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Recent Examples of folk song
There’s something about the honest expression of a folk song that speaks more to someone who is asking those questions.
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Alan Light, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
There are references to a 16th-century Venetian playwright, an old American folk song, and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
—Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2025
At Del’s birthday party, another folk song was unearthed, this one about a witch dying in 1816.
—Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 31 Jan. 2025
But beyond its on-screen appeal, the Jamaican folk song is ideal for kids who enjoy repetition and call-and-response, two popular characteristics of children’s music, presented here in a format that parents will find catchy, too.
—Stephanie Ganz, Parents, 5 Dec. 2024
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Alan Light, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
There are references to a 16th-century Venetian playwright, an old American folk song, and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
—Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2025
At Del’s birthday party, another folk song was unearthed, this one about a witch dying in 1816.
—Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 31 Jan. 2025
But beyond its on-screen appeal, the Jamaican folk song is ideal for kids who enjoy repetition and call-and-response, two popular characteristics of children’s music, presented here in a format that parents will find catchy, too.
—Stephanie Ganz, Parents, 5 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for folk song
Noun
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The performance highlights a blend of musical theater, art song and opera, bringing together four opera singers for a program that celebrates motherhood, family, love and all that life offers.—
Melinda Moore,
Chicago Tribune,
7 May 2025
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The music moves from inventive, engaging art song to smoldering improvisations in which Wilkins and his bandmates—anchored by his regular colleagues Micah Thomas on piano, Rick Rosato on bass and Kweku Sumbry on drums—push to the outer limits.—
Steve Hochman,
SPIN,
21 Oct. 2024
Noun
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And salt works well to help the proteins in the beef pop with flavor.—
Shawn J. Sullivan,
USA Today,
23 May 2025
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Will duetting with Tate McRae — his first collab with any woman, let alone one from the top 40 world — open Wallen up to the larger pop world?—
Andrew Unterberger,
Billboard,
22 May 2025
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Before long, Uma’s taste for cigarettes under the moonlight turns into regular solo walks at all hours.—
Robert Abele,
Los Angeles Times,
24 May 2025
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The Matchbox Twenty frontman will head to Australia and New Zealand this October and November for a headline solo tour in celebration of his forthcoming album All Night Days and the 20th anniversary of his 2005 debut solo album …Something to Be.—
Jessica Lynch,
Billboard,
23 May 2025
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Kimberly Douglas, an Illinois whose 17-year-old son died of an overdose in 2023, credited the growing chorus of grieving mothers.—
Geoff Mulvihill,
Chicago Tribune,
14 May 2025
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Kimberly Douglas, an Illinois woman whose 17-year-old son died of an overdose in 2023, credited the growing chorus of grieving mothers.—
Mike Stobbe,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2025
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The Mötley Crue rocker, 62, and his comedian-podcaster wife, 38, made headlines last week after Furlan revealed that she’d been seduced by a catfish posing as Ronnie Radke, frontman of the rock band Falling in Reverse.—
Rachel DeSantis,
People.com,
20 May 2025
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Volume and channel rockers sit below the pad, along with menu navigation and playback controls.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
20 May 2025
Noun
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The rhythm of the tabla, the lament of string instruments, and the undercurrent of poetic chant form a symphony of sacred mourning and quiet hope.—
Lee Sharrock,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2025
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Like a great conductor, another wave of pro-Fever chants broke out.—
Ben Pickman,
New York Times,
18 May 2025
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The song — a moody, synthy ballad — is an apologia of sorts for, uh, something.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
16 May 2025
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The title song and so many others on that album are love songs, and so was the ballad that Dolly released last month after her husband’s death.—
Casey Cep,
New Yorker,
15 May 2025
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There’s a sinful sort of glee in watching all of this unfold, knowing that the same mournful character might be the next one to die.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
22 May 2025
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Dougal is this boy turning into a man, who has so much anger in him and wants to prove himself, and there's such glee behind the eyes in the way that Sam plays this character.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
21 May 2025
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“Folk song.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/folk%20song. Accessed 27 May. 2025.
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