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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The Full English is sponsored by the English Folk Dance and Song Society Folk 'supergroup' The Full English have won two BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, for best group and album, while Bella Hardy has been ...

Presenter Charles Hazlewood stages a 140-person flashmob clog dance and explores the history of this folk dance that originated in the collieries and pit villages of the north east of England in the ...

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 ...

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 ...