folk music
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The Scottish folk music festival has run across three days annually since it was founded in 2010 - except when it was cancelled due to bad weather in 2023.
From BBC
The Carter Family - which featured singer June Carter who later went on to perform with her husband Johnny Cash - was an influential American folk music group that recorded and performed between the 1920s and 1950s.
From BBC
“It’s all just folk music — protest music,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times
Unusually, they perform most of their lyrics in Irish, reclaiming the language from rural folk music.
From BBC
“It means his decision to go electric or have a band wasn’t purely, ‘I’m going to turn folk music on its head.’
From Los Angeles Times
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