RISK has been invited to play the music for the spring May Festival Dance on Saturday, May 18th from 1pm to 4pm. The celebration will take place at the Homestead School, 16245 Westside Hwy, Vashon, WA.
May Day is related to the Celtic festival of Beltane and the Germanic festival of Walpurgis Night. May Day falls half a year from November 1 – another cross-quarter day which is also associated with various northern European paganisms and the year in the Northern Hemisphere – and it has traditionally been an occasion for popular and often raucous celebrations.
As Europe became Christianized, the pagan holidays lost their religious character and either changed into popular secular celebrations, as with May Day, or were merged with or replaced by new Christian holidays as with Christmas, Easter, and All Saint's Day. In the 20th and continuing into the 21st century, many neopagans began reconstructing the old traditions and celebrating May Day as a pagan religious festival again.
---from Wikipedia. For more about the May Festival Celebration's roots, please click here
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