folk songs
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Outside the hall, musicians played folk songs on a small stage.
From Barron's • Apr. 11, 2026
There is an album of Christmas songs, once invariably bestsellers for singers of all ranges, as well as a set of old Dutch folk songs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026
The research team began reviewing folk songs, poems, and myths written or performed in Marathi, some dating back to the 13th century.
From Science Daily • Feb. 1, 2026
They even sing to each other, their World War I-era characters sharing a love of American folk songs that gives them a societally acceptable passion to complement the one they can’t demonstrate.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2025
For hours and hours he sang these folk songs he had picked up over there; really significant songs that proved my theory that music should basically be an instrument of social protest and expression.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
