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Covers all aspects of the lively folk scene in and around Bristol.
Covers North Devon as well as West Somerset. Based around the active scene in Minehead.
"Traditional Music & Dance in South Devon"
covering an area roughly bounded by Exeter, Plymouth, Tavistock, Okehampton and all points south. Includes an email service similar to the one we provide.
The Southern Counties Folk Federation (SCoFF) is a loose confederation of Folk Clubs, several Arts Centres, a Concert Hall and occasionally an independent Festival, bodies with an interest in promoting Folk and related acoustic music in the Southern Counties of England.
The Federation covers most of Southern England, ranging, east/west, from East Sussex/ Kent to Somerset and, north/south, from Bucks/Oxon/Berks/Herts to the Channel Islands; including Dorset, Hampshire, Sussex, Surrey and Wiltshire.
The Wiltshire Folk Association (wfa) was formed to promote, celebrate and develop all folk arts within the county of Wiltshire.
The WFA produces a quarterly newsletter, which I assume you can have posted to you, as well as it being on the website. The website provides lists of and links to all things folky in Wiltshire.
The Devon Folk Committee is a voluntary, constituted body and is the only county-wide organisation promoting folk activities of all types (song, social dance, ritual dance, mumming etc.) and, through a 4-monthly publication "What's Afoot" (December, April, August) and [their] website, providing contact details for clubs throughout the county. What's Afoot also includes articles, album reviews, lists of bands and callers, advertisements for folk events happening locally and across the country. The committee meets quarterly and organises and supports various events. Funding comes principally from donations, while expenditure includes support for deserving folk causes in the county.
A series of ceilidhs, in Exeter, featuring nationally respected bands.
Mr Red's Mid West (cresby.com) provides a diary of sessions, folk clubs, festivals, dances and so on in Gloucestershire & attached bits (+ De Ddwyrain Cymru)
The Voice of Folk in the South and Beyond for over 25 years!
Southampton based folk listings magazine. The website is seriously out of date, but that may change!
A site aimed to keep you in touch with all and any events in East Devon related to Folk, Acoustic, Roots (or whatever you like to call it) MUSIC!
Open Mic Music and Acoustic links to venues in and around Bristol.
Glosfolk - Keeping Traditional Music Alive and Kicking in the County
The Glosfolk Directory contains a wealth of information about Gloucestershire folk dance and song performers and groups.
The Devon Squeezebox Foundation is a Not For Profit Organisation set up to encourage interest in playing music, primarily from the folk traditions of England, on free reed instruments e.g. piano and button accordians, concertina, melodeon etc in the County of Devon and through out the West Country