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FD: Folklife's online Folk Directory

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● Folklife West magazine, printed 3 / year
       ● FW  Jan 1st,    deadline : 20 Nov
       ● FW  May 1st,  deadline : 20 Mar 
       ● FW  Sep 1st,    deadline : 20 Jul 

Sign up for our monthly-ish emailed Newsletters, 
and be listed here - free !

This site is www.folklife-directory.uk

Folklife West print magazine: 
     Folk 
news pages are copied to www.folklife.uk
     Our Folklife Traditions Journal pages (researched articles, plus archive downloads)
are copied to www.folklife-traditions.uk

     Our email is sam@folklife.uk 
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A4 print magazine - so site not suitable for phones​
When we update this site: also on "Updates webpage"  (on our folk-news site) + in our emailed "Folklife Newsletter".

On this site:
Venues, Performers, Media, Services, Workshop Providers

Detailed index below, webpages are:  this page is FD: home
Venues Cymru•Wales
Venues South-West

Venues Midlands [East Midlands & West Midlands]
Venues All Other  [South-East; North; Scotland; International]
Venues Zoom
Performers. Cymru•Wales
Performers. South-West
Performers Midlands   [East Midlands & West Midlands]
Performers All Other  [South-East; North; Scotland; International]
Media Cymru•Wales 
Media England Scotland World
Services
Workshop-Providers


Our Folklife West print magazine is copied to 2 sites
www.folklife.uk  Folk News
site

www.folklife-traditions.uk  Folklife Traditiosn Journal & archive


We offer everybody free entries in this online Directory!

this is by joining our emailed Newsletter mailing list - form below or just email us to opt-in.
We don't pass on details other than as published here; ​Data policy (opt-in): ​see Data webpage (on folklife.uk site) 

    roughly monthly-ish, you'll get information updates, 
          -- and reminders to check your details haven't changed, thus we'll keep your details up-to-date.
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​     What does
Newsletter look like?  See recent ones on"UPDATES webpage" on our folk-news site ,
This is useful for you, with Updates for News, Directory, & Folklife Traditions (& deadline reminders). 
And useful for us, so we spend less time on admin/emails = more time for magazine & website.  
And know how many read this, & where, and so resource appropriately!  
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Keep in touch with our free emailed occasional Newsletter

​​Updates: News, Directory, Folklife Traditions (& Deadlines) 
 
A form to sign up to Folklife Newsletter 
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and/or for new Folklife members

OR if you prefer, simply email same details to sam@folklife.uk
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New permissions only ​(for any changes, please email instead)
     

Permission to hold & use your personal information

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​​Index / details

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​.
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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 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.
Festivals & Workshops Diary
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[ 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.
Or, for more information, see Folklife-Traditions webpage on this site.
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 
  • England, mainly from Doc Rowe;
  • Wales, from our Bwywd Gwerin website
  • ​occasionally elsewhere
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
🄵🅆 NORTH
🄵🅆 ALBA•SCOTLAND
⎈ INTERNATIONAL ​(mostly online, but we do print a Directory summary)
🄵🅆 INFO

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
​

🄵🅃🄹 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.  1/07/2022.
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  • FD: home
  • Venues Cymru•Wales
  • Venues South-West
  • Venues Midlands
  • Venues All Other
  • Venues Zoom
  • Perf. Cymru•Wales
  • Perf. South-West
  • Perf. Midlands
  • Perf. All Other
  • Media Cymru•Wales
  • Media England Scotland World
  • Services
  • Workshop-Providers