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Instead, Mustafa hosted more than four hours of music from a range of artists that spanned pop, folk, rock, R&B and well beyond.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2026
Woman of the moment Sabrina Carpenter kicked off the show by performing a duet alongside Paul Simon of folk rock duo Simon and Garfunkel.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2025
After reviewing the lineup, which ranged in genres from pop and rap to electronic dance music and folk rock, we decided to buy two-day passes.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2024
It is an ambitious record, written by Hudson with her close collaborators Linda Perry, Johan Carlsson, and her fiance Danny Fujikawa, spanning folk, rock and synth, soulful ballads and big pop songs.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2024
As one of the originators of the post-revolutionary genre nueva trova, he combined elements of Cuban son and guaracha with soul, jazz and folk rock.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2022
The folk-rock style protest song, which namechecks both the late Pretti and Good, contains the lyrics: "We'll remember the names of those who died / On the streets of Minneapolis".
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2026
Mr. Ellis’s music can generally be described as woolly folk-rock mixed with a few jazzy inflections.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025
Branding his concerts as expressions of "faith, family and homeland", the folk-rock icon has dismissed claims of pro-Nazi sympathies as "entirely inappropriate and unacceptable".
From Barron's ● Dec. 1, 2025
“Gigi’s voice can tear through the atmosphere like a knife,” says Hozier, the Irish folk-rock star who recently took Perez on tour as his opening act.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2025
He had gray hair that he kept in a ponytail, and had been a member of a famous folk-rock band in the ’80s that my dad, for one, had never heard of.
From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio
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