FROM morris dancing and maypole twirling to crowning the May Queen, May Day is one of the UK’s oldest seasonal celebrations.

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

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Suzanne Robotti, president of MedShadow Foundation, was in elementary school, her family had a neighbor who kept a beautiful ...

Senior Alyssa McMullen has been named Queen of Amity High School’s May Day Court for the 101st annual celebration. The traditional maypole dance and numerous ...

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 ...

Berkshire Waldorf School will host its annual May Day celebration at 11 a.m. Friday, May 1, featuring music, Maypole dancing, student performances, and Morris dance teams.

With spring in full flow, we look back at how people in Bolton traditionally marked this time of year – from maypole dancing ...

May Day has ancient, pagan roots, harmonizing with a modern-day appreciation of its association with the verdant, reanimating time of mid-spring. Beltane is the name of the pagan celebration of one of ...

Considered by many a celebration of spring days to some, others look at May 1 as a day to protest everything from worker’s rights to oppressive policies to immigration reform. Here’s a look at the ...