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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 25/09/2026

The new Folk London is back from the printers and going out to readers today. With: * Martin Carthy – a career retrospective interview plus review of the new 20-CD box set * Olivia Chaney on Purcell, folk & genre-hopping * News, reviews, listings and more Buy here: folklondon.co.uk/product/octo...

A box of Folk London magazines with Martin Carthy on the cover

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 16/09/2026

The new Folk London is at the printers and available to preorder. With: * Martin Carthy – a career retrospective interview plus in-depth review of the new 20-CD box set * Olivia Chaney on Purcell, folk and genre-hopping * News, reviews, listings Preorder here: folklondon.co.uk/product/octo...

The cover of Folk London magazine, featuring a portrait photo of Martin Carthy

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 16/07/2026

The new Folk London magazine is at the printers and available to preorder. Featuring: • Peta Webb on a lifetime of traditional song • The New Roots contest for young folk stars • A beginner’s guide to tune sessions • News, listings, reviews and more Preorder here: folklondon.co.uk/product/augu...

The cover of Folk London, featuring Peta Webb - a woman with red hair wearing a green cardigan - smiling in the sunshine in front of a red door

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 15/07/2026

Now on Bandcamp! Clive Woolf Live at Dingle’s, 1974. Very excited to get this out there. Clive was a red-hot guitarist and singer until illness ended his career aged 28. His only studio recordings are lost and this is the first chance to hear him at his peak folklondon.bandcamp.com/album/live-a...

The cover art for Clive Woolf Live at Dingle’s, 1974. It shows a young man with dark hair and a cheeky smile playing an acoustic guitar

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 25/05/2026

The new Folk London is back from the printers and will go out to readers tomorrow. Featuring: * Duncan McTaggart on the joys of the London folk scene * Clive Woolf at 80: on playing with Gaughan – and a brush with death * Reviews, news, listings and more Buy here: folklondon.co.uk/product/june...

A box of Folk London magazines. The cover features a photo of Duncan McTaggart, a young bearded man in a hat, playing a cittern

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 21/05/2026

Oh and this one didn't make the cut but it's with Spencer's Feat I believe

Four young men sitting around a pub table. They are dressed like you might expect from 70s folk-rockers - leather jackets, berets, dungarees, sandals, HAIR

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 21/05/2026

Sneak preview of one of the images from the piece - Clive and Kevin Sheils (still very much a fixture at Walthamstow Folk Club and elsewhere)

Clive Woolf and Kevin Sheils, two young men with extravagant 70s hair and dapper clothes, leaning against the railing of a bridge over a canal

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 18/05/2026

The new Folk London is at the printers and will go out to readers next week. Featuring: * Duncan McTaggart on the joys of the London folk scene * Clive Woolf at 80: on playing with Gaughan – and a brush with death * Reviews, news, listings and more Preorder here: folklondon.co.uk/product/june...

The cover of Folk London magazine, featuring Duncan McTaggart - a young bearded man in a hat – playing a cittern while sitting in front of rows of guitars

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 27/03/2026

how it started* / how it's going * ok it's actually the eighth edition but it's the oldest one in the @efdss.bsky.social library

The front page of Folk London from May 1973. The masthead is hand-drawn in uneven letters, and the text is all typed on a typewriter. There are no photos

The latest Folk London cover, with a full-colour image taking up the entire page

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 24/03/2026

The new Folk London magazine is back from the printers and going out to subscribers today. Featuring: * OffBeat Folk Film Club on putting everyday stories on screen * Folk in the Wild: raucous grassroots field recordings * Listings, reviews and more Buy here: folklondon.co.uk/product/apri...

A box of Folk London magazines featuring Mike Hankin and Rita Conry of OffBeat on the cover

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 16/03/2026

The new Folk London magazine is at the printers and going out to subscribers in a few days. Featuring: * OffBeat Folk Film Club on putting everyday stories on screen * Folk in the Wild: raucous grassroots field recordings * Listings, reviews and more Preorder: folklondon.co.uk/product/apri...

The cover of Folk London magazine featuring a man and a woman looking at each other across a pool table

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 22/01/2026

The new Folk London is out now and going out to subscribers today. Featuring: * Jump Billy! @angelcakepie2.bsky.social and @drmarylshannon.bsky.social on a forgotten Black hero * Beginner's guide to morris dancing * Broomdasher on 10 years of song Buy here: folklondon.co.uk/product/febr...

A box of Folk London magazines with Hamilton Gross, Angeline Morrison and Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne on the cover

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 16/01/2026

The new Folk London is at the printers and will be out next week. Featuring: * Jump Billy! @angelcakepie2.bsky.social and @drmarylshannon.bsky.social on a forgotten Black hero * Beginner's guide to morris dancing * Broomdasher on 10 years of song Preorder here: folklondon.co.uk/product/febr...

The cover of Folk London, featuring Hamilton Gross, Angeline Morrison and Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne performing

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 05/12/2025

It's Bandcamp Friday! Have a look at the Folk London store – we have shanties, ballads, dance tunes, the new winter album from @morrisfolkchoir.bsky.social and much much more. All revenue goes straight to artists and labels today #BandcampFriday folklondon.bandcamp.com

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 21/11/2025

Read our tribute to Garry Walker of the HogEye Men, the ‘quiet gentleman of folk’, in the new edition of Folk London – back from the printers and going out to readers today Buy here: folklondon.co.uk/product/dece...

A box of Folk London magazines, with Garry Walker of the HogEye Men on the cover

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 18/11/2025

The December-January edition of Folk London is at the printers and will go out to readers later this week. With: • Our tribute to Garry Walker of the HogEye Men, the ‘quiet gentleman of folk’ • Best albums of 2025 • Reviews, listings and more Preorder here: folklondon.co.uk/product/dece...

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 17/11/2025

Such a great day. Have the Unthanks come looking for you with shotguns yet?

David and Ellie dressed as the Unthank sisters, singing Agadoo in the style of, for Reasons

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 25/09/2025

The new Folk London is back from the printers and going out to readers today. Featuring • Our interview with Katie Spencer on her new album What Love Is • Remembering Rita Cherriman: Croydon Folk Club’s new gig season • News, reviews, listings and more Buy here: folklondon.co.uk/product/octo...

A box of Folk London magazines with a photo of Katie Spencer on the cover

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 17/09/2025

The new Folk London magazine is at the printers and available to preorder now. Featuring • Katie Spencer on her new album What Love Is • Remembering Rita Cherriman: Croydon Folk Club’s new gig season • News, reviews, listings and more Preorder here: folklondon.co.uk/product/octo...

The cover of Folk London magazine, featuring a portrait photo of Katie Spencer in stylised dark blue and red

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 10/06/2025

The oldest edition of Folk London we've so far found at the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library @efdss.bsky.social (and many thanks to the library team for their help). We've come a long way...

An early edition of Folk London magazine from May 1973. It is made of stapled sheets of A4 and has a hand-drawn masthead, with body copy laid out on a typewriter

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 21/05/2025

The new Folk London is back from the printers and going out to readers today. Featuring an interview with the legendary Peggy Seeger as she heads off on her Final Farewell tour. Plus the usual listings, CD reviews and more. Buy here: folklondon.co.uk/product/june...

A box of Folk London magazines with Peggy Seeger on the cover

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 15/05/2025

The new Folk London is out next week, and we’re delighted to have an interview with the legendary Peggy Seeger as she heads off on her Final Farewell tour. Plus the usual listings, CD reviews and more. Preorder here: folklondon.co.uk/product/june...

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 03/05/2025

A bit of Kimber's Men doing Northwest Passage, led by the mighty John Bromley

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 03/05/2025

Yr hmbl crrspndnt is out and about at Rochester Sweeps. Lovely day for it

Morris dancers with sticks and green tatterjack outfits dancing on a high street surrounded by a crowd

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 05/04/2025

@lunatraktors.bsky.social Newly fitted to the official editorial backpack 💪🏳️‍⚧️

A blue backpack with a copy of Folk London lying on it. Sewn to the backpack is a black patch reading Folk Against Fascism with an intersectional Pride rainbow

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 25/03/2025

The new Folk London magazine is back from the printers and going out to subscribers today. Featuring: • @theyounguns.bsky.social on the power of song • Our guide to May Day events around London • News, reviews, listings and more Buy here: folklondon.co.uk/product/apri...

A box of Folk London magazines with the Young'uns singing trio on the cover

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 18/03/2025

The new Folk London magazine is at the printers and will be going out to clubs and subscribers next week. Featuring: • @theyounguns.bsky.social on the power of song • Our guide to May Day events around London • News, reviews, listings and more Preorder here: folklondon.co.uk/product/apri...

The cover of Folk London magazine. The image shows the Young'uns, three young men, standing in a line on stage singing

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 23/01/2025

The new Folk London magazine is OUT NOW and going out to clubs and subscribers today. Featuring: • Jennifer Reid on dialect, weaving and telling working-class stories • How to build a tune-playing community from scratch • News, reviews, listings and more Buy here: folklondon.co.uk/product/febr...

Piles of the new Folk London magazine, with Jennifer Reid on the front cover

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 20/01/2025

The new Folk London magazine is at the printers and available to preorder now. Featuring: • Jennifer Reid on dialect, weaving and telling working-class stories • How to build a tune-playing community from scratch • News, reviews, listings and more Preorder here: folklondon.co.uk/product/febr...

The front cover of Folk London, featuring Jennifer Reid performing on stage. She is wearing a checked shirt and is singing into a microphone while holding a book

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 24/12/2024

"You'll be visited by three spirits" The three spirits:

The Young Tradition – Royston Wood, Heather Wood and Peter Bellamy – standing in front of a dartboard in a pub. Royston is holding a beer, and Peter is smoking a cigar with darts in his other hand. They're dressed in gaudy pinks, purples and reds

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 27/11/2024

The new Folk London magazine is OUT NOW. Featuring: • Sam Lee: ‘Folk music has to be the activist’ • Best albums of 2024: The Kimberleys, Goblin Band and more • Plus the usual news, reviews, diary and club guide Buy here: folklondon.co.uk/product/dece...

A box of Folk London magazines. The cover features Sam Lee standing beside a waterway, with the headline "Sam Lee: 'Folk music needs to be the activist'"

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 26/11/2024

Our Club Guide page now has a searchable Google map of clubs, sessions, singarounds and venues around London: folklondon.co.uk/club-guide/ The map itself is here: www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/v... Let us know if you find any errors, or want your event listed

A screenshot of Google Maps showing a custom-made overlay of London folk clubs, with coloured stars indicating venues

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 21/11/2024

Post a picture of yourself in a different era (before yr hmbl crrspndnt was born, in fact)

Folk London magazine - really a glorified leaflet at this point - from December 1975. The main headline reads "Seasonal greetings to our readers" alongside an illustration of a yule log being dragged into a hall full of people

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 11/11/2024

Unlike you I get my news from a reliable source

A woodcut engraving of a "long-song seller" from London Labour and the London Poor. A man in suit and top hat is holding a pole on which are pinned long sheets of paper with the lyrics of songs for sale

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 06/11/2024

Timely when Bellowhead are back out on tour – this is from the December-January 2004-05 Folk London. Bellowhead's debut EP is "smashing", we can report

A clipping from Folk London magazine. Text reads:

"I have received a copy of an EP from Bellowhead which is smashing – from John Spiers and Jon Boden and others, Also Gail Williams and Jim Younger, Women of a Certain Age, Anne Lennox Martin, Born to the Breed and Tracey Curtis, If the Moon Could Talk, I have not been able to review or even listen to any of these except the Bellowhead so they will be in the next magazine. Thank you all for sending them to me."

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 05/11/2024

Just started work on the next edition of Folk London, with a slightly tweaked imprint #TheLudditesWereRight

A screenshot from Indesign, of Folk London's publisher imprint. The text reads: "Contributions: We welcome interviews, features and news items. Please contact editor@folklondon.co.uk if you’re interested in submitting material

Reviews: Albums and EPs can be submitted for review to the address on the left.
Physical copies preferred. We’re always seeking more reviewers – email for details"

Highlighted in bold is the text "Made without the use of generative AI"

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 17/09/2024

The new Folk London magazine is out now! Featuring: • Frankie Archer: ‘I do a lot of very dark stories’ • John White, 1920-2024 • How club organisers can attract new faces • News, reviews, listings and more Buy here: folklondon.co.uk/product/octo...

A box full of newly printed Folk London magazines, featuring Frankie Archer's face on the cover

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 10/09/2024

The new Folk London magazine is at the printers and available to preorder now. Featuring: • Frankie Archer: ‘I do a lot of very dark stories’ • John White, 1920-2024 • How club organisers can attract new faces • News, reviews, listings and more Preorder here: folklondon.co.uk/product/octo...

The cover of Folk London magazine, featuring the face of Frankie Archer, a young woman with light hair. She is looking to the right against a green and white background

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 23/07/2024

We're on Bandcamp! Albums from local independent artists including James Eagle (the Folk London editor), @morrisfolkchoir.bsky.social, Thomas McCarthy, the HogEye Men and more See the whole range here: folklondon.bandcamp.com

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 15/07/2024

The new Folk London magazine is at the printers and available for preorder now. Featuring: • Hull Trawling: Martin Woodford brings fishing’s heyday back to life • John Foreman, 1931-2024: A tribute to the ‘Broadsheet King’ • News, reviews and more Preorder here: folklondon.co.uk/product/augu...

The cover of Folk London magazine, featuring Martin Wood wearing a blue shirt and standing against a brick wall

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 02/07/2024

In the bar at Cecil Sharp House. RIP John Foreman

A poem, printed out and pinned on a noticeboard. It reads:
"JOHN FOREMAN

A noble prince in Elsinore man.
As brave as any matador man.
You never quite know
what's in store man.
Fresh as tomorrow, no dinosaur man.
In arty terms, an omnivore man.
A culture culture, a gimme-more man.
A full of dramatic
and music-hall lore man.
Never one to roar,
more a semaphore man.
One of the team,
an esprit-de-corps man.
A fit to feature
on Mount Rushmore man.
A thoughtful cove,
a quick rapport man.
A his and hers,
a mine and your man. "

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 02/07/2024

Free entry! Come along to the Harrison All Day Folk Festival on 28 July, at Jamboree, King's Cross WC1X 9HH. We're co-running a singaround to get things running from 12.15 so come along and join in the choruses

A poster reading "The Harrison All Day Folk Festivals Edition 3: Free Admission". The artwork shows a drawing of a man, with a hat, beard and sunglasses, playing a violin

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 30/05/2024

Hey snap. I'm in the middle of this book and just got to these ballads

The cover of The Kentish Garland by JW Ebsworth

A page of the ballad The Life, Trial and Execution of Dedea Redanies

A page of the ballad The Dying Soldier at Maidstone Gaol

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 29/05/2024

This is sad news. Towersey Festival will be a huge loss www.towerseyfestival.com

A screenshot from the Towersey Festival website. The text reads: "Why is 2024 the last Towersey Festival?
It is with the heaviest of hearts that we have made the decision that Towersey Festival 2024 will be our last. Like so many other independent and grassroots festivals, we have faced too many forces outside of our control which have made it increasingly difficult to operate and survive.

We would not have got to 60 years without the support we’ve received from customers, supporters, partners, suppliers and funding, and for this we are truly grateful."

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 22/05/2024

This Sunday! It's the first All Day Folk Festival to save the Harrison pub. We're helping to run a singaround at 12.30 to get things going - see you there? www.seetickets.com/event/the-ha...

A graphic for the Harrison all day folk festival. An illustration of a king playing the fiddle, with a stylised rising sun behind him

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 15/05/2024

The new Folk London magazine is at the printers and available for preorder now. Featuring: • The Folk Detectives: ‘They’re trying to silence us’ • Back to school: The EFDSS Monday Folk Singers • New Roots 2024 • Paul Gross, 1937-2024 Preorder here: folklondon.co.uk/product/june...

The cover of Folk London, featuring the Folk Detectives performing live on stage. Paul Hutchinson is playing accordion and Matthew Crampton is holding up a sign reading ‘Sigh’

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 20/03/2024

The new Folk London magazine is back from the printers and going out to readers today. Featuring: • Goblin Band: On their new EP, the resurgent London scene and praise from Martin Carthy • What clubs can do to boost accessibility • Barry Laing 1948-2023 Buy here: folklondon.co.uk/product/apri...

A box full of freshly printed copies of Folk London, featuring Goblin Band on the cover

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 17/03/2024

The new Folk London magazine is at the printers and available for preorder now. Featuring: • Goblin Band: On their new EP, the resurgent London scene and praise from Martin Carthy • What clubs can do to boost accessibility • Barry Laing, 1948-2023 Preorder here: folklondon.co.uk/product/apri...

The cover of Folk London magazine, featuring Goblin Band performing live

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 18/01/2024

The new Folk London magazine is back from the printers and going out to subscribers today. Featuring: • The joys of the Cecil Sharp House Choir • Bob Wakeling, 1939-2023 • Ivan North, 1945-2023 Plus the usual reviews, listings and more. Buy here: folklondon.co.uk/product/febr...

A cardboard box of newly printed Folk London magazines, with the Cecil Sharp House Choir on the cover

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Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 15/01/2024

The new Folk London magazine is at the printers and available to preorder now. Featuring: • The joys of the Cecil Sharp House Choir • Bob Wakeling, 1939-2023 • Ivan North, 1945-2023 Plus the usual reviews, listings and more. Preorder here: folklondon.co.uk/product/febr...

The cover of Folk London magazine, featuring the Cecil Sharp House Choir performing on stage

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