folk music
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It’s not just about folk music; it’s about the artists — the people, really — who make it.
From Salon • Feb. 5, 2026
“Because really that, to me, is what folk music is. It’s passed on, it’s transformed — it turns into something else and then passed on again.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2025
The race is now the highlight of the autumn, attracting up to 5,000 spectators to Flumserberg, spending the rest of the day listening to schlager folk music and sampling the Alpine produce.
From Barron's • Oct. 20, 2025
He could sing a rock song with the same ease as regional folk music and spiritual sub-genres such as Borgeet, Bihu and Zikir.
From BBC • Sep. 23, 2025
Unlike folk music, it has usually been written recently and belongs to professional musicians, and new popular tunes quickly replace old ones.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
