Folklife West: members' new news items; new advertisers
Since May 2026 Folklife West magazine, we've added inserts below
Shropshire, NEW CORRESPONDENT, MATT WOOLLEY 🄵
Birmingham, RED LION FOLK CLUB 🄵
🄵🅆 England: West Midlands
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Photo: John Crane at Birmingham's Black Diamond Folk Club, in front of the banner he created. © Derek Catley.
Shropshire Correspondent from September in Folklife West
We're delighted to have a new Shropshire Correspondent, Matt Woolley
Matt is from Shropshire, and is the founder of the new Severn Folk Club, Shrewsbury.
He's a multi-instrumentalist singer songwriter (aka Quantum Penguin), and has performed at Chippenham, Warwick, and Bromyard Folk Festivals.
You can contact him via the website form on https://severnfolk.co.uk/contact-us/, and on that webpage you can also sign up for his "News from the Folk of the Severn" with up-to-date Folk news, events and articles from in and around Shropshire.
BIRMINGHAM to add to Sept Folklife West
RED LION FOLK CLUB 🄵, The Red Lion (upstairs function room), Vicarage Road, King’s Heath, Birmingham B14 7LY. Weekly from September to May, door time 7:30pm, start time 8:00pm.
We are a guest booking club with an international and national reputation, one of the premier venues for folk music in the Midlands, and in 2006 was voted Folk Club of the Year in BBC Radio 2's Folk Awards.
We are a guest booking club with an international and national reputation, one of the premier venues for folk music in the Midlands, and in 2006 was voted Folk Club of the Year in BBC Radio 2's Folk Awards.
[Guests in Sept issue of Folklife West, see also as below]
Contact & media: redlionfolkclub<at>gmail.com, subscribe to our mailing list, form on www.redlionfolkclub.uk Facebook Red Lion Folk Club Birmingham, www.facebook.com/redlionfolkclub; WeGotTickets https://wegottickets.com/RedLionFolkClub, Instagram www.instagram.com/redlionfolkclub
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WORCESTERSHIRE to add to Sept Folklife West
DUBLIN JACKS - BAND 🄵
4/5 piece band. Specialists in traditional music (often Irish) and “good time” music (more modern music people like); pubs, weddings, birthdays, village events, Burns, St Patrick’s, wakes, ceilidhs. May also be booked as a trio or duo.
Ray, 07594 204481, r.hadden94<at>btinternet.com, www.dublinjacks.uk, https://www.facebook.com/dublinjacks123
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DUBLIN JACKS - DUO 🄵
Duo performing a wide range of well-known popular music from 1940s and 50s onwards, as well as traditional material. Two singers, guitar, tenor banjo, fiddle, concertina, mandolin. Birthdays, community or family events, entertainment for elderly folk, wakes. Daytime, evenings.
Alasdair, 01684 892264, alasdair.mckeane<at>gmail.com, www.dublinjacks.uk, https://www.facebook.com/dublinjacks123
4/5 piece band. Specialists in traditional music (often Irish) and “good time” music (more modern music people like); pubs, weddings, birthdays, village events, Burns, St Patrick’s, wakes, ceilidhs. May also be booked as a trio or duo.
Ray, 07594 204481, r.hadden94<at>btinternet.com, www.dublinjacks.uk, https://www.facebook.com/dublinjacks123
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DUBLIN JACKS - DUO 🄵
Duo performing a wide range of well-known popular music from 1940s and 50s onwards, as well as traditional material. Two singers, guitar, tenor banjo, fiddle, concertina, mandolin. Birthdays, community or family events, entertainment for elderly folk, wakes. Daytime, evenings.
Alasdair, 01684 892264, alasdair.mckeane<at>gmail.com, www.dublinjacks.uk, https://www.facebook.com/dublinjacks123
THE POACHERS - BAND
(photo to follow)
THE POACHERS - BAND 🄵
For music and song, and for dance.
Long-standing band, founded 1966, can appear as 2, 3, or 4 musicians to suit budgets. Specialists in traditional and more modern music from England, Scotland, Ireland and USA. Can play for Scots ceilidhs, barn dancing, Burns nights, as well as pubs, weddings, birthdays, village events, and well known music people like. Care home appearances are a speciality.
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THE POACHERS - DUO 🄵
Experienced duo specialising in well-known traditional and more modern songs from around the UK and elsewhere, all delivered with a smile. Two singers, guitar, fiddle, concertina, tenor banjo, mandolin. Also suitable for care home and similar settings – daytime or evenings.
Alasdair, 07742 220856 or 01684 892264 or alasdair.mckeane(at)gmail.com
For music and song, and for dance.
Long-standing band, founded 1966, can appear as 2, 3, or 4 musicians to suit budgets. Specialists in traditional and more modern music from England, Scotland, Ireland and USA. Can play for Scots ceilidhs, barn dancing, Burns nights, as well as pubs, weddings, birthdays, village events, and well known music people like. Care home appearances are a speciality.
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THE POACHERS - DUO 🄵
Experienced duo specialising in well-known traditional and more modern songs from around the UK and elsewhere, all delivered with a smile. Two singers, guitar, fiddle, concertina, tenor banjo, mandolin. Also suitable for care home and similar settings – daytime or evenings.
Alasdair, 07742 220856 or 01684 892264 or alasdair.mckeane(at)gmail.com
