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Gathering where folk music gets played
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hootenanny
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) A placeholder word for a nonspecific or forgotten thing ''(see thingamajig, whatchamacallit)'' 2 An informal, festive performance by folk singers, often including audience participation with the use of acoustic instruments. ...
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Hootenanny was an American musical variety television show broadcast on ABC from April 1963 to September 1964. The program was hosted by Jack Linkletter . It primarily featured pop-oriented folk music acts, including The Journeymen , The Limeliters , the ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"informal session of folk musicians," 1940, American English, earlier "a gadget" (1927), of unknown origin, perhaps a nonsense word.\n\nAnother device used by the professional car thief, and one recently developed to perfection, according to a large Chicago ...
Usage examples of hootenanny.
I thought we could hang around and have a hootenanny afterward, to celebrate.
They would start out by playing hootenannies at the Gaslight or the Wha?
And I saw him awkwardly perform several folk tunes and work songs in some hootenannies onstage throughout the early sixties.
A folkie, but not the blunk-blunk banjo kind who used to show up on Hootenanny.