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"folk singer" Definitions
  1. a person who sings folk songs

245 Sentences With "folk singer"

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Glenn Yarbrough (1930–2016), folk singer and member of the Limeliters.
Zarrab is married to the Turkish pop-folk singer Ebru Gündeş.
The British indie-folk singer Jade Bird will open the show.
He auditioned, and at one rehearsal, met the folk singer Pete Seeger.
He was dressed age-appropriately for an oldie, but goodie folk singer.
Books of The Times Pity the folk singer raised in the Northeast.
The American folk singer Tim Hardin nearly joined up at one point.
A radio show hosted by the folk singer Theodore Bikel originated there.
He was often described as a folk singer, but he was seldom that.
Ceca was a well-regarded folk singer before she met and married him.
The folk singer Woody Guthrie took an apartment at Beach Haven in 1950.
When she became pregnant, the indie-folk singer Cat Power considered quitting music.
It is the disease that killed the folk singer Woody Guthrie in 24.
In spending time together, Bart soon learns that Hettie is a fantastic folk singer.
Well, if you're Serbian folk singer Ceca, around the cost of a nice Ferrari.
Quist, a folk singer, said the senator has been "a great inspiration" to him.
Also I was working on this record with this country folk singer in Nashville.
Firkus the folk singer was thrown out the window, and Trixie Mattel was born.
I'd thought of him as pure auteur, a pop-folk singer-songwriter gone country.
The Canadian singer-songwriter Melissa Laveaux and the folk singer Christopher Paul Stelling open.
We've already compromised the integrity of this prize by giving it to a folk singer.
The folk singer and actor Leon Bibb was there, too, and they decided to collaborate.
His sister Violeta Parra was a well-known folk singer, as is her son, Angel.
"That girl's a ghost," the country-folk singer gasps, from the perspective of stunned onlookers.
Miroslav Ilic, a Serbian folk singer, recorded the song "Vesna the Stewardess" in her honor.
Sean Rowe, a Troy NY native and folk singer/songwriter who makes melancholy sound sexy.
Shy and unamplified, he was a curly-permed folk singer on a night of rock monsters.
The Montana special election, in which Gianforte is facing Democratic folk singer Rob Quist, is Thursday.
Alissa Musto, a 23-year-old folk singer from Boston, doesn't use Tinder when she's touring.
After releasing two commercially stagnant albums in the early 1970s, the Detroit folk singer Rodriguez disappeared.
Bob Dylan fans can now finally get a peek into the brilliant mind of the folk singer.
ABOUT 30 years ago, Er Housheng, a folk singer from Inner Mongolia, slept with another man's wife.
During his European exile, Neruda fell for a Chilean folk singer, Matilde Urrutia, eight years his junior.
At the time, however, Brill Building song pros saw Diamond as a sort of folk singer manqué.
The defeated Democratic candidate, Rob Quist, is a folk singer who believes in single-payer health care.
"Eman Dilo," a folk tune by the Kurdish folk singer, Mihemed Sexo, was up on the screen.
In Boston during their first American tour, folk singer Mary Lou Lord wound up in the crowd.
Ms. Hall's Hannah is hung up on her dead husband, a revered indie-folk singer named Hunter Miles.
Despite the name of this song, indie folk singer Esmé Patterson isn't about to give her heart away.
Then, Mandy catches the eye of Jeremiah Sand (Vikings' Linus Roache), a failed folk singer turned cult leader.
Another decade on, he signed a petition against the expulsion of folk singer Wolf Biermann, then headed west.
But when Nonesuch Records released "Freedom Highway," the new album by the folk singer Rhiannon Giddens, on Feb.
In the piece, a traditional folk singer responds in voiceover to the rhythm of the film with improvised verses.
One show at Calles y Sueños, "Cabaret Rojo," featured Los Crudos, a Latina drag queen, and a folk singer.
In the spring of 2004, Sufjan Stevens was a folk singer with a set full of God-tinged ballads.
I don't think I could ever be a folk singer that just sings about my feelings all the time.
There's this folk singer named David Wilcox who is a modern singer-songwriter who I knew from high school.
One night, most of them were in Denver for a concert by John Prine, a country folk singer-songwriter.
After performing for about 60 years, the folk singer and counterculture figure is hanging up her guitar and mic.
More than a half-century ago, the folk singer Woody Guthrie signed a lease in an apartment complex in Brooklyn.
The Wisconsin folk singer is fond of signs and symbols, and his album and song titles aren't chosen at random.
They're written and sung by geek folk singer Jonathan Coulton, who you probably know from Portal's Still Alive credit music.
Most life-altering was the loss of his mother, the folk singer Kate McGarrigle, who died of cancer in 23.
I went next door and asked if that was the home of the parents of 'Bob Dylan, the folk singer.
Retro Report The activist folk singer Victor Jara was murdered in the days after a 1973 coup that brought Gen.
The folk singer Richard Dyer-Bennet awarded Mr. Corey the rank of professor after hearing his fractured lecture on Shakespeare.
On his first full-length release, 19-year-old LA-born folk singer Zander Hawley is coming clean about his breakup.
He's a banjo-playing folk singer who's all Montana and castigated his opponent as essentially a plutocratic carpetbagger from New Jersey.
She found greater acclaim as a folk singer, developing friendships with stars like Burl Ives, Josh White and Ramblin' Jack Elliott.
On Monday, Sanders will hit Utah and Minnesota, where popular folk singer Nathaniel Rateliff will perform for him in St. Paul.
It was written by the famous folk singer and political activist Victor Jara in 1971 in protest of the Vietnam War.
When Smith eventually returned to California, he was not the same clean-cut folk singer with a nice smile and combed hair.
Also part of the charm is the bizarre folk-singer-turned-cult leader (Linus Roache) who ends up responsible for Mandy's death.
On the Democratic side, Quist, a popular folk singer in the state, is running as a populist Democrat — he joined with Sen.
Official media are filled with fawning over "Uncle Xi" and his wife, Peng Liyuan, a folk-singer whom flatterers call "Mama Peng".
Wainwright was first exposed to Garland through his mother, folk singer Kate McGarrigle, who performed with her sister as Kate & Anna McGarrigle.
It has been just over a year since Leonard Cohen, the Canadian folk singer beloved for his warm and whispered poetry, died.
The audience is called to order by the flutings and shouts of a Norwegian folk singer who blesses the land its offerings.
Ms. Collins is a wonderful storyteller who always finds new ways to describe her early days as a New York folk singer.
Hannah Read, the indie-folk singer and songwriter from Texas who performs as Lomelda, has the means to fill it back in.
Yesterday, Jewel retweeted a post from a Beyoncé fan account that quoted the folk singer on her experience working with Beyoncé in 2003.
"Gonna Write Me a Letter," written by the Appalachian folk singer Ola Belle Reed, is a lament for a sailor away at sea.
O'Connell), 60-something former folk singer (she even had "a couple fans," she says) who's on the run from her latest failed relationship.
Trilobites A few years ago, the folk singer Tom Rush released an album that included some disparaging comments about the Chinese crested dog.
In Abe Koogler's play for Manhattan Theater Club, directed by Daniel Aukin, Deirdre O'Connell stars as a folk singer who turns to retail.
Ani DiFranco, the feminist folk singer, said that she is "way left of Hillary" and thus did not feel driven to endorse her.
The couple emphasized culture, and several of their children became respected artists, notably the folk singer Violeta Parra, who committed suicide in 1967.
Sullivan played gigs at nights, spending his days songwriting and listening to records by Karen Dalton, John Prine and the folk singer John Stewart.
Last September, as Ms. Dyer lay in her hospital bed, a folk singer named Kathy Lord, one of Healing Arts's contractors, entered the room.
" Introducing a song by folk singer Ryan Harvey called "Old Man Trump," Morello also likened the angry orange man to an "old-school segregationist.
"Imagine" was sung by South Korean folk singer Jeon In-kwon, indie-rock singer Ha Hyun-woo, and K-pop singer Ahn Ji-young.
"Before all this, I didn't have anything to do with fighting," said Mr. Shi, with a folk-singer-like bowl cut and heavy glasses.
For many New Yorkers, listening to an ethereal folk singer on a subway platform can be a bright spot in an otherwise miserable commute.
The Dust Bowl rolls into town with this musical tribute to that great American folk singer, Woody Guthrie, performed by four musically inclined actors.
Ever the trickster, Dylan in the Rolling Thunder Revue was many things: folk singer, songwriter, rock star, bandleader, protester, actor, ringmaster, caballero, hero, joker.
It's based on an album by folk singer Anais Mitchell that includes contributions from Ani DiFranco, the Haden Triplets, and Bon Iver's Justin Vernon.
The folk singer used to introduce his band with his speaking voice, but according to the magazine, he put an end to that in 2017.
Trump was a model before meeting her husband and Peng is a folk singer who once regularly performed in front of millions of TV audiences.
Here's a nice thing you might already know: rising Californian indie-folk singer Phoebe Bridgers and chanteur to your perpetual heartbreak Conor Oberst are friends.
Mr. Quist, a banjo-strumming folk singer, has refocused his campaign in its final weeks on the Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
The younger guests — the Irish folk singer Damien Rice, the Chilean singer Nano Stern — gave the show a shot of adrenaline and passion it desperately needed.
It all started 51 Thanksgivings ago — that's 51 years ago on Thanksgiving — when folk singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie was busted for littering in Great Barrington, Mass.
Gordon Parks made a film about the folk singer Leadbelly, and Hal Ashby adapted Woody Guthrie's memoir, "Bound for Glory," with David Carradine starring as Guthrie.
The album's guest roster also includes the Malian Afro-pop singer Salif Keita, the Afro-Peruvian folk singer Susana Baca and the neotraditional Swedish band Vasen.
The song isn't so much a folk roots cover of jazz, as it is a demonstration that Holiday was always a folk singer to begin with.
Quist: a first-time candidate and Montana folk singer who'd amassed moderate Montana fame in the 1970s as a member of the Mission Mountain Wood Band.
Celebrated folk singer Judy Collins has reunited with Crosby Stills and Nash legend and former beau, Stephen Stills, to create the album Stills & Collins, Forbes reported.
Joining the ensemble Alarm Will Sound, the acclaimed Irish folk singer Iarla O Lionaird portrays Nicholson and the soprano Katherine Manley the voice of the voiceless.
Several of his musician acquaintances were involved, including the singer-songwriter Nino Ferrer; the classical guitarist Ramon Ybarra; and a young British folk singer, Marianne Faithfull.
" That was Joan Baez, the legendary folk singer and activist, above, who just released what she said will be her last album, "Whistle Down the Wind.
Gianforte has been considered the slight favorite in his race against Democratic folk singer Rob Quist — Cook Political Report has the race rated as Lean Republican.
His first professional work came with the folk singer Brother John Sellers, who at the time was the M.C. at Gerde's Folk City in Greenwich Village.
For want of a better word — and I've tried to explain it, but even this seems to confuse people — I view myself as a folk singer.
Rap battle Looks like it will be "Fast Car" versus "Super Bass" now that folk singer Tracy Chapman has sued rapper Nicki Minaj for copyright infringement.
The idea of sadness connects the music of Adele, Kendrick Lamar, Billie Holiday, the English folk singer Nick Drake, the metal band Slayer and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
The Daily Mail and Perez Hilton have noted that Ceca, who is a popular folk singer in the Balkans, is the widow of the late warlord Arkan.
Communist authorities banned him from performing in East Germany in 1977 after he expressed support for a dissident folk singer and he asked to leave soon after.
But Quist, a folk singer, has come within striking distance thanks to an outpouring of money and energy from Democrats desperate to score a victory against Trump.
A Chicana folk singer who uses her music as an avenue for social change, Joan Baez has long been a force for equity and justice in entertainment.
After finding ways to embrace changes in her vocal range, the 21988-year-old folk singer has released an album that she is calling her final recording.
SONG OF GRANITE With re-enactments, black-and-white cinematography and ample music, the filmmaker Pat Collins captures the life of the Irish folk singer Joe Heaney.
He was one of the stars of the Friday night concert, which was directed by Kirsten Braten Berg, an internationally renowned folk singer who lives in Setesdal.
Like the once-lost rock star Rodriguez or Fay's fellow British folk singer Vashti Bunyan, he has been given an unlikely second chance in the new century.
Mr. Langhorne recorded with a wide variety of musicians, including the South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela, the Nigerian percussionist Babatunde Olatunji and the American folk singer Odetta.
Up next, after Georgia's vote: another special election next month, this one in Montana, featuring a Democratic candidate who's "a legendary folk singer with a populist flair."
National Democrats have been skeptical about the prospects of Mr. Quist, a folk singer-turned-novice candidate who has been battered by stories about his personal finances.
In addition to Rose's representation of Nashville, Cyrus has bluesy crooners, rockers, indie singers, pop stars in the making, and even folk singer Shilo Gold, a cantor's daughter.
These included successful quests to return "We Shall Overcome," the civil rights anthem associated with the folk singer Pete Seeger, and "Happy Birthday to You" to the public.
An earlier lawsuit, also filed against Ludlow in April, focused on "We Shall Overcome," a song long associated with the folk singer Pete Seeger, who died in 2014.
Charlotte Diamond - I Am a Pizza If you never fucked with children's folk singer Charlotte Diamond when your age was still in the single digits, we pity you.
He was uncomfortable in the same way a young indie rock or folk singer might be, unsure of how to use his body as effectively as his voice.
Is the sepia-toned Inside Llewyn Davis, which follows a down-on-his-luck folk singer (Oscar Isaac) during a winter week in New York, chock full 'o laughs?
"You know, if somebody asked me if I was a country singer or a folk singer, I don't think those terms are even close to mutually exclusive," he said.
BARBARA MATTER, New York I'm a folk singer/songwriter who has the great good fortune of having one of my songs, "Air Conditioner," sung by Sutton Foster in concert.
At the root of Huntington's disease, which killed the folk singer Woody Guthrie, are short, repeated bits of nucleic nonsense sullying the code for huntingtin, an important brain protein.
But Chinese state-run media has strongly refuted some of Turkey's claims, saying they "violated the facts," including allegations that Uyghur folk singer Abdurehim Heyit had died in jail.
Mr. Hunter's father and his partners sold the baths to the current owners, along with a third partner, in 1985, and Mr. Hunter went on to become a folk singer.
In 1950, Guthrie, the legendary folk singer whose balladeering would inspire Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, signed a lease with Fred Trump, father of the current Republican presidential front-runner.
Mr Isserlis has always wanted to emulate the example of Daniil Shafran, a Russian cellist whose instrumental sound, he says, was like the voice "of a great Russian folk singer".
Neil Strauss's exhaustive Jewel profile is thorough, well-researched, and careful to paint an empathetic portrait of a 24-year-old folk singer many thought they already had figured out.
He studied philosophy at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, but decided to embark on a career as a folk singer after attending a Woody Guthrie concert at the school.
The 78-year-old folk singer is an active user of social media, and has been sharing images from the tour and studio recordings with Stills on Facebook and Instagram.
Sa Dingding, a Chinese folk singer, was performing during the country's Lantern Festival Gala on Monday when she — and members of the audience — realized how obvious her lip-syncing was.
Performers like Andria Simone, a soul singer from Ontario; Jane McGarrigle, a folk singer from Quebec; and Popa Chubby, a New York-born singer and guitarist, will also appear. montrealjazzfest.
Nadler, one half of this experimental duo, first made a name for herself in the early 20193s as a folk singer-songwriter specializing in understated instrumentation and gloomy, gothic imagery.
Work on expanding your toehold, stopping to appreciate the wordplay in a clue like "Carol king," which does not use a capital K and therefore is not about the folk singer.
The moment at which the Trump show likely captured Xi came when Trump's 5-year-old granddaughter, Arabella, performed for Xi and his wife Peng Liyuan, a famous Chinese folk singer.
On a small stage at a subterranean Virginia club called the Over/Under, the folk singer Rags Parkland (Andrew R. Butler, who also wrote the book, music and lyrics) tunes up.
In the late 1990s, three well-liked folk singer-songwriters — Dar Williams, Richard Shindell and Lucy Kaplansky — formed this group, releasing one album of cover songs before going their separate ways.
Folk singer Woody Guthrie wrote a scathing song about Lindbergh's political aspirations titled "Lindbergh" that accused him of wanting to sell out to Hitler, and of being his puppet in America, .
These include even some staunch defenders of Cuba's 1959 revolution such as folk singer Silvio Rodriguez and painter-sculptor Alexis Leiva "Kcho," who was friendly with late revolutionary leader Fidel Castro.
Artist management firm Mick Management, in partnership with Sony's RCA Records, decided to mail out 500 postcards to fans of folk singer Ray LaMontagne, whose new album Ouroboros releases on March 4th.
Another police official in the district, Joynul Abedin, said that Mr. Rahman was a known enthusiast of the 19th-century Bengali poet and folk singer Lalon, whose songs promoted a secularist philosophy.
There's a scene in the 2013 film "Inside Llewyn Davis" in which the title character, a struggling folk singer in early-1960s New York, meets a younger musician who's been making waves.
Many bars on the island — such as the Gaslight, which until recently served as a minuscule movie theater — throw in a folk singer or contemporary ensemble with the price of a cocktail.
I felt like if I say I'm a folk singer then I'm bound to that for the rest of my life, if I say I'm a blues singer then I'm bound to that.
Their debut concert, at what was then Carnegie Recital Hall in 1965, featured works by Milton Babbitt, Henry Weinberg, Ruth Crawford Seeger (stepmother of the folk singer Pete Seeger) and Stephen D. Fisher.
Knows the difference between the composer John Luther Adams and the composer John Adams, but also between John Olson (of the Detroit noise band Wolf Eyes) and Angel Olsen (the indie-folk singer).
It's just the tip of the artist's rich musical lineage: His father is acclaimed folk singer Loudon Wainwright III, and in their heyday his parents were a musical power couple, lauded and adored.
Chinese folk singer Sa Dingding found herself in an extremely embarrassing situation on national TV, when she held her mic upside down during a live performance at the Lantern Festival Gala in China.
Some fans who had stayed with Mr. Dylan through his multiple transitions since the early 1960s — from folk singer to electric rocker to country crooner to Americana sage — rejected his new, sectarian message.
Performers will include Jeff Tweedy, frontman of the Chicago alt-rock group Wilco, as well as the Grammy-nominated Americana musician John Fullbright and the incisive up-and-coming folk singer Haley Heynderickx.
Pop-folk singer Beth Orton's career was buoyed by her appearances on several Chemical Brothers records, including 1997's "Where Do I Begin," though she never made her own foray onto the dancefloor.
This is how the 55-year-old folk singer opens her latest album, Rifles and Rosary Beads, a collaboration with SongwritingWith:Soldiers, a nonprofit that helps veterans process and relate their war experience through songwriting.
Or even if they are a very lyrical rapper, say, or a lyrical folk singer, or whatever, it's like, 'I'm gonna tell this really good story, or I'm gonna have a really funny punchline.
That is where a group called the Walkabout Clearwater Coffeehouse, which the folk singer established, had blossomed into a community of like-minded people who gather to hear music and promote their social causes.
The opera's only other character, whose role is sung in Gaelic by the magnificently expressive Irish folk singer Iarla O Lionaird, is a nameless famine victim who sends arching laments and prayers toward heaven.
Katie Lee, a free-spirited folk singer who found her mission as a performer and writer protesting the loss of Glen Canyon's spectacular beauty to a dam on the Colorado River, died on Nov.
The 93-year-old Belafonte, a Harlem-born folk singer, producer, and civil rights activist, was the first African American television producer as well as the first African American to win an Emmy Award.
The 2016 award to American folk singer and troubadour Bob Dylan sharply divided opinion over whether a popular musician should be given an award that had been largely the domain of novelists and playwrights.
To attend meetings during the takeover campaign, she would land at airports outside London so as not to be detected, and check into hotels using the pseudonym Debbie Friedman, her favorite Jewish folk singer.
For the performance, Mr. Tan, 58, wrote, rearranged and conducted symphonic accompaniments to songs by three top headliners: the punk band Reflector, the Mongolian folk-rock group Hanggai and the folk singer-songwriter Song Dongye.
The arrest of Cheyre comes nearly two weeks after a Florida jury found former army officer Pedro Pablo Barrientos liable for the 1973 torture and murder of the political activist and folk singer Víctor Jara.
" Marsha Genensky, according to Ms. Hellauer, "sounds like a folk singer, with a nasal twang, and I sound like a pop singer who would rather not be above middle C if she can help it.
By the Way, I Forgive You, Carlile's latest record and 6th studio production, finds the Seattle-born folk singer processing becoming a mother and diving headfirst into raising a child with her wife, Catherine Shepard.
Mr. Putin has to be aware of the power, for example, of the folk singer Vladimir Vysotsky, who became an underground icon in the 1970s with his songs about the hard plight of ordinary people.
Those who criticized his imprisonment included even some staunch defenders of Cuba's 1959 revolution such as folk singer Silvio Rodriguez and painter-sculptor Alexis Leiva "Kcho," who was friendly with late revolutionary leader Fidel Castro.
Director James Mangold has tapped the actor for his upcoming adaptation of the period when the folk singer attempted to leave his acoustic guitar behind and move into rock and roll, tentatively titled Going Electric.
Other nights were spent in the bluesy, smoky company of science writers and planetary astronomers listening to the space ballads of Jonathan Eberhart, the late correspondent for Science News and a well-known folk singer.
The band later acknowledged that "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" was in fact written by a folk singer called Anne Bredon, rather than passing through generations as a traditional tune, and paid her royalties for it.
In addition to Patti Smith honoring Dylan with a rendition of his "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall," the 75-year-old folk singer penned a heartfelt speech, which was read inside the Stockholm Concert Hall.
An obituary on Sunday about Oscar Brand, the folk singer and host of the long-running radio show "Folksong Festival," misstated the origins of the name of the Weavers, a group that performed on his show.
Eleventh-century Benedictines would surely have understood the devotion of Ms. Munger and Ms. Thomae, as well as of the family of the folk singer Kate McGarrigle, who sang to her as she died, in 2010.
She called up the vocal coach and activist Max Margulis, and once she convinced him that she was not a flighty folk singer but a serious person, they embarked on a 30-year course of study.
While Montana is a Republican-leaning state and Mr. Gianforte has been enjoying an advantage in private polling here, the campaign of Mr. Quist, a banjo-strumming folk singer, has caught fire with national progressive activists.
She graduated in 1944 with a bachelor's degree in philosophy, then headed to Radcliffe to study philosophy but dropped out to pursue a career as a folk singer and songwriter, taking odd jobs to support herself.
He spends nearly every moment in his iron lung in the center of his living room, which is decorated with degrees, awards, pictures of family, and a drawing of the Scottish folk singer Donovan, who had polio.
It was there he met a teacher and folk singer named Nidia Góngora, who together with Holland just released a new album of sunny, danceable Latin rhythms this May called Curao on the UK's Tru Thoughts Recordings.
Indeed, Mr. Dylan may have styled himself as a vagabond country boy, but those familiar with his life know he first rose to prominence as a driven folk singer hanging out in the coffeehouses of Greenwich Village.
OBITUARIES An obituary on Sunday about Oscar Brand, the folk singer and host of the long-running radio show "Folksong Festival," misstated the origins of the name of the Weavers, a group that performed on his show.
Unlike Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam and Ringo Starr, folk singer-songwriter and apparent Taylor Swift superfan Father John Misty isn't canceling his upcoming show in North Carolina in protest of the recently passed anti-LGBT bathroom bill.
The folk singer and songwriter Suzanne Vega gave some of her first public performances at the cafe, where she took part in the Songwriters Exchange, and Eve Ensler read her "Vagina Monologues" there for the first time.
Visitors to the exhibition can see a yellow political button with the slogan, "Dig they won't … Save the Hudson," and hear the folk singer Pete Seeger's song "My Dirty Stream," a mournful ode to the polluted river.
Mr. Kantner, who started as a folk singer, had a mellow baritone voice that blended ideally with the penetrating tenor of Marty Balin, and the powerful mezzo of Grace Slick, who joined the band after its first album.
The wary widow of a revered indie-folk singer collides with a pop-culture academic writing a biography of her husband, whose catalog she furiously protects in her picturesque Maine cabin with the help of her two dogs.
Keeping the track's memorable sample of American folk singer Vera Hall's "Trouble So Hard" intact, the Montreal beatmaker adds a bouncy house backbone, making it perfect for warehouse after-hours or one of his infamous Laval house parties.
City Music is accordingly sundry: One track, for example, is just folk singer Meg Baird reading a Flannery O'Connor passage about a boy who, having never seen a city, mistakes the glow of a skyline for a fire.
Will Kaufman, a British academic who has written extensively about legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie, was doing research in the Guthrie archives when he came across a notebook in which Guthrie condemned the racist practices of his landlord.
The whole thing seems like it should be soundtracked to the soulful sounds of Kenny G's saxophone, but the proud parents instead opted for the dreamy ballad "No Turning Back" by roots rock/folk singer-songwriter Joy Oladokun.
Following his contributions to influential singer-songwriter Paul Simon's Stranger to Stranger album earlier this year, the record includes work collaborations with Cape Town band John Wizards, Johannesburg folk singer Bongeziwe Mabandla, fellow Italian producer HDADD, and more.
He wrote a memoir and magazine articles and lent his voice and presence to antiwar rallies alongside other war opponents like the Berrigan brothers, the folk singer Joan Baez, the actress Jane Fonda and the novelist Norman Mailer.
But in generating liberal political support and financial contributions from outside sources — including the consumer advocate Ralph Nader, the folk singer Pete Seeger and former members of the Kennedy administration — his campaign provoked a backlash by some steelworkers.
He elaborated on this in 1997 in the book "Walking the Hudson, Batt to Bear (From the Battery to Bear Mountain)," which he wrote as Cy A Adler, with an introduction by the folk singer Pete Seeger. (Mr.
As a wandering minstrel with an enigmatic hippie smile, the Scottish folk singer Donovan seems vaguely embarrassed in the title role, while Donald Pleasence and John Hurt run boisterously amok as the villainous baron and his evil son.
The lineup reflects the diversity of the nation's citizens: Among the six acts scheduled to perform are the Korean-American folk singer Elena Moon Park, the arty electro-pop auteur Glasser and the Afrobeat-channeling collective Underground System.
Kristian Matsson, the Swedish folk singer who performs under the name Tallest Man on Earth, first collaborated in 2015 with the six-piece chamber music ensemble yMusic (known for collaborating with Bon Iver, Ben Folds, and other indie greats).
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The lyrics and melody of "We Shall Overcome" are now part of the public domain, following the settlement of a copyright lawsuit over the civil rights anthem long associated with the late folk singer Pete Seeger.
The great folk singer and champion of the people Pete Seeger, with a wee bit of sarcasm, used to tell union members not to waste their pity on the scab taking the side of the bosses during a strike.
Glenn Yarbrough, a folk singer who at midcentury found fame and fortune with the popular trio the Limeliters but who walked away from it all for a life at sea, died on Thursday at his daughter's home in Nashville.
Before her riff on social justice, the folk singer opened strong with a joke, thanking the Rock Hall for bringing her career to the attention of young people, who "would have no clue who I am" without the honor.
"It's just me myself and I" rapped De La Soul a decade later, and "Me me me me me me I I I," intoned the folk singer Patty Larkin, strumming a guitar as her audience chuckled in rueful recognition.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Glenn Yarbrough, the American folk singer best known for his work with the popular trio the Limeliters in the early 1960s and his solo hit single "Baby the Rain Must Fall", has died at the age of 86.
Trends International offers an utterly random selection of celebrity posters including several of YouTube star JoJo Siwa surrounded by inspirational phrases, one of Canadian pop-folk singer Shawn Mendes surrounded by flowers, and of course, the Beatles, walking across the road.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - At least 200 Muslims have fled their village in the western Indian state of Rajasthan after a Hindu priest and his friends were alleged to have killed a Muslim folk singer late last month, police said on Wednesday.
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - The daughter of popular Chilean folk singer Victor Jara has urged the Chilean government to act quicker to push for the extradition from the United States of the man found liable for the 1973 murder of her father.
A note mentions that Toca has befriended folk singer Florian Pittiș, who wears T-shirts with foreign band logos like "The Beatels" [sic] and is followed by several female fans "aged 14 to 19873" on his tours around the country.
Oscar Brand, the lanky, affable, gravelly-voiced folk singer and songwriter whose weekly on-air hootenanny was the longest-running radio show in history with a single host, died on Friday at his home in Great Neck, N.Y. He was 240.
Kicking off with American folk singer Kathy McCord's 1970 song "Rainbow Ride," it drifts through freewheeling psychedelic rock, French pop, and Hungarian guitarist Gabor Szabo's improvisational take on the Beatles' "Dear Prudence," all of which will have you firing up your Discogs account.
" In the interview, when asked if folk singer Melanie Safka, who she performed with in 2015, had influenced her, Cyrus said yes, adding, "But I also love that new Kendrick [Lamar] song ["Humble"]: 'Show me somethin' natural like a– with some stretch marks.
Drake was nominated in the top category - album of the year - along with rappers Cardi B and Post Malone, R&B singer Janelle Monae, folk singer Brandi Carlile, country star Kacey Musgraves, R&B artist H.E.R. and the "Black Panther" movie soundtrack.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads MIAMI — There's an iconic photograph of folk singer Woody Guthrie, his skin weathered with sun, cigarette at his lips, the line of his guitar strap on a clean diagonal, as if triangulating man, instrument, and negative space.
SANTIAGO, Chile — Four decades after the bullet-riddled body of the Chilean folk singer Víctor Jara was discovered in the mayhem of the military coup that upended his country, Mr. Jara's family found some measure of justice on Monday in a Florida courtroom.
Consider: in 1965, an 18-year-old Arlo Guthrie (the legendary folk singer and activist) and a companion threw a load of Thanksgiving trash down a hill because they couldn't find an open dump with which to responsibly deal with their garbage.
In college, when I went through my first painful break-up, the line "You must always know how long to stay and when to go," from folk singer Patty Griffin's song, "Let Him Fly," reminded me that it was okay to walk away.
Rotten Tomatoes score: 92%Summary: Set in the music scene of New York's Greenwich Village in 1961, the drama is about folk singer Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) as he couch surfs through the city and struggles to find his way into the spotlight.
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - An army lieutenant under late Chilean strongman Augusto Pinochet will face a civil trial in Florida this month for his involvement in the 1973 murder of Chilean folk singer Victor Jara, the U.S. human rights group bringing the suit said on Thursday.
In the clip where we can all see the moment Pharrell realized he just met the next big thing, Rogers explained that she came from a folk, singer-songwriter background before becoming inspired by the music she heard in dance clubs during a semester abroad.
In three special House elections held this year to replace congressmen nominated to Mr Trump's cabinet, Democrats ran candidates suited to their districts: a buttoned-down striver in Atlanta's richer suburbs, a quirky populist folk-singer in Montana and a pro-gun veteran in Kansas.
Democrat Rob Quist, a banjo-playing folk singer and first-time candidate, is facing off against Republican tech executive Greg Gianforte in a tightening race for the U.S. House of Representatives seat vacated when President Donald Trump named Ryan Zinke as secretary of the interior.
Sanders came out for a cameo on "This Land is Your Land," singing along (thankfully off-mic — he's not much of a folk singer, as he proved in this old cover of the song), with the thousands in attendance singing along to every word. .
Mason, their attorney, said he got a call from the estate of the late folk singer and "a couple of days later a big box arrived in my office with the full john Denver discography" as well as John Denver hats and T-shirts.
The montage that follows — Derek crying in the cab while JoJo and Chase dance to a live rendition of "Don't cry for me Argentina" sung by an Argentine folk singer — should be nominated for an Emmy, nay, an Oscar in the "Best Foreign Film" category.
But Cawston said the upstream movement of fish was blocked by two dams along the river, Chief Joseph and Grand Coulee, the latter of which folk singer Woody Guthrie called "the mightiest thing ever built by a man" in his song "Roll On, Columbia".
The two shared songs from veteran folk singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie, explaining how her music had been blacklisted in the US in the 1970s, and they introduced the audience to a recently released album by the new experimental rock project Black Belt Eagle Scout.
A physical, all-male trio, "The Hill" is named after Givat Hatachmoshet, or "Ammunition Hill," the battle that took place in Jerusalem during the Six-Day War, as well as the song by the Hebrew folk singer Yoram Taharlev, which is played in the piece.
"When you're focused on it, when you're in the emotion of the song, you won't hear or see anything else around you," says Joe Heaney, played at that point by Micheal O Chonfhaola, in "Song of Granite," an impressionistic portrait of the Irish folk singer.
Inspector Pine opened the door and darted outside, grabbing the first person he could and dragging him into the bar — the folk singer Dave Van Ronk, who had been at the Lion's Head bar nearby and came to see what the commotion was about.
My dad, though, felt that "Ann," a sentimental love song written by the West Virginia folk singer Billy Edd Wheeler, would strike the perfect note, and of course he was right, trusting in Mr. Campbell's unwavering commitment to beauty, however simple or accessible its expression.
These infidelities were revealed after he borrowed my laptop for a weekend and returned it without logging out of his accounts, where I read a series of romantic and brooding private messages he exchanged with a voluptuous folk singer via the social network everyone hated.
As the always-slippery folk singer forewarned, he was not there to receive the 2016 prize in literature, but he sent a warm, humble statement accepting the honor, which was read by Azita Raji, the American ambassador to Sweden, at an evening banquet in Stockholm.
Samia considers herself a folk singer first, interested in writing "lyrically obscure, verbose, Dylan-esque songs," and that's the vast majority of what she's been performing, bopping between Midtown lounge The Cutting Room and any Lower East Side or Williamsburg 100-capacity venue that will have her.
" Other songs on the album include pop star Kesha's "I Need a Woman to Love Me," a version of Janis Joplin's "I Need a Man to Love" and blues-folk singer Valerie June's "Mad About the Girl," a cover of Dinah Washington's "Mad About the Boy.
" Five of the expanded eight nominees in the album of the year race were women - Cardi B's "Invasion of Privacy," Janelle Monae's "Dirty Computer", folk singer Brandi Carlile's "By the Way, I Forgive You," country singer Kacey Musgraves' "Golden Hour" and newcomer H.E.R.'s self-titled "H.
Hearing Broadway actor and folk singer Stephen Cheng waver and croon in Taiwanese over a 1960s Rocksteady beat on "Always Together (A Chinese Love Song)" reminded me of understanding what my grandparents were saying over the phone growing up, but having to respond partly in English.
"Natural Blues" absorbs this sentimentality, sampling folk singer Vera Hall's soulful yet sorrow-filled "Trouble So Hard," and one of its two music videos stars a geriatric Moby looking back at his life before letting an angel of death (played by Christina Ricci) carry him away.
The Beatles, their romantic partners, and other notables including pop-folk singer Donovan, actress Mia Farrow, jazz flautist Paul Horn and the Beach Boys' Mike Love gathered at an Ashram in Rishikesh, India for an intensive Transcendental Meditation course under the guidance of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Guests include Len Graham, an Irish folk singer; Alice McDermott, the National Book Award-winning author; Michael Robbins, a poet and New Yorker contributor; Sean Wilentz, a professor of American history at Princeton University; and Warren Zanes, the writer and musician known for his band Del Fuegos.
" Five of the expanded eight nominees in the album of the year race were women - Cardi B's "Invasion of Privacy," Janelle Monae's "Dirty Computer", folk singer Brandi Carlile's "By the Way, I Forgive You," country singer Kacey Musgraves' "Golden Hour" and newcomer H.E.R.'s self-titled "H.
Over the years, Kurt Vile has proven pretty good at whatever he role he decides to fill, whether it's shaggy solo folk singer, leader of a barn-burning rock band, a sideman in the War on Drugs, or a space-cowboy counterpart in duets with Courtney Barnett.
These are '90s kids — but the names they drop are those of prominent figures from well before they were born: the folk singer Woody Guthrie, the writers Russell Banks, William Kennedy and Susan Sontag, the photographer Thomas Victor and the actor Christopher Reeve, to name a few.
Mr. Jarmusch had seen Mr. Driver in a few things — as an absurdist folk singer in the Coen brothers' "Inside Llewyn Davis," a Brooklyn Lothario in Noah Baumbach's "Frances Ha" and the sexual weirdo Adam Sackler in HBO's "Girls," the show that made him — and was smitten.
He finds that the hard-worn image of the folk icon was partly self-made, that the song itself used to be far more tongue-in-cheek, and that Guthrie was not exactly famous before another folk singer named Bob Dylan started to take an interest in him.
Then there are the eclectic homegrown sensations like Mon Laferte (known for her experimental mix of blues and electronic rock), Camila Moreno (an alternative-pop singer-songwriter) and Gepe (a New Age Chilean folk singer who blends, among other influences, '60s and '70s Andean music with electronic pop).
The Instagram star turned rapper Cardi B, the folk singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile, the left-of-center country singer Kacey Musgraves, and the R&B artists H.E.R. and Janelle Monáe are among the women who will compete for album of the year against some of hip-hop's biggest names.
Here are the highlights and lowlights as we saw them: Of all the major-category nominees at this year's Grammys, none were more surprising than Brandi Carlile, the 37-year-old folk-rock — or rockin' folksinger and songwriter who earned six nods, including album of the year.

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