Welcome summer the Swedish way at the 2024 Bishop Hill Midsommar Music Festival on Saturday June 22. This free, family friendly event includes free concerts in the park, a Swedish Maypole celebration ...

The holiday celebrates the return of light after the long, dark Nordic winter. Here’s how to take part in Sweden, or wherever ...

Ari Aster's 'Midsommar' is best during wild, spooky moments. But Aster is obsessed with building tension to the point of losing the plot. Hell is other people’s customs. That could be the tagline for ...

Pictured is a ring dance around the maypole at a prior ASHF Midsommar celebration. The American Scandinavian Heritage Foundation will hold a Midsommar Celebration on Saturday, June 22, at the Tree of ...

On the nights of the year when the sun never sets and anything can happen, Absolut partners with Swedish festival pioneers GFC for the first ever Midsommar Weekender – a three day boutique festival ...

Celebrate Swedish summer magic in Illinois with flower crowns, maypoles, music, food, and Clark Street energy at Chicago’s ...

'Midsommar' filmmaker Ari Aster's sophomore feature further explores themes of family and trauma. By Richard Newby [This story contains spoilers for Midsommar] The maypole resides at the center of the ...