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FRoots

{{Short description|Former UK music magazine}}

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{{Infobox magazine

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| image_caption = fRoots issue 289, cover-dated July 2007

| publisher = Southern Rag Ltd

| circulation = 12,000 worldwide (2006)

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| language = English

| category = Music (folk, world)

| frequency = Monthly

| editor = Ian A. Anderson (1979–2019)

| founded = 1979

| finaldate = {{end date|2019}}

| country = England, United Kingdom

| based = Farnham

| website = {{official URL}}

| issn = 0951-1326

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fRoots (pronounced "eff-Roots", originally Folk Roots) was a specialist music magazine published in the UK between 1979 and 2019. It specialised in folk and world music, and featured regular compilation downloadable albums, with occasional specials. In 2006, the circulation of the magazine was 12,000 worldwide.

{{Cite web|url=https://frootsmag.com/about-froots|title=About fRoots|access-date=2020-08-27|website=fRoots}} (the year is matched from the [http://www.frootsmag.com/content/ads/ "fRoots Advertising Information"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150312091137/http://www.frootsmag.com/content/ads/ |date=12 March 2015 }} that provides the same "readership of 40,000" data for their "2006 readership survey" as the main "around 12,000 worldwide (giving a readership of around 40,000)" claim).

The magazine was also involved in live music production, as well as the BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music and the Europe in Union concert series.

Overview

In 1979, Southern Rag was founded{{cite book|author=Edward Komara|title=Encyclopedia of the Blues|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-w-uGwm_LhcC&pg=PA757|access-date=7 July 2016|year=2006|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-92699-7|page=756}} by folk musician Ian A. Anderson with Caroline Hurrell and Lawrence Heath.

It was renamed as Folk Roots in 1985, and in 1998 it became fRoots.

The headquarters was initially in Farnham, Surrey and later moved to Bristol.

Anderson remained the editor for the magazine's entire forty-year lifespan.

Since 1985, the magazine was published on a monthly basis, with compilation albums twice-yearly.

After a 2017 Kickstarter campaign,{{cite web |last1=Rogers |first1=Jude |author-link1=Jude Rogers |title='A big tree has fallen': the sad demise of fRoots, bible of British folk |date=8 July 2019 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jul/08/froots-british-folk-magazine-underground-music |website=The Guardian |access-date=27 August 2020}} it was re-launched in April 2018 as a larger quarterly magazine, including a compilation album with every issue.{{cite web |title=fRoots Digital Editions |url=https://frootsmag.com/froots-digital-editions |website=fRoots |access-date=27 August 2020}}

On 2 July 2019, the editor announced that the magazine was suspending publication due to lack of funding, and that the Summer 2019 issue (issue 425) would be its last.{{cite web |last1=Anderson |first1=Ian |author-link1=Ian A. Anderson |title=fRoots Magazine Statement, 2nd July 2019 |url=https://frootsmag.com/froots-magazine-statement-2nd-july-2019 |website=fRoots |access-date=2 July 2019 |date=2 July 2019}}{{cite magazine |first=Robin |last=Murray |title=fROOTS Magazine To Fold |url=https://www.clashmusic.com/news/froots-magazine-to-fold |magazine=Clash |date=2 July 2019 |access-date=11 July 2019}}

Albums of the year

The fRoots Critics Poll Album of the Year was determined by a panel of "hundreds of experts" in the UK and internationally:{{cite magazine|title=The fRoots Critics Poll Albums of the Year |url=https://frootsmag.com/pollwinners |magazine=fRoots |date = 2018|access-date=25 March 2021}}

Between 2002 and 2008 the award was incorporated into the BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music.

References

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Sources

  • {{Cite magazine |title=Ian A. Anderson |department=interview |date=August 1995 |magazine=Dirty Linen |url=http://www.dirtylinen.com/linen/feature/59ian.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=2006-10-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061020152736/http://www.dirtylinen.com/linen/feature/59ian.html |issue=59 |access-date=2021-03-25}}

External links

  • [http://www.frootsmag.com/ Official website]
  • Rogers, Jude (8 July 2019). [https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jul/08/froots-british-folk-magazine-underground-music "'A big tree has fallen': the sad demise of fRoots, bible of British folk"], The Guardian.

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Category:1979 establishments in England

Category:2019 disestablishments in England

Category:British music awards

Category:Folk music magazines

Category:Magazines established in 1979

Category:Mass media in Surrey

Category:Monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom

Category:Music magazines published in the United Kingdom

Category:World music awards