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From FOLKLIFE MEMBERS & ADVERTISERS, in print, copied online:
Folklife Traditions (researched articles). Festivals & Workshops Diary, incl. paid-for display adverts.
But May issue's News online only whilst folk clubs are shut. See homepage for details
Looking forward to resuming fully-printed Folklife West!
FTJ, Folklife Traditions Journal pages. 1st Sept, online. Articles & Folklife News (publications, societies) deadline passed. News updates for this page welcome***
Folk news, festivals/workshops diary: 1st Oct, print magazine. We have delayed a month, so we can produce a printed magazine √
Deadline 19 August instead of 19 July, for publication Oct, instead of Sept. To include above FTJournal pages as published online 1 Sept, plus *** any Folklife News updates.
From FOLKLIFE MEMBERS & ADVERTISERS, in print, copied online:
Folklife Traditions (researched articles). Festivals & Workshops Diary, incl. paid-for display adverts.
But May issue's News online only whilst folk clubs are shut. See homepage for details
Looking forward to resuming fully-printed Folklife West!
FTJ, Folklife Traditions Journal pages. 1st Sept, online. Articles & Folklife News (publications, societies) deadline passed. News updates for this page welcome***
Folk news, festivals/workshops diary: 1st Oct, print magazine. We have delayed a month, so we can produce a printed magazine √
Deadline 19 August instead of 19 July, for publication Oct, instead of Sept. To include above FTJournal pages as published online 1 Sept, plus *** any Folklife News updates.
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On this site: 🄵🅆 Festivals & Workshops Diary, then FOLK NEWS pages follow --- Cymru/Wales🄵🅆 Cymru/Wales
England 🄵🅆 South-West region 🄵🅆 Glos-Oxon 🄵🅆 West Midlands region 🄵🅆 Herefs-Worcs
England+Scotland 🄵🅆 Other UK news also from 'Other UK' Associates (= those signed up for free Newsletter) - if signed up by 19 Aug 2021.
⎈ International (online extra) news from Associates (= those signed up for free Newsletter) - online only so no deadline.
⎈ Zoom List webpage, Zoom Directory, open to all - online only so no deadline.
⎈ Directory, online, detailed listings from our Members, with links to area Directory webpages (same areas as news, UK).
England 🄵🅆 South-West region 🄵🅆 Glos-Oxon 🄵🅆 West Midlands region 🄵🅆 Herefs-Worcs
England+Scotland 🄵🅆 Other UK news also from 'Other UK' Associates (= those signed up for free Newsletter) - if signed up by 19 Aug 2021.
⎈ International (online extra) news from Associates (= those signed up for free Newsletter) - online only so no deadline.
⎈ Zoom List webpage, Zoom Directory, open to all - online only so no deadline.
⎈ Directory, online, detailed listings from our Members, with links to area Directory webpages (same areas as news, UK).
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LATEST UPDATES since last Newsletter.
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Never had an issue like this where so much is unknown, I had hoped that by delaying from Sep to Oct, things would be clearer!
WEST COUNTRY --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 West Country
Cornwall
Sarah McQuaid I’m very happy to announce that my new album The St Buryan Sessions, recorded and filmed live in lockdown in St Buryan Church, Cornwall, will be released Friday 15 October on CD and limited-edition double LP. I’ll be doing a very special album launch benefit concert that day, in — and for — St Buryan Church. In order to make it accessible for all in the local community, no entrance fee will be charged, but there will be a voluntary retiring collection for church funds. A six-week UK-wide tour will follow the album launch and continue through the end of November; see http://www.sarahmcquaid.com/tour for details of all shows. 15/8/21
Devon
Totnes Folk Song Club. We plan to open Totnes Folk Song Club on Thursday 14th October (all being well). Still 2nd Thursday in the month at The Dartmouth Inn, Totnes. 8.00pm. Singers Night. Best wishes. Anne 12/8/21
Bideford Folk Club has resumed its regular Thursday nights each week from 8pm at The Joiners Arms, Market Street, EX31 2 DR. All welcome to sing, say, play, listen and enjoy. Pub drinks, tea, coffee and cushions abound - a warm, Bideford welcome awaits. Also, plenty of fresh air, too whilst the weather allows!
Special guests booked so far are: Steve Turner - a nationally renowned fine singer and musician with a long and distinguished pedigree - appearing on Thursday, 23rd September (doors open just after 7pm) We can promise impeccable concertina and string playing to accompany this superb singer. Next up will be Moor Music - the collective might of traditional Dartmoor singers, musicians and step dancers, on Thursday 28th October. This'll be a 'proper job evenin,' me dears, daunee miss it'. Not only will there be playing and singing of the highest quality, but also world championship standard Dartmoor step-dancing to test the very fabric of the building! Now you can't want better than that for a night out, can you? So come along and enjoy the show. Al 15/8/21
Somerset
Eli's, Huish Episcopi Hello, Sam - a bit of information for you on Eli's Traditional Singarounds. The pub is unfortunately closing in October for a period of around 6 months. The bad news is that the three siblings who run the pub are retiring. The good news is that it's being taken over by one of the sons who currently lives abroad. This means that the pub will have been in the same family for over 100 years and it will have minimal physical changes.
We'll run our normal September session and then obviously close until the grand re-opening.
Best wishes to you. Rod, 14/8/21
Wiltshire
Groups and Shanty Groups
🄰 Wilts FRIGGITT www.friggitt.co.uk
New contact details: Chris Turpin, 07766492415, christurpin2016<at>gmail.com
Friggitt perform songs and tunes from the nautical tradition and beyond.
Bristol & S Glos
The Redcatch Club in Bristol will be reopening on 11th September. See website https://redcatchclub.vistaprintdigital.com/ for details. Cheers Trevor 13/8/21
WEST MIDLANDS --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 W. Mids
Birmingham
Black Diamond Folk Club, The Lamp Tavern, 157 Barford Street, Highgate, B5 6AH. Friday, weekly, 8pm.
Following the coronavirus epidemic we are intending to reopen the club from 3rd September.
Most nights will be singers' nights, but we are hoping to have some guest nights. However, given the current level of uncertainty information on guests will only be published on our website: http://blackdiamondfolkclub.org.uk
In view of the need for social distancing numbers will be limited and admittance by invitation.
If you would like an invitation please contact Paul Ryan at contact<at>blackdiamondfolkclub.org.uk or by telephoning 0121 357 7326.
OTHER UK AREAS --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 Other UK
Other UK areas: London
🄰 NEW ASSOCIATE Sea Shanty Singaround Session
Hi Eleanor & Sam,
I'm very pleased to announce that the monthly sea shanty sessions in central London, hosted by The HogEye Men, are to resume in September.
The details are as follows:-
Sea Shanty Singaround Session, The Horseshoe Inn, 26 Melior Street London, SE1 3QP
The pub is a 5 minute walk from London Bridge Station and the session takes place in the upstairs room.
12 noon until 3pm.
Whilst songs of the sea set the scene, all types of folk music - song or tune - are welcome.
Confirmed dates are:-
September 19th, October 17th & November 21st
(always the 3rd Sunday, but never in August)
Hopefully we may meet up there one day.
Kind Regards,
Mike Green 15/8/21
Other UK areas: London
🄰 NEW ASSOCIATE, London - SHARPS FOLK CLUB, weekly, Tues - returns to live in September
Zoom Weekly - last Tuesday one 31/8/21 -- but may have a less frequent Zoom on another day TBC, see ZOOM LIST below
Other UK areas: North West
🄰 NEW ASSOCIATE, NEW WEBSITE Cumbria - Brampton (near Carlisle) - BRAMPTON FOLK SESSIONS, Third Tuesdays, 8pm. For Zoom invitation please email
kmvandenbergstewart<at>gmail.com There is a monthly theme, for details see website www.laverocks.org.uk Singers and players of all
standards, and listeners are welcome to this friendly Sing-Around. For more information phone Katy on 01434 298792.. (new website, new phone 30/8/2021)
WEST COUNTRY --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 West Country
Cornwall
Sarah McQuaid I’m very happy to announce that my new album The St Buryan Sessions, recorded and filmed live in lockdown in St Buryan Church, Cornwall, will be released Friday 15 October on CD and limited-edition double LP. I’ll be doing a very special album launch benefit concert that day, in — and for — St Buryan Church. In order to make it accessible for all in the local community, no entrance fee will be charged, but there will be a voluntary retiring collection for church funds. A six-week UK-wide tour will follow the album launch and continue through the end of November; see http://www.sarahmcquaid.com/tour for details of all shows. 15/8/21
Devon
Totnes Folk Song Club. We plan to open Totnes Folk Song Club on Thursday 14th October (all being well). Still 2nd Thursday in the month at The Dartmouth Inn, Totnes. 8.00pm. Singers Night. Best wishes. Anne 12/8/21
Bideford Folk Club has resumed its regular Thursday nights each week from 8pm at The Joiners Arms, Market Street, EX31 2 DR. All welcome to sing, say, play, listen and enjoy. Pub drinks, tea, coffee and cushions abound - a warm, Bideford welcome awaits. Also, plenty of fresh air, too whilst the weather allows!
Special guests booked so far are: Steve Turner - a nationally renowned fine singer and musician with a long and distinguished pedigree - appearing on Thursday, 23rd September (doors open just after 7pm) We can promise impeccable concertina and string playing to accompany this superb singer. Next up will be Moor Music - the collective might of traditional Dartmoor singers, musicians and step dancers, on Thursday 28th October. This'll be a 'proper job evenin,' me dears, daunee miss it'. Not only will there be playing and singing of the highest quality, but also world championship standard Dartmoor step-dancing to test the very fabric of the building! Now you can't want better than that for a night out, can you? So come along and enjoy the show. Al 15/8/21
Somerset
Eli's, Huish Episcopi Hello, Sam - a bit of information for you on Eli's Traditional Singarounds. The pub is unfortunately closing in October for a period of around 6 months. The bad news is that the three siblings who run the pub are retiring. The good news is that it's being taken over by one of the sons who currently lives abroad. This means that the pub will have been in the same family for over 100 years and it will have minimal physical changes.
We'll run our normal September session and then obviously close until the grand re-opening.
Best wishes to you. Rod, 14/8/21
Wiltshire
Groups and Shanty Groups
🄰 Wilts FRIGGITT www.friggitt.co.uk
New contact details: Chris Turpin, 07766492415, christurpin2016<at>gmail.com
Friggitt perform songs and tunes from the nautical tradition and beyond.
Bristol & S Glos
The Redcatch Club in Bristol will be reopening on 11th September. See website https://redcatchclub.vistaprintdigital.com/ for details. Cheers Trevor 13/8/21
WEST MIDLANDS --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 W. Mids
Birmingham
Black Diamond Folk Club, The Lamp Tavern, 157 Barford Street, Highgate, B5 6AH. Friday, weekly, 8pm.
Following the coronavirus epidemic we are intending to reopen the club from 3rd September.
Most nights will be singers' nights, but we are hoping to have some guest nights. However, given the current level of uncertainty information on guests will only be published on our website: http://blackdiamondfolkclub.org.uk
In view of the need for social distancing numbers will be limited and admittance by invitation.
If you would like an invitation please contact Paul Ryan at contact<at>blackdiamondfolkclub.org.uk or by telephoning 0121 357 7326.
OTHER UK AREAS --- copied to Webpage 🄵🅆 Other UK
Other UK areas: London
🄰 NEW ASSOCIATE Sea Shanty Singaround Session
Hi Eleanor & Sam,
I'm very pleased to announce that the monthly sea shanty sessions in central London, hosted by The HogEye Men, are to resume in September.
The details are as follows:-
Sea Shanty Singaround Session, The Horseshoe Inn, 26 Melior Street London, SE1 3QP
The pub is a 5 minute walk from London Bridge Station and the session takes place in the upstairs room.
12 noon until 3pm.
Whilst songs of the sea set the scene, all types of folk music - song or tune - are welcome.
Confirmed dates are:-
September 19th, October 17th & November 21st
(always the 3rd Sunday, but never in August)
Hopefully we may meet up there one day.
Kind Regards,
Mike Green 15/8/21
Other UK areas: London
🄰 NEW ASSOCIATE, London - SHARPS FOLK CLUB, weekly, Tues - returns to live in September
Zoom Weekly - last Tuesday one 31/8/21 -- but may have a less frequent Zoom on another day TBC, see ZOOM LIST below
Other UK areas: North West
🄰 NEW ASSOCIATE, NEW WEBSITE Cumbria - Brampton (near Carlisle) - BRAMPTON FOLK SESSIONS, Third Tuesdays, 8pm. For Zoom invitation please email
kmvandenbergstewart<at>gmail.com There is a monthly theme, for details see website www.laverocks.org.uk Singers and players of all
standards, and listeners are welcome to this friendly Sing-Around. For more information phone Katy on 01434 298792.. (new website, new phone 30/8/2021)
Updates for webpages not included in the printed magazine
🄲 Iaith Gymraeg/Welsh Language 🄰 Associates (those signed up to Newsletter), 'UK Other Areas' & 'International'
Due to pressures of producing a full print magazine (as before covid), new entries only from Folklife members or Associates
🄲 Iaith Gymraeg/Welsh Language 🄰 Associates (those signed up to Newsletter), 'UK Other Areas' & 'International'
Due to pressures of producing a full print magazine (as before covid), new entries only from Folklife members or Associates
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⎈ Zoom List webpage updates
"It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that an organisation, wishing to publicise a zoom session in Folklife, will tell the editors. It is universally acknowledged, that they might not tell the editors, when it stops."
Some will stop, others continue, others hybrid (eg live & zoom). We note some smaller sessions are going outside when fine weather (at short notice, so you'll have to check). We'll update as and when we're told!
South West region
🄵 Wilts: Highworth - WHITE HORSE FOLK CLUB. We meet 4th Wednesdays about 7.45pm for 8pm, and the contact is Geoff Davies 01793 706753. (revised 30/8/2021, was 1st & 3rd)
Other UK - North West
🄰 NEW ASSOCIATE, NEW WEBSITE Cumbria - Brampton (near Carlisle) - BRAMPTON FOLK SESSIONS, Third Tuesdays, 8pm. For Zoom invitation please email
kmvandenbergstewart<at>gmail.com There is a monthly theme, for details see website www.laverocks.org.uk Singers and players of all
standards, and listeners are welcome to this friendly Sing-Around. For more information phone Katy on 01434 298792.. (new website, new phone 30/8/2021)
Other UK - South East & London
🄰 NEW ASSOCIATE, CHANGE OF DAY TBC London - SHARPS FOLK CLUB, Sharp's in Isolation Zoom session - every Tuesday. Each evening is recorded - catch up with all of our lockdown singarounds on YouTube on youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvqDn8d3uUq1a3Wk87Q9GMsW87L6qdFqJ
Contact Amanda on sharpsfolkclub <at> gmail.com to join the mailing list.
Last one 31/8/21 as going live -- but may have a less frequent one on another day TBC
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⎈ Directory webpage updates
West Country - performers https://www.folklife.uk/s-w-directory-2.html
• Wiltshire-based under Groups and under Shanty Groups
🄰 Wilts FRIGGITT www.friggitt.co.uk Chris Turpin 07766492415
⇒ christurpin2016<at>gmail.com
⊕ Friggitt perform songs and tunes from the nautical tradition and beyond.
⎈ Zoom List webpage updates
"It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that an organisation, wishing to publicise a zoom session in Folklife, will tell the editors. It is universally acknowledged, that they might not tell the editors, when it stops."
Some will stop, others continue, others hybrid (eg live & zoom). We note some smaller sessions are going outside when fine weather (at short notice, so you'll have to check). We'll update as and when we're told!
South West region
🄵 Wilts: Highworth - WHITE HORSE FOLK CLUB. We meet 4th Wednesdays about 7.45pm for 8pm, and the contact is Geoff Davies 01793 706753. (revised 30/8/2021, was 1st & 3rd)
Other UK - North West
🄰 NEW ASSOCIATE, NEW WEBSITE Cumbria - Brampton (near Carlisle) - BRAMPTON FOLK SESSIONS, Third Tuesdays, 8pm. For Zoom invitation please email
kmvandenbergstewart<at>gmail.com There is a monthly theme, for details see website www.laverocks.org.uk Singers and players of all
standards, and listeners are welcome to this friendly Sing-Around. For more information phone Katy on 01434 298792.. (new website, new phone 30/8/2021)
Other UK - South East & London
🄰 NEW ASSOCIATE, CHANGE OF DAY TBC London - SHARPS FOLK CLUB, Sharp's in Isolation Zoom session - every Tuesday. Each evening is recorded - catch up with all of our lockdown singarounds on YouTube on youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvqDn8d3uUq1a3Wk87Q9GMsW87L6qdFqJ
Contact Amanda on sharpsfolkclub <at> gmail.com to join the mailing list.
Last one 31/8/21 as going live -- but may have a less frequent one on another day TBC
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⎈ Directory webpage updates
West Country - performers https://www.folklife.uk/s-w-directory-2.html
• Wiltshire-based under Groups and under Shanty Groups
🄰 Wilts FRIGGITT www.friggitt.co.uk Chris Turpin 07766492415
⇒ christurpin2016<at>gmail.com
⊕ Friggitt perform songs and tunes from the nautical tradition and beyond.
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Our latest Folklife Traditions Journal, 1 Sep 2021,
is available today for you to read online and/or download as a PDF.
FTJ: Folklife Traditions Journal - Folk studies and cultural traditions Researched articles + archive, news, on separate website, www.folklife-traditions.uk
FTJ copied online: www.folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html, to read, or download PDF. This Sep FTJ will be printed in Oct Folklife West, along with Members' folk news.
FTJ has 18 pages including 7 researched articles - a record ! Plus News, Folklife Studies & Traditions: books, recordings announced; Societies.
FW’s FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS JOURNAL Our aims include stimulating a wider interest in folk studies & folk culture: the FT pages
18 A4 pages (in print, 0pp colour, 18pp mono; online & PDFs, some pages in colour)
is available today for you to read online and/or download as a PDF.
FTJ: Folklife Traditions Journal - Folk studies and cultural traditions Researched articles + archive, news, on separate website, www.folklife-traditions.uk
FTJ copied online: www.folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html, to read, or download PDF. This Sep FTJ will be printed in Oct Folklife West, along with Members' folk news.
FTJ has 18 pages including 7 researched articles - a record ! Plus News, Folklife Studies & Traditions: books, recordings announced; Societies.
FW’s FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS JOURNAL Our aims include stimulating a wider interest in folk studies & folk culture: the FT pages
18 A4 pages (in print, 0pp colour, 18pp mono; online & PDFs, some pages in colour)
- Article: The modern myth of Bosch’s butt music, by Ian Pittaway, pp4-7
- Article & songs: ‘The Cherry Tree Carol - Part 2’ and ‘Part 3’, by Charles Menteith. (Part 2, p8-9; Part 3, p10-11) pp8-11
- Article: Some song sources for a semi-professional folk singer in the 1970s. Includes song & notes: ‘I Trudged Up To London’ (by Ewan Clark, 1785). By Keith Gregson, pp12-13
- Song & notes: ‘Long A-Growing’, sung by Harry Brazil. By Gwilym Davies, p14
- Welsh traditional tune & notes: ‘Walts Trefforest’ / ‘The Treforest Waltz’, from Helen Adam, p15
- Songs’ notes: ‘The singing birds’. Three songs sung by Merêd and Phyllis Kinney, by Nia Mai Daniel, p16
- Obit: John Shaw, p9
- Trac, p2; TSF, p2; Folklore Society, p2; Folk21, p13; EFDSS VWM Library, p17
- The Roots of Welsh Border Morris, p2;
- Tunelines, p2
- Llyfr Alawon DnA Tune Book, Delyth & Angharad Jenkins, p17
- The Forgotten Songs of the Upper Thames: Folk Songs from the Alfred Williams Collection, Ed. Martin Graebe, p17
- Blues From The Avon Delta, Mark Jones, p17
- Saydisc, 'Matchbox Bluesmaster Series', set 4, p17
- List 7, Folklife Societies: Assoc'ns, Trusts, Organisations, p18
- List 8, Folklife Studies & Institutions, p19
- List 9, Seasonal Local Celebrations, May-Sep, a list & photos, mostly by Doc Rowe, p20
webpages not included in the printed magazine
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⎈ Zoom List webpage (https://www.folklife.uk/zoom.html) replaces ⎈ Virtual Folk webpage
We will maintain zoom sessions & singarounds listings, open to all - Members, plus those who have signed up for this Newsletter.
As we return to normal printing, as print news expands, we have less time, as we prioritise our Folklife members - who pay for Folklife.
So... for other "Virtual Folk" such as Facebook concerts:
UK - from Folklife members only - see area Folk news webpages; International - open to all (this Newsletter list) ~ see International webpage
Accordingly, we've renamed the "⎈ Virtual Folk" webpage as "⎈ Zoom List".
⎈ Zoom List webpage (https://www.folklife.uk/zoom.html) replaces ⎈ Virtual Folk webpage
We will maintain zoom sessions & singarounds listings, open to all - Members, plus those who have signed up for this Newsletter.
As we return to normal printing, as print news expands, we have less time, as we prioritise our Folklife members - who pay for Folklife.
So... for other "Virtual Folk" such as Facebook concerts:
UK - from Folklife members only - see area Folk news webpages; International - open to all (this Newsletter list) ~ see International webpage
Accordingly, we've renamed the "⎈ Virtual Folk" webpage as "⎈ Zoom List".
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@ emailed 12 Aug 2021 (members & our area non-members)
@ emailed 13 Aug 2021 (non-members, other UK areas & international) A few items below not included as dated event now passed |
FTJ: Folklife Traditions Journal. Researched articles + archive, news, on a separate website, www.folklife-traditions.uk
Folk studies and cultural traditions. Current FTJ issue copied online: www.folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html, read, or download PDF.
A record 7 researched articles are being prepared for FTJ's September 1st online issue!
****** FTJ's September 1st online issue will be included as part of the Folklife West October 1st print issue.
The deadline has passed for Sept online issue, but further Folklife News welcome for Oct print issue, and these updates/newsletters.
Folk studies and cultural traditions. Current FTJ issue copied online: www.folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html, read, or download PDF.
A record 7 researched articles are being prepared for FTJ's September 1st online issue!
- Article: The modern myth of Bosch’s butt music, by Ian Pittaway.
- Article & songs: ‘The Cherry Tree Carol - Part 2’ and ‘Part 3’, by Charles Menteith.
- Article: Some song sources for a semi-professional folk singer in the 1970s. Incl. song & notes: ‘I Trudged Up To London’ (Ewan Clarke, 1785). By Keith Gregson.
- Song & notes: ‘Long A-Growing’, sung by Harry Brazil. By Gwilym Davies
- Welsh traditional tune & notes: ‘Walts Trefforest’ / ‘The Treforest Waltz’, from Helen Adam.
- Songs’ notes: ‘The singing birds’. Three songs sung by Merêd and Phyllis Kinney, by Nia Mai Daniel.
****** FTJ's September 1st online issue will be included as part of the Folklife West October 1st print issue.
The deadline has passed for Sept online issue, but further Folklife News welcome for Oct print issue, and these updates/newsletters.
Member-Festivals & Workshops Diary updates.
Copied online: www.folklife.uk/festivals.html, so read online or (new!) download PDF of the printed version in Folklife West May 2021. Very full details, to Oct 2022!
Some live; some online as noted, so overseas friends can join us.
🄵 2021 Aug 27 - 30 CORNWALL FOLK FESTIVAL in Wadebridge is live - www.cornwallfolkfestival.com
🄵 9-12 September 2021 BROMYARD FOLK FESTIVAL -- a message from the organisers updated Aug 2021
It gives me great pleasure to announce that this year’s festival will be running with a full programme of events. These will include Morris dance performances and ceilidhs or listening to the bands. The artists booked are dual purpose ceilidh/concert bands with callers.
The infrastructure remains the same but with larger more capacious marquees for the bar and music venues. The bar will offer table service and ordering drinks by app, this system has been tried and tested by our wonderful bar provider, Nigel from the Fleece. The staff will wear masks and have been vaccinated and/or tested daily. There will be more room for spreading out to eat, drink and sit to enjoy the atmosphere in a safer environment. We are committed to making our site as safe as possible, and will require your help to make this happen, by giving others space and using the hand sanitising points around the site.
We will be welcoming back our loyal regular food traders providing the usual range of excellent food and drink.
The exciting list of artists are raring to perform, you will not be disappointed. See https://www.bromyardfolkfestival.co.uk
Lynne, Dick, Dave, Ross, James and the organising team
🄵 October 22 – 24 2021. WREN MUSIC FOLK FESTIVAL ( formally the Baring-Gould Folk Weekend) www.wrenmusic.co.uk updated Aug 2021
→ OKEHAMPTON, Devon. Held in comfortable indoor venues in the old market town of Okehampton, nestling on the northern slopes of Dartmoor.
⌂ WREN MUSIC 01837 53754 Ebenezer Hall, North Street, Okehampton, EX20 1AR.
⊕ The festival is hosted by the professional musicians at Wren Music, in easy-access venues across the centre of the old market town of Okehampton, Devon. Over the weekend the artists and audience create one very special community. The weekend features concerts, workshops for singers and players, folk clubs and pub sessions. There will be a Saturday night Ceilidh and local dance sides performing across the weekend. The ‘Share the Stage’ concerts put you on the bill with the artists. This year Wren welcomes accordion players Mel & Kat Biggs, performing as a rare duo. Back by popular demand, international singer Lucky Moyo, who has performed for Nelson Mandela and Queen Elizabeth II. Also Scott Gardiner, an award-winning singer of Scottish folk and bothy ballads. You’ll also see local favourites and the full Wren Ensemble. All artists perform and run workshops across the weekend. There will be delicious home-cooked food and local ales available at all events. Join the special Saturday supper with the artists, games and fun, and Sunday features the annual Prize Conker Competition. There will be events specifically for families and all ages are welcome. Discounted tickets for groups and families. Information and booking: www.wrenmusic.co.uk/whats-on
🄵 2021 Oct TBA BARING-GOULD FOLK SONG SCHOOL updated Aug 2021
The Song School will be held later in 2022. Details TBC. www.wrenmusic.co.uk
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Folk News, area/country pages & webpages updates.
Print-pages images, + PDF download (May was online only; Oct. will be in print & copied online).
Cymru/Wales
🄵 Clwb Gwerin LLANTRISANT Folk Club
Hiya Sam,
We are here in Wales of course waiting for August 7th when we will find out if Drakeford is going to lift our restrictions. We held a social live folk club last night in our room at the Athletic Club to test the waters. We chatted a lot, played music and read poetry but of course NO SINGING! We had a real live raffle which was so funny as we all chanted the raffle chorus completely out of time with each other just like it would be on Zoom. Everyone really enjoyed it and we are having another in 2 week's time with a hope for opening the club again properly when we hear on August 7th. We held it on Tuesday so it wouldn't interfere with our Wednesday Zoom meeting.
When we do eventually open up, it will be on a Wednesday as normal and we will move the Zoom to a Tuesday. We have met so many people and made so many friends from all over the world, we don't want to stop the Zooms.
Keep an eye on the folkclub website : www.folk.wales and Facebook page www.facebook.com/pages/Llantrisant-Folk-Club/226706954032491 for details as it will be great to see you here in person.
X Pat
8/8/21 ---- UPDATE from Mick Tems
🄵 LYCEUM FOLK & ACOUTIC CLUB of NEWPORT going LIVE on 19th. LAST THURSDAY ZOOM 12th AUGUST
11 August 2021 11:56
Hi Everyone,
Well the time has come to welcome back live music to Lyceum Folk Club of Newport, so this will happen on Thursday 19th August 2021 at 8.30pm at CRINDAU Cons Club Malpas Road Newport.
Even though restrictions have been relaxed we are still being cautious.
We will have hand sanitiser and antibacterial wipes available. If anyone wants to bring their own mics please do so. We have washable mic socks available.
We will be taking names and contact details so that the Cons Club can adhere to their Risk Assessment.
Should you wish to continue to wear a mask, especially when moving around, please feel free to do so.
We have had 71 fantastic on line Thursdays since this all started and have made friends from all over the country and the world. We do not want to lose touch with these new friends so we will be continuing with Zoom on the third Tuesday of the month starting on 21st September. Emails will be sent nearer the date. Same Zoom code.
Our last Thursday Zoom will be our 72nd this Thursday 12th August.
Thank you to everyone for your support.
Hope to see you in person on Thursday 19th August 8.30 p.m.
Cheers
Andy & Ruth. xx
Do join us for our last Thursday Zoom
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2802265304
Meeting ID: 280 226 5304
For more details about our Zoom evenings, see "Lyceum Folk Club of Newport" on Facebook,
facebook.com/Lyceum-Folk-Club-of-Newport-213395425376402/ and on lyceumfolknewport.org.uk/ [added 4 Jul 2020]
West Country
We are very sorry to have to announce that the amazing Acoustic Calendar is closing. Thanks to Tony Watts for all his hard work.
We have been in touch with Tony for many years, and finally met at Eli's traditional singaround in Huish Episcopi, Somerset. There are many unexplained mysteries in the universe; the main one is how Tony managed to find the time to set up, maintain, and regularly send out such comprehensive venue listings and monthly calendars.
Tony writes:
It seems like over a year ago that I last wrote ‘Hello People’. And it is. Some of you may have hoped that I would soldier on through the pandemic as an ambassador for Zoom, keeping you in touch with any little pockets of virtual song that may have appeared over the past months. Also the live sessions that are now cautiously easing themselves back to normality. Alas, I did not, and here’s the reason.
Even before the pandemic I was thinking of retiring, and wondering how I could wind up the Acoustic Calendar without causing too much human misery. When Lockdown was imposed, I thought it was the perfect opportunity (or, if you like, excuse) to grasp the nettle by the horns and go for it. I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to come clean, but this is how it is. I was 80 last birthday and there are other things I want to do before I join the great music session in the sky.
Reviving the Acoustic Calendar would effectively mean building it up again from scratch. Nothing can be guaranteed to be still happening. Many pubs have closed for good and those that are open will not necessarily continue to host music or to operate according to their pre- covid schedules.
If anyone is mad enough to want to take it on, I would work with them initially, but a more realistic scenario might be for the AC to split into areas with different people responsible for each, rather than one person doing the whole thing.
The Venues List will remain on my website. Although it's now more of an historical document than a guide to what's currently happening, it should still be useful to anyone who wants to do their own research into what may or may not still be going on.
I intend to make my calendar templates, etc. available to anyone who wants to have a go at maintaining an acoustic calendar of their own.
The Acoustic Calendar, under it’s original title Tony & Peter’s Folk Diary, first saw the light of day in 2006. It began as a short private list of relatively local venues for my brother Peter and I to use in our exploration of the folk world (we did a lot of folking in those days). Since then, it has grown to embrace the whole west country peninsula and beyond. I soon realised that its potential was too great for merely private use and decided to give it to the world through the medium of a website and monthly newsletters. The rest, as they say, is history. Or is it? Ah, well, that depends on you. Any possible future the Acoustic Calendar may have now rests in the hands of anyone who cares to take it on, in whole or in part.
I realise this news is not what any of you want to hear. I know from a wealth of positive feedback that many of you found the Acoustic Calendar an invaluable guide to all the places you could go with your voices and instruments to have a good time making music. Some of you even claim to have enjoyed my attempts at humour!
I’d like to end with a big thankyou to those special few (you know who you are) who made a point of keeping me informed about new venues, changes of schedule and other information vital in keeping the Calendar reliable and up-to-date.
I enjoyed the trip while it lasted.
I love you all, Tony https://sanchobramble.weebly.com
Cornwall
Many Clubs and sessions in Cornwall are generally waiting till the crowds have gone home.
🄵 Our Kernow correspondent Nigel Morson of Dreamers Folk Club reports in the Dreamers Newsletter that "It looks as though some live events are beginning to take place though most Clubs are waiting a little longer." www.dreamersfolk.co.uk
🄵 John Tremaine of Folk in Cornwall magazine reports that "I only know of one session in Cornwall that has restarted - at the Countryman Inn near Redruth. My local Morris side has started meeting outside in a car park to practice. We have a couple of bookings in August, including Cornwall Folk Festival. Most people seems very cautious about resuming social events, particularly with the large number of visitors Cornwall gets in the summer." There is a Directory on the website where you can see venues on Zoom, venues that are live, www.folkincornwall.co.uk
🄵 Rob Barratt's next few gigs. See http://www.robbarratt.co.uk
September 18th - St Ives September Festival, Cornwall. in The Arts Club with Dave Richey. Improv comedy, musical comedy and comic poetry. 8pm.
September 20th - Appledore Book Festival, North Devon. Appledore Social Club, 7.30pm. A two-person show of comedy through performance poetry with Liv Torc. October 2nd - The Old Library, Bodmin, Cornwall. The Two Robbies Show with "Professor of Whimsy", Robert Garnham. An evening with two of the South West's funniest spoken word performers.
Dorset
Our Correspondent John Waltham reports:
🄵 Music sessions at the Trooper have been happening out of doors since May, and are now coming indoors for the winter. Still on the 4th Sunday of the month, but check timings with Mandy Waltham on 01963 362890 as these may change from afternoon to evening
🄵 The same applies to the Second Sunday song sessions, but these may well move permanently to another day - probably Wednesdays - and be held in the Old Barn (= skittle alley) at the back of the Trooper.
Monthly sessions at the Exchange in Sturminster Newton have resumed on the 3rd Thursday evening of the month - contact Neil Gillard on 1963 363816.
Wiltshire
🄵 White Horse Folk Club Highworth are pleased to say that we are opening in a new venue in September to allow more space for those who wish to socially distance.
All details remain the same except for a 7.30pm start and the venue is St Michael’s Hall Lechlade Road Highworth SN6 7HQ. Derrick and Chris Beer
Copied online: www.folklife.uk/festivals.html, so read online or (new!) download PDF of the printed version in Folklife West May 2021. Very full details, to Oct 2022!
Some live; some online as noted, so overseas friends can join us.
🄵 2021 Aug 27 - 30 CORNWALL FOLK FESTIVAL in Wadebridge is live - www.cornwallfolkfestival.com
🄵 9-12 September 2021 BROMYARD FOLK FESTIVAL -- a message from the organisers updated Aug 2021
It gives me great pleasure to announce that this year’s festival will be running with a full programme of events. These will include Morris dance performances and ceilidhs or listening to the bands. The artists booked are dual purpose ceilidh/concert bands with callers.
The infrastructure remains the same but with larger more capacious marquees for the bar and music venues. The bar will offer table service and ordering drinks by app, this system has been tried and tested by our wonderful bar provider, Nigel from the Fleece. The staff will wear masks and have been vaccinated and/or tested daily. There will be more room for spreading out to eat, drink and sit to enjoy the atmosphere in a safer environment. We are committed to making our site as safe as possible, and will require your help to make this happen, by giving others space and using the hand sanitising points around the site.
We will be welcoming back our loyal regular food traders providing the usual range of excellent food and drink.
The exciting list of artists are raring to perform, you will not be disappointed. See https://www.bromyardfolkfestival.co.uk
Lynne, Dick, Dave, Ross, James and the organising team
🄵 October 22 – 24 2021. WREN MUSIC FOLK FESTIVAL ( formally the Baring-Gould Folk Weekend) www.wrenmusic.co.uk updated Aug 2021
→ OKEHAMPTON, Devon. Held in comfortable indoor venues in the old market town of Okehampton, nestling on the northern slopes of Dartmoor.
⌂ WREN MUSIC 01837 53754 Ebenezer Hall, North Street, Okehampton, EX20 1AR.
⊕ The festival is hosted by the professional musicians at Wren Music, in easy-access venues across the centre of the old market town of Okehampton, Devon. Over the weekend the artists and audience create one very special community. The weekend features concerts, workshops for singers and players, folk clubs and pub sessions. There will be a Saturday night Ceilidh and local dance sides performing across the weekend. The ‘Share the Stage’ concerts put you on the bill with the artists. This year Wren welcomes accordion players Mel & Kat Biggs, performing as a rare duo. Back by popular demand, international singer Lucky Moyo, who has performed for Nelson Mandela and Queen Elizabeth II. Also Scott Gardiner, an award-winning singer of Scottish folk and bothy ballads. You’ll also see local favourites and the full Wren Ensemble. All artists perform and run workshops across the weekend. There will be delicious home-cooked food and local ales available at all events. Join the special Saturday supper with the artists, games and fun, and Sunday features the annual Prize Conker Competition. There will be events specifically for families and all ages are welcome. Discounted tickets for groups and families. Information and booking: www.wrenmusic.co.uk/whats-on
🄵 2021 Oct TBA BARING-GOULD FOLK SONG SCHOOL updated Aug 2021
The Song School will be held later in 2022. Details TBC. www.wrenmusic.co.uk
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Folk News, area/country pages & webpages updates.
Print-pages images, + PDF download (May was online only; Oct. will be in print & copied online).
Cymru/Wales
🄵 Clwb Gwerin LLANTRISANT Folk Club
Hiya Sam,
We are here in Wales of course waiting for August 7th when we will find out if Drakeford is going to lift our restrictions. We held a social live folk club last night in our room at the Athletic Club to test the waters. We chatted a lot, played music and read poetry but of course NO SINGING! We had a real live raffle which was so funny as we all chanted the raffle chorus completely out of time with each other just like it would be on Zoom. Everyone really enjoyed it and we are having another in 2 week's time with a hope for opening the club again properly when we hear on August 7th. We held it on Tuesday so it wouldn't interfere with our Wednesday Zoom meeting.
When we do eventually open up, it will be on a Wednesday as normal and we will move the Zoom to a Tuesday. We have met so many people and made so many friends from all over the world, we don't want to stop the Zooms.
Keep an eye on the folkclub website : www.folk.wales and Facebook page www.facebook.com/pages/Llantrisant-Folk-Club/226706954032491 for details as it will be great to see you here in person.
X Pat
8/8/21 ---- UPDATE from Mick Tems
- We are returning to weekly LIVE MUSIC events with… August 18, 2021: The Jigantics at the Pontyclun Institute Athletic Club, Castan Road, Pontyclun CF72 9EH.
- WEEKLY Zoomaround on Wednesdays now finished as Club reopens, but we don’t want to lose touch with all the new (and old) friends we’ve made over the country and the world – so our Zoomarounds will continue on the first Tuesday of each month, starting on Tuesday, September 7. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89787380016 Meeting ID: 897 8738 0016 – no password.
- September 22, 2021: Geoff Lakeman & Rob Murch
- October 20, 2021: Ryan Young and Chris Amer (Scotland)
- Rescheduled: November 17, 2021: Daoirí Farrell (Ireland)
- December 1, 2021: Quicksilver
- December 15, 2021: Christmas Party No. 1 with Chiefly Ourselves and a buffet
- December 22, 2021: Christmas Party No. 2 – Jackie Oates & John Spiers
- Rescheduled: January 12, 2022: Jack Dawgs (Wales)
- See http://folk.wales/updates/folk-club-wots-occurring
🄵 LYCEUM FOLK & ACOUTIC CLUB of NEWPORT going LIVE on 19th. LAST THURSDAY ZOOM 12th AUGUST
11 August 2021 11:56
Hi Everyone,
Well the time has come to welcome back live music to Lyceum Folk Club of Newport, so this will happen on Thursday 19th August 2021 at 8.30pm at CRINDAU Cons Club Malpas Road Newport.
Even though restrictions have been relaxed we are still being cautious.
We will have hand sanitiser and antibacterial wipes available. If anyone wants to bring their own mics please do so. We have washable mic socks available.
We will be taking names and contact details so that the Cons Club can adhere to their Risk Assessment.
Should you wish to continue to wear a mask, especially when moving around, please feel free to do so.
We have had 71 fantastic on line Thursdays since this all started and have made friends from all over the country and the world. We do not want to lose touch with these new friends so we will be continuing with Zoom on the third Tuesday of the month starting on 21st September. Emails will be sent nearer the date. Same Zoom code.
Our last Thursday Zoom will be our 72nd this Thursday 12th August.
Thank you to everyone for your support.
Hope to see you in person on Thursday 19th August 8.30 p.m.
Cheers
Andy & Ruth. xx
Do join us for our last Thursday Zoom
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2802265304
Meeting ID: 280 226 5304
For more details about our Zoom evenings, see "Lyceum Folk Club of Newport" on Facebook,
facebook.com/Lyceum-Folk-Club-of-Newport-213395425376402/ and on lyceumfolknewport.org.uk/ [added 4 Jul 2020]
West Country
We are very sorry to have to announce that the amazing Acoustic Calendar is closing. Thanks to Tony Watts for all his hard work.
We have been in touch with Tony for many years, and finally met at Eli's traditional singaround in Huish Episcopi, Somerset. There are many unexplained mysteries in the universe; the main one is how Tony managed to find the time to set up, maintain, and regularly send out such comprehensive venue listings and monthly calendars.
Tony writes:
It seems like over a year ago that I last wrote ‘Hello People’. And it is. Some of you may have hoped that I would soldier on through the pandemic as an ambassador for Zoom, keeping you in touch with any little pockets of virtual song that may have appeared over the past months. Also the live sessions that are now cautiously easing themselves back to normality. Alas, I did not, and here’s the reason.
Even before the pandemic I was thinking of retiring, and wondering how I could wind up the Acoustic Calendar without causing too much human misery. When Lockdown was imposed, I thought it was the perfect opportunity (or, if you like, excuse) to grasp the nettle by the horns and go for it. I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to come clean, but this is how it is. I was 80 last birthday and there are other things I want to do before I join the great music session in the sky.
Reviving the Acoustic Calendar would effectively mean building it up again from scratch. Nothing can be guaranteed to be still happening. Many pubs have closed for good and those that are open will not necessarily continue to host music or to operate according to their pre- covid schedules.
If anyone is mad enough to want to take it on, I would work with them initially, but a more realistic scenario might be for the AC to split into areas with different people responsible for each, rather than one person doing the whole thing.
The Venues List will remain on my website. Although it's now more of an historical document than a guide to what's currently happening, it should still be useful to anyone who wants to do their own research into what may or may not still be going on.
I intend to make my calendar templates, etc. available to anyone who wants to have a go at maintaining an acoustic calendar of their own.
The Acoustic Calendar, under it’s original title Tony & Peter’s Folk Diary, first saw the light of day in 2006. It began as a short private list of relatively local venues for my brother Peter and I to use in our exploration of the folk world (we did a lot of folking in those days). Since then, it has grown to embrace the whole west country peninsula and beyond. I soon realised that its potential was too great for merely private use and decided to give it to the world through the medium of a website and monthly newsletters. The rest, as they say, is history. Or is it? Ah, well, that depends on you. Any possible future the Acoustic Calendar may have now rests in the hands of anyone who cares to take it on, in whole or in part.
I realise this news is not what any of you want to hear. I know from a wealth of positive feedback that many of you found the Acoustic Calendar an invaluable guide to all the places you could go with your voices and instruments to have a good time making music. Some of you even claim to have enjoyed my attempts at humour!
I’d like to end with a big thankyou to those special few (you know who you are) who made a point of keeping me informed about new venues, changes of schedule and other information vital in keeping the Calendar reliable and up-to-date.
I enjoyed the trip while it lasted.
I love you all, Tony https://sanchobramble.weebly.com
Cornwall
Many Clubs and sessions in Cornwall are generally waiting till the crowds have gone home.
🄵 Our Kernow correspondent Nigel Morson of Dreamers Folk Club reports in the Dreamers Newsletter that "It looks as though some live events are beginning to take place though most Clubs are waiting a little longer." www.dreamersfolk.co.uk
🄵 John Tremaine of Folk in Cornwall magazine reports that "I only know of one session in Cornwall that has restarted - at the Countryman Inn near Redruth. My local Morris side has started meeting outside in a car park to practice. We have a couple of bookings in August, including Cornwall Folk Festival. Most people seems very cautious about resuming social events, particularly with the large number of visitors Cornwall gets in the summer." There is a Directory on the website where you can see venues on Zoom, venues that are live, www.folkincornwall.co.uk
🄵 Rob Barratt's next few gigs. See http://www.robbarratt.co.uk
September 18th - St Ives September Festival, Cornwall. in The Arts Club with Dave Richey. Improv comedy, musical comedy and comic poetry. 8pm.
September 20th - Appledore Book Festival, North Devon. Appledore Social Club, 7.30pm. A two-person show of comedy through performance poetry with Liv Torc. October 2nd - The Old Library, Bodmin, Cornwall. The Two Robbies Show with "Professor of Whimsy", Robert Garnham. An evening with two of the South West's funniest spoken word performers.
Dorset
Our Correspondent John Waltham reports:
🄵 Music sessions at the Trooper have been happening out of doors since May, and are now coming indoors for the winter. Still on the 4th Sunday of the month, but check timings with Mandy Waltham on 01963 362890 as these may change from afternoon to evening
🄵 The same applies to the Second Sunday song sessions, but these may well move permanently to another day - probably Wednesdays - and be held in the Old Barn (= skittle alley) at the back of the Trooper.
Monthly sessions at the Exchange in Sturminster Newton have resumed on the 3rd Thursday evening of the month - contact Neil Gillard on 1963 363816.
Wiltshire
🄵 White Horse Folk Club Highworth are pleased to say that we are opening in a new venue in September to allow more space for those who wish to socially distance.
All details remain the same except for a 7.30pm start and the venue is St Michael’s Hall Lechlade Road Highworth SN6 7HQ. Derrick and Chris Beer
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Bristol & South Glos
Obituary – John Shaw The traditional folk song scene in the Bristol area, and the mountain dulcimer world more widely, lost one of its most significant, eclectic and distinctive performers with the passing of John Shaw on 29th June aged 77. John moved to Bristol in 1968 with his wife, Angela, to pursue their careers in social work. John quickly developed a large and varied repertoire of mainly British but also American traditional songs and gained a reputation for interpreting them in his own particular style. John also began researching into Bristol’s musical heritage which resulted in 1982 in the production of a book, recording and stage show, ‘Alongside Bristol Quay’. He also became interested in the life and repertoire of Joseph Elliot from Todber and he recorded a number of his songs on an album, ‘Songs of a Dorset Fisherman’. The ‘electric folk’ movement was taking off and John, Angela and friends formed the group ‘Elecampane’ with him playing bass. The group quickly moved into what became known as ‘folk theatre’. During the recording of their first LP, ‘When God’s on the Water’, John purchased his first mountain dulcimer This instrument was to become a passion for the rest of his life. It is probably in his playing of it and its use for the accompaniment of his singing that he is best known. His wide repertoire, best illustrated in his own personal recordings, ‘Hourglass’, ‘Regional Curiosity’ and ‘Says Plato’ and on collaborations with the singer/ songwriter, Alan Kirkpatrick, was unique. He was a one-time Chair of the UK Nonsuch Dulcimer Society. John was also a founder member of the Bristol Shantymen, played bass with the celidh band ‘Jig Mad Wolf’, was the musical director of the West Gallery Group ‘Called To Be Saints’ and the unacknowledged leader of ‘The Hotwells Howlers’, a group that specialises in researching local and seasonal songs and staging multimedia folk productions. Another sideline was as a Punch and Judy man and he co-wrote Elecampane’s LP and stageshow, ‘The Further Adventures of Mr Punch’. John was a ’one-off’. A kind, gentle, modest, generous and considerate man, a loving husband to Angela, father to Cathy and Rosie and grandfather to Jim and Holly; the world is a lesser place without him. Dave Byrne. |
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Glos-Oxon
🄵 ROVING FOLK, Kempley Village Hall, opposite St Edward’s Church, Kempley, Glos, GL18 2BP. 1st Thu, 7.30pm (changed from 8pm start)
Firstly, thanks to Stephanie for keeping us all updated with news of our monthly meeting, be they live or by zoom for the past few years, many thanks, Steph.
John Hodgson and myself are taking on Steph’s various tasks. John is one of our entertaining and talented performers and taking on general record keeping and correspondence. I am just an enthusiastic audience participant, only joining in for the chorus, which is why I have volunteered for an admin role to send out the monthly email.
The Club never charges for its folk evenings but always holds a raffle, the proceeds of which go to charity after expenses have been deducted.
After the wonderful atmosphere and success of our long awaited return to Kempley in July, we are continuing in the same vein. Therefore, we shall be gathering again at the earlier time of 7.15 for a 7.30 start. Please bring your own refreshments along with your instruments and voices.
Looking forward to seeing you in good voice! Lin Bourne and John Hodgson, on behalf of Roving Folk at Kempley.
Contact John Hodgson 01531 890852, email rovingfolkkempley<at>btinternet.com to join the mailing list.
🄵 SINGING SESSION at the Victoria in Stroud on hold for the moment - I’ll let you know when anything happens. Well done for keeping Folklife alive. Best wishes. Bob Bray
🄵 Revised from previously announced - adding Paul Burgess and start time.
Glos - JOHNNY COPPIN WITH PAUL BURGESS, Sat 23rd Oct. Minsterworth, Village Hall, 7.30pm. “One of the land's finest singer-songwriters....his music is as natural as the sun on the hills or the fresh waters of the streams" Tickets £15 (to incl. refreshments). For more information contact Terry on 01452 750160 or Joanna on 01452 750709 (event organised jointly by the church and village hall).
🄵 Winchcombe White Hart Folk, 1st Tuesday of month
"We might have predicted that "Freedom 19th July" might not become the new era of unbridled festivity we had hoped for. Instead there is increased caution, especially where singing indoors is involved" - Chris. The club was a -zooming in August; future plans are to be announced - to continue zooming or resuming live.
Herefs-Worcs
🄵 Rushwick Folk Club, 2nd Saturday of month - We will be reopening on Saturday 14th August.
We know common sense will prevail regards Covid safety but would ask you to be thoughtful when socialising with others within the hall.
We know the wearing of masks is no longer required by law but it would be appreciated if you can try to wear a mask when not seated at your table.
1. Doors will open at 7.45pm for a scheduled 8.00pm start. Can you please not enter before that time as we need to set the tables and chairs out.
2. Please make use of the hand sanitiser which will be located in the entrance before entering the hall itself
3. Unless you have a medical reason, can you please wear a mask until you are seated at a table.
4. Can you also please wear a mask when visiting the toilet.
5. There is no need to bring your own chairs as we will use those within the hall.
6. Tables will have already been wiped over with anti bacterial spray beforehand.
7. Windows and doors will be opened to provide a good circulation of fresh air.
£2 Entrance Fee To avoid having to handle cash, can you please bring the correct money and deposit it in the container when you enter the hall itself.
Refreshments for the time being, can you please bring your own tea and coffee etc (hopefully this will change before too long). We will however still provide the famous Rushwick KitKats, both in milk and dark chocolate, Whoopee did I hear someone say (Yes - the Editors)
Singing due to the size of the hall, tables can be spaced a good distance apart.
Clearing Up
We always appreciate any help you can provide in putting tables and chairs away at the end of the evening.
As most of you know, the small tables are put back in the room at the front of the hall.
Once they are all back in situ, they will be wiped down again with anti bacterial spray ready for the next users.
All we need now is to see your happy smiling faces on the 14th August.
We will do everything we can to make sure you have an enjoyable and relaxed evening and if anyone has any concerns or suggestions regards further enhancing Covid safety within the hall then please let us know.
It would be useful to know how many of you intend to come along so if you are able to let us know by Friday 13th that would be very much appreciated.
See you soon, Derek, Aidan and Cliff. Derek Lovell, 01299 824908, derek.lovell<at>yahoo.co.uk https://rushwickfolkclub.wixsite.com/home
🄵 Herefs FOLK AT THE FALCON, Bromyard Aug 13th Journeyman, Support – Koppelli (see previous Newsletter)
Sep 9th Bromyard Folk Festival weekend. Local Showcase – Thursday eve Lineup TBC
Oct 8th Sam Carter. Support – The Cherrystones
Nov 12th Sarah McQuaid. Support – Lawrence Illsley
Dec 10th Magpie Lane’s Christmas Concert. Support – OneAchord
For the full concert programme see https://folkatthefalcon.com / www.facebook.com/folkatthefalcon
🄵 Worcs: Great Malvern. 'Morris and Other Creatures' Art Exhibition & Morris dancing event, 16th & 17th Oct 2021 (some displays also during the following week).
Beginning 10am at Elgar Island on Bellevue, close to Worcester Rd, moving down Church St to the Priory gates. Then heading right, in Grange Road, to the Coach House Theatre for the Art Exhibition by local artists and students, and also more light entertainment / morris dancing there during the afternoons. There is also a Morris Art Competition for children. Please participate. Entries all around town. A poster will be seen top of town.
It is designed to encourage shoppers to our town, and generously supported by Malvern Town Council, The Elmley Foundation and the Malvern Hills Gallery Guild.
Covid-dependant: if it is not allowed, we shall cancel of course. Please be aware of masks, safety, and social distancing but enjoy.
Contact Jill Peer for details and to join us, 07754950939, spaces may be limited due to Covid, but so far we have plenty of space for all.
Jill M Peer Facebook
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🄵 from Derek Lovell
Some of you will already know that over the last 18 months, I have been writing my own songs, some of which have been performed via folk club Zoom sessions Over the years I have composed many guitar instrumentals but this is a new venture for me. I did write a number of songs in my youth which were generally a lovey-dovey kind of stuff so it's best we don't talk about those! Anyway, as I was getting more than the occasional favourable response to my songs I was persuaded to get some of them recorded. The songs I have written will, I hope paint pictures in your mind as that was my intention from the very start. Some of the topics include tin mining in Cornwall, chain making in Cradley Heath, a visit to a fun fair and even Bonnie Prince Charlie's Battle Of Culloden Moor. Recordings have now been completed and I am pleased to say that the CD, which comprises of all my own material is called Flat Caps, Bowler Hats , Bonnets and Scarves and is now ready for you to purchase, if you are so inclined that is. All profits from the sale of the CD will be going directly the the charity Midlands Air Ambulance So, for less than the price of a couple of posh coffees and some sticky buns, you can buy this brilliant (not my words by the way) charity CD which won't make you hyperactive or fat but can always double up as a coaster if you don't like it. The CD will only cost you £10. It will be available for sale at Rushwick Folk Club sessions and also at our fellow Worcestershire folk clubs Quite a number of copies have already been sold and yes, people are still talking to me! In the meantime, take care, stay safe and I hope to see you soon. Best wishes, Derek Derek Lovell, 01299 824908, derek.lovell<at>yahoo.co.uk |
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UK other areas
🄰 Associates, for 'Other Areas' 'International' (associates are those signed up to our Folklife Newsletter). - Folklife Newsletter sign up email sam@folklife.uk 'Opt In’ + country or Eng. region .... or use form below 🄰 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. 🄵 THE LIVING TRADITION MAGAZINE Issue 140 is the Aug-Nov 2021 issue of The Living Tradition magazine, featuring articles on Ian Bruce, Young Territorial, Tony Hall, Joe Derrane, The Marsden Rattlers, Carmel Gunning, Steve Ashley, Richard & Linda Thompson, John Kirkpatrick, Campfire Songs, In Search Of Mrs Saggs, Vincent Cross, Tales from the Road - Paul Downes, Transatlantic Connections, news, reviews and more. Essential reading for folk lovers! 10-issue subscriptions from £36. www.livingtradition.co.uk |
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Updates for webpages not included in the printed magazine
🄲 Iaith Gymraeg/Welsh Language 🄰 Associates (those signed up to Newsletter), 'UK Other Areas' & 'International'
🄲 Iaith Gymraeg/Welsh Language 🄰 Associates (those signed up to Newsletter), 'UK Other Areas' & 'International'
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⎈ Zoom List webpage updates "It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that an organisation, wishing to publicise a zoom session in Folklife, will tell the editors. It is universally acknowledged, that they might not tell the editors, when it stops." Some will stop, others continue, others hybrid (eg live & zoom). We note some smaller sessions are going outside when fine weather (at short notice, so you'll have to check). We'll update as and when we're told! .🄲 10.8.2021 Castell-nedd Port Talbot / Neath Port Talbot SESH SŴN Ddigidol - Ni'n cwrdd ar Zoom ail nos Fawth bob mis (2nd Tuesday of every month) 7-9pm. Contact details to have the zoom link is cymuned<at>micnpt.cymru Whether you’re fluent or learning Welsh, this is a chance to join in a traditional Welsh Folk Session. So grab your instruments and come along to enjoy in a friendly, supportive environment. A slower, slightly more formal session for folk beginners and Welsh learners, with popular Welsh-language sing-a-longs as well as traditional repertoire, although the sessions vary a lot from month to month. |
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Cymru/Wales
🄵 Weekly WED -> 1st TUES
Clwb Gwerin LLANTRISANT Folk Club WEEKLY Zoomaround on Wednesdays now finished as Club reopens, see News above for details of live club, but we don’t want to lose touch with all the new (and old) friends we’ve made over the country and the world – so our Zoomarounds will continue on the first Tuesday of each month, starting on Tuesday, September 7. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89787380016 Meeting ID: 897 8738 0016 – no password.
🄵 Weekly THU -> 3rd TUES
LYCEUM FOLK & ACOUTIC CLUB of NEWPORT going LIVE on 19th. LAST THURSDAY ZOOM 12th AUGUST see News above for details of live club.
We have had 71 fantastic on line Thursdays since this all started and have made friends from all over the country and the world. We do not want to lose touch with these new friends so we will be continuing with Zoom on the third Tuesday of the month starting on 21st September. Emails will be sent nearer the date. Same Zoom code.
Our last Thursday Zoom will be our 72nd this Thursday 12th August. Thank you to everyone for your support.
Hope to see you in person on Thursday 19th August 8.30 p.m, Cheers Andy & Ruth. xx
Do join us for our last Thursday Zoom
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2802265304
Meeting ID: 280 226 5304
For more details about our Zoom evenings, see "Lyceum Folk Club of Newport" on Facebook,
facebook.com/Lyceum-Folk-Club-of-Newport-213395425376402/ and on lyceumfolknewport.org.uk/ [added 4 Jul 2020]
🄵 Weekly WED -> 1st TUES
Clwb Gwerin LLANTRISANT Folk Club WEEKLY Zoomaround on Wednesdays now finished as Club reopens, see News above for details of live club, but we don’t want to lose touch with all the new (and old) friends we’ve made over the country and the world – so our Zoomarounds will continue on the first Tuesday of each month, starting on Tuesday, September 7. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89787380016 Meeting ID: 897 8738 0016 – no password.
🄵 Weekly THU -> 3rd TUES
LYCEUM FOLK & ACOUTIC CLUB of NEWPORT going LIVE on 19th. LAST THURSDAY ZOOM 12th AUGUST see News above for details of live club.
We have had 71 fantastic on line Thursdays since this all started and have made friends from all over the country and the world. We do not want to lose touch with these new friends so we will be continuing with Zoom on the third Tuesday of the month starting on 21st September. Emails will be sent nearer the date. Same Zoom code.
Our last Thursday Zoom will be our 72nd this Thursday 12th August. Thank you to everyone for your support.
Hope to see you in person on Thursday 19th August 8.30 p.m, Cheers Andy & Ruth. xx
Do join us for our last Thursday Zoom
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2802265304
Meeting ID: 280 226 5304
For more details about our Zoom evenings, see "Lyceum Folk Club of Newport" on Facebook,
facebook.com/Lyceum-Folk-Club-of-Newport-213395425376402/ and on lyceumfolknewport.org.uk/ [added 4 Jul 2020]
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⎈ International folk news webpage
🄰 Associates, for 'Other Areas' 'International' (associates are those signed up to our Folklife Newsletter).
- Folklife Newsletter sign up email sam@folklife.uk 'Opt In’ + country or Eng. region .... or use form below
🄰 GERMANY - ENGLISH FOLK CLUB Update for the friends of the EFC / Info für die Freunde des EFCs
As you will all know by now the EFC has been organizing Online Concerts for over a year because of the pandemic. We’re been on a summer break July – September for a number of reasons, but it's not just a summer break, it's a pause for thought too.
The tenant of our venue, the KissVino, which is a winery, was till now a large health clinic, but now the city of Bad Kissingen is re-establishing the contract and it’s being renegotiated and there will very likely be a new tenant. Neither a date nor information about the possible new tenant is known. However, hopefully it will be by the end of summer at the latest.
As soon as this happens, we will hopefully be able to have our EFC evenings again. That is, as long as the pandemic doesn’t raise its ugly head again.
Be assured we will notify you as soon as we have the good news.
If you have any questions or suggestions please let us know.
Wie Ihr alle wisst, wir, der EFC, hat wegen der Pandemie seit über einem Jahr nur Online-Konzerte organisiert. Wir haben aus mehreren Gründen seit Juni eine Sommerpause eingelegt, aber es ist nicht nur eine Sommerpause, sondern auch eine Denkpause.
Das KissVino befindet sich im Alten Rathaus in Bad Kissingen und gehört der Stadt Bad Kissingen. Der Pächter ist bis jetzt eine große Gesundheitsklinik, aber jetzt wird der Vertrag neu verhandelt und es wird sehr wahrscheinlich einen neuen Pächter geben. Weder ein Datum noch Information über der evtl. neuen Pächter ist bekannt. Hoffentlich wissen wir es bis spätestens Ende des Sommers.
Sobald dies geschieht, hoffen wir, dass wir unsere EFC-Abende veranstalten können, aber auch was wichtig ist solange die Pandemie nicht wieder ihren hässlichen Kopf erhebt.
Sei versichert, dass wir Dich/Euch benachrichtigen und Bescheid geben, sobald wir mehr wissen.
Wenn DuFragen oder Anregungen hast, lasse es uns es bitte wissen.
Our best musical regards
https://www.facebook.com/EnglishFolkClubBadKissingen
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⎈ DIRECTORY Updates -- several changes of venues expected, watch this space . . .
🄵 New contact, new start time - added to ⎈ Glos-Oxon Directory 1 Venues
1st Thu Glos KEMPLEY ROVING FOLK (no website) John Hodgson 01531 890852
→ Kempley Village Hall, Glos, GL18 2BP. 7.30pm.
⇒ Email rovingfolkkempley<at>btinternet.com to join the mailing list.
⊕ A warm reception for singers, players and the spoken word. Bring your own drinks. Free entry. [contact update & start time changed, 2021 Aug]
Please support our performers, who have lost their income: check their Directory-listed websites for recordings to buy.
⎈ International folk news webpage
🄰 Associates, for 'Other Areas' 'International' (associates are those signed up to our Folklife Newsletter).
- Folklife Newsletter sign up email sam@folklife.uk 'Opt In’ + country or Eng. region .... or use form below
🄰 GERMANY - ENGLISH FOLK CLUB Update for the friends of the EFC / Info für die Freunde des EFCs
As you will all know by now the EFC has been organizing Online Concerts for over a year because of the pandemic. We’re been on a summer break July – September for a number of reasons, but it's not just a summer break, it's a pause for thought too.
The tenant of our venue, the KissVino, which is a winery, was till now a large health clinic, but now the city of Bad Kissingen is re-establishing the contract and it’s being renegotiated and there will very likely be a new tenant. Neither a date nor information about the possible new tenant is known. However, hopefully it will be by the end of summer at the latest.
As soon as this happens, we will hopefully be able to have our EFC evenings again. That is, as long as the pandemic doesn’t raise its ugly head again.
Be assured we will notify you as soon as we have the good news.
If you have any questions or suggestions please let us know.
Wie Ihr alle wisst, wir, der EFC, hat wegen der Pandemie seit über einem Jahr nur Online-Konzerte organisiert. Wir haben aus mehreren Gründen seit Juni eine Sommerpause eingelegt, aber es ist nicht nur eine Sommerpause, sondern auch eine Denkpause.
Das KissVino befindet sich im Alten Rathaus in Bad Kissingen und gehört der Stadt Bad Kissingen. Der Pächter ist bis jetzt eine große Gesundheitsklinik, aber jetzt wird der Vertrag neu verhandelt und es wird sehr wahrscheinlich einen neuen Pächter geben. Weder ein Datum noch Information über der evtl. neuen Pächter ist bekannt. Hoffentlich wissen wir es bis spätestens Ende des Sommers.
Sobald dies geschieht, hoffen wir, dass wir unsere EFC-Abende veranstalten können, aber auch was wichtig ist solange die Pandemie nicht wieder ihren hässlichen Kopf erhebt.
Sei versichert, dass wir Dich/Euch benachrichtigen und Bescheid geben, sobald wir mehr wissen.
Wenn DuFragen oder Anregungen hast, lasse es uns es bitte wissen.
Our best musical regards
https://www.facebook.com/EnglishFolkClubBadKissingen
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⎈ DIRECTORY Updates -- several changes of venues expected, watch this space . . .
🄵 New contact, new start time - added to ⎈ Glos-Oxon Directory 1 Venues
1st Thu Glos KEMPLEY ROVING FOLK (no website) John Hodgson 01531 890852
→ Kempley Village Hall, Glos, GL18 2BP. 7.30pm.
⇒ Email rovingfolkkempley<at>btinternet.com to join the mailing list.
⊕ A warm reception for singers, players and the spoken word. Bring your own drinks. Free entry. [contact update & start time changed, 2021 Aug]
Please support our performers, who have lost their income: check their Directory-listed websites for recordings to buy.
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Usually monthly-ish, but can increase with reopening news, venue changes, etc. Do tell us, we can update Directory in anticipation, and publicise in Newsletter.
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@ emailed Mon 19 July 2021 ... Updates
Newsletter Editorial 19/7/2021
Folklife 19 July 2021 Newsletter: reopening ...
Today's the day that Covid rules in England (not Wales, not Scotland) change . . .
"Hoping to open September, but haven't sorted a venue yet (regular pub may be too small if people want to distance themselves), or quite how we'll do it at all...."
Some folk venues opening, some not, and quite a few still thinking about it ...
As expected (that's why we said earlier we'd postpone our deadline, normally today).
Our revised deadline for folk news is 19 August, for October publication.
By then, we expect more will have decided, if all goes well . . .
Do let us know - we'll add to Updates webpage as we hear, & then in Newsletters.
Attending folk events - safety concerns - government gives organisers the job of reassuring audience in the absence of legally-binding Government rules (for example, poorly-ventilated rooms are a problem for many clubs).
Some folk events are fully prepared and ready to go! See Updates below.
Others are considering how best & when to open; and some are leaving opening till covid numbers look better.
Our last full-sized magazine, Jan 2020, was a record 64 A4 pages - fewer in October? We've gained new Members (thanks, Zoom); others left (lost venue; or given up due to Covid difficulties); and as above, some plan to continue - but not yet.
Accordingly, perhaps fewer news pages, and fewer adverts.
Therefore, we continue to be a very non-profit group, and currently extremely non-profit ...
So, if you're not a Member, your support (£16/year) will be gratefully appreciated...
Members' news before October: do send for Updates page & Newsletter!
Folklife 19 July 2021 Newsletter: reopening ...
Today's the day that Covid rules in England (not Wales, not Scotland) change . . .
"Hoping to open September, but haven't sorted a venue yet (regular pub may be too small if people want to distance themselves), or quite how we'll do it at all...."
Some folk venues opening, some not, and quite a few still thinking about it ...
As expected (that's why we said earlier we'd postpone our deadline, normally today).
Our revised deadline for folk news is 19 August, for October publication.
By then, we expect more will have decided, if all goes well . . .
Do let us know - we'll add to Updates webpage as we hear, & then in Newsletters.
Attending folk events - safety concerns - government gives organisers the job of reassuring audience in the absence of legally-binding Government rules (for example, poorly-ventilated rooms are a problem for many clubs).
Some folk events are fully prepared and ready to go! See Updates below.
Others are considering how best & when to open; and some are leaving opening till covid numbers look better.
Our last full-sized magazine, Jan 2020, was a record 64 A4 pages - fewer in October? We've gained new Members (thanks, Zoom); others left (lost venue; or given up due to Covid difficulties); and as above, some plan to continue - but not yet.
Accordingly, perhaps fewer news pages, and fewer adverts.
Therefore, we continue to be a very non-profit group, and currently extremely non-profit ...
So, if you're not a Member, your support (£16/year) will be gratefully appreciated...
Members' news before October: do send for Updates page & Newsletter!
FTJ: Folklife Traditions Journal. Researched articles + archive, news, on a separate website, www.folklife-traditions.uk
Folk studies and cultural traditions Current FTJ issue copied online: www.folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html, read, or download PDF.
🄵 = Folklife Members Ø = other contributions are welcome
🄲 = Iaith Gymraeg / Welsh language contributions; scroll down for English language under.
Folklife Organisations updates.
🄵 EFDSS Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Call for papers: Diversity in Folk
The annual conference of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library will take place on 13 and 14 November 2021 at Cecil Sharp House in London. Its theme will be ‘Diversity in Folk’. We seek papers on any aspect of folk music or dance and the issue of racial and ethnic diversity, both historically focused and in contemporary discourse. Topics may include, but are not necessarily limited to:
Our focus is mainly on the UK and Ireland, but we welcome papers – which should last around 20 minutes – on other traditions which tie into our theme, and those which encourage us to view England’s folk traditions from the widest possible range of viewpoints.
Please email tiffany<at>efdss.org for further information or to submit a proposal of no more than 400 words.
The deadline for proposals is Friday 30 July 2021.
🄵 The Traditional Song Forum downloads videos of its excellent fortnightly Zoom talks, simply google Traditional Song Forum - YouTube. See https://tradsong.org for more about the work of the TSF.
🄵 Wales: Trac Cymru. We mentioned (14 May newsletter) trac's new website at www.trac.cymru
Folk studies and cultural traditions Current FTJ issue copied online: www.folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html, read, or download PDF.
🄵 = Folklife Members Ø = other contributions are welcome
🄲 = Iaith Gymraeg / Welsh language contributions; scroll down for English language under.
Folklife Organisations updates.
🄵 EFDSS Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Call for papers: Diversity in Folk
The annual conference of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library will take place on 13 and 14 November 2021 at Cecil Sharp House in London. Its theme will be ‘Diversity in Folk’. We seek papers on any aspect of folk music or dance and the issue of racial and ethnic diversity, both historically focused and in contemporary discourse. Topics may include, but are not necessarily limited to:
- England’s folk traditions in the context of racism and anti-racism
- Early song collectors’ attitudes on race, ethnicity and the nature and purpose of folk song
- Minstrelsy and folk music
- Blackface in the folk arts
- The diverse roots of songs and tunes
- The treatment of ‘the other’ in the folk arts
- Library and archive approaches to potentially offensive material in music or dance
- Folk arts, diversity and society today.
Our focus is mainly on the UK and Ireland, but we welcome papers – which should last around 20 minutes – on other traditions which tie into our theme, and those which encourage us to view England’s folk traditions from the widest possible range of viewpoints.
Please email tiffany<at>efdss.org for further information or to submit a proposal of no more than 400 words.
The deadline for proposals is Friday 30 July 2021.
🄵 The Traditional Song Forum downloads videos of its excellent fortnightly Zoom talks, simply google Traditional Song Forum - YouTube. See https://tradsong.org for more about the work of the TSF.
🄵 Wales: Trac Cymru. We mentioned (14 May newsletter) trac's new website at www.trac.cymru
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Publications: "Llyfr Alawon DnA Tune Book" Delyth & Angharad Jenkins
🄲 Nid oedd y ddeuawd mam a merch Delyth & Angharad Jenkins, sy’n cael eu hadnabod fel DnA, yn segur yn ystod y cyfnod clo. Gyda phob gig wedi ei ganslo fe aethon nhw ati i weithio ar brosiectau gwahanol, ac un ohonynt oedd creu llyfr alawon o’u dwy albwm cyntaf Adnabod (2013) a Llinyn Arian (2018). Mae'r llyfr yn cynnwys rhai o alawon traddodiadol gorau Cymru ac efallai llai adnabyddus, yn ogystal â chyfansoddiadau gwreiddiol. Er bod Delyth ac Angharad yn adnabyddus am chwarae'r delyn a'r ffidil, mae'r alawon yn y llyfr hwn yn gallu cael eu chwarae ar unrhyw offeryn. Gallai trefniannau'r delyn gael eu chwarae ar y piano. A llinell uchaf y trefniant yw llinell y ffidil, neu’r alaw. Mae cordiau wedi cael eu rhoi ar gyfer yr alawon, felly gallai gitâr neu unrhyw offeryn sy'n chwarae cordiau gyfeilio’r alawon. Mae'r llyfr hwn yn rhoi cyfle i bob cerddor rannu a mwynhau’r gerddoriaeth hon. www.dna-folk.co.uk Ø Mother and daughter duo Delyth & Angharad Jenkins, known affectionately as DnA, were not idle during lockdown. With all gigs cancelled they put their minds to alternative projects, one of which was to put together a tune book of music from their first two albums Adnabod (2013) and Llinyn Arian (2018). The book includes some of Wales’s finest and perhaps lesser known traditional tunes, as well as original compositions. Although Delyth and Angharad are known for playing the harp and fiddle, the tunes in this book could be played on any instrument. The harp arrangements could be played on the piano. And the fiddle or melody line is the top line of the arrangement. Chords have also been given for the tunes, so they could just as well be accompanied by a guitar or any chordal instrument. This book gives all musicians the opportunity to share and delight in this music. www.dna-folk.co.uk |
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Member-Festivals & Workshops Diary.
Copied online: www.folklife.uk/festivals.html, so read online or (new!) download PDF of the print version. Very full details, to Oct 2022!
Some live; some online as noted, so overseas friends can join us.
🄵 now confirmed - live
2021 Aug 13 - 15 WHITE HORSE FOLK FESTIVAL www.WhiteHorseFolkFestival.co.uk
→ GROVE, near Wantage, Oxfordshire. Various venues in Grove.
⌂ WHITE HORSE FOLK FESTIVAL Jeff and Elaine Gillett, 01453 751256, whitehorsefolkfestival<at>gmail.com,
www.WhiteHorseFolkFestival.co.uk
⊕ WHFF is a small, friendly, traditional festival where there is an emphasis on taking part.
We are running the festival this summer but we are having to make some changes to reduce the risk of spreading the virus. We have cancelled the ceilidh because it isn't a non-contact sport! We will be having song sessions in an open-sided marquee. The concert guests and workshop leaders will be Jess and Richard Arrowsmith, Phoebe Rees, Carolyn Robson and Moira Craig and JIB who are Barry and Ingrid Temple with Jim Mageean. Jim will be joined by Graham Knights to lead a shanty session and the musicians sessions will be led by Bill McKinnion.
🄵 2021 Sep 3 - 5 LLANWDDYN WEEKEND OF FOLK & ACOUSTIC MUSIC POSTPONED www.llanwddynevents.co.uk
postponed to 2022. The new dates being
🄵 2022 Sep 2 - 4 LLANWDDYN WEEKEND OF FOLK & ACOUSTIC MUSIC www.llanwddynevents.co.uk
Also see Festivals/Workshops webpage for 2022 details
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Folk News, area/country pages & webpages.
Print-pages images, + PDF download (May was online only; Oct. in print & copied online).
Many clubs/sessions are still considering what to do before announcing definite plans.
We'll let you know when we hear, with more frequent newsletters as needed.
Cymru/Wales
🄵 Clwb Gwerin LLANTRISANT Folk Club MEETINGS SUSPENDED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. Website: www.folk.wales Pontyclun Institute Athletic Club, Castan Road, Pontyclun CF72 9EH (01443 222182) Organiser & bookings: Pat Smith (01443 226892. Mobile: 07989 209824)
FOLKWALES ONLINE MAGAZINE: www.folk.wales/magazine/ Email: folkclub@folkwales.org.uk
FB: www.facebook.com/pages/Llantrisant-Folk-Club/226706954032491
FOLK CLUB
July 28, 2021: POSTPONED TO A LATER DATE: Pharis and Jason Romero (Canada)
August 11, 2021: POSTPONED TO A LATER DATE: Sadie and Jay (New Zealand)
August 18, 2021: The Jigantics (rescheduled) (£8 admission, £5 members)
September 1, 2021: Hungrytown (USA - rescheduled) (£8 admission, £5 members)
October 6, 2021: Will Pound and Phoebe Rees (£8 admission, £5 members)
October 20, 2021: Ryan Young & Chris Amer (Scotland) (£8 admission, £5 members)
West Country
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)
Glos-Oxon
🄵 Glos - CHELTENHAM FOLK CLUB - 2nd & 4th Sundays - zoom over summer, back in pub Sept tbc, see note under Zoom List webpage updates below
🄵 Glos - JOHNNY COPPIN. Sat 23rd Oct. Minsterworth, Village Hall. “One of the land's finest singer-songwriters....his music is as natural as the sun on the hills or the fresh waters of the streams" Tickets £15 (to incl. refreshments). For more information contact Terry on 01452 750160 or Joanna on 01452 750709 (event organised jointly by the church and village hall).
🄵 Glos - BLACKTHORN BUSKERS. Saturday, 24 July 2021. 4pm - 6pm free, at The Carpenter's Arms, Miserden GL6 7JA. Blackthorn Buskers are a lively folk harmony quartet. Traditional English folk songs, shanties, a few original songs and the odd Dutch one, with guitar, flute, melodeon, bodhran and bass. www.thecarps-miserden.co.uk
West Midlands
🄵 News from the Traditional Arts Team. The Team loves everything about folk music, songs, dances and stories, and wants to encourage everyone to get involved. However, because of coronavirus and the need for social distancing, we don’t know whether we can return to running physical events this autumn. We are planning some online sessions as below and will see what happens. Links are sent out in our monthly email newsletter - please sign up if you aren't already on our mailing list. You can do this by entering your email address in the box at www.tradartsteam.co.uk or just by emailing info<at>tradartsteam.co.uk
Monthly Online Song and Story Sessions:
All are welcome to join these online sessions, to take part or just to listen. Links are sent out to our mailing list. 1st Wednesday – Tales and Ales storytelling session, 8-10pm; 2nd Sunday – Swedish music session, 2-4pm; 2nd Wednesday – Sing Political, 8-10pm; Left-Write songwriting sessions, 8-10pm
Birmingham Storytelling Café
It’s hoped there will be a new season of Storytelling Café starting on Wednesday 15 September at Kitchen Garden Cafe. Storytelling Café is a place of magic and mischief, where you can enjoy being whisked away to a world of wonderful stories that will amuse and enrich you. The Café is held on the third Wednesday of each month, starting at 7:30pm, and you can get the latest information from our web calendar.
Please check our website www.tradartsteam.co.uk for updates on all our activities, in case of changes, cancellations or even new events as they become possible!
Herefs-Worcs
🄵 Herefs - Prince of Wales, Ledbury (Wed weekly)
The PM’s announcement this evening would seem to suggest that we could be back in the Prince of Wales on 21st July if all goes as planned. I haven’t heard that there will be any restrictions still on singing, so fingers crossed.
🄵 FOLK AT THE FALCON is a new Member - see Updates for Directory below.
🄵 Herefs FOLK AT THE FALCON, Bromyard : Friday 13th August, 7.30pm. The Falcon Mews will echo once again to some of the country's finest and most entertaining acoustic musicians.
Journeyman play a unique blend of folk, pop, rock, Irish and country music. Brilliant and lively repertoire, and renowned for their laid back, tongue in cheek presentation! They are: Paul Beadle, vocals, guitar, mandolin, flute, percussion, playing and singing with amazing vigour; Andy Lindsay, vocals, guitar, mandolin, whistle and harmonica, and a fine songwriter; brilliant bass player Marc Miletich (The Roving Crows, Babajak and Worcester Symphony Orchestra); and Kimberly Turnbull (Flatworld), a superb singer and brilliant violinist.
Supported by Koppelli, Ludlow duo: Nathan Edwards, guitar, harmonica, vocals, and Sheena Wieckowicz, keyboards, accordion, percussion, handpans, vocals. They met two years ago at an open mic and have been together ever since, playing mostly their own original material. Sheena says: 'We play thoughtful, romantic and fun original songs, written by both of us, but predominantly Nathan.'
Audience numbers may continue to be limited by Covid restrictions, so it's advised to book early. Tickets are £10 from Roger Pugh at pugh<at>live.co.uk / 01885 483425 / 07779 694615
For the full concert programme see https://folkatthefalcon.com / www.facebook.com/folkatthefalcon
Copied online: www.folklife.uk/festivals.html, so read online or (new!) download PDF of the print version. Very full details, to Oct 2022!
Some live; some online as noted, so overseas friends can join us.
🄵 now confirmed - live
2021 Aug 13 - 15 WHITE HORSE FOLK FESTIVAL www.WhiteHorseFolkFestival.co.uk
→ GROVE, near Wantage, Oxfordshire. Various venues in Grove.
⌂ WHITE HORSE FOLK FESTIVAL Jeff and Elaine Gillett, 01453 751256, whitehorsefolkfestival<at>gmail.com,
www.WhiteHorseFolkFestival.co.uk
⊕ WHFF is a small, friendly, traditional festival where there is an emphasis on taking part.
We are running the festival this summer but we are having to make some changes to reduce the risk of spreading the virus. We have cancelled the ceilidh because it isn't a non-contact sport! We will be having song sessions in an open-sided marquee. The concert guests and workshop leaders will be Jess and Richard Arrowsmith, Phoebe Rees, Carolyn Robson and Moira Craig and JIB who are Barry and Ingrid Temple with Jim Mageean. Jim will be joined by Graham Knights to lead a shanty session and the musicians sessions will be led by Bill McKinnion.
🄵 2021 Sep 3 - 5 LLANWDDYN WEEKEND OF FOLK & ACOUSTIC MUSIC POSTPONED www.llanwddynevents.co.uk
postponed to 2022. The new dates being
🄵 2022 Sep 2 - 4 LLANWDDYN WEEKEND OF FOLK & ACOUSTIC MUSIC www.llanwddynevents.co.uk
Also see Festivals/Workshops webpage for 2022 details
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Folk News, area/country pages & webpages.
Print-pages images, + PDF download (May was online only; Oct. in print & copied online).
Many clubs/sessions are still considering what to do before announcing definite plans.
We'll let you know when we hear, with more frequent newsletters as needed.
Cymru/Wales
🄵 Clwb Gwerin LLANTRISANT Folk Club MEETINGS SUSPENDED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. Website: www.folk.wales Pontyclun Institute Athletic Club, Castan Road, Pontyclun CF72 9EH (01443 222182) Organiser & bookings: Pat Smith (01443 226892. Mobile: 07989 209824)
FOLKWALES ONLINE MAGAZINE: www.folk.wales/magazine/ Email: folkclub@folkwales.org.uk
FB: www.facebook.com/pages/Llantrisant-Folk-Club/226706954032491
FOLK CLUB
July 28, 2021: POSTPONED TO A LATER DATE: Pharis and Jason Romero (Canada)
August 11, 2021: POSTPONED TO A LATER DATE: Sadie and Jay (New Zealand)
August 18, 2021: The Jigantics (rescheduled) (£8 admission, £5 members)
September 1, 2021: Hungrytown (USA - rescheduled) (£8 admission, £5 members)
October 6, 2021: Will Pound and Phoebe Rees (£8 admission, £5 members)
October 20, 2021: Ryan Young & Chris Amer (Scotland) (£8 admission, £5 members)
West Country
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)
Glos-Oxon
🄵 Glos - CHELTENHAM FOLK CLUB - 2nd & 4th Sundays - zoom over summer, back in pub Sept tbc, see note under Zoom List webpage updates below
🄵 Glos - JOHNNY COPPIN. Sat 23rd Oct. Minsterworth, Village Hall. “One of the land's finest singer-songwriters....his music is as natural as the sun on the hills or the fresh waters of the streams" Tickets £15 (to incl. refreshments). For more information contact Terry on 01452 750160 or Joanna on 01452 750709 (event organised jointly by the church and village hall).
🄵 Glos - BLACKTHORN BUSKERS. Saturday, 24 July 2021. 4pm - 6pm free, at The Carpenter's Arms, Miserden GL6 7JA. Blackthorn Buskers are a lively folk harmony quartet. Traditional English folk songs, shanties, a few original songs and the odd Dutch one, with guitar, flute, melodeon, bodhran and bass. www.thecarps-miserden.co.uk
West Midlands
🄵 News from the Traditional Arts Team. The Team loves everything about folk music, songs, dances and stories, and wants to encourage everyone to get involved. However, because of coronavirus and the need for social distancing, we don’t know whether we can return to running physical events this autumn. We are planning some online sessions as below and will see what happens. Links are sent out in our monthly email newsletter - please sign up if you aren't already on our mailing list. You can do this by entering your email address in the box at www.tradartsteam.co.uk or just by emailing info<at>tradartsteam.co.uk
Monthly Online Song and Story Sessions:
All are welcome to join these online sessions, to take part or just to listen. Links are sent out to our mailing list. 1st Wednesday – Tales and Ales storytelling session, 8-10pm; 2nd Sunday – Swedish music session, 2-4pm; 2nd Wednesday – Sing Political, 8-10pm; Left-Write songwriting sessions, 8-10pm
Birmingham Storytelling Café
It’s hoped there will be a new season of Storytelling Café starting on Wednesday 15 September at Kitchen Garden Cafe. Storytelling Café is a place of magic and mischief, where you can enjoy being whisked away to a world of wonderful stories that will amuse and enrich you. The Café is held on the third Wednesday of each month, starting at 7:30pm, and you can get the latest information from our web calendar.
Please check our website www.tradartsteam.co.uk for updates on all our activities, in case of changes, cancellations or even new events as they become possible!
Herefs-Worcs
🄵 Herefs - Prince of Wales, Ledbury (Wed weekly)
The PM’s announcement this evening would seem to suggest that we could be back in the Prince of Wales on 21st July if all goes as planned. I haven’t heard that there will be any restrictions still on singing, so fingers crossed.
🄵 FOLK AT THE FALCON is a new Member - see Updates for Directory below.
🄵 Herefs FOLK AT THE FALCON, Bromyard : Friday 13th August, 7.30pm. The Falcon Mews will echo once again to some of the country's finest and most entertaining acoustic musicians.
Journeyman play a unique blend of folk, pop, rock, Irish and country music. Brilliant and lively repertoire, and renowned for their laid back, tongue in cheek presentation! They are: Paul Beadle, vocals, guitar, mandolin, flute, percussion, playing and singing with amazing vigour; Andy Lindsay, vocals, guitar, mandolin, whistle and harmonica, and a fine songwriter; brilliant bass player Marc Miletich (The Roving Crows, Babajak and Worcester Symphony Orchestra); and Kimberly Turnbull (Flatworld), a superb singer and brilliant violinist.
Supported by Koppelli, Ludlow duo: Nathan Edwards, guitar, harmonica, vocals, and Sheena Wieckowicz, keyboards, accordion, percussion, handpans, vocals. They met two years ago at an open mic and have been together ever since, playing mostly their own original material. Sheena says: 'We play thoughtful, romantic and fun original songs, written by both of us, but predominantly Nathan.'
Audience numbers may continue to be limited by Covid restrictions, so it's advised to book early. Tickets are £10 from Roger Pugh at pugh<at>live.co.uk / 01885 483425 / 07779 694615
For the full concert programme see https://folkatthefalcon.com / www.facebook.com/folkatthefalcon
Updates for webpages not included in the printed magazine
🄲 Iaith Gymraeg/Welsh Language 🄰 Associates (those signed up to Newsletter), 'UK Other Areas' & 'International'
🄲 Iaith Gymraeg/Welsh Language 🄰 Associates (those signed up to Newsletter), 'UK Other Areas' & 'International'
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⎈ Zoom List webpage updates
⎈ Zoom List webpage updates
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SUNDAY
Glos-Oxon 🄵 Glos - CHELTENHAM FOLK CLUB - 2nd & 4th Sundays - will be live on Zoom, details will be sent to those on the mailing list. To join our mailing list, just email machteltje <at> gmail.com and say you would like to be on the list. **** Just to let you know the summer dates for Cheltenham Folk Club, all Sunday evenings: July 25th, August 8th, August 22nd. We had thought we'd be back in the pub in September, but we can't fully predict with the possibility of new variants and the sudden lifting of restrictions. So we'll keep in touch about this. 06/07/2021 TUESDAY Cymru/Wales 🄲 Castell-nedd Port Talbot / Neath Port Talbot SESH SŴN Ddigidol - Ni'n cwrdd ar Zoom ail nos Fawth bob mis (second Tuesday of every month) 7-9pm. Contact details to have the zoom link is cymuned<at>micnpt.cymru Whether you’re fluent or learning Welsh, this is a chance to join in a traditional Welsh Folk Session. So grab your instruments and come along to enjoy in a friendly, supportive environment. A slower, slightly more formal session for folk beginners and Welsh learners, with popular Welsh-language sing-a-longs as well as traditional repertoire, although the sessions vary a lot from month to month. |
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⎈ International folk news webpage
🄰 Associates, for 'Other Areas' 'International' (associates are those signed up to our Folklife Newsletter).
- Folklife Newsletter sign up email sam@folklife.uk 'Opt In’ + country or Eng. region .... or use form below
- dates
Isreal / USA
21 July 2021 Jerusalem Folk Music Evenings / North Reading Community Coffeehouse - Singing Together Virtually · Hosted by Jerusalem Folk Music Evenings
The Zoom Session will be open from 7:15 Israeli time, but singing starts promptly at 8pm Israeli time. Come join our “Singing Together Virtually” Session featuring 8 performers from the North Reading Community Coffeehouse and 8 performers from the Jerusalem Folk Music Virtual Sunday Evenings in a wonderful collaboration of music. It will be a lot of fun.
Representing Israel this evening: Mara Levine, Glen Gardener, Jan &Paul Ramsey, Daniel Dworsky, Jackie Conn, Yochanan (Hans) Mahler, Myra Bennett and Cowboy Wreck.
Representing North Reading Community Coffee House: John Loretz, Cynthia Greene, Dave Mason, Anne Sandstrom, Storm, Eric “Snake” Gulliksen, Joe Virga and Deb Semour.
We will be planning more sessions, until we can meet live. The event will be done via Zoom and live streamed to the North Reading Community Coffeehouse Facebook page.
To request the zoom info, please send a request to: NRCoffeehouse<at>gmail.com or jfolkclubhouseparties<at>gmail.com
USA --- Boston
🄰 LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ONLINE EVENTS, numerous events, day varies,
includes ONLINE BALLAD SING or CHANTY SING Sundays, weekly, 2-5 EDT [= UK 7pm-10pm]
For details see sites.google.com/view/lynnoel/music/mermaidstavern
join the mailing list at http://mailinglist.mermaidstavern.com
July
NEW SCHEDULE: Twice-monthly sessions second and fourth Sundays, monthly concerts third Thursdays
USA --- DC area
🄰 8-11 Oct 2021. FSGW (Folklore Society of Greater Washington) Getaway
If you love good music and good fellowship, you'll love the Getaway!
Getaway 2021 will be online this year via Zoom (Oct 8th to Oct 11th)
The FSGW Getaway, for decades a gathering of friends, old and new, to share music and enjoy fellowship, will be online this year again. We hope you will be able to come and participate and to bring your songs and your presence again this year, via the screen. We pioneered the on-line participatory weekend last year, and enjoyed it so much that we want to do it again. The uncertainty over the COVID-19 pandemic also makes us reluctant to plan a huge in-person gathering this fall (although we might do something small in real life--we'll see how recovery from social distancing goes). https://fsgw.org/getaway
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⎈ DIRECTORY Updates -- several changes of venues expected, watch this space . . .
🄵 NEW MEMBER - added to ⎈ H-W Directory 1 Venues
Monthly Fri Herefs BROMYARD FOLK AT THE FALCON https://folkatthefalcon.com Roger Pugh 01885 483425
→ Falcon Hotel, High St, Bromyard HR7 4BT.
⇒ e-mail: pugh<at>live.co.uk Landline: 01885 483425 Mob: 07779 694615 www.facebook.com/folkatthefalcon
⊕ Folk at the Falcon is a recently established folk and acoustic music evening which takes place in the atmospheric setting of the Falcon Mews. The Team bring you a selection of excellent local and national artists, monthly on a Friday. [new member 19/7/21]
Please support our performers, who have lost their income: check their Directory-listed websites for recordings to buy.
⎈ International folk news webpage
🄰 Associates, for 'Other Areas' 'International' (associates are those signed up to our Folklife Newsletter).
- Folklife Newsletter sign up email sam@folklife.uk 'Opt In’ + country or Eng. region .... or use form below
- dates
Isreal / USA
21 July 2021 Jerusalem Folk Music Evenings / North Reading Community Coffeehouse - Singing Together Virtually · Hosted by Jerusalem Folk Music Evenings
The Zoom Session will be open from 7:15 Israeli time, but singing starts promptly at 8pm Israeli time. Come join our “Singing Together Virtually” Session featuring 8 performers from the North Reading Community Coffeehouse and 8 performers from the Jerusalem Folk Music Virtual Sunday Evenings in a wonderful collaboration of music. It will be a lot of fun.
Representing Israel this evening: Mara Levine, Glen Gardener, Jan &Paul Ramsey, Daniel Dworsky, Jackie Conn, Yochanan (Hans) Mahler, Myra Bennett and Cowboy Wreck.
Representing North Reading Community Coffee House: John Loretz, Cynthia Greene, Dave Mason, Anne Sandstrom, Storm, Eric “Snake” Gulliksen, Joe Virga and Deb Semour.
We will be planning more sessions, until we can meet live. The event will be done via Zoom and live streamed to the North Reading Community Coffeehouse Facebook page.
To request the zoom info, please send a request to: NRCoffeehouse<at>gmail.com or jfolkclubhouseparties<at>gmail.com
USA --- Boston
🄰 LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ONLINE EVENTS, numerous events, day varies,
includes ONLINE BALLAD SING or CHANTY SING Sundays, weekly, 2-5 EDT [= UK 7pm-10pm]
For details see sites.google.com/view/lynnoel/music/mermaidstavern
join the mailing list at http://mailinglist.mermaidstavern.com
July
- Sunday, July 25: Ballad Sing
NEW SCHEDULE: Twice-monthly sessions second and fourth Sundays, monthly concerts third Thursdays
- Sunday, August 8: Ballad Sing
- Thursday, August 19: Sirius Doggerel singaround
- Sunday, August 22: Tavern & Chantey Sing
- Sunday, September 12: Ballad Sing
- Thursday, September 16: Lynn Noel - Apple Season Concert
- Sunday, September 19: NEFFA Live Online! Nicole Singer & Becky Wright
- Sunday, September 26: Tavern & Chantey Sing
- Sunday, October 3: Ballad Sing (FIRST SUNDAY!)
- October 9-11: FSGW Fall Getaway Weekend (see below)
- SAT Strong Songs, Strong Women with Lynn Noel and Janie Meneely
- Thursday, October 21: Concert Special Guest TBD
- Sunday, October 17: NEFFA Live Online! Jim & Susie Malcolm
- Sunday, October 24: Tavern & Chantey Sing
- Sunday, October 31: Tam Lin Marathon Ballad Sing
USA --- DC area
🄰 8-11 Oct 2021. FSGW (Folklore Society of Greater Washington) Getaway
If you love good music and good fellowship, you'll love the Getaway!
Getaway 2021 will be online this year via Zoom (Oct 8th to Oct 11th)
The FSGW Getaway, for decades a gathering of friends, old and new, to share music and enjoy fellowship, will be online this year again. We hope you will be able to come and participate and to bring your songs and your presence again this year, via the screen. We pioneered the on-line participatory weekend last year, and enjoyed it so much that we want to do it again. The uncertainty over the COVID-19 pandemic also makes us reluctant to plan a huge in-person gathering this fall (although we might do something small in real life--we'll see how recovery from social distancing goes). https://fsgw.org/getaway
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⎈ DIRECTORY Updates -- several changes of venues expected, watch this space . . .
🄵 NEW MEMBER - added to ⎈ H-W Directory 1 Venues
Monthly Fri Herefs BROMYARD FOLK AT THE FALCON https://folkatthefalcon.com Roger Pugh 01885 483425
→ Falcon Hotel, High St, Bromyard HR7 4BT.
⇒ e-mail: pugh<at>live.co.uk Landline: 01885 483425 Mob: 07779 694615 www.facebook.com/folkatthefalcon
⊕ Folk at the Falcon is a recently established folk and acoustic music evening which takes place in the atmospheric setting of the Falcon Mews. The Team bring you a selection of excellent local and national artists, monthly on a Friday. [new member 19/7/21]
Please support our performers, who have lost their income: check their Directory-listed websites for recordings to buy.
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Usually monthly-ish, but can increase with reopening news, venue changes, etc. Do tell us, we can update Directory in anticipation, and publicise in Newsletter.
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@ emailed Wed 30 June 2021 : Folk directory; Updates
We've added Members' online Directory webpages to this website
Arranged under same areas as news webpages - Wales, West Country, etc
We'll be closing www.folklife-directory.uk site.
The pages grew too big, so now 2 pages for each UK area (except 1 "Other UK").
Directory 1. Venues
Directory 2. Performers, Media, Services, Workshops Providers.
Access Directory pages: "DIRECTORY" page has links to all Directory pages; and
area news pages (so Glos-Oxon news has links to Glos-Oxon Directory pages).
We also added Wales News page and Wales Directory to this site
from website www.bywyd-gwerin.cymru (www.folklife.cymru), which will now cover Welsh Traditions (a work in progress as we change from a more general folk site).
While we wait for lockdown to end ... a good time for you to check your entries are up to date.
We know several members' clubs & sessions will change venues. Just let us know and we'll update Directory entries & publicise in these Newsletters.
Arranged under same areas as news webpages - Wales, West Country, etc
We'll be closing www.folklife-directory.uk site.
The pages grew too big, so now 2 pages for each UK area (except 1 "Other UK").
Directory 1. Venues
Directory 2. Performers, Media, Services, Workshops Providers.
Access Directory pages: "DIRECTORY" page has links to all Directory pages; and
area news pages (so Glos-Oxon news has links to Glos-Oxon Directory pages).
We also added Wales News page and Wales Directory to this site
from website www.bywyd-gwerin.cymru (www.folklife.cymru), which will now cover Welsh Traditions (a work in progress as we change from a more general folk site).
While we wait for lockdown to end ... a good time for you to check your entries are up to date.
We know several members' clubs & sessions will change venues. Just let us know and we'll update Directory entries & publicise in these Newsletters.
FTJ: Folklife Traditions Journal.
Updates: Folklife Organisations.
🄵 The Traditional Song Forum downloads videos of its excellent fortnightly Zoom talks, simply google Traditional Song Forum - YouTube. See https://tradsong.org for more about the work of the TSF.
TSF Online meeting 28, Sunday 11 July 2021, 16:00 BST (GMT+1)
A special meeting to mark the publication of the new book The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance edited by Peter Harrop and Steve Roud. Some of the chapters in the book have been the subject of previous presentations to our online events but, on this occasion, we have three very highly qualified speakers summarising their own chapter.
You will, as usual, need to book a place for the meeting. Bookings will close 24 hours before the start of the event which will also be available as a YouTube live stream. As with all TSF Online events, a video will be available on the Traditional Song Forum YouTube channel after the meeting.
Julia Bishop ‘The Performers in the Playground’
Sue Allan ‘Merry neets and bridewains: contemporary commentaries on folk music, dance and song in the Lake Counties during the Romantic period’.
Vic Gammon ‘The Rise and Fall of the West Gallery: popular religious music in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries’
For details see https://tradsong.org
🄵 Wales: Trac Cymru. We mentioned (14 May newsletter) trac's new website at www.trac.cymru
One particular resource is the collection of articles on https://trac.cymru/en/articles/
These are: Cadi Ha; 400 Years of the Robert ap Huw Manuscript; Iolo Morganwg: Folk Song Hero; Crwth Tunes; Plygain; May Carols; Welsh Shanties; Playford Tunes in Wales; Pipes and Pibgorn; The Triple Harp; Hunting The Wren.
Updates: Folklife Organisations.
🄵 The Traditional Song Forum downloads videos of its excellent fortnightly Zoom talks, simply google Traditional Song Forum - YouTube. See https://tradsong.org for more about the work of the TSF.
TSF Online meeting 28, Sunday 11 July 2021, 16:00 BST (GMT+1)
A special meeting to mark the publication of the new book The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance edited by Peter Harrop and Steve Roud. Some of the chapters in the book have been the subject of previous presentations to our online events but, on this occasion, we have three very highly qualified speakers summarising their own chapter.
You will, as usual, need to book a place for the meeting. Bookings will close 24 hours before the start of the event which will also be available as a YouTube live stream. As with all TSF Online events, a video will be available on the Traditional Song Forum YouTube channel after the meeting.
Julia Bishop ‘The Performers in the Playground’
Sue Allan ‘Merry neets and bridewains: contemporary commentaries on folk music, dance and song in the Lake Counties during the Romantic period’.
Vic Gammon ‘The Rise and Fall of the West Gallery: popular religious music in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries’
For details see https://tradsong.org
🄵 Wales: Trac Cymru. We mentioned (14 May newsletter) trac's new website at www.trac.cymru
One particular resource is the collection of articles on https://trac.cymru/en/articles/
These are: Cadi Ha; 400 Years of the Robert ap Huw Manuscript; Iolo Morganwg: Folk Song Hero; Crwth Tunes; Plygain; May Carols; Welsh Shanties; Playford Tunes in Wales; Pipes and Pibgorn; The Triple Harp; Hunting The Wren.
Member-Festivals & Workshops Diary.
Copied online: www.folklife.uk/festivals.html, so read online or (new!) download PDF of the print version. Very full details, to Oct 2022!
Some live; some online as noted, so overseas friends can join us.
🄵 2021 Jul 15 – 18 WARWICK FOLK FESTIVAL CANCELLED www.warwickfolkfestival.co.uk
Following extensive planning and discussion in light of the most recent government guidelines, with huge regret it has been decided that Warwick Folk Festival, which was due to take place 15 - 18 July, will be postponed until 21 - 24 July 2022. This decision has not been taken lightly, but with the current situation, our absolute priority is the safety of our staff, artists, traders, audience and the local community. As previously, tickets can be transferred to next year’s festival. Thank you to everybody for your continued support and efforts during this difficult time, we miss you very much. 18/6/2021
🄵 2022 Jul 21 – 24 WARWICK FOLK FESTIVAL www.warwickfolkfestival.co.uk
🄵 2021 Jul 7 - 11 NEW FOREST FOLK FESTIVAL still on (16/6/21) www.newforestfolkfestival.co.uk
UPDATE 29/6/2021. We are pleased to announce that following the latest government announcement (14-6-21) we are ok to go ahead.
Unfortunately because of government guidelines we had limited numbers and tickets are now sold out.
🄵 2021 Jul 16 - 18 MITCHELDEAN FESTIVAL still on www.mitcheldeanfestival.fod.uk
→ MITCHELDEAN, Forest of Dean, Glos GL17 0AT
⇒ Email talktous<at>mitcheldeanfestival.fod.uk for more information, Andy Scarf 01594 544456
⊕ Free festival in the glorious Forest of Dean! All singers, musicians and dancers welcome.
UPDATE 19/5/2021: We’re sorry to announce that, in view of the ongoing uncertainty over the use of indoor venues for live music, the festival committee has decided not to run any formal music concerts as part of this year’s festival.
We are keeping our options open in respect of more informal/spontaneous live music opportunities. Watch for future posts on this on https://www.facebook.com/MitcheldeanFestival
We hope you will be able to join us - Cheers! ® Andy
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Folk News, area/country pages & webpages.
Print-pages images, + PDF download (May was online only; Oct. in print & copied online).
Most clubs/session are waiting for government before announcing definite plans.
We'll let you know when we hear, with more frequent newsletter as needed.
CYMRU / WALES
🄵 Weekly Thu Newport ROGERSTONE NEWPORT FOLK CLUB www.newportfolkclub.co.uk Bryn Millichip (Chair) 07397 98084
The Club has a new and much improved website, and are now meeting in person as follows
All are welcome, so join us on OPEN NIGHTS if you wish to perform, or just enjoy the music!
We would normally expect to be singing etc. from 8.30pm-11pm, though at the present time we are still enjoying the sunshine in the early evening by meeting outside at 6.30. However the Committee have now agreed with the Fugitives that subject to meeting the requirements of the WAG we can now return to singing in the Function room. Whoopee!!
In the first instance we will still meet outside at 6.30 til 8.30, weather permitting, and once we get a perspex screen to sing behind, those who wish to can join committee members inside for a few songs to assure the Fugies management that we are compliant. If all is well we should then be able to continue as normal thereafter, and barring any drastic changes in the current situation in Wales. (updated June 27th).
For the very latest information click on the https://www.facebook.com/groups/newportfolkclub/
Copied online: www.folklife.uk/festivals.html, so read online or (new!) download PDF of the print version. Very full details, to Oct 2022!
Some live; some online as noted, so overseas friends can join us.
🄵 2021 Jul 15 – 18 WARWICK FOLK FESTIVAL CANCELLED www.warwickfolkfestival.co.uk
Following extensive planning and discussion in light of the most recent government guidelines, with huge regret it has been decided that Warwick Folk Festival, which was due to take place 15 - 18 July, will be postponed until 21 - 24 July 2022. This decision has not been taken lightly, but with the current situation, our absolute priority is the safety of our staff, artists, traders, audience and the local community. As previously, tickets can be transferred to next year’s festival. Thank you to everybody for your continued support and efforts during this difficult time, we miss you very much. 18/6/2021
🄵 2022 Jul 21 – 24 WARWICK FOLK FESTIVAL www.warwickfolkfestival.co.uk
🄵 2021 Jul 7 - 11 NEW FOREST FOLK FESTIVAL still on (16/6/21) www.newforestfolkfestival.co.uk
UPDATE 29/6/2021. We are pleased to announce that following the latest government announcement (14-6-21) we are ok to go ahead.
Unfortunately because of government guidelines we had limited numbers and tickets are now sold out.
🄵 2021 Jul 16 - 18 MITCHELDEAN FESTIVAL still on www.mitcheldeanfestival.fod.uk
→ MITCHELDEAN, Forest of Dean, Glos GL17 0AT
⇒ Email talktous<at>mitcheldeanfestival.fod.uk for more information, Andy Scarf 01594 544456
⊕ Free festival in the glorious Forest of Dean! All singers, musicians and dancers welcome.
UPDATE 19/5/2021: We’re sorry to announce that, in view of the ongoing uncertainty over the use of indoor venues for live music, the festival committee has decided not to run any formal music concerts as part of this year’s festival.
We are keeping our options open in respect of more informal/spontaneous live music opportunities. Watch for future posts on this on https://www.facebook.com/MitcheldeanFestival
We hope you will be able to join us - Cheers! ® Andy
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Folk News, area/country pages & webpages.
Print-pages images, + PDF download (May was online only; Oct. in print & copied online).
Most clubs/session are waiting for government before announcing definite plans.
We'll let you know when we hear, with more frequent newsletter as needed.
CYMRU / WALES
🄵 Weekly Thu Newport ROGERSTONE NEWPORT FOLK CLUB www.newportfolkclub.co.uk Bryn Millichip (Chair) 07397 98084
The Club has a new and much improved website, and are now meeting in person as follows
All are welcome, so join us on OPEN NIGHTS if you wish to perform, or just enjoy the music!
We would normally expect to be singing etc. from 8.30pm-11pm, though at the present time we are still enjoying the sunshine in the early evening by meeting outside at 6.30. However the Committee have now agreed with the Fugitives that subject to meeting the requirements of the WAG we can now return to singing in the Function room. Whoopee!!
In the first instance we will still meet outside at 6.30 til 8.30, weather permitting, and once we get a perspex screen to sing behind, those who wish to can join committee members inside for a few songs to assure the Fugies management that we are compliant. If all is well we should then be able to continue as normal thereafter, and barring any drastic changes in the current situation in Wales. (updated June 27th).
For the very latest information click on the https://www.facebook.com/groups/newportfolkclub/
(updates for webpages not included in the printed magazine)
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Zoom List webpage updates
Tuesday USA also copied to International news webpage
California
🄰 San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO FOLK MUSIC CLUB'S SINGS, 1st and 3rd Tuesdays, 1pm - 3 pm PDT = 9pm - 11pm UK time.
Whether you sing traditional songs or newer songs, a cappella or with your guitar, whether you play Old-Time, Irish, or other instrumental tunes, whether you dance contra, Irish, or swing, we’re always thrilled to meet new musicians!
To receive an invitation to the meeting: subscribe to our Harmony email list, via the website www.sffmc.org [added 19 Jun 2021]
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International webpage - dates
USA --- Boston
🄰 LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ONLINE EVENTS, numerous events, day varies,
includes ONLINE BALLAD SING or CHANTY SING Sundays, weekly, 2-5 EDT [= UK 7pm-10pm]
For details see sites.google.com/view/lynnoel/music/mermaidstavern
join the mailing list at http://mailinglist.mermaidstavern.com
July
USA --- California
🄰 SF Folk Music Club 4th of July Camp Goes Virtual Once Again -- this news item in last newsletter was headed up SF Folk Club
-- correct title is San Francisco Folk Music Club
SFFMC website is www.sffmc.org Note: we've amended this in Newsletter below & on International webpage.
International webpage - venues (real & virtual) and performers
The SAN FRANCISCO FOLK MUSIC CLUB, one of the leading folk music organizations in the Bay Area, is dedicated to the enjoyment, preservation and promotion of acoustic music in individual, family, and community life. Our members include singers, instrumentalists, performers, song writers, dancers and listeners.We have musical meetings twice a month. We put on two folk festivals and four camps every year. We publish the folknik folk music newsletter and we host the Harmony e-mail group and a Facebook page. www.sffmc.org
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Updates for Directory ⎈ DIRECTORY
This Folklife website: now includes 'Directory' webpages.
See start of this newsletter. No Directory changes notified.
Please support our performers, who have lost their income: check their Directory-listed websites for recordings to buy.
Zoom List webpage updates
Tuesday USA also copied to International news webpage
California
🄰 San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO FOLK MUSIC CLUB'S SINGS, 1st and 3rd Tuesdays, 1pm - 3 pm PDT = 9pm - 11pm UK time.
Whether you sing traditional songs or newer songs, a cappella or with your guitar, whether you play Old-Time, Irish, or other instrumental tunes, whether you dance contra, Irish, or swing, we’re always thrilled to meet new musicians!
To receive an invitation to the meeting: subscribe to our Harmony email list, via the website www.sffmc.org [added 19 Jun 2021]
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International webpage - dates
USA --- Boston
🄰 LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ONLINE EVENTS, numerous events, day varies,
includes ONLINE BALLAD SING or CHANTY SING Sundays, weekly, 2-5 EDT [= UK 7pm-10pm]
For details see sites.google.com/view/lynnoel/music/mermaidstavern
join the mailing list at http://mailinglist.mermaidstavern.com
July
- Sunday, July 4: DARK (No Tavern Sing) Happy Fourth of July!
- Sunday, July 11: Ballad Sing (host Phillip Nimeskern)
- Thursday, July 15: Nicole Singer and Becky Wright Album Release Concert
- Sunday, July 18: Chantey Sing
- Sunday, July 25: Ballad Sing
- Sunday, August 8: Ballad Sing
- Thursday, August 19: Sirius Doggerel singaround
- Sunday, August 22: Tavern & Chantey Sing
USA --- California
🄰 SF Folk Music Club 4th of July Camp Goes Virtual Once Again -- this news item in last newsletter was headed up SF Folk Club
-- correct title is San Francisco Folk Music Club
SFFMC website is www.sffmc.org Note: we've amended this in Newsletter below & on International webpage.
International webpage - venues (real & virtual) and performers
The SAN FRANCISCO FOLK MUSIC CLUB, one of the leading folk music organizations in the Bay Area, is dedicated to the enjoyment, preservation and promotion of acoustic music in individual, family, and community life. Our members include singers, instrumentalists, performers, song writers, dancers and listeners.We have musical meetings twice a month. We put on two folk festivals and four camps every year. We publish the folknik folk music newsletter and we host the Harmony e-mail group and a Facebook page. www.sffmc.org
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Updates for Directory ⎈ DIRECTORY
This Folklife website: now includes 'Directory' webpages.
See start of this newsletter. No Directory changes notified.
Please support our performers, who have lost their income: check their Directory-listed websites for recordings to buy.
@ emailed Wed 16 (Members) & Thu 17 June 2021 : magazine; Updates
🄵 Folklife Members
🄰 Associates, for 'Other Areas' 'International' (associates are those signed up to our Folklife Newsletter).
- Folklife Newsletter sign up email sam@folklife.uk 'Opt In’ + country or Eng. region, or use form below
🄰 Associates, for 'Other Areas' 'International' (associates are those signed up to our Folklife Newsletter).
- Folklife Newsletter sign up email sam@folklife.uk 'Opt In’ + country or Eng. region, or use form below
Folklife West magazine, 1 May 2021 - do tell your folk friends!
IN PRINT as posted to Members, and - free - COPIED ONLINE
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Folklife Traditions Journal. Researched articles, contents as last Newsletter.
Copied online: www.folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html, read online or download PDF.
🄵 Steve Roud has announced Version 120 of Roud Indexes released.
🄵 Tiffany Hore, Library and Archives Director, Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, English Folk Dance and Song Society, announces that the online version at VWML has now been updated.
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Member-Festivals & Workshops Diary.
Copied online: www.folklife.uk/festivals.html, so read online or (new!) download PDF of the print version. Very full details, to Oct 2022!
Some live; some online as noted, so overseas friends can join us.
🄵 Churchdown Festival 2021 was recorded - now on YouTube
Summary of updates since Jan issue. Highlighted on webpages by a green box around updated news. for all your kind comments about the festival and many thanks to all who took part this year. We had a few tech hitches but it turned out to be a great day. I have tidied up the video recording now and uploaded it to YouTube, you can view it here: https://youtu.be/-Y4WW3gggJM
There is a link to part 2 at the end of part one. Looking forward to next year now at Churchdown Club I hope. Will.
🄵 2021 Jul 8 - 11 BROMSGROVE FOLK FESTIVAL cancelled www.bromsgrovefolkclub.co.uk
Hi one and all
Following the Prime Minister’s announcement extending restrictions on social distancing, etc., we have, with great regret, decided to cancel Bromsgrove Folk Festival 2021. The logistics of working on such a confined site render it almost impossible to safeguard the health and safety of festival goers, artists, and “crew”.
We trust that everyone will understand why we had to take this decision and look forward to returning “better not bigger” in 2022 (put 7th to 10th July 2022 in your diary).
Stay safe and well, look after one another
Bob 16/6/2021
🄵 added to Festivals page, 2022 Jul 7 - 10 BROMSGROVE FOLK FESTIVAL www.bromsgrovefolkclub.co.uk (with some details of festival).
🄵 2021 Oct 22 – 24 WREN MUSIC FOLK FESTIVAL www.wrenmusic.co.uk/what-we-do/folk-festival
We are planning for the festival to take place in person in 2021. Keep checking back for up to date information on this year’s festival, or follow us on Facebook for updates. 3/6/21
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Folk News, area/country pages & webpages. Print-pages images, & PDF downloads. May online only. Next issue in print & copied online.
WEST COUNTRY
🄵 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
HEREFS-WORCS
🄵 Bromsgrove Folk Club, Worcs.
The Club will, subject to confirmation, start on Thursday 12th August and continue of the second and last Thursdays. Bob, 24/5/2021
🄵 Saturday and Sunday 16/17th October 2021: Morris and Other Creatures, a Morris event, and also it is an Art Exhibition and Demonstration. There will only be three spots for dancing.. and they wont be missed. So please contact Jill Peer, email jillpeer<at>gmail.com and tel no 07754950939 or 01684 560919. Jill, 17/5/2021
IN PRINT as posted to Members, and - free - COPIED ONLINE
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Folklife Traditions Journal. Researched articles, contents as last Newsletter.
Copied online: www.folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html, read online or download PDF.
🄵 Steve Roud has announced Version 120 of Roud Indexes released.
🄵 Tiffany Hore, Library and Archives Director, Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, English Folk Dance and Song Society, announces that the online version at VWML has now been updated.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Member-Festivals & Workshops Diary.
Copied online: www.folklife.uk/festivals.html, so read online or (new!) download PDF of the print version. Very full details, to Oct 2022!
Some live; some online as noted, so overseas friends can join us.
🄵 Churchdown Festival 2021 was recorded - now on YouTube
Summary of updates since Jan issue. Highlighted on webpages by a green box around updated news. for all your kind comments about the festival and many thanks to all who took part this year. We had a few tech hitches but it turned out to be a great day. I have tidied up the video recording now and uploaded it to YouTube, you can view it here: https://youtu.be/-Y4WW3gggJM
There is a link to part 2 at the end of part one. Looking forward to next year now at Churchdown Club I hope. Will.
🄵 2021 Jul 8 - 11 BROMSGROVE FOLK FESTIVAL cancelled www.bromsgrovefolkclub.co.uk
Hi one and all
Following the Prime Minister’s announcement extending restrictions on social distancing, etc., we have, with great regret, decided to cancel Bromsgrove Folk Festival 2021. The logistics of working on such a confined site render it almost impossible to safeguard the health and safety of festival goers, artists, and “crew”.
We trust that everyone will understand why we had to take this decision and look forward to returning “better not bigger” in 2022 (put 7th to 10th July 2022 in your diary).
Stay safe and well, look after one another
Bob 16/6/2021
🄵 added to Festivals page, 2022 Jul 7 - 10 BROMSGROVE FOLK FESTIVAL www.bromsgrovefolkclub.co.uk (with some details of festival).
🄵 2021 Oct 22 – 24 WREN MUSIC FOLK FESTIVAL www.wrenmusic.co.uk/what-we-do/folk-festival
We are planning for the festival to take place in person in 2021. Keep checking back for up to date information on this year’s festival, or follow us on Facebook for updates. 3/6/21
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Folk News, area/country pages & webpages. Print-pages images, & PDF downloads. May online only. Next issue in print & copied online.
WEST COUNTRY
🄵 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
HEREFS-WORCS
🄵 Bromsgrove Folk Club, Worcs.
The Club will, subject to confirmation, start on Thursday 12th August and continue of the second and last Thursdays. Bob, 24/5/2021
🄵 Saturday and Sunday 16/17th October 2021: Morris and Other Creatures, a Morris event, and also it is an Art Exhibition and Demonstration. There will only be three spots for dancing.. and they wont be missed. So please contact Jill Peer, email jillpeer<at>gmail.com and tel no 07754950939 or 01684 560919. Jill, 17/5/2021
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OTHER AREAS: --------- 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 OTHER AREAS: --------- 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 |
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International webpage
🄰 GERMANY ------ Bad Kissingen ENGLISH FOLK CLUB. Online Concerts, the last Saturday of every month, with musicians and singers. An entertaining, varied and highly entertaining evening. See www.facebook.com/EnglishFolkClubBadKissingen
30/5/2021. For those who did not get a chance to watch Saturdays last EFC Online before the summer break, here it is,all performances can be seen in Youtube and Facebook:
Youtube: https://youtu.be/ARX3ZxNgL2M
Facebook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARX3ZxNgL2M
We should be back in September either Online again, or in our venue Kissvino in Bad Kissingen / Bavaria. Shoulöd the venue be open we may show it live too.
Till then we send our best musical regards - Dennis, Ana, Harfner, Horst, Alexander, Peter and Manu
🄰 USA ------ Boston: LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ONLINE EVENTS, numerous events, day varies,
includes ONLINE BALLAD SING or CHANTY SING Sundays, weekly, 2-5 EDT [= UK 7pm-10pm]
For details see sites.google.com/view/lynnoel/music/mermaidstavern
June
NEW SCHEDULE: Twice-monthly sessions second and fourth Sundays, monthly concerts third Thursdays
🄰 USA --- California
San Francisco Folk Music Club 4th of July Camp Goes Virtual Once Again -- Zoom meetings on Friday July 2, Saturday July 3 and Sunday July 4.
You may arrange to use as many breakout rooms as you wish, but please let us know ahead of time if at all possible so we can have them on the schedule in order for as many people to attend as possible.
Ed Hilton set up three Zoom links on our Club account for Memorial Day, one for each day of camp, and that worked so well that we'll be repeating the process. All you'll have to do to join in is click on the link, look at the list of breakout rooms, and then click on which one you'd like to join.
Friday Night July 2; [Pacific Time]
5-7 pm: Bring Your Own Everything Pot Luck - a chance to check in with your friends and eat some dinner (or not) with them. This won't be a musical meeting as much as a way for us just to talk to each other as we would if we were having a pot luck at a live camp.
7-11 pm: Song Swap. Cyprian's will be held online the following Friday, July 9. This will be a similarly styled song swap with people taking turns sharing songs.
Breakout rooms will be available from 5 - 11 pm.
Saturday July 3:
Workshop I: 11am - 12 noon (Hali Hammer hosts). Workshop II: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm (Ed Hilton hosts). Workshop III: 2 pm - 3 pm (Hali Hammer hosts). Workshop IV: 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm (Ed Hilton hosts). Open Mic 7-9 pm (this seemed to be the preferred time suggested by the most participants)
Breakout rooms will be available from 11 am to 11 pm.
Sunday, July 4: Same Schedule as Saturday. Breakout rooms will be available both Saturday and Sunday from 11 am to 11 pm.
If you're interested in leading a workshop, contact either Ed Hilton (ed_hilton@<at>yahoo.com) or Hali Hammer (halih<at>yahoo.com) to reserve your space. If you want to have a longer song swap you can do it in a breakout room.
If you want a slot for Open Mic, contact Ed for Saturday night or Hali for Sunday night.
We're hoping to have a live camp for Labor Day weekend (September 3-5) but if not, we'll continue to hold virtual camp. - Hali Hammer. SFFMC is at www.sffmc.org
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Updates Folk Directory www.folklife-directory.uk
On this (Folklife) website: ⎈ Directory webpage changed. It was set up to auto-redirect to www.folklife-directory.uk website.
Replaced by a new webpage, with links to that site, and now also to its individual Directory webpages, and to Folklife Traditions website's directory pages.
We intend to move Directory website content to this, our main site www.folklife.uk
When we do this, details will be in Newsletter, and on ⎈ Directory webpage webpage on this site & on www.folklife-directory.uk
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Other Areas UK new Members:
🄵 Venues - North-East
🄵 4th Tuesdays Tyne & Wear SUNDERLAND STUMBLE INN FOLK & ACOUSTIC AFTERNOON www.facebook.com/stumbleinnfolk Eileen Richardson
→ The Stumble Inn, Function Room, Chester Road, Sunderland, SR2 7PR. 1pm to 4pm (for Zoom, 2.10pm for 2.30pm)
⇒ Eileen Richardson, www.facebook.com/stumbleinnfolk, contact Stumble Inn Folk and Acoustic Afternoon on Messenger or email eileenrich<at>hotmail.com
⊕ The pub serves real ale, food, and coffee. Singers (unaccompanied or accompanied), musicians and listeners welcome! All welcome, whether Stumble Inn regulars or not, to share a song, tune, poem etc. or simply to come along and listen. (May 2021, new Member)
🄵 Folk Music & Song - Solo - North-East
🄵 Tyne & Wear KEITH GREGSON www.keithgregson.com Keith Gregson
⇒ e-mail keith.gregson<at>talk21.com, 0191 5109206. YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCcUZECZxt5OBL29_cxVzZWQ
⊕ BBC TV’s ‘Barn Dance’ dancer (1960s); North-East folk clubs organiser / semi-professional performer (1970s); folk-related schools material with Roy Palmer. Benfieldside dance team; Folk Camp Society (leader and musician). Singer/songwriter. Author articles and books on traditional song, dance and music. (May 2021, new Member)
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International webpage
🄰 GERMANY ------ Bad Kissingen ENGLISH FOLK CLUB. Online Concerts, the last Saturday of every month, with musicians and singers. An entertaining, varied and highly entertaining evening. See www.facebook.com/EnglishFolkClubBadKissingen
30/5/2021. For those who did not get a chance to watch Saturdays last EFC Online before the summer break, here it is,all performances can be seen in Youtube and Facebook:
Youtube: https://youtu.be/ARX3ZxNgL2M
Facebook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARX3ZxNgL2M
We should be back in September either Online again, or in our venue Kissvino in Bad Kissingen / Bavaria. Shoulöd the venue be open we may show it live too.
Till then we send our best musical regards - Dennis, Ana, Harfner, Horst, Alexander, Peter and Manu
🄰 USA ------ Boston: LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ONLINE EVENTS, numerous events, day varies,
includes ONLINE BALLAD SING or CHANTY SING Sundays, weekly, 2-5 EDT [= UK 7pm-10pm]
For details see sites.google.com/view/lynnoel/music/mermaidstavern
June
- Thursday, June 17: David Kessler in Concert
- Sunday, June 20: Chantey Sing
- Sunday, June 27: Ballad Sing
- Sunday, July 4: DARK (No Tavern Sing) Happy Fourth of July!
- Sunday, July 11: Ballad Sing (host Phillip Nimeskern)
- Thursday, July 15: Nicole Singer and Becky Wright Album Release Concert
- Sunday, July 18: Chantey Sing
- Sunday, July 25: Ballad Sing
NEW SCHEDULE: Twice-monthly sessions second and fourth Sundays, monthly concerts third Thursdays
- Sunday, August 8: Ballad Sing
- Thursday, August 19: Sirius Doggerel singaround
- Sunday, August 22: Tavern & Chantey Sing
🄰 USA --- California
San Francisco Folk Music Club 4th of July Camp Goes Virtual Once Again -- Zoom meetings on Friday July 2, Saturday July 3 and Sunday July 4.
You may arrange to use as many breakout rooms as you wish, but please let us know ahead of time if at all possible so we can have them on the schedule in order for as many people to attend as possible.
Ed Hilton set up three Zoom links on our Club account for Memorial Day, one for each day of camp, and that worked so well that we'll be repeating the process. All you'll have to do to join in is click on the link, look at the list of breakout rooms, and then click on which one you'd like to join.
Friday Night July 2; [Pacific Time]
5-7 pm: Bring Your Own Everything Pot Luck - a chance to check in with your friends and eat some dinner (or not) with them. This won't be a musical meeting as much as a way for us just to talk to each other as we would if we were having a pot luck at a live camp.
7-11 pm: Song Swap. Cyprian's will be held online the following Friday, July 9. This will be a similarly styled song swap with people taking turns sharing songs.
Breakout rooms will be available from 5 - 11 pm.
Saturday July 3:
Workshop I: 11am - 12 noon (Hali Hammer hosts). Workshop II: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm (Ed Hilton hosts). Workshop III: 2 pm - 3 pm (Hali Hammer hosts). Workshop IV: 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm (Ed Hilton hosts). Open Mic 7-9 pm (this seemed to be the preferred time suggested by the most participants)
Breakout rooms will be available from 11 am to 11 pm.
Sunday, July 4: Same Schedule as Saturday. Breakout rooms will be available both Saturday and Sunday from 11 am to 11 pm.
If you're interested in leading a workshop, contact either Ed Hilton (ed_hilton@<at>yahoo.com) or Hali Hammer (halih<at>yahoo.com) to reserve your space. If you want to have a longer song swap you can do it in a breakout room.
If you want a slot for Open Mic, contact Ed for Saturday night or Hali for Sunday night.
We're hoping to have a live camp for Labor Day weekend (September 3-5) but if not, we'll continue to hold virtual camp. - Hali Hammer. SFFMC is at www.sffmc.org
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Updates Folk Directory www.folklife-directory.uk
On this (Folklife) website: ⎈ Directory webpage changed. It was set up to auto-redirect to www.folklife-directory.uk website.
Replaced by a new webpage, with links to that site, and now also to its individual Directory webpages, and to Folklife Traditions website's directory pages.
We intend to move Directory website content to this, our main site www.folklife.uk
When we do this, details will be in Newsletter, and on ⎈ Directory webpage webpage on this site & on www.folklife-directory.uk
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Other Areas UK new Members:
🄵 Venues - North-East
🄵 4th Tuesdays Tyne & Wear SUNDERLAND STUMBLE INN FOLK & ACOUSTIC AFTERNOON www.facebook.com/stumbleinnfolk Eileen Richardson
→ The Stumble Inn, Function Room, Chester Road, Sunderland, SR2 7PR. 1pm to 4pm (for Zoom, 2.10pm for 2.30pm)
⇒ Eileen Richardson, www.facebook.com/stumbleinnfolk, contact Stumble Inn Folk and Acoustic Afternoon on Messenger or email eileenrich<at>hotmail.com
⊕ The pub serves real ale, food, and coffee. Singers (unaccompanied or accompanied), musicians and listeners welcome! All welcome, whether Stumble Inn regulars or not, to share a song, tune, poem etc. or simply to come along and listen. (May 2021, new Member)
🄵 Folk Music & Song - Solo - North-East
🄵 Tyne & Wear KEITH GREGSON www.keithgregson.com Keith Gregson
⇒ e-mail keith.gregson<at>talk21.com, 0191 5109206. YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCcUZECZxt5OBL29_cxVzZWQ
⊕ BBC TV’s ‘Barn Dance’ dancer (1960s); North-East folk clubs organiser / semi-professional performer (1970s); folk-related schools material with Roy Palmer. Benfieldside dance team; Folk Camp Society (leader and musician). Singer/songwriter. Author articles and books on traditional song, dance and music. (May 2021, new Member)
@ emailed 14 May 2021: magazine; Updates
Folklife West magazine, 1 May 2021 - do tell your folk friends!
IN PRINT as posted to Members, and - free - COPIED ONLINE
Ø Folklife Traditions Journal. Researched articles, contents as last Newsletter.
Copied online: www.folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html, read online or download PDF.
Ø Update since 1 May: Folklife Organisations. Wales: Trac Cymru. We hope you’ll enjoy checking out all the wonderful content on our new website at www.trac.cymru There are learning resources including videos and articles, and a directory of bands, tutors, instrument makers, and more. There’s listings of festivals, folk clubs, sessions and dance clubs – ready for when we can go to live events again. The new website, along with our new logo, celebrate Trac Cymru’s 21st birthday this year.
Ø Member-Festivals & Workshops Diary.
Numerous updates since last Newsletter - too many to list here - see the Diary.
Copied online: www.folklife.uk/festivals.html, so read onlineor (new!) download PDF of the print version. Very full details, to Oct 2022!
Some live; some online as noted, so overseas friends can join us.
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ONLINE ONLY, this issue (normally in print)
Folk news, prepared as print-pages images, & PDF downloads.
Summary of updates since Jan issue. Highlighted on webpages by a green box around updated news.
Venues, performers, media, services:
🄵 = Folklife Member
Cymru/Wales webpage: listings (p25) & news (other pages)
🄵 p25 Listings: new member, Lyceum Folk & Acoustic Club 🄵 p25 Listings: new contact details Rhyl Folk Club.
🄵 p26 Correspondent: Tudalen Cymru - Wales page by Mick Tems 🄵 p27 National Eisteddfod, postponed, new date
🄵 p29 New member, Lyceum Folk & Acoustic Club; TASC 🄵 p30 John Alderslade - more than 50 years of stories!
🄵 p30 new contact details Rhyl Folk Club.
England South-West region webpage: listings (p32) & news (other pages)
🄵 p32 Listings: Pennymoor Singaround Facebook link updated 🄵 p33 Wadebridge Folk Club updated; Dreamers Folk Club updated
🄵 p34 Sarah McQuaid updated • 🄵 p36 Halsway Manor updated 🄵 p37 Correspondent: North Dorset & South Somerset column by John Waltham
🄵 p38 Village Pump Friday Folk updated • 🄵 p39 The Redcatch Club updated
England Glos-Oxon webpage: listings (p40) & news (other pages)
🄵 p41 Accordion for sale, from William Craswell. ~ I have decided to concentrate on Melodeon only now so I would like to sell my Hohner Bravo 48 Accordion. It is in pretty much as new condition, you can see the pics here - http://liamtho.com/Bravo/ If interested, contact liamtho<at>me.com Cheers, Will
🄵 p41 Dursley Acoustic Music Nights updated • 🄵 p41 Cleeve Concerts updated
🄵 p43 Kim Lowings, Kim & Andrew Lowings, Kim Lowings & The Greenwood updated 🄵 p43 Roses Theatre updated
England West Midlands region webpage: listings (p46) & news (other pages)
🄵 p48 Traditional Arts Team updated
England Herefs & Worcs webpage: listings (p51) & news (other pages)
🄵 p52 Correspondent: Tales from under Black Hill (S.W. Herefs), column by John & Jane Baxter
🄵 p54 Mike Weaver updated 🄵 p55 Somers Traditional Folk Club updated; Colin Pitts updated
🄵 p55 Appleyard Dancers updated; ONEACHORD updated 🄵 p56 Foyer Folk, Number 8 updated • 🄵 p57 Folk at the Fold updated
Other UK areas webpage: listings (p58) & news (p58 & other pages)
🄰 Associates = 'Other UK' areas. signed up to this Folklife Newsletter.
🄵 p58 Listings: new members added
~ 4th Tue, Tyne & Wear, Sunderland, Stumble Inn Folk & Acoustic Afternoon
~ Folk Music & Song, Solo: N-E, Tyne & Wear, Keith Gregson;
~ Folk Music & Song, Solo: Scotland Western Isles / Na h-Eileanan Siar, Linn Phipps
🄵 p58 The Living Tradition, April-May issue; Linn Phipps updated (& now member)
🄰 p59 FOCSLE Music updated • 🄰 p60 Deal Folk Club updated
🄰 p61 Dave Mason updated 🄵 p61 new - Stumble Inn (new member); new - Keith Gregson (new member)
IN PRINT as posted to Members, and - free - COPIED ONLINE
Ø Folklife Traditions Journal. Researched articles, contents as last Newsletter.
Copied online: www.folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html, read online or download PDF.
Ø Update since 1 May: Folklife Organisations. Wales: Trac Cymru. We hope you’ll enjoy checking out all the wonderful content on our new website at www.trac.cymru There are learning resources including videos and articles, and a directory of bands, tutors, instrument makers, and more. There’s listings of festivals, folk clubs, sessions and dance clubs – ready for when we can go to live events again. The new website, along with our new logo, celebrate Trac Cymru’s 21st birthday this year.
Ø Member-Festivals & Workshops Diary.
Numerous updates since last Newsletter - too many to list here - see the Diary.
Copied online: www.folklife.uk/festivals.html, so read onlineor (new!) download PDF of the print version. Very full details, to Oct 2022!
Some live; some online as noted, so overseas friends can join us.
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ONLINE ONLY, this issue (normally in print)
Folk news, prepared as print-pages images, & PDF downloads.
Summary of updates since Jan issue. Highlighted on webpages by a green box around updated news.
Venues, performers, media, services:
🄵 = Folklife Member
Cymru/Wales webpage: listings (p25) & news (other pages)
🄵 p25 Listings: new member, Lyceum Folk & Acoustic Club 🄵 p25 Listings: new contact details Rhyl Folk Club.
🄵 p26 Correspondent: Tudalen Cymru - Wales page by Mick Tems 🄵 p27 National Eisteddfod, postponed, new date
🄵 p29 New member, Lyceum Folk & Acoustic Club; TASC 🄵 p30 John Alderslade - more than 50 years of stories!
🄵 p30 new contact details Rhyl Folk Club.
England South-West region webpage: listings (p32) & news (other pages)
🄵 p32 Listings: Pennymoor Singaround Facebook link updated 🄵 p33 Wadebridge Folk Club updated; Dreamers Folk Club updated
🄵 p34 Sarah McQuaid updated • 🄵 p36 Halsway Manor updated 🄵 p37 Correspondent: North Dorset & South Somerset column by John Waltham
🄵 p38 Village Pump Friday Folk updated • 🄵 p39 The Redcatch Club updated
England Glos-Oxon webpage: listings (p40) & news (other pages)
🄵 p41 Accordion for sale, from William Craswell. ~ I have decided to concentrate on Melodeon only now so I would like to sell my Hohner Bravo 48 Accordion. It is in pretty much as new condition, you can see the pics here - http://liamtho.com/Bravo/ If interested, contact liamtho<at>me.com Cheers, Will
🄵 p41 Dursley Acoustic Music Nights updated • 🄵 p41 Cleeve Concerts updated
🄵 p43 Kim Lowings, Kim & Andrew Lowings, Kim Lowings & The Greenwood updated 🄵 p43 Roses Theatre updated
England West Midlands region webpage: listings (p46) & news (other pages)
🄵 p48 Traditional Arts Team updated
England Herefs & Worcs webpage: listings (p51) & news (other pages)
🄵 p52 Correspondent: Tales from under Black Hill (S.W. Herefs), column by John & Jane Baxter
🄵 p54 Mike Weaver updated 🄵 p55 Somers Traditional Folk Club updated; Colin Pitts updated
🄵 p55 Appleyard Dancers updated; ONEACHORD updated 🄵 p56 Foyer Folk, Number 8 updated • 🄵 p57 Folk at the Fold updated
Other UK areas webpage: listings (p58) & news (p58 & other pages)
🄰 Associates = 'Other UK' areas. signed up to this Folklife Newsletter.
🄵 p58 Listings: new members added
~ 4th Tue, Tyne & Wear, Sunderland, Stumble Inn Folk & Acoustic Afternoon
~ Folk Music & Song, Solo: N-E, Tyne & Wear, Keith Gregson;
~ Folk Music & Song, Solo: Scotland Western Isles / Na h-Eileanan Siar, Linn Phipps
🄵 p58 The Living Tradition, April-May issue; Linn Phipps updated (& now member)
🄰 p59 FOCSLE Music updated • 🄰 p60 Deal Folk Club updated
🄰 p61 Dave Mason updated 🄵 p61 new - Stumble Inn (new member); new - Keith Gregson (new member)
These are additional webpages that are not included in the printed magazine.
🄵 = Folklife Member
🄰 = Associates = others signed up to our Folklife Newsletter.
‡ = Other entries (not signed up) since we're not in touch regularly, may get out of date.
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Zoom List webpage updates
SUNDAYS
‡ Israel. Jerusalem. LET’S SING TOGETHER (Virtually!) from Jerusalem, Twice monthly, Sundays. 8:15 (Israeli time) [8.15 UK time]. For the link please send an email to pgbacal<at>gmail.com Schedule change to meeting twice a month (week varies).
TUESDAYS
🄵 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 (added 14/5/2020)
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International webpage
Israel
‡ Jerusalem Folk Music Evening. LET’S SING TOGETHER (Virtually!) from Jerusalem, Twice monthly, Sundays. We open at 8:00 pm and the singing starts at 8:15 (Israeli time) [6.00-6.15 UK time]. We usually finish around 11pm-ish Israeli time.
For the link please send an email to pgbacal<at>gmail.com
We are changing our schedule, but not our link, to meeting twice a month (week will vary). The next Sunday session is Sunday 30th, May, 2021, and then hopefully every other week after that. [updated 16/5/2021]
USA
🄰 California San Francisco Free Folk Festival -- one-day online festival Saturday June 12, from 10 am to 6 pm Pacific Time.
The 2021 San Francisco Free Folk Festival will be a one-day online festival on Saturday June 12, from 10 am to 6 pm. The festival program is now available at https://sffolkfest.org/program-2021 Save the date! We'll have a much bigger program than we did for the 2020 online festival, with vocal, instrumental and dance workshops, an open mic, and family and storytelling events (mostly on Zoom). There will also be many scheduled and "watch anytime" concert performances.
For more information on the festival, see the festival web site at sffolkfest.org. Free pre-registration will be required for all festival Zoom events. Registering once on Zoom will get you access to all the events. The Zoom registration link will be posted here and on the festival website as soon as it's ready. [May 8, 2021]
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Updates Folk Directory
Other Areas UK new Members:
🄵 Venues
🄵 4th Tue Tyne & Wear SUNDERLAND STUMBLE INN FOLK & ACOUSTIC AFTERNOON www.facebook.com/stumbleinnfolk Eileen Richardson
• futher Directory details to follow
🄵 Folk Music & Song - Solo
🄵 N-E Tyne & Wear KEITH GREGSON www.keithgregson.com Keith Gregson
• futher Directory details to follow
🄵 Folk Music & Song - Solo
🄵 Alba Na h-Eileanan Siar LINN PHIPPS https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk LInn Phipps
• Tha mi nam sheinneadair folk is traidiseanta, stèidhichte san Rìoghachd Aonaichte. Bidh mi a’ seinn mar aon-neach, le càirdean ceòlmhor ann am còmhlan-ciùil agus le dà chòisir Ghàidhlig (Còisir Ghàidhlig Lodainn agus Còisir Ghàidhlig Lunnainn) agus aig cèilidhean air feadh Alba agus Shasainn a Tuath.
🄵 Scotland Western Isles LINN PHIPPS https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk LInn Phipps
• I’m a UK-based traditional folk singer, in Gaelic and English. I sing as a soloist, with musician friends, in a folk group, with two Gaelic choirs (Lothian and Còisir Lunnainn); and at ceilidhs in Scotland and the North of England.
🄵 = Folklife Member
🄰 = Associates = others signed up to our Folklife Newsletter.
‡ = Other entries (not signed up) since we're not in touch regularly, may get out of date.
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Zoom List webpage updates
SUNDAYS
‡ Israel. Jerusalem. LET’S SING TOGETHER (Virtually!) from Jerusalem, Twice monthly, Sundays. 8:15 (Israeli time) [8.15 UK time]. For the link please send an email to pgbacal<at>gmail.com Schedule change to meeting twice a month (week varies).
TUESDAYS
🄵 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 (added 14/5/2020)
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International webpage
Israel
‡ Jerusalem Folk Music Evening. LET’S SING TOGETHER (Virtually!) from Jerusalem, Twice monthly, Sundays. We open at 8:00 pm and the singing starts at 8:15 (Israeli time) [6.00-6.15 UK time]. We usually finish around 11pm-ish Israeli time.
For the link please send an email to pgbacal<at>gmail.com
We are changing our schedule, but not our link, to meeting twice a month (week will vary). The next Sunday session is Sunday 30th, May, 2021, and then hopefully every other week after that. [updated 16/5/2021]
USA
🄰 California San Francisco Free Folk Festival -- one-day online festival Saturday June 12, from 10 am to 6 pm Pacific Time.
The 2021 San Francisco Free Folk Festival will be a one-day online festival on Saturday June 12, from 10 am to 6 pm. The festival program is now available at https://sffolkfest.org/program-2021 Save the date! We'll have a much bigger program than we did for the 2020 online festival, with vocal, instrumental and dance workshops, an open mic, and family and storytelling events (mostly on Zoom). There will also be many scheduled and "watch anytime" concert performances.
For more information on the festival, see the festival web site at sffolkfest.org. Free pre-registration will be required for all festival Zoom events. Registering once on Zoom will get you access to all the events. The Zoom registration link will be posted here and on the festival website as soon as it's ready. [May 8, 2021]
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Updates Folk Directory
Other Areas UK new Members:
🄵 Venues
🄵 4th Tue Tyne & Wear SUNDERLAND STUMBLE INN FOLK & ACOUSTIC AFTERNOON www.facebook.com/stumbleinnfolk Eileen Richardson
• futher Directory details to follow
🄵 Folk Music & Song - Solo
🄵 N-E Tyne & Wear KEITH GREGSON www.keithgregson.com Keith Gregson
• futher Directory details to follow
🄵 Folk Music & Song - Solo
🄵 Alba Na h-Eileanan Siar LINN PHIPPS https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk LInn Phipps
• Tha mi nam sheinneadair folk is traidiseanta, stèidhichte san Rìoghachd Aonaichte. Bidh mi a’ seinn mar aon-neach, le càirdean ceòlmhor ann am còmhlan-ciùil agus le dà chòisir Ghàidhlig (Còisir Ghàidhlig Lodainn agus Còisir Ghàidhlig Lunnainn) agus aig cèilidhean air feadh Alba agus Shasainn a Tuath.
🄵 Scotland Western Isles LINN PHIPPS https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk LInn Phipps
• I’m a UK-based traditional folk singer, in Gaelic and English. I sing as a soloist, with musician friends, in a folk group, with two Gaelic choirs (Lothian and Còisir Lunnainn); and at ceilidhs in Scotland and the North of England.
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Folklife magazine has been growing about 4 pages a year, 64 A4 pages last time fully printed Jan 2020
We've produced free online issues . . . but have lost substantial festival advertising revenue.
With recurring costs (websites, domains, email, recent repairs & upgrades for computers & software), we are losing even more money than usual !
We can publicise you, our members.
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We've produced free online issues . . . but have lost substantial festival advertising revenue.
With recurring costs (websites, domains, email, recent repairs & upgrades for computers & software), we are losing even more money than usual !
We can publicise you, our members.
We can keep going because of your support via our membership scheme, but would appreciate your help at this difficult time for the magazine.
So some modest requests:
(1) we will still ask you to renew membership when it's due, for the next 3 printed issues - not counting May & Sept free online-only issue, so will be for 1 year + 8 months
(2) non-members who appreciate what we do are asked to consider joining (£18 a year).
(3) please please tell your friends!
