FD: home Folklife's free online Folk Directory folklife-directory.uk
From Folklife who also publish 2 print magazines, Folklife West, and the Folklife Traditions Journal.
- Simple listings with basic details, plus a brief (up to 40-words) description. No pictures, no dates.
- Websites rather than social media - no sign-up required to read our pages ! so they can be read by all, rather than being restricted.
7 July 2024: we've changed this site.
Originally based on our printed Directory, it was set up for desktops, before phones were widely used for internet !
Originally based on our printed Directory, it was set up for desktops, before phones were widely used for internet !
- New format, including to make pages more phone-friendly:
- Where possible, information other than actual listing moved to "Get Listed !" and ‘UPDATES' webpages
- 1st-line format - shorter, by moving contact name & phone to other contacts line.
- Simpler background for listings - colour simplified to just 1 colour per area etc, no border, etc; no large-type-size in boxes.
- Also, we're updating links to www.folklife.uk - new site doesn't use .html, so eg folklife.uk/info.html must change to folklife.uk/info
- Later this year or early 2025, we’ll move the entire site, possibly to be part of our more phone-friendly Folklife West site, www.folklife.uk.
- Ideally —- as a database, we would welcome a volunteer to set one up. Failing that, it will be similar to existing.
Our Webpages, other than this homepage (details of top-of-page menu)
- Get listed ! - Details of how to be added to our free listings
- UPDATES - New listings & changes to existing listings, later sent out to the Updates mailing list - free sign-up to email list
- Venues - arranged by country / area. As our name "Folklife West" suggests, mainly Cymru•Wales, England West Country & West Midlands. Since Lockdown/Zoom, enthusiasts from other areas, and other countries, joined us. We welcome enthusiasts from everywhere!
- Performers
- PF .1A - GROUPS now includes former 1.d/e Choirs, Community Bands
- PF .1B - DUOS
- PF .1C - SOLO
- PF .1F - SHANTY
- PF .2AB - DANCE BANDS & CALLERS
- PF .2C - CEREMONIAL & DANCE DISPLAY
- PF .3 - SPOKEN WORD
- Services - on that page, plus 2 other pages:
- MEDIA - here we give local listings that will have more details.
- WORKSHOP-PROVIDERS
Our other sites are
- Researched articles, societies & researchers news. Current issue, plus archive of all issues.
- Free pdfs to download for all issues
- Plus Folklife Traditions Directory - Societies, Folklife Studies, Seasonal all on www.folklife-traditions.uk
- includes UPDATES for FTJ
- Printed folk magazine, Folklife members' folk news. Current issue copied online
- includes FESTIVALS, WORKSHOPS our members' Diary listings for next 12 months
- includes UPDATES for Folklife West - our members' folk news
