Apl/May issue of THE FOLK DIARY on-line (UK)

Subject: Apl/May issue of THE FOLK DIARY on-line
From: Vic Smith
Date: 19 Mar 08 - 11:30 AM

The April/May edition of THE FOLK DIARY is now on-line and you can access it by clicking HERE


Each page is posted as a separate .pdf file and can be accessed separately. The contents of each page are listed there. They are:-

ISSUE No. 230 APRIL - MAY 2008
Page 1 (1571kb) Robert Brown tour, Chanctonbury Ring Morris, Rude Mechanicals (Weds), Spinning Jenny Band
Page 2 (167kb) Fireman's' Arms Uckfield (Tues), Brighton Singers Club (Weds & Suns), Lamb Eastbourne (Weds), Spyboy presentations
Page 3 (934kb) Lewes Arms Lewes (Sats), Royal Oak Lewes (Thurs) - Advertising rates and copy dates
Page 4 (934kb) Concertinas For Sale, Almond Greenway, Vince's Fiddles, Meltdown Ceilidhs, SEFAN, White Horse Bodle St. Green (Mons), Beacon Tunbridge Wells (Mons)
Page 5 (3806kb) Electric Voices Guildford area, Beverley Folk Festival
Page 6 (1307kb) Eclipse Hove (Fris), Hobgoblin Music, Komedia Brighton
Page 7 (998kb) Stokes Bay Festival
Page 8 (5494kb) CD Reviews, Tenterden Folk Festival
Page 9 (545kb) CD Reviews, Horsham Folk Club (Suns)
Page 10 (736kb) CD Reviews, Willows Arundel (Weds), Royal Oak Lewes American Season (Thurs)
Page 11 ( 84kb) Roots Around The World, Broadstairs Folk Week
Page 12 (379kb) Half Decent Songs, Cellarfolk Brighton (Tues), Radical Lewes Festival
Page 13 (1708kb) Croydon Folk Club (Mons), Barry Murphy banjos, Lord Nelson Brighton (Mons), Six Bells Chiddingly (Tues), Acoustic Sussex
Page 14 (755kb) Sussex Folk Association, Ceilidh with The Drift, Elsie's (Sats) Fee Calls Ceilidhs, Pig's Ear Kentish Horse Folk & Ale, Amberley Folk Club (Tues)
Page 15 (809kb) Footlights West Chiltington (Sats), Mid-Sussex Folk Singers (Weds), Lewes Sacred Harp Singing Day, Littlehampton Folk & Roots Festival, Seaford Folk Club (Fris)
Page 16 (1945kb) Folk In The Orchards Haywards Heath

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Subject: RE: Apl/May issue of THE FOLK DIARY on-line
From: mandotim
Date: 19 Mar 08 - 03:18 PM

Shouldn't this perhaps be called the South East England Folk Diary? I was expecting something a touch more inclusive...
tim

Subject: RE: Apl/May issue of THE FOLK DIARY on-line
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Mar 08 - 03:50 PM

Looks like a job well-done, Vic, though by the title I was sort of expecting something a bit different, too. Maybe not even UK-centric.:-/

Subject: RE: Apl/May issue of THE FOLK DIARY on-line
From: Vic Smith
Date: 19 Mar 08 - 04:11 PM

"mandotim" said:-
Shouldn't this perhaps be called the South East England Folk Diary? I was expecting something a touch more inclusive...
tim

Yes, I admit it is a problem. When we started it in 1971 (Same editors, Jim Marshall and myself after all this time and 230 issues!) it was called THE BRIGHTON FOLK DIARY then we started to attract club advertisers from the rest of Sussex so after 2/3 years it became THE SUSSEX FOLK DIARY and so it remained for about 25 years. Then we started to get regular advertisers from outside the county and so the "Sussex" name was no longer valid.
We did consider titles that reflected the area that we were now covering - South-Eastern Folk Diary - Wealden Folk Diary etc. The problem was that by then there were also folk listings mags for Kent and Surrey and we did not want to give the impression that we were treading on others' toes! (Incidently, THE SURREY FOLK NEWS has just folded.)
This led us to opt simply for THE FOLK DIARY.
In any case, I reckon that we were the first regional folk listings mag so we have a right to the title - just as it's "The Football Association" and not "The English Football Association".
Vic

Subject: RE: Apl/May issue of THE FOLK DIARY on-line (UK)
From: Vic Smith
Date: 19 Mar 08 - 04:21 PM

katlaughing said:-
"Looks like a job well-done, Vic"
Thanks for that. I ought to point out that it has always been a labour of love; in 37 years neither Jim or I have made a penny out of running it.