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1.5 Folklife Traditions Directory 2009

PUBLISHED: 20 August 2009, ISBN 978-1-905795-26-0; also available ONLINE below.

UPDATES ARE WELCOME, and will be published in our FOLKLIFE WEST JOURNAL

Increased from 24 to 36 pages! Your shortcut to this page: http://ftdir.folklife-west.org.uk

Our Journal page: http://journal.folklife-west.org.uk

1-line summaries of Members' listings are in Journal and online. View our online summary of Folklife West Members' entries :

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Free listings

for both Folklife West Members & non-Members.

FORMAT for your entries - just 1-2-3-4 !

  1. Category as below (in red; A... or Fs...)
  2. Name of organisation (or individual researcher)
  3. Description, up to 40 words
  4. Contact details: - whatever you wish of:
    • contact name, tel., mobile, fax, address, website

BILINGUAL ENTRIES WELCOME; see eg under A.12:, CONRADH NA GAEILGE

EMAIL POLICY: for organisations, due to risk of spam (in Directory online version), email not usually published online; we assume emails can be sent from your website. For individuals - Fs.1/2 - we can put your email in the print edition, but remove it from online version. We will put a note "Email: Editors will forward"

Online version: PDFs

Link to Adobe Reader (for reading PDFs) If you are on email, but not broadband, probably the PDF's are too big. Any problems: buy the Directoiry, it's only £3 by post, and we need the money!

OR download individual sections listed below

  • COVER, CONTENTS, INTRO [pages 1,3,5]
  • DOWNLOAD COVER, CONTENTS, INTRO: FTD-intro.pdf
     
  • A: FOLKLIFE ORGANISATIONS Associations, Societies, Trusts [pages 6-16]
    • not including organisation set up for 1 event, eg a folk music festival
    • A.1 Folk Music, Song & Dance organisations: national p6
    • A.2 Folk Music, Song & Dance organisations: regional & local p7
    • A.3 Folk Music organisations p11
    • A.4 Folk Song organisations p12
    • A.5 Folk Dance organisations p12
    • A.6 Folk Drama organisations p13
    • A.7 Folk Life generally - organisations p13
    • A.8 Folk Life, specific groups - organisations p13
    • A.9 Folklore organisations p14
    • A.10 Storytelling organisations p14
    • A.11 Oral History organisations p15
    • A.12 Language & Dialect organisations p15
    • Yahoo web discussion groups: are under appropriate [A] category
  • DOWNLOAD A: FOLKLIFE ORGANISATIONS: FTD-A.pdf
     
  • C: LOCAL SEASONAL CALENDAR CELEBRATIONS (Doc Rowe), listings & photos mainly from Doc Rowe, in Diary format [pages 1,2,4,17-23,35-36]
    • Listings from p17. Photos: colour, covers; black & white p1,2, 4, 5, 17, 18, 22, 23, 35.
    • Mainly Doc Rowe’s listings and photos, as ever; other contributions most welcome.
    • Other contributions most welcome. Format: contact editors.
  • DOWNLOAD C: LOCAL SEASONAL CALENDAR CELEBRATIONS: FTD-C.pdf
     
  • Fs: FOLKLIFE STUDIES, pages 24-34
    • Fs.1,2: see note above re email-publishing policy
    • Fs.1 Folklife Researchers p24
    • Fs.2 Folklife Lecturers / Speakers p26 [excludes Folk Performers (Education); for which see listings in Folk West Directory]
    • Fs.3 Folklife Archives (specialist folklife or general archives) p27
    • Fs.4 Folklife Museums (specialist folklife or general museums) p29
    • Fs.5 Folklife Libraries (specialist folklife or general librariues) p30
    • Fs.6 Folklife Studies: Academic Courses & Research p31
    • Fs.7 Folklife Studies: Booksellers & Publishers
      • Fs.7a Folklife Studies: Booksellers p32
      • Fs.7b Folklife Studies: Publishers (Books, Journals, & Recordings) p32 [for Folk Music Media generally, eg local folk magazines, see our Folk West Directory]
      • Fs.7c Folklife Studies: Internet Publishers p32 [Folk Music generally, eg listings (venues, performers, media, services), see our Folk West Directory; folk music festivals, see Folk West quarterly]
  • DOWNLOAD Fs: FOLKLIFE STUDIES: FTD-Fs.pdf
     
  • Ads for other Journals: "Folklore"; "Myth & Symbol" [inserts distributed with Directory]
  • DOWNLOADS: FolklorePC.pdf and MythandSymbol.pdf
  • Suggestions for appropriate categories welcome.
  • See also our Folk West Directory for folk music categories: Paid-for detailed listings available in our Folk West Directory for venues, performers, media, shops, festivals; and in Folk West quarterly for festivals; alternatively, such listings are free to Members. See www.folklife-west.org.uk

 

Print version

  • PUBLISHED: 20 August 2009, ISBN 978-1-905795-26-0
  • PRINTED: £2 (£3 by post to UK), free to Folklife West Members
    • Also available with Folklife West Journal annual subscription, see Journal webpage (link below)
  • Next print version 2011.
  • 2011 ad rates to be announced; as a guide, 2009 rates were on flyer… FTD_flyer1.pdf (962kb)
  • 2009: from 1/4 A5 black & white £7, up to colour A5, £60; also material to distribute with FTD
  • if not on broadband, we can email summary of ad rates in plain text

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PREVIOUS EDITION: DECEMBER 2005.

A5, 24 pages. Includes colour pages. Mainly England & Wales.

  • A few copies left, to clear £1 by post to UK.

 

1-LINE SUMMARIES of Members' listings are in Journal and online at http://traditions.folklife-west.org.uk

 

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  • Last updated: 1 Dec 2009. [ new server: all PDF links revised and checked √ ]

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