folk music

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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.

From BBC

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

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

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Los Angeles Times

"The whole album is very organic, one of the special things about folk music is implied in the name, it's just for the people and I really love that," he said.

From BBC