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🄵🅆 ​magazine
West Country
(South West​)
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​Folklife Members'

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​Kernow / Cornwall
Devon;  
Wilts, Swindon;

Somerset, NE Som, BANES;  Dorset; 
Bristol, S Glos.
Gloucestershire


Tar Barrels, Ottery St Mary, © Colin Davies, see our website 
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Folklife Traditions: Seasonal

Folk News
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UPDATES webpage  + emailed updates

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.

We don't pass on details: for data policy see Data webpage :  for updates, we collect only email, names, + country, or English region, we don't need your address etc unless also buying a magazine, that info is kept on a separate file.

​On right:  a form to sign up to Folklife Updates
​                and/or for new Folklife members


OR  --- simply email same details to sam@folklife.uk
     
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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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FREE LISTINGS in our DIRECTORY

www.folklife-directory.uk
 
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  • VENUES:  How often [e.g. Wkly, 1st],  Day,  County,  TOWN, NAME, website,  + optional contact name + optional phone ​
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FOLKLIFE WEST: BY POST 
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--- FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS JOURNAL
BY POST.  (PDF free see website)
••• x1: May
2023 issue --- UK: £3, or EU: £5, or rest of world £6.50
••• Subscriber: 1 copies of 3 issues. --- UK: £9, or EU £15, or rest of world £19​
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----  Adverts from 1/8 A4 mono [£10] to A4 colour
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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
    --- for Members' Festivals & Workshops, adverts and fully-detailed diary listings  - see our Festival & Workshop webpage
    --- for Folklife Societies, Folklife Studies & Institutions, Seasonal Celebrations - see our Folklife Traditions website

FW is a 40-page print magazine, including pages below.  FW as a PDF: only £3 (sent via We Transfer; A4 or US letter-page).
Even better, read the real thing - FW in print !  post, £6; EU £9; world £11.  BACS, cheque, or card - details green box above.
Annual Membership: always glad to hear from enthusiasts who'd like to join us at Folklife magazine (3 / year), publishing your Members' news. 
--- Just £9/year for 
PDF via WeTransfer worldwide; free downloads of Folklife Traditions Journal from its website folklife-traditions.uk
--- OR  £18/year posted (£27 EU) ​for 3 FW issues + 2 
Folklife Traditions Journal !  Details green box above.        *** CONTACT sam@folklife.uk

​Read pages below together with UPDATES webpage, see button--->
UPDATES webpage
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Keep in touch with our free emailed occasional Updates
  • Updates: News, Directory, Folklife Traditions (& deadline reminders!) 
  • 6 to 12 a year, you'll get information updates, -- and reminders to check your details haven't changed, thus we keep details up-to-date.
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Data policy​ (opt-in/out): 
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From the "Folklife" non-profit group of volunteers.
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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 ​
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​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]
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Our acting Cornish correspondent David Harley
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Tywardreath Morris
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 Sarah McQuaid
left: Bodmin FC
right:                                                Dreamers Folk
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​Rob Barratt 
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​Padstow's Hobby Horse, FW May 2019 cover © Doc Rowe ​◊see our site Folklife Traditions: Seasonal

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We are now working with 
FOLK IN CORNWALL  ​magazine, sharing news and information.
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Us’d luv to zee ‘ee!

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◊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
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Dave & Anni
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Eli's (the Rose & Crown) traditional singaround





​Swindon Folk Club
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Chipping Sodbury Folk Night, 
​Jo Cullum.  ​
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Dragon Folk Club
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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
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 Folk at the Club, Churchdown, © Eden Tanner
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 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 
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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.
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​Our Roving Correspondent :

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


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

☞    ●   1 Jan :  20 Nov 
☞    ●   1 May :  20 Mar
☞    ●   1 Sep :  
20 Jul
● we're a non-profit group
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● to continue, we need your support, by membership or advertising - details top of page
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
Info page (ad rates & membership)
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
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  • ⎈ Updates, & send news
  • 🄵🅆 News (area pages index)
    • 🄵🅆 Cymru
    • 🄵🅆 West Country
    • 🄵🅆 Midlands (East & West)
    • 🄵🅆 South-East, London, East
    • 🄵🅆 North (NE, NW, Y&H)
    • 🄵🅆 Alba•Scotland
  • 🄵🅆 Festivals, Workshops
  • ⎈ International
    • ⎈ International Archive
  • ⎈ Info
    • Data
    • Sizes
  • ⎈ Our other websites
    • Journal website
    • Directory website
    • Zoom / Virtual (Directory site)
    • Homend Poets