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My World: Ben Edge | Songlines

The British artist was all at sea until he came across a druid ceremony which ignited his art and set him off on a new path as a documentarian. “It made me re-plug myself back into humanity,” he tells Russ Slater Johnson

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Fire, cider and heavy metal morris dancing : the resurgence of wassailing | Folk music

A centuries-old outdoor folklore ceremony featuring singing, dancing, costumes and crop-blessings, the wassail is having a pandemic-era revival – with witchy reinventions

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Bridget Christie: Ritual Britain made me proud to be British

Bridget Christie: Ritual Britain made me proud to be British
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Horses skulls and flaming tar: the weird world of British local rituals

The artist Ben Edge has spent years chronicling some of this sceptred isle’s oldest festivals. How did he get the locals to allow him in?

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The Quietus | Features | Craft/Work | Journeys Through Ritual Britain: Ben Edge & The Museum of British Folklore

John McMahon , June 5th, 2021 07:55 John McMahon previews a new exhibition exploring UK calendar customs, from the Museum of British Folklore and the artist Ben Edge Whittlesea Straw Bear, Ben Edge, 2020 © Ben Edge “The present generation has witnessed the extinction of many observances which our fathers practiced and revered, and doubtless the progress of decay will continue. We have entered upon a diminished inheritance” So wrote the Berkshire Reverend, historian and freemason PH Ditchfield, in 1896 s Old English Customs. And it is undoubtedly true that Britain s folklore, vernacular arts, and calendar customs have weathered at least two centuries of colossal pressure from continuous social change. In

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