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 ...

In 1915 Sharp went to the U. S. and himself founded the English Folk-Dance Society’s Manhattan branch. U. S. dancers, who had not yet forgotten their Virginia reels and square dances, ...

Folk Music And Dances Find Their Niche Here. September 7, 2000. ... Given this fertile environment, it is not surprising that folk concerts flourish from Glen Echo to Takoma Park, ...

As the sun sets in the town of Nelson on Monday night, a crowd of people meander into Town Hall with instruments and water bottles in hand. It’s not long before cheering, stomping and the twang of ...

English Folk-Dances. Miss Maud Karpeles has published in Folk-Lore, vol. 43, No. 2, a study of the survival and revival of folk-dances, in which she reviews the principal types of folk-dance with ...

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 ...

Folk dancing should drop terms like “ladies and gentlemen” to avoid “offending minority genders”, a leading music organisation has said.. The English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) is ...

A young girl holds hands with her dance partner May 3, 2025, as part of a Morris Dance at the Stellwagen Farm. The farm, a historic site in Orland Park, hosted a maypole dance and celebration.