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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The Northbrook Symphony played classical Mexican music, folk band Sones de Mexico Ensemble played Mexican folk music, and there was also a mariachi band and a dancer.
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Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2025
The Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival from August 7 to 10 offers a program of folk music that emphasizes a capella singing and acoustic instruments as well as the Clare Bluegrass festival over the same period, where the program reflects and highlights the Acadian traditions here.
—Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 26 May 2025
During the class, Hedrick played bluesman Big Bill Broonzy and other folk music as the students painted.
—Paul Liberatore, Mercury News, 23 May 2025
Its setting is a tumbledown farm in Kentucky in 1910, the home of the soft-spoken, musically minded Lionel Worthing (Mescal), who has grown up obsessed with regional folk music.
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 22 May 2025
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Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2025
The Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival from August 7 to 10 offers a program of folk music that emphasizes a capella singing and acoustic instruments as well as the Clare Bluegrass festival over the same period, where the program reflects and highlights the Acadian traditions here.
—Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 26 May 2025
During the class, Hedrick played bluesman Big Bill Broonzy and other folk music as the students painted.
—Paul Liberatore, Mercury News, 23 May 2025
Its setting is a tumbledown farm in Kentucky in 1910, the home of the soft-spoken, musically minded Lionel Worthing (Mescal), who has grown up obsessed with regional folk music.
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 22 May 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 11 Jun. 2025.
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