Folk dances of British origin include the square dance, descended from the quadrille, combined with the American innovation of a caller instructing the dancers.

" The Lavender Country and Folk Dancers organization now serves as an umbrella organization for dances in Massachusetts, New York, Georgia, and California.

Folk dances sometimes evolved long before current political boundaries, so that certain dances are shared by several countries.

* Folk Dance / Barn dance: At English folk or country dances a very wide range of dances is performed, many of which are square dances: Playford style dances ; dances derived from the quadrille, for example “ La Russe ” published by H. D.

Folk dances from the Alps to the North American prairies imitate the displays of lekking males.

Folk dances and xatonades ( traditional local salad served with assorted omelets ) are also characteristic carnival elements.

Folk dances are a feature of Mexican culture.

Folk dances of British origin include the square dance, descended from the quadrille, combined with the American innovation of a caller instructing the dancers.

Folk dances specific to the West of France include the courante, or maraichine, and the bal saintongeais.

* Folk dances of the Greek regions

Folk line dances have many forms: pairs of lines in which the dancers face each other, or a line formed into a circle, or the line follows around the dance floor.

Folk dances rich in local color are performed one after another, and the ballet ends amid blessings by all.

Folk music on Cyprus is similar to the folk music of Greece and includes dances like thetatsia, sousta, syrtos, zeibekiko and the karsilama suites.

Category: Folk dances

Category: Folk dances

In 1911 Sharp founded the English Folk Dance Society, which promoted the traditional dances through workshops held nationwide, and which later merged with the Folk Song Society in 1932 to form the English Folk Dance and Song Society ( EFDSS ).

Folk dances include: Circle dance, Fandango ( of the Ribatejo region ), Two Steps Waltz, Schottische ( Chotiça ), Corridinho ( of the Algarve and Estremadura regions ), Vira ( of the Minho region ), Bailarico, Vareirinha, Malhão, Vareira, Maneio, Vira de Cruz, Vira Solto, Vira de Macieira, Sapatinho, Tau-Tau, Ciranda, Zé que Fumas, Regadinho, O Pedreiro and Ó Ti Taritatu.

Folk musicians often use the term " harper ", whereas classical musicians use " harpist ".

* Folk ragtime-A name often used to describe ragtime that originated from small towns or assembled from folk strains, or at least sounded as if they did.

Folk rags often have unusual chromatic features typical of composers with non-standard training.

Folk magicians throughout Europe were often viewed ambivalently by communities, and were considered as capable of harming as of healing, which could lead to their being accused as " witches " in the negative sense.

Folk poetry has been the source of affectionate kisses where they sometimes played an important part, as when they had the power to cast off spells or to break bonds of witchcraft and sorcery, often restoring a man to his original shape.

Folk / gospel duo Robin and Linda Williams have been regular guests since 1976, and often join Keillor and another female performer, often Jearlyn Steele, to form " The Hopeful Gospel Quartet ".

Folk tales often emphasized Boone's skills as a hunter.

Folk belief often held such individuals could rise as some form of undead ( such as a vampire ) and burying them at cross-roads would inhibit their ability to find and wreak havoc on their living relations and former associates.

Through the mass distribution of particular shanty forms through recordings and clubs, the Folk Revival has had the effect of creating an impression of rather consistent forms of texts and tunes — a sharp contrast to the highly variable and often improvised nature of work-based shanty singing.

The Folk Revival movement is one in which shanties themselves were often revived, especially as they have been viewed as a branch of heritage traditional songs of Anglophone culture.

Borrowings into Rock music have often resulted from the fluid borders between Folk and Rock performers and audiences.

The town of Mountain View bills itself as the " Folk Music Capital of the World " and local musicians often gather in small groups to play their instruments in the town square after dark during the summer months.

Folk medicine often coexists with formalized, education-based, and institutionalized systems of healing such as Western medicine or Great traditional medicine systems like Ayurvedic, Unani medicine, and Chinese medicine, but is distinguishable from formalized or institutionalized healing systems.

Folk etymology often associates the name with Leben ( life ), Leib ( body ), or Leibspeise ( favorite food ).

Folk music of England refers to various types of traditionally based music, often contrasted with courtly, classical and later commercial music, for which evidence exists from the later medieval period.

Folk songs are often about love, sailors, masculinity, hard winters, as well as elves, trolls and other mythological creatures, and tend to be quite secular and often humorous.

Folk hammered dulcimers are usually referred to by their regional names, but throughout central and eastern Europe they are often referred to as " cimbalom " ( cymbalom, cymbalum, ţambal, tsymbaly, tsimbl, ţambal, cimbál, cimbale etc .).

Folk metal, viking metal, black metal and power metal fans often grow long thick hair and beards reminiscent of a stereotypical Viking, Saxon and Celt, and wear Thor's Hammer pendants and other pagan symbols.

Folk rock act Pesniary, formed in 1969 by guitarist Vladimir Mulyavin, became the most popular folk band of the Soviet Union, and often toured over Europe.

All elves appear to have the capacity for sending, but some tribes use it more often than others ; the Wolfriders send frequently, whereas the Go-Backs send very rarely and the Sun Folk hardly at all.

Geritol was often used in the 1960s as a punch line for a joke in sitcoms or in comedy routines ; comic singer Allan Sherman satirized Geritol on his 1962 album My Son, the Folk Singer, singing " Yasha got a bottle of Geritol " to the tune of " Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho ".

Exhibits in recent years have included " Wondertoonel ," an exhibit of Mark Ryden's often morbid images of childhood, " The Retrofuturistic Universe of NSK " ( 2005 ), and " Henry Darger: Highlights from the American Folk Art Museum " ( 2006 ), The museum has also repeatedly redeployed its permanent collection, experimenting with exhibiting it in different arrangements.

Ásatrú Folk Assembly have demanded such a symbol.

Folk music may tend to have certain characteristics but it cannot clearly be differentiated in purely musical terms.

Folk harps with levers installed have a lever close to the top of each string ; when it is engaged, it shortens the string so its pitch is raised a semitone, resulting in a sharped note if the string was a natural, or a natural note if the string was a flat.

It is helpful to have a petrographic microscope when using the Folk scheme, because it is easier to determine the components present in each sample.

As such, various modern scholars have begun to apply the term to three groups of separate faiths: Historical Polytheism ( such as Celtic polytheism, Norse Paganism, the Cultus Deorum Romanorum and Hellenic Polytheistic Reconstructionism also called Hellenismos ), Folk / ethnic / Indigenous religions ( such as Chinese folk religion and African traditional religion ), and Neopaganism ( such as Wicca and Germanic Neopaganism ).

Folk songs called corridos have been popular in the country since the 16th century.

In Folk Devils and Moral Panics, Cohen outlines some of the criticisms that have arisen in response to moral panic theory.

As a result of Channel 4's decision, Davies pulled out of a deal that would have seen a series of Queer as Folk short stories published on the broadcaster's website, and vowed never to work with Channel 4 again.

Donald Tovey, writing in his Essays in Musical Analysis, commented on this movement's " Bacchic fury " and many other writers have commented on its whirling dance-energy: the main theme is in fact taken from Beethoven's arrangement of the Irish folk-song " Save me from the grave and wise ", No. 8 of his Twelve Irish Folk Songs, WoO 154.

" Folk tales such as " The Tale of Chun Hyang ," about a nobleman who marries a servant girl, and " The Tale of Ondal " have also been made into films.

Not only is hardcore a large genre but also Indie and Folk music have grown in the recent years respectively.

Many previous NFF sites have continued to conduct a regional folk festival when the NFF moves to the next site and Richmond has done the same in the form of the Richmond Folk Festival.

Items from the shanty and sea song repertoire have been brought into the repertoires of performers of Folk ( i. e. the popular music genre ), Rock, and Western Classical music.

Since at least the 1950s, certain shanties have become staples of the Folk genre.

With the return of the Solar Exalted, the uncertainty of the imperial rule of the Dragon-Blooded, the encroaching influence of the Wyld and its Fair Folk manifestations, and the new threat of the Deathlords, the Lunar Exalted face a Creation that has changed as much as they have – though this is entirely at the discretion of the Storyteller ( see Storytelling System ).

Unlike the Creation-born, who have a fixed, definite shape and form within the pattern of created things, Fair Folk are entities composed of Essence unadulterated with form, and thus they are without much constancy.

The Crafted Folk that survived include the winged Airfolk in the North, the savage and cannibalistic Dunefolk in the south, the subterranean Earthfolk who have assimilated into Mountain Folk society, the Amphibious Seafolk in the West and the slave race of Treefolk in the far East.

Folk traditions have no information on the crusade whatsoever.