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Folklife Members' Virtual Folk, Other UK :  
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🄵  Sunderland - THE STUMBLE INN FOLK & ACOUSTIC AFTERNOON - 4th Tuesdays, 2.10pm for 2.30pm
      So that we can meet virtually and have a catch-up and sing a few songs. The meeting will open at 2.10pm to allow for chat before the singing
      starts at 2.30pm.  The link will be posted on Facebook during the weekend before that date.
      All welcome, whether Stumble Inn regulars or not, to share a song, tune, poem etc. or simply to come along and listen.  Eileen Richardson
         Further information: www.facebook.com/stumbleinnfolk 
        Contact Stumble Inn Folk and Acoustic Afternoon on Messenger or email eileenrich<at>hotmail.com 
   
🄰  Folklife's UK & World list of Virtual Folk includes both members & non-members, see  our complete LIST for ALL AREAS on our VIRTUAL FOLK webpage.
​       Non-Folklife members can publicise virtual activities:  we can draft a listing for you, based on your website details.   
       To be be added:  sign up for our free emailed Newsletter, top of page, and then email  sam@folklife.uk

🄰   Kent - DEAL FOLK CLUB        Deal Folk Club will continue on Zoom until October. Our website www.dealfolkclub.org.uk will be kept updated with the latest information and any changes that should occur.  Sue Watson, 19/7/21.

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Copies of pages from FW, Folklife West print magazine  (news from Folklife members)

​The NEWS PAGES below cover:  --- ➀ Venues  --- ➁ Performers   --- ➂ Media   --- ➃ Services  --- ➄  Workshops Providers-
    --- for ➅  Members' Festivals & Workshops Diary, adverts and fully-detailed diary listings  - see our Festival & Workshop webpage
    --- for ➆ Folklife Societies, ➇ Folklife Studies & Institutions, ➈ Seasonal Celebrations - see our Folklife Traditions websitepage
We welcome enthusiasts!   folk clubs, Zoom, performers, media, services, workshop providers

Exceptionally, free publicity, in print, for "Other UK areas" (so not Wales; England South-West, Oxon, West Midlands)

if signed up to our Newsletter mailing list - before 19 August.
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      We're always glad to hear from enthusiasts who would like to join us at Folklife magazine (3 per year), for your news plus your Members' Directory listings.

🄰  Associates = free = signed up to our emailed Folklife Newsletter (1 or 2 a month), with news updates & deadline-reminders
       🄰  To sign up, just email sam@folklife.uk 'Opt In’, + your country or England region.   Or  use form at the foot of page to opt in.                   
              Opting in to Newsletter means we make the best use of our resources by saving us admin time (avoids us sending reminders etc individually)
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​• Your folk enthusiasm will interest our readers - and we look forward to being able to travel ...
• For those who run a (currently closed) club/session -  we welcome a few words about what the club/session is like in normal times.  Something to look forward to!     
• Normally up to 200 words text (200 not counting heading, picture/logo, contact) to sam@folklife.uk, we can help you draft it / suggest text.
• 3 weeks notice for dates to circulate in Newsletter.     By email please, not Zoom chats  (as we can't easily copy chats).
​          • AUG 19 is October FW print-deadline.   • Contributions from 🄵 Folklife members + 🄰  'Associates' only
          • Please do contribute news now while we are online-only, for Updates Newsletter & copied to this webpage, this can be revised for next issue, or just be repeated
          • You can tell your friends if they want to join the list.
Martyn Wyndham-Read

Right:  Turner Violins, Beeston, Nottingham;
           Morley Folk Club
​some Folklife members
from 'other UK' areas
Stumble Inn Folk and Acoustic Afternoon, Sunderland

L-R :   Keith Gregson; Linn Phipps; Steve Turner

"Other UK" -- Updates -- not included in news pages & May issue pdf, below

EAST MIDLANDS
🄵 ​Steve Turner gigs
04-Jul-21   Folk in a Field Festival, Bradmoor Woods, West Acre, Kings Lynn, Norfolk PE32 1UL
11-Jul-21    Clovelly Maritime Festival, Clovelly, Devon
18-Aug-21  Over Hulton Folk Club Conservative Club, St Helens Road, Over Hulton, Bolton BL5 1AA. 07841 288238
02-Sep-21 Thursday to 05-Sep-21 Sunday  Settle Folk Gathering, Settle, North Yorkshire
17-Sep-21  🄵 Swindon Folk Club, RAFA Club, 41-43 Belle Vue Road, Swindon SN1 3HN   http://steve-turner.co.uk/gigs


SCOTLAND
🄵 ​THE LIVING TRADITION MAGAZINE
Issue 139 is the June / July 2021 issue of The Living Tradition magazine, featuring articles on Martin Simpson, Damien O'Kane, Jock Duncan, Gatehouse, Adam Sutherland, The Pearson Collection, Honoria Tomkins Galwey, Willie O Winsbury, George Townshend, The Strathspey And The Reel, A Brief History Of Tenterden Folk Club, Tales from Malcolm Storey, Transatlantic Connections, news, reviews and more.  Subscription available from £36 for 10 issues, or individual issues available.  www.livingtradition.co.uk.

"Other UK" News from  Folklife members

News pages below, ​or download this PDF:
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 Printed LISTINGS (above) are summaries from the DETAILED LISTINGS in our online DIRECTORY, here's the links:
Other areas of UK online DIRECTORY - FULL LISTINGS for our FOLKLIFE MEMBERS - webpage -
Folklife * Beatha Dùthchail
ɸ   If you've signed up to our emailed Newsletter, your "Other UK" news welcome (up to 200 words), to sam@folklife.uk  - see top of page
ɸ   Dates: 3 weeks notice for dates to circulate in Newsletter. By email please, not Zoom chats (as we can't easily copy chats on our iPad)
Other News online-only, from those not signed up.     Not included in printed pages & PDF download above.

‡   Other entries (not signed up):  since not on our mailing list, we may not be in touch regularly, in which case may be outdated . . .

​Being phased out, so no new contributors accepted unless signed up as above.


SOUTH-EAST:   BERKSHIRE

MAIDENHEAD FOLK CLUB ‡ The New Inn, 1 Farm Road, Maidenhead,  SL6 5HX. 
Every Thursday, 8.30pm
        In normal times, Maidenhead Folk Club meets every Thursday evening at 8.30pm at The New Inn. We present one or two paid guest performers each month. The remaining weeks are singers’/musicians’ nights, open to anyone wishing to perform, where all kinds of acoustic styles, both contemporary and traditional, may be heard. New faces are always welcome, whether you want to sing, play or just listen and maybe join in a chorus or two.
    For more information and the latest news, visit our website at www.maidenheadfolkclub.org or find us on Facebook @maidenheadfolkclub.            Mark


LONDON

FOLK AT THE CASTLE ‡ The Castle, 30 West Street, Harrow, Middlesex, HA1 3EF               Mondays, 8pm
    The Club will now remain closed due to the Corona Virus epidemic for the forseeable future. However, 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/                        For more details see  https://herga.club/

HARRISON SINGAROUND ‡ 28 Harrison Street, Kings Cross, London, WC1H 8JF.     Last Saturdays,5pm-8pm     Currently on Zoom - details below
    The Harrison Singaround is a friendly folk singing session where everyone from everywhere is welcome to bring a song, singalong or just listen. Songs, instruments and poems all welcome! Originally founded by the folk musician Sophie Crawford who was raised with the folk tradition and recorded a collection of songs learnt from Singarounds on her album ‘Silver Pin’. It is now run by a dedicated team of folkies too!
    Zoom: still last Saturday of the month, but now 6pm-9pm UK time, 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 s.u.crawford<at>gmail.com to be added to the mailing list.                                                           Sophie Crawford
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SHARP'S FOLK CLUB ‡ Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regents Park Road, London, NW1 7AY. - except in August when Sharp's Summer Season takes place in a local pub.
              Every Tuesday, 8pm
    Following national rules on Covid-19 and the current closure of Cecil Sharp House, the club will be closed until further notice. However, we continue to meet online every Tuesday evening. Videos of previous sessions are available on our YouTube channel,
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvqDn8d3uUq1a3Wk87Q9GMsW87L6qdFqJ
or follow link from www.sharpsfolkclub.co.uk .   
    Contact Amanda on sharpsfolkclub <at> gmail.com to join the Zoom mailing list. 
    Most evenings at Sharps are singers' nights, which means that anyone is welcome to volunteer to sing, play an instrument, tell a story, etc. Evenings are run by one of a rota of MCs who invites singers and musicians to perform in turn. About once a month a guest artist is booked; the programme (on website) lists forthcoming bookings.
    At various times Time Out magazine has said of Sharps:
• This long-standing, friendly and enjoyable club. • Hugely enjoyable evenings of song and music making.  • One of the friendliest, worthiest traditional folk clubs left in London.
    The club takes place in the licensed bar which serves real ales.
    Each evening begins at 8pm. Admission is £4 per person (£3.50 for performers) on singers' nights, and on guest nights usually £6 (£5).
    For further information contact: Sheila Finn, 4a Kenilworth Road, Petts Wood, Orpington, Kent BR5 1DY; 01689 825263; or email Sharp's Folk Club info@sharpsfolkclub.co.uk, www.sharpsfolkclub.co.uk, https://twitter.com/sharpsfolkclub1?lang=en

​NORTH-EAST

VIRTUAL THURSDAY ZOOM SESSION ‡ Central Bar, Gateshead.
Weekly Thursdays, 1.00pm.  
Meeting number is  895 8997 2620 and pass number id 015239.  
Ged Moore

​NORTH-WEST

ALSTON HOUSE FOLK SESSION ‡ Alston, Cumbria.
1st Tuesdays, 8pm until at least 11pm 
    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).
            For Zoom invitation, please email  Phil, harley.science <at> btinternet.com
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​BRAMPTON FOLK SESSIONS ‡  The Howard Arms, Front Street,  Brampton, near Carlisle, Cumbria  CA8 1NG.     3rd Tuesdays, 8pm
    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
    Zoom:  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.  For Zoom invitation, please email kmvandenbergstewart<at>gmail.com


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For current status, & updates, check Festivals & Workshops Diary webpage
Every Issue, we cover Member-Festivals for the next 12+ Months !   Those who are Members get very detailed listings.
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​JULY               CLECKHEATON FOLK FESTIVAL  NOT THIS YEAR      www.cleckheatonfolkfestival.org            West Yorkshire
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  NOT THIS YEAR                  http://dulcimer.org.uk/calendar.html     Granborough, Aylesbury, Bucks
SEPTEMBER   SOUTHDOWNS FOLK FESTIVAL.                               www.southdownsfolkfest.co.uk              BOGNOR REGIS, West Sussex
MARCH            SPRING FLING Dulcimer Workshop Weekend                  http://dulcimer.org.uk/calendar.html         DENEHOLME, Allendale, Northumbria
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