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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for folk song
Noun
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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
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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
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And salt works well to help the proteins in the beef pop with flavor.—
Shawn J. Sullivan,
USA Today,
23 May 2025
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Fan Fest On Fave, superfan creators initiated an international event across Los Angeles and London—celebrating icons in pop, drawing over 430 fans in attendance.—
Kristin Westcott Grant,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
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Before long, Uma’s taste for cigarettes under the moonlight turns into regular solo walks at all hours.—
Robert Abele,
Los Angeles Times,
24 May 2025
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For her solo dinner, Rihanna quite literally put a bow on maternity dressing in a gray sleeveless JW Anderson dress with a thigh-high slit and an oversized bow accent, placed atop her baby bump.—
Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
23 May 2025
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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
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The voices of the opera’s chorus are being provided by a choir which John conducts, the Pacific Coast Chorale, supplemented by two onstage choristers.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 May 2025
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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
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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
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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
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The book is especially an antidote to the pendulum swing against law enforcement that began more than a decade ago with chants of defund the police.—
Chris Dorsey,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
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The spiritual power ballad also drew 918,000 official U.S. streams in the tracking week.—
Jim Asker,
Billboard,
28 May 2025
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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
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There’s a sinful sort of glee in watching all of this unfold, knowing that the same mournful character might be the next one to die.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
22 May 2025
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Dougal is this boy turning into a man, who has so much anger in him and wants to prove himself, and there's such glee behind the eyes in the way that Sam plays this character.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
21 May 2025
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“Folk song.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/folk%20song. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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