folk singer

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Sylvia Tyson, a folk singer, agreed: “He literally remembers everything he’s ever heard or seen.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

Welsh folk singer Dafydd Iwan says he has received "very personal" and "nasty" comments after urging organisers of a right-wing protest to stop using his song Yma o Hyd.

From BBC • Feb. 1, 2026

For local folk singer Lucy Clearwater, it was her sign that moving to L.A. was the right decision for her career.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2025

Other nominees included folk singer Martin Carthy, and pop star PinkPantheress - whose 20-minute mixtape Fancy That was the shortest ever entrant for the Mercury Prize.

From BBC • Oct. 16, 2025

Scruggs joined about 300 other guys to watch the folk singer Arlo Guthrie defy attempts by the government to draft him.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge