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
Weir’s friendship with the itinerant folk singer Ramblin’ Jack Elliott began in the early 1960s, and in the new millennium, Elliott and Weir frequently performed low-key shows together in Marin County, where both resided.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2026
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
The French folk singer of i860, miraculously, sang again.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
