www.folking.com runs an events diary which includes concerts and dance events and ceilidhs and barn dances can be listed separately. It is relatively quick and straightforward to add an event to the listings.
You'll need to register on the www.folking.com site and you'll need an email address. The email address seems to used just to send you confirmation that the event has been added, you don't need to reply to this 'confirmation'.
You will need to prepare the 'obvious' information about the event, like the date and location but you've also got the the opportunity to include contacts for ticketing, a URL for the location as well as a URL for the event. Write yourself a short paragraph describing the event (up to 100 words), I've found it most useful to repeat the information you've given elsewhere. This is on the basis that people see the description in the gig list but they'd only see the information given in the other fields when they follow the link. Also anything you add to the description is accessible to search engines, anything just in the specific fields is not.
Go to 'See What's on' (or direct to the events diary page). This has an 'Add Events' tab.
You give your account details (the email address and password), you then work through 4 forms...
Asks the event type - there's 'Ceilidh' which has to do for all equivalent styles :-)
Asks for the date - You only need to fill in the one line where it says 'select the date your event begins'. For some reason the drop down list of years starts at 2004 and doesn't go further than 2008. You can ignore the other fields of the form ('begins' then means when it happens....) Create one entry per event! Occasionally you see an entry for a dance season giving a date range and a list of bands. That confuses Webfeet terribly (with 6 month long ceilidhs with half a dozen top-rate bands)
Asks for the venue/location - You may find the venue included in the drop down (Cecil Sharp House for example), but otherwise you have to fill in the various details. What you give in the 'venue city' normally appears is shown at the end of the title in the list of gigs (so Oxfolk Ceilidhs can be listed quite naturally as Oxfolk Ceilidhs - Kennington. Means you don't need to include the placename in the 'Event Title')
Asks for the 'Event title', this is what you see in the list of gigs, give the band name and the event name (as in 'Pigeon English - Lincoln Traditions Ceilidhs') as this will make sure that these appear most prominently in the listing. Also asks for the time, the associated website and a number of other bits. The final field of the form is the 'Event Details' - your short paragraph.
And that's it... Once you click 'Continue' here the event is added. There and then, there's no check and confirm, it's just there.
If you want to change anything after you've submitted it, you need to go to 'My Calendar' and click on the 'Modify or Delete' button.
Webfeet watches the first page and, provided it recognises the band and place name, includes in its listings.
