Folk London magazine
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Features, reviews and listings for folk and roots music in and around London. Contributions and review CDs welcome – see http://folklondon.co.uk
Great to see Rolling Stone picking up this important story about the fight to retrieve landmark folk recordings from the extremely shady Celtic Music www.rollingstone.co.uk/music/featur...
‘They make the laws to chain us well’: Folk music fights for its rights
Music historians and artists discuss Dick Gaughan’s fight to reclaim his music, and the protest at the heart of folk music’s continued legacy.
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This week's episode of Classic Folks includes track by: Lonnie Donegan @caradillonsings.bsky.social @jimmoray.bsky.social Trio @lindaronstadtmusic.bsky.social & Emmylou Harris and many more! www.efdss.org/listen
Listen: Classic Folk
Classic Folk with Mike Norris Classic Folk is unique. It mines a rich seam of wonderful folk and roots music and song from around 75 years of recordings. From the great source singers to the legends o...
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A new documentary, 'A Basket Full of Eggs', from UEA and Patrin Films, reveals the often “anonymous” Gypsy, Romani and Traveller singers who helped shape British folk music. Read more: https://bit.ly/4wVivcz #GypsyRomaTravellerMonth
This week's Compendium at 8pm (UK) on www.folkfridayradio.com features 13 songs, 10 from independent musicians, 6 from acts who are playing at #BerwickFringe this coming weekend, and all bookended with songs from established artists and another somewhere in the middle. #supportindependentmusic
Announcing… Campfire Club: Bonfire Night 🔥 Join us for our final event of the year: an alternative Bonfire Night celebration at London’s Cody Dock. Tickets are on sale now for Friends of the Nest, and will go on public sale this Monday at 9am. Get those cheaper early-birds while they last! 🔥
Thanks to Mike for playing Clive Woolf's The Emigrant from our new release, the restored Live at Dingle's, 1974. So pleased to be able to get Clive's music out into the world after 50 years folklondon.bandcamp.com/album/live-a...
English Folk Dance and Song Society@efdss.bsky.social · last wk.This week's episode of Classic Folk includes track by: @jonwilksmusic.bsky.social @johnprine.bsky.social @martynjosephwales.bsky.social Sinead O'Connor @tinmanicon.bsky.social Martin Simpson Johnny Collins and many more! www.efdss.org/listen
Award-winning folk singing trio, Lady Maisery will be at Little Missenden Festival on 8th Oct. Tickets on sale from 24th August from www.little-missenden.org #folkmusic #vocal Please share!
We're going live!!! 6 episodes across 3 folk festivals this summer. They will be recorded and all be released on our patreon. And if the Roud number is low enough, they will be used again when that number eventually turns up on the main podcast. See you all soon for In The Roud LIVE!
Learn to play the Banjo at Cecil Sharp House Ed Hicks is one of the leading banjo players in the UK and a passionate advocate for people learning folk and traditional music. Book for the September term: bit.ly/4gNkEBE Photo by Rosie Reed Gold
We're Hiring! Freelance Pastoral Staff Member (London Youth Folk Ensemble) Provide pastoral care for the London Youth Folk Ensemble members while they are taking part in Sunday workshops and performances. Fee: £82.40 per rehearsal The hourly rate for any other meetings £20.60. bit.ly/3KtWdeh
The new Folk London is back from the printers and going out to readers today. Featuring: • Peta Webb on a lifetime of traditional song • The New Roots contest for young folk stars • A beginner’s guide to tune sessions • News, listings, reviews and more Buy here: folklondon.co.uk/product/augu...
Folk London magazine August-September 2026
Buy the latest magazine: Peta Webb, the New Roots contest, a beginner’s guide to tune sessions plus reviews, listings and more
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New episode out now!! S7/E5 – Roud 65: WILLIE O’ DOUGLAS DALE History and Singer guest: @helenlindley.bsky.social Available from wherever you get your podcasts.
A digital colour rework of a linocut illustration from my #folksongfebruary series, ‘False Knight on the Road’. The traditional folk song plays out like a proto rap battle between a precocious immovable child and the devil disguised as a knight.
We had a quick chat with @bonfireradicals.bsky.social ahead of their show up at The Bulverton on Thurs 6th Aug. Read the full piece here: sidmouthfolkfestival.co.uk/q-a-with-bon...
Learn Folk Song at @cecilsharphouse.bsky.social Starting in September, join our Sunday morning Song class. Taught by Hazel Askew of The Askew Sisters and Lady Maisery. This class will accommodate a variety of levels. No prior knowledge of folk song is required. bit.ly/4puVE4w
The new Folk London magazine is at the printers and available to preorder. Featuring: • Peta Webb on a lifetime of traditional song • The New Roots contest for young folk stars • A beginner’s guide to tune sessions • News, listings, reviews and more Preorder here: folklondon.co.uk/product/augu...
@sidmouthfolkfest.bsky.social We're delighted to be playing and running workshops again at Sidmouth this year! Expect Northumbrian pipes and tunes, children's street games, and a few surprises! More on our 'Sidmouth' page, includng downloads for workshops: camusmusic.net/sidmouth-fol...
Camus at Sidmouth
We’re very happy to be visiting Sidmouth again this year. We’ll be doing five events: TRY THE PIPES Time and venue TBC. We’ll have beginners’ practice sets so you can try th…
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Barry Dransfield's work is part of this legal fight to reclaim the rights to classic folk albums, so please chip in a few pounds if you're able: www.gofundme.com/f/win-back-r...
Folk London magazine@folklondon.co.uk · 3w agoThe new Folk London magazine is at the printers and available to preorder. Featuring: • Peta Webb on a lifetime of traditional song • The New Roots contest for young folk stars • A beginner’s guide to tune sessions • News, listings, reviews and more Preorder here: folklondon.co.uk/product/augu...
Now on Bandcamp! Clive Woolf Live at Dingle’s, 1974. Very excited to get this out there. Clive was a red-hot guitarist and singer until illness ended his career aged 28. His only studio recordings are lost and this is the first chance to hear him at his peak folklondon.bandcamp.com/album/live-a...
Now on Bandcamp! Clive Woolf Live at Dingle’s, 1974. Very excited to get this out there. Clive was a red-hot guitarist and singer until illness ended his career aged 28. His only studio recordings are lost and this is the first chance to hear him at his peak folklondon.bandcamp.com/album/live-a...
This week's Classic Folk includes an interview with John Marshall Potter, director of the @folkeast.bsky.social festival about starting afresh in their new site and a look forward to some of the artists who will be performing at the festival next month. www.efdss.org/listen
Listen: Classic Folk
Classic Folk with Mike Norris Classic Folk is unique. It mines a rich seam of wonderful folk and roots music and song from around 75 years of recordings. From the great source singers to the legends o...
efdss.org
URGENT, please share! Paid Gig. Sound engineers needed to rig/derig a 20kw system on a trailer stage following a last minute cancellation. Help make Trans Pride in Brighton happen - 17th-18th July. Get in touch!
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Last night’s Rooted and Rising premiere blew us away❤️🔥 Here’s a glimpse of this incredible show, which you can catch at folk festivals this summer and on tour in the future 👀 Folk by the Oak 19 Jul The Sidmouth Folk Festival 4 Aug Broadstairs Folk Week 9 Aug Shrewsbury Folk Festival 30 Aug
ChatGPT posters and flyers are polluting real life and driving me insane. Please respond to this with the worst ones you've seen irl. I'll post some in the thread www.404media.co/we-are-livin...
We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’
"Hey if this is your flyer, I’m not going, I’m not donating, I’m not sharing. Don’t ask me."
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Follow me and the first thing I see is that you trade in hours of AI video and ambience and it's a block. Not to my door. Generative AI is a planet-killing theft engine hollow of lived experience. The bubble will burst, but that's not why we oppose it, we refuse AI because it's morally bankrupt.
This week's episode of Classic Folk is looking forward to @sidmouthfolkfest.bsky.social with: @bryonyandalice.bsky.social @windbornesingers.bsky.social Miranda Sykes & @jimcausley.bsky.social @johnspiers.co.uk & Boden @bonfireradicals.bsky.social @nancyannfolk.bsky.social www.efdss.org/listen
Listen: Classic Folk
Classic Folk with Mike Norris Classic Folk is unique. It mines a rich seam of wonderful folk and roots music and song from around 75 years of recordings. From the great source singers to the legends o...
efdss.org
Transit content⤵️ "The nonprofit, founded by legendary folk artist & activist Pete Seeger in the 1960s, has a long history of activism. Seeger famously built the organization’s single-mast sailboat...in 1968, believing...if people went out on the river, they would care more about keeping it clean."
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · last mo.A sailboat, the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, was removed from the Sail4th 250 Parade of Ships for displaying banners about climate justice and clean water. Source: ig/jackiemarieburton, ig/sloopclearwater
