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James Merryclough digs into the origins of the JMO Day of Dance, reading countless parliamentary bills so you don't have to.
The Boss Morris Exhibition looks set to cap a year in which Stroud's progressive dancing side has taken the folk world by storm.
Will Pound discusses his new album and explains all the newbie needs to know about Morris dancing.
Already making an appearance at festivals around the UK, 'The Broadside Hack' is a new film exploring traditional folk music in a modern context.
Our round-up of photos and videos of morris dancers dancing up the sun on May Day, 2023. The summer is icumen in and winter's gone away.
When will these godforsaken dark nights end? When will the cold desist and the rains subside? When the Morris returns, that's when!
The person who got the English folk dance movement off the ground was Mary Neal, a suffragette who eventually fell foul of that man Cecil Sharp’s quest for artistic authenticity. Derek Schofield tells the tale.
We get the low-down on the Dancing England Rapper Tournament, otherwise known as DERT, coming to Rochdale in March.
Storyteller, Matthew Crampton, discusses the making of The Transports and his secret history as a masseur.
New traditions have to start somewhere, right? Last night saw the dawning of 'dusking', a tradition first proposed by the artist, Lucy Wright.
