Events Listings/Resources

Events listings and resources (some of these are listed elsewhere on this site). NB, in most cases I won’t know of changes unless someone notifies me directly (many thanks to those who do): I don’t have time to keep checking that links are still live, unfortunately.

Here’s a useful link suggestion from FreddyHeady:

People might like to try this. It probably won’t catch smaller\specialist\quirky events but I find Ents24 gives quite a good listing. (Here set for a 44mile radius round Ludlow as an example.) https://www.ents24.com/whatson/near/Ludlow/radius/44/genres/celtic,folk,world,storytelling/order/date

• Folking.com: news, reviews, interviews. Also on the links page.
• A very useful map of folky stuff in Staffordshire including some events in Sabrinaflu’s backyard (including the very nice session at the Woodman in Shrewsbury).
• Folklife Quarterly: print magazine with a free online version and with quite a few online resources, including news-pages for several areas including Cornwall, Bristol & Gloucestershire, Devon, Somerset, Wiltshire, Herefordshire, Worcs, Brum, Coventry & Warwickshire, Wales, and Oxfordshire. And my quarterly column for the Shropshire page, of course – can be downloaded as a PDF, which might be useful for the diary links.[ I just realized that all the links for this site here were broken:  but the replacement links  seem to work at the moment. If necessary, work down from the Folklife Quarterly page.]
• Not primarily folk-oriented, but lots of events around Shropshire listed in 31 Days.
• Folk Orbit lists music events for each day of the week for each ‘traditional county’ for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.  Magazines and other resources at http://folkorbit.co.uk/links#Magazines.
• Cresby.com folk sessions by county. See the tab ‘Other Local Lists’ for a list of other resources (including the old Sabrinaflu site). Lots of other stuff, too.
• Folk monthly (Midlands-oriented magazine with a central diary page)
• 31 Days (comprehensive list of events in Shropshire)
• Broadsheep: listings for Shropshire, Hereford, Mid-Wales
• Folk and Roots: venues around the West Midlands
• Shreds and Patches: folky stuff around Shropshire [no longer maintained, sadly]
• Sabrinaflu Shropshire(-ish) sessions
• Folk Music Facebook page
• Sabrinaflu folk club listings
• Folk Clubs UK Facebook Page
• Sabrinaflu festival links
• List of interesting sites compiled by Fliss
• Sabrinaflu Facebook page
• Wales and the Borders Live Music Events Facebook page
• Shropshire Folk Musicians Facebook page
• Sabrinaflu Local Venues page
• Folk Music map (formerly the UK folk club map, but hasn’t been restricted to the UK for a good while.)
• Form for Submitting details to the Folk Music map – looks like there are lots of gaps there around Shrewsbury and Telford, considering how many events there in the region: get busy, all you organizers!
• Friends Of American Old Time Music and Dance news/events list
• Alan Lomax tape archive, digitized by the Association for Cultural Equity.
• Material collected by John and Alan Lomax at the American Folklife Center.
• A couple of suggestions from Freddyheady for info on Staffordshire events/venues:
  • Staffordshire map(some Shropshire pins too)
    https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?ll=52.962%2C-2.124&z=12&mid=1rYM8KCgNpRZWIBHWB0fQQtshLzs (view in browser, not in ‘maps’)
  • Staffordshire listing
    http://www.thefolkdiary.co.uk
• [Added 1st July 2018: SCoFF, the Southern Counties Folk Federation, a confederation of clubs from Somerset to East Sussex/Kent and from Bucks/Oxon/Berks to the Channel Islands including Dorset, Hampshire, Sussex, Wiltshire, and Surrey. Sam Satyanadhan, 3 Cranbury Road, Woolston, Southampton SO19 2HZ. tel/fax 023 80 570082.]

Updated 3rd February 2018