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​This just sent out - 15 May 2022
22/4/2022  May magazine posted out.   3/5/2022 Website now updated.

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🄵🅃🄹 Folklife Traditions Journal,  www.folklife-traditions.uk
Our aims include stimulating a wider interest in folk studies & folk culture: FTJ pages
Researched articles + archive, new, on a separate website. Folk studies and cultural traditions.  
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Current FTJ issue copied online: www.folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html, read, or download PDF.
It includes articles, plus Folklife Societies news & diary, Books & recordings announced & adverts.​
  • Article: Brighton Camp or The Girl I Left behind Me, Song and Tune, by Charles Menteith, p4-6 §
  • Tune & notes: Klezmer Korner, ‘Mekhutonim Tsum Tisch”, Klezmer, arranged Helen Adam, p6-7 
  • Article: The Twa Corbies, by Roy & Lesley Adkins, p8-9
  • Article: Using Zoom for a Folk Club - A Singer’s Perspective, by Dave Mason, p10
  • Review of a virtual Ballad Walk, by Rosie Upton, p2
 
​§ Note: The 1st tune on FTJ 70, page 4, was revised by the author after FTJ published: the key signature to Brighton Camp, Eynsham-Bampton should have been D, not G as originally published.  The PDFs of FTJ 70 have been corrected, as has the page-image - see https://www.folklife-traditions.uk/this-issue.html

Roy and Lesley Adkins - authors and contributors to to FWJ.
Adkins History Another occasional newsletter is on https://www.adkinshistory.com/newsletters/newsletter-64/  with the usual fascinating collection of articles on subjects varying from The Hour Glass to Books in War.

SEASONAL LOCAL CELEBRATIONS ON SPRING HOLIDAY WEEKEND.
Tom & Barbara Brown have pointed out that due to the Jubilee, the Spring Bank Holiday weekend has moved to the following weekend; this may affect some celebrations held on that day/weekend.
The Hunting of the Earl of Rone continues in the village, and always includes the last Monday in May, and starts on the previous Friday, so this year it won’t be taking place on the Spring Bank Holiday weekend.  See:
Hunting The Earl Of Rone    Combe Martin    N Devon    usually Spring Bank Holiday - but this year see below,
     Custom reintroduced in 1974, which includes Hobby Horse and Fool, 'Grenadiers', music, drums and dancers and the Earl of Rone character.  Processions take place throughout the weekend, culminating in full pageant on the Monday evening.  
2022 dates are  Friday 27th May 7:00 pm Procession with Drums only.   ---- Saturday 28th May. 11:00 am Children’s Day Procession. 
Sunday 29th May. 21:30 pm Full Procession ----  Monday 30th May 6:00 pm Procession with EOR        Tom & Barbara Brown  www.earl-of-rone.org.uk

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⎈ International 
NEW ENTRY     
​🄰   2022 Jun 10 - 12       CONNECTICUT SEA MUSIC FESTIVAL,  USA              http://ctseamusicfest.org/    
→    ESSEX, CT, USA.  Various venues including the historic Griswold Inn and the Connecticut River Museum.
⌂   Contact: Faye Ringel fayeringel@hotmail.com 860-608-3494.
Ticketed evening concerts https://www.eventbrite.com/e/connecticut-sea-music-festival-evening-concerts-tickets-301879318167
For more information, and to purchase advance sale tickets, visit 2022 Festival – Connecticut Sea Music Festival (ctseamusicfest.org)
⊕   The first Connecticut Sea Music Festival is free to the public (daytime events), the family-friendly maritime music festival presents  performers from a variety of musical traditions, steeped in the lore of the sea. Activities include a Family Stage, workshops, concerts, demonstrations of sailor skills, and a Symposium on the Music of the Sea, plus Evening concerts (ticketed, see above). 
       The streets and rafters of historic downtown Essex will ring with sea chanteys, as the Festival presents concerts, workshops, and demonstrations of traditional maritime skills. It  begins with a Symposium on the Music of the Sea from 9-5 on Friday, followed by an Evening Concert of traditional maritime music at 7 under the mainstage tent at  the Museum. On Saturday, music and workshops run from 10-5 at multiple venues, with an Evening Concert at 7. Sunday morning begins at 9:30 with a traditional maritime hymn sing- revival style!- under the big tent, and continues with music and workshops from 11- 3. The Festival concludes with an all-in concert on Sunday afternoon. 
       Online: only the Symposium will be livestreamed; we hope that Friday and Saturday night concerts will be available as audio only through an Internet radio station: iCRV  ICRVRadio.com
 
UPDATES for existing entry on Festivals and on International webpages
🄰  2022 Sep 24 - 25    THE PORTSMOUTH MARITIME FOLK FESTIVAL, USA     www.pmffest.org
* No June PMFF Second Saturday Zoom Sing - instead, at the Connecticut Sea Music Festival (see above).
* We had such a good time with the “Santy Anna” Big Sing last month, that we’re doing it again with “Rio Grande.” Wednesday 25 May, 3 pm EDT; see http://pmffest.org/2022/05/08/rio-grand-big-sing/ for details. Thanks to Advisory Committee member Linn Phipps and chantey sing regular Jim Lucas for arranging these!
* More performers for this year’s festival! West coast singer and songwriter Mary Garvey; Connecticut-based Skylark Trad Band (former Mystic Seaport chantey foreman Anayis Wright and former chantey staff Yves Corbiere and Kate McCann); and award-winning veteran performers Rick and Donna Nestler from New York are coming aboard, along with local favorites Great Bay Sailor, London Julie & Friends, Mudhook, The Portermen, and Two Old Friends. They join previously-announced headliners Vienna Carroll, David Coffin, and Cliff Haslam, plus Heather Wood and Don Sineti! See http://pmffest.org/2022-performers/ for pictures and bios.
* We’re really excited with how this year is shaping up, and eager to get back to the streets of Portsmouth! We hope to see you there!  
              Fair winds and following seas, Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival         Mailing list: info@pmffest.org

DATES  USA  --- Boston
🄰  LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ONLINE.     
SUNDAYS 1st, Online Ballad Sing;  3rd, Online Chantey & Tavern Sing, both 2-4 EDT [= UK 7pm-9pm]. 
THURSDAYS 3rd, concerts; SATURDAYS special events (usually on Saturdays)
For details see sites.google.com/view/lynnoel/music/mermaidstavern​       Join the mailing list at http://mailinglist.mermaidstavern.com
May
  • Sunday, May 15: Chantey & Tavern Sing
  • Thursday May 19: Merry May with Alex Cumming
June
  • Sunday, June 5: Ballad Sing
  • June 10-12: Lynn Noel IN PERSON at CT Sea Music Festival
  • Thursday, June 16: IN PERSON/HYBRID Janie Meneely & Rob van Sante
  • Sunday, June 19: Chantey & Tavern Sing
July
  • Sunday, July 3: Ballad Sing
  • Sunday, July 17: Chantey & Tavern Sing
  • Thursday July 21: Canadian Songs with Maura Volante


⎈ Zoom
No new Zoom sessions changed /added.
Articles: in addition to list of Zoom sessions, we have some articles, from Folklife Traditions Journal pages.  
In this issue, we have an article from Dave Mason, article 3) below.
Our Zoom articles on the Zoom webpage are
  1)  #FutureOfFolk Lynn Noel (Boston, USA)
  2)  Using Zoom for a Folk Club Mark Dowding (Room At The Top FC, Lancs)
  3)  Using Zoom for a Folk Club - A Singer's Perspective  Dave Mason (Scotland) ​

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🄵🅆  Kernow • Cornwall

UPDATES to page 20
🄵  ROB BARRATT  comic poet           Revised dates    
May 12th - Oldham Library and Lifelong Learning Centre, Greaves Street, Oldham, OL1 1AL 7pm.
​May 19th - Lyceum Folk Club, Newport, South Wales.
May 24th-  Warehouse Theatre, Ilminster, Somerset. Part of Ilminster Literature Festival.
​June 16th to 20th - Beardy Folk Festival, Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire.
​July 3rd Poetry in the Woods, Cardinham with intoBodmin, Cornwall.
​July 5th and 6th - Ludlow Fringe Festival, Shropshire. Rose and Crown.
​July 8th to 10th - Priddy Fringe Festival, Priddy, Somerset
​July 21st to 24th - Big Lit (a Scottish literary festival), Dumfries and Galloway.
​July 28th - Crookes Folk Club, The Princess Royal, 43, Slinn Street, Crookes, Sheffield. S10 1NW
​July 26th and 27th - Durham Fringe Festival. Cafédral 9pm to 10pm.
​September 17th - St Ives September Festival. The Arts Club. Comedy night with Holcomb, Barratt and Richey.
​November 24th to 27th - Arts Out West, Cumbria.
​Dec 6th to Dec 9th - Costa del Folk, Aviemore, Scotland.
 Rob Barratt ®,  01566 880336,  rbarratt@cooptel.net  For more information, see: www.robbarratt.co.uk


🄵🅆  West Country
  • Devon: please delete Tom & Barbara Brown entries: Pf.1b, Folk Music & Song - Duo; Pf.3a, Folk Shows & Theatre, Mummers; W.1 Workshops
  • Bristol & S Glos: Cresby aka Mr Red reports:   Thornbury Folk Session [p26: CSFN News] has closed.  I was asked to remove it recently.  http://mister.red​
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​🄵🅆  Herefs-Worcs

UPDATES to page 41 - Worcs
🄵  1st    Mon    Worcs    LOWER MOOR     OLD CHESTNUT TREE SINGAROUND  (no website)    Frank Jolley    07482 625877
Frank writes: 
Hi all
I hope you are all keeping well.
Just a note with some not-so-good news, I’m afraid.
The Old Chestnut Inn have told me that they do not want to hold our session there. They seem to have changed their mind. They say that like to close at 8 pm on Mondays. So I am back to looking for a venue again. 
As a result there will be no more meetings, I’m afraid, until I can find a new venue. 
Thank you all for your support for the Wyre Piddle session.
Best wishes
Frank
UPDATES to page 42 - Worcs
🄵  ​Weekly Fri  Worcs WORCESTER SOMERS TRADITIONAL FOLK CLUB www.somers-folk-club.org.uk  Eleanor & Sam 01684 561378
LIVE: open to all, 1st & 3rd Fridays (8.15-10.45pm (doors 8pm) - please check website for exceptional changes), 8.15-10.45pm (doors 8pm).
ZOOM: other Fridays on Zoom, Somers members only.   Annual membership £10 to 31/12/2022.
Chris  info<at>somers-folk-club.org.uk  Eleanor & Sam  01684 561378 (E&S are the Folklife editors but STFC is a separate organisation)​

🄵🅆  South-East

Editor's note: as I was preparing Newsletter, Moonrakers just joined Folklife.
For news - see Workshops below.
Directory entries below are my suggested draft from info on website - not as sent by Moonrakers - so all TBC

2. PERFORMERS    MUSIC & SONG, DANCE, SPOKEN WORD
Pf.1a    Folk Music & Song - Bands / Groups - sorted by first name within county
Oxfordshire     MOONRAKERS         www.moonrakers.net      Jon Bennett   01865 769206
⇒ moonrakerscelticmusic<at>gmail.com, https://www.facebook.com/MoonrakersBand/ ,  https://twitter.com/moonrakersband , 
     https://www.instagram.com/moonrakersofficial/ , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgNff2A8tp5dvcU0via1C4g
⊕  Four Oxford-based musicians who have brought traditional and contemporary folk music to new audiences in village halls, churches, arts centres and festivals.   With careful arrangements and selections of tunes and songs, “just OOZES quality” (Living Tradition); “exquisite music” (BBC).  [New member: added May 2022]

5. WORKSHOP PROVIDERS & WORKSHOP SERIES
W.1    WORKSHOP PROVIDERS, incl. Study Centres, Folk Teachers, Tutors, Development Workers, Workshop Organisers.
Many tutors travel across the country; so we give their home area just for information.
Oxfordshire     MOONRAKERS         www.moonrakers.net      Jon Bennett   01865 769206
⇒ moonrakerscelticmusic<at>gmail.com, https://www.facebook.com/MoonrakersBand/ ,  https://twitter.com/moonrakersband , 
     https://www.instagram.com/moonrakersofficial/ , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgNff2A8tp5dvcU0via1C4g
⊕  Moonrakers run Folk Orchestra and Ukulele & Singing residential weekends, plus annual day events, at Halsway Manor (Somerset), Benslow Music (Hertfordshire), Oxford, and several festivals.  For players and singers of all standards: tuition, multi-instrumental arrangements, performing and recording the results. ​[New member: added May 2022]

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Webpage  🄵🅆  Festivals, workshops   www.folklife.uk/festivals.html​
USA:  changes as above under International 

UK: 
🄵  MOONRAKERS' FORTHCOMING WORKSHOPS       www.moonrakers.net
Moonrakers is a professional group of musicians who run residential and day courses in Folk Ensemble playing. We’ve been doing this for many years at Halsway Manor, Benslow Music and various other locations around the country. The courses are geared towards intermediate players of all instruments and have on every occasion been sold out. We always send the music and a video of the tunes in advance to participants. Forthcoming workshops:
 
3-4 September   BUNKFEST Festival, WALLINGFORD. Our annual foray into the delights of BunkFest,  including a concert, workshops, etc.  And it's all free!  We'll be on the Main Stage at 12:30 on Sunday and also at other venues across the weekend.
9-11 September   Folk Orchestra, Benslow Music, HITCHIN.  The second of our annual residential weekend workshops at Benslow Music.  Book early!  www.benslowmusic.org  01462 459446.
21-23 October Intermediate/Advanced ukulele fingerstyle course at  BENSLOW MUSIC , run by Jon Bennett. Solo & ensemble arrangements, chord theory and chord-melody playing. Residential weekend. Book early! ​www.benslowmusic.org  01462 459446
18-20 November   Folk Orchestra residential course, Yarn Market Hotel, Dunster, MINEHEAD, Somerset,  TA24 6SF.  Arriving Friday evening, then two full days of multi-instrumental group arrangements, playing and tuition for intermediate players. Limited to 20 participants.  Two nights full board + the course : £300-£330 depending on accommodation.  Day visitors £150 (incl. lunch/dinner/lunch). Bookings/enquiries : 01643  821425.
Saturday ​11th February, 2023   Folk Orchestra day course/workshop. Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Altwood Road, MAIDENHEAD SL6 4PF. 10:00 -16:30.  £60, including free entry to the evening concert. Box Office: 01628 788997. norden.farm/

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🄵🅆 Info webpage  (Info: FW page 3).

​DEADLINES will change from 19th to 20th so next 20th July for September print issue.

From MAY 2022 FW,  our policy for  FOLK NEWS & LISTINGS.
  • Pre Covid, FW was members-only news & listings.  
  • During Covid closedown, we accepted non-member news & listings since we were online-only or fewer pages than usual.
  • Now that we are back to 56 A4 pages: news only from members or those associates (signed-up non-members) who had previously sent in news. 
  • Exceptionally we may invite news from non-members outside our area (Wales, England Midlands, West, Oxon) if we have room. 
  • We will list non-members in our Directories, on request, if signed up to newsletter.

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✪ Adverts will be cheaper by about 15%, roughly the discount rate (for 3 prepaid adverts).
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30 October 2021:    Covid shutdown --- THE FUTURE OF FOLKLIFE WEST

Before Covid ... amazingly high annual-renewal rates. Sadly, some venues have closed. And some adverts are missing.
This means our losses are more than usual.
In order to be able to continue, we'll make some changes, & avoid price rises! 

2022 Folklife West Membership costs.
Before Covid ... Jan 2020 was a record 64 pages.
This issue, 60 pages; of which 15 Journal (normally 8-10), 45 news including listings & ads (in Jan 2020, 53).   So maybe 54 to 60 pages in future.
We will save by reducing complimentary copies (we'll contact you if this applies).
Print & post costs up; balanced by saving on comps, & possibly a few less pages:     No change to 2022 Membership costs !

2022 Advert costs.
Folk What's On, free leaflet = adverts from FW.  Sent only in areas with adverts.
1) some branch libraries.  Continuing when councils have agreed to distribute  copies sent to library headquarters. 
2) TICs, concert venues, etc - changing times, some TICs are reducing displays, and pro rata more expensive to post. So we will stop sending for some TICs.
So, print & post costs up; balanced by reducing circulation (fewer comp. FWs, and quite a few less Folk What's On):    No change to 2022 advert costs ! 

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     . . .  and maybe some advertise (from 1/8th mono £12) . . .                    that way we'll continue!                                    30 October 2021

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or send us a cheque details Info webpage.   ​EU £27.  USA £36.  Sterling only.   No debit or credit cards.
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and for each issue you can send in
------ your folk listings, as in online area Directories
------ your folk news. Word limits apply: 200 words, more if advertising, see below.
Anywhere in the world - £18 for PDF via WeTransfer instead of print version.

We publicise you - can you please help publicise us? 
so:   could you please kindly circulate these links below to your list / social media,  
that will mean that news is circulated (and we may gain a few members). Thank you!

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folklife.uk  Folk news (read or download).  Directory. Festivals & Workshops Diary. Zoom list.  Free Updates Newsletter.
folklife-traditions.uk  Journal: researched articles, archive, publications, read & free downloads.
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<> Facebook - on sites you visit, if/as appropriate, can you kindly mention Folklife occasionally? We're too busy with magazine & adding to our websites!

Also ... please check your website / facebook / mailing lists have these above links to our sites (not our old ones. ~--.org.uk", "--.co.uk")  Thank you!
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. 
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) please renew membership when it's due, for the next 3 printed issues (pre-October issues credits for 2020 postponed issues and 2021 smaller issues as appropriate)
(2) non-members who appreciate what we do are asked to consider joining (£18 a year).
(3) please please tell your friends!