The Traditional Song Forum

www.tradsong.org

We called ourselves a 'forum' because we recognised from the outset that one of the most important reasons for the existence of TSF was to enable those interested in collecting, research and other areas of the study of traditional song to meet and to discuss their work with others who can help.

A 'typical' TSF meeting will fall into three parts.  Firstly we will spend time going round those present to hear what they have been doing and to discuss it and help with difficulties etc.  Secondly (and always very briefly!) we will deal with the business matters of the forum.  The afternoon is organised as a 'Forum Focus' session where TSF members or guest speakers can talk at more length about particular topics  -  often themed.

Occasionally we have run whole day sessions such as the  'Life and Times' events, featuring a number of collectors talking about their work.

We produce brief notes of each of our meetings which are published on this site.  The notes of the most recent meetings can be seen here.  There is also an archive of past meetings which you can visit.  There is, though, no substitute for being there.  To help this we move the meetings around the country.  The best attended sessions are those held in London and the North though we try to visit the centre and the West of England occasionally.  You can find details of forthcoming meetings below

Nov 2007