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Keeping folk in touch 

with our free emailed occasional Updates
with News, Directory, Folklife Traditions -- & Deadline Reminders !
 
​Updates are added to Updates webpage, then if still timely are added to next emailed Updates to those opted-in.

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This is useful for you, with Updates for News, Directory, & Folklife Traditions (& deadline reminders). 

And knowing our online readership's folk interests, and country or for England, regions, helps us to help you with resources.
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Yer ‘tis!     West Country News from Folklife members

FW: FOLKLIFE WEST: our news pages below cover:  Venues, Performers, Media, Services, Workshops Providers
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From the "Folklife" non-profit group of volunteers.
And also from Folklife West publishers:--

our online   folklife-directory.uk -- free entries for all!

That Directory website has Venues, Performers, Media, Services, Workshop Providers
Details + up to 40 words description --- no dates on Directory website ​

​Bewnans Gwerin - Kesskrifer  Kernow  / Folklife - Correspondent Cornwall
Our thanks to David, for this issue acting as Kernow/Cornwall Correspondent.     We’d like a new volunteer  to write 350 to 700 words every 4 months. ​  Free Folklife Membership plus we'll send you 3 copies of every issue plus print your news. ​
Contacts:   David  david.a.harley <at> gmail.com;   editor sam@folklife.uk  [1/1/2023]
Our acting Cornish correspondent David Harley
Tywardreath Morris
 Sarah McQuaid
left: Bodmin FC
right:                                                Dreamers Folk
​Rob Barratt 
​Padstow's Hobby Horse, FW May 2019 cover © Doc Rowe ​◊see our site Folklife Traditions: Seasonal
We are now working with 
FOLK IN CORNWALL  ​magazine, sharing news and information.

Us’d luv to zee ‘ee!

◊Top of page+here Tar Barrels, Ottery St Mary, © Colin Davies, see site Folklife Traditions: Seasonal
​◊  Insert Minehead Hobby Horse © J K Simmons [the editor], as used in "FW" headings
Dave & Anni
Eli's (the Rose & Crown) traditional singaround





​Swindon Folk Club
Chipping Sodbury Folk Night, 
​Jo Cullum.  ​
Dragon Folk Club
SaDFolk    SOMERSET AND DORSET FOLK DIARY    www.sadfolk.co.uk 
    Subscribe or email via website. The Somerset and Dorset Folk Diary (or SaDFolk) is based around a weekly email service, listing ‘folk’ events in Somerset and Dorset. The term ‘event’ covers concerts, barn dances, sessions, workshops and any other folk related activity.       Steve Cunio
 Folk at the Club, Churchdown, © Eden Tanner
 The Folk Diary of events, www.glosfolk.org.uk, is well worth
  a visit to keep up with what is going on in the county and
  nearby, with
  over 200 events listed most months.
      * Diary is fully searchable for ease of use,  
        Membership/e-mail listing is free,
​        entries in the Folk Directory, and Glos Folk Diary,
​        are also free.
  Campden Morris Dancers 
Centre: Happenstance Border Morris        
Right:   Lassington Oak Morris dancers, May Hill, Glos:, ​sunrise, May Day 2016  
            © Eden Tanner, 2016.  
            In fond memory of Roy Stirzaker; Roy is the rightmost dancer above.
​Our Roving Correspondent :

“Mr Red” (Cresby):  
Mid-West,
​& other areas

​Mr Red listings --- http://mister.red
Print Deadlines

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☞    ●   1 May :  20 Mar
☞    ●   1 Sep :  20 Jul
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FW available at
  • Bodmin Folk Club​
  • Dreamers Folk Club
  • Bideford Folk Club (us’d luv to zee ‘ee!),
  • various Pennymoor sessions
  • Village Pump Friday Folk
  • Nailsea Folk Club
  • Forest Folk Club
  • Stroud Queen Vic Song Session,
  • and from our widely-travelled Correspondent Cresby who is to be found at many Glos venues!
  • and from me if I'm at Cheltenham Folk Club,  Folk At The Club, and at the Winchcombe Folk Night
and you? FW discounts are available for resellers (6 or more @ £2.40 for £3 each) - see Info page
Folklife Traditions Journal --- Library Reference Copies sent to these central / main libraries
Cornwall:   Truro Community Library
Devon:       Exeter Central Library, Torquay Reference Library,Plymouth Central Library (Music & Drama Library),
Wiltshire:   Swindon Central Library (Local Studies & Family History);
North Somerset: Weston-super-Mare Library
Somerset: Yeovil Library -  Performing Arts Library (2nd floor)
Bristol:      Central Library
Glos:         Cheltenham Library and Gloucester Library​​

"Folk What's On" (simply a leaflet made up of the ads from FW) 
  • Several free copies of "Folk What's On" are sent to Halsway Manor