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    • ​a new webpage, not yet set up:  "Cymru" for Welsh traditions​
    • it will start with material from our former (incomplete) website,  www.bywyd-gwerin.cymru
    • ​meanwhile, here's a link to a temporary site with the same material,  http://bywyd-gwerin.weebly.com/​
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FTJ: Folklife Traditions Journal, issue 72, 1st Jan 2023.  Part of Folklife West magazine, & also sold separately.
​✪ PUBLICATION DATES & DEADLINES  ✪   ✪ JANUARY deadlines:         articles 1 Nov,  shorter news items 20 Nov ✪
                                                                     ✪ MAY  deadlines:                articles 1 Mar,   shorter news items 20 Mar ✪      
                                                                              ✪ SEPTEMBER  deadlines:   articles 1 Jul,     shorter news items 20 Jul ✪
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"Folklife Traditions"  was noted in the Traditional Song Forum's Newsletter, 16/3/2021:  for more on TSF, see https://tradsong.org
     "As its name suggests Folklife West magazine is mainly focused on the South-Western Quarter of the country, but it contains regular articles about traditional song in the section called Folklife Traditions which is not geographically restricted. There are some real gems here. Roy Palmer used to be a regular contributor and several TSF members, present and past, have submitted articles for publication. You can find the archive of past issues at https://www.folklife-traditions.uk/ - select issues from the indexes.  And if you would like to submit articles to Folklife Traditions they would be very welcome.  Contact Sam Simmons at sam@folklife.uk"

​Volunteers wanted.  Currently, this is all compiled by (and subsidised by) Sam.
I'd welcome admin help to develop it - anything from helping to index (see Index: ARTICLES webpage) to co-editing.   
Volunteers are offered a year's free Folklife membership.   Please contact sam@folklife.uk

Page header:  Calennig background photo © JKSimmons (Sam), see foot of page; our new  logo,©, thanks to John Crane who has kindly modified this from his original drawing for our Book End Folk Books logo more than 40 years ago! July 2022.          FW header:  Minehead Hobby Horse photo © JKSimmons (Sam)
FTJ header:  Minehead Hobby Horse logo © Chris Beaumont.   Morris dancers © Annie Jones from The Roots Of Welsh Border Morris (by the late Dave Jones).
FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS JOURNAL
we have a large online ARCHIVE
● Articles
● Song, tune, & notes
● Talks & Conferences
● Folklife listings
● Publications announced
● Folklife Institutions: intro., notes, articles, news
● Seasonal Celebrations: list with photos by Doc Rowe, and other contributions
On this website:  

And we have a detailed online Folklife Traditions Directory on this site:

the 'Folklife Traditions' listings, Lists 7 to 9, (open to all, you do not have to be a Folklife Member for these FT entries)
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  This covers the full year, online.
Also, in FW, every issue, we print the current 4-month period, with photos and notes.
Additional information for Wales on www.bywyd-gwerin.cymru,
​our Wales traditions site,
​including articles on Seasonal Celebrations
We also have a detailed online Members' Folk Directory, on folklife.uk/directory.html, folk venues, performers, etc etc
FTJ  annual cost (BACS) for 3 print issues posted will be £9 UK, £16 EU, £20 rest of world.
     For Folklife Membership / Subscription payments    -- or -- a small donation
     Folklife' is a non-profit group. Our free-to-you websites with free downloads cost us over £300 a year!
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         • The same adverts will appear in Folklife West and in FTJ, costs as below.
         • We’ll include adverts from Folklife West. Those in FTJ pages as before; others after FTJ articles.
This is new, we have not yet updated all the site to select this - eg £18 a year UK subs refers to Folklife West (FTJ + folk club news). 

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More about Folklife West

Our main website, www.folklife.uk, covers folk news etc in FW.
​        -- Folklife members' folk clubs, performers, festivals, workshops, media, services
Folklife, publishers of Folklife West -- printed, and this copied online
​52-64 A4 printed pages, always containing Folklife Traditions Journal News & Articles; and,
from our Members, • Folk News • Festivals & Workshop Diary
Funded solely by membership, advertising, and the editors.
Your Members' folk news & listings, published 3 times a year - do join us, Membership is only £18 a year !
Contact &​ Contribute webpage  for more details
​of Folklife Membership and advertising details
Our email sam@folklife.uk
Bywyd Gwerin" is a website for Welsh Traditions.  A work in progress as we change it from a more general Welsh folk site.   Nid yw’r golygyddion yn siaradwyr Cymraeg rhugl, rydym yn croesawu gwirfoddolwyr i’n helpu i gyfieithu rhestriadau, penawdau ac ati.

From Folklife, publishers of FW: the Folklife West magazine

'Folklife' is a non-profit group of volunteers.
    Our aim is to provide information on all aspects of folklife; and to stimulate a wider interest in folk studies & folk culture generally, updating where appropriate, and as resources allow, in different media.
    We seek to raise awareness about, and to promote, folklife studies and relevant Societies, Institutions, Publishers, and Researchers. 
    We have a particular interest in making those who are not members of folklife organisations aware of what’s available.
     
We produce 'FW - Folklife West' magazine, three times a year, mainly covering Wales and England South West & West Midlands, in print & copied online, www.folklife.uk
     
FW includes Folklife Traditions Journal pages, not geographically restricted, with researched articles including specific songs, tunes, and dances; plus News; Diary; Publications.

www.folklife-traditions.uk has a comprehensive archive of all issues, as PDFs to download. 
There is also an author and subject index, 
plus a Folklife Directory: Folklife Societies;  Folklife Studies & Institutions; Seasonal Local Celebrations. 

Contributions welcome; for more details, please see www.folklife-traditions.uk/contact-contribute.html
1.   Researched articles eg about a collected song or tune, word limits: no minimum - we get articles which are anything from just a song and a few lines or up to 500 words;  other articles are typically 1000 to 1500, our maximum is 2500 words. 
​2.  To introduce society, institution, etc, up to 1000 words.  Thereafter, short news items/dates from society, institutions welcome; longer items, please consult editor.


    For more details, see above, or please contact sam@folklife.uk         Eleanor & Sam Simmons, 11/02/2023
Exploring Folklore Weekend 2017, at Halsway Manor, Somerset
  • Making Calennig - diolch Pat!
  • The Black Dog, from Devon, brought by Mark Norman
  • Mari Lwyd, from Llantrisant, brought by Pat Smith & Ned Clamp​
​Photos © Sam Simmons