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San Jose's Obon Festival is the largest of its kind in the U.S. The festival's big attraction is the traditional Bon Odori, in which hundreds of people perform a community dance.
John C. Campbell Folk School gives back to veterans by offering tuition discounts and holding space for veterans and ...
Dancers from across the country came to perform a diverse selection of dance at an event hosted by a controversial Morris group.
Yin, founder and artistic director of New York's YY Dance Company, returns to the Bay Area with the local debut of "A Measurable Existence," which blends Chinese folk and contemporary dance, and ...
“Clogging is the oldest American folk dance,” the Yellow Rose Cloggers’ Bobby Butzke said. “It started with Appalachian barn dances that brought together Irish, English and other European ...
The festival opener “Nôt,” from Marlene Monteiro Freitas, drew both boos and applause. Elsewhere, for Anne Teresa De ...
A Wichita Symphony Orchestra-sponsored concert this week could serve as an introduction to a type of music that may be new to even the most seasoned ear.
American Folk Dance: Square Dance Missouri adopted the square dance as the state’s official American folk dance in 1995. Square dances are derived from European folk and courtship dances.
The National Garden of American Heroes, an idea Trump first proposed in 2020, is supposed to open at an unnamed location in ...
The acclaimed singer-songwriter traveled through the past and present of American roots music with her own band, the reunited quartet Our Native Daughters, and special guests on banjos including ...
Several events in Utica, Rome and Petersboro over four days will celebrate Black history, art and music, and the area's ties to abolitionism plus fun.
This trio fuse the rhythms of Havana, Medellín and Lima with ’60s surf rock (even if that isn’t their intention). Guitarist ...