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folk music

noun as in traditional songs and music

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The line-up spans rock, country and folk music across three main stages.

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Born in Glasgow into a singing family, he released a number of albums over the years and was among the earliest steel-string players in British folk music.

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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.

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Bergman’s production, marred by blasts of jarring folk music between scene transitions, is a little too on the nose.

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But that 1951 performance had a huge effect on how to transform folk music, popular music, Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and what-not, twisted, transformed and tacked together.

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