folk music
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Four times during the course of a nearly three-hour set of 27 songs — that included gospel, rock and Woody Guthrie-inspired American folk music — Springsteen stopped the show and spoke directly to the audience.
From Salon • May 29, 2026
It’s not just about folk music; it’s about the artists — the people, really — who make it.
From Salon • Feb. 5, 2026
There will also be comedy at the Assembly Rooms and a candlelit folk music performance at St Giles' Cathedral.
From BBC • Dec. 28, 2025
“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
It never went away in folk music, so whenever composers were trying to sound rustic, earthy or homesick for their native countryside, you could expect them to dip back into the modal well for inspiration.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
