Award-winning young people’s TV producer and leading promoter of folk dance and balletRon Smedley, who has died aged 92, made a significant contribution to three spheres of artistic life: …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMFemale vocalist with the Weavers, the folk group blacklisted by the FBI in the 1950sWhen the New York folk group the Weavers burst into the American and British pop charts in 1950 with the L…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:53AMOur friend Ivor Allsop, who has died aged 82, was the leading authority in the Yorkshire longsword folk-dance tradition. The fruits of his researches were published as Longsword Dances from …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AM