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 ...

For much of her childhood in White Salmon, Washington, Tristin Roy marked the first of May by clutching a long ribbon and twirling it around a maypole with the rest of her ballet class until an ...

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

Explore May Day's origins from European festivals to global labor protests and the unrelated 'Mayday' emergency call, ...

Her face would light up every time she told me the maypole story. It was an anchor of joy from my mother’s childhood. Her descriptions were so vivid that I could see the multicolored ribbons and each ...

It's been a focal point for the Great Exhibition of the North but now the eye-catching Maypole at Grey's Monument in the city centre has gone. Much to the disappointment of passers-by, the floral ...

While I had vaguely heard of the Maypole dance over the years, the first one I experienced in person involved schoolchildren in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. My son had enrolled as a fifth grader in ...