Welcome to the Tykes’ Stirrings Web Site!
An amalgamation of Tykes News
(West Yorkshire) and Stirrings (South Yorkshire)
Tykes Stirrings is a quarterly print magazine about folk music, song and dance.
It covers Yorkshire and surrounds, and is read by people as far afield as the US
and Australia; even by one or two in Lancashire! You can find out more about
Tykes Strrrings and its history by entering Tykes Towers.
Note our new new address: tykesstirrings.org.uk. If you have a web site with a link to the old Tykes News or Stirrings address we'll be much obliged if you could update it.
Tykes Stirrings Summer Issue
No 8: Summer ´22
Summer TykesStirrings fills with bud and blossoms as it shifts from hardy bi-annual back to quarterly quartograph. Clubs are reopening… most having hibernated successfully through the pandemic Winter; within we visit a couple of venues extending the homes of folk. For differing reasons, some clubs have moved house: when you are ready to return or if you spot a performer you'd like to see, be sure to check the where as well as the when. The best way to do so is through Filofolk and the venue adverts herein — both are displaying plenty of promising green shoots… however beware. Two gigs I travelled to in June were cancelled at the last moment, one as I parked up outside the club! It's a volatile scene that we're seeing.We have so far continued using the tried and tested copy-date system of…
| Spring | 20th Jan |
| Summer | 20th April |
| Autumn | 20th July |
| Winter | 20th Oct |
Nigel & Jim
About Tykes Stirrings
Copy Dates
| Spring | 20th Jan |
| Summer | 20th April |
| Autumn | 20th July |
| Winter | 20th Oct |
Periods Covered...
SPRING : March/April/May
SUMMER : June/July/August
AUTUMN : September/October/November
WINTER : December/January/February
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