Word: folke
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...millennium or so ago, the archipelago from Hudson Bay through Nunavut to northern Greenland was inhabited by nomadic groups we now call the Dorset people. They were, according to Inuit legend, tall and gentle folk, and they hunted from the ice edge, harpooning seals and walruses with tools made of bone and ivory. When a slight warming period hit about 1,000 years ago, the ice receded. Bowhead whales moved in from Alaskan waters, followed by seafaring hunters from the Bering Strait. With their boats, those hunters, the forebears of Canadian Inuit, eventually spread east to Greenland. For reasons still...
Cecil Sharp House in London's leafy Regent's Park is nobody's idea of a fashionable venue. The Spartan headquarters of the English Folk Dance and Song Society is home to such curiosities as tabor-drum workshops and Morris-dancing classes...
...Carver's off-putting mannerisms tilt the focus from Gandalf to the hobbits--leprechaunish here, with round bellies and bottoms, like the Munchkins in MGM's Oz--persuasively played by jockey-size actors. James Loye, as Frodo, and Peter Howe, as Sam, get the message that heroes are ordinary folk who rise under extraordinary circumstances. In this predominantly Canadian cast, the other main roles are handsomely filled. But the show stealer is Michael Therriault as Gollum. Hissing and squealing, writhing convulsively to express Gollum's two warring psyches (the hobbit he was, the half-life creature his ring lust...
...recent years, the band has caught a lot of flak in the local college media (including this very same space) and students continue to bad-mouth it. No, I’m not talking about the folk-rock legends who made a (confusing) capitalized name for themselves backing up Dylan before moving on to a brilliant solo career, but the Harvard University Band, the musical fixture at campus sporting events. So, as this winter comes to an end, and the teams whose games the band frequents conclude their seasons, allow me to submit a defense of the band...
While the chalked sign next to the door advertises an evening “session”—a sort of informal, unrehearsed group performance of traditional Irish folk music—the sounds inside are wholly modern: non-threatening contemporary pop music, the clang of dishes and silverware, and the white noise of dinner chatter in a large restaurant...