We offer everybody: free online Directory entries

From democratic do-it-yourself sessions to concert series: all welcome. 

Amateur, semi-pro, or professional singers & musicians: all welcome.

Full list of categories  "Index / details"  lower down the page.


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We keep it simple - entry form on every webpage

​or we can help - we can draft entries for your approval.   Contact sam@folklife.uk

Listings simply: (1) name,  (2) venues, contact & web details,  (3) up to 40 words description
     
and so each webpage is easy to read, and easy to update.

Keeping it simple and easy to read & easy to update:  so no maps, no pictures, no dates (see folklife.uk for folk news, dates, festivals)

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UK and now International.   We want to list the world!

We don't have time to research/contact all possible entries . . . 
. . . please tell folks to visit www.folklife-directory.uk for entry forms or contact sam@folklife.uk and we'll be happy to help.

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​WEBPAGES list.     FD: home  (this page), then detailed categories below this list - appropriate form on every page
Venues: Cymru•Wales
Venues: England South-West
Venues: England Midlands [East Mids & West Mids]
Venues: England South-East & East 
Venues: North of England 
Venues: Scotland new page - no entries yet
Venues: International new page - no entries yet

Venues: Zoom

Performers: Cymru•Wales
Performers: England South-West
Performers: England Midlands [East Mids & West Mids]
Performers: England South-East & East
Performers: North of England
Performers: Scotland
Performers: International
Media   
Services    
Workshop-Providers​
And here's the details of our FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS DIRECTORY,
​3 categories, on our separate Folklife Traditions Journal site: See www.folklife-traditions.uk
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​​BELOW :  more details, Index

Our categories / webpages are as Webpages Index above:

LISTS BY AREA: - each area below has   Venues.  Performers,  Media,  Services, Workshop Providers    --- details below

FESTIVAL & WORKSHOP DIARY:   Festivals & Workshops Diary  ---- details below

Details of our Folklife-Traditions Directory  are on a separate site. 
List 7, Folklife Societies: Associations, Trusts, Organisations.  
List 8, Folklife Studies & Institutions.
List 9, Local Celebrations - details below​.
Folk Clubs & Venues
• Clubs • Concerts • Singarounds • Sesssions (Song, Music, Poetry)
• Storytelling • Dance Clubs & Ceilidh Series •
Folk Performers  

​Pf.1    FOLK MUSIC & SONG        
​• Pf.1a-c, general    •  Pf.1d-h, specific 
Pf.1a   Music/Song - Bands/Groups 
Pf.1b   Music/Song - Duos
Pf.1c   Music/Song - Solo
Pf.1d   Choirs & Quires (and see List 5)
Pf.1e   Community & Street 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
Folk Media 
M.1  Online Folk Magazines & Listings
M.2  Printed Folk Magazines & Listings 
M.3  Folk Radio​
​M.4  Publishers (Music & Print)
Folk Services
S.1  Folk Journalists
S.2  Agents, Managers, Promoters, MCs and Stage Management
S.3  Technical:  PA  &  Sound  Hire,  Engineers,  Studios
S.4  Website Design and Services
S.5  Print, Design, Illustration
S.6  Crafts and Makers
​S.7   Shops & other sales
S.8  Tourist Information Centres
Workshops: Providers.         
W.1   Study Centres, Folk Teachers, Tutors, Development Workers, Workshop Organisers
W.2   Members’ continuing (longer-term) Workshops Series 

The Diary pages - festivals, and workshops, in date order
​As these are dates, they are from Folklife members only,
​on on our main news site

Festivals & Workshops Diary is on Folk News website www.folklife.uk  
​…..  Member-festivals - for the next 12 months!   Plus adverts as in the latest FW.

[ Folklife-Traditions Directory ]
Lists 7-9 are on our separate website, www.folklife-traditions.uk, along with our index & links to all articles from the Folklife Traditions pages in FW
For 'Folklife Traditions' listings, Lists 7 to 9, open to all, you do not have to be a Member for these FT entries. ​
These listings are in our  Folklife Traditions Directory on www.folklife-traditions.uk
List 7: Folklife Societies:
Associations, Trusts, Organisations
        • A1-A2, general •  A3-A13, specific
A.1     General: National Societies
A.2    General: Regional and Local Societies
A.3    Cerdd Dant Societies
A.4    Folk Song Societies
A.5    Folk Music Societies
A.6    Folk Dance Societies
A.7    Folk Drama Societies
A.8    Folklore Societies
A.9    Storytelling Societies
A.10  Oral History Societies
A.11   Language & Dialect Societies
A.12  Folk Life Generally - Societies
A.13  Folk Life Specific Groups
• Yahoo web discussion groups are under appropriate [A.] category
List 8:
Folklife Studies & Institutions
          § specialist folklife institutions, or general
Fs.1   Researchers and Authors
Fs.2   Lecturers and Speakers
Fs.3   Archives §
Fs.4   Museums§
Fs.5   Libraries §
Fs.6   Academic Courses & Research
Fs.7   Music Publishers / Recording Companies
Fs.8   Print Book Publishers & Booksellers
Fs.9   Print Journals
Fs.10 Online Resources (websites, & blogs with articles)
List 9:
Seasonal Local Celebrations  This covers the full year, online.
Also, in FW, every issue, we print the current 4 months, with photos and notes.
Additional information for Wales on www.bywyd-gwerin.cymru, our Wales Folklife online Directory,
​including articles on Seasonal Celebrations
Our main website,  folklife.uk, the Folklife & FW site: folk news

🄵🅆 = in print & copied online   ⎈     = online only
​You can either go to that folklife.uk homepage,or  click links below for specific pages

Here are the individual webpages, which are the area news pages
🄵🅆 CYMRU·WALES
🄵🅆 KERNOW·CORNWALL
🄵🅆 WEST COUNTRY
🄵🅆 GLOS
🄵🅆 MIDLANDS
🄵🅆 HEREFS+WORCS
🄵🅆 SOUTH-EAST+EAST
🄵🅆 NORTH
🄵🅆 ALBA•SCOTLAND
⎈ INTERNATIONAL ​(online only)
We may change the above webpage areas - according to how many Folklife members we have in each area.

​Other pages on folklife.uk
🄵🅆 FESTIVALS, WORKSHOPS detailed Diary
🄵🅆 INFO deadlines, ad rates, membership
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🄵🅃🄹 FOLKLIFE TRAD'NS JOURNAL, on a separate website  
Folklife Traditions Journal pages from Folklife West magazine, plus archive,
and Folklife Directories:  • Folklife Societies    • ​Folklife Studies & Institutions   • Seasonal Local Celebrations


THIS PAGE UPDATED.  26/12/2022.

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