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​Below, our categories - if you want details of the categories we use.

​​Index

Venues (subpages by area).  Performers (subpages by area),  Media,  Services, Workshop Providers    --- details below

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

Folklife-Traditions Directory  are on a separate site. 
Folklife Societies: Associations, Trusts, Organisations.  
Folklife Studies & Institutions.
Local Celebrations - details below​.

Folk Clubs & Venues
• Clubs • Concerts • Singarounds • Sesssions (Song, Music, Poetry)
• Storytelling • Dance Clubs & Ceilidh Series •
Venues: Cymru•Wales    .....................................................................   Venues: England South-West
Venues: England Midlands [East Mids & West Mids]
Venues: England South-East & East    .....................................   Venues: North of England ​
Venues: Alba•Scotland    ....................................................................   Venues: International
Venues: Zoom/Virtual  UK & World

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; Pf.1e Community 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.

Festivals & Workshops Diary

[ 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 

• 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.

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Additional information for Wales on www.bywyd-gwerin.cymru, our Wales Folklife online Directory,
​including articles on Seasonal Celebrations

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We also publish  FOLKLIFE WEST print magazine : NEWS & DATES  from Folklife Members

A quite separate publication, it does not include these Directory listings.  This is also copied free online

● FW, Folklife West,  3 / year  ● Jan 1st (deadline 20 Nov)  ● May 1st (20 Mar) ● Sep 1st (20 Jul) 
● FW print pages copied online - view & download 

• www.folklife.uk Folk News from Members - £18 year UK to post FW & print your news​
• www.folklife-traditions.uk  Journal, researched articles, & archive ​ (also separately - £10 year UK)  ​

​See folklife.uk

Our main website,  folklife.uk, the Folklife & FW site: folk news

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​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
🄵🅆 WEST COUNTRY
🄵🅆 MIDLANDS
🄵🅆 SOUTH-EAST+EAST
🄵🅆 NORTH
🄵🅆 ALBA•SCOTLAND
⎈ INTERNATIONAL ​(online only)

​Other pages on folklife.uk
🄵🅆 FESTIVALS, WORKSHOPS detailed Diary
🄵🅆 INFO deadlines, ad rates, membership



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Folklife Traditions Journal
pages from Folklife West magazine, plus archive,
and Folklife Directories:  • Folklife Societies    • ​Folklife Studies & Institutions   • Seasonal Local Celebrations

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