CARRY on STREAMIN from EDINBURGH FOLK CLUB Probably the Best Folk Club in the World! Dateline: Wednesday 5 August 2020 Volume 1.05

CARRY ON STREAMIN from EDINBURGH FOLK CLUB Probably the best folk club in the world! Dateline: Wednesday 5 August 2020 Volume 1.05

CARRY ON STREAMIN You may recognise in our banner a ‘reworking’ of the of the Carrying Stream festival which EFC’s late chair, Paddy Bort, created shortly after the death of Hamish Henderson.

After Paddy died in February 2017, EFC created the Paddy Bort Fund (PBF) to give financial assistance to folk performers who, through no fault of their own, fall on hard times.

No-one contemplated anything like the coronavirus. Now we need to replenish PBF and have set a target of (at least) £10 000. Lankum at The Traverse Bar, Edinburgh There are two strands to Carry On EDINBURGH VENUES! So where are we now? Streamin - this publication and our YouTube channel where you will find, Douglas Robertson writes ... Many venues around the country have closed permanently, swathes of good staff have been every fortnight, videos donated by IT WOULD be a mistake to look back with laid off , countless well-established festivals some of the best folk acts around. nostalgia to the old days before Covid 19 as have been cancelled, and an army of musicians, Please donate to PBF as best you can, some kind of gig heaven in Edinburgh. agents, sound engineers and others are using the PayPal links we provide. A lethal mix - of a city council only too eager struggling to survive. to grant planning permission to every new The immediate future continues to look grim hotel, every proposed ‘student flat’ with social distancing determining that venues development, or ‘soon-to-be-AirBnB’ housing would be operating on a 25%-to-33% capacity, scheme combined with a university devouring in no way viable to cover costs and remunerate every available plot - ensured that scruff y professional artists. venues were often easy prey for those with profit rather than culture as their motivation. Our main venue (other than the now fated house concerts where 75 people would Even on those rare occasions where the regularly cram into our living room to hear planners would try to put the brakes on the Lau, Michael Marra, or Martin Simpson) was profiteers, the council’s development arm The Traverse Theatre Bar. Like so many other would appeal to the Scottish Government’s basement venues, it provides particular reporter for their decision to be overturned and challenges in terms of air circulation. The hey presto, another hotel, more student flats. management are currently trying to resolve this Rather than commitment from the city fathers issue but full capacity is not on the agenda. we instead saw tokenism in the setting up of (continued over … ) various talking shops - Live Music Matters, Desire Lines etc - where endless discussions Click here PayPal to donate took place and participants patted themselves on the back for doing such a fine job whilst to the Paddy Bort Fund. venues continued to close. And click here to go to This was the backdrop to the arrival of the current pandemic, one that could hardly have EFC’s YouTube channel. been designed better to kill the music industry Featured performers on this whilst lining the pockets of the super-rich and edition of the COS video are in the accelerating the growth of Netflix. panel to the right.

(… continued from front page) levels, we might see an easing of the pressure on the property market. It is also quite AFRICAN FOLK We hope to work with them soon devising conceivable that a number of buildings will PAM KING writes … ways of filming concerts and other events with become available due to businesses closing high quality lighting and sound. Ideally there THE BAME population of Scotland has down. will be enough people present - technicians, its complement of Africans straight from camera operators etc - that we will be able to Could it be that Soundhouse might now be able the sub-Saharan lands. It is of course avoid the deafening silence that has so often to find that space where we can create the best impossible to take on the whole of the followed live music of late. Applause is an venue in the country if not the world? African continent in terms of the integral part of any gig. Edinburgh deserves it and we’re well placed to traditional music that these settlers might provide it. Perhaps some years down the line have brought. Those better informed than I We believe that the audience is still out there we’ll see that alongside the terrible tragedies of have written at length about the African and that while musicians may be starving, this crisis, Covid 19 brought an end to the roots of all “popular” musical culture from many punters have been watching their bank selling of our city and festival to commercial blues, to soul, to jazz and many other accounts fill up with wages and pensions interests and restored our perspective and traditions. So I don’t know what the during a period where closed bars, cinemas, values. weather will be doing where and when restaurants and venues have made it diﬃ cult to you may read this, and the author’s spend money. Surely these people will want to It might just be the time to seize our city back. knowledge may be thin, but do listen to ensure that there’s still a live music industry (Ed: Douglas - and partner Jane-Ann - have the links in what follows and let in a little present when this pandemic is finally defeated? run Soundhouse, the very successful sunshine! Longer term, we hope that, with tourism and independent Edinburgh promoter, for most of (continued over … ) student numbers unlikely to return to pre-Covid the decade)

(… continued from previous page) drumming and dance are inseparable, so too is story-telling with another traditional It is West African drumming, which seems instrument, the kora. The kora is the to have taken Scotland by storm. The stringed instrument associated with the percussive tradition is rich, complicated, Griot, the traditional story-teller who, like and is inseparable from dance. No the Icelandic “skald”, or Anglo Saxon surprises about it’s popularity, as “scop”, the Gaelic “seanchai” or the bardic drumming is uplifting to listen to and very tradition anywhere, kept and retold the therapeutic to perform. In Edinburgh, the history of the people, their origins, myths, University Student Association has had a and legends. The Griot tradition is very thriving regular workshop on West African much alive and mesmerising to listen to drumming and dance, and in Glasgow the even if you cannot understand the story group Ayawara has been established for being told: over fifteen years. The kora is not just used for solo Griot “Ayawara” is a blend of languages from performance, however, but appears in Mali and Ghana, “aya” being a fern, a bands. Now listen to the exquisite player, defiant plant that grows anywhere, and Sona Jobarteh from the Gambia playing “wara” a wild beast. The group lives up to here. I defy you not to smile! the first element of its name by involving not only Scots and West Africans, but West African folk music seems to have people from all over Europe east and west lent itself more than most to adaptation who are enthusiasts for this rhythmic and fusion, so the final link I include here Jackie Crookston sculpture by David culture. All the instruments are percussive, is from a band called, appropriately, Annand. Pic by Eileen Penman. with the traditional djembe and dundun Albagriot. The band is based in Mali but result they were met with protests from tours worldwide, and two of the musicians local residents. are Scots. Distinct echoes of Incredible String Band about this, spiced with When the army rode into Tranent on 28 African rhythms. August 1797 to pick up the conscriptees, they found the roads lined with women and children. One woman is said to have LOCAL HISTORY approached the entourage and said, "John, Edinburgh FC member Eileen Penman beware of your head!". This was taken to published this picture of the statue be a direct threat and to indicate there may commemorating Jackie Crookston along be trouble in Tranent. with a brief comment about it on her Facebook page. We thought it deserved a Once in the village itself, the brigade tried special mention in COS so looked in to proceed to the assigned meeting point, Wikipedia and Google and here you are. but there was a crowd gathering with sticks and a drum. Crookston is recorded The Scottish Militia Act of 1797 to have approached the leader and advised conscripted able bodied Scottish men them to leave. Another source gives between the ages of 19 and 23 years into Crookston a larger role in the events, Sona Jobarteh: kora player and singer military service. Aberdeen, Dalry, Galston, saying she organised a protest march on from Gambia Strathaven, Freuchie, and Kirkintilloch all the 28 August 1797 with other women saw rioting as a result, and the government from nearby villages, and used a drum drums at the core. Each rhythm has a responded by sending in troops. In records beat to call out the slogan "no militia" in particular association, the equivalent of compiled in 1844, a local historian noted an attempt to intimidate local landowners the work song, but with others celebrating the women of Scotland were outraged at and justices on the ballot committee. religious and initiation rites, harvest, and the thought of their men being conscripted victory. Listen to this before you repeat to fight in the army just as they had The ballot went ahead on the 29 August all those tired old jokes about drummers, reached manhood and acquired a 1797. There was a protest, and soldiers who or the “wara” will get you! profession. It fell to schoolmasters to (continued over … ) make up the conscription lists, and as a In the West African folk tradition, just as

(… continued from previous page) available now and brings the project to completion. had been confined to the John Glens public house in Tranent broke out of the back door John McCutcheon / Cabin Fever: Self and adopted a "shoot to kill" policy against pub’d; Out Now he populace, who were allegedly armed with With 40 albums under his belt, you might think sharp sticks and stones. that John McCutcheon, the “Rustic The dragoons rampaged through the Renaissance Man” would take advantage of the streets driving the protesters into the fields enforced rest brought about by quarantine and where the cavalry would be more put his feet up. No chance. Here’s album effective. At least 11 people were killed, number 41, the aptly titled Cabin Fever. including Crookston. Her body lay As the title suggests, there’s a concentration in undiscovered in a field of corn for several the lyrics on dealing with the covid pandemic. weeks. However, the number of deaths in Opener Front Line is as good a summation of, the massacre is disputed. and tribute to, those on whom the rest of us The Lord Advocate of the time, Robert close attention. depend as I’ve heard, and there’s a great deal Dundas, decided not to indict the soldiers being written and sung on the subject just now. for shooting unarmed civilians because Liza DiSavino is one half of the acoustic duo There’s a couple of more lighthearted songs on "such a dangerous mob as deserved more Liza & A.J. Her alter ego, Dr Elizabeth how we deal with things – Six Feet Away (“I’m properly the name of an insurrection." DiSavino, is an associate professor at Berea College in Kentucky where she directs the longing to ask her to take off her mask as I love (Ed: the stature pictured, created by Scots Celebration of Traditional Music. her from six feet away”) and My Dog Talking sculptor David Annand, was erected in Blues. Tranent in September 1995. A more There Was a Fair Maid Dwelling is part of a Away from this topic, he slips through history detailed account of the period can be trilogy (CD, biography, songbook) that has with Monet Refuses the Operation and back found here and of the bloody and fatal taken six years to come to fruition. This album into biblical Palestine with The Donkey. A incident at Tranent here) is a recording of ballads collected in 1909 by Dr. Katherine Jackson French. Despite a more recent sadness, too, on The Night John Prine Died. LOCAL HISTORY – now, there’s an idea promise of help with publication on the part of for a column. Please send us pieces about Berea College President William Goodell Frost, A fine album from a fine storyteller whose your community’s history. We’re always this collection has never before been published warm delivery made me wish and hope that looking for contributions – articles, news, or heard. I’ll let Liza tell it: sooner rather than later, we can be out enjoying pictures, opinions, reviews. Please click “Dr. French’s publication efforts fell victim to live music once more. here to email them to us. the Ballad Wars - an intriguing tangle of gender role limitations, power structures, broken REVIEWS promises, and outright theft. Had she succeeded, hers would have been the first large, Again we are grateful to Jim Welsh for scholarly collection of Appalachian ballads reviewing some newly released albums. ever published, and our initial impression of Jim also writes that Radio Summerhall is Appalachian music and its keepers might have back on air and you can listen here to been quite different than the one handed down current shows, the back catalogue and also by Cecil Sharp and others.” read the station’s news and reviews This story is detailed in DiSavino’s biography online. But you can also read on here of French, published through University Press below to see some of what he’s playing on of Kentucky entitled Katherine Jackson French: his Music Routes show… Kentucky’s Forgotten Ballad Collector. Liza DiSavino / There Was a Fair Maid The final leg of the trilogy is a commemorative Dwelling: Self pub’d; Out Now edition of Dr. French’s ballads, English- This album came to me as a download, and Scottish Ballads from the Hills of Kentucky, while I can give you some background, I’m just published through Berea College in fulfilment making an assumption that it’s a recent release. of their 110-year-old promise. It too, is Whatever, it’s a project that demands your

ANOTHER PIECE (in tab) from Kelso- based guitarist Andy Smith (for which many WEE BITS n PIECES thanks Andy). Andy performs it in the video CHRISTINE KYDD writes … accompanying this edition of COS (see HOW NICE IS THIS? From Greentrax YouTube here). The melody for “Singing In Recordings. Just delighted to work with The Rain” was composed by NACIO HERB Greentrax. And what a lovely bunch to be BROWN (1896-1964) with lyrics by with! ... ARTHUR FREED (1894-1973), with whom “Our Top 20 Best Sellers in 2020 so far Brown often collaborated. In 1928 Brown was hired to work in Hollywood by MGM “Featuring albums from Brian McNeill, and write film scores for the new medium of John Campbell Munro, Dick Gaughan, sound film. Their music is collected for the Tony McManus & Julia Toaspern, most part in the 1952 film, “Singin' in the Malinky, Alexander McCall Smith & Rain” in which Gene Kelly sang the song James Ross, Christine Kydd, Barbara (and danced). It is also the basis of a much- Dickson, Rura, Robin Laing, The loved comedy sketch by Morecambe and McCalmans, Kathleen MacInnes, Eric Wise from their xmas BBC TV show in Bogle and Jean Redpath. 1976. John Martyn recorded a version in 1971 on his “Bless The Weather” album. (continued over … ) Christine Kydd

(… continued from previous page) Access through our website or our YouTube channel. “Bestselling compilations or project albums included Far, Far From Ypres Concert DVD, To all the keyworkers and particularly our Dhannsadh Gun Dannsadh (Dance-Songs of health workers, we would love to give you The Scottish Gaels), A’ The Bairns O’ Adam free access, but as it’s all free, please (Hamish Henderson Tribute), Celtic Women accept instead our heart-felt THANK From Scotland and Music In The Glen. YOU. “Our All Time Top 20 list includes albums looking at if you’re thinking of jumping from Fiddlers' Bid, Donnie Munro, aboard. The post was started by John Booth PERTH CONCERT HALL published Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas, Gordon who said, “A number of folk clubs are recently a season of concerts starting from Duncan, Salsa Celtica, Gaelic Women, adapting to the situation and running virtual Thursday 10 September 2020 and running Shooglenifty, Peatbog Faeries, and Aly folk nights. I was wondering if a) we could on right through to November 2021. The Bain. share experiences, and b) if we could spread programme includes the much anticipated the word about those who are open to new “Our bestselling Far, Far From Ypres CD concert Andy Irvine & Paul Brady visitors? & DVD titles are still available as a Special Offer set for £25.00” “Two of my local clubs, Northwich and Lymm have been running Zoom folk club FOLK ON THE HILL MUSIC nights for a number of months now. Sound FESTIVAL (in Harrow on The Hill) will quality can sometimes be an issue but we take place on Thursday 13 August 2020, have learned a few tricks along the way. and their press release says ... The usual trick is to mute all except the performer. You lose the chorus singing but We are delighted to be able to announce that's a small price. At Northwich we insist the 2nd Annual Folk on the Hill festival is Paul Brady and Andy Irvine on 'live' performance, not pre-recorded; to go ahead. In order to help as much as (Friday 2 April 2021), Irish chart-topper we allow chat; and we allow visitors from possible during this crucial period in our all over the world. We also have "guest industry FOTH have determined the best Nathan Carter And His Band (September 10 2020), Blue Rose Code spots", a recent treat being Dan way we can help is to host our festival McKinnon, all the way from Canada! online and allow donations either directly (Friday 9 October 2020), Yorkston to the artists, or to Help F or Musicians . Thorne Khan (Friday 27 November We guarantee, no money will be going to 2020), The Lost Words - Spell Songs FOTH, only to artists. With that in mind - the 2nd Annual Folk on the Hill festival – “We’re back, and this time it’s not personal” - will be streaming six videos, each of around one hour featuring more than 15 artists. These will be available for FREE viewing (some of our audience may also be The Lost Words - Spell Songs struggling, so this is for them as well) on (Friday 29 January 2021), Kris Drever Thursday 13 August 2020 at 3pm BST, we (Thursday 4 March 2021), Tommy do ask you to donate if you are in a Emmanuel (Tuesday 9 March 2021) and position to do so. numerous other, rather less folk-ie, gigs. For full details of all shows click on the The artists include: Beans on Toast, venue name above. Bernard Hoskin, Craig Joiner, Man The Lifeboats, Marilyn Middleton, Odette DURING LOCKDOWN there has been Michell, Pauline Vallance, Steve and Julie, quite a surge in on-line sessions using Zoom. Tom Reid, Findlay Napier, Harbottle and Recently there was a FaceBook posting in Jonas, John McCutcheon, Reg Meuross, the Folk21 group forum about this and Dan McKinnon Jamie McCoan, Phillip Green, Tim Brooks, offering some advice and experiences on Washboard Resonators and others tbc. ‘Zooming’ singarounds etc – might be worth (continued over … )

(… continued from previous page) COPPERPLATE MAIL ORDER Franklin (@lizlipwig) presents 'Folk Copperplate Mail Order, is the retail arm of Garden' every Tuesday 6pm - 8pm. All the “It looks like it's still going to be a while Copperplate Distribution, a company best in folk, roots and acoustic music. before we can gather in our venues so specialising in the best of Irish Traditional there's much to be said for these on-line ACROSS THE POND - NEW is hosted Music. Championing Irish musicians who nights. We're still learning. So, who else is by Ed Miller on Sunradio every Sunday produce their own CDs but who do not have running on-line, how do you run, what 3-4pm UK time - straight from Austin, the clout of a record company behind them. have you learned? Anything else you'd Texas, USA! The company is run by an old pal, Alan like to share?” … O’Leary, first met when he roadied for Christy P URE BEAT RADIO - NEW from (Ed: And then a whole of load of folk piled in!) Moore at a gig at Edinburgh’s Queen’s Hall Aberdeen, Scotland is an internet radio during the Edinburgh Folk Festival in about station that broadcasts all over the world IAN ANDERSON writes ... 1980 or 1981. Contact Alan by email here. 24*7. Playing a Better Music Mix! You can tune in on your Smartphone, Copperplate Consultants will use its expertise Smartspeaker, Deezer and online. to promote and publicise these titles to the media. We also focus on the retail side of the BOTH SIDE S THE TWEED FOLK business, working hard to ensure titles are in SHOW - NEW is a monthly podcast the shops and available to the public. presented by Gareth Patterson bringing you the very best in folk & acoustic music. See the latest additions available from Submissions welcomed from artists who Copperplate Mail Order on their website. would like Gareth to play their music. A CD “I decided to use my professional expertise to would be appreciated but please remember it promote good Irish traditional musicians and must be FOLK. Ian Anderson their music.” said Alan. To which Christy SOUNDART FOLK SHOW - NEW Moore replied, “But Al, you have always done A YEAR ON from the end of fRoots magazine, hosted by Steve B. The station is situated that“. all the @frootsmag.com email addresses in the Dartington manor estate near Totnes associated with the magazine will cease in Devon and is also available on operating as from 1st August. They've been MUSIC WAVES Mixcloud (listen again option). The show receiving very little other than several hundred MUSIC ROUTES Jim Welsh airs folk in its many guises live monthly to spam/ mailing list emails every day recently. broadcasts on-line on Edinburgh's Radio a world-wide audience. There are live Summerhall. sessions every few weeks with some very In case you're not aware, what used to be special guests playing and chatting live in fRoots Radio is now of course my much TRAVELLING FOLK Sunday (7pm) the studio. Read more about the show on expanded and thriving Podwireless podcast. Bruce MacGrego r presents BBC Radio their Facebook page If you want to communicate with me about Scotland's flagship two-hour folk that, please use the email here . All the programme. STREAM RADIO STATIONS AROUND THE WORLD WITH details about the podcast, how to submit B LACK DIAMOND 107.8 FM RADIO GARDEN – eg Edinburgh (242 music for it and how to support it can be Midlothian, Sunday 8pm-9pm (and Radio), Glasgow (Celtic Music Radio), found on the FAQ page here . available 24*7). Brian Miller presents "one of London (BBC Radio 5 Live) … and the finest folk music programmes on radio". If you want to email me personally about my thousands more. - NEW own music-connected activities etc, you can C LICK HERE for a long list of folk Radio Garden is a non-profit Dutch radio send me a message via the contact page on music shows on BBC Radio. and digital research project developed from my own website. 2013 to 2016, by the Netherlands Institute F OLK ALLEY (USA) is a 24*7 internet for Sound and Vision, the Transnational The frootsmag.com web site will stay online radio service produced by the FreshGrass Radio Knowledge Platform and five other with all the archived features, indexes, Foundation which went online in European universities. It is funded by historic material etc, and to sell the September 2003, streaming a unique blend HERA. remaining back issues while they last. of traditional folk, roots, Americana, Please alter your email address books and contemporary singer/songwriters, indie-folk, THE ONLINE FAB FOLK CLUB - mailing lists accordingly. Celtic, bluegrass, and other world sounds. NEW is a pre-recorded on-air singaround folk club presented by Tony Haynes in BLUES AND ROOTS RADIO - NEW - Thanks, and best wishes for these York. Anyone is invited in. Video not based in Mississauga, ON, Canada. Liz "interesting times"! needed, obviously, because this is radio, so

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Clues Across: 1. Fold/line in paper, fabric, or for some of us our face (6) 3. ‘______Angels’ 37th album by Bob Dylan (6) 7. ______Glennie, world renowned Scottish percussionist (6) 8. Beetle often used as a symbol in ancient Egypt (6) 10. The Minch, Pentland Firth, & St George’s Channel are examples of these water ways (7) 13. Scottish ballad ‘The _____ of Brackley’ (5) 14. Stringed instrument with turning handle, _____-gurdy (5) 15. British tree with unique leaf, once common, a 400 year old cut down for HS2 build (3) 17. 3 letter acronym applied to those able to claim a pension (3) 18. A very long and undefined time period (3) 20. World famous Scottish fiddler, ___ Bain (3) 23. Liquid fabled to take the sting out of jelly fish poison (5) 24. Relating to the eye/vision (5) this song in 1949 ‘______Child’ (7) guitarist Tony ______(7) 25. Musical term, lyrics or melody that repeats throughout a song (7) 6. Spitting, wooly Andean mammal. (6) 27. Nectar hailing from John Barrow’s 26. Town near Motherwell with industrial 9. Patron saint of cobblers, curriers, homeland ‘Newkie Broon ___’ (3) past, W_____ (6) tanners and leather workers (an 29. Belonging to a specific group (3) 28. Common phrase to mean applying for Edinburgh school) (7) Solutions to the crossword in COS1.04 can be ‘dole’ money (4,2) 10. Sport involving coloured balls and found on page 14 (back page) 30. Famous American song dating back to pockets (7) American Revolution ‘______Doodle’ (6) 11. Sharon ______, Irish female folk 31. Acquired abilities useful for particular GIGS ON-LINE situations (6) artist, known for fiddle and button MAIRI CAMPBELL is doing weekly accordion (7) (Sundays) on-line ‘sessions’ under the Clues Down: 12. Large department store group once heading, Campbell’s Ceilidh. Just click on 1. Round and rosy cheeked, angelic present in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and the link above to sign up in advance and babes with wings (7) still in Dublin (7) offer yourself for a song or a tune spot. 2. Translation of Gaelic word ‘spéir’ You’ll find lots of other stuff there as well. 15. German word for Grandpa (3) into English, Scotland’s is often grey (3) 16. Musical term, both major and minor (3) LLANTRISANT FC in S. Wales is 4. Former West Sussex folk music label, 19. Major 1960’s hit for Del Shannon (7) running a virtual Folk Club every or a curved line (3) Wednesday at 8:20pm; music starts 21. A singers vital organ (amongst others) (6) 5. Country singer Hank Snow recorded 8:30pm. Tune in here. 22. World renowned, Scottish folk

PAUL WALKER & KAREN PFEIFFER invite you to their live streams Afternoon Tea with Paul & Karen every Friday at 4pm (UK time) on their Facebook and YouTube pages. 45 minutes of music, banter and light-hearted chat. CLAIRE HASTINGS As always, I am live every Sunday morning at 10am on Claire's Music Club Facebook page, aimed at under 5s.” (Ed: there are so many on-line gigs just now that this is the merest sample of what we’ve noticed. If you want your gig listed please send us the information). cyberPRINT LIVING TRADITION (UK, monthly, print, on-line) – next edition out August 2020. See advert in this issue of COS. Living Tradition is a major UK and international folk music magazine published in Scotland with a 20 year history of carrying news, reviews and articles, with a focus on the traditional folk scene in the UK and Ireland. THE LIST (Edinburgh HQ but national; print, on-line,) This widely read and nationally distributed magzine is one to seek out for gig and cultural information in general. MUSIC NEWS SCOTLAND (UK, weekly, on-line) the Scottish music industry's news outlet. A broad range of news and information. SOUTHSIDE ADVERTISER EDINBURGH has a strap-line saying: “Living & Lifestyle in and around the Southside & Old Town of Edinburgh” and usually carries myriad adverts, Scottish Domestic Bliss 2020 Lockdown by Allan & Rosemary McMillan. Grace reviews, show and exhibition previews and Note Publications. Full of fun, poems & pictures (proceeds towards Paddy Bort useful local information doing just that. Worth Fund). Available from Amazon dipping into. commentator, supporter and reviewer of the mags – in fact, probably the leading mag. BOX AND FIDDLE (UK, monthly) is UK music scene in general. Folker covers mostly European the publication of the National MAVERICK (UK, monthly) leading traditional/folk music and world music and Association of Accordion & Fiddle independent country music magazine. is a valuable source on German and other Clubs with an estimated home and European artists and the festival scene. It overseas readership of 6,000+. RAMBLES (USA, on-line) a wide range also carries book, record and cassette of reviews of books and albums. R2 Magazine (UK, bi-monthly) was 'Rock n reviews. (Ed: Folker’s publisher is Michael Reel' back in the 1990s, hit a rocky patch, FOLKER (Germany, bi-monthly, print, on- Kamp who was a Sandy Bell’s Man back in but returned several years ago as a great line) one of continental Europe's major folk the 1970’s)

FOLKFAX - Diary of events, news and upcoming events it's involved in on its website. ENGLISH/WELSH local gossip. (NB: Online only). THE TRADITIONAL MUSIC FORUM folk mags – ALL NEW WILTSHIRE FOLK ARTS Wiltshire. (aka TMF) is a key participant in the UNICORN Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, FOLKLIFE WEST Worcs, Glos and The Scottish Parliament Cross Party Group on Cambridgshire and Hertfordshire. West (Quarterly Magazine and Folk Culture, the Music Education Partnership Group, Culture Counts and Heads of SHIRE FOLK Berkshire, Buckinghamshire Directory). Instrumental Teaching Scotland (HITS) to and Oxfordshire. FOLK ROUNDABOUT Yorkshire, name but a few. Through the website, FOLKNEWS KERNOW Cornwall. North & East, Teesside, Cleveland, newsletter and social media channels, Northumberland. WHAT'S AFOOT Devon. TMF continually showcases the diverse TYKES NEWS (incorporating Stirrings) activities of their wide membership and SAD Folk Somerset and Dorset. Yorkshire, South And West. shares news, events, and information. And MARDLES East Anglia, Norfolk notably, EFC's man, Dave Francis is the TMF Director and Lori Watson, is chair. FOLK MONTHLY E. Midlands, Derbyshire, REMINDERS … Leics, Lincs and Notts. SANDY BELL’S BAR RESCUE FUND At the time of writing £3,718 had been FESTIVAL ROUND-UP SOLENT WAVES (Folk Association of raised towards the target of £15,000. To There are so many festivals around these South Hampshire) Hampshire, Sussex and contribute visit the Save Sandy Bell's Go islands, not to mention abroad, that a better Dorset. Fund Me page. use of the limited space in the newsletter is to PUDDINGSTONE (Hertfordshire Folk list websites offering lists of festival. The NATIONAL PIPING CENTRE in Association) Hertfordshire. Glasgow invites pipers and drummers to B ritish Arts Festivals Association AROUND KENT FOLK Kent (and some join their first ever online adult gathering European Forum of Worldwide Music of Sussex); e mail . from June 29 to July 2 2020. This will be Festivals - Member Festivals Folk and Roots - UK Festivals LANCASHIRE WAKES Lancashire. a great thing for your piping and drumming with great tutors on hand to FOLK NORTH WEST (North West help you! SOLUTIONS to the Federation of Folk Clubs) Lancashire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, The FRIENDS OF THOMAS MUIR crossword in COS 1.04 ... Merseyside, North Wales and Cheshire. organisation website lists a lot of activity Across: Down: showing what the Friends are up to on a 3. SALMON 1. ARKANSAS LEICESTER FOLK DIARY Leicestershire continuing basis behind the scenes. To find FOLKTALK Lincolnshire. 6. CRAB BOAT 2. STAR out more use their contact details here. 8. DART 3. SQUEAK FOLK LONDON London & Home P ENICUIK ARTS promotes and 9. AGREE 4. LADIES Counties. encourages the study, practice and 10. ELIE 5. NATTER MAD FOLK Merseyside. knowledge of the Arts in Penicuik and 11. RAB NOAKES 7. BODHRAN 12. SUN 9. ABBEY NORTHAMPTONSHIRE FOLK surrounding district. Contact them by email or phone: 01968 678804 13. YODEL 14. LOOMS ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION 15. SAL 15. SELKIES Northamptonshire. CEILIDH DANCING in Edinburgh of 18. DADDY COOL 16. LOWLANDS SHREDS AND PATCHES Shropshire. course has been put on hold during the 20. ROSE 17. TRIBES current crisis but will, no doubt at all, 21. NEVIS 18. DEARTH SUSSEX PIE AND EVENTS SHEET restart when deemed safe to do so. (Sussex Folk Association) Sussex 23. BARR 19. DINGLE Meanwhile have a look at 24. NEARSIDE 22. VINE SUSSEX FOLK GUIDE (NB: Online) EDINBURGH CEILIDH CLUB. 25. SOPHIE FOLK SOUTH EAST Surrey THE SCOTTISH Storytelling Centre in TAPLAS Wales + The Borders & Beyond Edinburgh's High Street may be closed Click here PayPa l to donate just now but it is keeping busy with all to the Paddy Bort Fund. FOLKWALES ONLINE MAGAZINE kinds of streams and on-line stuff. Click FOLK MONTHLY West Midlands: here to find out what's what. Worcs, Warks, Staffs, Shropshire, And click here to go to EFC’s Herefordshire. The TMSA (Traditional Music and YouTube channel. Song Association) has a calendar list of