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UPDATES, UK & international,  see our Updates & Newsletters webpage: @ Updates
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​◊ Header Tar Barrels, Ottery St Mary, © Colin Davies - see our site Folklife Traditions: Seasonal
​◊ Insert Padstow's Hobby Horse  FW May 2019 cover  © Doc Rowe      ◊ Insert Minehead Hobby Horse © J K Simmons [the editor], as used in "FW" headings
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Folklife Members' Virtual Folk, West Country :  
Subject to change, please check with organisers, we may not have been told.    To avoid spam, we put <at> for @,   please revert to @

Note that some member-venues that normally  welcome visitors are not publicly listing Zoom sessions here  . . . 
​Sunday
🄵     Cornwall - DREAMERS FOLK CLUB - Weekly on Sundays, live on Zoom.  We manage access to our zoom sessions so folk can see each other and interact, preserving some of the Club atmosphere. So we keep around 2/3 of our seats for those who have supported us regularly and ask others to contact ntmorson <at> aol.com in advance if they want to come along on any particular night.  Hoping to have e-guests once a month.
Also check www.dreamersfolk.uk 
Wednesday
🄵    Wilts:  Highworth - WHITE HORSE FOLK CLUB on Zoom.   We meet 1st & 3rd Wednesdays about 7.45pm for 8pm, and the contact is Geoff Davies 01793 706753.
Thursday  
🄵     Devon - BIDEFORD FOLK CLUB:  recordings on bidefordfolkclub.com/virtual-folk-club/
Friday 
​🄵  ​ ​Cornwall - BODMIN FOLK CLUB Virtual Open House, every Friday, 8pm – 10.30pm.  Email bodminfolk<at>yahoo.com for details.    www.bodminfolk.co.uk

🄰  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

West Country News from Folklife members (except Glos.: separate webpage)       

Bewnans Gwerin - Kesskrifer  Kernow  / Folklife - Correspondent Cornwall
    We were so sorry to hear the sad news about Mike Walford, Folklife West's Cornish correspondent [see Newsletter, 16 September].   His contributions were much appreciated, as was his tremendous support and promotion of folk music in Cornwall and the wider world, including the Cornwall Folk Festival and the various clubs and sessions in which he was involved.
    We are very pleased to announce that Nigel Morson (pictured left) has kindly agreed to take on this role.  Nigel is an active performer and one of the MCs at the well-known Dreamers Folk Club (www.dreamersfolk.co.uk).  
    Please contact Nigel at ntmorson <at> aol.com                               [15/11/2020]
 Sarah McQuaid

Us’d luv to zee ‘ee!

Tywardreath Morris
​Rob Barratt 
 Top of page pictures, & here: ◊ Tar Barrels, Ottery St Mary, © Colin Davies - see our site Folklife Traditions: Seasonal
​ ◊ Padstow's Hobby Horse  FW May 2019 cover  © Doc Rowe   ◊ Minehead Hobby Horse © J K Simmons [the editor], as used in "FW" headings
Bob & Gill Berry
Devizes Folk Club
Dave & Anni
Swindon Folk Club
Eli's (the Rose & Crown) traditional singaround
Chipping Sodbury Folk Night, 
​Jo Cullum.  ​We thank CSFN for the use of their "Folk News" for area listings.​
Martyn Hillstead, South Devon Correspondent
Dragon Folk Club
 Correspondents : ​ North Dorset and South Somerset, John Waltham, Dorset born singer, song collector and organiser of Trooper Song Sessions, Dorset Song Weekends,
​ and occasional one-off events,as well as guesting at a few Scots and Irish festivals. 01963 362890, jhnwaltham<at>yahoo.co.uk
Yer ‘tis!
​NEWS PAGES below cover:  
--- ➀ Venues  --- ➁ Performers   --- ➂ Media   --- ➃ Services  --- ➄  Workshops Providers
    --- ➅  Members' Festivals & Workshops Diary, ads & fully-detailed diary listings:  Festival & Workshop webpage
    --- ➆ Folklife Societies, ➇ Folklife Studies & Institutions, ➈ Seasonal Celebrations:  Folklife Traditions website

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.
Annual Membership is £18 a year, for posted UK (but £2 credit for this smaller issue), or for PDF via WeTransfer worldwide, see Info webpage or email sam@folklife.uk
West Country: Members' Updates 
​-- not included in news pages & May issue pdf, below

Somerset
🄵 Sam - hope you're OK.  Just to let you know that we would hope to get going at Eli's, Huish Episcopi in September.  The pub isn't opening until the end of June so we may have a one-off before we get going properly again.  It'll just be nice to get together with some human contact if Mr. Johnson's plan comes to fruition.  We've been enjoying plenty of what's app song sessions but I think they've run their course now. 
Best wishes
Rod         18/5/2021

Devon and Cornwall
🄵 Bideford Folk Club, at the Joiners Arms, Bideford, N. Devon EX39 2DR will be meeting weekly once again from 8pm on Thursday 5th August. 
Full guest list on our website ( https://bidefordfolkclub.com/ ) starting with the wonderful Steve Turner on 23rd September. Welcome back, everyone!    (15/7/21)
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West Country News from  Folklife members

News pages below, ​or download this PDF:
west_country_67_v2.pdf
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 Printed LISTINGS (above) are summaries from the DETAILED LISTINGS in our online DIRECTORY, here's the links:
West Country online DIRECTORY - FULL LISTINGS for our FOLKLIFE MEMBERS - 2 webpages -
FW Deadlines
☞    ●   1 Jan :  19 Nov 
☞    ●   1 May :  19 Mar
☞    ●   1 Sep :  19 Jul
FW usually has 60 to 64 pages, printed, A4-size.
​FW has 3 sections: News & Listings;, as below; 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 available at
  • Bodmin Folk Club​
  • Bideford Folk Club (us’d luv to zee ‘ee!),
  • various Pennymoor sessions
  • Topsham Folk Club
  • Teignmouth Folk Club, Martyn is our South Devon Correspondent​
  • Village Pump Friday Folk
  • Nailsea Folk Club
  • ​The Trooper Folk Song Night.
and you? FW discounts are available for resellers (6 or more, £2.25 for £3) - see Info page

FW Library Reference Copies sent to
  • Swindon Central Library (Local Studies & Family History);  Exeter Central Library, to Torquay Reference Library, and to Plymouth Central Library (Music & Drama 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
  • a reference copy is sent to North Somerset library branches:  Weston-super-Mare Library, Clevedon, Nailsea, Portishead, The Campus, Weston-super-Mare, Worle
  • Our policy is to supply FWOn to library areas with advertising clubs - such as North Somerset (but sadly many councils no longer have the resources to distribute them for us)
  • ​​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
  • 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, Truro, Wadebridge.
● we're a non-profit group; to continue, we need your support, by membership or advertising - details top of page
We are now working with FOLK IN CORNWALL
​magazine, sharing news and information.

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

THE ACOUSTIC CALENDAR

Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Glos, Hampshire, Somerset, Wilts
       The monthly calendar of folk clubs, singarounds, acoustic sessions & open mics:  all about DIY music (not concerts, gigs, ceilidhs, etc).  Its purpose is to keep you informed of all the places where you can take your voice and/or instrument and join in or do your own thing.
       It has two parts: (1) monthly Calendar of events;  (2) alphabetical Venues List, giving a fuller description & contact details for each venue.  Each part can be downloaded in pdf format.  The Calendar can also be downloaded in a Word version so you can customise it according to your local requirements.
​        If you’d like my more-or-less twice monthly Acoustic Calendar Updates delivered to your inbox, let me know, using the contact form on the website.                              ® Tony Watts,  http://sanchobramble.weebly.com
● we're a non-profit group; to continue, we need your support, by membership or advertising - details foot of page
FT55 advert from Roy & Lesley Adkins, Devon-based authors and contributers to FW's articles in the Folklife Traditions pages. See our Folklife Traditions website
Article below from FW 59, Oct 2018, Folklife Traditions pages
or Download below:
devon-dance.pdf
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South-West Festivals & Workshops
Festivals Diary & Workshops Diary 
follow the news pages in the printed FW 
​ . . . online, full details on  Festivals & Workshops Diary webpage
            Chippenham Folk Festival   (from a festival advert)
June            The PENNYMOOR SONG AND ALE               Facebook:  Pennymoor Singaround
​Pennymoor SAR → see FW Devon news pages above 
→    MORCHARD BISHOP: The London Inn, Morchard Bishop, Devon, EX17 6NW.

May             CHIPPENHAM FOLK FESTIVAL                      www.chippfolk.co.uk
→    CHIPPENHAM, Wiltshire.  Various venues around the town.

June             TEIGNMOUTH FOLK FESTIVAL                     www.teignmouthfolk.co.uk 
→    TEIGNMOUTH, Devon.  

June             WEST SOMERSET FOLK FESTIVAL               www.westsomersetfolkfestival.co.uk
→    CARHAMPTON, Somerset.  
Carhampton Recreation Hall, Carhampton Recreation Ground.

July           PRIDDY FOLK FESTIVAL                                www.priddyfolk.org
→ PRIDDY near WELLS, Somerset.   Village Green.

August         DARTMOOR FOLK FESTIVAL                               www.dartmoorfolkfestival.org.uk
→    SOUTH ZEAL, near Okehampton, Devon.  In the foothills of Dartmoor.      

August          CORNWALL FOLK FESTIVAL                               www.cornwallfolkfestival.com
→    WADEBRIDGE, Cornwall.  Numerous venues throughout the town.      

October       BARING-GOULD FOLK WEEKEND                     www.baring-gould.co.uk
→    OKEHAMPTON, Devon.  Held in comfortable indoor venues in the old market town of Okehampton, nestling on the northern slopes of Dartmoor.
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Every Issue, we cover Member-Festivals for the next 12+ Months !
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