Trad Arts Team

Storytelling Cafe Keith Rogers introduces Anita’s journey through tales of children and childhood. Anita finds a book in her grandmother’s library. As it opens, stories appear. What follows is an hour of storytelling, ...

On Wednesday 18 March come along to Birmingham Storytelling Cafe #bhamstory at the Kitchen Garden Cafe in #KingsHeath for Keith Rogers' story of Anita's Book. More details and tickets from wegottickets.com/f/16569

National Youth Folk Ensemble Open Days
These free days are a brilliant way to play folk music as part of a band, meet the tutor team, and find out more about the Ensemble.
Cecil Sharp House - 27 May
Exeter Phoenix - 28 May
Leeds Conservatoire - 30 May
Find out more and Book now: bit.ly/3Pl1TcN

Swords and Stars: Rapper Sword Dance for Primary Schools Written by Lucy Huzzard and Bryony Griffith, with diagrams by Will Hampson. A resource for teachers and dance artists working with primary school age pupils. It includes written notes, audio files, an...

Resource of the Month
Swords and Stars: Rapper Sword Dance for Primary Schools
Introduction to Rapper sword dancing, including diagrams, and tune recordings, created for us by Bryony Griffith and Lucy Huzzard.
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Image: St Godrics and St Marys Betty and rapper lock - Roswitha Chesher

please pass on to any young folk artists that you know

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Neil Gore, presents a one-person version of the classic novel by Robert Tressell featuring projection, political conjuring tricks, live music and song. Meet the famous characters and enjoy the scenes,...

On Saturday 28 March Kings Heath Community Centre will be presenting live theatre with Ragged Trousered Philanthropists from @townsendprod.bsky.social. Tickets £15 from wegottickets.com/f/15991

Trad Arts Team News March 2026 It has been a pretty wet few months and, as winter begins to fade, there is still a good chance of a gloomy forecast ahead.  So take an umbrella and head out to one of our events, where you ar…

Trad Arts Team has just published its March newsletter listing upcoming events - hope you can join us at some of them. Full details at tradartsteam.co.uk/2026/02/25/t...

Saturday 21 March is the launch date for the 2026 series of rhe monthly Kings Heath Art Market at Kings Heath Community Centre #art #market #kingsheath

🎂 Celebrate the fiftieth birthday of the beloved cloth cat Bagpuss, and share Sandra Kerr’s vivid memories of the 1960s folk revival in this classic episode from 2024.

🎧 Listen here: pod.fo/e/39467e

Folk Shop The Folk Shop sells a selected range of items, concentrates on items which are harder to find from general retailers, whether online or in person.    The Folk Shop is offered as a service to individua...

We've recently added more new and second hand stock to our Folk Shop - books and CDs relating to Folk music, dance and song.
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Roundhouse launches Young Creatives Commission | Charity Today News The Commission will develop new solutions to put the arts alongside sport as a core pillar of youth engagement and opportunity. It will draw on lessons from

We're pleased to see the launch of this: Young Creatives Commission – a year‑long national inquiry into how to widen children and young people’s access to arts, culture and the creative industries: bit.ly/4aYidsr

This is tonight - hope you can join us!

This is tonight - hope you can join us!

Storytelling Cafe Love is in the air this February! Join the Café crew as we regale you with tales of Romance, yearning and devotion. We will have stories of true love that defies all odds that will make your heart flu...

Wed 18 February - join Birmingham Storytelling Cafe at the Kitchen Garden to hear tales of love - tickets from wegottickets.com/f/15989

A film worth seeing - the History of Sound

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Neil Gore, presents a one-person version of the classic novel by Robert Tressell featuring projection, political conjuring tricks, live music and song. Meet the famous characters and enjoy the scenes,...

On Saturday 28 March Kings Heath Community Centre will be presenting live theatre with Ragged Trousered Philanthropists from @townsendprod.bsky.social. Tickets £15 from wegottickets.com/f/15991

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Neil Gore, presents a one-person version of the classic novel by Robert Tressell featuring projection, political conjuring tricks, live music and song. Meet the famous characters and enjoy the scenes,...

Kings Heath Community Centre will be presenting live theatre on Saturday 28 March with Townsend Theatre's Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. Tickets £15 from wegottickets.com/f/15991

2026 Funding Applications Open for Young Folk and Traditional Music Performers The Alan Surtees Trust has opened its 2026 round of funding for folk and traditional music performers aged 16 to 30. The Trust will make four awards of up to £2,000 per person and applications close 3...

The Alan Surtees Trust is a grant giving organisation that supports young performers whose work is rooted in, or influenced by, folk or traditional music and arts of any culture. Deadline 30 April: bit.ly/4kd88e8

The ceilidh planned for this Saturday is sold out, but we hope to organise another on Friday 1 May - watch this space www.facebook.com/events/11654...

Birmingham music group helps pupils to open up about trauma Students at Holy Trinity Catholic School in Small Health write and record music about past experiences.

Students use music to open up about trauma - Pupils are turning pain into poetry through a new music programme aimed at helping young people process trauma.
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The latest issue of Folk London magazine has an interview about Billy Waters, one of London’s earliest known Black folk celebrity street musicians, with me & Dr Mary L Shannon. Huge thanks to the Folk London team 🙏🏾🖤

Trad Arts Team News Feb 2026 February is the month of love, snowdrops and storms but heralds the end of the winter.  It’s the shortest month of the year but even in February the place is busy.  Once again …

Trad Arts Team has just published its February newsletter listing upcoming events - hope you can join us at some of them. Full details at tradartsteam.co.uk/2026/01/28/t...

On Saturday 7 February there will be a ceilidh at All Saints Centre to celebrate the life of our friend Alma Beattie. Music from Mad Moll, caller Frances Richardson. More info at facebook.com/events/11654...

The Trad Arts Team hopes to work with Kings Heath Community Centre to run art and music events in Kings Heath and has contributed to it's current crowdfunder: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/kings-heat...

On Wednesday 18 February come along to the Kitchen Garden Cafe in Kings Heath Birmingham for Valentine tales from the Cafe Crew. More details and tickets from wegottickets.com/event/690241

People who regularly go to the theatre, live music events, museums, galleries and the cinema have nearly half the risk of developing depression.

The deadline is 31 January for young musicians, under the age of 25 who sing or play traditionally based music, to enter New Roots 2026! More info at www.new-roots.org.uk

On Saturday 7 February there will be a ceilidh at All Saints Centre to celebrate the life of our friend Alma Beattie. Music from Mad Moll, caller Frances Richardson. More info at facebook.com/events/11654...

After almost a year of planning between Bianca Wilson, Marcus MacDonald and I, The Black British Folk Collective is born. If you’d like to follow us, head over to Instagram & look for @blackbritishfolk to stay up to date. In peace, Angeline, Bianca & Marcus 🖤

How a beloved Christmas carol was born in a Sussex hamlet How did words first written nearly 350 years ago become a beloved Christmas carol?

"Part of the charm of folk songs is that they were passed down through different people, so although we don't know much about Harriet (Verrall), we can get a sense that she was really part of the community.
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