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NEWS PAGES below cover:  --- ➀ Venues  --- ➁ Performers   --- ➂ Media   --- ➃ Services  --- ➄  Workshops Providers
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    --- for ➆ Folklife Societies, ➇ Folklife Studies & Institutions, ➈ Seasonal Celebrations - see our Folklife Traditions website

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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 Sep :  20 Jul
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FW has around 60 pages, printed, A4-size
​FW has 2 sections: News, as this page; also Festival & Workshop Diary; and the Folklife Traditions Journal.
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 pages - is on this site.

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 (incl. all Folklife West adverts) 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​​

For other libraries, "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
  • a reference copy is sent to these library branches (our policy is to supply FWOn to library areas with advertising clubs -  but sadly many councils (eg Glos) no longer have the resources to distribute them for us) - May 2023 distributed as below, to end with May 2023 issue
    • ​Cornwall libraries: Bodmin, Bude, Camborne, Cornish Studies Library (Redruth), Cornwall Performing Arts Library (St Austell), Falmouth, Hayle, Helston, Launceston, Liskeard, Newquay, Penzance, Redruth, Saltash, St Austell, St Ives, Torpoint,, Wadebridge.
    • ​​​Devon libraries: Barnstaple, Bideford, Braunton, Crediton, Cullompton, Dawlish, Exmouth, Honiton, Ilfracombe, Ivybridge, Newton Abbot, Okehampton, Ottery St. Mary, Seaton, Sidmouth, St. Thomas, Tavistock, Teignmouth, Tiverton, Topsham, Totnes
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