folk song

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Recent Examples of folk song There was obviously going to be much source music in the film: blues tunes, Irish folk songs, church music, all of it performed onscreen. Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025 There’s something about the honest expression of a folk song that speaks more to someone who is asking those questions. Alan Light, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025 Demonstrators in Sonoma County wine country sang along to Woody Guthrie folk songs. Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2025 There’s something about the honest expression of a folk song that speaks more to someone who is asking those questions. Alan Light, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for folk song
Recent Examples of Synonyms for folk song
Noun
  • The performance highlights a blend of musical theater, art song and opera, bringing together four opera singers for a program that celebrates motherhood, family, love and all that life offers.
    Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2025
  • The music moves from inventive, engaging art song to smoldering improvisations in which Wilkins and his bandmates—anchored by his regular colleagues Micah Thomas on piano, Rick Rosato on bass and Kweku Sumbry on drums—push to the outer limits.
    Steve Hochman, SPIN, 21 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The performances, announced exclusively on Variety, see the pop singer touching down in Vegas over Labor Day weekend, with a pair of nights slated for Venetian’s Voltaire venue that seats a thousand patrons.
    Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 3 June 2025
  • In a recent episode of The Interview podcast by The New York Times with Lulu Garcia-Navarro, Cyrus shared why, unlike so many other pop stars, she's never started her own makeup line.
    Catherine Santino, People.com, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • Outside of a solo shot off the bat of Matt Wallner, the righty looked completely in control.
    Sean Campbell, Sacbee.com, 6 June 2025
  • But the number of bands and solo artists is increasing, from not quite two dozen in 2024 to more than 40 this time, although the number of nationally prominent acts is dropping from three to one.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • The recent bond-market struggles are being treated by a growing chorus of investment professionals as an ominous message about the unreliability of once-safe assets, the obsolescence of the balanced stock-bond portfolio and the need for new sources of diversification.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 26 May 2025
  • So their clothing had to have the harmony of a Greek chorus.
    Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes.com, 25 May 2025
Noun
  • Simple Plan College Street Music Hall, 238 College St., New Haven Canadian rockers Simple Plan have been around for a quarter of a century (and six albums) now.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 31 May 2025
  • Face tattoos, typically reserved for rappers and rockers, could one day be used to make sure everyday office workers aren’t overexertingthemselves.
    Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 29 May 2025
Noun
  • In footage from the fun moment shared by the Roland-Garros, the No. 2 player in the world led the crowd in a celebratory chant.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 29 May 2025
  • In 2022 the Equality Court of South Africa ruled that the chant does not constitute hate speech.
    Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 May 2025
Noun
  • The spiritual power ballad also drew 918,000 official U.S. streams in the tracking week.
    Jim Asker, Billboard, 28 May 2025
  • Dropped with enough time to reach the Billboard charts before fans rush to buy and stream the full-length, the ballad sadly didn’t perform very well via any major metric.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 25 May 2025
Noun
  • Fines and any restriction or suspension of the driver’s license aren’t going to be met with glee by the driver, either.
    Jim Radcliffe, Oc Register, 30 May 2025
  • Some Yankees were upset during the offseason, feeling the Dodgers took too much glee and rubbed it in about the Yankees’ metdown in the fifth inning of Game 5.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2025

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