Tap your toes and learn the words to German folk songs this weekend Published: Aug. 28, 2008, 11:28 a.m.

The 1980s are not known for its extensive catalog of folk music, but amid the big hair and synth-machines exists these three ...

The rediscovery of democratic traditions of folk song in Germany after the Second World War was not just the counter-reaction of singers and academics to the misuse of German folk song by the Nazis.

It was a social organization and to preserve German heritage, customs and food.” Boehm is a native of Austria, but was well suited for a chorus dedicated to German folk songs.