Folklife * Bywyd Gwerin * Bewnans Gwerin * Beatha Dùthchail * Volksleben *

INTERNATIONAL FOLK page is online-only ---  so no specific deadlines​

----------  Our Online Directory www.folklife-directory.uk  includes ⎈ Zoom/Virtual sessions webpage

​
free entries for all in our online Directory!      www.folklife-directory.uk

​Venues, Performers, Media, Services, Workshop Providers - open to all     (dates eg festivals are on this site)

​
​Keep in touch with our free emailed occasional Updates
  • Updates: News, Directory, Folklife Traditions (& deadline reminders!) 
  • 6 to 12 a year, you'll get information updates, -- and reminders to check your details, thus we keep details up-to-date.
  • What do Updates look like?  See recent ones on Updates webpage​
opt - IN   for   UPDATES  -         click to open (and shut !)

Permission to hold & use your personal information

* indicates required
OPT-IN FORM on left 
  • for Folklife Updates 
  • and/or 
  • for new Folklife members 

--- OR  if you prefer,
     simply email same details to sam@folklife.uk


We don't pass on details except as published;  
Data policy​ (opt-in/out): Data webpage 

From the "Folklife" non-profit group of volunteers.
Free publicity!  for  International folk enthusiasts!   

① Dates & News Updates    ② Directory live & virtual sings, performers, shops, festivals, media
Send in  your INTERNATIONAL (NON-UK)   Folk News        CLICK TO OPEN (AND SHUT !)

Send in   your International Folk News

​International --- open to all non-UK-based for this International page which is online-only.  
​Please use this form to send news: name/contact/web etc plus up to 200 words.   Note we can't easily copy Zoom chats on our iPad.
Images if you wish to include please email to sam@folklife.uk
Dates: 3 weeks minimum notice for dates to circulate in Newsletter.

Paid-up International Folklife Members are eligible to be in print as well as online: please use Members' news form on webpage SEND NEWS form

For Festivals & Workshops Diary, please use the form on the Festivals, Workshops page

For News for Folklife Traditions Journal - from Folklife organisations, researchers, books announced, conferences (not folk news eg clubs, artists, etc) -- please use separate form on webpage SEND NEWS form
    Then ④ NEWS - box on right,
    ​then      ⑤ ​Optional - contact details etc below
Picture
LISA NULL

Sad news about Lisa, well known to many of us from Zoom.
Thanks to John Baxter for forwarding this.

Elisabeth Higgins Null, also known as Lisa Null, partner of Tifereth Israel member Charlie Baum for the last thirty years, died July 19, 2022, 20 Tamuz 5782, at the age of 79. She is also survived by her son, Jacob Null, brothers Daniel and Alexander, and nieces, nephews and grandnieces. She was predeceased by her son John Null, and her brothers Dick and Mark Higgins.
        Lisa was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and she grew up there and in North Brookfield, Massachusetts, St. Augustine, Florida, and especially New York City. She graduated from the Brearley School in New York and then Sarah Lawrence College. She went on to do graduate study in folklore at University of Pennsylvania (M.A.), history at Yale University (M. Phil.), and library science at Catholic University (MLIS). Her marriage to Henry Null produced two children, John and Jacob, but it ended in divorce.
         A lifelong interest in folklore and history led her to co-found Green Linnet Records with her friend Patrick Sky. Lisa also developed a career as a professional folk-singer, specializing in traditional songs, starting in the late 1970s and early 1980s. With her friend, the guitarist Bill Shute, she recorded two albums on Green Linnet, later re-released by Folk Legacy and now available through Smithsonian Folkways, The Feathered Maiden and Other Ballads and American Primitive. As a performer, she toured the United States, Canada, and England, and appeared several times on Garrison Keillor’s “A Prairie Home Companion” show. Her reputation was of being one of the finest song researchers and presenters—"when she sings a song, it stays sung!” was one of the more memorable praises she received. She was known for her strong alto voice and often sang a cappella, especially as growing infirmities and arthritis made it difficult to shlep and play instruments.
         Lisa came to the DC area in 1990 to do research for her dissertation at Yale, although she never did finish it. It was to be an examination of folklore sources for historians, centering on an incident in the War of 1812. She met Charlie at a party in 1991 at a house around the corner from where she and Charlie lived since 1995. She was having trouble “booting her Mac,” and Charlie volunteered to help her, teaching her to play around with the computer instead of fearing it. He brought along a floppy disc containing digitized music from Lena Bourne Fish, an obscure New Hampshire source singer for many folklorists and song collectors. Lisa didn’t even know her computer was capable of playing music, but the disc established that they were kindred souls, and Charlie (with a grin) sometimes credits Fish as being their matchmaker. 
Lisa taught courses in American Musical Life at Georgetown University. She worked at the Library of Congress when they were first figuring out how to digitize and make their collections available on the Internet. She then worked as a substantive editor, helping writers research and edit their books, perhaps most notably helping John Dickerson write his biography of his mother, the pioneering woman journalist Nancy Dickerson, titled “On Her Trail.” She helped others such as Peggy Seeger research materials for their album and CD liner notes. Lisa also devoted much of her later time to organizing folk events (often with Charlie), and to teaching and coaching singers who wanted to sing better or expand their repertoires, especially a cappella singers of traditional material.
          Health issues plagued Lisa throughout, Severe asthma caused her to give up her career as a touring folk-singer in the 1980s.  She spent her last months at the Hebrew Home of Greater Washington, but realizing her time was limited, determined to live them to the fullest. Her room at the Hebrew Home became a salon for good conversationalists and musician friends. With Zoom song-circles, Lisa developed friends from all around the world, and continued to participate in them and make music with friends both virtual and in her room, right through her last weekend. 
          In 2013, Lisa became seriously ill with heart and respiratory problems and, faced with the real prospect of not recovering, set about recording the songs she loves “while she still can”. She recorded and released `the double-CD set Legacies on the Folk Legacy label, which was later acquired by Smithsonian Folkways. Charlie Baum designed the packaging and the 72-page accompanying booklet. Among the tracks are a song by Jean Ritchie partially based on Tumbalalaika, “Andy Goodman (To His Mother),” about the murdered civil rights activist, and the song Charlie Baum wrote and sings as a duet with Lisa, “Will You Love Me in the Morning.” The Jean Ritchie song was so obscure that when the Ritchie family was asked for permission to record it, Jon Pickow (Jean’s son) said, “I don’t think Mom wrote that one”—but she did! The harp player on "Andy Goodman" is David Scheim, who first introduced Charlie to TI back in the 1990s.
         May the family be comforted and her memory be a blessing.
         To make a memorial contribution to Tifereth Israel, click HERE.
To see Lisa Null & Peter Brice – Irish Songs of North America, a seven minute film produced by the Maryland State Arts Council, in association with the National Council for the Traditional Arts, and Remsberg Inc., click HERE.                   Copyright © 2022 Tifereth Israel Congregation, All rights reserved.
   If you find this free website useful . . .  as FW print magazine always makes a healthy loss . . .  plus, these free websites cost c.£300 a year . . . 
​​   you may wish to donate £3 very occasionally,     by clicking the yellow box (for our "Ko-fi" site) for a 1-off £3 card payment. Thank you!
​
Folklife West 52-page print magazine, copied online *** Folk news on www.folklife.uk *** Researched articles on www.folklife-traditions.uk
If you can afford it, you may wish to support us, by a very occasional £3 donation, or buying a printed FW magazine, or a Pdf of FW, or by subscribing 

​–– Copied online - always free to view !     There's no obligation to buy magazines -- or to donate !
​PAYMENTS:  

​BACS / phone BANK
Folklife,  sort code 09-01-55,
account 18675181
 Overseas, email
sam@folklife.uk for bank details.
​
Or CHEQUE to "Folklife",
16 Barrett Rise,Malvern, WR14 2UJ.

Or CARD - our payments site   
ko-fi.com/folklife/shop
---- Emailing PDF of current FW  
​--  £3  Worldwide, via WeTransfer (sent as size A4 or US-letter)
​Link to card payment for PDF
ko-fi.com/s/8e92e77df9
---- Posting the current FW 
     (UK, EU only)  
​     UK £6.  EU £9.
​Link to card payment 1 copy
ko-fi.com/s/42287c6234
Annual Membership (3 issues) with
your news,
UK £18, EU £27.   Discounts for 2+.
​Link to card payment to subscribe
ko-fi.com/s/8624d72d04
----  Adverts from 1/8 A4 mono to A4 colour
​Link to card payments for adverts
ko-fi.com/s/34cd1547ab
And ! .............  our  FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS website has ARTICLES and an online ARCHIVE.
Articles:  
Folklife Studies & Traditions:   Folklife Societies news & diary   Recordings announced  Books announced & adverts 
From Online Directory: 1-line Summary Listings
Folklife Societies: Associations, Trusts, Organisations; Folklife Studies & Institutions;  Seasonal Local Celebrations, a list & photos, mostly by Doc Rowe,

FW  print
Deadlines

☞   ● 1 Jan :  19 Nov 
☞   ● 1 May :  19 Mar
☞   ● 1 Sep :  19 Jul
​☞ see Newsletter for later deadlines for online issues
International  folk news from FW, the Folklife West magazine, below
  • Folklife non-profit group; to continue, we need your support, by membership or adverts - details foot of page
  • We will not require [paid-for] 'Folklife Membership' for International news & listings on this page.
  • Open to all who sign up for  'FN' Folklife Newsletter (top of page).
FW has around 60 pages, printed, A4-size
​FW has 3 sections: News & Listings, as this page; also Festival & Workshop Diary, and Folklife Traditions Journal.
As much as possible - but not everything - will be copied online. It is a print magazine and it's not possible to exactly reproduce it online.      Roughly 2/3rds - the area News pages - is on this site..
UK: FW by post from Folklife: the cost of £18 includes membership = news & online Members' Directory listings
​
International: £18 but instead of posted, as a PDF sent by WeTransfer for you to download.
Contact sam@folklife.uk for international bank transfer details (no cards, no PayPal, etc).
Join Folklife , only £18 for 3 issues, for
  • FW (Folklife West) posted to you, OR as a PDF via WeTransfer
  • your news/publicity in FW, (each news item: up to 200 words, more if advertising), 
  • all copied to folklife.uk, this, our main site, with FW pages online,  including detailed Festival and Workshop Diary
  • amazing & very detailed online Directory, listings
  • and FW (Folklife West) posted to you or as PDF via WeTransfer.......... contact us (Info webpage)

FW: 1 Jan (print deadline 19 Nov), 1 May (print deadline 19 Mar),  1 Sep (print deadline 19 Jul), other details on  Info webpage