folk music
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A folk music promoter has denied he is racist after past tweets came to light.
From BBC
He was one of thousands who gathered in February for the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, a weeklong festival of Western folk music and literature staged in the upper reaches of Nevada’s Great Basin Desert.
From Los Angeles Times
The coming week offers several opportunities around town to see stellar troupes performing Irish step-dancing, which is characterized by stiff torsos and percussive, tornadolike footwork and accompanied by dramatic folk music.
From New York Times
Go-go — a subgenre of funk defined by its signature percussive beat with drums, congos and cowbells, the call and response from gospel and intimate relationship between band and fans — is really folk music.
From Washington Post
It evokes a borderlands identity where spirituality and folk music have blended for centuries.
From Seattle Times
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