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

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ENTRIES WELCOME   - so far, entries are from England West Country & England West Midlands

Pf.3a    Folk Shows & Theatre, Mummers

ENGLAND WEST COUNTRY (SOUTH-WEST)

🄵 ​ Wilts      THE POTTERNE MUMMERS    www.potternemummers.co.uk     Bob Berry    07714 550990
⇒  info<at>potternemummers.co.uk
    ⊕   Guardians of the traditional Potterne Mummers Play, touring the pubs round Devizes in the week before Christmas, to present our version of the traditional folk play, and collect a few quid for local charities and the Wiltshire Air Ambulance.

ENGLAND WEST MIDLANDS

​🄵 ​ Coventry    COVENTRY MUMMERS    www.coventrymummers.org.uk    John Havell    02476 672297
⇒ 35 Belvedere Road, Earlsdon, Coventry,  CV5 6PG.   john<at>havell45.plus.com

🄵 ​ Worcs   FOLD THEATRE Folk Plays           www.ericpaynefolksongs.co.uk/Folkplay.html     Eric & Eileen Payne      01886 880061
⇒   Eric & Eileen Payne,  eric_payne<at>btinternet.com
⊕    11 talented local actors, singers and musicians, based at ‘The Fold” at Bransford, near Worcester. The plays are written by Eric and Eileen Payne and involve narration, songs, music, sketches and poetry.  [2018 Dec, new entry]   
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Pf.3b    Poets & Monologuists    

ENGLAND WEST COUNTRY (SOUTH-WEST)

​🄵 ​ Bristol     TREVOR CARTER, The Bard of Windmill Hill      www.windmillbard.co.uk       Trevor Carter     0117 9665514
⇒    Trevor Carter, windmillbard<at>aol.co.uk,  0117 9665514 / 07957 147464
⊕     The Bard of Windmill Hill: award-winning poet, storyteller and satirist.   "Brilliant, captivating, cheering" - Chippenham Folk Festival.  [2019 Mar, amended]
   
🄵 ​ Cornwall   ROB BARRATT           comic poet     www.robbarratt.co.uk     Rob Barratt     01566 880336
⇒ 37, Penpont View, Five Lanes, Launceston, Cornwall, PL15 7RY.      mobile 07795 461023    rbarratt<at>cooptel.net
    ⊕ No one reads poetry any more, They all give it a miss, No, nobody reads poetry, So … why are you reading this?  Something completely different for your festival or club!  Bodmin-based poet and singer - funny and satirical material.  

🄵 ​ Glos    ANDY  SCARF     www.scarfproductions.co.uk  Andy Scarf   01594 544456
⇒    andyscarf<at>yahoo.co.uk, 01594 544456, Facebook: Andy Scarf Productions
⊕    Let’s have an evening with great stories from the last hundred years!  Monologues came into their own when Victorian music hall began to become respectable, around the end of the nineteenth century.      [2018 Nov, new member]  

Pf.3b    Storytellers

ENGLAND WEST MIDLANDS  
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🄵 ​ B’ham    CHRIS LOWE  www.chrislowestories.com  Chris Lowe    0121 308 2298
⇒ chrislowe30<at>hotmail.co.uk
    ⊕   Stories that amuse, stories that intrigue, stories that transport.  All from the West Midlands’ champion teller.     [New website, Jul 2018]
🄵 ​ B’ham    GRAHAM LANGLEY    www.storytelling.uk.net    Graham Langley    07946 718286
⇒ 19 Springfield Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham B14 7DU.   graham@storytelling.uk.net
    ⊕   “A twenty first century teller of tales .... he casts a verbal spell over his wide-eyed audience” - The Times. 
🄵 ​ B’ham     LOWE AND PLANT  www.chrislowestories.com Chris Lowe    0121 308 2298
⇒ chrislowe30<at>hotmail.co.uk
   ⊕  Two of the most powerful and entertaining tellers of tales. Black Country yarnsman, Ron Plant brings English as a second language enhancement. You must hear Ron’s telling of Eli’s Cap, Whose The Saftist and Big Sal.        [Added Dec 2022]