Taplas was a folk music magazine which covered the genre in Wales and its border areas of England.
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.
Taplas also published a series of cover-mount CDs, and runs a folk festival guide supplement in the April/May issue each year.
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.
[5] [6] Due to Keith Hudson's declining health over the next few years the editorial board felt that a new editor was needed.