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Thread #139519 Message #3879036
Posted By: FreddyHeadey
27-Sep-17 - 07:25 PM
Thread Name: Sessions in North Wales in August?
Subject: RE: Sessions in North Wales in August?
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Personal rec's got to be best. but fwiw These are some links I've jotted down over time. Some/most cover the whole of Wales so in a trawl your geographical knowledge needs to be pretty hot. (see the link at the bottom for clickable links)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FOLK Folk Wales All-Wales Diary of Roots/Folk Events http://folk.wales/updates/?page_id=301 Sep2017
also check Cross Keys, Llanfynydd Folk and Acoustic Club FaceBook which seems to have frequent posts for North Wales gigs. www.facebook.com/groups/new.inn/ Sep2017
Rod Smith's "Traditional Music Library" club listings(undated) www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/folk-clubs/wales.htm & www.facebook.com/pg/TraditionalMusicLibrary/posts Sep2017
Conwy Folk Club is Monday, weekly but also lists local gigs, North Wales www.facebook.com/groups/100581213339538/events Sep2017
TRAC WALES' FOLK DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATION www.trac-cymru.org/en/whats-on/events Sep2017
tasc Mid Wales...organising Events & Workshops to encourage the use and enjoyment of Folk Music in Mid Wales and the Borders. www.tradartsupport.org.uk Sep2017
(Folk Orbit http://folkorbit.co.uk/monday#WALES ...2016... listings closed since the death of Colin Matthews in 2015)
Pluck & Squeeze Band -links page, South Wales www.pluckandsqueeze.com/events.htm Sep2017
Mr Red's page, borders & S Wales http://mister.red/map2.htm and lots more links in 'Other Local Links' & http://mister.red/various/lists.htm . Mr.Red's Folk Sessions Page Glam http://mister.red/sesc.htm#Gla Gwent http://mister.red/sesc.htm#Gwe Powys http://mister.red/sesc.htm#Pow Sep2017
Folklife Quarterly A printed A4 magazine of articles and events, seems to cover the Midlands and anywhere south. index : http://folklife.org.uk/index.html the most recent online issue http://issuu.com/folklife/docs/fq-latest www.folklife-directory.uk/venues.html Sep2017 Sep2017 ... a confusing set of pages with similar names...!
Sesiwn - Cymdeithas Offerynnau Traddodiadol Cymru - The Society for the Traditional Instruments of Wales Sesiynau, Dyddiadur, Clybiau Alawon, Digwyddiadur, ALAWON. Sessions, Events Diary, Tune Clubs, BLOG, TUNES. www.sesiwn.com/ Sep2017
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ INSTRUMENTAL Celtic instrumental sessions https://thesession.org/sessions/search ...start the search with 'any day' in... and type in a county or if you know your LatLon location... North https://thesession.org/sessions/nearby?latlon=52.954321,-3.934567 Mid/South https://thesession.org/sessions/nearby?latlon=52.000,-4.0 Sep2017
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DANCE [Folk Orbit http://folkorbit.co.uk/dance-clubs#WALES 2016 is no longer running]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ OPEN MIC Open Mic Finder http://openmicfinder.com/UK/Wales Sep2017
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GIGS/CONCERTS 'ents24 listings' Folk gigs within 20km of Wrexham www.ents24.com/hub/search/genre/folk/near/Wrexham/radius/17/order/date and edit the url as you wish Sep2017
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SPOKEN WriteOutLoud poetry gigs www.writeoutloud.net/public/gigsearch.php [defaults to Dungannon! you need to type a town or post code] Sep2017
South Wales Canolfan Adrodd Storiau George Ewart Evans George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling http://storytelling.research.southwales.ac.uk/GEECSevents Sep2017
Traditional Drama Archive(2010) www.folk.wales/archives.html