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A medieval literary puzzle which has stumped scholars, including M.R. James for 130 years has finally been solved. Cambridge ...
This week, there’s a great opportunity to celebrate our different cultural links through Scottish, French and Hungarian music and dance.
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 ...
From Beirut to Saudi Arabia, traditional Arab folk dances have long been a vibrant expression of culture, pride, and unity. Each region has developed its own unique style, and while these dances often ...
The branch of the fast-food chain Hesburger in downtown Tallinn shopping centre Solaris is busy. Nothing unusual as it’s ...
The celebrated Montana Folk Festival returns to Uptown Butte Friday for a weekend of free performances of varied music genres ...
Together with his wife, Sue, he received the Gold Badge Award from the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) in 2016 for their outstanding contributions to folk dance, music or song.
That irreverence, and disregard for arbitrary boundaries (who’s to say that ‘…Color Blind’ can’t be a folk song?) might at first seem at odds with Carthy’s parallel role at the heart of the English ...
Under blue, cloudy skies, Pullman Morris and Sword, a Morris dance troupe from the Pullman community, performed English folk dances in period clothes, played drums, accordions and a fiddle 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 ...
Four-year-old Bertie Marcus takes his place, waves his scarf, and follows the steps with the Foggy Bottom Morris Men as they perform the traditional English folk dances.