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 ...

Mitch Diamond first saw a Morris dance 47 years ago, at a folk-dancing camp in Massachusetts. He locked eyes with one of the dancers as the man leapt into the air. “You could just see this look,” ...

Folk Music Journal is a peer-reviewed journal of research into all aspects of traditional song, music, dance, and drama. It is the journal of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, England's national ...

The English Folk Dance and Song Society was formed in 1932 by the merger of two organizations, the Folk-Song Society, and the English Folk Dance Society. The Folk-Song Society, founded in 1898, was ...

Forty years ago a sharp-nosed, ascetic British antiquarian named Cecil Sharp noted that in certain remote parts of England, primitive villagers dressed themselves in strange costumes and skittered ...

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 ...

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.

Traditional and acoustic music are more widely accepted these days, but John Jones, lead singer for the Oyster Band, still believes these styles must ”come out as strong as rap and hip hop and house ...

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 ...