The Wai Khru Muay Thai event, which is being held this Sunday and Monday, is expected to generate more than 150 million baht ...

Once just a traditional folk performance, Yingge dance has seen a recent surge ... How do they stay so synchronized? Compared to traditional Thai dance, this feels much more powerful and rhythmic — it ...

Northern Thailand is a place of pause. The air is different, softer, quieter, touched with the scent of temple incense and ...

The skeletal remains of a child, affectionately nicknamed Pangpond after a popular Thai cartoon character, were unearthed ...

THE recent amalgamation of the Folk Song Society with the English Folk Dance Society has been marked by the appearance of a new journal with the title Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song ...

Fun Activities: Try your hand at Thai folk games like Muay Tab Jak and Muay Talay. Explore Thailand’s vibrant cultures, regional highlights, and sustainable tourism at the country’s largest ...

The freewheeling spirit that has come to define folk music in recent years is writ large across the nominees for the RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards 2025. It’s palpable in the wide-angled soundscape of ...

Of particular note in this regard is the jhumur tradition. Jhumur is the folk dance of the Sadan ethnolinguistic group, who trace their origins to the Chotanagpur region. Today it occupies a central ...

Beloved English folk musician and songwriter Bill Fay has died, aged 81. The news was confirmed in a statement by his label, Dead Oceans, who said that Fay died “peacefully” in London on ...

The setting then quickly jumps back one week in time, to the tune of the notorious Made in Thailand by Thai folk band Carabao. What follows is 55 minutes of lush island greenery, family bickering, ...