Events Listings/Resources

Updated 18th March 2020.

Sadly, the  Regular Events page on this blog is no longer being maintained, though you can still tell us of changes via the Contact form. Here are some other events listings and resources (some of these are listed elsewhere on this site). Unfortunately, I can’t guarantee that these resources are still live, and they’ll undoubtedly disappear or change as time goes on, but I’m not in a position to maintain this page any more, either. 

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.)

• 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: this is now every four months rather than quarterly, a 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. You can still reach the site via the link above, but that’s actually a redirect to the new site. I’m no longer writing a Shropshire page for the magazine, as I spend very little time in Shropshire now and, surprisingly, I’m not getting younger.
• Not primarily folk-oriented, but lots of events around Shropshire listed in 31 Days.
• The Folk Orbit site formerly listed here has expired. (Thank you Peter Rowan for pointing it out.)
• 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• Shreds and Patches: folky stuff around Shropshire [no longer maintained, sadly]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.