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
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Crew members rushed about, tending to the set’s various optical illusions, which included an Escher-like maze of stairwells, some real, some painted on a matte board, and two performers, playing Chinese folk music, who on closer inspection turned out to be a pair of paper cutouts.
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Dennis Zhou, New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2025
Benito finds community with the like-minded Pleneros de la Cresta, who have been playing the island’s pattering folk music for over a decade.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
Hannah Waddingham, Griff, Katie Melua and Dan Smith are taking part in musical performances, and a song will also be performed by Cornish folk music group Fisherman’s Friends.
—Simon Perry, PEOPLE, 29 Nov. 2025
At times, a phone connected to the mixer shuffles through a streaming playlist of Latin rock, cumbia and South American folk music.
—Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 24 Nov. 2025
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Dennis Zhou, New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2025
Benito finds community with the like-minded Pleneros de la Cresta, who have been playing the island’s pattering folk music for over a decade.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
Hannah Waddingham, Griff, Katie Melua and Dan Smith are taking part in musical performances, and a song will also be performed by Cornish folk music group Fisherman’s Friends.
—Simon Perry, PEOPLE, 29 Nov. 2025
At times, a phone connected to the mixer shuffles through a streaming playlist of Latin rock, cumbia and South American folk music.
—Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 24 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for folk music
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“Folk music.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/folk%20music. Accessed 24 Dec. 2025.
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