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 ...

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 ...

In a most unexpected way, Coast Salish culture has meshed with Danish folklore on the shores of Lincoln Park — in the form of a giant troll. As part of Danish environmental artist Thomas Dambo's ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

3 OH, MARY! Reveals Tour Dates and Cities For 2026-27 4 OPERATION MINCEMEAT Reveals 2026-27 Tour Dates and Cities The Danish String Quartet members describe themselves as "modern Vikings-perhaps a ...

An abundance of facial hair is not restricted to the sensitive male indie-rocker set. Three of the four players in the Danish String Quartet could easily pass for hipster Brooklyn beard farmers. "We ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Gangspil, a Danish folk music duo, will perform at 7 p.m. Thursday. The concert is at at the Quimper Grange, 1219 Corona Ave. The band is composed of Sonnich Lydom, on accordion, ...

One of the more renewable satisfying and sublime traditions in Santa Barbara’s classical music culture has been the long-standing residency-like returns of the Danish String Quartet (DSQ), considered ...