BIRMINGHAM see under West Midlands region and HOBGOBLIN BRISTOL see under Bristol, SG, Glos
•  Hobgoblin shops in other areas of England, and Scotland
•  South-East       East Sussex  HOBGOBLIN BRIGHTON   01273 760022
•  South-East       Kent      HOBGOBLIN CANTERBURY 01227 769484   
•  South-East       London  HOBGOBLIN LONDON  020 7323 9040
•  South-East       Hampshire  HOBGOBLIN SOUTHAMPTON 023 8023 1099
•  Yorks+Humb    Leeds   HOBGOBLIN LEEDS               0113 245 3311 
•  North-West      M'c'r      HOBGOBLIN MANCHESTER  0161 273 1000
•  Scotland          Edinburgh HOBGOBLIN EDINBURGH 50 St Patrick Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9EZ  0131 667 8241 
• 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 £18 a year! see p 3)  includes listings & your publicity & FW posted to you

Our SUMMARY list of VIRTUAL FOLK ---- ONLINE VERSION - that is, with live WEBLINKS in blue

VIRTUAL FOLK: OTHER UK AREAS  

England ① South-East (inc London), ③ E.Mids,  East, ③ North (NE, NW, Yorks+Humber); and  ④ Scotland

​​Ø     Normally, only Folklife members  Ø   listed, as we  - er -  need money coming in to keep going.  So if you can spare £18 a year to help . . 
‡‡  Exceptionally  . . .  we now list      ‡‡ others' Zoom sessions,  free,  if  you've signed up for our Newsletter mailing list (top of page)

• Would you like to publicise your Zoom or other virtual session ?   We can draft a listing for you based on your website etc details
• To be be added:  ​simply sign up for our free emailed Newsletter Updates webpage [top of page] and then email  sam@folklife.uk

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List order :  first, Day varies; ​then Sun. to Sat.   To avoid spam, we put <at> for @,   please revert to @

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​Virtual Folk:  England: South-East (incl. London)
​
DAY VARIES; SUNDAY 
--- none as yet
MONDAY
‡‡  London.  FOLK AT THE CASTLE, Harrow, weekly, Monday.  Opens 7.45pm for Singing 8pm to 10.30pm.   We are now running weekly singarounds using Zoom, and approximately once a month are featuring a booked guest.  To be added to the distribution list for log-in details each week send an e-mail to oldtimetim(*at*)gmail.com, or sign up using the form on our ‘contact’ page on https://herga.club/
TUESDAY
‡‡  London.- SHARPS FOLK CLUB, Sharp's in Isolation Zoom session - every Tuesday.  Each evening is recorded - catch up with all of our lockdown singarounds on YouTube on youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvqDn8d3uUq1a3Wk87Q9GMsW87L6qdFqJ 
Contact Amanda on sharpsfolkclub <at> gmail.com to join the mailing list. ​
WEDNESDAY
‡‡  Hampshire.  SOUTHAMPTON:  Virtual FOCSLE MUSIC, weekly, Wednesdays, 8pm.   For Zoom link, please see the website focsle.org/virtual_index.php   FOCSLE Music now meets virtually, via Zoom.  Join us and our international music friends (incl. some professionals) each Wednesday 8pm (UK). 
THURSDAY
‡‡  Kent.  VIRTUAL FOLK AT THE DRUM, weekly, 7.30pm - 11pm,  meeting opens at 7.15pm.   For Zoom joining details, check the website folkatthedrum.co.uk 
FRIDAY
‡‡  Kent.  DEAL FOLK CLUB, weekly, Friday.  Opens 7.45pm for Singing 8pm to 10.30pm.    Deal Folk Club is now meeting online on Friday evenings for a singaround.  For details of Zoom and latest news, please see our website,  www.dealfolkclub.org.uk
SATURDAY
‡‡  London - THE HARRISON SINGAROUND, last Saturday of the month, 4pm - 7pm, see the Harrison Singaround Facebook page: facebook.com/groups/harrisonsingaround/   To receive the link, either go to this Facebook page, or get in touch with Sophie Crawford at sophie <at>glimmertheatre.co.uk to be added to the mailing list.   [added 27 Jul 2020]​
‡‡   London - SHANTIES AND SEA SONGS with London Sea Shanty Collective, weekly, 7pm - 9pm, see https://twitter.com/LondonShanty   Contact via Twitter or email shantycollective <at> gmail.com to join.​ ​​
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Virtual Folk:  England East Midlands and East regions welcome
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Virtual Folk:  North of England.  (1) N-E.  (2) N-W.  (3) Yorks & Humber.

left:    North-West.  Cumbria - Alston. ALSTON HOUSE FOLK SESSION
right:  North-East.   Newcastle upon Tyne.  
​PHOENIX FOLK TUNES SESSIONS, PHOENIX FOLK SINGAROUND ​

England:  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)
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​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  
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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) 

Virtual Folk: England: 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)

Virtual Folk:  Yorks & Humber entries welcome.
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Virtual Folk:  SCOTLAND
none as yet, but note under England: North-West  above
Friday
‡‡  North-East - GAELIC SINGING WORKSHOPS - Weekly Fridays, 6.30pm - 8pm.  see above for details

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LATEST NEWS, so not included in downloadable-PDF of pages (above). 

At least 3 weeks notice for dates, please - we can then circulate in our Folklife Newsletter. 
​By email, not Zoom chats please - we can't easily copy info from chats 

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FW Deadlines

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☞    ●   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

other areas of England, ​and Scotland:
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; 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 the other areas of the UK.
and you?   FW discounts are available for resellers (6 or more, £2 for £3) - see Info page

Info page (ad rates & membership)

index to all News pages on homepage

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

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

Other areas of England, ​and Scotland: member-Festivals.

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.   

​AUGUST                MOIRA FURNACE FOLK FESTIVAL
www.moirafurnacefolkfestival.co.uk               near Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire

​AUGUST               JIM IN JOHN’S GARDEN.                      http://dulcimer.org.uk/calendar.html
Granborough, Aylesbury, Bucks

SEPTEMBER          SOUTHDOWNS FOLK FESTIVAL.         www.southdownsfolkfest.co.uk
BOGNOR REGIS, West Sussex.     16 - 19 September 2021

​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

Martyn Wyndham-Read

Steve Turner

Turner Violins 
Beeston, Nottingham






some Folklife members

For many years, Folklife has used woodcut-style illustrations by
​Joseph Crawhall of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1821-1896)