Performance Venues: UK

Subject: Performance Venues: UK
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 09 Aug 23 - 04:03 AM

?? Question for musicians and concert venue


MiaM (Mice in a Matchbox) have been performing for nearly 10 years.
We're doing a lot of pub gigs which are fun, as you know.
We'd like to find more folk clubs and concerts, but I don't see them advertised much. For instance, do people organise an evening (fund raising) in village halls; put on concerts?

The Lemonade Lady (retired)

Subject: RE: Performance Venues: UK
From: GUEST,Tom Patterson
Date: 09 Aug 23 - 05:34 AM

There seem to be plenty of things happening. Not many magazines left in the UK but if you go on the Internet and search Folk Diary for any given area lots of things come up. Good luck!

Subject: RE: Performance Venues: UK
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 09 Aug 23 - 06:01 AM

Thanks, Tom, I will.
Mr Red's Midwest is, good too. Highly comprehensive

Subject: RE: Performance Venues: UK
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 11 Aug 23 - 04:37 PM

There are some links on the old thread about maps
https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=164274#3929441

The link there for map showing listers of folk links (UK Folk Links) will give you links to local diaries.

The link on 10th April 2022 for the Folk Club Map gives a pretty good representation of clubs and also some village hall venues. There are links where possible ,,, getting to the people who make the bookings will take a fair bit more digging I'm afraid.
Note, on that map there is a separate layer for each day so for example you can deselect other days and find what might suit your schedule.

Subject: RE: Performance Venues: UK
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 12 Aug 23 - 08:30 PM

Most of my knowledge of what’s on in the way of folk clubs and festivals these days comes from Facebook! There are multiple sites where people can post their folk club guest nights apart from having their own club or festival page. Much of my Facebook “feed” is full of posters and announcements for these gigs. I know some people don’t like Facebook but it is a valuable resource for promoting events.
Here in Scotland the TMSA (Traditional Music and Song Association of Scotland) also has a What’s On section for people to post festival dates and club contacts.

Subject: RE: Performance Venues: UK
From: GUEST,Jo-Jo
Date: 19 Aug 23 - 04:16 PM

Tatty: re FB:   but bear in mind it is limiting. not EVERYONE is on Face Ache but EVERYONE can access the internet ...

Perhaps someone should set up a web site for A L L    uk clubs, wouldn't that be good eh ????

Subject: RE: Performance Venues: UK
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 19 Aug 23 - 06:09 PM

Jo-Jo
,,, check the links in the thread linked 11 Aug ?


particularly the
Folk Club Map
www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Tf5UnYW2tZqJO6qcaMDdT3v-4D8JutUK
NB open in a browser., horizontal\landscape

Probably not A L L but a lot of the ones which make themselves known.
It is currently up to date to not more than about 13 months on a rolling check.

&
Folk Music Map
not that up to date but it has separate layers to filter
- Supporting Folk Clubs from
- 'other' folk clubs, i.e. ones which dont have guest evenings
https://folkmusicmap.wordpress.com/

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Lemonade Lady
I suppose an agent would have their own lists and knowledge about which clubs like what sorts of acts?


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Subject: RE: Performance Venues: UK
From: Anne Lister
Date: 19 Aug 23 - 06:12 PM

Hi, Guest Jo-Jo - it's been tried several times. The problem is, as far as I've seen, that clubs don't always update the hapless website author, and compiling it (and keeping it up to date) is something of a royal PITA.
It would of course be an excellent idea, but you'd need to find at least one willing and enthusiastic person to do the job. Actually you'd need a team, spread about the country, to collate the information.
If something doesn't exist, there's often a good reason why. But by all means have a go!

Subject: RE: Performance Venues: UK
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 25 Aug 23 - 07:40 PM

It's easy enough to add a place to a list.

The PITA is working out if it has
- definitely ceased
- changed its website address
- moved \ changed to a different night or actually definitely still meets as per details on the original announcement ,,,

;)

Subject: RE: Performance Venues: UK
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Aug 23 - 05:47 AM

Folk Diaries are generally awful in terms of being an unmarked mix of reliable and not reliable info.  Also, old websites often don't 'die' when a new one is started.
FaceAche's equivalents are also variable, quite often posted to by the same few folks, thus no help for spotting venues.
It IS a matter of doing your own donkey work to trawl them and make notes of which are well-populated, with plenty of different material.
Mr Red might be the best, freshness-wise.
I contacted the guy running the Folk Map quite recently, and he admitted he was way behind in updating it.
People are only now twigging that adding a "date last updated" tag to each separate info snippet is a good idea.