UK artist Linett Kamala was astonished to see a maypole in a Jamaican hamlet – a colonial relic, but one bringing joy. So she reinvented the tradition by ditching English folk tunes and adding bass ...

Maifest returns Saturday with German food and beer, live music, dancing games, and one of the tallest maypoles in the United ...

Enjoy leather stamping, Maypole dancing, camel rides, and more ...

Berkshire Waldorf School will host its annual May Day celebration at 11 a.m. Friday, May 1, featuring music, Maypole dancing, student performances, and Morris dance teams.

While I had vaguely heard of the Maypole dance over the years, the first one I experienced in person involved schoolchildren in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. My son had enrolled as a fifth grader in ...

In a nod to the past — the very old past — the village of Orland Park hosted a May Day celebration Saturday. The spring celebration can be traced back to Roman times, but the village’s historical ...

Alas, another May is slipping away, and I haven't followed up with a long-ago maypole dance I once thought to conduct for the little local boys and girls. There were plenty of them around then. They ...

A social media image purporting to be an opinion article in The Guardian newspaper, opens new tab, in which a British folk dance is labelled racist, is fake. The screenshot, which mimics the British ...

May Day is celebrated annually on May 1. It is an ancient spring festival in many European cultures and a widely observed ...

A free event celebrating cherry blossom trees in bloom is set to take place at a Bradford museum. The annual Cherry Blossom ...