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​Folklife - print & online publishers. 
We print FW, the Folklife West magazine, and publish this & other material online. 
52-60 A4 print pages published 3 times a year (4-monthly):   1 Jan, 1 May, 1 Sept.
FW's Folk News pages are copied to this site.

News and listings - only from Folklife members.
We also print 'Folklife Traditions' articles.
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A very active Membership
       - about 80% are listed, as club/venue organisers, performers, festival organisers, etc 

FOLK NEWS

INDEX for  your area's webpage

FW ( 1) Folk news from our Folklife members, about 2/3rds of the magazine.
  • FW's print pages - A4-size - copied online.
  • ​Also as PDFs for you to download.
Covering
   ➀ Clubs & Venues   ➁ Performers 
   ➂ Media  ➃ Services (incl. Shops) 
​

Just click on   your area page below !

Wales webpage :
England:  West Country webpages
West Mids & Oxon webpages :
​other areas; national webpage​​ :

FW, Folklife West,    
​​formerly FQ, Folklife Quarterly
News pages, with summary Directory listings
(full details in online Directory).
​
Folklife Traditions pages, with articles, news, & listings summaries.

LISTINGS

​The printed Diary pages are copied to the Directory website

➄ Festival Diary    
➅ Workshop Diary

TRADITIONS

The Folklife Traditions website
has ARTICLES and LISTINGS for
​➆ Folklife Societies  
➇ Folklife Studies & Institutions   
​➈ Seasonal Celebrations
Publicity bargain:  our Membership, only £16 a year !

Only  £16  a year UK, for posted magazine  and  printing your news & listings  and   copying the news & listings online !

Folklife. 
YOU CAN DOWNLOAD FROM THIS SITE: 
What we do is first print & distribute the magazine for 1 Jan/May/Sept.  
Then we update online.  The current issue of the entire magazine is online ! free ! but it's big (52-60 A4 pages) so it's split over 3 websites - the majority (say 40+ pages) on this main site has our members' news and summary listings.
  • NEWS pages by area / county (as listed above) --  we copy FW print pages online [jpegs] on this site, and you can download them [PDFs], Also we include each area's local festivals.
  • DIARY pages - Festivals Diary, Workshops Diary -- on our DIRECTORY website, which also has very detailed venue, performers, etc, listings
  • FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS pages articles and FT news & Diary --  we copy FT pages online [jpegs] on our FOLKLIFE-TRADITIONS site​, and you can download them [PDFs].  It's also a Folklife Traditions Directory, and has an archive of PDFs of past FT articles etc
Folklife Newsletter --- Directory Updates + Deadline Reminders
  • The latest Updates to our DIRECTORY, sent to Folklife Members who have opted in, after each issue, + occasionally others.
​            Note: please do not send gig lists etc - we are a print magazine; as a service, we copy it free online, (we're not a social media website). 
  • Non-members can email us to join the NEWSLETTER mailing list (it's free)
  • Sign up to opt in for free Newsletter on the "Data" webpage on this website
Folk 21 news in FW.
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​We work with the Living Tradition magazine.
We print our Members' Folk News.   As for reviews, see LT.
For reviews, which we don't have time to do (so don't send us CDs, please!), see the reviews page of Folklife Member THE LIVING TRADITION magazine, www.livingtradition.co.uk .
LT reviews online on ​www.livingtradition.co.uk/magazine/reviews as well as printed in LT.

For sending CDs for review to LT, please view www.livingtradition.co.uk/node/1979
Folklife Members can publicise their CD in FW, up to 200 words** + CD cover jpg. 
** more words if advertising .       To join Folklife, just £16 a year, see "Info" webpage
Where to buy Folklife West.

Most sales are 1 copy through the post, via £16 a year Folklife membership, see Info webpage
Most Members are actively involved - about 80% of Members are listed in our online Directory as performers & organisers of folk clubs, sessions, festivals

BELOW: some copies are available from clubs, shops, and correspondents, ................. see Info webpage for reselling discounts
  • WALES
  • WEST COUNTRY
  • WEST MIDLANDS & OXON
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WALES - club details on www.folklife-directory.uk/Wales

​South-East:  
<> Newport Folk Club 
<> Llantrisant Folk Club (National Correspondent, Mick Tems)

North-East:  
<> Rhyl Folk Club (Correspondent, N Wales & Cheshire, Brian Bull)
WEST COUNTRY, Cornwall & Devon - club/session details on www.folklife-directory.uk/Cornwall-Devon
Cornwall: <> Bodmin Folk Club​     
        <>  Wadebridge Folk Club (Cornwall Correspondent Mike Walford, also at Padstow Folk Session, Cornwall Folk Festival Session)
Devon:     <> Bideford Folk Club    <>  Topsham Folk Club;   <> Pennymoor Singaround (Pennymoor runs various other sessions)
      <> Teignmouth Folk Club (S Devon correspondent, Martyn Hillstead)
      <> Various clubs / sessions, East /Mid Devon correspondent Bill Crawford


WEST COUNTRY, Gloucestershire - club/session details on  www.folklife-directory.uk/Glos
   Gloucestershire:  <> Queen Victoria Song Session, Stroud;        <> Forest Folk Club
                              <>  Various ceilidhs / sessions, Roving Correspondent (mid-west), Cresby Brown
                              <>  Various clubs / sessions, Roving Correspondent (blues/folk, wide area) Bill Pullen 

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WEST COUNTRY, other than above - club/session details on  www.folklife-directory.uk/West-Country
   Bristol area. South Gloucestershire:    <> Dursley Acoustic Music Nights; 
​   North Somerset       <> Nailsea Folk Club
   Wiltshire:   <> Swindon Folk Club        <> Village Pump Friday Folk
   Dorset:      <>  The Trooper Folk Song Night (North Dorset & South Somerset Correspondent, John Waltham)
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WEST MIDLANDS, Worcestershire - club/session details on   www.folklife-directory.uk/Worcs
   Worcestershire:  <> Bromsgrove Folk Club (Correspondent, North Worcs & South Birmingham, Bob Bignall)
                             <> Somers Trad Folk Club, Worcester      <>  Various clubs / sessions in S Worcs, SE Herefs, N Glos, the editors

WEST MIDLANDS, other than Worcestershire - shop/club/session details on   www.folklife-directory.uk/Midlands
   Birmingham:     <> Hobgoblin Birmingham shop               <> Black Diamond Folk Club 
   Herefordshire:   <> Folk Night at the Crown Inn  (Correspondents, Tales from under Black Hill, John & Jane Baxter)
   Warwickshire & Coventry:  <> Bedworth Folk Club  (Warks & Coventry Correspondent Malc Gurnham)

We publish a vast amount of information!
-- from Directory listings, to copies of FW's news pages
So, we have 3 sites, as appropriate ~ see below:

● we are a non-profit group ~ FW  runs at a healthy loss.
● for us to continue, we need your support - by membership (just £16/year for posted FW  plus your publicity in print & online) -- or by  advertising --- for contacting us, and for more detailed info .... see the Info page

THIS SITE is
FW ( 1 )
News
​pages 
​as top of page


​​FW, the Folklife West magazine,
a c.52-page A4-size print publication,
has 3 sections:
​News, Listings, Folklife Traditions
Of these 3 sections, (1) and (2) are from our Folklife members only. (3) open to all.
Membership £16 a year, posting out FW three times a year, covers Members' news and online Directory listings

folklife-directory.uk
for FW ( 2 )  Listings

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

In FW, 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

www.folklife-traditions.uk
( 3 ) FT: Folklife Traditions pages

Picture
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 & Institutions   
​➈ Seasonal Celebrations

​INFO page 
Membership, Ad Rates, Reselling, etc

DATA page 
Data Protection policies,
​DP form to opt in

more:   meet the Folklife Team

our Folklife CORRESPONDENTS and OTHER VOLUNTEERS

more: "Folk What's On" (the ads from FW)
​​For the benefit of advertisers, and the public, we also supply an ads-only version of FW, "Folk What's On', (4 to 10 pages), to libraries in regular-advertising areas, as a reference copy, & large concert-venues as free leaflets.    Webpage  includes free FWOn download !

Other than FW

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

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
FW  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) .... 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 (£16 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 FW, based on your listing, etc
Be listed!    Join Folklife , only £16 for 3 issues, for
  • your news/publicity in FW, (each news item: up to 200 words, more if advertising), all copied to this site
  • our amazing and very detailed online Directory listings, including detailed Festival Diary for the next 12 months, and detailed Workshop Diary
  • and FW (Folklife West) posted to you .......... contact us.            This is folklife.org.uk   ​
FW: 1 Jan (deadline 19 Nov), 1 May (deadline 19 Mar),  1 Sep (deadline 19 Jul), other details on "Info" webpage