MEDIA:   YOUR DIRECTORY-LISTING LAYOUT          We can help -   email your details & we'll draft new entries for you to approve or change.
                     It's up to you as to what you wish to include or leave out, after  "  Country or area  NAME  website" ​
                                     Country or area    NAME     website [links will be in blue]    Contact name    Contact phone
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MEDIA CATEGORIES:    
M.1  Online Folk Magazines & Listings, M.2  Printed Folk Magazines & Listings,  M.3  Folk Radio, M.4  Publishers (Music & Print)

​​​FREE LISTINGS for all in our online DIRECTORY,   by joining our emailed Newsletter list, 
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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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MEDIA   M.1    ONLINE FOLK MAGAZINES & LISTINGS

Generally national, covering all of Wales, unless otherwise stated eg UK-wide.  

National    ..................          ALAWON CYMRU, monthly sets of Welsh tunes & archive going back to 2012  www.alawoncymru.com    Meurig Williams 02920 628300 (added March 2019)

National    ..................         BYWYD GWERIN, our bilingual Welsh-language folklife traditions site     www.bywyd-gwerin.cymru    Sam Simmons    01684 561378
            ⊕    Open listings plus notes and articles (some from FW).  Oct 2106: Transferred to a new 'responsive' website, that is, more readable on smaller screens, plus weblinks - so listings rather like this site. [Updated Oct 2016].

North Wales, & Merseyside/Cheshire    CALENDAR: OPEN MIKE, FOLK & ACOUSTIC EVENTS    http://ruthinallstyles.co.uk, then click ‘Other local clubs’
⇒   Chris Birchall, 01824 704844, chris<at>chrisbirchall.co.uk
            ⊕    Other categories also eg theatres. You can add your event, and request a review. 

South Wales                 CASBAR, website folk related listings & contacts in South Wales    www.casbar.co.uk     Cas Smith
⇒   cas<at>casbar.co.uk
            ⊕     Updated regularly and the list is emailed out to people who have requested to join the list, cas<at>casbar.co.uk

National    ..................       FOLKWALES online magazine       www.folk.wales/magazine    Mick Tems, Editor    01443 201634
⇒ 7, Crawford Close, Y Beddau, Pontypridd CF38 2SD, Cymru / Wales        micktems<at>folkwales.org.uk
​              ⊕  Internet magazine (not for profit).  News, views, reviews, features, articles and comment, focussing on Wales and the World.  Includes the Listings, the all-Wales diary of folk events. 

National    ..................       SESIWN.COM, classes, sessions and tune clubs across Wales   www.sesiwn.com    Meurig Williams     02920 628300  [Nov 2018, new member]
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National    ..................       trac Music Traditions Wales/Traddodiadau Cerdd Cymru       https://trac.cymru     Blanche Rowen     01446 748 556
⇒   trac<at>trac-cymru.org
       ⊕  Wales’ Folk Development organisation; its rôle to promote and develop the music and dance traditions of Wales - both within Wales and beyond. trac provides an information service, and the website lists performers, events and contacts.  [2017 Jan, updated with these new contact details]

… and this website includes
FOLKLIFE MEMBERS' ONLINE DIRECTORY, including these listings, from Folklife: www.folklife.uk     Sam Simmons    01684 561378
Folklife produce  FOLKLIFE WEST print magazine (details: ⇒  M.2 below) available online: 
     FW news pages & listings are on www.folklife.uk  and Folklife Traditions www.folklife-traditions.uk 

UK & Ireland            LIVING TRADITION    www.livingtradition.co.uk    Office        01563 571220
    ⇒    The Living Tradition, PO Box 1026, Kilmarnock KA2 0LG.  admin<at>livingtradition.co.uk,  www.facebook.com/thelivingtraditionmagazine
    ⊕     The Living Tradition magazine’s website, featuring articles from the trad/folk magazine, festival, club and concert listings, news, reviews and regional links.  There is also an online shop where you can buy many folk and traditional CDs   [Feb 2018, new member]

MEDIA   M.2    PRINTED FOLK MAGAZINES & LISTINGS   
​for JOURNALS see FOLKLIFE STUDIES on our Folklife Traditions site

​UK & Ireland     LIVING TRADITION    www.livingtradition.co.uk    Office   01563 571220
    ⇒    The Living Tradition, PO Box 1026, Kilmarnock KA2 0LG.  admin<at>livingtradition.co.uk,   www.facebook.com/thelivingtraditionmagazine
    ⊕        A full colour, glossy, folk and traditional music magazine highlighting the rich heritage of traditional music in the UK, Ireland and beyond.  TLT has a worldwide circulation, and is an independent and authoritative voice in the folk world.  Subscriptions available.   [Feb 2018, new member]

And we are  . . . 
Wales, England West Country & West Midlands   FW, FOLKLIFE WEST print magazine   www.folklife.uk Sam Simmons  01684 561378
Cymru/Wales news pages are on   🄵🅆 Cymru / Wales
⊕   Each issue has Members' news pages (also copied online www.folklife.uk)  Members' listings inc Festival & Workshop Diaries (from this Directory!); and Folklife Traditions pages, articles & news  ​www.folklife-traditions.uk

M.3    FOLK RADIO  

​National    ..................    CELTIC HEARTBEAT (BBC Radio Wales)    www.bbc.co.uk/radiowales    Frank Hennessy 
⇒   Email: frank.hennessy<at>bbc.co.uk   Post: Celtic Heartbeat, BBC Radio Wales, Cardiff CF5 2YQ
⊕   Sunday, 7pm. The best in traditional and contemporary folk groups and acoustic music, plus Frank Hennessy’s weekly Celtic gig guide.   [New member, added September 2017]


M.4    PUBLISHERS (MUSIC & PRINT)     see also FOLKLIFE STUDIES on our Folklife Traditions site      -----------