FRoots

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fRoots was a UK music magazine focused on folk and world music. It ran from 1979 to 2019. It began as Southern Rag, founded by Ian A. Anderson with Caroline Hurrell and Lawrence Heath. It was renamed Folk Roots in 1985 and became fRoots in 1998. Editor Ian A. Anderson led the publication throughout its life. The magazine was based in Farnham, Surrey, later moving to Bristol. It was published monthly from 1985, with two compilation albums each year, and it also organized live music events and worked with the BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music and the Europe in Union concert series. Circulation was about 12,000 worldwide in 2006. After a Kickstarter in 2017, it relaunched in April 2018 as a larger quarterly magazine, with a compilation album in every issue. In July 2019, the publisher announced a suspension due to lack of funding; the Summer 2019 issue (No. 425) was the last. The fRoots Critics Poll Album of the Year was chosen by hundreds of experts worldwide and was part of the BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music from 2002 to 2008.