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FTJ: Folklife Traditions Journal, issue 72, 1st Jan 2024.  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 ✪

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​
Contact us, and Contributing to Folklife Traditions: this follows Membership & Updates details.
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.
     
For Folklife Membership payments  ('Folklife' is a non-profit group):

                        -- or -- a small donation    (our free-to-you websites cost us over £300 a year):
          ​BACS: Folklife, sort code 09-01-55, account 18675181.   For our overseas bank codes, please email sam@folklife.uk
          Sterling only, bank transfers only.      No payments via this site: ​no cards, PayPal, etc.
Subscribe to our free emailed Updates (monthly-ish):  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.  
Data policy: see Data webpage [Folklife website]
NEW permissions only ​(so if any changes, please email instead)

Permission to hold & use your personal information

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About Folklife publishers, and  Folklife West
​FW, Folklife West,  a 60/64page A4-size printed publication, has 2 sections:  (1) these FT pages  (2) news  

Folklife are print publishers, who also provide some material online.
     FW, Folklife West, a 52-60 page (A4) paid-for print magazine, with Folk news, and listings, from our Members (mostly Wales, England West Country, England South/West Midlands), and Folklife Traditions -- news & articles, and listings taken from this site.
      We also publish Folk What's On -  simply the ads from FW, sent free to concert venues, libraries, TICs, etc.
We also provide, free, online:  FW ; a Directory; and on this site, an archive of articles from the Folklife Traditions pages in FW.
Also, an online Welsh Traditions Directory, Bywyd Gwerin.
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FW  ( 1 )
the FTJ pages

The Folklife Traditions Journal pages have articles and folklife news; plus 1-line listing-summaries for Folklife Studies & Folklife Societies, and seasonal local celebrations for this quarter

The FT Archive
We have a fully indexed online archive for all issues on this fully-interactive FT site!  Full listings plus Jan-Dec seasonal local celebrations.
PDFs of each issue (A4 size) are on an e-magazine website for earlier issues, and this website for later ones.

'Folklife Traditions' listings, open to all   
➆
Folklife Societies  
➇ Folklife Studies & In
stitutions   
​➈ Seasonal Celebrations

THIS  WEBSITE

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FW   ( 2)
News pages
Listings online

on our main Folklife website
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FW's folk news from our Folklife members, which forms the first half of each issue.
➀ Clubs & Venues   ➁ Performers   ➂ Media  ➃ Services (incl. Shops)  ➄ Workshop-Organisers
 • News webpages:  Wales. Then England:  mostly West Country & Oxon, & West Midlands 
➅ Festival & Workshop Diary.                  all above A4-size print pages. Download or read online

Online, we have full listings on our DIRECTORY pages
Folk Listings         
​song, music, dance, story, poets
➀ Clubs & Venues   ➁ Performers   ➂ Media  ➃ Services (incl. Shops)  ➄ Workshop-Organisers
access from 
www.folklife-directory.uk 

www.folklife.uk

Directory: our Folklife Directory website
Of these 2 sections,  (1) open to all      (2) are from our Folklife members only.

Membership £18 a year, posting out FW 3 times a year, covers Members' news & this Journal..  Posted UK - OR - new - PDF via WeTransfer

✪ PUBLICATION DATES, deadlines for news, & Folklife Traditions articles​ ✪
✪  JAN, deadline news 20 November ✪        
✪  MAY, deadline news 20 March  ✪                 ✪  SEPT, deadline ​news 20 July  ✪ 

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' FT ' : Folklife Traditions pages in our Folklife West magazine include articles and news.     
The FT header artwork above:  © our logo, Chris Beaumont.    Morris dancers © Annie Jones; from The Roots Of Welsh Border Morris (Dave Jones)

CONTACT ............. to contact us ~ simply email sam@folklife.uk

PHONE  01684 561378

ADDRESS
16 Barrett Rise, Malvern,
​Worcs WR14 2UJ
Before emailing us, please note
  • ​FW is a print magazine - not a blog or email forwarding service!  We don't use social media (Facebook, twitter, etc).
  • We print:  researched articles (from all);  folk news (news & listings from Folklife Members only)
  • Member-performers news is very welcome as above, including forthcoming CDs, tours, etc.
  • ​So Non-Members are asked not to send editorial details about performers, festivals, etc, nor CDs for reviews.  
  • We do include some non-Member adverts if room.​
DO JOIN US:
Folklife membership for Folklife West, a 52-60 page (A4) print magazine, folk news (Wales, England West Country and South/West Midlands) & folklife traditions​.
To join: £18 a year.   Please send £18 by BACS  to:  Folklife, sort code 09-01-55,  account 18675181.  or send us £18 cheque to address above.  EU £27.  Sterling only. No cards.  Rest of world £18 for  PDF via WeTransfer
        Then please
email your name, postal address, & phone, confirming BACS payment has been made.
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IF JOINING FOLKLIFE
please fill in
(very simple)
DATA form above

         You will receive 1 copy of 3 issues per year,  and for each issue you can send in
           ------ your folk listings, as in this online FT DIRECTORY, and in our main Folklife Directory 
website.
           ------ your folk news. Word limits apply: 200 words, more if advertising, see below.
To receive our occasional emailed UPDATES, without joining Folklife:  please fill in (very short)  form above
Folklife (our main site) ... www.folklife.uk
FT: Folklife Traditions ….. homepage
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Contribute to Folklife Traditions

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​FOLKLIFE WEST  CORRESPONDENTS and OTHER VOLUNTEERS
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Please see the info page on the Folklife site, www.folklife.uk/info.html, for all those involved in FW.
And specifically for our Folklife Traditions Journal contributors in Folklife West, please see page 2 in THIS ISSUE online page
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​In memory of Roy Palmer, right, a generous contributor of researched articles for our Folklife Traditions pages, freely donated for over 30 years, from the days of FW’s predecessor, the Somers’ Broadsheet, Aug 1983, to 2014.
​And in memory of 
Gwilym Davies, another long-time contributor.

Contribute:
sending in articles from researchers, folklife societies & institutions, such as are listed in our Folklife Traditions Directory pages on this site

1.   Researched articles 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 often 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.  
  • Photo(s) welcome, can be sent in colour; may be also used in colour on cover if we have room (depends on adverts)
  • * A4 page - up to 1000 words welcome; example below is 792 words, as you see we have expanded to full A4 by using a photo.  But you don't have to provide a full page - entirely up to you. ••   FW's deadlines - see top of page​
 
​Please note.
  • All subject to space; please consult us first, as space varies, eg due to Folk Festival adverts in FW.       
  • See "This issue online" webpage on this site to view what the latest issue looks like.

Please note we don't cover occult, wicca, neo-paganism, etc

Our readers

The sort of people who might well be interested but just don't know about you.
Whilst we do have members who are e.g. members of TSF, EFDSS, etc, and know all about what you do ...
... many readers are not in any sort of organisation, and most also will not have academic library access.
This does not mean they are not interested !!

Accordingly, contributions do not have to be original - they could be cut and pasted from your existing web article(s).
If you look at the Index: ISSUES on this site, the Folklife Traditions pages within Folklife West magazine, - an index of all FT issues, which gives a flavour of what we do - links to all FT issues in e-mag format.  
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BELOW  ---   an example full-page article follows a note on using Word Footnotes & Endnotes

Books

Publicising your books.
We are unlikely to have time for reviews.
Instead, you are welcome to send in a synopsis, up to 200 words,
more if advertising: 1/16 250 words;  1/8 275;  1/4 300;  1/2 350;  A4 450 words.
Word limits are for the text, we do not include book title & details of price, publishers, ISBN
Word limits may be exceeeded if we think the material particularly relevant to our readers.
Book cover image (jpeg/.jpg) is also welcome.

Advertising -- full details below 'Word' details + sample full-page article

Using 'Word' Footnotes and Endnotes

For any notes: please use endnotes.
Please do not use footnotes. They don't work!
when transferred out of Word! ......... Text goes missing, numbers get lost!

You may be able to convert footnotes to endnotes
I can't do this - I have an old "Word for Mac 2011", but thanks to Lesley Adkins for this about Windows version :
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In a Word file
(unless you’ve converted to Windows 10),
on the taskbar, click on ‘Footnotes’

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Then click ‘Convert’, and it looks like this - choose "Convert all footnotes to endnotes"  


Example full-page article

Example article (this is 792 words + photo) --- the original page being A4 size.
If you have difficulty in reading this on screen, then you can download this page as a PDF:---
p45.pdf
File Size: 1432 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

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Advertising

Advertising rates, in FT pages, printed as part of FW, the Folklife Quarterly, and copied online.

Examples:
Two adverts. Actual printed-page size is 1/8 A4.
Left, Gibralter, colour, £30 prepaid.
Right, Welsh Border Morris, mono, £12 prepaid.

More details of ad rates & sizes, below
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The "Info page" from Folklife West below, also as a PDF, download ---|>
info_5_mar_2023.pdf
File Size: 572 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

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FW Advertising
Deadlines

☞    ●   1 Jan:     20 Nov 
☞    ●   1 May:    20 March 
☞    ●   1 Sept:   20  July
changes after deadline? see
http://www.folklife.uk/info.html
⇒   Do Join Us !

Your Membership Benefits
FW by post
and
Free Editorial / Publicity, in print + online
•  Festivals, Venues, Performers, Media, Services, Organisations, etc
• News & Reports, 
• Listings: in this Directory, with summary in FW

• Festival Diary,  Workshop Diary
No form needed
  • BACS: Folklife, sort code 09-01-55, account 1867518
  • Please email your name, address, phone  
  • if not on email, please PRINT when writing 
  • ​Details for our use when posting - not shared with anyone else
  • ​Email see above
⇒  Word limits / Editorial


➊ Members' News - Folklife West

up to 200 words, for each news item;

more if advertising --

1/8 275 words;  1/4 300 words;  1/2 350 words;  A4 450 words

your Reports, Dates, Festival Info, CD Info.
  • Reviews: only as sent in by our Members, so please don’t send CDs to editors
  • don’t count: heading [name/venue/start time], end contact details
  • Photos: B&W high-res (300 dpi) welcome 
    X not low-res eg copied from web ! 
  • Word limits are for 1 item, you can send in more than 1, eg 2 CDs count as 2 items.
  • Festival & Workshops Diaries:
    same word limits for “More Details” section.
  • In addition to Members' news, we have county correspondents, details at foot of this page.
  • Correspondents: usually 350 to 700 words [may vary, depends on local circulation/ads] 
     

​➋ Folklife Traditions - on this website
Articles & news ~ word limits by arrangement. 


Send News as plain email, or as RTF, or as Word.doc​

Using Word.docx  ?

Please see note, above this section, about Using 'Word'  Footnotes and Endnotes

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    • Directory: Societies
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    • Seasonal
  • [Cymru]
  • Our other websites
    • 🄵🄳 Online Folk Directory site
    • 🄵🅆 Folklife West folk news site
    • Updates, on 🄵🅆 site
    • 🄱🄶 Bywyd Gwerin Wales traditions site