Category: Folk dancing

‘Ceilidh renaissance’ lures gen Z offline in search of real-life joy

by The Guardian | Oct 30, 2026 | Communities, Folk dancing, Folk music, London, Loneliness, Music, Pubs, Scotland, The Guardian, UK news, Young people | 0 |

Young dancers at the Ivy House in south-east London join the older crowd amid a renewed appetite for authentic, community eventsThe Ivy House pub in Nunhead, south-east London, has long been associated with raucous music, with...

Hey-nonny-bo! The woman reclaiming maypole dancing with dancehall and drum’n’bass

by The Guardian | Apr 28, 2026 | Culture, Dance, Folk dancing, Folk music, Music, Stage, The Guardian | 0 |

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 bins, LED lights and pounding...