The Living Tradition

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{{Infobox magazine |title=The Living Tradition |image_file=Living Tradition 100.jpg |image_caption=The Living Tradition, 100th issue (February/March 2014) |editor=Fiona Heywood |editor_title2=Assistant Editor |editor2=Jed Mugford |category=Music |frequency=Bi-monthly |format=A4 |company=The Living Tradition Ltd |founder=Pete Heywood |founded={{start date and age |1993 |df=y}} |country=United Kingdom |based=Kilmarnock |language=English |website={{url |livingtradition.co.uk}} |issn=1351-4105 |oclc=31509242}}

The Living Tradition was a bi-monthly music magazine published in the United Kingdom between 1993 and 2022. It specialised in traditional folk music from the UK, Ireland and beyond.{{cite web |title=The Living Tradition magazine |url=https://tracscotland.org/forum_members/the-living-tradition-magazine/ |website=Traditional Arts + Culture Scotland |accessdate=7 November 2020}}{{cite web |title=The Living Tradition magazine reaches 100 |url=https://projects.handsupfortrad.scot/handsupfortrad/the-living-tradition-magazine-reaches-100/ |website=Hands Up for Trad |accessdate=7 November 2020 |date=2014}} The original editors were Peter and Heather Heywood. In 2015 the editor was Fiona Heywood, and the magazine had a Scottish office in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire and an Irish office in Ardara, County Donegal.{{cite web |title=FiddleOn magazine merges with The Living Tradition |url=https://journalofmusic.com/news/fiddleon-magazine-merges-living-tradition |website=Journal of Music |accessdate=7 November 2020 |date=25 August 2015}}

The magazine was regarded as "an independent and authoritative voice in the folk and traditional music scene" and the "definitive guide to the traditional and folk music scene". In addition to news, interviews, event listings and reviews, it also had articles about music theory and practice, and musicological and historical articles about traditional music.

In 2015, the magazine Fiddle On was merged into The Living Tradition. Fiddle On had been dedicated to fiddle-playing and had been published from Oxford for the previous fifteen years. Its editor Jed Mugford continued to write for The Living Tradition.

In Issue 144 (June/July 2022) the editor announced that after Issue 145 the magazine would no longer be published.{{cite web |title=News about the future of The Living Tradition magazine |url=https://www.livingtradition.co.uk/index.php/news/144_15 |website=The Living Tradition |date=June 2022 |access-date=29 June 2022}}