What is it about folk music? Some neuroscientists believe humans sang before we spoke. For an 18th-century philosopher such as Johann Herder, folk song contained the very essence of a people. Folk ...

Hopsa, a type of folk music, describes a Danish dance style derived from the polka, but at a higher speed and with a much more jumpy rhythm. The Danish folk music duo Gangspil will perform a concert ...

Svendt Grundtvig (1824-1883) was a Danish literary historian and collector of folk songs and tales. He was popular for encouraging the documentation of Danish folk songs in writing so they could be ...

NISSWA - Master Danish folk musicians Mette Jensen and Kristian Bugge will make another trip back to the 2011 Nisswa-stämman Scandinavian Folk Music Festival, which is scheduled June 10-11. They first ...

Theater-goers catch a rare glimpse into the world of Danish ballet in the Kennedy Center's production of A Folk Tale. Ballet in Denmark goes back to the mid-18th century, when the Royal Danish Ballet ...

If you are asked to name a kind of music that uses fiddles and accordions, you’d be forgiven for saying Irish or Scottish first. But both the fiddle and the accordion are common instruments in many ...

When a trio of Danish immigrants founded Solvang in 1911, one of the amenities they created to draw fellow countrymen to the area was a folk school, subsequently named Atterdag College.

One of Europe's most popular folk duos fiddler Harald Haugaard and guitarist Morten Alfred Hoirup from Denmark makes a rare Vermont appearance on Sunday, March 2, at 6:30 p.m., at the Plainfield Town ...