Overview
While firmly based in Wales and the borders, and running out of a head office in Cardiff, ''Taplas's'' focus included folk, traditional, bluegrass, and world music. Features were often commissioned if the subject was performing in the core area during the time scale of the magazine's shelf life, but not exclusively so. There was almost always some coverage of at least one Wales-based artist in each issue. Each issue featured news, in-depth features, reviews, listings and some comment. From 2007 the magazine also had a regular feature on traditional dance, ''On Your Feet'', which profiled a traditional dance side or team within the core area of the magazine's coverage. The magazine was published in black and white, with a full colour cover. Extra colour pages were often added for the festival supplement edition, in April/May of each year. ''Taplas'' also published a series of cover-mount CDs, and runs a folk festival guide supplement in the April/May issue each year.History
''Taplas'' was founded in 1982 to replace the defunct ''South Wales Folk News'' publication. The first editor was Keith Hudson. The magazine was initially quarterly, but eventually expanded to six issues a year and is published bi-monthly. The magazine had a number of volunteer contributors, who submitted features and reviews to the publication. Much of the core writing (news stories, listings, and so on), and a good deal of the photography, was done by Keith Hudson. Design work was undertaken by Jed Williams from 1988 onwards. The magazine also had an editorial board, whose membership was fixed, to determine the direction the publication would take. A CD was produced for the June/July issue in 2000 to celebrate the new Millennium.2003 to 2015
Lucy Whitfield, a ''Taplas'' contributor from 1999 onwards, took over design duties for the magazine from November 2003 after the sudden death of Jed Williams from a heart attack. Due to Keith Hudson's declining health over the next few years the editorial board felt that a new editor was needed. Lucy Whitfield was voted into that role during 2007, and took up the reins in November of that year. The magazine was run by a team of three, with Lucy Whitfield as editor, long term contributor Mick Tems (formerly ofReferences
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