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 ...

You may have seen images or videos of people dancing around maypoles on May Day. Perhaps you've even found yourself twirling ...

In my family photo collection, I have a copy of the photo you see in this edition taken by John Bowman. It has always ...

Maypole dancing on May Day to welcome the spring is a long-held tradition, and these pictures show dances across Oxfordshire, ...

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

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 ...

Duluth Farmers Market hosted a Mayday celebration, which included live folk music and the colorful tradition of dancing ...

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 ...

Measuring 70ft (21m) and weighing roughly the same as a family car, the current maypole was installed on 8 March 1986. For ...

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 ...

Maypole dancing on May Day to welcome the spring is a long-held tradition, and these pictures show dances across Oxfordshire, ...