Virtual FOCSLE Music
2nd & 4th WEDNESDAYs  8pm UK

See a date-order calendar of all events, virtual and live, here

Use this link for e-contact about any Virtual events

Technical problems with the link, or access-details, you’ve got?  We can’t always help:  note that Zoom is now styled Zoom Workplace, so stored links on e.g. browser pages, or in suggestion drop-down lists, may link to outdated pages on Zoom’s website.  Try signing in via their site [plain ol’ www.zoom.us] and the Join / “Join A Meeting” links there.  Refresh the ‘pin’ on your browser tab once you’ve successfully joined us.

Note:  arriving at the Sing but finding no-one there is not a “technical” problem:  IF it happens – and you’ve got the right date! – apologies:  that’s just the M.C. running late, for the usual human reasons!  In practice, other performers will be there, too, so you won’t be alone.
When Paul’s Hosting, he may be sole contact that day, and his tech. is primitive* [e.g. no smartphone, no inter-connection between devices], you can’t reach him by e-mailing* in the ¼-hr. before start-time.
Just toddle off and e.g. put the kettle on, or pour a glass, and somebody competent should turn up…  It’s cock-up, not conspiracy:  honest!     * if he can read e-mail [at that, forwarded from Terry], it means he’s AT the computer!  If he’s at the computer and not at the Zoom, THAT’S a “technical” problem!!  :-)
Other Hosts are more up-to-date, tech-wise, thus may well be able to respond to queries while opening up, or after the start of, the Zoom, but we don’t post their contact-details here:  the central e‑mail for this event may not be monitored in time for every Meeting.

Joining us from elsewhere?  Calculate the time in your area here.

We respectfully ask that you keep any event codes you receive from us, OFF social media (Facebook, X/Twitter, et al.), or in other music Zoom Chat spaces.  Thanks for obliging.

New to Zoom &/or need help optimizing your sound settings?  See next box down

Hankering for more folk fix?  See this International Calendar of virtual music events, or this US West Coast one or this – their mag. is worth subscribing to, anyway – FolkLife UK.
Paul, who used to run FOCSLE Music, compiled a list of 125+ active Zooms, which he passed on to the FolkLife team.  They lack the web-wherewithal to input the data, and would appreciate a knowledgeable volunteer to do it.  That might become the most comprehensive directory on the Net.
Don’t blame the compilers if, as virtual events get replaced by in-person ones, organizers don’t bother to inform the Calendar-keepers and they begin to show inaccuracies.  Use some cyber-nous to root out the event’s web-presence and check via that method what’s happening, and ask them to report that to the relevant Calendar.  Reporting ANY broken links [sam@folklife.uk, for FolkLife’s] is a valuable service you could do for all of us.

The Golden Link Folk Singing Society, of Rochester  NY, provided these instructions.  Thanks to them, and their webmaster [and no mean musician] Dan Kuchta, for OK-ing our linking to them.
GL’s online sessions have now ceased, as they’ve reverted to in-person activities only, but I’d like to record here my personal thanks for the Godsend that their virtual events were, during the depths of the Pandemic.
They may eventually decide it’s a waste of website space harbouring these instructions, and delete the pages.  Paul would appreciate your reporting this, if you find it before him.  Thanks.