This has been another good year for the Traditional Song Forum. We have weathered the storm of GDPR, and the loss of members that we had as a result has been more than made up by the number of new people who have signed up since. This has been helped by the decision to stop charging an annual subscription, and we will shortly be launching the ‘Friends of TSF’ scheme which will provide some income to support our meetings and projects. We have had two excellent TSF meetings in 2019, one in London and the other in Newcastle, as well as a very successful Broadside Day in Cambridge. These meetings reveal the extraordinary amount of research being carried out by TSF members and several of them gave papers at the Song Conference organised by EFDSS in November. I will look forward to seeing more of this excellent work in 2019.
I’d particularly like to thank all those who have acted as local organisers for our meetings, and Martin Graebe, our Secretary, for keeping it all together. And I would like to wish you all a very happy Christmas and all the best for the New Year Steve Roud (TSF Chairman)