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
One of my earliest memories is of local women singing Ukrainian folk songs as the sun was setting into the Kakhovka on a warm summer evening.
From BBC • Oct. 8, 2025
His songs were meant to sound like up-market folk songs: immediately memorable, lyrically easily understandable and relatively predictable in shape.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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