How to Use folk music in a Sentence

folk music

noun

• Springer, who came of age in the 1960s, loved folk music.
  — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 9 June 2023
• With the rise of rock and folk music and then K-pop, trot fell out of favor.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2023
• The group melds New Orleans Jazz with Irish folk music.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2023
• The Vietnam War was over, and the folk music of the 1960s was starting to seem outdated.
  — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2023
• Around the time Baez was born in 1941, folk music was starting to reach new audiences.
  — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2023
• It’s not meant to be any kind of overall summation of folk music.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 5 Oct. 2023
• Sounds of a folk music rehearsal drifted out of the church, down past a shrine and through the island’s seaside graveyard.
  — Hillary Richards, Travel + Leisure, 28 June 2023
• But as a lover of folk music at heart, there’s this real, innate desire for it just to be simple.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 7 May 2023
• The shift is felt also in the transition from Georgian to Turkish folk music.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2024
• There was folk music, alt-rock, R&B, classic hip-hop, pedal-steel New Wave covers, and more.
  — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2024
• There was jazz in there, and folk music and country; there was a lot of backwoods front-porch hootenanny.
  — Ty Burr, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2023
• The link to the origins of American folk music made explicit.
  — Jeff Weiss, Spin, 21 Aug. 2023
• All these things influenced him — the idea of folk music and freedom of expression.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
• In the summer of 1969, when Bruce Springsteen was still dreaming of a record deal, the folk music icon Pete Seeger saw a different dream come true.
  — Thom Duffy, Billboard, 30 Mar. 2023
• Much like Young’s, LeBlanc’s lyrics on Coyote are blue-collar poetry that take flight on the wings of rock, country, and folk music.
  — Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2024
• At Swann’s gatherings, guests donned women’s clothing or men’s suits and danced to folk music.
  — Cari Shane, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 June 2023
• Josh White, who went from being a Piedmont blues artist to an important voice in the folk music world of the 1940s, was also inducted.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 15 Mar. 2023
• Arab folk music group Amwaaj, DJ Joey and the church’s traditional dabke dance group also will perform.
  — Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 10 July 2024
• In the early ‘60s, his interest in folk music deepened.
  — Chris Morris, Variety, 1 May 2023
• Likewise, today’s best folk music still confronts issues of race and class.
  — Adam Bradley Justin French, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2023
• That road bump, thankfully, appears to have passed — the only remaining fear will be that felt by those who like their folk music squeaky clean and safe.
  — Aaron Davis, Sacramento Bee, 28 Jan. 2024
• The bouzouki – a long-necked stringed instrument in the same family as the lute and mandolin – is what gives Greek folk music its distinctive sound.
  — The Enquirer, 20 June 2023
• First being embraced into a family of folk music in New York and of course kind of outrunning him at.
  — EW.com, 24 July 2024
• His music is so familiar to anyone who has grown up listening to folk music from the Global South.
  — Vrinda Jagota, Pitchfork, 24 Oct. 2023
• The Golden Lion is the best gastropub at sea, with its wood-and-brass bar, darts, folk music, and ale brewed exclusively for Cunard.
  — Fran Golden, Travel + Leisure, 20 July 2024
• Traum also took part in a 1961 protest against a ban on playing folk music in the park and was briefly seen in Sunday, director Daniel Drasin’s documentary on that day.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 18 July 2024
• The couple became the godparents of the boy, who became the future folk music superstar Bob Dylan.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2024
• Other recordings of vocal folk music are interspersed in the brooding piece filled with aching pauses, startling trills and echoes.
  — Sheila Regan, Twin Cities, 11 Oct. 2024
• The music is a rich, melodic and lovely blend of Mexican bolero and ranchero folk music, and three mariachi musician-singers are onstage for the entire 75-minute show.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2023
• Separate from the group’s rhythm, its four strings add a high-spirited element to the traditional style of folk music.
  — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024