folk songs
Example Sentences
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Outside the hall, musicians played folk songs on a small stage.
From Barron's • Apr. 11, 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
It’s as if the holiday season hadn’t yet ended, with festive lighting, local choirs singing folk songs, and tables representing various organizations associated with the cozy concept of hygge.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 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
She had stopped throughout the rural South to teach Negroes folk songs she had learned at the Library of Congress.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
