folk music

noun

: the traditional music of the people in a country or region

Irish folk music

also : a type of popular music that is based on traditional music and that does not use electric instruments

Examples of folk music in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Before Beatlemania gripped America’s youth in 1964, the country fell in love with the tight harmonies and traditional arrangements of folk music — and few acts drew more adoration than the Limeliters, a trio made up of Mr. Hassilev, Glenn Yarbrough and Lou Gottlieb. —Clay Risen, New York Times, 12 May 2024

Throughout the nineteen-sixties, Stella rattled standards of modernist abstraction rather as Bob Dylan did those of folk music, electrifying the medium. —Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 4 May 2024

MacRae rattles off Gershwin, Debussy and Ravel, along with Russian folk music and modern composers like Jon Hopkins, as being part of the hodgepodge of styles that inspired the compositions. —Brent Lang, Variety, 18 Apr. 2024

Much like Young’s, LeBlanc’s lyrics on Coyote are blue-collar poetry that take flight on the wings of rock, country, and folk music. —Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2024

Haitian folk music overflowed from his business and into a busy intersection. —Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2024

Married to world musician Vince Delgado, the 75-year-old performs with her husband in the Mid-East Tapestry Ensemble, a group that plays classical, popular and folk music from Middle Eastern countries. —Paul Liberatore, The Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2024

There was folk music, alt-rock, R&B, classic hip-hop, pedal-steel New Wave covers, and more. —Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2024

Clearly, Davis is an amalgamation of several characters from the Greenwich Village folk music scene of the early-1960s, but his unfortunate split in the film with his writing partner — who performed with him as Timlin & Davis — complicates things. —Tim Moffatt, EW.com, 26 Jan. 2024