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Live venues:
Venues: Cymru•Wales
Venues: England West Country (South-West)
Venues: England Midlands [East & West]
Venues: England South-East, London, East
Venues: North of England [NE, NW, Y&H]
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Venues: International

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Pf.1 FOLK MUSIC & SONG
• Pf.1a-c, general
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• Pf.1d-h, specific
Pf.1d Choirs, Quires; and Pf.1e Community Bands
Pf.1f Shanty Groups, Duos, & Solo
Pf.2 FOLK DANCE
Pf.2a Folk Dance Callers; Pf.2b Folk Dance Bands
Pf.2c Ceremonial & Display (Clog, Morris, Sword)
Pf.3 SPOKEN WORD
Pf.3a Folk Shows,Theatre, Mummers
Pf.3b Poetry & Monologuists
Pf.3c Storytellers
Media    [all UK, & International]
Services      [all UK, & International]
Workshop-Providers  [all UK, & International]

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Changes:

Folklife West & Folklife Traditions Journal published separately

Folklife West - news as before Jan, May, Sep, but no longer including Journal.
Folklife Traditions Journal - twice yearly, November and March.
Subscriptions to include both magazines - no change - £18 year UK, etc.
Cover prices in clubs etc: Folklife West £3, as before, for 40-48 pages (equivalent to 80-96 pages in an A5 magazine), Journal tba.

🄵🅃🄹 Folklife Traditions Journal, www.folklife-traditions.uk

Our aims include stimulating a wider interest in folk studies & folk culture.
Researched articles + archive, new, on a separate website. Folk studies and cultural traditions.
Also FT DIRECTORY, Folklife Societies: Associations, Trusts, Organisations; Folklife Studies & Institutions; Seasonal Local Celebrations

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Journal available separately! Online, free, read or download PDF. Print 1 copy or Subscriptions welcome, card https://ko-fi.com/s/d479e8d448
• 1-off: 1 copy of May 2023 issue. --- UK: £3, or EU: £5, or rest of world £6.50
• Annual subscriber, 1 copy of 3 issues.. --- UK: £9, or EU £15, or rest of world £19
• This is a new scheme so these prices apply at time of your order, they may change for later subscribers
NEW SCHEDULE - twice yearly - March & November, no longer printed as part of Folklife West.

🄵 Broadside Day 2024 - save the date
Our annual one-day conference on cheap print and street literature, organised jointly by the Traditional Song Forum and the EFDSS, will be held on Saturday 17th February 2024 at Cecil Sharp House, London.
Further details will be released in the autumn.
Steve Roud

🄵 The 2023 Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Conference is on Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 November

🄹 From Stewart Morgan Hajdukiewicz, Filmmaker
Dear friends,
I'm writing to let you know about the release of an online streaming/downloadable option for the documentary ALL MY LIFE'S BURIED HERE - The Story of George Butterworth.
From today the complete film (97 mins) is available via Vimeo on Demand, either as a three day hire option, or as permanent download/watch anytime, at: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/butterworth
I hope this will give anyone without access to DVD/BluRay playback facilities the chance to watch the film on their device of choice. It can be streamed from any location worldwide. For streaming of the film I can recommend plugging your device into some external speakers, or using headphones, for full enjoyment.
The film's website remains online and contains the link to the streaming version, as well as to the last remaining copies of the DVD/BluRay with booklet, all available by clicking 'Watch the Film': https://www.georgebutterworth.co.uk/
Remembering and celebrating George Butterworth on the anniversary of his death at Pozières, the Somme on 5th August 1916.
Best wishes,
Stewart

Stewart Morgan Hajdukiewicz, Filmmaker
DVD, BLURAY & ONLINE STREAMING   All My Life's Buried Here: The story of George Butterworth
"Very moving … the finest film account of a composer's life I have ever seen." - Ralph Vaughan Williams Society Journal, June 2019
"Highly recommended." - Ian A. Anderson (fRoots magazine)
"An outstanding film portrait .. fascinating and ultimately moving." - MusicWeb International.com
Twitter: @ButterworthDoc   Facebook: @ButterworthDoc

Shorter researched articles eg a collected song, tune or dance, no minimum - anything from just a song & a few lines or up to 500 words; other articles are often 1000 to 1500, our maximum is 2500 words.
To introduce society, institution, max. 1000 words. Short news items/dates from society/institution welcome; longer items, please consult editor. Photo(s) welcome, can be sent in colour; may be used in colour on cover if we've room (depends on adverts)

🄹 MY WORLD OF SHANTIES, by Fred Winkel.
I proudly present you in English my self-published book including a CD and it‘s looking great. Its size is A4, printed in full colour on glossy 115 grams paper according to a fsc-standard. It has 244 pages with on every page at least one picture, several of them never published in a book. With QR-codes you get extra information, YouTube-recordings and other sound recordings. Of several of the shanties the uncamouflaged version is also present.

The shanties and sea songs are from America, the Caribbean, Georgia Sea Islands, England, Germany, France, Sicily, Belgium and the Netherlands.
   An impression is in the attachments.
    The price is € 35,00. Costs for postage and packaging for the UK is € 15,00. If you would like to buy a book, please send me an email, fred.winkel@ziggo.nl . I’ll send you my bank account data. After the money is on my account I will send you the book.  If you want to pay by PayPal, please add € 3,60, so a total of €53,60
   Fair winds and a good rolling sea, Fred Winkel, Concertstraat 15, 7323 KM Apeldoorn, the Netherlands.

Members News updates

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USA ØØ   ZOOM: LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ... (see www.folklife-directory.uk/zoom.html for details)... usually Monthly sessions on first and third Sundays 2-4pm ET (US Eastern Time). Special events as the occasion requires.
Taking a break in July & August.
September
   •   Sept 1-10: Lynn Noel LIVE TOUR IN NOVA SCOTIA
   •   Mermaid's Tavern schedule TBD

Directory update

DIRECTORY www.folklife-directory.uk

MIDLANDS VENUES www.folklife-directory.uk/v-midlands.html

🄵  THE SHIFTING SUNDAY SESSION (SSS) ... every Sunday, different pub.

🄵  1st Sun   Warks   ILMINGTON    SHIFTING SUNDAY SESSION: HOWARD ARMS www.sessionfolk.blogspot.com  Pub 01608 682226
→ The Howard Arms (01608 682226), Ilmington, Walks CV36 4LT. 7.30pm until 10.30pm.
⇒ Paul Bryan, theflyingmorrisman<at>hotmail.com, 07711 121210
⊕ The Shifting Sunday Session (SSS): weekly folk music sessions in South Warwickshire / North Cotswolds, in four regular venues (different village pubs).  Typically around 20 musicians. [new times, Aug 2023]

🄵 4th Sun Warks LOWER QUINTON SHIFTING SUNDAY SESSION: THE COLLEGE ARMS www.sessionfolk.blogspot.com Pub 01789 720066
→ The College Arms (01789 720066),  Lower Quinton, Warks CV37 8SG. 7pm until 10pm
⇒ Paul Bryan, theflyingmorrisman<at>hotmail.com, 07711 121210
⊕ The Shifting Sunday Session (SSS): weekly folk music sessions in South Warwickshire / North Cotswolds, in four regular venues (different village pubs).  Typically around 20 musicians. [new venue, Aug 2023]

SOUTH-EAST/LONDON/EAST VENUES https://www.folklife-directory.uk/v-south-east.html

🄵 Wkly   Wed   Oxon   BANBURY    BANBURY FOLK CLUB        www.banburyfolkclub.co.uk   Box Office   07485 821041
→ The Three Pigeons PH, Southam Rd, Banbury OX16 2ED.  8.00pm. Some bigger events may be a change of venue, please check website event pages.
⇒ Contact Ian Huckin, irhuckin<at>aol.com Box Office: 07485 821041 or send a message to www.facebook.com/banburyroots/
⊕ Local and nationally known guest nights, theme nights, open stage nights and our popular Sing, Say, Listen and Say (SSLaP) nights; and also regular floor spots to encourage local performers. Regular admission is £8, Special Guest Nights are priced as advertised. [new venue, Aug 2023]

Updates emailed 24 July 2023

Changes:

Folklife West & Folklife Traditions Journal to be published separately

Folklife West - news as before, but no longer including Journal.
Folklife Traditions Journal - twice yearly, November and March.
Subscriptions to include both magazines - no change - £18 year UK, etc.

I can't get both Journal and Folklife news & ads out on time.
As the magazine has grown, last time 56 pages - equivalent to 112 pages in an A5 magazine - too big to edit it all for publication date.

We had planned to publish separately from 2024, but have had to change this issue in order to get Folklife West out on time.
Due to very time-consuming not-life-threatening health matters and unavoidable admin changes for Folklife: (1) website directory-entry forms became unreliable; (2) email forwarder changed, see belo

Folklife West - Folk news; as now, Jan, May, Sept.
Folklife Traditions Journal - twice yearly, November and March.
Subscriptions to include both magazines - no change - so still £18 year UK, etc
Cover prices in clubs etc: Folklife West £3, as before, for 40-48 pages (equivalent to 80-96 pages in an A5 magazine), Journal tba.

New email forwarder MailerLite
[2 emails sent 24/7/23]
1 Our last "Updates" email via by MailChimp who've cut down on free signups + emails per month.
Our 1st email, via MailerLite, follows in the next 10 minutes. If you do not receive it, please email me, sam@folklife.uk
2 MailerLite requires sllghtly different format, so options for "Area" changed
Was "country" eg "USA" or "English region" eg "England - West Midlands".
Now for all "country" (= incl. England); and then only for England "region".
We continue to also hold your data on MailChimp for now (still using it for now eg till we sort out new forms).

Members News updates

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AUSTRALIA ØØ Bruce Watson UK tour 2023
  Australian singer-songwriter Bruce Watson returns to the UK this Autumn, bringing his joyful and insightful magic to folk clubs across the country.
Bruce is an icon of the Australian folk scene, with almost 200 festivals under his belt, and innumerable other appearances. He has received a stack of songwriting awards and had his songs covered by the likes of Eric Bogle and Joe ‘Shaddap you Face’ Dolce. Bogle describes him as “the best songwriter I have seen in a long time.” Aussie folk institution The Boite says, “Watson is a wordsmith, a spinner of yarns told with passion and integrity. An Australian folk hero!”
Sun 27 Aug: Sweet Afton Water Acoustic Music, New Cumnock
Mon 28 Aug: Stirling Folk Club
Mon 4 Sept: Glenfarg Folk Club, Kinross
Thu 14 Sept: Crookes Folk Club, Sheffield
Fri 15 Sept: Tamworth Folk Club
Tues 19 Sept: Wurzel Bush Folk Club, Rugby
Wed 20 Sept: Atherstone Folk Club (Support for The Redhills)
Thu 21 Sept: Tump Folk Club, Coventry
Fri 22 Sept: Woodman Folk Club, Kingswinford
Mon 25 Sept: Warwick Folk Club
Wed 27 Sept: Banbury Folk Club
Sun 1 Oct: Bluebell Roots, Arlington (Sussex)
Mon 2 Oct: Tonbridge Folk Club
Fri 6 Oct: Hadleigh Folk Club, Hadleigh, Ipswich
Mon 9 Oct: Boston Folk Club
Tues 10 Oct: Focsle Music, Southampton
Wed 11 Oct: Philleigh Folk
Thu 12 Oct: Bideford Folk Club
Fri 13 Oct: Bodmin Folk Club
Sun 15 Oct: Dreamers Folk Club, Redruth
Tues 17 Oct: St Neots Folk Club
Wed 18 Oct: Ely Folk Club (Support for Terry Hiscock & Roger Trevitt)
Thu 19 Oct: Loughton Folk Club
Sun 22 Oct: St Albans Folk Music
Mon 23 Oct: Brunny Folk Club, Bournemouth
Tues 24 Oct: Bere Regis Folk Night
Wed 25 Oct: Llantrisant Folk Club
www.brucewatsonmusic.com

USA ØØ   ZOOM: LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ... (see www.folklife-directory.uk/zoom.html for details)... usually Monthly sessions on first and third Sundays 2-4pm ET (US Eastern Time). Special events as the occasion requires.
Taking a break in July & August.
September
   •   Sept 1-10: Lynn Noel LIVE TOUR IN NOVA SCOTIA
   •   Mermaid's Tavern schedule TBD

Directory update

VENUES ------------- Somerset, Dorset, Wilts: FRIDAY------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

‡‡  3rd   Fri Wilts   SWINDON   SWINDON FOLK CLUB    https://swindonfolkclub.wordpress.com   Chantelle Smith
→ Upstairs at The Hop Inn, 8 Devizes Rd, Swindon SN1 4BH. 8pm - 11pm (not August)
⇒ swindonfolkclub<at>gmail.com  https://www.facebook.com/SwindonFolkClub Instagram: @swindonfolkclub Twitter: @folkswindon
⊕ We welcome performers of all abilities, or you can just come along to listen and enjoy. The atmosphere is friendly and encouraging, so come along and have a go. It doesn’t matter how good you are – we all had to start somewhere (revised July 2023)

ZOOM --------- see www.folklife-directory.uk/zoom.html for details

ØØ USA:
some Sundays & Thursdays LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN (see News above)

‡‡ England: London
Mondays weekly HERGA Zoom (Mon., weekly, details see our Zoom page) no Zoom Singaround July & August.. Restarting September, probably Monthl

🄵  England: London revised entry - contact
Weekly except 3rd Saturday. London. SHANTIES AND SEA SONGS
→   7pm - 9pm
⇒   EMAIL   Contact email editor<at>folklondon.co.uk to join.   [ revised 7/2023]

Updates emailed 7 July 2023

DIRECTORY:

NEW ---
shanty singers webpage
www.folklife-directory.uk/perf-shanty
Your free listing welcome !

As usual ... print magazines -- deadline 20 July

for 1 Sept Folklife West & Folklife Traditions Journal

no deadline for online-only INTERNATIONAL FOLK NEWS and for online DIRECTORY entries.

Generally, despite some closures, folk activity is recovering well. Thus Ruthin AllStyles Music, North Wales, emailed "so nice to see the function room at The Feathers once again filled with familiar faces and beginning to feel like it did pre-lockdown. In fact, we were hard-pressed to fit everybody . . . 19 performers". Locally, in May, Upton Folk Festival, Worcs, felt like pre-Covid days - excellent festival and excellent attendance! and Somers Traditional Folk Club, Worcester, has risen from averaging 15--20 to 20--29. And we hope likewise in your area, too.

So, with more live folk activity, we've changed our Directory Performers webpages.
Previously, arranged by areas (made sense when folk weren't travelling very far or sometimes staying home).
Webpages are now arranged by type:
folk groups, duos, solo,
and webpages for particular activities - so a new shanty singers webpage, a choirs webpage, etc.
ikewise dance & spoken word categories.

Sadly, our boxes [from website-providers Weebly] to "Send News" & to send "Directory Updates" stopped working for a week. No use if not reliable, so all webpages changed to list of what to send (very time-consuming to set up but done now!)

I am amazed that some venues only have FaceBook, and no webpage to tell you the basics . . .
So I was pleased to receive June-July Folk London, with Editor James Eagle's article "Online promotion: 10 top tips for confused club organisers", which says Forget Facebook (or at least don't rely entirely on it), Get a website (a stable place to point your social media to), Nothing beats an email list, and lots of detailed useful stuff. I'd actually been thinking of writing something similar, but James is far more knowledgeable. Recommended, buy it, www.folklondon.co.uk -- Sam

🄵🅃🄹 Folklife Traditions Journal, www.folklife-traditions.uk

Our aims include stimulating a wider interest in folk studies & folk culture.
Researched articles + archive, new, on a separate website. Folk studies and cultural traditions.
Also FT DIRECTORY, Folklife Societies: Associations, Trusts, Organisations; Folklife Studies & Institutions; Seasonal Local Celebrations

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Journal available separately! Online, free, read or download PDF. Print 1 copy or Subscriptions welcome, card https://ko-fi.com/s/d479e8d448
1-off: 1 copy of 1 issue. --- UK: £3.50, or EU: £5.50, or rest of world £7. Annual subscriber, 1 copy of 3 issues. --- UK: £9, EU £16, rest of world £20.

Regular readers will know of the tremendous contribution by the late Gwilym Davies; his articles were mainly based on the wonderful GlosTrad site, set up by Gwilym and Carol, and others such as our new contributor Veronica Lowe, who will be sending song-articles based on the site. Thanks to Carol for agreeing to this.

Broadside Day 2024 - save the date
Our annual one-day conference on cheap print and street literature, organised jointly by the Traditional Song Forum and the EFDSS, will be held on Saturday 17th February 2024 at Cecil Sharp House, London.
Further details will be released in the autumn.
Steve Roud

VWML Instagram
A small plug: the VWML has a new Instagram account! This will exist alongside the general EFDSS and Cecil Sharp House ones, and will give us more opportunity to showcase what we do. If you're on Instagram, please follow us at https://www.instagram.com/thevwml/.
All the best, Tiffany
Tiffany Hore Library and Archives Director The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library English Folk Dance and Song Society
efdss.org | cecilsharphouse.org | vwml.org

One-day conference: The Study of Traditional Song - Past and Present (Sheffield 30 Sep 2023)
From: Steve Roud
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2023 18:13:23 BST

The Study of Traditional Song – Past and Present
This will be a free, one-day, in-person conference, organised by the Traditional Song Forumand the Contemporary Folklore Research Centre, and will be held on Saturday, 30 September 2023 at the University of Sheffield.
The venue will be The Diamond, Workroom 1, G04 (68), 32 Leavygreave Rd, Sheffield S3 7RD. Venue Map: [https://ssid.sheffield.ac.uk/campus-map/?location=the-diamond].
The title of the conference is deliberately broad, because we are committed to encouraging a variety of perspectives and voices on the topic of Traditional Song in Britain and Ireland.
The conference will not be live-streamed but will be recorded and made available online after the event.
You can obtain your free ticket through the Eventbrite booking page – www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-study-of-traditional-song-past-and-present-tickets-649574734517a
Any enquires should be made to Steve Roud [steveroud<at>gmail.com].
The Traditional Song Forum (TSF) is an international organisation based in the UK that brings together those interested in the research, collecting and performance of traditional song. Their website is https://tradsong.org/.
The Contemporary Folklore Research Centre draws on The University of Sheffield's notable history of research into Folklore and Cultural Tradition to promote and support research into vernacular and artistic expressions of cultural and community identities and practices. You can find out more at https://contemporaryfolklore.sites.sheffield.ac.uk.

The 2023 Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Conference, Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 November
Papers can be given in-person at Cecil Sharp House, London, or remotely.
We seek proposals on any form of folk dance relating to the theme of revival, reproduction, reimagination, re-creation, reformation, refashioning and/or reconstruction.
www.efdss.org/about-us/what-we-do/news/12592-library-conference-call-for-papers
Please email proposals to Tiffany Hore, Library and Archives Director, at tiffany<at>efdss.org, by 5pm BST on Friday 28 July.

Shorter researched articles eg a collected song, tune or dance, no minimum - anything from just a song & a few lines or up to 500 words; other articles are often 1000 to 1500, our maximum is 2500 words.
To introduce society, institution, max. 1000 words. Short news items/dates from society/institution welcome; longer items, please consult editor. Photo(s) welcome, can be sent in colour; may be used in colour on cover if we've room (depends on adverts)

⎈ INTERNATIONAL FOLK NEWS www.folklife.uk/world.html
-- online only, open to all non-UK readers on our mailing list International (non-UK) news form on International webpage
Folklife Membership is not required, but welcomed . . . (and members' news printed in FW, if received in time).

ØØ Canada  From Rick Polly's latest emailed newsletter:
Documentary film Song of the Windlass now on line
SONGS OF THE WINDLASS: SINGING CHANTIES ON GAZELA Gibb Schreffler, dir., 2023 Premiered June 9, 2023
This 35-minute illustrated lecture can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEvQKHFq6Hs&t=0s
For a subtitled version of this film, see here (Vimeo): https://vimeo.com/809413092
Producer, Director, & Writer: Gibb Schreffler. Director Of Photography & Editor: Jesse Edwards.
Music: Gibb Schreffler & Claremont Colleges Chanty Singers from the album "Songs of the Windlass: Classic Chanties of Shipboard Labor"
Recommended - Editors

FOLK FESTIVALS international (not based/organised from UK), live & virtual & both [more welcome; we need a minimum 3 weeks notice]

ØØ USA: Sep 23 -24 Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival  http://pmffest.org/
   Only four months till the festival! Last month we told you about our headliners: John Roberts, the Johnson Girls, and Steve Turner. Read on for some more exciting names—and get ready for the festival on the 23rd and 24th of September.
Start thinking about our SONGWRITING COMPETITION. Have you written a maritime song, or would you like to? Enter our songwriting competition. One song per competitor; lyrics must be original, and while original tunes have a better chance of winning, traditional melodies are acceptable. E-mail an MP3 to nicknoble<at>wicn.com before August 1 to enter. The winner will be invited to perform their entry at the concert on Saturday the 23rd of September.
We are also looking for entries in our LOGO CONTEST. We liked the 2022 logo so much that we are using it this year, as well — but we will announce the 2024 logo at the 2023 festival. Your submission should be an easily-reproduced graphic image that evokes the spirit of PMFF. The image should either have no words, or include “Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival,” “2024,” “pmffest.org,” and/or “Portsmouth, New Hampshire.” In other words—a logo we can use for advertising the festival. The winner will receive a gift card as a thank-you. For “the fine print,” drop us a line.
And finally… MORE PERFORMERS! So many wonderful names to choose from… how about, Bob Zentz, Castlebay, and Jerry Bryant? And… Ken Schatz and Nicole Singer? It is getting late here at PMFF HQ, so we will just say stay tuned for more performer bios, or look them up, and either way, prepare to be delighted.
  Fair winds and following seas, The PMFF Board
To join the mailing list, just write to info<at>pmffest.org to be added to the list.   (April 2023)

ØØ USA: Sep 29 - Oct 1 FOLKLORE SOCIETY OF GREATER WASHINGTON
REGISTER NOW FOR GETAWAY 2023!!
That’s right, registration is now open for this year’s in-person Getaway, back at the beautiful West River Methodist Conference Center, on an inlet of the Chesapeake Bay. We do hope that you are able to join us.
Although the Getaway will not occur until the weekend of September 29 - October 1, it is important that you register soon. You do not need to pay immediately, but we expect you to view registration as a commitment. We need to know that enough folks have made this commitment to come by June 30 or we will be forced to cancel. [I'm uncertain as to what current status is - Editor] There is more information on the registration page,  which you can find by going to  fsgw.org/getaway, scrolling to the bottom of the page and clicking  on Register.
Please fill out the entire form. We pay close attention to what you write; we use this information to plan workshops and assign rooms.
If you have visited our registration page earlier, please note that our covid protocols have been updated.
We look forward to to seeing you on the banks of the West River!
On Behalf of the Getaway Committee,
Carly Gewirz & Dean Clamons, Getaway Co-Chairs getawaychair@fsgw.org

🄵🅆   Folklife Members' UK FOLK NEWS, online updates to print pages copied to this site.

MEMBERS NEWS --- live & Zoom clubs, performers, your new albums, etc; including Members' dates (including festivals & workshops).
(1) BY AREA - areas' list, foot of page (2) FESTIVALS & WORKSHOPS DIARY page
. . . We're "Folklife West", so most entries from West, but Members' News welcome from everywhere!

🄵 Folklife members, Ø Associate UK members. Membership, posted FW + print & online publicity,  £18/year UK, £24 EU, other £ please enquire.

🄵🅆 Cymru

🄵 LYCEUM Folk and Acoustic Club of NEWPORT, http://www.lyceumfolknewport.org.uk/, every Thursday.
Hi Sam and Eleanor,
These are our guests from Sept.

Thursday 7th September. Enda Kenny
Thursday 19th October. Zoe Milford.
Thursday 2nd November. The Jigantics
Thursday 7th December Martyn Wyndham-Read and Iris Bishop.

Thanks,
Ruth.

🄵🅆 England - West Country

🄵 Devon: TOTNES FOLK CLUB
Dear Sam
We have decided not to hold the folk club in August.  With best wishes, Anne

🄵 Glos: CHELTENHAM FOLK CLUB, at Sandford Park Alehouse.
From Judith, Monday, 12/06/2023
July 10   Pete Grassby -- lovely singer For more info, join the mailing list: machteltje<at>gmail.com
Also from Judith, CHELTENHAM CEILIDH CLUB, St Luke's Hall, GL53 7HP.
Monthly, 7.30pm  Live band, various callers. Dates: 1 July, 9 Sept, 7 Oct, 4 Nov, 9 Dec. machteltje<at>gmail.com to check.

🄵  BRISTOL -- REDCATCH CLUB
Hi Sam
Letting you know that the Redcatch Club in Bristol, due to poor attendance, has now closed its doors. Thanks for your work.
Best wishes, Trevor Carter (1/7/2023)

🄵🅆  Midlands

🄵 Worcs: ALASDAIR MCKEANE
Dear Music Lover
On Sunday 09 July– yes, next Sunday – I've been asked to sing and play solo at the Three Kings in Church End, Hanley Castle from 9 – 11 pm.
Postcode is WR8 0BL.
It will be an evening of well-known song, some of it humourous, nearly all of it cheerful, covering a range of genres I know how to play. There are plenty of opportunities to join in the singing, but it's not obligatory.
There is no entry charge, and the Three Kings has its own special charm. The beer is much appreciated by real ale enthusiasts.
I'd love to see you there.
Best wishes, Alasdair

🄵   Herefs: Bromyard's FOLK IN THE FOYER at the Conquest Theatre.
Friday 14th July:  Wildwood Jack are a unique acoustic guitar and ukulele duo from Kent. Contemporary folk music with a twist of bluegrass and world music played with outstanding acoustic guitar and ukulele.  Karen Macleod, a solo acoustic artist is an accomplished fingerstyle guitarist and singer who plays an eclectic mix of country blues, ragtime, American folk and bluegrass songs. She spent two years living in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia before hoboing across the USA on freight trains!
Friday 11th August:  Mike Silver. A force to be reckoned with, celebrating nearly 60 years recording, taking his music far and wide through many European countries and further to the Falkland Islands, New Zealand, the United States and Canada. At 76, Mike is still gigging and touring with as much skill and enthusiasm as ever.  If you've not come across Mike before, you will be able to savour his restrained yet effortless, honest vocal delivery.  Support: TBA
  TICKETS   Conquest Theatre, Tenbury Rd., Bromyard HR7 4LL https://conquest-theatre.co.uk/whats-on/ / 01885 488575

🄵 Birmingham: TRADITIONAL ARTS TEAM Sing Political
Saturday 29 July, 7pm in conjunction with Bham Trades Council and Keep Our NHS Public
All Services Club, 91 Church Road, Moseley B13 9EA
Banner Theatre presents Enough Is Enough, celebrating 75 years of the NHS, those who fought for it, and the fightback to defend it from cuts, closures, wage freezes and privatisation. Speakers include Dr Bob Gill and Dr Ammar Waraich
Tickets £5-£9 from Eventbrite
More info from https://www.facebook.com/events/965779397782586
Pam and Graham
   Sing Political is a monthly event where people sing and share political songs. Many of these are published online in the Political Songster or more recently the Political Song Depot. More info at tradartsteam.co.uk, on Facebook, or @SingPolitical on Twitter

🄵🅆  South-East, London, East

🄵 MOONRAKERS, MoonrakersCelticMusic<at>gmail.com - concerts and workshops in South-East and South-West
Sadly Sat 8 July, All Saints Church, Coleshill, SN6 7PR has just been cancelled by the promoters!
   Fri 14 July, Buckingham Summer Festival, The Radcliffe Centre, Church Street, Buckingham MK18 1BY. Our show, "Vaughan Williams - Root and Branches", an exciting project which joins Moonrakers with string quartet, OXUS - eight musicians on stage - to celebrate Vaughan Williams' music and folk song influences. Details: Buckingham Summer Festival | Concerts
   Sat 15 July, Folk Orchestra day event at The Corn Exchange, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 7JA. 10:30 to 17:00; lunch break. Course/workshop, intermediate/advanced players of all acoustic instruments. Music and videos sent in advance. Book early! £70 for day (under-27s 25% off) www.benslowmusic.org 01462 459446.
   Sat 22 July, St Mary's Church, Wotton-Under-Edge, Gloucestershire, GL12 7LS. 7.30pm £12 on the door.Tickets/enquires: Cotswold Bookroom, Wotton under Edge. tyndaleconcerts<at>gmx.com
   Sun 30 July, Waterperry Gardens, Oxfordshire, OX33 1JZ. 6pm. Our annual concert: tunes, strawberries, bad jokes! Come and enjoy an early evening (6pm) in the fabulous open air Amphitheatre. Bring a picnic, we'll have an extended interval (bar, drinks available). Book ahead at www.ticketsoxford.com, 01865 305305, 6pm, £15 (concessions available). Some tickets on door.

🄵🅆  Alba

🄵 From LINN PHIPPS: Themed Shanty Big Sing Lowlands - Tuesday 19 Sept
Hi everyone!
We are taking a break in July and August as we are busy singing at various live maritime events, and we suspect many of you are too.
Our next Themed Shanty Big Sing (No 12) will be on Tuesday 19 Sept 8pm UK/ Ireland time (3pm ET, noon PT, 9pm France time etc), when we look forward to everyone joining us to share / hear versions of Shanties themed on Lowlands, where Lowlands are the/a key feature of the shanty.
To join as singers/ audience and to get the event link (about 24 hours prior), pls email Linn direct or via https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/contact/.
To help version learning, the next upcoming themes (dates to be determined) will be:

New York Girls (aka Can't You Dance the Polka)
California

Have a great singing summer and see you soon!
Linn Phipps & Jim Lucas

Contact https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/contact/ with subject line Themed Shanty Big Sing No 12
Shanty Big Sing website http://shantyman.dk/ShantyBigSings/
Additionally https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/collaborations-links-and-other-news/
New Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ThemedShantyBigSings-rc9te

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🄵 Folklife Members and ‡‡advertisers    🄵 Members: your 2024 dates welcome now!

‡‡ THE SIDMOUTH SEASIDE STOMPERS CEILIDH BAND WORKSHOP
   A fantastic opportunity for young musicians to make music during the first week of August.
   Young people (8 years and over) who play any musical instrument will have a great time in this series of daily workshops. Workshops lead to a special opportunity to play as a festival ceilidh band.
   Ray Langton leads the workshops along with a team of talented tutors (Team STOMPIT!) who help and encourage players throughout the week. There is expertise in: guitar, brass, percussion, woodwind squeezebox, strings and anything else is also welcome. The dance music will include a mixture of jigs, reels, polkas and hornpipes.
   Participants must have their own instruments and be able to play a number of tunes from music or by ear (approximately Grade 2 standard). Music will be provided and parts for all instruments and all abilities will be available.
   A very exciting opportunity for young musicians to work with others, learn new music and then to perform to an audience on the Thursday night in the Blackmore Gardens Marquee.
   For further information please contact Ray & Bev Langton on bev.langton<at>talk21.com, and for more information about Sidmouth Folk Festival see www.sidmouthfolkfestival.co.uk and our webpage 🄵🅆 Festivals, Workshops

🄵🄳 Folklife's online DIRECTORY

free entries for all ! forms on website pages www.folklife-directory.uk

Venues____________________________________________________________________

Venues - Cymru

‡ 3rd Tuesday  Ceredigion  ABERYSTWYTH "GWERIN ABER FOLK" (Aberystwyth Folk Club)  www.facebook.com/groups/GwerinAberFolk/ Dave Price
→ Bank Vault, 1, New Street , Aberystwyth SY23 2AT. 7.30pm to 10pm.
⊕  "Performers Night". See chat on www.facebook.com/groups/GwerinAberFolk/ to book a performer slot. Free. (new listing June 2023)

‡ 1st Wednesday Ceredigion  ABERYSTWYTH "GWERIN ABER FOLK" (Aberystwyth Folk Club)  www.facebook.com/groups/GwerinAberFolk/ Dave Price
→ Penparcau Football club, Min-Y-Ddol, Penparcau Aberystwyth SY23 1RG. 7pm to 10pm.
⊕  "The Gathering". Play/sing-around, in circle, take turns proposing/singing/playing piece, all invited to join in, play, sing or listen. Specifically encouraging beginners, improvers or those wishing to try out new pieces as well as those wishing to ‘perform’. Audience very much invited. Free - donations welcome. (new listing June 2023)

Venues - West Country

‡  Weekly Monday  Glos  STONEHOUSE WORDS & MUSIC  David & Sandra Ireland
→ The Woolpack (01453 822542), 4 High Street, Stonehouse, GL10 2NA. 7pm for a 7.30 start, to 10pm
⊕  All welcome - Singers, Players, Poets, Jugglers, Magicians and anyone with something to bring. [new listing, May 2023]

‡ Last Friday in month Devon EXETER  EXETER FOLK CLUB  www.exeterfolkclub.org The Cornelius Family (Peter, Maggie & Martyn)  01392 210983
→ Victoria Park Tennis Club, Lyndhurst Road, St. Leonards, Exeter, EX2 4NX.  8:00pm
⇒  Email: exeterfolkclub<at>outlook.com   Facebook: Exeter Folk & Acoustic Music Club www.facebook.com/groups/1687805081435851
⊕ Friendly and comfortable. Singers nights, plus up to six guest concert nights per year.Table-top bar, Teas+Coffees, Biscuits and homemade cakes, Raffle.
Singers nights £2, Concert nights fee variable. V. occasional concert nights will be at another venue (see online).   [new listing, May 2023]

Now closed (1/7/2023) 🄵  2nd Sat. Bristol  KNOWLE   THE REDCATCH CLUB

Venues South-East London. & East Our first East venue to be listed !

East.
‡‡  Weekly Tue Cambs ST NEOTS ST NEOTS FOLK CLUB www.stneotsfolkclub.co.uk
→ The Priory Centre, St Neots, Cambs PE19 2BH,  8pm - 10.30pm.  Every Tuesday except closed during August and between Christmas & New Year.
⇒  stneotsfolkcub<at>aol.com
⊕   The last Tuesday of a month is a Round the Room night, and other nights are filled with booked guests or Open Stage or Showcases. The Club organises the St Neots Folk Festival in June.

Venues - Scotland/Alba Our first Scottish venues to be listed !

Scottish Borders.

‡   Fortnightly Wednesdays  Roxburghshire  DENHOLM DENHOLM FOLK CLUB   (no website) Dr. Geoff Ross
→ The Auld Cross Keys. 8 - 11 pm
[May 2023, new listing]

‡ Weekly Fridays Roxburghshire KELSO KELSO FOLK & LIVE MUSIC CLUB  www.facebook.com/groups/kelsofolkclub  Allan Connacie ‭07791 516670‬
→ Cross Keys Hotel, 8pm - 10:30 pm
⇒ www.kelsofolk.co.uk
⊕  Hosted singaround format. Please just let us know on arrival if you would like to perform.   [May 2023, new listing]

‡  Monthly - 3rd Friday  Roxburghshire DARNICK  ROLLING HILLS FOLK CLUB   www.rollinghillsfolkclub.org.uk Ron & Roz Anderson ‭07986 644661‬
→ The Smith Memorial Hall, Abbotsford Road, Darnick TD6 9AH, 8pm. Sept to June.
→ Also: Zoom meetings on the first Friday, Sept to June.
⇒ Email: rolling.hills1<at>btinternet.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/RollingHillsFolkClub
⊕  If you find yourself in this part of the Borders you know you will be in for a special welcome. Please come and join us either to listen or to participate. We look forward to meeting you. [May 2023, new listing; revised June 2023]

Venues Zoom/Virtual

‡  1st Friday  Scottish Borders ROLLING HILLS FOLK CLUB ZOOM
→ Waiting room opens at 7.30pm UK
⇒  FACEBOOK : https://www.facebook.com/RollingHillsFolkClub Please get in touch by Facebook messenger, or contact by EMAIL : rolling.hills1<at>btinternet.com
⊕ Summer break - no Zooms in July & August  [added June 2023]

Performers____________________________________________________________________
6/6/2023 with more live folk activity!
     -- we've changed our Performers webpages
  from areas to categories eg folk groups; shanties; callers; storytellers (etc etc)

Music/Song - Solo

Midlands
‡  Birmingham STEVE ANDISAW   https://stevename5.wixsite.com/steveandhissaw (or just google Steve Andisaw wix) Steve Andisaw 0752 3300 798
⇒ steveandisaw<at>hotmail.com   www.facebook.com/steve.hodgson.718/?locale=en_GB
www.instagram.com/steveandisaw  https://twitter.com/SteveAndisaw
⊕ Singer/Songwriter/Musician/Poet/Puppeteer/Dancer/Weirdo.   Dancing gothic steamfolkie.   [New listing, May 2023]

Shanty (Chantey)

Cymru
‡ Swansea BAGGYRINKLE  www.baggyrinkle.com/ Terri 07974408999
⇒ baggyrinkle<at>icloud.com
⊕ Baggyrinkle Swansea Shantymen, brought together by Dave Robinson (retired) and managed by the long suffering, but brilliant Terri Kennedy, in 1994. Our main repertoire being songs of the sea & shanties, but we also perform drinking, rural & mining songs. [2023 June, new listing]

Yorks & Humber
Ø  Yorks DAVID KIDMAN   www.davidkidman.co.uk David Kidman ....................... [2023 June, new listing]

Canada
ØØ  British Columbia RICK POLLAY   YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@rickpollay9851/playlists  Rick Pollay 604-970-8448
⇒ Richard.Pollaysauder<at>ubc.ca    [2023 June, new listing]

Folk Dance Bands

West Country
🄵 CARACTACUS   see previous Newsletter below for details; revised description
⊕ Lively rhythmic traditional music [2023 May, new description]

Media____________________________________________________________________

M.3 Online Folk Magazines & Listings: Cymru / Wales

🄵 National TRAC CYMRU: Music Traditions Wales/Traddodiadau Cerdd Cymru      https://trac.cymru    Megan Lloyd, Company Manager 01446 748 556
⇒ megan<at>trac-cymru.org
⊕  Wales’ Folk Development organisation; its rôle to promote and develop the music and dance traditions of Wales - both within Wales and beyond. trac provides an information service, and the website lists performers, events and contacts.  [2023 June, updated new contact details]

M.4 Online Folk Magazines & Listings: England

West Country
‡ Devon DEVON FOLK  http://devonfolk.org/
⇒ https://www.facebook.com/devon.folk.58   https://twitter.com/DevonFolk
⊕  Devon Folk Devon Folk is a voluntary, constituted body and is the only Devon wide organisation promoting folk activities of all types (song, social dance, ritual dance, mumming etc.), through the regular publication "What's Afoot" and Devon Folk website. (June 2023)

North-West
‡   North-West, also North Wales FOLK NORTH WEST   http://www.folknorthwest.co.uk/ David & Anne Jones  0151 639 4285
⇒  https://www.facebook.com/folknorthwest/   aanddjones<at>sky.com
⊕ New online magazine replacing printed magazine (June 2023)

all the best, Sam and Eleanor
Sam & Eleanor Simmons, for the Folklife volunteers. 01684 561378, UK daytime.
You can also contact us on FaceTime (sam@folklife.uk), UK daytime.

Please publicise us - on your folk club/performer emails, website, Facebook:

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folklife-traditions.uk  Journal researched articles, archive, downloads.

folklife.uk/updates  Updates; sign up for free Updates emails

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I currently deal with all admin so I don't have any spare time for development. So if anybody can spare time for admin help, that would be great - publicity, editing, checking Journal directory entries, etc etc - please get in touch!

Updates emailed 16 May 2023

To avoid your email being spammed, we use <at> for @ -- except our own email, sam@folklife.uk which is a link.

From 3 April, post went up yet again.... Despite this, our prices unchanged for this issue
... Short-term, no problem, but we will need more paying members to continue. Folk North West is the latest to stop printing, it will continue online)..

🄵🅃🄹 Folklife Traditions Journal, www.folklife-traditions.uk

Our aims include stimulating a wider interest in folk studies & folk culture.
Researched articles + archive, new, on a separate website. Folk studies and cultural traditions.
Also FT DIRECTORY, Folklife Societies: Associations, Trusts, Organisations; Folklife Studies & Institutions; Seasonal Local Celebrations

1 May issue includes articles as below; plus Folklife Societies news; books & recordings announced & adverts; and Seasonal Local Celebrations, May-Aug, list & photos, mostly by Doc Rowe.

Sunderland Songs by Eileen Richardson and Keith Gregson, p4-5
John Callister (1833–1912) And His Songs, by Stephen Miller, p6-7
Married to a Mermaid, by Charles Menteith, p8-9
Remnants and Yarns – Poverty and protest in the woollen industry in Bradford on Avon by Rosie MacGregor (Rosie Upton), p9
The Banks of the Nile, by Roy & Lesley Adkins, p10-11
Here we go a-wassailing in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire by Rosie Upton, p12

Roots Music for cassettes:
from cover of one of Peter Kenendy's
ring-binders of tape insert sheets

Note to Article: Married to a Mermaid, Tune & Song by Charles Menteith
References: (2) See Folktracks 30-210, John Foreman, Music Hall Songs or Reality records RY 1004, JOHN FOREMAN the ‘ouses in between.

Charles adds:---- Peter Kennedy spelled it Folktrax. So the reference to the CD is: Folktrax FTX-331 - The Londoners. You can see more about it at
https://folktrax-archive.org/menus/cassprogs/331.htm
The quoted 30-210, John Foreman, Music Hall Songs is probably the number of the tapes †, which I have a copy of, though I can't find it. It only includes Foreman, while the CD includes also Fred Luckhurst. Besides, the 30 refers to the duration of the tape.
So the reference to the CD is: Folktrax FTX-331 - The Londoners
† confirmed, from PK's tape insert sheet (we used to sell his tapes) - Eds.

Call for articles for next issue: readers tell us they enjoy these short articles!

Shorter researched articles eg a collected song, tune or dance, no minimum - anything from just a song & a few lines or up to 500 words; other articles are often 1000 to 1500, our maximum is 2500 words.
To introduce society, institution, max. 1000 words. Short news items/dates from society/institution welcome; longer items, please consult editor. Photo(s) welcome, can be sent in colour; may be used in colour on cover if we've room (depends on adverts)

⎈ INTERNATIONAL FOLK NEWS www.folklife.uk/world.html
-- online only, open to all non-UK readers on our mailing list

Canada Cod Liver Oil
From Rick Polly's latest emailed newsletter, 30/04/2023:
Cod Liver Oil provided much needed essential nutrients for the diets or early and impoverished Newfoundland, where fruits and vegetables were hard to grow or buy.  This 1900 picture of my Great-grandfather, Henry Jones, shows a barrel where the cod livers would be placed, with the Cod Liver Oil slowly rising to the top. Given how noxious and rank it was, one wonders how it was ever discovered to be beneficial when consumed. But potent it was, as told in this 19th Century Newfoundland dance tune about the benefits and perils of too much of Dr. John’s “Cod Liver Oil.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rknUxmGx_1M
Rick Pollay

DATES
MA Boston ØØ  LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ONLINE.
2023 schedule:  Sessions on 1st and 3rd Sundays, 2-4pm ET. Special events as the occasion requires.
Sunday, May 21: Chantey and Tavern Sing
Sunday, June 4: Ballad Sing
Sunday, June 18: Chantey and Tavern Sing
Join the mailing list at http://mailinglist.mermaidstavern.com

FOLK FESTIVALS international (not based/organised from UK), live & virtual & both [more welcome; we need a minimum 3 weeks notice]
ØØ USA: Sep 23 -24 Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival  http://pmffest.org/
   OUR HEADLINERS: John Roberts, the Johnson Girls, and Steve Turner! We are so excited to have these fantastic performers back in Portsmouth.
John Roberts has been enthralling audiences for quite a while, on his own, in a duo with the dearly missed Tony Barrand, with Nowell Sing We Clear, and more recently working with Debra Cowan. His wonderful voice, concertina, and banjo have been a highlight of PMFF several times before, and for those of you who are new to our community, you are in for a real treat.
The Johnson Girls bring spectacular vocal harmonies and powerful energy to some of our favorite sea songs, as well as bringing some more obscure songs into the spotlight. Like John, they’ve graced our stage before, and we are always happy to have them back.
Steve Turner is, perhaps, a bit less well-known than these other two acts, but we are hoping to change that. HIs virtuosic concertina playing and evocative voice are a true delight, and while he has been part of our festival previously, we are extremely pleased to bring him to our main stage for the first time.
  Fair winds and following seas, The PMFF Board
To join the mailing list, just write to info<at>pmffest.org to be added to the list.   (April 2023)

🄵🅆 Folklife Members' UK FOLK NEWS, online updates to print pages copied to this site.

🄵 Folklife members, Ø Associate UK members. Membership, posted FW + print & online publicity, £18/year UK, £24 EU, other £ please enquire.

🄵🅆  West Country

🄵 CHELTENHAM FOLK CLUB (see ad & news page 28), most 2nd & 4th Mondays
The following dates were awaiting room-availability confirmation by the venue, Sandford Park Alehouse, when we went to press;  they have now been confirmed
June 12 Steve Turner  8pm
June 26 tba 8pm
July 10 tba  8pm

🄵 Cornwall Folk Festival's Summer Fun(draiser) Ceilidh with Cataclews, Saturday Jun 3 @ 7:30 pm Town Hall, Wadebridge.
Ceilidh really means really having a great time, and Cataclews — with their mix of Cornish, English and Irish music — are the band to deliver this.
They did use proud at the end of February, playing to a packed and dancing town hall when we repurposed that money-raising event to help the victims of the Turkey/Syria Earthquake.
This time it is all about us, as well as about having a great night out.
So polish off those dancing shoes, practice your dos-si-do-ing in the mirror, get a ticket and see you at Wadebridge Town Hall, Sat 3rd June from 7.30pm. Bar available. Details/book www.cornwallfolkfestival.com then go to "June 3rd ceilidh" page.

🄵🅆  Midlands

🄵   Crows - Mick Ryan, Paul Downes, Pete Harris and Dave Bordewey at 🄵 The Fleece at Bretforton on Thursday 25th May in the Barn 7:30
Tickets available from the Fleece /fleecyfolk website https://thefleeceinn.co.uk/events/fleecey-folk-crows/
‘Crows’ were a popular feature of the folk scene from 1978 to 1988. The combination of four strong voices and expert musicianship gave them a simultaneously unique yet broad appeal. With the sad death of Ralph Jordan, in 2013, previously unreleased radio recordings were discovered. A ‘new’ album (‘Time To Rise’ Wildgoose Records), was released in 2016, and enthusiastically reviewed (‘All the songs are really inspiring….spellbinding’ Mick Tems ‘Folk Wales’).
   Two of the original line-up remain in the revived band, Mick Ryan and Dave Bordewey .
     Crows are now joined by Pete Harris (vocals, guitar and bouzouki) who worked in an acclaimed duo with Mick for many years, adding a unique blend of power, warmth and harmony to the band's vocal mix. Dave Bordewey adds his astonishing high harmony lines accompanying many songs on the fiddle and Mando-cello . Finally, the inimitable Paul Downes on guitar, banjo, Mando-cello and harmonies, takes over from Ralph. All four are well known and highly respected performers in their own right.
For the new ‘Crows’, it is very clearly ‘Time To Rise’!

🄵🅆  South-East

🄵 MOONRAKERS - see advert p42, news p43
Dear Friends,
            Frenzied excitement here at Moonrakers HQ as we proudly launch the new album. Fourteen tracks - seven songs, seven instrumentals, and many hours of work and pleasure. The "virtual" edition of this delicious product is now available to download either in individual morsels or in one big binge at https://moonrakers.bandcamp.com/album/green-to-gold
            The physical CD (remember those?) will be hawked remorselessly at the extravaganza weekend we have at the end of this month (see below). Or you can order a hard copy (CD) by sending an email to MoonrakersCelticMusic@gmail.com and we'll send you the bank transfer details.
            But don't just sit there letting the sumptuous sounds wash over you - come to the launch.................
            Saturday 27th May    ALBUM LAUNCH!  St Peter's Church, Upper WOLVERCOTE, Oxford OX2 8AQ. A large spacious church near Oxford. Refreshments in the side room. Free parking; easy access. Tickets available from  www.ticketsoxford.com 01865 305305. £15 (also concessions) and on the door. Enquiries: 01865 769206.

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Folklife 🄵 Members & ‡‡advertisers

🄵 Bernie Dennis writes:
A great big thank you to everyone who came and supported Upton Folk Festival 2023. We hope you had a great time!
So, why not get your Super Early Bird tickets for 2024 to see many great acts including the Wilsons and Melrose Quartet. We have a limited number of tickets at this year's prices available until May 31st.
[below from current issue of FW page 54]
2024 May 3 - 6    UPTON UPON SEVERN FOLK FESTIVAL   www.uptonfolk.org
→ UPTON-UPON-SEVERN, Worcs.
⌂   UPTON FOLK FESTIVAL, please see our website for further details or contact chairperson<at>uptonfolk.org for specific enquiries.
⊕   Free: Morris dancing and Sunday procession, pub music and song sessions, street theatre, ceilidhs under the bridge, workshops, musical meander, duck race, craft fair. Ticketed: Fri-Mon concerts, ceilidhs, Folk Clubs. Guests and main ceilidhs tba. ® Bernie Dennis

🄵 See Glosfolk Facebook for update on CHURCHDOWN BEER & FOLK FESTIVAL, see message from Will Craswell, 5 May at 08:33,
for times and details of performers, plus singarounds
[below from current issue of FW page 51]
2023 May 19 - 21      CHURCHDOWN BEER & FOLK FESTIVAL   Facebook GlosFolk
→   CHURCHDOWN, Gloucestershire. The Churchdown Club (http://churchdownclub.co.uk), Church Road, Churchdown, Gloucester, GL3 2ER
⊕   Guests tba. Please contact Bill Craswell, 07740 248785, liam<at>liamtho.com   ® Bill Craswell

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Venues - West Country
🄵  Wkly   Thu   Glos PRESTBURY    PLOUGH (PRESTBURY) SESSION   pub: www.ploughprestbury.co.uk   Chris Beaumont   01242 571185
→   The Plough (01242 222180), Mill Street, Prestbury, Glos, GL52 3BG.   8pm most weeks.
⇒    Judith, machteltje<at>gmail.com
⊕   Thursdays 8pm most weeks, contact machteltje<at>gmail.com to be on the email list — we’ll let you know around 7pm if the session is happening and send directions. It’s a tune session, mainly English, but with a dash of French now and again.  [2023 April, new times & contact]

Performers - West Country
Pf.2b   Folk Dance Bands
🄵 CARACTACUS   (no website)     Judith
⇒ contact Judith, email machteltje<at>gmail.com
⊕ Dynamic dulcimer, bouncing banjo, furious fiddle, and percussive piano - English rhythym with attitude! [2023 April, new contact]

Performers Midlands
Pf.1a   Folk Music & Song - Bands / Groups
🄵 Herefs CROWS   www.facebook.com/crowsfolk/ Lynne Barker
⇒ To book: barkerlynne93<at>gmail.com or mickryan.songs<at>gmail.com
⊕ Crows are Mick Ryan, Dave Bordewey, Pete Harris, and Paul Downes; a folk band performing a mix of original and traditional music, with imaginative instrumental arrangements and powerful 4-part harmonies.   [May 2023, new entry]

Workshop Providers

CYMRU • WALES
🄵 National   TRAC CYMRU: Music Traditions Wales      https://trac.cymru    Megan Lloyd, Company Manager 01446 748 556
⇒    trac<at>trac-cymru.org
⊕   Wales’ Folk Development organisation; its rôle to promote and develop the music and dance traditions of Wales - both within Wales and beyond. trac provides an information service, and the website lists performers, events and contacts. [2023 May, new contact details]

ENGLAND SOUTH-WEST (WEST COUNTRY)
‡   Bristol INTERACTIVE JUNK MUSIC WORKSHOP www.drumrunners.org   Paul Midgley 07932 448627
⇒ paul<at>drumrunners.org
⊕ Navigate your musical world with playing old and new "Riffems" on DIY instruments like the bicycle wheel drums and other percussion. Workshops/Performances led by Paul Midgley of Drum Runners www.drumrunners.org

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also FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS DIRECTORY, 3 areas Folklife Societies: Associations, Trusts, Organisations
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Members' News:- Up to 200 words: live & Zoom clubs, performers, new albums, etc.    (form on www.folklife.uk/send-news.html)
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🄵🅆  Cymru   🄵🅆  West Country   🄵🅆  Midlands   🄵🅆  South-East, London, East 🄵🅆  North  🄵🅆  Alba  🄵🅆 Festivals, Workshops Diary
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VENUES Venues Cymru   Venues West Country   Venues Midlands         Venues South-East London. & East
      Venues North   Venues Alba   Venues International      Venues Zoom/Virtual
PERFORMERS   Music/Song - Bands/Groups   Music/Song - Duos Music/Song - Solo Choirs, Quires; Community Bands
  Shanty Groups, Duos, & Solo Folk Dance Callers; Folk Dance Bands Ceremonial & Display (Clog, Morris, Sword)
  Spoken Word (Folk Shows,Theatre, Mummers; Poets & Monologuists; Storytellers)
AND ALSO:    Media   Services   Workshop-Providers ( forms on website pagesl )
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