folk singer
noun
variants
or less commonly folksinger
or folk-singer
: one who sings folk songs or sings in a style associated with folk songs
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Autumnal and ethereal indie folk singer Madilyn Mackensie is next up at Streets, alongside fellow indie acts Alex Dowden and tchochke (8 p.m. Friday, July 19.
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Aaron Davis, Sacramento Bee, 30 June 2024
Often working on dozens of albums per year, Albini kept up his torrid pace recently, re-teaming with frequent collaborator folk singer Nina Nastasia in 2022, as well as working on albums by Black Midi, Spare Snare, Liturgy and Code Orange over the past two years.
—Gil Kaufman, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 May 2024
Decades later, his daughter Nora began drafting a new generation of musicians to finish and record those songs, starting with British folk singer Billy Bragg.
—Al Shipley, SPIN, 22 June 2024
There, Kahan, a 27-year-old Vermont folk singer who’s captured TikTok’s Gen Z romantics, got nearly every one of his plaintive lyrics absolutely howled back at him.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
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Aaron Davis, Sacramento Bee, 30 June 2024
Often working on dozens of albums per year, Albini kept up his torrid pace recently, re-teaming with frequent collaborator folk singer Nina Nastasia in 2022, as well as working on albums by Black Midi, Spare Snare, Liturgy and Code Orange over the past two years.
—Gil Kaufman, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 May 2024
Decades later, his daughter Nora began drafting a new generation of musicians to finish and record those songs, starting with British folk singer Billy Bragg.
—Al Shipley, SPIN, 22 June 2024
There, Kahan, a 27-year-old Vermont folk singer who’s captured TikTok’s Gen Z romantics, got nearly every one of his plaintive lyrics absolutely howled back at him.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
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folksinger
noun
folk·sing·er
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: a singer of folk songs
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