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Note special later Deadline 1 April - this is because our next print issue will be FT pages & Festivals, but 'folk news' pages will be online only.
Folklife Membership: for Folklife West magazine, post or pdf.
3 issues incl. January issue, a special price of £16 for 3 issues.   Or  3 issues starting May £18.

That's because it's normally £18 but we are giving existing members a £2 refund as January is smaller than our usual FW.
Normally, annual fee for new members £18, UK post or overseas PDF via WeTransfer; or EU £27 posted.  
Or NEW from Jan 2021: FT only subscription, 3 issues, £10, to include Jan 2021 (3 issues included - May & Sept 2002, Jan 2021)

BACS: Folklife, sort code 09-01-55, account 18675181.   For our overseas bank codes, please email sam@folklife.uk
Sterling only, bank transfers only.  Site security: no payments via this site, ​so no cards, no cheques, no payment via this site.

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​Form below: we have an emailed newsletter (monthly-ish).  We ask for just your name & email, & country/region. We don't share that information.  
This is useful for you, with Updates for News, Directory, Folklife Traditions (& deadline reminders).
It's useful for us, for planning, to see interest, generally, and from where (for example, if many USA sign-ups, may continue online US news after lockdown). ​​​
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Keep in touch with FOLKLIFE's
free emailed occasional 
NEWSLETTER
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Updates: News, Directory, Folklife Traditions (& Deadline Reminders).
 
 

A form to sign up to Folklife Newsletter and/or for new Folklife members.
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Data policy: see Data webpage [Folklife website]
NEW permissions only ​(so if any changes, please email instead)

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About Folklife publishers, and  Folklife West
​FW, Folklife West,  a 60/64page A4-size printed publication, has 3 sections:  (1) these FT pages  (2) news  (3) listings 

Folklife are print publishers, who also provide some material online.
     FW, Folklife West, a 60-64 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 FT pages

The Folklife Traditions 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

on our main Folklife website
FW's folk news from our Folklife members, which forms the first half of each issue.
➀ Clubs & Venues   ➁ Performers 
➂ Services (incl. Shops, media) 

• News webpages:  Wales. Then England: mostly South/West Midlands & West Country.

A4-size print pages. Download or read online

www.folklife.uk

Of these 3 sections, 
(1) open to all
(2) and
(3) are from our Folklife members only.

Membership £16 a year, besides posting out FW 3 times a year, covers Members' news and online Directory listings.  
Posted UK - OR - new - PDF via WeTransfer
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FW ( 3 )
Listings

on our Directory website
Folk Listings (from Folklife Members only)
➀ Clubs & Venues   ➁ Performers 
➂ Services (incl. Shops, media) 
➃ Festival Diary 
➄ Workshop Listings 
​➅ Workshop Diary

song, music, dance, story, poets

In FW, we print 1-line listing-summaries, plus a next-12-months festival diary, a workshops diary.

Online, we have full listings on our DIRECTORY website

www.folklife-directory.uk

✪ PUBLICATION DATES, deadlines for news, & Folklife Traditions articles​ ✪
✪  JAN, deadline news 19 November; FT articles 1 November  ✪        
✪  MAY, deadline news 19 March; FT articles 1 March  ✪      ✪  SEPT, deadline ​news 19 July; FT articles 1 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
  • Due to spam ... we don't use forms (other than data protection form, as below)
  • ​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 60-64 page (A4) print magazine, folk news (Wales, England West Country and South/West Midlands) & folklife traditions​.
To join: £16 a year.   Please send us £16 by BACS  to:  Folklife, sort code 09-01-55,  account 18675181.  or send us a £16 cheque to address above.   EU £24.  USA £32. Sterling only. No cards.
        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 FOLKLIFE NEWSLETTER, 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 Team page on the Folklife site, www.folklife.uk/team.html, for all those involved in FW.
And specifically for our Folklife Traditions pages in Folklife Quarterly,
we are regularly indebted to Doc Rowe for his list & pictures, to Roy & Leslie Adkins for articles, and to Ian Pittaway for occasional articles;
and to Charles Menteith and to Gwilym Davies for songs with notes; and to others from time to time, as listed in FT.
Recently, we have been joined by Meurig Williams (Welsh traditional music) and Helen Adams (Welsh tunes).

​In memory of Roy Palmer, left, a generous contributor of researched articles for our Folklife Traditions pages, freely donated for for over 30 years, from the days of FW’s predecessor, the Somers’ Broadsheet, Aug 1983, to 2014.

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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FW Advertising
Deadlines

☞    ●   1 Jan:     19 Nov 
☞    ●   1 May:    19 March 
☞    ●   1 Sept:   19  July
changes after deadline? see
http://www.folklife.uk/info.html

"info"  - the download

DOWNLOAD our "INFO PAGE" :  this "info.pdf" (size: one A4 page), on right,  a copy of FW page 3, and gives the same details as below:
FW deadlines; Membership & word limits; Your adverts in FW
info_jan_2021.pdf
File Size: 574 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

⇒   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
Posted :  1 year to 1 address £16
  • 3 issues per year
  • x1= £18,        x2= £22.50,     x3= £27
  • x4= £31.50,  x5= £36
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6 or more, 25% off + post-free!
√    Reselling: post free 6 or more, by Clubs, Pubs, Venues, Festivals, Performers, Shops, & you -
 √    Buy @ £2.25, sell @ £3 ... minimum 6 copies
 √    6 or more copies can be bought on a pro-rata per-issue basis (includes membership) so you can easily change quantities
X    Sold as ordered - No returns
  • x6   = £40.50 per year  
  • x7   = £47.25 per year   
  • x8   = £54 per year;    
  • x9   = £60.75 per year;                               
  • x10 = £67.50 per year;    
  • x11 = £74.25 per year;    
  • x12 = £81 per year​
⇒  Word limits / Editorial


➊ Members' News

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
⇒  Your  Adverts  in  FW
  • stand out   ………………… as advertising limited to just 1/4 of FW!
  • ​value for money!   … as your adverts will be shown for 4 months!
  • and copied online:  …  on www.folklife.uk, or in Folklife-Directory for Festivals & Workshops 
  • and copied to our ads-only Folk What’s On, distributed free to TICs, libraries, & large general venues that include folk programming
Ads:  Costs  (no VAT charged):

‘Prepaid’  --  £4 less than invoiced.
  • Prepaid = you pay by deadline, so we don’t have to invoice (we'll email a receipt)
‘Prepaid’  -- 10% discount for 2 prepaid
‘Prepaid’  -- Prepaid year over 15% less than 3 prepaid separately.


Colour
will be a bit cheaper, starting October issue


  • A4 invoiced £184.  Prepaid £180.  Year [x3, £540, -15+%]  £450 
  • Full bleed (edge-to-edge)  £200 colour (see Sizes, below)
  • 1/2 invoiced £104. Prepaid £100.  Year [x3, £300, -15+%]  £250 
  • 1/4 [A6]  invoiced £64. Prepaid £60.  Year[x3, £180 -15+%]  £150  
  • 1/8 [1/2 A6]  invoiced £34. Prepaid £30. Year [x3, £90 -15+%] £75
          
Mono  
  • A4   invoiced £73.  Prepaid £69. Year [x3, £207 -15+%]  £175
  • 1/2  invoiced £42.  Prepaid £38.  Year [x3, £114 -15+%] £96
  • 1/4 [A6]  invoiced £25.  Prepaid £21.   Year [x3, £63 -15+%] £53
  • 1/8 [1/2 A6]  invoiced £16. Prepaid £12. Year [x3, £36 -15+%] £30

Book space by emailing your Purchase Order Nº.
Invoiced terms = 30 Days from invoice date. 
Invoices (and receipts) are emailed.​
  • Further ads will not be accepted if money owing from last time ! 
  • You can book A4 colour position: prepaid, on 1st come, 1st served, basis
  • Mono ads placed as near as possible to your news, or Diary entry,
  • Page preference-order to biggest (1st A4; 2nd 1/2; and so on)
Ads :  Sizes (A4)
'A4' - if you're not sure about page sizes - see [link:] our Guide to Page Sizes on our Folklife website - A4, A5, etc, with examples, note those are A4-size pages, so not suitable for mobiles.  You can download Pages Sizes examples PDF from that page.
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Colour only
  • Edge-to-edge  … max w 210, max h 297, +3 mm bleed
Colour or mono
  • A4 …. max w 188, max h 275
  • 1/2 across  max w 188, max h 132
  • 1/2 column  max w 92, max h 268
  • 1/4 [A6]  ...  max w 92, max h 132 
  • 1/8 …… max w 92, max h 64   
  • Other: any combination of 1/18 boxes (4mm between boxes).
Sizes include optional border
Ads :  Ads must be emailed (image or text)
  • email image:   camera-ready ~ attach your tiff, jpeg, PDF - we can stretch to fit
  • or   email text:  just email us the words; you can also attach 1 logo to be included; we will typeset, free, in our choice of typeface (as we regularly do for smaller clubs)
  • complex adverts may appear differently, so please ask a professional designer to design & send them​
√    We use: Mac OS 10.7.5,  Adobe InDesign CS 6.
√    Colour ads: you are advised to send us a printout so we can check colours.
√    If B&W: pl convert colour to greyscale, & check that before sending.
√    Tiff  √ Jpeg,     
√    PDF as High-definition 300dpi, text 600 dpi, fonts embedded; if B&W ad, send only as greyscale.
?    Word  “.doc” is not an image, so can't be used directly 
  • You can "Save" Word as a PDF - design with a good margin or top or bottom may go missing!
  • GO TO⇒  "Print" 
  • THEN GO TO⇒  "Save As PDF" 
  • check before sending - we can't alter PDFs

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