Fay Hield needs Folk research volunteers

Subject: Fay Hield needs Folk research volunteers
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Nov 22 - 12:44 AM

This was posted by Keiron Jones at the Mudcat Facebook page.

From here (click)

Folk research volunteers needed.

Hi Folks
We received this request from (Dr.) Fay Hield

Have you got half an hour to spare to talk to someone about folk music, to help with some research?

We are looking for people - just like you - to talk to people who aren't already involved with folk singing or visiting folk clubs or Festivals, to find out what they think about it all. It's part of a bigger project looking to increase and diversify the people who get involved in folk music as a participant or punter, called Access Folk.

What we need you to do is invite a friend or acquaintance to have a chat with you, talk through some questions (that we supply), record it and send it back to us with some notes about what you thought of the conversation. Absolutely no previous 'interviewing' experience is required from you, and they don't need to know anything about folk singing, we just want to know their thoughts.

We're gathering a lot of different experiences to build a picture of what 'outsiders' perceptions of folk singing and music is, what's putting them off getting involved and what might attract them, so we can think about ways of making what we know to be so brilliant open to more people. We have a lot of students involved but are looking for more interviewers from the folk singing community.

If you think you might know someone to talk to and have a bit of time to spare, we'd REALLY appreciate your help. Feel free to get in touch for a chat if you have any questions. We know it can seem a scary thing, even if you want to help, and would like to help reassure you that YOU ARE exactly who we want to be involved. We're running this until the end of November, so there's just a month to get it done and sent in.

There's lots of information on the website here, but please don't hesitate to call for a chat to go through it all in more human terms! Thanks for reading and hope to hear from you soon.

Fay and Esbjorn
[e-mail]

If you are interested, I have PDFs I could forward to you, explaining the procedure.

Keiron & Maureen Jones

Subject: RE: Fay Hield needs Folk research volunteers
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Nov 22 - 11:24 AM

That's aimed at the UK membershio, I assume?

Subject: RE: Fay Hield needs Folk research volunteers
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 12 Nov 22 - 07:37 PM

It is, Guest, although if you are not in the UK but want to interview someone who is, that fits their criteria.