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

With mesmerising dancing and the crowning of the May Queen, the celebrations have been a tradition for well over 100 years.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Morris Dancing takes centre stage in Hemswell's May Day celebrations [BBC] May Day celebrations have been taking place in a ...

Residents ended years of silence as they 'welcomed in the May' in traditional style with maypole dancing, the bells of morris men and the May Queen. Copmanthorpe used to dance round the maypole in the ...

A rural village is keeping a centuries-old tradition alive by dancing in the footsteps of the past. Hemswell's May Day celebrations, in Lincolnshire, take place every year and is thought to be one of ...

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 ...