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folk singers

n. (folk singer English)

Usage examples of "folk singers".

This little record outfit put out folk music records, which sold better in Berkeley than anywhere else, and since Nicholas was part of the Berkeley scene he spent a lot of time listening to such folk singers as Josh White and Richard Dyer-Bennet, owned as many Hudson Back Bay Ballad records as existed, and could tell you who revived the five-string banjo (Pete Seeger, Nicholas claimed, and then discoursed on the Almanac Singers, with whom Seeger had sung anonymously).

On the raised dais, a new group had replaced the defunct folk singers.

He's with a church group this morning, then folk singers from Minsk.

There were the folk singers, who couldn't play but that was all right because most of them couldn't sing either.

At Misery there were artists, poets, folk singers, writers, and a steady stream of those tender young men and women cracked by the most ruthlessly prestigious colleges in America.

Over and above the technical beauty of her voice, there was the special magic which the best folk singers have-an empathy with the song which made it come alive.

To date, assigned agents have intercepted, logged and remailed numerous letters of support, along with large and small donations to the SCLC, many of them sent by notable leftist-sympathizers, members of Communist front groups and movie stars, among them Danny Kaye, Burt Lancaster, Walter Pidgeon, Burl Ives, Spencer Tracy, Rock Hudson, Natalie Wood and numerous folk singers of lesser repute.

Rock musicians and folk singers often had trouble getting certified.

At the central water fountain he joined a group of students from nearby New York University who had stopped to listen to an impromptu twilight concert by a trio of folk singers of questionable talent.