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Southern Counties Folk Federation
(SCoFF)

Is a loose confederation of Folk Clubs, Arts Centres, Concert and Ceilidh Venues, Festivals and Organisations promoting Folk and related Acoustic Music and Dance in the Southern Counties of England and the Channel Islands.

TAPS (Traditional Arts Projects) with its educational and community development aims is a SCoFF Member.

Unlike the EFDSS (English Folk Dance & Song Society) for example, SCoFF is neither more nor less than the sum of its parts and there is an Individual Member category for people who have no Club, or whose local Club is not a SCoFF Member. The Federation's two parts are this WEBSITE and the FOLK ON TAP quarterly Magazine, which in combination are an Information/Communications Network used to gather and broadcast information in relation to the workings of the folk world within SCoFF's remit (and outside it). Federation Membership automatically includes Public Liability Insurance cover to paid-up Members for Folk events and special Advertising Rates and Members' Diary Dates in its high-quality financially and editorially independent quarterly Magazine 'Folk on Tap'. See relevant page for other Membership advantages.

In the past, SCoFF also ran a successful series of 'Folk Under Aries' and 'Folk Under Libra' Festivals in various venues and gave an Annual Ron Myles Award for services to folk music. Having now evolved into the current information/communications network structure described above, the Federation is very happy to co-operate with and support any Folk Projects within its remit AND if we don't know something/anything outright, we "know a man/woman who does" (or they know someone who does......)!

Finally, no-one connected with the production of the Federation's Magazine or Website is paid - we all do it for love of the music.

   

• SCoFF Folk Clubs• Member Music Venues Etc
The Federation covers most of Southern England, ranging, east/west, from East Sussex/ Kent to Somerset/Devon/Cornwall and, north/south, from Bucks/Oxon/Berks/Herts to the Channel Islands; including Dorset, Hampshire, Sussex, Surrey and Wiltshire.

The Magazine

Folk on TapFolk on Tap

Editor: Sam Satyanadhan

The magazine of The Southern Counties Folk Federation

A 70-90 page A4 magazine including listings and contact details for all member organisations and some other associates as well as a wealth of interesting and informative articles about the Folk scene in the South and Nationally. There are special advertising rates for members.

SCoFF Officers

Chair: Sooty Broughton
 Secretary:Dave Nixon
11 Redmoor Close,
Bitterne,
Southampton, SO19 4DH
tel: 023 8044 6217
fax: 023 8036 1899		 Treasurer: Sam Satyanadhan
3 Cranbury Road,
Woolston,
Southampton, SO19 7HZ
tel/fax: 023 8057 0082 		Webmaster: Trevor Gilson
3 Manchester Road,
Netley Abbey,
Southampton,
SO31 5DB

Federation Information, Activities and Links

  • Choirs in the South which are of particular interest in the Folk (and Early Music) context including many 'Community Choirs'.

  • Database of Web Pages and Contact Information for Southern Counties Artistes and Groups
    In two sections: Concert (including Club) Performers and Ceilidh Bands. Some of these pages are maintained by SCoFF, some by Member Clubs and some by the Artistes themselves or their Record Companies.
    For national lists see
  • Guest List, the web version of Jim Hancock's well-known publication

  • Radio Britfolk National Internet Radio site for British Folk Music run by FolkWISE, including a 'shop window' page and review programmes.

  • Music In Scotland Jim Leighton's Scottish, Irish and Celtic Folk Music Gateway.

  • Martin Nail's List of Folk Artist and Folk Group home pages.

  • Folk & Roots multi-purpose website with major Artiste and event links.

    The Fo'c'sle maintains a more exhaustive set of links to

  • National and International Artistes who have guested at that Club or are soon to do so,

    and Solent Waves to

  • South Hampshire Dance Sides.
  • Live Music & Dance Reviews on this site

  • Folk on Tap magazine.

  • SCoFF Website List of Southern Counties Festivals, Special Events, Workshops Etc
  • SCoFF Website List of Community & Village Choirs
  • SCoFF George Gardiner Anniversary Celebrations Page (Folksong collector active in Hampshire in the early C20)
    A source list for other
  • Southern Counties Diary Listings including the Sussex Folk Guide is maintained by the Fo'c'sle, a SCoFF Club, while the web version of the FASH (Folk Association of South Hants) newsletter Solent Waves contains both a
  • South Hampshire Folk Dance Diary and a
  • less comprehensive but regularly updated Folk Club Listings Diary, whilst
  • Hantsweb is a useful general site for Arts listings and venues in the Southern Counties and see also
  • http://www.sadfolk.co.uk Somerset & Dorset Folk Events email service
  • http://www.kentfolk.com Live Music information for the county of Kent- for folk, Celtic, blues, jazz and Cajun music, gig calendars, photos & MP3 music, venue and musician listings.
  • cresby.com folk club/session/festival/radio/dance diary in the Mid West of England
  • Folk London
  • Folk Now, Jim Hancock's folk news operation lists national folk news of all varieties.
  • SCoFF Member Clubs and Venues - full list with website links where available.
  • Drop-Down menu of links for member organisations having their own websites
    (aka the SCoFF Quick-Finder or redirection service):
  • The National Folkmap with user-provided details of potentially a wide range of folk activities including Clubs and Venues placed on the google-provided maps. This will necessarily focus on higher-profile operations, since these are the ones which will bother to include themselves!
    The Fo'c'sle maintains a wider list of
  • Other Folk Clubs with their own websites, other lists of Folk Clubs and of
  • Southern Counties Venues (other than Folk Clubs),
    while Solent Waves publishes and maintains on the web, a list of
  • South Hampshire Folk Dance Clubs
    • and of
  • South Hampshire Folk/Music Clubs.
  • SCoFF Licensing Reform Page with much archived information about the early days of the struggle and a set of links for keeping abreast of more recent developments including the new Bill

  • SCoFF Information
  • SCoFF Membership Rates, Details and Privileges
  • SCoFF Map
  • SCoFF Aims (see also Constitution - next entry)
  • SCoFF Constitution
  • SCoFF Officers
  • Other Related Links
  • Forest Tracks the Hampshire based record company formed in the early seventies to produce records of the folk music of Hampshire and Dorset, now re-issuing albums in CD form including some fresh material.
  • Wild Goose Records Hampshire.
  • folktrax Peter Kennedy's online resource centre for those interested in traditional musics and cultures. The aim is to promote awareness and enjoyment of musics, dances, customs and traditions. folktrax was founded in 1957 by Peter Kennedy as an outlet through which to make his extensive collection of field recordings (primarilly from the British Isles) avaiable for personal and academic interest. folktrax is now a multifaceted organisation containing within it a library of folk songs, traditions and children's games, an archive of rare field recordings early pressings and the folktrax catalogue of over 450 CDs and DVDs available to the public. folktrax continues to produce new films, recordings and undertake projects in the community to raise awareness of heritage, traditions and encourage participation.
  • SEFAN South East Folk Arts Network, the folk arm of South-East Arts, the now merged S & SE Boards.
  • Folk South East (FSE) is a collective name for events put on by various promoters around the south-East of England. Until the death of John Smedley in 2004, Folk FSE was an important promoter in its own right of concert-style folk performances. More recently, FSE has continued as an 'umbrella organisation' for other promoters, such as Acoustic Sussex (various venues in mid-Sussex); Acoustic Music at themickjaggercentre, Dartford; and Folk at The Pavilion (New Ash Green, Kent).
  • Wiltshire Folk Association (including some SCoFF Clubs).
  • Isle of Wight all-genre music scene site.
  • Live Wire web version of Bournemouth-based eclectic gig guide.
  • South Riding Folk Network with similar aims to SCoFF.
  • Spire Folk Derbyshire & East Midlands Folk Organisation.
  • The Moving Finger Folk from the Harlow Riding.
  • Links to other Folk Organisations and web listings in Solent Waves, particularly former EFDSS Districts.
  • Celfyddydau Mari Arts (Folk Wales Home Page).
  • Irish Traditional Music & Dance
  • Irish Music Magazine news, views and more on the Irish Folk and Trad scene.
  • Links to miscellaneous Folk resources on the Fo'c'sle web pages, not otherwise covered in the above.
  • Links to technical resources relevant to Folk Music in the Fo'c'sle pages.
  • Musikfolk Ltd Comprehensive Recorded Folk Music Catalogue.
  • Coda Edinburgh based comprehensive CD/DVD online and real shop with full folk section and online samples of every track of every CD available.
    • Submitted by Trevor Gilson, SCoFF webmaster
    SCoFF_webmaster@yahoo.co.uk.