Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk...
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It is also known as "Folk Singer" or, less often, "The Singer". Allegedly about American pop singer Tommy Roe, "The Folk Singer" was first recorded in...
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Folk Singer is the second studio album and fourth album overall by Muddy Waters, released in January 1964 by Chess Records. The album features Waters...
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Folk rock is a fusion genre of rock music with heavy influences from pop, English and American folk music. It typically combines elements of folk and...
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Progressive Party candidate Henry Wallace, a folk-music aficionado (his running mate was a country-music singer-guitarist). Hays and Seeger had formerly sung...
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Veeda Sai Chand (20 September 1984 – 29 June 2023) was a folk singer from Telangana state. He was the chairman of the Telangana State Warehousing Corporation...
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director of the Folklore Center. The Fifth Peg's debut bill was gospel folk singer Brother John Sellars and Ed McCurdy, writer of the anti-war classic "Last...
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List of Canadian musicians (redirect from List of Canadian singers)
Bernard Adamus – singer-songwriter Susan Aglukark – folk-pop singer-songwriter AHI – folk singer-songwriter Lydia Ainsworth – composer/singer Robert Aitken...
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Gregory Dane Brown (born July 2, 1949) is an American folk singer-songwriter and guitarist from Iowa. Brown was born into a musical family, and his father...
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Original Folk Track with "Rock the Machine" (from her album Heard a Long Gone Song) at the 2019 RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards, and was nominated for Folk Singer of...
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Rayna (singer) Reni (Bulgarian singer) Sofi Marinova Suzanitta Selma Ahmedova Toni Storaro Tsvetelina Tsvetelina Yaneva Bulgarian Pop-folk music Pop-folk...
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Pete Seeger (category American folk singers)
Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer-songwriter, musician and social activist. He was a fixture on nationwide radio...
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Woody Guthrie (category American folk singers)
October 3, 1967) was an American singer-songwriter and composer who was one of the most significant figures in American folk music. His work focused on themes...
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Rotolo (March 5, 1941 – August 25, 2014) was an American artist, folk singer and folk music researcher. Rotolo was the first child of Joachim Rotolo and...
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folk music was fueled by new singer-songwriters such as Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, and Harry Chapin. Other subgenres of folk include anti folk, folk punk...
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Bob Neuwirth (category 20th-century American male singers)
Robert John Neuwirth (June 20, 1939 – May 18, 2022) was an American folk singer, songwriter, record producer, and visual artist. He was noted for being...
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English sociologist and folk singer. Colin Irwin from the music magazine Mojo said Bailey represented "the very soul of folk's working class ideals......
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Angolan folk singer-songwriter and anthem composer Marie Nilsson Lind, 62, Swedish folk pop singer (Ainbusk) David Soul, 80, American-British pop singer Glynis...
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2008" Folk Album Build Me This (2009), iTunes "Best of 2009" Indie Spotlight Singer-Songwriter Album From The Top of Willamette Mountain (2012) US Folk No...
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Song, released through PBS in 2007. In 1966, Seeger and her husband, folk-singer Pete Seeger, co-founded the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, which seeks...
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pinyin: Zhào Léi, born on July 20, 1986, in Beijing, China), is a Chinese folk singer and musician. He released his first record "赵小雷" (Zhao Xiaolei) in 2011...
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Mary Travers (redirect from Mary Travers (singer))
1936 – September 16, 2009) was an American singer-songwriter who found fame as a member of the 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, along with Peter...
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"Old Man Trump" is a song with lyrics written by American folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie in 1954. The song describes what Guthrie felt were the...
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September 1974) was a Bangladeshi folk singer. He won the Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer in 1975 for playback in Sujan Sakhi...
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Inside Llewyn Davis (category Films about singers)
life of Llewyn Davis, played by Oscar Isaac in his breakthrough role, a folk singer struggling to achieve musical success while keeping his life in order...
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Ștefan Hrușcă (category Romanian folk singers)
Ștefan Hrușcă (born 8 December 1957) is a Romanian-Canadian folk singer known for his Christmas carols. He was born in Ieud, Maramureș County. Luminita...
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Bhangra (music) (section Differences from folk music)
found that remixing folk singers from India was much cheaper than working with outsourced bhangra bands. A pioneering folk singer that was instrumental...
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Vulliamy, Ed (29 March 2011). "Serbian singer Ceca charged with embezzlement". The Guardian. London. "Serbian pop singer Ceca, widow of warlord Arkan, avoids...
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My Son, the Folk Singer is an album by Allan Sherman, released by Warner Bros. Records in 1962. On the album sleeve, the title appears directly below...
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Willie Watson (musician) (category American folk musicians)
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, banjo player, actor and founding member of Old Crow Medicine Show. His debut solo album Folk Singer, Vol. I, was...
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