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FL ENGLISH FOLK SONG & DANCE SOCIETY (EFDSS) www.efdss.org Office 020 7485 2206
⌂ Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent’s Park Road, LONDON, NW1 7AY.
⊕ National organisation: folk song, music, dance, tradition. Membership: two magazine subscriptions, use of VWM Library, free performers’ insurance, and more. [EFDSS; previously listed; now a FL member, August 2017]
∅ FOLK CAMPS ................................. www.folkcamps.co.uk Office 0208 1232136
⌂ Folk Camps Society Limited, 43 Mill Street, Tonyrefail, PORTH CF39 8AB. Mobile: 07919 048183. info<at>folkcamps.co.uk
⊕ Folk Camps runs holidays with an emphasis on the enjoyment and participation in folk dance, music and song. For people who like folk festivals, dancing, camping in the great outdoors, making their own music and meeting other fascinating people!
FL WORKERS’ MUSIC ASSOCIATION [no website] Chair: Anne Schuman 020 8699 1933
⌂ 240 Perry Rise, Forest Hill, London, SE23 2QT. Email anne.schuman<at>btinternet.com
⊕ Encourages the social, as opposed to the individualistic approach to the arts; has direct contacts with National and Local Trade Union organisations, has affiliates from choirs and bands across the country, and runs a successful Summer School every August.
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2006 Sep - FWJ 01 e-mag
20 A4 pages (incl. colour photos)
● ‘A Worcestershire Folk Club: Somers Traditional Folk Club' p3-4
● Dave Jones, Welsh Border Morris: ‘Introduction’ & ‘Evesham Morris Dances’ p5-7
● Charles Menteith, ‘Worcestershire Songs: “Bill The Weaver” & “Now on that hill …" p8-9
● Eric Payne “Mud, Dust and Noise”: Whitman’s Hill Quarry, p11
● Roy Palmer, Ballad Printers of Worcester, 1. John Butler’ p12-13
● Roy Palmer, ‘Cecil Sharp at Evesham’, p14-15
● Robert Wimbury ‘Worcs Memories: A Worcs Coronation Pageant’ p17
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Societies
● Worcs. Folklife’s Recording Facilities’ p17
● ‘Holly & Mistletoe Auctions’ p18 ● ‘Worcs Chinese Association’ p18
Publications
● ‘Romany Road’ magazine p18
● ‘The Folklore of Worcestershire’ (Roy Palmer), reviewed Eds p2
Worcestershire Festivals, & Performers
● Upton Folk Festival: photos by Colin Davies p.10
● ‘Just Latin Salsa’ ‘Food & Folk’, ‘Dampiers Round’, ‘Appleyard Dancers’, p18-19