folk music
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But as negotiations began behind closed doors half a kilometre away, all the world's media could do was wait -- and sip on an expertly brewed coffee while listening to live eastern folk music.
From Barron's • Apr. 11, 2026
Early in “A Mighty Wind,” a folk music historian calls Mitch and Mickey’s first kiss “a superb moment in folk music, and maybe a great moment in the history of humans.”
From Salon • Feb. 5, 2026
“Because really that, to me, is what folk music is. It’s passed on, it’s transformed — it turns into something else and then passed on again.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2025
The race is now the highlight of the autumn, attracting up to 5,000 spectators to Flumserberg, spending the rest of the day listening to schlager folk music and sampling the Alpine produce.
From Barron's • Oct. 20, 2025
He found stimulus in Anglo-Celtic folk music instead.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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