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Folklife, & Folklife Quarterly

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Folklife.

www.folklife.org.uk


Folklife - print & online publishers. 
We print FQ, the Folklife Quarterly, and publish this & other material online. 
​FQ's Folk News pages are on this site.

You can download: 
  • all Folk News pages,
  • our ads-only Folk What's On,
  • our ad-rates & membership Info page
Contact details are on the INFO page
APRIL 2018 - BIGGEST-EVER - 68 A4 PAGES!

58 new listings ! ("Updates" on Directory site)
We concentrate on folk news from live venues.  So please do not send us CDs to review !
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- instead, Members can send us their publicity about their latest CD (& a jpg of CD cover).
           For reviews, see the reviews page of Folklife Member, THE LIVING TRADITION magazine,  www.livingtradition.co.uk, whose reviews are on www.livingtradition.co.uk/magazine/reviews as well as in The Living Tradition magazine.  
*** For those who would like their CDs reviewed, please view www.livingtradition.co.uk/node/1979
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1/4/2018.  Staffordshire News page added.  This means we now cover all counties in West Midlands region and South-West region. + Oxon + Wales.   …… we have no plans to go beyond this area ! 
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We publish a vast amount of information!
-- from Directory listings, to copies of FQ's news pages
So, we have 3 sites, as appropriate ~ see below

NEW:  FOLKLIFE NEWSLETTER  --- DIRECTORY UPDATES
  • The latest Updates to our DIRECTORY, sent to Folklife Members, monthly-ish.
  • Non-members can email us to join the NEWSLETTER mailing list, or view the emailed NEWSLETTER online
  • So see the UPDATES page on the DIRECTORY website,   http://www.folklife-directory.uk/updates.html
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THIS SITE is
FQ ( 1 )
News pages 

FQ's folk news from our Folklife members, which forms the first half of each issue.
➀ Clubs & Venues   ➁ Performers 
➂ Services (incl. Shops, media) 


FOLK NEWS WEBPAGES with links
Wales
  • Cymru/Wales (plus Cheshire)
England:  West Country
  • Kernow/Cornwall
  • Devon
  • Somerset
  • Dorset - from January 2018
  • Wiltshire - including Swindon
  • Bristol, Bath, Nearby -- The Districts of BANES, Bristol, N. Somerset, South Glos
  • Gloucestershire
England:  West Midlands & Oxon
  • Shropshire - including Telford & the Wrekin
  • Herefordshire
  • Worcestershire
  • West Midlands county -- Birmingham, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall, Wolverhampton
  • Staffs - from April 2018​
  • Warwickshire with Coventry
  • Oxfordshire
England:  other areas; national
  • other areas; and national [agencies]
Note: these webpages are copies of FQ's A4-sizes pages, so may be too big for mobiles.
Folk News ~ your local area webpages
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​FQ, the Folklife Quarterly,
a 48/52 page A4-size print publication,
has 3 sections:
​News, Listings, Folklife Traditions

"DIRECTORY" SITE for
FQ ( 2 )
Listings pages

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Listings (from Folklife Members only)
• venues • performers • services • festivals • workshops •
song, music, dance, story, poets

In FQ, we print 1-line listing-summaries, plus a next-12-months festival diary, a workshops diary.
Online, we have the full listings on our Members' Directory website. 

You will be amazed at how much we have on this Directory site!

'Folk' listings, from our members   
➀ Clubs & Venues   ➁ Performers 
➂ Services (incl. Shops, media) 
➃ Festival Diary 
➄ Workshop Listings ➅ Workshop Diary
Directory: more

"FT" SITE for
FQ ( 3 )  FT:
the Folklife Traditions pages

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Minehead © J K Simmons
The FT pages have articles and folklife news; plus 1-line listing-summaries for Folklife Studies & Folklife Societies, and seasonal local celebrations for this quarter

The FT Archive
We have a fully indexed online archive for all issues on a new fully-interactive FT site!  Full listings plus Jan-Dec seasonal local celebrations.
PDFs of each issue (A4 size) are on an e-magazine website.

Folklife Traditions listings open to all   
➆
Folklife Societies  
➇ Folklife Studies & In
stitutions   
​➈ Seasonal Celebrations
FT: more
Of the 3 sections, above, (1) and (2) are from our Folklife members only. (3) open to all.
Membership £18 a year, besides posting out FQ quarterly, covers Members' news and online Directory listings.

more:

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Meet the Folklife TEAM page:  our Folklife Quarterly  CORRESPONDENTS and OTHER VOLUNTEERS
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​​FOLK WHAT'S ON page:   For the benefit of advertisers, and the public, we also supply an ads-only version of FQ, "Folk What's On', (4 to 10 pages), to libraries in regular-advertising areas, as a reference copy, & large concert-venues as free leaflets.     Includes free FWOn download !
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Other than FQ

Our other online publications
  • Bywyd Gwerin: Cyfeiriadur -- Wales Folklife-Directory,  Welsh-language traditions​
  • Quite separately to Folklife:   we also host a webpage for The Homend Poets, Ledbury, Herefordshire
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FOLKLIFE
Other: more

for contacting us, and for more detailed information .... see the Info page

● we are a non-profit group
● for us to continue, we need your support ----------- by membership ----------- or advertising ----------- details at foot of page
FQ  runs at a healthy loss.
     The English Folk Dance & Song Society has announced that Every donation you make between now and 2019 is matched by Arts Council England.
     We have no such outside funding, nor any sponsorship.  Our income is from your Folklife membership and limited advertising - since we focus on your news, & don't review CDs & avoid featuring folk personalities on the cover, we will not attract commercial adverts from record companies etc!
      We run at a healthy loss (say £1,000 a year) .... I see that fRoots magazine was asking to be crowd funded for £20,000 ... well, we don't need quite that much, but if you would like to support us by taking out membership for 1 copy (£18 a year) or multiple copies for resale, and/or advertising, that will help us to carry on the good work!
● we can help - we can draft Directory & Festival/Workshop Diary listings for you to approve/change, set up news items for FQ based on your listing, etc
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Be listed!    Join Folklife , only £18 a year, for online Directory listings, and FQ (Folklife Quarterly) posted to you, and your free news/publicity in FQ, every issue (per item: up to 200 words, more if advertising), contact us.   This site: folklife.org.uk   Folklife Quarterly: 1 Jan, 1 Apr, 1 Jul, 1 Oct, deadlines & other details on Info page
  • Folklife
    • Team
    • Folk What's On
  • Info
    • Data
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  • FOLK-NEWS pages
    • Wales
    • Cornwall
    • Devon
    • Somerset
    • Dorset
    • Wiltshire
    • Bristol
    • Glos
    • Shropshire
    • Herefs
    • Worcs
    • West-Mids
    • Staffs
    • Warwickshire
    • Oxfordshire
    • Other
  • Directory
  • Folklife-Traditions
  • Other-from-FL
    • Homend Poets
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