folk singer

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As a world-renowned musician, she needed her sleep - working long hours touring while caring for her 84-year-old father, legendary folk singer and 2025 Mercury Prize nominee Martin Carthy.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

Sylvia Tyson, a folk singer, agreed: “He literally remembers everything he’s ever heard or seen.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

Welsh folk singer Dafydd Iwan says he has received "very personal" and "nasty" comments after urging organisers of a right-wing protest to stop using his song Yma o Hyd.

From BBC • Feb. 1, 2026

Seminal American folk singer Woody Guthrie, who was a pivotal supporting character in last year’s “A Complete Unknown,” had a biopic all to himself in this lyrical drama directed by the great Hal Ashby.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2025

Scruggs joined about 300 other guys to watch the folk singer Arlo Guthrie defy attempts by the government to draft him.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge