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For  ① "Category"       please choose one of these:
         ----- just give us just the category number, eg 'Pf.1a 

[ Pf.1 a-c = Folk Music & Song - general categories ] 
     Pf.1a   Music/Song - Bands/Groups 
     Pf.1b   Music/Song - Duos
     Pf.1c   Music/Song - Solo
​​[ Pf.1 d-f = Folk Music & Song - specific categories ] 
     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

(no need to copy questions)  for example just email  
​"Pf.1a  England  Worcs  THE FOLK SINGERS no website"
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Pf.1f    FOLK MUSIC & SONG --- SHANTY GROUPS, DUOS, & SOLO                        

• Pf.1a-1c = general: 1a. Bands/Groups,  1b.Duos,  1c. Solo   • Pf.1d--1f = specific: 1d/e, Choirs, Community Bands,  1f, Shanty groups, duos, solo
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​CYMRU • WALES   

Nid yw’r golygyddion yn siaradwyr Cymraeg rhugl, rydym yn croesawu gwirfoddolwyr i’n helpu i gyfieithu rhestriadau, penawdau ac ati.

​‡   Swansea BAGGYRINKLE  www.baggyrinkle.com/  Terri 07974408999
 ⇒ baggyrinkle<at>icloud.com
⊕  Baggyrinkle Swansea Shantymen, brought together by Dave Robinson (retired) and managed by the long suffering, but brilliant Terri Kennedy, in 1994. Our main repertoire being songs of the sea & shanties, but we also perform drinking, rural & mining songs. [2023 June, new listing]

ENGLAND, by region  

ENGLAND:   WEST COUNTRY (SOUTH-WEST)

🄵   Wilts    FRIGGITT      www.friggitt.co.uk        Chris Turpin  07766492415
⇒ christurpin2016<at>gmail.com
⊕ Friggitt perform songs and tunes from the nautical tradition and beyond.

​🄵 ​Bristol    The BRISTOL SHANTYMEN    (no website)    Maggie Starkey    01454 321943
⇒ 4 Pitchcombe, Yate, Bristol, South Glos, BS17 4JX     
⊕ The group perform shanties and forebitters. Available for festivals, folk clubs functions, etc.

🄵 ​Bristol    The HARRY BROWNS    www.harrybrowns.co.uk    Chris Fry     01458 274407
⊕ Salty fun and songs of the sea from this longstanding band of vagabonds: jaw dropping harmonies, superb instrumentation and always a bundle of laughs. 

​🄵 ​Glos        BLACKTHORN BUSKERS      (no website)    Bill Craswell     07740 248785
⇒    For more info please contact  Bill  –  liam<at>liamtho.com
⊕        A lively 4 Piece Trad/Modern Folk Band based in Gloucester    [2018 June, new member]

ENGLAND:   WEST MIDLANDS

entries welcome

ABOVE are the main areas covered by the Folklife West magazine - most entries are from Members in those areas 

BELOW other areas - more free entries welcome!  Please spread the word !   it's www.folklife-directory.uk, contact sam@folklife.uk 

ENGLAND:   EAST MIDLANDS,   & EAST

entries welcome

ENGLAND:   SOUTH-EAST,  & LONDON

​Ø London    THE HOGEYE MEN  .........................    https://www.facebook.com/HogEyeMen
⇒ ​hogeyemen<at>mail.com    [2022] ​​ ​

NORTH EAST ENGLAND

​entries welcome

NORTH WEST ENGLAND

🄵  Cumbria      ALL@SEA           www.facebook.com/iseenoships    Sandra & Steve 07813403808
⇒ Contact Sandra & Steve 07813403808 or 07502454001, email lakedistrictfolk<at>gmail.com
⊕  Sandra & Steve Harrison, Maggie & John Stockdale, and Jen Wilson. They love to sing shanties and songs of the sea in harmony but most of all they love to hear their audience singing back at them.   (Oct 2022, new Member)

 ‡ Lancashire  THE MIZZEN CREW  https://www.TheMizzenCrew.org John Metcalfe 07971817651
⇒ TheMizzenCrew<at>gmail.com;
⊕ Keeping traditions alive through entertainment and education. Hailing from Lancashire & South Cumbria our crew bring a variety of vocal styles and material to sing traditional shanties and songs of working life on the water. The Mizzen Crew are proud to support the Morecambe RNLI Lifeboat Station. (revised Mar 2023)

YORKSHIRE & THE HUMBER    

Ø  Yorks DAVID KIDMAN            www.davidkidman.co.uk         David Kidman      .....................   [2023 June, new listing]

​ALBA • SCOTLAND   

Entries welcome

​INTERNATIONAL   

Canada
ØØ  British Columbia RICK POLLAY   YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@rickpollay9851/playlists  Rick Pollay  604-970-8448
⇒ Richard.Pollaysauder<at>ubc.ca    [2023 June, new listing]
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USA
Stan Hugill said in 1987:   "... these people in the States - Gosh they sing their shanties marvellously well ... " 
    from interview 'A Song on the Rope: Stan Hugill on Shanties' which we published in Broadsheet (predecessor to Folklife) in 1987 (!)

ØØ California  RICHARD ADRIANOWICZ  www.walkashore.com   Richard Adrianowicz
⇒  Leading the shanty Mister Stormalong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb8LT0sBg1Y
⊕  The website www.walkashore.com includes very comprehensive notes about individual songs, and lyrics.
I recorded a solo shanty album in 2002, Time Ashore is Over. After that Peter Kasin and I formed a duet and we recorded four shanty albums together. [2022] 

ØØ California   RIGGY RACKIN    www.riggy.com   Riggy Rackin
⇒ riggy<at>riggy.com.   Album download by PayPal: see website www.riggy.com
⊕ Riggy's latest album is "Simple” - simple, well-chosen and relatively unfamiliar folksongs, with sparse concertina accompaniment. Contact Riggy for purchase, riggy<at>riggy.com [2022] 

ØØ  New Hampshire  CHRIS MADEN  http://crism.maden.org/  Chris Maden
⇒ also see http://music.maden.org/
​⊕  Chris Maden, text nerd & chanteyman.    “Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me...” — Emma Lazarus [2022] 

entries from other countries welcome