What is Beltane? Beltane is an ancient Celtic holiday that annually begins at sunset on April 30th and lasts until sunset on May 1. Spiritual practitioners celebrate it as a festive occasion that ...

The Eureka Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence hosted their seventh annual Beltane event in Halvorsen Park on May 2, complete with a maypole ritual, ribbon dance and crowning of a May queen. “We gather ...

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 ...

May Day has ancient, pagan roots, harmonizing with a modern-day appreciation of its association with the verdant, reanimating time of mid-spring. Beltane is the name of the pagan celebration of one of ...

In the traditional maypole dance, participants weave colorful ribbons into intricate patterns as they circle the pole in opposite directions. (Courtesy photo) Santa Barbara Revels welcomes the ...