Folklife Traditions Directory 2009

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FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS DIRECTORY 2009 …LISTINGS

DOC ROWE'S LOCAL SEASONAL CELEBRATIONS, listings & photos; and about 160 Folklife Organisations, Researchers & Speakers, such as: Doc Rowe • Chris Coe • David Herron • Eddie Cass • Gwilym Davies • Martin Graebe • Steve Gardham • Steve Roud • John Adams & Chris Partington • Sid Calderbank • Tom Brown • English Folk Song & Dance Society • Canadian Society For Traditional Music • Nonsuch Dulcimer Club • Folkworks • Traditional Arts Team • Conradh Na Gaeilge • The Morris Ring • Traditional Song Forum • Pearly Society • Society for Storytelling • Charles Parker Archive • Northumbrian Language Society • Pedlars Pack yahoo group • The Roud Folksong Index • Cambridge & County Folk Museum • Vaughan Williams Memorial Library

Printed & online; updates in Journals. … all in all, a most eclectic collection of listings!

Our other Directory, FOLKLIFE WEST's FOLK DIRECTORY 2012

published Oct 2011, deadline 3 Sept 2011,

is on http://folkdirectory.folklife-west.org.uk

Folklife Traditions Directory PUBLISHED 20 August 2009;

printed (36 A5 pages), and also also available ONLINE below.

NEXT 2012 October.

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

The Directory has both Member & non-Member entries. The following applies to Member entries only.

Our JOURNAL page: http://journal.folklife-west.org.uk 1-line summaries of Members' listings are in JOURNAL and online.

• Journal Listings, updated quarterly, copied online:
  • MEMBERS' FOLKLIFE ORGANISATIONS, and FOLKLIFE STUDIES - http://traditions.folklife-west.org.uk
    • note the above are 1-line summaries, and just our Members - not all the entries in the Directory.
  • LISTINGS: SEASONAL LOCAL CELEBRATIONS, a list by Doc Rowe - http://www.folklife-west.co.uk/seasonal.html
    • much the same as the Directory

Cover photo © Doc Rowe

Print version

• PUBLISHED: 20 August 2009
• 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 2012
• 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

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:

organisations, due to risk of spam (in Directory online version), email not usually published online; we assume emails can be sent from your website.

individuals - Fs.1/2 - we can put your email in the print edition, & remove it from online version. We will put a note "Email: Editors will forward"

Online version: PDFs

Adobe Reader (for reading PDFs)

If you are on email, but not broadband, probably the PDFs are too big. Any problems: buy the Directory, it's only £3 by post, and we need the money!

ONE BIG PDF [36 A5 pages, size 6.8 mb] [pages 1,3,5] FTD09-ar-lein.pdf

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

PREVIOUS EDITION:

DEC. 2005.

A5, 24 pages.

Includes colour pages. 

Mainly England & Wales.

A few copies left,

to clear £1

by post to UK.

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 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

1-LINE SUMMARIES of Members' listings

are in Journal and

online at http://traditions.folklife-west.org.uk

Ads for other Journals: "Folklore"; "Myth & Symbol"

[inserts were distributed with Directory]

DOWNLOADS: FolklorePC.pdf and MythandSymbol.pdf

Suggestions for other 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; and in Folk West quarterly for festivals; alternatively, such listings are free to Members. See www.folklife-west.org.uk

ENTRIES ARE FREE

These listings are free; they are heavily subsidised and your support is welcome.

To help to meet our costs, you can

• buy a copy - £3 by post UK - or -
• become a Member - see our Journal page: http://journal.folklife-west.org.uk

Folklife West is a non-profit organisation

Contact details

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• PHONE: 01684 575704 (Sam & Eleanor Simmons)
• SKYPE: folklife-west
• WRITE: FOLKLIFE WEST, 16 Barrett Rise, MALVERN, Worcs WR14 2UJ [ England, UK ]
• Last updated: 7 Jan 2012.

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