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Folklife Traditions
Journal

FTJ pages in Folklife West magazine;  and also on this site
The Folklife Traditions Directory

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FTJ: Folklife Traditions Journal, issue 72, 1st Jan 2023.  FTJ is part of Folklife West magazine.
​✪ PUBLICATION DATES & DEADLINES  ✪     ✪ JANUARY deadlines:         articles 1 November,  shorter news items 20 November ✪
                                                                       ✪ MAY  deadlines:                articles 1 March,         shorter news items 20 March ✪      

                                                                                ✪ SEPTEMBER  deadlines:   articles 1 July,            shorter news items 20 July ✪

DIRECTORY entry forms (free) for Directory: Societies, Directory: Folklife Studies, & Directory: Seasonal are on the relevant webpages.


UPDATES to FTJ are included in Folklife West updates, on our main website,   button link follows:
LINK to UPDATES on our Folklife West site:       www.folklife.uk/updates.html​
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FTJ --- Folklife Traditions Journal  homepage.
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"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 - anythin
g 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 fromThe Roots Of Welsh Border Morris (Dave Jones).
From this issue, Jan. 2023, ​we will also sell FTJ separately.

​Folklife continues to offer a free download copy of print original for each issue!

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         • 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). 
On this site  ---- webpages          
  • ​FTJ home  (this webpage)
  • THIS ISSUE online  (copy of print page & download as PDF)
  • Contact & Contribute​
  • Index: ARTICLES     Lists of articles, by author. 
§ links to each issue's free PDFs downloads & list of contents:
  • ISSUES-1 (Index to No. 1-50)  § 
  • ISSUES-2 (Index to No. 51+)  §  
    • Also has subpages with individual issues as images as well as PDFs from FT-65 onwards  
  • Directory: Societies
  • Directory: Folklife Studies
  •                Seasonal​​
Our other websites --- links
  • [FW: Folklife West" folk news]
  • [Updates] (on "FW" site) are welcome, eg societies' news, call for papers, books announced, any other relevant news
  • [Online Folk Directory]   "Folk" categories eg performers, clubs, festivals.  Excludes folklife categories on this site.
  • [Bywyd Gwerin Wales traditions] --- this site is not being updated at present.
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We have changed website references from "Folklife Traditions" to "Folklife Traditions Journal", except for some archive references.
Subscribe to our free emailed Updates (6 to 12 / year):  blue box below -OR-  email sam@folklife.uk with same details.  We don't share your details.

This is useful for you, with Updates for News, Directory, & Folklife Traditions (& deadline reminders).
    And it helps us - we'll spend less time on admin/emails = more time to add to magazine & website.  
    And we'll know how many people read this, which areas/countries which show more signups, and make best use of our limited time and resources.
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Keep in touch with 
                 FOLKLIFE's free emailed occasional UPDATES
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Updates: News, Directory, Folklife Traditions (& Deadline Reminders).
 
A form to sign up to Folklife Updates and/or for new Folklife members
OR if you prefer, simply email same details to sam@folklife.uk

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We don't pass on details.  
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More about FTJ pages, in FW
Note from Editor - I've combined various items onto this page, so below has a lot of info, some repetitive, to be edited down ...

Folklife Membership  for Folklife West magazine, folk news & Folklife Traditions Journal, post, or pdf via WeTransfer.
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   ∆  Do join us, you can publicise yourself in Folklife West & online:  news items, added to Directory, mentioned in Updates
​   ∆  3 FW issues £18 for UK post or for overseas PDF via WeTransfer; or EU £27 posted

   ∆  2021 back issue of FW, including Folklife Traditions Journal (FTJ)
       2021 Oct, 2022 Jan, May; each £6 posted

       Exceptionally, back issues whose contents were solely or mainly FTJ without folk news (clubs, performers, etc) pages 
       --- £4 for FW Jan 2021 it combines 3 issues of FTJ !  (May 2020, Sept 2020, Jan 2021), no other content,
       
--- £4 for FW May 2021, contents FTJ and folk festivals & workshops, no general folk news content.
     
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FW, the Folklife West magazine, has 2 sections
  1. FT -- Folklife Traditions Journal pages, this website; summary below
  2. Folk News from our Members, Clubs & Venues, Performers, Services, Festival & Workshop Diary - copied to www.folklife.uk
Folklife Traditions Directory on this site.   Folk Directory (club / performer etc listings) online on www.folklife-directory.uk
FW includes these FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS pages,
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and 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:  
  • Archive of all FT articles, plus index for all issues.
  • Links to individual FT issues from this site.
  • Earlier online FT facsimiles (A4) were on our FT e-magazine website, https://issuu.com/traditions-uk  but not latest issues.
  • Folklife Traditions Directory: Societies, Folklife Studies. Seasonal
  • See also (on this site) about your contributions to FT

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 7: Folklife Societies
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 8: Folklife Studies & Institutions
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-month period, with photos and notes.
List 9: Seasonal Local Celebrations
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, Lists 1-6, from Folklife Members only, are on that website, a summary of what's covered appears on the " [ Folklife's Directory ]' page on this site.

More about Folklife

Our main website, www.folklife.uk, covers folk news etc in FW.
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
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Contact us; Contribute to us
Folklife West magazine
 For details, see  Folklife Updates, on   [link] "Updates" webpage  on our Folklife site www.folklife.uk
www.folklife.uk our main Folklife website, with our Folk News & Folk Directory pages   •   Our email sam@folklife.uk
​Folklife West magazine includes FTJ; the "Folklife West" site covers news from Folklife members' folk clubs, performers, festivals, workshops, media, services, as well as appropriate detailed Directory listings.     FTJ updates are on the Updates webpage on that site.
   "Bywyd Gwerin" is a website for Welsh Traditions.  A work in progress as we change this from a more general folk site.   Nid yw’r golygyddion yn siaradwyr Cymraeg rhugl, rydym yn croesawu gwirfoddolwyr i’n helpu i gyfieithu rhestriadau, penawdau ac ati.
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FTJ ~ Folklife Traditions Journal
including the detailed online Folklife Traditions Directory

An online archive of the articles and other material in the ​Folklife Traditions Journal pages in the Folklife West print magazine

www.folklife-traditions.uk

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.

FOLKLIFE membership, to include posting 3 issues per year of Folklife West, including the FT pages, £18


    For more details, please contact sam@folklife.uk         
Eleanor & Sam Simmons, 16/5/2021
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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

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  • ISSUES-1
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    • FT 65
    • FT 66
    • FTJ 67
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    • FTJ 69
    • FTJ 70
    • FTJ 71
  • Directory: Societies
  • Directory: Folklife Studies
  • Seasonal
  • 🄵🅆 Folklife West folk news site
  • Updates, on 🄵🅆 site
  • 🄵🄳 Online Folk Directory site
  • 🄱🄶 Bywyd Gwerin Wales traditions site