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Recent Examples of folk song
There was obviously going to be much source music in the film: blues tunes, Irish folk songs, church music, all of it performed onscreen.
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Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025
There’s something about the honest expression of a folk song that speaks more to someone who is asking those questions.
—Alan Light, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Demonstrators in Sonoma County wine country sang along to Woody Guthrie folk songs.
—Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2025
There’s something about the honest expression of a folk song that speaks more to someone who is asking those questions.
—Alan Light, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
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Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025
There’s something about the honest expression of a folk song that speaks more to someone who is asking those questions.
—Alan Light, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Demonstrators in Sonoma County wine country sang along to Woody Guthrie folk songs.
—Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2025
There’s something about the honest expression of a folk song that speaks more to someone who is asking those questions.
—Alan Light, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for folk song
Noun
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The performance highlights a blend of musical theater, art song and opera, bringing together four opera singers for a program that celebrates motherhood, family, love and all that life offers.—
Melinda Moore,
Chicago Tribune,
7 May 2025
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The music moves from inventive, engaging art song to smoldering improvisations in which Wilkins and his bandmates—anchored by his regular colleagues Micah Thomas on piano, Rick Rosato on bass and Kweku Sumbry on drums—push to the outer limits.—
Steve Hochman,
SPIN,
21 Oct. 2024
Noun
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And salt works well to help the proteins in the beef pop with flavor.—
Shawn J. Sullivan,
USA Today,
23 May 2025
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Will duetting with Tate McRae — his first collab with any woman, let alone one from the top 40 world — open Wallen up to the larger pop world?—
Andrew Unterberger,
Billboard,
22 May 2025
Noun
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Before long, Uma’s taste for cigarettes under the moonlight turns into regular solo walks at all hours.—
Robert Abele,
Los Angeles Times,
24 May 2025
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For her solo dinner, Rihanna quite literally put a bow on maternity dressing in a gray sleeveless JW Anderson dress with a thigh-high slit and an oversized bow accent, placed atop her baby bump.—
Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
23 May 2025
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The recent bond-market struggles are being treated by a growing chorus of investment professionals as an ominous message about the unreliability of once-safe assets, the obsolescence of the balanced stock-bond portfolio and the need for new sources of diversification.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
26 May 2025
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The voices of the opera’s chorus are being provided by a choir which John conducts, the Pacific Coast Chorale, supplemented by two onstage choristers.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 May 2025
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The surge in consumption of his work was thanks to the musician’s biopic A Complete Unknown, which stars Timothée Chalamet as the rocker.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2025
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The Mötley Crue rocker, 62, and his comedian-podcaster wife, 38, made headlines last week after Furlan revealed that she’d been seduced by a catfish posing as Ronnie Radke, frontman of the rock band Falling in Reverse.—
Rachel DeSantis,
People.com,
20 May 2025
Noun
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Like a great conductor, another wave of pro-Fever chants broke out.—
Ben Pickman,
New York Times,
18 May 2025
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The rhythm of the tabla, the lament of string instruments, and the undercurrent of poetic chant form a symphony of sacred mourning and quiet hope.—
Lee Sharrock,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2025
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The song — a moody, synthy ballad — is an apologia of sorts for, uh, something.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
16 May 2025
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The title song and so many others on that album are love songs, and so was the ballad that Dolly released last month after her husband’s death.—
Casey Cep,
New Yorker,
15 May 2025
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There’s a sinful sort of glee in watching all of this unfold, knowing that the same mournful character might be the next one to die.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
22 May 2025
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Dougal is this boy turning into a man, who has so much anger in him and wants to prove himself, and there's such glee behind the eyes in the way that Sam plays this character.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
21 May 2025
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“Folk song.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/folk%20song. Accessed 1 Jun. 2025.
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