IT is only in recent years that with the active collection and study of European folk-lore the folksong and folk-dance have begun to receive the attention which they deserve. The collecting of English ...

Camden's Cecil Sharp House has been questioning the very notion of what traditional British music means in the multicultural 21st Century. "Hip-hop is the folk dance of today," said Natasha Khamjani, ...

Members of the English Folk Dance Society, who will appear tomorrow night at Symphony Hall, will be entertained in Cambridge this afternoon by members of the Boston Branch of that organization, many ...

Rain might be falling outside on the promenade in the English seaside resort of Blackpool, but the inside of the Tower Ballroom — billed as “the UK’s most spectacular” — is bathed in light, sequins, ...

My experience of English folk dance is largely made up of maypole dancing at primary school and frightening my Kiwi husband with morris dancing in Sussex on our annual bank holiday jaunt to Alfriston.

15:04, Tue, Jan 23, 2024 Updated: 15:07, Tue, Jan 23, 2024 A sun-dappled village fair. Children gaily spinning around a maypole. Cricketers on the village green. Few things evoke the splendour and ...

THE recent amalgamation of the Folk Song Society with the English Folk Dance Society has been marked by the appearance of a new journal with the title Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song ...

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