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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Mangold most recently gave Bob Dylan the biopic treatment with A Complete Unknown, which stars Timothée Chalamet as the folk singer.
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Glenn Garner, Deadline, 28 Dec. 2024
Seeger also mentored him, linking him to an older generation of folk singers who prized the music’s traditional roots and links to leftist politics.
—Grant Wong, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024
The standout among the neo-murder balladeers is the topical folk singer Jesse Welles, whose delivery and persona takes John Prine’s craggy empathy and adds a tincture of Brian Jones’s sinister charisma.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
Hurray for the Riff Raff, The Past Is Still Alive
The ninth album by the folk singer Alynda Segarra is a warm and inviting road memoir that also bitterly criticizes an unfair nation.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
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Glenn Garner, Deadline, 28 Dec. 2024
Seeger also mentored him, linking him to an older generation of folk singers who prized the music’s traditional roots and links to leftist politics.
—Grant Wong, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024
The standout among the neo-murder balladeers is the topical folk singer Jesse Welles, whose delivery and persona takes John Prine’s craggy empathy and adds a tincture of Brian Jones’s sinister charisma.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
Hurray for the Riff Raff, The Past Is Still Alive
The ninth album by the folk singer Alynda Segarra is a warm and inviting road memoir that also bitterly criticizes an unfair nation.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
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folksinger
noun
folk·sing·er
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: a singer of folk songs
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