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Burnham Book Festival will celebrate Somerset folk hero Adge Cutler with a night of music at the Princess Theatre on Friday May 17th.

WE think of Morris dancers as good-natured upholders of traditional folk dance and culture. Fond of a glass of ale to refresh themselves after their…

Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Choral Union, Concert Choir and Chamber Orchestra will showcase their talents on Tuesday, April 30, in Shryock Auditorium.

A capacity audience enjoyed the familiarity of the Suite, especially the lovely references to Cecil Sharps collected folk songs of Somerset running…

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Few albums from 1965 sound as if they could have been made in the past year; Martin Carthy’s debut is one of them. Recorded simply and effectively at

The designers on the London Fashion Week schedule delivered elegant collections that showed a mature side to the otherwise quirky fashion capital.

Cedar Hill Independent School District held its first-ever "Tie Day" event that took place at three schools over three days in a row.

Cedar Hill Independent School District held its first-ever "Tie Day" event that took place at three schools over three days in a row.

Every nation feeds off a fantastical past, yet each fantasises in its own way. The English ways include the fantasy that the heart of England beats not in the town but in the country – and, moreover, that this rural world takes the form of a landscape, which is to say: a view from afar. For the most part, the English, particularly the middle classes, would prefer that not too many people get in the way of that view. Latterly, the English landscape has even begun to merge into “natu...