folk singer

American  

noun

1. a singer who specializes in folk songs, usually providing their own accompaniment on a guitar.

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folk singer British  

noun

1. a person who sings folk songs or other songs in the folk idiom

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Other Word Forms

• folk singing noun

Etymology

Origin of folk singer

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

Kristy Lee, a folk singer, also recently said she was cancelling her January show.

From BBC

“A Complete Unknown” shrank the frame, capturing Dylan’s emergence as a folk singer and subsequent rupture with the scene that made him a star.

From The Wall Street Journal

For local folk singer Lucy Clearwater, it was her sign that moving to L.A. was the right decision for her career.

From Los Angeles Times

This action inspires lovely, shimmering visuals of delicate luminescence, but Mr. Cameron’s references to becoming one with the environment would make the most earnest hippie folk singer blush.

From The Wall Street Journal

Seminal American folk singer Woody Guthrie, who was a pivotal supporting character in last year’s “A Complete Unknown,” had a biopic all to himself in this lyrical drama directed by the great Hal Ashby.

From Los Angeles Times

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